1. Outside (studio album) by David Bowie

1. Outside by David Bowie
Year: 1995
Overall rank: 2,216th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 367 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1995 (46th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (395th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,216th)
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David Bowie bestography

1. Outside is ranked 17th best out of 92 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 8 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 45,799.

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 367 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.7.

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85/100
From 09/28/2022 04:28
im sorry but I think this is good,really good.ive tried to not like it.but I think its one of his best albums.
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75/100
From 10/23/2021 11:33
Bowie has gone for a story here but I haven't really bought into it to be honest - but take away all those bits and we have some pretty seriously good songs that grow on me more and more. I was always there with I Have Not Been To Oxford Town - with echos of the Low era. I always enjoyed the sweeping Thru' These Architects Eyes and Strangers When We Meet too. Then grew into Outside, The Hearts Filthy Lesson, Hallo Spaceboy and We Prick You.
One day I will listen to this album without the Segues
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55/100
From 01/10/2021 07:30
I don't think this is a bad album whatsoever, but I just couldn't get into it. Maybe upon relistens I'll like it more.
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90/100
From 09/24/2020 18:46
One of my top 3 Bowie albums (along with Low and Blackstar)
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70/100
From 05/09/2020 17:18
What you have to love about Bowie is that he never stood still, always trying something new. This is a great album (except the annoying 'comic' interludes.
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95/100
From 04/02/2020 07:18
Top tier Bowie, incredibly underrated. I’m only taking off 5 points as a technicality. Easily his best of the 90s
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70/100
From 12/31/2019 16:55
Different and very interesting.
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50/100
From 11/19/2019 16:30
im sorry but I think this is bad,really bad.ive tried to like it.but I think its one of his worse albums.
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100/100
From 11/29/2017 04:53
I don´t understand why critics don´t use to talk about this album as one of the best of his career. It is his most ambitious, complex, conceptual, interesting and longest album.
I really think it's one of his 5 greatest masterpieces.
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75/100
From 10/10/2017 00:53
A good album from an unstable Bowie's era, produced by Brian Eno.

A Small Plot of Land and I'm Deranged are tremendously good songs!
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