Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (track) by David Bowie
Year: 1972
From the album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (track #11)
Rock 'N' Roll Suicide appears on the following album(s) by David Bowie:
- The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (track #11) (this album) (1972)
- Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture (track #16) (1983)
- The Best Of David Bowie 1969/1974 (track #19) (compilation) (1997)
- David Live (track #17) (1974)
- Live Santa Monica '72 (track #18) (1994)
- Cracked Actor (Live Los Angeles '74) (track #19) (2017)
- I'm Only Dancing (The Soul Tour '74) (track #15) (2020)
- The Best Of Bowie (track #4) (compilation) (1980)
- The Platinum Collection (track #19) (compilation) (2005)
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100/100 | 03/08/2025 22:39 | brent13 | | 85/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 1% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 90.8/100, a mean average of 90.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 91.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.7.
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What a perfect ending to a truly brilliant album.
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The album starts with Five Years predicting us heading towards an ominous end. That song follows a similar pattern with the song building towards a crescendo with Bowie's vocal screaming out a crushing delivery.
This song is an inspired ending and helps fans join dot to dot a storyline that ends neatly with the suicide of our adored Star.Classic
Simply one of the most moving tracks of all time.
PinkMind 03/21/2018 14:59
This is such an emotional song. Very deep, very reflective. Truly one of the best closing tracks ever. The only downside is, that it is too short. I always have to repeat it twice, because it is so good.
Great closing track :)
GandalfORiley345 05/25/2014 20:57
Great way to finish the album, incredible rhythm and the repetitive drums when he says YOU´RE A ROCK N´ROLL SUICIDE sounds magical
PatrickD 01/02/2014 09:21
Ah gee, what a happy tune.
One of my favorite closing tracks
Jasonconfused 01/17/2013 22:21
The greatness of this song is amplified by the power that it carries as the culmination of this wonderful album.
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