Up The Hill Backwards (track)
by David Bowie
Year: 1980
From the album Scary Monsters (track #2)
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Up The Hill Backwards appears on the following album(s) by David Bowie:
- Scary Monsters (track #2) (this album) (1980)
- Sound + Vision (track #44) (compilation) (1989)
- The Best Of David Bowie 1980/1987 (track #8) (compilation) (2007)
- Glass Spider (Live Montreal '87) (track #1) (2019)
- A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982) (track #86) (compilation) (2017)
- The Platinum Collection (track #46) (compilation) (2005)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 15 hours ago | Christian889 | 209 | 94/100 |
| ! | 07/05/2026 09:25 | Siromynian | 17,934 | 71/100 |
| ! | 04/01/2026 17:40 | Foxforce5 | 5,048 | 76/100 |
| ! | 03/23/2026 19:03 | FrancK | 4,823 | 82/100 |
| ! | 02/10/2026 02:44 |  imacgill | 32,873 | 81/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 82.6/100, a mean average of 82.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 12.0.
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