this is way too hard....

okay, i've only rated studio albums (no live) and its governed by the moment.....

1) Hunky Dory
2) Station To Station
3) Outside
4) Diamond Dogs
5) Heroes
6) Young Americans
7) Let's Dance
8) Aladdin Sane
9) Ziggy Stardust
10) Space Oddity
11) Low
12) Black Tie White Noise
13) The Buddha of Suburbia
14) Tin Machine II
15) Tin Machine
16) David Bowie
17) Lodger
18) Pin Ups
19) Heathen
20) Earthling
21) Scary Monsters
22) Hours
23) The Man Who Sold The World
24) Never Let Me Down
25) Tonight

I think the last two i think are quite obvious choices!

iccy

"God thinks he's all that and a bag of chips."- David Bowie

1. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
2. Diamond Dogs
3. "Heroes"
4. Aladdin Sane
5. Scary Monsters
6. Low
7. Young Americans
8. The Man Who Sold the World
9. Earthling
10. Lodger
11. Pin Ups
12. David Bowie
13. Hunky Dory
14. Tin Machine
15. Space Oddity
16. Station to Station
17. hours...
18. Heathen
19. Black Tie White Noise
20. 1. Outside

In reply to:

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I think the last two i think are quite obvious choices!

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Not as obvious as one might think. As I've been keeping an eye on the subject for a while, and it seems that surprisingly many TWers (myself included) like one or both of those albums.

Transatlantique

1.SCARY MONSTERS
2.HUNKY DORY
3.EARTHLING
4.HEROES
5.OUTSIDE
6.ZIGGY STARDUST
7.STATIONTOSTATION
8.LOW
9.LODGER
10.YOUNG AMERICANS
11.IMAGES
12.HEATHEN
13.BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA
14.ALADDIN SANE
15.SPACE ODDITY
16.TMWSTW
17.HOURS
18.DIAMOND DOGS
19.BLACK TIE WHITE NOISE
20.LABYRINTH
21.LET`S DANCE
22.TIM MACHINE 1
23.NEVER LET ME DOWN
24.TONIGHT
25.TIN MACHINE II

1. Low (1977)
2. Heroes (1977)
3. Diamond Dogs (1974)
4. Scary Monsters (1980)
5. Hunky Dory (1971)
6. Station To Station (1976)
7. Young Americans (1975)
8. Ziggy Stardust (1972)
9. Aladdin Sane (1973)
10. Lodger (1979)
11. Heathen (2002)
12. The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
13. 1. Outside (1995)
14. Space Oddity (1969)
15. Tin Machine I (1989)
16. Let's Dance (1983)
17. Hours (1999)
18. Earthling (1997)

i'm gonna tackle this from a critical standpoint

***** ziggy (1)
***** heroes (2)
***** station to station (3)
***** scary monsters (4)
***** hunky dory (5)
***** low (6)

****1/2 outside (7)
****1/2 lodger (8)
****1/2 diamond dogs (9)
****1/2 alladin (10)
****1/2 TMWSTW (11)

**** young americans (12)
**** buddha of suburbia (13)
**** [tie] heathen
**** tin machine (15)

*** let's dance (16)
*** earthling (17)
*** black tie (18)
*** [tie] hours...
*** [rank space oddity between 16 and 20]

**1/2 NLMD (21)
**1/2 [tie] tin machine part deux [a little harsh on TM2 here? i mean, at least he was TRYING]

** tonight (23) [simply not trying]

"these here blow up into funny shapes?"
"nah. unless round is funny"

1) Low
2)Ziggy
3)Heathen
4)Outside
5)Lodger
6)Hunky Dory
7)Aladdin Sane
8)Station to Station
9)Diamond Dogs
10)Scary Monsters
11)Young Americans
12)The man who Sold the World
13)Space oddity
14)Heroes
15)Pin Ups
16)Earthling
17)Black Tie White Noise
18)Let's dance
19)never let me down
20)Tonight
21) Hours
22)Tin machine
23)Tin machine II
24) Buddha of Suburbia (total crap except South Horizon)

Edited by Jerome on 08/05/02 10:11 AM (server time).

Alright. After having given this matter far too much thought to be considered a sane person, here we finally are:

1. Diamond Dogs (1974)
2. Aladdin Sane (1973)
3. Station To Station (1976)
4. The Man Who Sold The World (1970)
5. Low (1977)
6. Ziggy Stardust (1972)
7. Lodger (1979)
8. Hunky Dory (1971)
9. "Heroes" (1977)
10. Scary Monsters (1980)
11. 1. Outside (1995)
12. Space Oddity (1969)
13. Young Americans (1975)
14. David Bowie (1967)
15. The Buddha Of Suburbia (1993)
16. Never Let Me Down (1987)
17. Pin Ups (1973)
18. Black Tie White Noise (1993)
19. 'Hours...' (1999)
20. Heathen (2002)
21. Tin Machine (1989)
22. Let's Dance (1983)
23. Tonight (1984)
24. Earthling (1997)
25. Tin Machine II (1991)

If I were being more objective I'd have Tonight right in the bottom slot - but the fact remains I listen to it far more often than either Earthling or Tin Machine II - by quite some stretch the two dustiest Bowie albums I own.

The albums ranked lower than Bowie's debut are the ones I feel are unworthy of carrying the name "David Bowie". I think this is a good rule of the thumb for all artists.

I could be a genius if I just put my mind to it.

oh, you'll give us another update in a few weeks

even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then

after a quick look at the first page i dont thin i saw heathen on anybodys list?