Hello Alan, a thoroughly enjoyable ranking of my favourite artist's albums. Diamond Dogs is my favourite, in fact it's my favourite album, by anybody, of all time. Great video. Subbed your channel

The first Tin Machine album is totally underrated. I'll stick up for it all day long.

My favorite Bowie album is 1. Outside ❤

Man who sold the world . The quality of the band is epic . Not a weak song on the album , the King Crimson influence make this album unique in Bowie Discography. this album is underrated . should be between 3 and 5

Great work, Hunky Dory is my personal favourite, its the time, the 70s, and what that album encapsulates

Love your opinions on these records. So cool to see all the different physical versions of these albums. My favorite of his has to be “Station to Station”, you said it best yourself, it’s just so slick, straight bangers from front back. Every track has so many standout ideas that are executed with a level of detailed musicianship and crisp production that really takes this album to the next level for me. Subbed by the way.

Thanks for including tin machine!

Great list. I personally would rate "Young Americans" and "Aladdin Sane" higher.

Glad to see "Heroes" make your top 5, its my personal fav, side 1 is just perfection, 5 amazing krautrock style songs, I also love the ambient work on side 2, the whole album feels like a journey

Totally inspired to listen to more Bowie. Cheers Alan.

This video just came up on my KZfaq. One of the best ranking videos I have seen. I only have 2 studio albums of his and best of’s. Scary monsters and let’s dance. This video makes me want to by more albums of his. Thanks.

I always really loved both of Bowie's 60's albums, Space Oddity is one of my favorites from him.

Enjoyed this video, I would mostly agree with your rankings. I was lucky enough to be around for his seventies and eighties stuff, but only recently got round to catching up with his albums since then. Am enjoying them all on rotation.

Greetings! Just came upon your David Bowie output review and thought it was informative and insightful, with a good mix of info and opinion. I have to admit that until now I have been more of a casual David fan, but I’m preparing to embark on a deep dive down the rabbit hole to discover all things Bowie; this has given me ideas of where to start (besides starting at the beginning😊) and some things to look for. Thanks!

1. Scary monsters 2. Aladdin Sane 3. Ziggy Stardust 4. Low 5. Hunky Dory 6. Station to station 7. Diamond dogs 8. Lodger 9. The man who sold the world 10. Young americans 11. Heroes 12. Black star 13. Let's dance 14. Heathen 15. Reality 16. Outside 17. Earthling 18. Hours 19. The next day 20. Pin ups 21. Space oddity 22. Tonight 23. David Bowie 24. Buddah of Suburbia 25. Black tie white noise 26. Never let me down

Here are my 25 studioalbum best to worst. 1 Low 2 Scary Monsters 3 Station To Station 4 Heroes 5 Lodger 6 Blackstar 7 Diamond Dogs 8 Ziggy Stardust 9 Honky Dory 10 Aladdin Sane 11 The Next Day 12 Heathen 13 Young Americans 14 The Man Who Sold The World 15 Reality 16 Pinups 17 Hours 18 Outside 19 Space Oddity 20 Black Tie White Noise 21 Lets Dance 22 Tonight 23 Never Let Me Down 24 David Bow

Agree about Ziggy, album changed my life and saw him live about two weeks after it's release.

Great review! My favourites are Heathen, Reality and Blackstar. But it’s always a good feeling to discover a new favourite song off another album. Still making my way through his albums for the first time ⚡️

Tin Machine is very much better than last places. Never let me down and Tonight are way down worse.

Wonderful video, on your individual album review can you do either the First album or space oddity? Space iddity is my favourite album along with Hunky so pls id love to dee that. Great video and ranking

Interesting list and ditto comments to each entry. I have been a big Bowie fan since the 70s. I guess each fan's list would be different, depending on ones individual taste and so would mine. E.g. some of your top 10 picks would be at the bottom of my personal list (I never quite liked Diamond Dogs) but I loved hearing your reasons for placing the albums in the particular order you have chosen. Cheers from a new subscriber from Denmark😎

Fun fact: the cover of Low is a play on the phrase "low profile", as Bowie was keeping his head down in Berlin at the time. Thumbs up for including Labyrinth, but thumbs down for putting it ahead of Buddha of Suburbia, (which Bowie considered to be one of his greatest achievements). I thought Earthling would be higher too, but no qualms on your top three.

Station To Station through Scary Monsters! Those 5 albums were through my teens & will always be in my top 10!

