Collider writer Jeremy Urquhart has published a ranked list of all 11 David Bowie studio albums released during the 1970s, a decade the piece argues was the artist's strongest musically. The article matters mainly as a fan-oriented retrospective, celebrating a period in which Bowie frequently reinvented his personas and shifted genres from one record to the next.

The author places the 1973 covers album Pin Ups last, judging it pleasant but inessential compared with Bowie's original material. Young Americans (1975) sits tenth, praised for its title track and "Fame" but criticised for a weaker middle and a poor cover of The Beatles' "Across the Universe". Lodger (1979), the close of the Berlin Trilogy, ranks ninth as consistent but lacking standout highs, while Diamond Dogs (1974), inspired partly by Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and home to "Rebel Rebel", comes eighth. The article's higher-ranked entries are cut off in the provided text.