Trollheart

Alright, let's get this thing going. Thanks to grindy for the great list, and Batty for his sage comments. Having been the ones to run the Metal Survivor thread and the Rock Album Survivor thread, which has not yet got underway yet, I'll defer to him and TLP if there are any issues as to how this is run.

So, the first round then:

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

Vote 1 album off. Voting ends January 22

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The Batlord

Pretty much.

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grindy

David Bowie (1967)

That was easy.


Could you add the full list to the OP?

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GD

Yeah, the obvious choice here is David Bowie (1967).

Pet_Sounds

1967. Still a good album, but not up to the others' standards.

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Stephen

Yep. David Bowie (1967) never did much for me.

Cuthbert

Another vote for 1967. Some rubbish on there in all honesty.

midnight rain

Are you breaking them up into chunks of 4 by chronological order? I think that's a bad way to do it since you have some uber strong stretches from Bowie (see: the 70s) and some uber bad ones (see: 85-95).

Who's gonna want to eliminate Lodger in the first round, and then have to pick one of those turds from the late 80s?

grindy

That's the idea. We tried to have albums of vaguely the same level of quality and more or less similar style in every round if possible. That makes for a much more interesting battle. Of course the late eighties stuff for example will be voted off immediately, once we pit the individual battle's winners against each other, but so what? There will still be enough good albums from his good periods left to make it interesting.

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Plainview

1967 again. It's not even as bad as people make out though really.

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