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I’d say: 1. Diamond Dogs 2. Hunky Dory 3. Ziggy 4. Pin Ups 5. Aladdin Sane 6. Heroes 7. Low 8. Station To Station 9. The Man Who Sold The World 10. Young Americans

I realised a lot of the new engineers don't really understand ergonomics and sound quality...

Great list. My order is different, but that's ok. :) You've sent me back to listen to some Bowie albums that I maybe didn't give enough of a chance.

Yeah.. I agree.. These are the best three albums with no doubt, and fair ranked with Dark Side Of The Moon in the top.

Never understand why Never Let Me Down is universally panned. It’s like the zeitgeist gets in the way of just hearing the album. It was definitely his personal nadir, and he hated that he wasn’t pushing the envelope here, but the actual songwriting is still great. It has five of my Bowie desert island tracks. But otherwise your list is solid. I could shuffle a few higher or lower but a lot just comes down to personal tastes. (I friggin love Tis a Pity she was a Whore. Total chaos. Have you heard the original demo for the piece? Even crazier)

Is that 4.5 out of 20? Seems a more appropriate rating.

Are you in a prison cell, Alan?

Well done! No disputes! I like how you bothered to show the alternate album covers and BOTH sides of all the covers.

Well done! No disputes! I like how you bothered to show the alternate album covers and BOTH sides of all the covers.

Great reviews. Mine are a little different. Thanks for throwing a bit of love for "Tonight". It's always so heavily criticised. Not his greatest l know, but still has some great songs on it.

Not bad ...being a Bowie fan for 55 years I would put Low number 1.....but that could change tomorrow....lol

the redone version of Never let me down is much better...but still average

Same...www.youtube.com/@EverestNZ

This doesn't account for all of them, but a large part of the issue here is that a lot of recent "CD" players on the market (made in the last 15 years) are actually repackaged cheap DVD players. The original DVD player designs that these came from play CDs in software rather than just streaming the data direct from the disc and reset the buffer every time they move to the next track (in effect they treat each track as a file). The problem is that there isn't much of a market for CD-only players anymore and this forced manufacturers down the DVD route.

Good personal best of but for me tonight, never let me down and tin machine is the bottom of the list. Good to see his first album mid way. But, man who sold the world is a brilliant masterpice and Bowie and Ronson at their most extreme unbridled peak. No.2 for me with Hunky Dory at no.1. Also, the Ziggy motion picture Has to be in there because it was so important to us first gen fans at the time and contains very important material. A very enjoyable and well made best of.

The problem with your Abbey Road CD creating gaps might have something to do with an unusual feature of all the Beatle 2009 STEREO CDs. They all contain an extra VIDEO track about the album. I've never found any problem ripping them and all my CD players play those albums perfectly but maybe this extra video track is affecting your car CD player. It may not be the explanation but you did mention your Sgt Pepper album played okay - but maybe that was an earlier edition which did not contain the video track. Incidentally, my son bought that very Topaz player some years ago. It took him a while to notice the gap problem. He contacted Cambridge Audio and was told it was a "design feature"!!!!!

3. Ziggy Stardust 2. Hunky Dory 1. Aladdin Sane

Sometimes you have to change the output on cd player. Think its encode of the dacs that course the gaps? Is the a gap if you use as transport

There will be people whose CDs contain only distinct songs and don't care about the gaps separating them. They probably won't even understand what this video is about. Perhaps the designers of modern, gappy, CD players are among them. For listeners to classical music, the gaps are disastrous. Many classical CDs, especially ballet and choral music, have tracks that aren't there to provide breaks in the music; they're just to indicate where you are on the disc. In the early days of the CD, some discs had index marks, separate from the track numbers and players had the ability to show them but I haven't seen either for many years. CD Text, as demonstrated on the Yamaha, seems to have been added and died out much more recently. I don't think I've ever owned a player that could do it. That Yamaha looks like a nice little system. There aren't many like that on the market now.

Heroes by far, the whole album Low Ziggy Stardust Hunky Dory Songs: Neukoln Rock 'roll Suicide Look back in Anger

Good ranking for the top 6 - I’d probably relegate Space Oddity, and put Lodger and Young Americans higher. I agree about Heathen, by the way, it restored my faith too. Heroes divides opinion these days, as an album, but at the time I recall it being viewed as stronger than Low. It’s just a very different album, and lyrically miles ahead. Sonically, though, Low is hard to beat. I’d probably put Low on the turntable before Ziggy these days, so might have Low at 1 and HD at 2.

Your accent reminds me so much of Pete Townsend. Are you from Shepherd’s Bush?

My favourite albums are at the bottom of the top. All the Let's dance-Never let me down era and Outside-Reality era, plus the Heroes album are absolute masterpieces

Watch that man is a great track and a great opener. It’s one that id like to do on karaoke sometime. I enjoyed this programme. I didn’t agree entirely but that’s never a bad thing. I don’t often subscribe to anything but I have here.

My father had some Bowie's vinyls , he wasnt the biggest fan but whatever he could get on vinyls during the dark days of Communism in Romania. But...thats how i discovered Bowie and he became my fav artist of all times. Image, voice, creativity hitting the sky, never will be another musician like him. My favs from him are Honky, Alladin, Ziggy, Low, Heroes, Station, Diamond dogs. Cant pick one, keep changing for the last 10 yrs. Great video, great ranking. I am also jealous off your Bowie's collection.

