1. Outside (studio album)
by David Bowie
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David Bowie bestography
1. Outside is ranked 17th best out of 94 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 7 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 43,832.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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1. Outside track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
1. Outside rankings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/12/2025 22:53 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
| ! | 11/11/2025 19:39 |  LukasAntoine00s | 343 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/12/2025 19:39 |  Superunknown | 281 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/21/2025 11:38 |  videoheadcleaner | 12,195 | 85/100 |
| ! | 09/01/2025 15:19 | BurndenAce | 1,006 | 77/100 |
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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 75.0/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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lleon79 09/28/2022 04:28 | #290019
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.
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
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.
BozoTyrannus 09/24/2020 18:46 | #258659
One of my top 3 Bowie albums (along with Low and Blackstar)
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.
Top tier Bowie, incredibly underrated. I’m only taking off 5 points as a technicality. Easily his best of the 90s
Different and very interesting.
im sorry but I think this is bad,really bad.ive tried to like it.but I think its one of his worse albums.
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.
JoaoMoreira 10/10/2017 00:53 | #199332
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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