Hours...
by David Bowie
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David Bowie bestography
Hours... is ranked 20th 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 40,395.
(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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Hours... track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Hours... rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 27 Music Albums of 1999 | 22/27 | 1 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 85 Music Albums of 1999 | 7/85 | 5 |
| 2026 | zonrod | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s | 57/99 | 9 |
| 2026 | Pavloss | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 74/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | Indie albums of the year 1999 by Radio X | 21/25 | - |
| 2026 | Skerns | Top 91 Music Albums of 1999 | 59/91 | 2 |
| 2026 | Olli | Top 50 Music Albums of 1999 | 20/50 | 3 |
| 2026 |  jeremy9 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1999 | 63/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1999 | 36/50 | 2 |
| 2026 |  slatsheit | Top 20 Music Albums of 1999 | 15/20 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 123 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 251 | |||
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Hours... ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/01/2026 02:20 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,997 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/11/2026 19:57 | Jakor | 5,550 | 70/100 |
| ! | 02/25/2026 23:06 | DaveH68 | 1,363 | 76/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 68.7/100, a mean average of 67.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.0.
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Hours... forum mentions
pedro1976 09/26/2026 18:56 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) pedro1976 09/08/2023 21:04 in What album are you listening to right now?Hours... comments
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VADERBREWING 11/05/2011 03:04 | #29761 | TOP COMMENT
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Without purpose, this has become one of my favorite bowie albums. Bowie albums take up about 20 spaces in the top 5000. This is at the bottom for bowie by bea, I really wonder about the credibility of this site when so many of his albums are rated higher than this.
A good album from Bowie not classic but has it's moments especially with 'Seven' and 'The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell'. I would say it is slightly better than Reality not quite as good as Heathen.
As I've heard said, you imagine someone stating that major artists' albums get weaker as they age, and Bowie retorting, 'Hold my beer...' A great collection of songs, and the beginning of a wonderful run of late albums. (Edited)
Shadow23 02/04/2013 15:44 | #63926 | TOP COMMENT
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This is pretty crazy
Also kinda spacy
... ... ... ... ... ...ome
The album's awesome
(Wuh, nice poem...)
Best songs: Thursday's Child, Seven
Feels a lot better than some of the previous albums, which had lost a lot of direction (thinking of the 80's ones in particular), or had too much ambition that it ultimately failed (Outside, which could have been a masterpiece, but again, the ambition was too large). This album feels slower, but also like a great return to form.
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