grindy

I haven't heard Young Americans so I'm in no position to judge, but I have the impression that it's considered a much weaker album than those four and would therefore not be an interesting contender.
Tin Machine have two albums. You think we should add them? Bowie always insisted, that he was just another bandmember here, that it was not him with a backing band.
It'd be also difficult to group them, since, as far as I remember, his other albums from roughly the same time period are very different.

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Pet_Sounds

I'm going off the fact that a Tin Machine song was included on his greatest hits album.

Maybe we should make an oddball category for all the albums that don't quite fit.

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grindy

I'd be a little reluctant to complicate it further by including Tin Machine and making an oddball category, but I'm sure you're much more of a Bowie expert than me.
Let's hear from the others, I don't feel confident enough to really put my foot down here.

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Stephen

I took inventory the other day and the only albums I'm missing are his self titled debut and the two Tin Machine. The Tin Machine has never really grabbed me from anything I've heard but it sounds like Bowie credited the time as revitalising his own approach to music so maybe it would be good to factor them in.

grindy

How about this? The Tin Machine albums stick out in that group, but it's Bowie. We'll never be able to make uniform groups, he's generally to diverse.

Round 1:
David Bowie (1967)
David Bowie (Space Oddity) (1969)
The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
Hunky Dory (1971)

Round 2:
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
Aladdin Sane (1973)
Pin Ups (1973)
Diamond Dogs (1974)
Young Americans (1975)

Round 3:
Station to Station (1976)
Low (1977)
“Heroes” (1977)
Lodger (1979)
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980)

Round 4:
Let’s Dance (1983)
Tonight (1984)
Never Let Me Down (1987)
Tin Machine (1989)
Tin Machine II (1991)

Round 5:
Black Tie White Noise (1993)
The Buddha of Suburbia (1993)
Outside (1995)
Earthling (1997)
Hours… (1999)

Round 6:
Heathen (2002)
Reality (2003)
The Next Day (2013)
Blackstar (2016)

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Stephen

Sounds good, although if we include Buddha of Suburbia he has other soundtrack albums such as Christiane F.

Pet_Sounds

And Labyrinth.

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grindy

Had no idea it was a soundtrack.
Don't really remember the album. Apparently it wasn't really a soundtrack, more inspired by the soundtrack he's done and I read that a few even consider it a turning point in his style. Sounds like an exception, doesn't it? Don't think that including all soundtracks is a good idea. The list seems pretty neat to me like it is.

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Stephen

Yeah, fair enough. Christiane F is more of a compilation anyway so a bit redundant. Labyrinth probably has more of a case for inclusion though.

grindy

But Labyrinth is more of a compilation as well. In the sense that there are some songs that are distinctly by Bowie and some by Trevor Jones. All according to wikipedia, never heard it myself.

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