Hello! Our next ranking game is a behemoth, the Metal grandfathers themselves: BLACK SABBATH.
This one is going to be a big undertaking, so if there are a bunch of albums you're not familiar with please don't let that put you off, I am going to keep a longer-than-normal submission time so that people can catch up on the back catalog if they want.
Here's how it works:
1: Each user will submit their rankings of the 20 Black Sabbath studio albums to me via PM. That's right, 20. All 19 studio albums PLUS the Heaven and Hell album, The Devil You Know. The top album will receive 20 points, the next album 19, all the way down to the last placed album that will receive 1 point.
2: I will tally up the results and create a forum-wide ranking.
3: I will reveal the results one album at a time, starting at #20. This will be a more discussion based affair, since there will be no voting at this point.
So if you would like to participate, PM me your Black Sabbath ranking from #1 (best) to #20 (worst). Any lists that ignore this format or don't include every Black Sabbath studio album will be ignored! Any comments to this post with rankings will also be ignored, they must be sent via PM and no revisions!
As I said before, Sabbath has a big discography and I would say at least a quarter of their albums have mostly been forgotten by everybody outside hardcore fans, so I am aiming for a February start time but am not attached. I will keep the submission period open pretty much as long as I need. If you know you want to submit a list but you need more time, just leave a comment.
I want to give folks plenty of notice to revisit any albums they want, but I also want to get as many lists as possible so that we can get a more interesting ranking. If there are albums that you're less familiar with but still want to submit a list, now is your time to revisit those albums. But also if you rank an album last because you don't know it that well, I'm also not going to reject your list. I would rather you participate than not!
The Black Sabbath discography for your reference:
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Master of Reality
Volume 4
Sabotage
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Technical Ecstasy
Never Say Die
Heaven and Hell
Mob Rules
Born Again
Seventh Star
The Eternal Idol
Headless Cross
Tyr
Dehumanizer
Cross Purposes
Forbidden
The Devil You Know
13
This one is going to be a big undertaking, so if there are a bunch of albums you're not familiar with please don't let that put you off, I am going to keep a longer-than-normal submission time so that people can catch up on the back catalog if they want.
Here's how it works:
1: Each user will submit their rankings of the 20 Black Sabbath studio albums to me via PM. That's right, 20. All 19 studio albums PLUS the Heaven and Hell album, The Devil You Know. The top album will receive 20 points, the next album 19, all the way down to the last placed album that will receive 1 point.
2: I will tally up the results and create a forum-wide ranking.
3: I will reveal the results one album at a time, starting at #20. This will be a more discussion based affair, since there will be no voting at this point.
So if you would like to participate, PM me your Black Sabbath ranking from #1 (best) to #20 (worst). Any lists that ignore this format or don't include every Black Sabbath studio album will be ignored! Any comments to this post with rankings will also be ignored, they must be sent via PM and no revisions!
As I said before, Sabbath has a big discography and I would say at least a quarter of their albums have mostly been forgotten by everybody outside hardcore fans, so I am aiming for a February start time but am not attached. I will keep the submission period open pretty much as long as I need. If you know you want to submit a list but you need more time, just leave a comment.
I want to give folks plenty of notice to revisit any albums they want, but I also want to get as many lists as possible so that we can get a more interesting ranking. If there are albums that you're less familiar with but still want to submit a list, now is your time to revisit those albums. But also if you rank an album last because you don't know it that well, I'm also not going to reject your list. I would rather you participate than not!
The Black Sabbath discography for your reference:
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Master of Reality
Volume 4
Sabotage
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Technical Ecstasy
Never Say Die
Heaven and Hell
Mob Rules
Born Again
Seventh Star
The Eternal Idol
Headless Cross
Tyr
Dehumanizer
Cross Purposes
Forbidden
The Devil You Know
13