Hey man. What a great review. I can hear.the passion and love in your voice for this album and i understand why. This is the greatest album of all time in my opinion. I bought this back in the early 80s and i treasure it.

My personal favourite is Scary Monsters. I also thoroughly enjoy Earthling, Station To Station, Aladdin Sane and The Next Day

Brilliant stuff, Alan. Love Bowie. My favorite is «Low» for the time being.

Thank you so much for this detailed review. Have you looked/rated the live albums? Regards from Iceland

Nice list, and respect that you managed to make this list. I don't know if I could make a list that I would still agree with in a month, a week, a day. On most Bowie albums you can hear a bit of his previous album, and he already hints about his next album.

Scary monsters is my top favorite by him. I really enjoyed the video man

Wow Alan! Cool Bowie collection. I was wandering if you could do a video dedicated to his self-titled album. There's more to discuss about it. It's a great record to me and you seem to have a lot of different versions so pls can do a video on it Great video 🙏👍👍👍

I'm a 65-year-old Bowie fan. I have 54 Bowie CDs, and obviously all of his studio albums. I'm paused at 6:24 to make a comment. Everybody kicks 'Never Let Me Down'. Now it was the first CD (by anyone) I ever bought, and so I'm a bit of a foster parent reflecting on a troublesome but beloved charge who has gone on to better things. This album, if you just put it on and listen to it (and forget you've heard Ziggy Stardust and Hunky Dory) is fine. The title track is really good, Time Will Crawl is good, Zeroes is good, Shining Star is good, so are 87 and Cry and Too Dizzy; Bang Bang has got to be better than some of the songs that have reached number one in the UK charts over the years. Put it on in the car when your friend wants to talk a bit and let it run in the background. Just as time vindicated Fidel Castro, so time (waiting in the wings) will come to accept and almost love this album that has been kicked, spat on and generally abused because it is fashionable to do so. Bowie's own favourite (of his studio albums) is The Buddha of Suburbia, and you have kicked that in the teeth very early on. Never Let me Down is not that bad. You grading guys are cruel, day-in, day-out to this album, and someone has to speak out against this cruelty.

Thanks for that! .. perhaps you should do a David Bowie Albums 'Ranted Comments' Worst to Best :)

My favorite Bowie song is station to station, but after that song the album is just ok.

Ha ha" Please show respect even if you disagree" - yes great track!

Alan, I agree with your list 100%

David Bowie. loved by millions. and still sadly missed. excellent video. one the best on his music. toys to me is a gem. didnt like ttin men but years latter bought the cd.s. u got new sub cheers 9.5

Great review Thanx! Watch this man one of my favourites so can't agree with you.

I recently went through this exercise for my own amusement. Bowie is my second favorite artist, only topped by the Stones. Here is my ranking and grading for those interested in the opinion of a stranger: 25. David Bowie (1967) - D+ 24. Never Let Me Down - C- 23. The Buddha of Suburbia - B 22. Tonight- B 21. Earthling - B 20. Black Tie White Noise - B 19. Outside - B 18. Hours - B 17. Reality - B+ 16. Let’s Dance - B+ 15. Blackstar - B+ 14. David Bowie (1969) - B+ 13. The Man Who Sold the World - B+ 12. Hunky Dory - B+ 11. Young Americans - A- 10. Lodger - A- 9. Heathen - A- 8. Diamond Dogs - A- 7. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - A 6. The Next Day - A 5. Heroes - A 4. Low - A 3. Station to Station - A 2. Aladdin Sane - A+ 1. Ziggy Stardust - A+ *Albums not listed haven’t been either listened to or fully absorbed.

Great ❤

I always like the across the universe cover even if it misses the pre chorus out. Anyway, great video!

I feel lucky to have seen him 4 times. First time I won 3 rd row tickets on the radio that mom had to claim because I was 12, then the glass spider tour with Peter Frampton, sound and vision and his final tour Reality all in Kansas City Missouri. In late 72 in Friday art class in 1st grade, I heard moonage daydream the first time and it blew my 6 year old brain away. It was unlike anything I'd ever heard before.

I clicked on this one stricly because of the thumbnail. Well done, m8. Good luck with your channel. Supertramp next?

Been a Bowie Fanatic since 1975 - Never missed one of his concerts after the first Isolar Tour 1976 - including him playing keyboards on Iggy Pop's Idiot tour and the Tin Machine shows - If he played two nights in a row in my city I would go both nights - I love all of his albums and could never rank them in order as their rankings changes yearly if not daily for me

Tonight over Hours??? No way. I appreciate your input though

Lol my rankings are so different. Buddha is in my top 5!

