Uzumaki
06.21.19 | And let’s get this ball rolling! |
Frippertronics
06.21.19 | Shift 11 to the top 5 and 19 to the top 10 and it works |
BigHans
06.21.19 | 5 is 1 by an extremely wide margin |
tectactoe
06.21.19 | Hunky Dory at 13, I feel personally attacked. |
Rik VII
06.21.19 | Haven't heard all of his works, but 19 seems very low and 3 seems very high. Good list though, all things considered! 5 is my favorite, but my favorite era of his work is definitely back half 70s. |
Minushuman24
06.21.19 | Station to Station is top 3 for me, as is Ziggy Stardust.
Maybe swtich Hunky dory and Let's Dance...... Man I don't even know, it's hard for me to rank Bowie sometimes
28 is 28 tho. |
beefshoes
06.21.19 | 1 and 2 are classics like most of the Bowie discography for sure, but they are so absurdly overrated. And seeing 10 so low on the ranking hurts. :S |
foxblood
06.21.19 | Earthling never gets the credit it deserves but at least you ranked it fairly high still, I would put scary monsters much higher though. nice ranking, interesting that you put lodger so high. |
Uzumaki
06.21.19 | Like I said, it's all personal ranking. I remember never being terribly impressed with his 90's output until Buddha, and then all of them didn't reach the level of his older material until Heathens. You can literally cherry pick his post Diamond Dogs material for good stuff, it was that up and down IMO. His Eno era is fantastic, and that's why 1 and 2 are where they are, not because they may be overrated. I love how they flow. |
Uzumaki
06.21.19 | I will say this: outside of the top 5, the rankings could change whenever I listen through his albums again; it's been over 2 years since I worked through all of them, but I remember the basic outline of my rankings. |
neekafat
06.21.19 | I've only heard 1 and 4 but they're both so so good |
Uzumaki
06.21.19 | @Neek, you've got a lovely project ahead of you. You can start from Space Oddity and work your way up to Let's Dance and you'd be cool. Everything between that and Buddha of Suburbia is bleh, and then from Buddha to Heathens is hit or miss; final two albums are gems though. |
virpi
06.22.19 | Ranking Bowie is highly subjective, even more than with other artists. The run from "Space oddity" to "Let's dance" is simply amazing.
My personal top 5:
1. Low
2. Station to station
3. Ziggy
4. Hunky dory
5. Blackstar |
DoofDoof
06.22.19 | Outside and Aladdin Sane waaaay too low
Heroes, Diamond Dogs and The Next Day all a little too high
1. Low
2. Ziggy
3. Station
4. Blackstar
5. Aladdin
6. Outside
7. Hunky D
8. Scary M
9. Lodger
10. Heroes
|
Frippertronics
06.22.19 | Personal top 5 would be
Scary Monsters
Outside
Heathen
Low
Ziggy/Hunky/STS
Aside from Scary Monsters, the other ones are constantly changing. |
Uzumaki
06.22.19 | Like Virpi said, Bowie is highly subjective; some hit me better than others, but I won’t disagree with all of your personal rankings. |
Rik VII
06.22.19 | Hm, let's try a top 10 ...
Ziggy Stardust
Station to Station
Low (side b>)
Blackstar
Heroes (side a>)
Hunky Dory
Outside
Aladdin Sane
Scary Monsters
... Young Americans might be 10.
He's one of a handful of artist that have 10+ albums that are good. |
Demon of the Fall
06.22.19 | I think I’m going to be sick.
Good effort anyway, to rank all of them I mean. |
JohnnyoftheWell
06.22.19 | The placement of Scary Monsters hurts me, but this is a cool list |
TheLongShot
06.22.19 | A lot of Bowie's 90s stuff has grown on me, Outside in particular underwhelmed me at first but now is a borderline top 5 favorite album of his for me |
Rik VII
06.22.19 | Outside is brilliant in places but really drags in others. Great album though, and I liked how it was a return to his late 70s aesthetics while still sounding different. |
Hendoi
06.25.19 | Diamond Dogs is where it should be but it's a pretty underrated album on this site. Maybe because the remaster that's on apple music isn't as good as the original? |
Uzumaki
06.25.19 | Is it? I honestly don’t know, as I, ahem, “acquired” it from alternative sources... |
Rik VII
06.25.19 | I liked Diamond Dogs when I first heard it (well, aside from the abominable closer), but it's since become the most boring of his 70s work for me. Seems kinda underdeveloped in comparison. |
fogza
07.02.19 | Hunky Dory at 13? :( |
Uzumaki
07.02.19 | *insert shoulder shrug here*
What can I say? Different strokes for different folks. Sorry!!! |
tectactoe
07.02.19 | I am also partial to HUNKY DORY (as mentioned above), but honestly there are some days when I think I might like LOW better. So I can't even remotely argue with that at #1. |
fogza
07.03.19 | Lol, well your list did inspire me to listen to all his albums, from start to finish. I'd only been familiar with about 8 before this, so thanks for the spark! |
conesmoke
07.03.19 | What a solid body of work. Bowie was the best |
PyramidNoise
07.03.19 | 3 is 1, 13 is too low. |
Uzumaki
07.04.19 | @fogza, my pleasure! Would love to see your personal ranking! |
Uzumaki
07.04.19 | @conesmoke, most definitely, my man.
@pyramidnoise, nice to see someone else really liking DD, and haha, seems everybody likes 13 higher than I. |
fogza
07.04.19 | It's a complicated discography to rank, finding myself re-listening to the albums and things shift around. |