"Heroes" (studio album) by David Bowie

"Heroes" by David Bowie
Year: 1977
Overall rank: 263rd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 1,447 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1977 (8th)
Award Top 100 albums of the 1970s (64th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (263rd)
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David Bowie bestography

"Heroes" is ranked 6th best out of 92 albums by David Bowie on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by David Bowie is The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars which is ranked number 9 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 50,221.

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Average Rating: 
83/100 (from 1,447 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 82.6/100, a mean average of 81.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.

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75/100
From 02/27/2023 17:16
There is one truly outstanding song then a few pretty decent tracks and the rest I would argue is filler or skippable. Once you get past Sons Of A Silent Age there is a slight drop off from the great tracks we have just experienced and then there is a larger one once you finish V-2 Schneider. It might be that I really can't stand the song Sense Of Doubt and I unfairly zone out of the rest of the album as that song is tough to get through. The piano and noises that happen on that cut are not dark or mysterious at all and they are just annoying and overbearing in my opinion. The second half really lets this release down. Despite this, the first 4 track run is one of my favourites on any Bowie record. Overall, this album isn't consistent enough to be amongst the greatest in his discography but it still shines in moments and has a lot of greatness which elevates it a lot.
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55/100
From 06/01/2022 09:26
This record contains Bowie's best track: Joe, The Lion





jkjk The title track is the best he ever made
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90/100
From 05/12/2022 08:42
Great Bowie album, I especially like Beauty And The Beast, title track, Blackout and The Secret Life Of Arabia. I think that instrumentals in the second half are mostly good too and they intenify haunting atmosphere of a record.
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40/100
From 01/03/2022 12:53
There are some real highlights on this album - obviously the title track (which is one of Bowie's best), Blackout, Joe The Lion and The Secret Life Of Arabia. But the rest of the album is just filler - the string of boring instrumentals in the middle of the album really turn this into a bit of a drag. And some of the tracks on the album are annoyingly similar to each other. But the highlights of the album save its rating for me. It's just about tolerable.
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25/100
From 09/08/2021 16:53
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85/100
From 01/22/2021 14:13
Great album, never understood the mass appeal of the title track, it's great but not amazing in my opinion. The album still holds up as one of the strongest in Bowies catalogue.
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80/100
From 01/07/2021 07:00
Great album, instrumentals and all. Easily the best of the Berlin trilogy.
Best song(s): Beauty and the Beast; Heroes; Blackout; Neuköln; The Secret Life of Arabia
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75/100
From 01/06/2021 19:10
The conventional and the experimental sides are more balanced than in Low.
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From 07/28/2020 07:25
Such a mysterious, dark ambient, yet it's an incredibly entertaining record. My fav Bowie album, to me it really goes beyond music.
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Best Albums of 1977
1. Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
2. Animals by Pink Floyd
3. Marquee Moon by Television
4. Low by David Bowie
5. Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols by Sex Pistols
6. Aja by Steely Dan
7. The Stranger by Billy Joel
8. "Heroes" by David Bowie
9. Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers
10. The Clash by The Clash
11. Trans Europa Express by Kraftwerk
12. Pink Flag by Wire
13. My Aim Is True by Elvis Costello
14. Out Of The Blue by Electric Light Orchestra
15. Talking Heads: 77 by Talking Heads
16. Lust For Life by Iggy Pop
17. Rocket To Russia by Ramones
18. Bat Out Of Hell by Meat Loaf
19. Suicide by Suicide
20. The Idiot by Iggy Pop
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