Bowie Albums Ranked by emptysquares

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Hunky Dory 

 David Bowie

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In 1971 Bowie's career was going nowhere fast and very few bought this on it's release. Luckily, he released Ziggy Stardust 6 months later when the penny finally dropped with the record buying public.
v,g,k&s:Bowie; g&k:Ronson; k:Wakeman; b:Bolder; d:Woodmansey; Produced by Ken Scott & Bowie [First added to this chart: 12/06/2019]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

1,846 charts

Rank Score:

20,496

Rank in 1971:

3

Rank in 1970s:

14

Overall Rank:

46

Average Rating:

 87 (2,424 votes)

Comments:

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The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars 

 David Bowie

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His first successful album, even if the songs are not quite as great is it's predecessor Hunky Dory, this is more than compensated for by the swagger provided by the Spiders.
v,g&s:Bowie; g&k:Ronson; k:Wakeman; b:Bolder; d:Woodmansey; Produced by Ken Scott & Bowie [First added to this chart: 12/06/2019]

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

2,992 charts

Rank Score:

46,533

Rank in 1972:

1

Rank in 1970s:

3

Overall Rank:

7

Average Rating:

 90 (3,514 votes)

Comments:

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Scary Monsters 

 David Bowie

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A return to conventional song format, but retaining some of the experimental approach pioneered in Low/Heroes/Lodger by harnessing the dissonance of Robert Fripps guitar. Once again Bowie demonstrates that artistic originality and commercialism are not necessarily incompatible.
v,k&s:Bowie; g:Alomar/Fripp/Hammer/Townshend/Visconti; k:Bittan/Clark; b:Murray; d:Davis; Produced by Tony Visconti & Bowie [First added to this chart: 12/06/2019]

Year of Release:

1980

Appears in:

767 charts

Rank Score:

5,815

Rank in 1980:

4

Rank in 1980s:

38

Overall Rank:

295

Average Rating:

 81 (1,106 votes)

Comments:

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Station To Station 

 David Bowie

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Bowie's chemical usage was out of control at this point and later claimed to have no memory of recording this album, although maybe this was Bowie's way of avoiding awkward questions about his 'Thin White Duke' alter-ego - a nasty piece of work with nihalistic and fascist tendancies. Stylisticly, it is a curious blend of funky danceable grooves mixed with some more progressive sounds and musically at least, this is Bowie at his best.
v,g,s&k:Bowie; g:Alomar/Slick; k:Bittan/Maslin; b:Murray; d:Davis; Produced by Harry Maslin & Bowie [First added to this chart: 12/06/2019]

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

1,086 charts

Rank Score:

12,528

Rank in 1976:

2

Rank in 1970s:

29

Overall Rank:

104

Average Rating:

 85 (1,535 votes)

Comments:

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"Heroes" 

 David Bowie

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The follow up to Low and another collaboration with Brian Eno & Visconti - this time around with added Fripp and it sounds as if they knew exactly what they were aiming for. Proceedings have a touch more confidence than its predecessor although the overall format and feel is the same and they could easily be seen as a matching pair.
v,g,s,k&p:Bowie; g:Alomar/Fripp; k:Eno; b:Murray; d:Davis; Produced by Tony Visconti & Bowie [First added to this chart: 12/06/2019]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

872 charts

Rank Score:

6,367

Rank in 1977:

9

Rank in 1970s:

66

Overall Rank:

268

Average Rating:

 83 (1,472 votes)

Comments:

80

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Low 

 David Bowie

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The first of the 'Berlin trilogy' (actually recorded in France), the icy electronic sounds almost created a whole new genre of its own. Eno helped give it a minimalist quality, but it is still clearly a Bowie album and not enough credit is given to Tony Visconti's production who stated that upon completion they had no idea if what they had was any good.
v,g,s,k&p:Bowie; g:Alomar/Gardiner; k:Eno/Young; b:Murray; d:Davis; Produced by Tony Visconti & Bowie [First added to this chart: 12/06/2019]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

1,531 charts

Rank Score:

17,990

Rank in 1977:

4

Rank in 1970s:

19

Overall Rank:

63

Average Rating:

 86 (2,063 votes)

Comments:

168

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Earthling 

 David Bowie

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By introducing elements of different musical genres (this time drum & bass) and combining them with his own songwriting style, Bowie was only doing what he had done many times before. But this time around he struggled to find an audience as the younger listeners were sceptical whilst some traditional followers thought he should "act his age".
v,g,k&s:Bowie; g:Gabrels; k:Garson/Plati; b:Dorsey; d:Alford; Produced by Reeves Gabrels, Mark Plati & Bowie [First added to this chart: 12/06/2019]

Year of Release:

1997

Appears in:

144 charts

Rank Score:

390

Rank in 1997:

56

Rank in 1990s:

629

Overall Rank:

3,735

Average Rating:

 71 (299 votes)

Comments:

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Let's Dance 

 David Bowie

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Bowie embraces a classy pop commercialism by working with Nile Rodgers. Not universally admired by the Bowie faithful, the truth is that this is a world class commercial pop album that would catapult him to mainstream superstardom - but he would spend the next ten years trying to get back to where he came from.
v:Bowie; g:Rodgers/Vaughan; k:Sabino; b:Edwards/Rojas; s:Harrison/Aaran/Elson; t:Gollehon d:Hakim/Thompson; Produced by Nile Rodgers & Bowie [First added to this chart: 12/06/2019]

Year of Release:

1983

Appears in:

526 charts

Rank Score:

2,621

Rank in 1983:

9

Rank in 1980s:

102

Overall Rank:

674

Average Rating:

 76 (818 votes)

Comments:

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★ [Blackstar] 

 David Bowie

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Released two days before his death, ★Blackstar saw Bowies apetite for experimentation restored and to everyones delight, it worked pretty well and provided a suitably enigmatic end to a truly unique and exceptional lifetimes work.
v&g:Bowie; g:Monder; k:Lindner/Visconti; b:Lefebvre; s&f:McCaslin; d:Guiliana/Murphy; Produced by Tony Visconti & Bowie [First added to this chart: 12/06/2019]

Year of Release:

2016

Appears in:

1,248 charts

Rank Score:

12,486

Rank in 2016:

3

Rank in 2010s:

9

Overall Rank:

107

Average Rating:

 86 (1,643 votes)

Comments:

151

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Lodger 

 David Bowie

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The last in the so called 'Berlin trilogy' (it was in fact recorded in Montreux) but stylistically has little in common with Low and Heroes. "Lodger" makes more sense as pre-curser to to Scary Monsters as it is more playful and upbeat than its introspective predecessors. Some of the soundscapes are reminiscent of those Eno would later produce with David Byrne on "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts".
v,g&k:Bowie; g&b:Visconti; g:Alomar/Belew; k:Eno/Mayes/Powell; b:Murray; v:House; s:Harrison; d:Davis; Produced by Tony Visconti & Bowie [First added to this chart: 12/06/2019]

Year of Release:

1979

Appears in:

337 charts

Rank Score:

1,306

Rank in 1979:

23

Rank in 1970s:

266

Overall Rank:

1,334

Average Rating:

 77 (618 votes)

Comments:

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Bowie Albums Ranked composition

Decade	Albums	%
1930s	0	0%
1940s	0	0%
1950s	0	0%
1960s	2	7%
1970s	11	39%
1980s	5	18%
1990s	6	21%
2000s	2	7%
2010s	2	7%
2020s	0	0%

Artist	Albums	%
David Bowie	26	93%
Tin Machine	2	7%

Country	Albums	%
	26	93%
	2	7%

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