Janszoon

Would the "4 tracks or less" nominees have to be LPs or could they be EPs?

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Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

last.fm

Electrophonic Tonic

I would say LPs. After all, this is album wars. But, I might add an EP theme for the next round of voting.

Janszoon

Does the existence of the Metal Wars thread preclude there being metal nominees in this thread? Some of the best 4-tracks-or-less albums I can think of are metal.

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Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

last.fm

Electrophonic Tonic

I say everything and anything genre-wise is up for grabs in the General Music version. So feel free to suggest albums to nominate.

I'm glad you mentioned this. For the submitting process, I'm thinking about the best way to do it. With the winner moves on format, just submitting a versus match would be difficult to sync up with the next battle. I'm thinking each person will submit a few albums, and I will randomly choose who faces who. I'm not sure if I'll limit the pool of albums or not. I'll have a decision before the final day of voting Saturday.

Electrophonic Tonic

One more day of voting left! Album with 4 tracks or less has the lead, but 90-95 albums are not far behind.

Regardless, the first person to submit a battle will be the first one posted in the thread. Once that happens, I'll take individual challengers to go up against the winner. Please suggest one album at a time for now. I want to see how this set up works before I start taking more albums and making things more complicated. First come, first serve. I'll also have the guidelines for what can be submitted under the theme.

Albums from 1990-1995- 4
Debut albums - 2
Albums issued with a Parental Advisory sticker- 0
Albums with 4 tracks or less - 5

Electrophonic Tonic

Ok, I am calling it. Our first new theme for Album Wars: Beat the Champ will be...

Albums with 4 tracks of less

Pretty self explanatory.

1. The albums you choose must have 4 tracks or less
2. Movements and sub tracks within a track don't count as a track each.
3. No EPs, just LPs.

First person to submit a battle to me via PM will be the first one up in the thread. As soon as I get something, we will start.

DoctorSoft

I don't think I have any albums that have 4 tracks or less . I have to listen to more prog.

Electrophonic Tonic

Alright! Courtesy of Jack Pat and his inter-continental ballistic Santa, we have our first battle with the new format.

The Crypt: 12th June 1968 by AMM

Unknown Soldier

Maybe this battle could be renamed the most obscure albums from the 1960s and 1970s with 4 tracks or less

TockTockTock

Or two impressive works of early free improvisation.

EDIT: Actually, the Takayanagi/Abe album is the only obscure one out of the two. AMM is heralded as one of the best and most original groups of free improvisation. So they are rather famous... in the experimental music community at least.