Tin Machine through and through is excellent. I understand most fans don't get it, but I do!

Hunky Dory is at the top for me. Ziggy is my number two. Diamond Dogs way at the bottom

My biggest live concert disappointment ever was Bowie at the Sound and Vision tour. No real show and have rarely seen an artist look so bored. As a huge fan of 20 years or so and never having seen him it was a real blow. He more than made up for it though at Glastonbury, one of my beat ever concert / gigs ever and Reality. BTW Reality is a truly great album.

As a Beatles fan, I really love Bowies version of Accross the universe… and I also love Dj. Not really sure about your “love for bowie”- some of your rankings a bit suspect to me

I have to say that you did a good job - I began my Bowie life with the release of Ziggy - my age group will defend those records all day long - but you threaded that needle nicely. It's subjective after all. The best versions of the first Bowie album are found on "Images" - it's all there - I would caution listeners not to get involved with remasters and other versions of that double record. Aladdin Sane was a you-had-to-be-there record so it needed to find its way to that top 5 somehow as far as we're concerned. Keep in mind, we only knew Bowie as the person on that album cover - the future didn't exist - so we loved it unconditionally along with Pinups - we were now clued in on the end of Ziggy for the release of Pinups but we were in denial and much relieved to see that cover and hear Bowie and Spiders tighter than ever despite the fact that Woodmansey already had his walking papers and had been replaced by crack drummer Aynsley Dunbar. By the way, back to Aladdin - it did get panned for having a sloppy production but imagine hearing that record starting with the song Aladdin Sane - removing Watch that Man altogether - imagine it - got it? Now where is it on your list? lol. We saw David Live as a legitimate record - not a live per-se and some would put that on a list. (Not me). If you like Occasional Dream then you'll like a song that never made it: Conversation Piece and a alternative version of Candidate could have been reworked and put on Diamond Dogs - it's very good. I think Garson would like your list.

Buddha is very satisfying

Excellent work, Alan. For me, and I know I'm not original here, Bowie is the greatest artist in rock history. He is an absolute icon of 20th century popular culture, but what makes him gigantic is his music, the overwhelming power of his work. Just commenting that, in my opinion, Earthling deserves to be closer to the top 10, for me it is, in fact. And Blackstar is a clear top 5. It will continue to grow over the years. And a little more. As other friends have commented, I share the idea that Tin Machine's first album is often terribly underrated. And it is a stage in his career that seems crucial to me. Embark on that adventure. In addition to talent, our star had good balls. Greetings

4 Station to station 3 Heroes 2 Low 1 1.Outside

The full in colour album cover of the Station To Station album was the intended original cover, it was changed to black and white just prior to the albums release in 1976.

It’s a post modern dumbing down when Musicians are rebranded as ‘Artists.’ It’s that thing where pop music created for teenagers made by large corporations with the bottom line firmly insight is compèred to artists of the calibre of Cezanne Picasso etc.lol

I would say my favourite music is where classical meets rock,hence my favourites..late beatles,bowie,ELO....life on mars may be the best song ever made.Ziggy is the only album with no fillers...even the masterful abbey road has one or two.

Great review! And yes, it really sucks when they stick bonus tracks at the end of an album. Glad I'm not alone thinking that. But I seem to be alone in thinking 'Aladdin Sane' is the best Bowie album.

Excellent video sir 🎉 i have Lodger ranked much higher because i really love it & also kinda feel bad that it's part of a (slightly arbitrary) trilogy & Low and Heroes get all the enthusiasm.. i love HD, AS, DD, StS, MWSTW & SMSC so so much.. love Pin-ups too.. and of course i love ZS&TSFM but but but i personally feel it's just slightly.. SLIGHTLY overrated.. anyways cheers 😊

You are seeing a lot of people saying Mr Bowie knew he was on his way out before the Blackstar was released and I must of seen it 15-20 times in the last month people reporting he did not know he was going to pass on until after he recorded Blackstar. Either way it's a good album and his last. I know I have to listen to an album dozens upon dozens before I can say I like it or not. For example I hated and hated Scary Monsters album. Thought it was weird noises and just linear lyrics and one day I put it in and was in a different mood and each and every song hit me like a truck and knocked me into a different stage mentally and now it's like in my top three. Good list. Thank you for the review. I love to see what others liked and dislike about an album. It's so diverse, one person will hate an album and another can love it.

