Top 30 Music Albums of 1972 by 
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My Top 10 songs of 1972:
10. Genesis - Watcher Of The Skies (Foxtrot)
9. The Rolling Stones - Rocks Off (Exile On Main St.)
8. Lou Reed - Satellite Of Love (Transformer)
7. David Bowie - Five Years (The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars)
6. Nick Drake - Place To Be (Pink Moon)
5. Lou Reed - Perfect Day (Transformer)
5. Caetano Veloso - You Don't Know Me (Transa)
4. Milton Nascimento - Clube da Esquina nº 2 (Clube Da Esquina)
3. Nick Drake - Things Behind The Sun (Pink Moon)
2. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Pink Moon)
1. Nick Drake - From The Morning (Pink Moon)
- Chart updated: 01/25/2020 06:45
- (Created: 01/09/2017 02:08).
- Chart size: 30 albums.
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Favourite Tracks: Hallgallo, Negativland
[First added to this chart: 06/17/2019]
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1972
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2,110
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"Satellite's gone way up to Mars, soon it will be filled with parking cars."
Favourite Tracks: Perfect Day, Satellite Of Love, Walk On The Wild Side [First added to this chart: 01/17/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Perfect Day, Satellite Of Love, Walk On The Wild Side [First added to this chart: 01/17/2017]
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1972
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11,089
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"Remember the days when you used to sit and make up your tunes for love and pour your simple sorrow to the soundhole and your knee."
Favourite Tracks: For The Roses, Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune), Woman of Heart and Mind [First added to this chart: 08/04/2019]
Favourite Tracks: For The Roses, Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune), Woman of Heart and Mind [First added to this chart: 08/04/2019]
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1972
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585
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Favourite Tracks: Sahara, Ebony Queen
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Favourite Tracks: Ah!, Hosianna Mantra
[First added to this chart: 04/23/2019]
Year of Release:
1972
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1,642
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"So I found that life is just a game, but you know there’s never been a winner. Try your hardest, you’ll still be a loser, the world will still be turning when you’re gone."
Favourite Tracks: Wheels Of Confusion/The Straightener, Under The Sun/Every Day Comes And Goes, Supernaut, Snowblind [First added to this chart: 05/04/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Wheels Of Confusion/The Straightener, Under The Sun/Every Day Comes And Goes, Supernaut, Snowblind [First added to this chart: 05/04/2018]
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1972
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2,164
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"Sometime ago, I had a dream, it was happy, it was lasting, it was free."
Favourite Tracks: Crystal Silence, Return To Forever [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Crystal Silence, Return To Forever [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
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"Where did they go? When did they come from? What has become of them now?"
Favourite Tracks: Blessed Relief, Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus [First added to this chart: 05/06/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Blessed Relief, Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus [First added to this chart: 05/06/2018]
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1972
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422
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"Yeah, can we have everything louder than everything else?"
Favourite Tracks: Child In Time, Highway Star, Strange Kind Of Woman [First added to this chart: 11/04/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Child In Time, Highway Star, Strange Kind Of Woman [First added to this chart: 11/04/2018]
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1972
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"Nobody going to take my head, I got speed inside my brain."
Favourite Tracks: Highway Star, Pictures Of Home, Space Truckin' [First added to this chart: 02/23/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Highway Star, Pictures Of Home, Space Truckin' [First added to this chart: 02/23/2018]
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1972
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Top 30 Music Albums of 1972 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Deep Purple | 2 | 7% | |
| Popol Vuh (DE) | 1 | 3% | |
| Caetano Veloso | 1 | 3% | |
| Yes | 1 | 3% | |
| Black Sabbath | 1 | 3% | |
| Groupe De Recherches Musicales De La RTF | 1 | 3% | |
| Randy Newman | 1 | 3% | |
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Top 30 Music Albums of 1972 chart changes
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 4 from 13th to 17th Ege Bamyası by Can |
| Down 4 from 14th to 18th Let's Stay Together by Al Green |
| Down 4 from 15th to 19th On The Corner by Miles Davis |
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 Xenakis: Persepolisby Groupe De Recherches Musicales De La RTF |
| Arthur Verocai by Arthur Verocai |
| Music Of Fela - Roforofo Fight by Fela Kuti & Africa 70 |
| Sail Away by Randy Newman |
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