The Batlord

One suggestion I would make would be to put the albums in "heats". Like, Bowie's first four albums in one battle, then his next four, and his next four, etc, until you reach the end of his discography and then have some kind of tournament for the winners. Or something like that.

It would extend the thread, encourage more involved discussion since people would be able to focus on a fewer number of albums at a time, and most importantly, it would give those of us not entirely familiar with his discography a chance to catch up, since it would be pretty much impossible for me or many others to be involved if we had to worry about voting for every single one of his albums all at once.

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grindy

Great idea.
I was reluctant to participate because listening to 15 albums I hardly know/remember in a short time period isn't something I'd like doing.
We could do it in batches of five albums. It'd be very vaguely separated according to his different phases as well. (For example all the Berlin albums would be in one battle.)
There'd be six albums in the last batch, but we all know which one would win that round anyway.

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The Batlord

I agree that it would be more fitting to do potential battles according to "periods" rather than a fixed number of albums, but I wouldn't know where to start with Bowie, so if Trollheart (or a forum consensus, which I believe would be more appropriate considering the circumstances) goes with grindy's idea, we'd need some Bowie nerds to come up with a proper grouping of album battles.

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grindy

There are too many transitional and even throwaway albums to really do period battles.
I'm absolutely no Bowie nerd though, so someone more knowledgeable might have an idea how to do it that way after all.

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