Drive-In Saturday (track)
by David Bowie
Drive-In Saturday appears on the following album(s) by David Bowie:
- Aladdin Sane (track #3) (this album) (1973)
- The Singles Collection (track #8) (compilation) (1993)
- The Best Of David Bowie 1969/1974 (track #11) (compilation) (1997)
- VH1 Storytellers (track #7) (2009)
- Nothing Has Changed (track #44) (compilation) (2014)
- Legacy (track #11) (compilation) (2016)
- Something In The Air (Live Paris 99) (track #9) (2020)
- The Platinum Collection (track #11) (compilation) (2005)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 01/27/2026 21:29 | kinginsomniac12 | 5,498 | 100/100 |
| ! | 12/31/2025 08:35 | Exist-en-ciel | 76,796 | 70/100 |
| ! | 12/10/2025 09:09 | plasmicmist | 7,586 | 91/100 |
| ! | 12/04/2025 03:07 |  LukasAntoine00s | 5,212 | 80/100 |
| ! | 12/03/2025 22:52 |  DommeDamian | 73,114 | 51/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.9/100, a mean average of 84.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 85.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.7.
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Has a bit of a live recording feel to the track. Very much A classic sounding Bowie track and I really like it. I remember hearing this on its release and really loving the sound. That hasn’t changed over the years and it’s still one of Bowie’s finest compositions.
This is arguably the best track on the album.
In the mid-70s a nostalgia craze for the 50s immerged spurred on by the film American Graffiti and the tv show Happy Days. Bowie provides another variation on 50s doo-wop similar to Soul Love from Ziggy. This one's even better . With futuristic lyric, spacey background noises, and a great great chorus.
The starting point for the lyrics is a very original and strong story that - as is often the case with Bowie - is situated in the future. People who no longer know how to make love and, to find out, go and watch films from the past. The story is so strong that a scenario is being delivered for a film with existential accents. Bowie was such a special musician, or rather: a visionary artist who was far ahead of his time.
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