I agree with almost everything except pin-ups. It should be a little higher on the list

Hi Alan!👋 David Bowie is my favourite artist too! My ranking was done 1 year ago and it took me 2 months(dont have much free time).. I listened 3 times every album and on the third round I rated each track from 1 to 10 and then got the average.Easy! Labyrinth not included. Therefore, I gave 6 if I liked the song; 7 quite liked it; 8 much; 9 very much; 10 ?.. In the event of having two albums with thw same points I will go for the one with more tracks, and if it is not enough, I will go for the album with more 10s, 9s and so on... I could be wrong but I rated 303 songs...7 of them got 10 points; 29 got 9 and 3 got 5 (lowest). My ears are pleased easily and there are many 7 and 8.... In any case something to consider is that what I most like is Melodic Hardrock and symphony metal... Anyway, this is my ranking: Into brackets yours. 28. Deram Anthology 6,6 (13) 27. Buddah suburbia 6,7 (28) 26. Tin Machine II. 6,9 (29) 25. Space Oddity. 7 (7) 24. Black tie 7,1 (26) 23. Outside 7,1 (16) 22. Heroes 7,2 (4) 21. Lodger 7,2 (18) 20. Tin Machine 7,2 (25) 19. Earthling 7,3 (20) 18. Reality 7,3 (23) 17.Tonight 7,4 (21) 16. Hours 7,4 (22) 15. Pin ups 7,4 (17) 14. Station 7,5 (6) 13. The man who 7,5 (11) 12. Never let me 7,5 (27) 11. Heathen 7,5 (14) 10. Scary monster 7,6 (10) 9. The next day 7,6 (9) 8. Blackstar 7,7 (8) 7. Young Americans 7,7 (19) 6. Honky Dory 7,7 (2) 5. Lets dance 7,8 (15) 4. Low 7,8 (3) 3. Diamond dogs 8 (5) 2. Aladdin sane 8,1 (12) 1. ZIGGY STARDUST 8,5 (1) So, I may say that we have some same places + -...(12 ?) Thanks for reading.. ..and greetings from Spain...😊👍

I more or less gave up buying Bowie albums after the awful Lodger,my favorite is Diamond Dogs. I still regard David Bowie as the greatest musical talent of all time.

50 minutes after my first comment I'm back. Lots of positives this time, not the least is because Ziggy Stardust is my favourite album of all time. I was worried upon seeing "Heroes" in your number four spot that Low would be your number one (nothing wrong with Low of course). However, Ziggy made it to its rightful place, at the top of the mountain. Hunky Dory at number two is also great; and your three favourite tracks from that album are also mine. Delighted to see David's debut album so high (released on the same day as Sgt. Pepper, the latter doing slightly better than Bowie's first album!). A tad disappointed at the relative Low-ness of Hours and even Heathen, but overall this was a very good grading selection. I would not have placed "Heroes" so highly, it suffers from being the second born after Low, in my opinion (in the way the film Predator II suffers by comparison with Predator). Anyway, to conclude, you have good taste, and I enjoyed this video.

I had to subscribe and comment as I often ponder the greatness of David Bowie. My buddy always use to go into the "down south Doobie Brothers and David Bowee , everyone likes a little Doobie in their funk" George Clinton rant. Bowie is hard to rank any lower than number 1. Like I say he's in my top five for sure (it's a little crowded in that room but I can't put Hendrix or steely Dan at what 18 and 22.? No way. Top five for sure. You're either on the list of great or I don't listen to it. John Prine, guy Clark, towns Van Zant... come on top 5 for sure but Bowie is a solid no 1 he's got so many greats. When you give away sonds and make them legends. It's crazy. I have to ask someone who knows music better than I. I think China girl is a tribute to Buck Owens, made in Japan. The Srv riff is a lot like made in Japan.

im 35. alwaya been huge into music, i play guitar, the beatles and pearl jam are my favorite bands. i just truly discovered bowie this year about 6 months ago. where have i been? he has since enteted into my category with beatles and pj and it blows my mind how i missed this for so long

I always smile when i hear about Bowies "phil collins " period. Pop music should relax you, makes you comfortable. And Bowie on Never let me down put words like chernobyl and hitler , wich are disturbing (especially hitler makes you think abou war and all its atrocities)