Based on people on forums and on here saying that the Marantz CD5005 (2014) and CD6007 (2020) are gapless, I've just bought a CD6004 (2011) with recently cleaned lens and recently lubricated tray mechanism, as that was what I could afford. I hope it's also gapless, and will be seeing (hearing?) if it is as soon as it arrives. (EDIT 6 days later) to my relief, yes my CD6004 does play gapless! The short is on my channel.

The top ones for me are Dark Side of the Moon, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Animals, Meddle, Wish You Were Here and the Wall.

Watching this just reminds me how pointless ranking videos are you can pick literally any Bowie album and use it to get into his music my favourite albums changes every week

Suffragette City? Did you miss it or did I?

"Lodger" must be #1, folks 🍻🍻

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)

We are music-mates: I share your thoughts on momentary lapse (awful record), I do find the division bell mediocre. The final cut is a Waters' album but is far from being as bad as people rate it (well crafted songs even if not really inspired)and Atom Heart is a brilliant record. Only discrepancy : The wall, I liked it a lot but the fourth side is a "skip side" and there are too many fillers

Why does nobody ever include Toy in their Bowie rankings?

MARANTZ M-CR612 CD same problem. es una verguebza

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

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

No mention of the re-recorded version of "Never Let Me Down?" I didn't like the production on the original either, but the tracks are pretty damn strong in the songwriting department. "Time Will Crawl" is up their with classic Bowie. But then again you sold Young Americans & Tin Machine 1 waaaaayyyy to short IMHO. "Middle-of-the-road hard rock?" Not even. Not with Reeves Gabrels riding shotgun 🤨 It's an unsettling Dystopian Future almost concept album like one usually expects from David Bowie, but he doesn't always deliver.

The Philips Micro Music System M4205 is gapless. It's a mini stereo, and it's perfect for my needs.

I recently purchased a 1994 Marantz CD-53 at a very reasonable price. It works a treat and is gapless, so am very happy!

You don't even mention classical music, where gapless playback is even more important. It's hard to believe that Cambridge Audio would screw up on this; they're a high-end brand. My PS Audio Transport will even play separare WAV files continuously.

I think its an important issue but please knock 8mins off the length would be good... You have pointed the problem out on a pretty old player (seems to be from around 2010) so not perhaps representative of current players. There are plenty of Hi-Fi CD players that do gapless playback but it's worth checking first as you say.

I can only imagine that this has to do ith the way the data is processed. In the olden days that data was basically streamed into a very small buffer and just decoded on the fly. You may remember the early Philips players with their voice coil driven laser pickup on a rotary arm. You could simply move that manually to any spot on the CD and as soon as the control circuit locked onto the track again the player simply continued playing. So the metadata was also decoded on the fly as a side product. So the implementation was more like a record player. You would have to do quite same extra work for such a crappy non-seamless playback implementation.

Thats why i love minidisc, all the sony portables have gapless random playback depends how the cd is mastered, all cd players should be gapless even going back to 1985, but i know of none that are gapless on random playback, simply because they dont have a buffer like minidiscs does. But just playing a disc from start to finish like for example a ministry of sound mix cd has to be gapless on all players for obvious reasons. the sony cd players have autospace feature that you can turn off.

The Arcam CD5 now plays gapless after a firmware update that's done via USB. An owner confirmed this on the What Hifi forum.

I find it very strange that there would be people denying or ignoring this as an issue. CDs are a great technology and while I love my records, I cannot deny the reliability and ease of use of CDs. Their biggest advantage at the time apart from sound quality was that you didn't need to flip the record/tape. There were no longer sides to an album, just a straight shot from beginning to end. Artists didn't need to worry about spacing their songs out in any way and could present them in the way they or the record label wanted while albums that already existed could be released in their exact form without any changes needed.

The very odd thing is that the audio file on a CD is continuous. The table of contents with the track information is a seperate thing from the audio. When I master a CD a fair bit of time is spent deciding with the artist on the gaps between tracks. Between tracks you should see a count down, as you demonstrate, from the end marker of one track to the start marker of the next. During the count down the player should be outputting digital silence if that is what is recorded in the audio file. Also, many live albums run as a continuous piece if you stsrt from the beginning with the track i.d.s carefully placed to avoid any jarring when you start a track from within the running order that does not start from silence. I can only assume that manufaturers are cutting costs by using players without the firmware needed for full Red Book playback.

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

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

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 ranking and discussion. Here is how I rank them. 1. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn- I am a huge Syd fan and consider this album to be a masterpiece. 2. Dark Side of the Moon 3. Animals- This one got better as I got older. 4. A Saucerful of Secrets- This album is very underrated. 5. Wish You Were Here 6. The Wall- This was number one for me in high school. I really connected with it at a hard point in my life. It doesn't hit me quite the same at this age, but I still enjoy it. 7. Meddle 8. Obscured by Clouds 9. The Final Cut 10. More 11. Division Bell 12. Atom Heart Mother 13. Endless River 14. A Momentary Lapse of Reason 15. Ummagumma