The Secret Life Of Arabia (track) by David Bowie
The Secret Life Of Arabia appears on the following album(s) by David Bowie:
- "Heroes" (track #10) (this album) (1977)
- The Best Of David Bowie 1974/1979 (track #13) (compilation) (1998)
- Bowie Now (track #11) (compilation) (2018)
- A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982) (track #21) (compilation) (2017)
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28 hours ago | imacgill | 17,544 | 81/100 | |
02/09/2024 20:04 | FrancK | 3,230 | 83/100 | |
02/05/2024 15:16 | paladisiac | 79,268 | 63/100 | |
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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 82.8/100, a mean average of 82.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 83.0/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.7.
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Wow. Bowie wrote lyrics like Michelangelo made paintings, but even this is a cut above the rest.
"You must see the movie, the sand in my eyes
I walk through a desert song when the heroine dies"
And then damn, in comes that hand clap. Suddenly its disco-fusion dance anthem. What in the living f*ck is this level of genius?
Nah this is a FANTASTIC song to end the album, I've heard ppl say this should've been on a different spot
But I dunno, this sums up the Berlin ethereal sound perfectly as a jam
Very disappointing way to end such a good album.
The song itself isn't THAT good on it's own, but the placing is terrible, it should have ended like Low, with an ambient track.
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