I've been a Bowie fan for 52 years ever since I heard Jean Genie at the age of 11 and bought AS. Always interested to hear other Bowie fans perspective and how they differ. Hardly surprising my firm favourites are every album ( with the exception of PU) from SO to YA. DD being my No1. my PUs is great and I agree with comments on it. YA is absolutely fantastic there's no othe album like it. I agree with your comments on the 1st Bowie album but it doesn't compare with his general output. ( No Toy! sure it must count) For me LD and T are at the bottom along with SMASC ( which wasn't influenced by the New Romantics. He influenced them). And Heroes right down there. Apart from the title track the whole thing leaves me cold. The Tin Machine albums are great and NLMD , much maligned. Day In Day Out is a truly great song. Black Star I have at 8 , outstanding. Hours, one of the lesser later albums but still really enjoyable. He never did a bad album but can't really include BOS and Labyrinth. Anyway my really big question is..... what are you doing with so many sealed albums?? Vinyl is there to be played. No point in having them otherwise.

When i was a kid there was a panto type play on TV....and Bowie was in it playing a banjo whilst singing.....does anyone know what that was called???

As a Bowie record collector I found this video very interesting. But I do disagree with a lot of what you said. That's not me being nasty just different opinions. I personally don't think any album is a ten out of ten. That would mean liking every single track to a point where they are all classics. Now for me Heroes ( album version) is the best song ever written but I can't seriously say I love everything on the album. Same with Ziggy. Songs like moonage daydream/ Five year's are ten out of ten but sings such as Soul love and It ain't easy are very poor. The closest to perfection is ( and these comments are only my opinion) Scary Monsters album. It's absolutely brilliant. The weakest track being Scream like a baby is average but tracks like Because your young /Teenage Wildlife are brilliant and I'd give Kingdom Come another chance. I think it's one of his best ever covers along with Cactus ( Heathen album). Like I said not having a go. It's a good video and would love to hear what you guys think about my comments.

i could only have minor quibbles. I never do top 10s, or top anythings with music, so I wouldn't suggest order changes. I generally agree on the weaker releases. I was pleased to see the eponymous debut being well regarded. I love it too, but some seem to think of it as a guilty pleasure. My first exposure was the Images album (Green cover) in about 1980, but the deluxe double CD is the way to go. The only one that I may shock fans with, is I never really gelled with Diamond Dogs. I don't know why, but there we are, I've said it now.

'Aladdin Sane' and 'The Man Who Sold the World' got far too low ranking for me. Mike Garson's wonderful piano takes AS to another level. Top 5 similar, swap out 'Low' for 'Station to Station'. At least 'Scary Monsters' made the Top Ten. Music is subjective, no two lists will match.

interesting to note that Bowie is the sole guitar player on Diamond Dogs album.. with exception of 1984, which is played by Alan Parker, who plays "additional guitar" on rebel rebel

One thing that I rarely hear people mention is how cleverly hilarious Bowie is on his string of brilliant albums throughout the 70s. Not only is Diamond Dogs one of my favorite albums of all time, it is absolutely hilarious from the initiation of the first vocals on the intro to the chant that closes out the album, lol. He had this unique ability to make me laugh and think at the same time while writing really clever and creative lyrics that are open to interpretation allowing the listener to interpret the songs however he or she needs to. It’s a unique aspect of Bowie’s character that’s visible throughout much of the output that I’ve heard from him (I haven’t really gotten into his music from the 90s or later yet, but from the little bit that I’ve heard it seems to be a bit more serious in tone).

I was so surprised to see Tin Machine II at 29! To me it's among the three best '90s Bowie records-- the other two would of course be "Earthling" and "Outside". I prefer Tin Machine II to the original Tin Machine record so much because it just sounds so much more polished and I just love the sort of proto-grunge aesthetic the band played with on that album. Lots of catchy songs imo

25 David Bowie (1967) 24 Never Let Me Down (1987) 23 Tonight 22 Pin Ups (1973) 21 Reality (2004) 20 Space Oddity (1969) 19 Let's Dance (1983) 18 Heathen (2002) 17 Young Americans (1975) 16 Black Tie White Noise (1993) 15 Hours... (1999) 14 Aladdin Sane (1973) 13 Earthling (1997) 12 The Man Who Sold The World (1970) 11 Lodger (1979) 10 Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980) 9 The Next Day (2013) 8 The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) 7 Low (1977) 6 1.Outside (1995) 5 Blackstar (2016) 4 Station to Station (1976) 3 Diamond Dogs (1974) 2 Hunky Dory (1971) 1 "Heroes" (1977)

That’s just your opinion. I absolutely loved lodger back in the day. Still think it’s great. I think everything after. Scary monsters was fast down hill

Trevor Jones' score is not dated and cheesy sounding! It is a great soundtrack! SMDH!

