Low
by David Bowie

Low by David Bowie
Year: 1977
Release date: 1977-01-14
Overall rank: 65th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
86/100 (from 2,099 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 5 albums of 1977 (4th)
Award Top 20 albums of of the 1970s (19th)
Award Top 100 albums of all time (65th)

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David Bowie bestography

Low is ranked 3rd best out of 96 albums by David Bowie on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by David Bowie is The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars which is ranked number 6 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 41,643.

David Bowie album bestography « Higher ranked (49th)
Hunky Dory
This album (65th)
Low
Lower ranked (95th) »
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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 86 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 65th | 1970s rank: 19th | 1977 rank: 4th
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2026stangetzawayTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s4/10019
2026 dihansseTop 68 Music Albums of 197756/681
2026 RockyRaccoonTop 95 Music Albums of 19779/955
2026matterhornriderTop 60 Music Albums of 19777/605
2026 imimesisTop 100 Greatest Music Albums89/10012
2026 AAL2014Top 83 Music Albums of 19776/835
2026JakorTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s34/10013
2026 LedZepTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s1/10020
2026leniadTop 100 Greatest Music Albums24/10076
2026 zags7000Top 100 Music Albums of 197712/1004
2026 JoaoMoreiraTop 8 Music Albums of 19771/85
2026bobnickmadTop 98 Greatest Music Albums54/9846
2026pinkfreud1981Top 13 Music Albums of 19774/134
2026 NowhereManTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s18/10017
2026HyggevinylTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s88/1003
2026 TheDarkOrbTop 61 Music Albums of the 1970s21/6113
2026JohnnyoBowie albums ranked (best 2 worst)by Classical Music (BBC Music)1/26 -
2026 slatsheitTop 100 Greatest Music Albums21/10078
2026 imimesisTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s13/10018
2026saltysurpriseTop 51 Music Albums of 19776/515
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 1,543
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 16,281
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Average Rating: 
86/100 (from 2,099 votes)
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06/05/2026 17:32 Christian889  Ratings distribution  8095/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 85.9/100, a mean average of 85.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.

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100/100
From 04/24/2026 10:57 | #314128
You can never mistake the sound of this album, so monumental for Bowie
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25/100
From 04/05/2024 18:46 | #302874
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95/100
From 02/29/2024 13:55 | #302299
A stunning album. You don't come away from it with songs to hum. There's nothing as infectious as "Fashion", for example, but as a mainly instrumental album it is wonderfully inventive and original.
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Rating:  
80/100
From 02/22/2024 21:34 | #302151
Hauntingly atmospheric
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From 07/02/2023 23:16 | #297919
Great album.
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75/100
From 06/06/2023 22:14 | #297423
Shockingly good. Great songs on one side. Sound and Vision in particular is brilliant. The second half is more experimental and doesn't really nail it but its still very pleasant to listen to.
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Rating:  
85/100
From 05/08/2023 19:29 | #296757
The influence this record had on music is absolutely massive with so many huge artists picking out this release as a huge inspiration. This isn't hard to believe as the music on here is packed full of quality. The peak of this for me is on the incredible Warszawa which is full of character and depth making it worth revisiting over and over again as it just gets better with every listen. Following closely behind this track is Sound And Vision which is just so infectious and it once again demonstrates Bowie's diversity. The main appeal of this record is just how creative Bowie and Eno were on this album with it just flowing out of every song. This leads to some experimental instrumentation that is so much fun to explore and get lost in. It also demonstrates how fantastic Bowie was as an instrumentalist as you are forced to acknowledge his quality on the tracks that are absent his voice and you truly start to appreciate how special he was. Overall, this is a significant and influential moment in the career of a true musical legend and it also has the quality to back it up.
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90/100
From 02/22/2023 04:01 | #294322
I love this album. It's fantastically influential - when asked about favourite Bowie album, I would be really choosing between Hunky Dory and Low. The way it sounds, I'll probably stop writing this review, will go play it again
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95/100
From 10/02/2022 06:07 | #290106
First time I listened to it I couldn't care a lot about it. Second period I tried listening to it, I enjoyed it much more and "got it". Now at this time in my life I feel so much more related to it. I think it finally genuinely clicks with me. It's definitively one of his best albums.
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75/100
From 08/31/2022 03:32 | #289084
Solid album
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