Dancing Out In Space (track)
by David Bowie
Year: 2013
From the album The Next Day (track #10)
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Dancing Out In Space appears on the following album(s) by David Bowie:
- The Next Day (track #10) (this album) (2013)
- I Can't Give Everything Away (2002-2016) (track #97) (compilation) (2025)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 08/08/2026 10:47 | Siromynian | 20,339 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/05/2026 12:53 |  DommeDamian | 79,252 | 51/100 |
| ! | 03/12/2026 14:45 | Exist-en-ciel | 182,105 | 71/100 |
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This track is rated in the top 11% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 78.2/100, a mean average of 77.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.4/100. The standard deviation for this track is 10.9.
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Mdemauri 01/09/2015 19:10 | #131157
This may be the weakest track on the album.
Pretty good tune but lyrics are weak on this. Very unusual for that to be the case with Bowie. This is the weakest track on the album for me. I don't really understand why Bowie included this on the main album when he had a Born In a UFO and Like A Rocket Man on The Next Day Extra. Both tracks are far better in my opinion.Still he more then made up for this track on rest of album.
lleon79 TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/11/2022 01:39 | #290351
I don't know what everyone's problem is with this song. It's one of my favorites in the record.
Too repetitive