How about a video on the nuances of Chas n Dave?

Bowie himself said Buddha was his own favourite album. I confess I really like some tracks on Never Let Me Down. Black Tie, White Noise is a masterpiece, you blathering slaphead 😅

"Fill your heart " on Hunky Dory was covered by Bowie and Tiny Tim written by 'Biff Rose'. The Bowie version has almost identical arrangement to Biffs. It's one of my favourites from the album. It was a few years ago that I found out the bowie didn't write it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7Zxd85qx7yxZHk.html

Yes number one is Ziggy forever....buttt followed near by " A lad insane". The best of pinups is the picture with twiggy in my humble opinion. 😊. I grew up with bowie. I felt in love with "soul love" from 1972 till today. Ranking changes as time went by. I never liked side b of "low" believe me. I tried several times. I prefer "another green world" of BE. Sincerly, I dont like a lot your ranking, but it was good to watch it. Thxs.

I don't at all agree with your list, but I appreciate that you give some of his later works decent scores. I am unable to rank my absolute favorite albums, but in my top 10 would be: Blackstar, the Next Day, Heathen, BTWN, Scary Monsters, "Heroes", Low, Station to Station, Diamond Dogs, and Hunky Dory. Yes, Ziggy is a great album, but overrated. I also think you are way too hard on Tin Machine. I love the first album. The second is very uneven, but Goodbye Mr Ed is one of my all time favorite Bowie songs.

Tin machine 2 is excellent!! Definitely better than the first one , come on !! Then the Buddha!! Jeez 🙄

Physical media 😀👍

You should break the seal on those grailz and give 'em a listen.

The 91 Rykodisc is actually the outlier for Young Americans with the wrong mixes used for a couple of songs.

Any order for me, depending on my mood. I had all my original stolen. I was heartbroken.

Space Oddity above Diamond Dogs ???? Simply no.

A mostly agreeable ranking. I would remove Hunky Dory from the top 5 and replace it with either Scary Monsters or Station to Station, but I also can't argue with the choices you made for your top 5. Bowie's top 5 is really closer to top 8. There's not enough space to squeeze them all in! One nitpick, though. You're not too keen on "Rebel Rebel" repeating its riff throughout most of the song. Well, not only would I argue that that's the point of the song, but you do like "Repetition" from Lodger, which is equally repetitive in nature, so either it's the riff you don't like, or you're a slight hypocrite.

Wow where do I start? Your lower end ranking almost looks like a classic Bowie ‘cut up’ random albums appearing in odd places Tonight album ranking higher than Tin Machine and the hours album in which you totally missed Thursday’s Child surely a classic Bowie song, honestly it’s so bizarre I am lost, you did recover towards the end. Teenage Wildlife is in fact about Bowie’s dissatisfaction of the New Romantic movement, ‘same old thing in a brand new drag….’ An interesting ranking, but only a 3.5. ⚡️⚡️⚡️

You think pin ups is better than young Americans 😮

Oh seriously - you place Lets Dance above Young Americans !! Young Americans is a classic and Bowie at his finest. Lets Dance should be near the bottom with a 0.

"letter to Harmionei"???? Did you mean letter to harmony? NO... it seems that you are correct, but For the last 40+ years I thought that it was "A letter written to music". I just discovered that I was mistaken, or maybe I was not. By the way...Aladdin Sane...No 1 It changed my life. I still remember seeing the Album cover displayed in the window of "Casa Disca" in Barnsley on a shopping trip with my mom...(I was a kid 12...13?) The first record that I ever bought.

I was a big fan in my teenage years, less so when I discovered more serious, sophisticated music. His opus is tricky to 'rank' due to its diversity, or range of characters he adopted. All of his Lp's, or the more famous ones, seem to have a few strong tracks and a few weak ones.

I have to agree with most of your choices, except that you put Aladdin Sane so low, how could you do such a thing.

Earliest of his work is as good as he gets... real big songs sung super English, arranged brilliantly... doesn't have to be "rock" to be great & valid...wrong on Watch That Man, ultra-glam!!!!

Wooow, you’re cool (Bowie made you look cool) 😉

Why does nobody ever include Toy in their Bowie rankings?

Aladdin

'doesn't do anything for me' is over-used, mate!