Best David Bowie Album?

My ranking:

1. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
2. Aladdin Sane
3. Station To Station
4. Outside
5. Low
6. Heroes
7. Diamond Dogs
8. Scary Monsters
9. Heathen
10. Earthling
11. The Next Day
12. Reality
13. Buddha of Suburbia
14. Young Americans
15. Black Tie White Noise
16. Let's Dance
17. Lodger
18. Hours
19. Hunky Dory
20. The Man Who Sold The World
21. Space Oddity
22. Pin Ups
23. Tonight
24. Never Let Me Down
25. David Bowie

 

1. Low
2. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
3. Lodger
4. Heroes
5. Hunky Dory
6 Aladdin Sane
7. Diamond Dogs
8. Let's Dance
9. The Man Who Sold The World
10. Earthling
11. Reality
12 . Tin Machine
13. Young Americans
14. Scary Monsters
15 Heathen
16. Tin Machine 2
17. Pin Ups
18. The Next Day
19 Outside
20. Station To Station
21. Tonight
22. Buddha of Suburbia
23. Space Oddity
24. Black Tie White Noise
25. Hours
26. Never Let Me Down
27. David Bowie

 

I don't think Bowie ever matched the brilliance of Hunky Dory but....

1. Hunky Dory
2. Ziggy Stardust
3. Station To Station
4. Scary Monsters
5. The Man Who Sold the World
6. Low
7. Lodger
8. Heroes
9. Diamond Dogs
10. Alladin Sane

 

My top 5.
1. Man Who Sold The World/Hunky Dory
2. Aladdin Sane
3. Heathen
4. Ziggy Stardust
5. 1. Outside

 

For me it's Station to Station or Low

 

More often than not, it's Ziggy.

 

"ziggy stardust".....(my 3rd fave album of all time after "the white album" & "sgt peppers)!

 

My top 10 Bowie albums:
1 Ziggy Stardust
2 Hunky Dory
3 Diamond Dogs
4 Station to Station
5 Low
6 Alladin Sane
7 Heroes
9 Let's Dance
10 Young Americans

 

Aladdin Sane (with Pin-ups a VERY close 2nd).

 

Has there ever been an artist with so many different albums and styles as David Bowie? My first tastes of him were thanks to my older brother, who first played me "Young Americans" and "Hunky Dory". For some reason, he never had "Ziggy" or any of the other earlier albums, so I'm guessing that he must have found Bowie himself, near the time of "Young Americans". Strangely, just as soon as Bowie captured my interest with "Hunky" and "Young", he just as quickly lost me with "Low", "Heroes", "Scary Monsters" and "Lodger". At the time of those albums being released, I just wasn't ready or mature enough, to appreciate the "art" of where he was going. Looking back now at Bowie's catalog, I find that he was clearly "way" ahead of his time and I'm still not sure if his time has fully arrived yet?

 

I am very very jealous!!

 

Heroes, just shading Low.
Then Ziggy.

 

Alladin Sane

 

Ziggy, for me.

 

Hunky Dory.

 

Man Who Sold the World.

 

From best to worst:
1.Scary Monsters
2.Ziggy Stardust
3.Low
4.Diamond Dogs
5.The Man Who Sold The World
6.Station To Station
7.Heroes
8.Hunky Dory
9.Heroes
10.Outside
11.Aladdin Sane
12.Heathen
13.Blackstar
14.Lodger
15.David Bowie (1969)
16.Hours
17.Earthling
18.Young Americans
19.The Next Day
20.Tin Machine
21.Pin Ups
22.Tin Machine II
23.Let's Dance
24.Black Tie White Noise
25.Buddha Of Suburbia
26.Reality
27.Tonight
28.David Bowie (1967)
29.Never Let Me Down

 

That list looks like it could shuffle around depending on my 29 moods!

 

Blackstar

 

Might as well repost my list from another thread for us listers!
(not including Blackstar)

1 STATIONTOSTATION

|2 =Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
|2 =Diamond Dogs
3 Low
4 Heathen
5 Outside
6 The Man Who Sold the World
7 Aladdin Sane
8 Hunky Dory
9 The Buddha of Suburbia
10 Lodger
11 The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
12 David Bowie (1969)
13 "Heroes"
14 EA R TH LING
15 ..hours
16 The Next Day
17 Tin Machine
18 Reality
19 Black Tie White Noise
20 Tin Machine II
21 Pinups
22 David Live
23 Never Let Me Down
24 Let's Dance
25 David Bowie (1967)
26 Tonight
27 Stage

 

If only one Bowie album makes it through the apocalypse - well, it should be
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

 

What a huge musical loss. What a class act to go out with an iconoclastic and great album.

I do have favorite albums but I agree that it is fun to rotate David, especially given all his changes. But I still go back to Hunky Dory and Ziggy the most; even though I also especially love Low, Station To Station, Young Americans, Aladdin Sane, Heroes, and Lets Dance.

 

Easy to answer if you bend the rules. Five Years Box Set.

 

Hunky Dory

 

Lodger. Perfection: not a single missable second, my favorite by a country mile. Outside is a close second, though!