Super Albums Game

[poorpete]

(not a round change -- waiting on Zombie: I did my research and I am now keeping a hidden tally of the score if I didn't give -100 points for Grammy win. If y'all prefer me to change the rules entirely to eliminate the -100 penalty, let me know, and I will retroactively award the Abbey Roads and the Dark Side of the Moons. If four people agree then I'll change it. This would up the list to 47 albums total)

[Mike]

Eh. I say keep the game we have, but do share the alternate totals at the end.

[Zen]

[Tahlvin]

Or if the intent is to benefit the albums that won the Grammy, you could just up the number of points for those albums. Right now, it's pretty much just a 110 point swing between albums that have and don't have the Grammy, so you could just make the "has the Grammy" point value 100, or 50, or something like that.

[Zombie]

Pink Floyd, The Wall?

[poorpete]

Innervisions (Phoebe), a grammy winner and 24th on the RS list, minus two round points, get 18 points!
Graceland (Tahlvin), same as above but 71st on the list gets 17 points.
Purple Rain (Mike) and The Wall (Zombie) all gain points in the alternate game.
All Killer No Filler by Jerry Lee Lewis was #245 on RS.
Leftoverture (Zen) is indeed a out-on-a-limb guess.
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Round four, reduced points by 1, added the album title's first non-"The " character.

[Kyle]

Guns n Roses- Welcome to the Jungle

[Zen]

Supertramp, Breakfast in America

[poorpete]

(not a round change, but Kyle I'll allow you to do a google search for "welcome to the jungle album name")

[Tahlvin]

I've almost used up all the ones I can think of. But I think Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water, might be on there as well.

[Phoebe]

Celine Dion, Falling Into You

Which I'm pretty darn sure doesn't appear on the NPR list of greatest women albums and that's a bit of a travesty.

[Phoebe]

I'm pretty well-acquainted with which albums appear on the Grammy Award list for album of the year but I'm not very well acquainted with the probably heavily classic rock white men oriented list that Rolling Stone came up with. So those are the kinds of things I should be guessing instead of Celine Dion, but I don't care out of bitterness and spite.

[Zombie]

I think Celine is a great guess. I'm fairly confident it won a grammy and sold a ton.

I'm drawing a blank this round. Everything I want to guess doesn't quite match any of the clues. I might have to wait till next rounds clue.

[Kyle]

[Kyle]

JK: Appetite for Destruction.

I didn't have to google it, just think about it.

[Phoebe]

Positive Celine won the Grammy and sold albums like a monster. I bet there are others like her. Need to get the Rolling Stone angle out my mind, especially if they didn't even embrace the Genius of Christopher Cross!!!

[poorpete]

Falling Into You did win Grammy and went 11x plat for 9pts!
Appetite for Destruction earns Kyle some points in the alternate game,
Breakfast in America you'd think, but seems RS is sour on the 'Tramp, sold 4x in US, and was nominated but didn't win Best Album.
Bridge Over Troubled Water is another high pick for Tahlvin. And here I was worried the person who'd get MJ would run away with this... #51 on RS and won the Grammy for 16 pts.
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New clues... Album Abbreviations!

[Kyle]

Vanilla Ice- To Tha Extreme

[Zen]

The BeeGees, Saturday Night Fever ? (Or Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack)

[Tahlvin]

Duh: Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard