Best Albums of 1972
Listed below are the best albums of 1972 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 59,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 3 hours ago).
"Possibly the greatest live album ever made. Worth owning the album for the incredible versions of Child In Time and Smoke On The Water, the latter with a slightly different guitar chord intro to the studio version. For a live album, the recording quality is superb. An album made to live on vinyl!" Reply
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1972
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"Bryan Ferry and Brian Eno make this album one of the most brilliant that I've ever heard. You generally don't see this one in best album charts, and that's a shame. Here we have some of the most important songs in Roxy Music's history. There is some great work here with sythesizers and sound clip..." [+] Reply
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"Fucking Miles Davis. Just when you thought he'd already broken more new ground and created more timeless masterpieces than could ever be matched, he drops this piece of fusion genius, which is probably the most ambitious thing Davis ever released in his career. And I mean this is fucking Miles Da..." [+] Reply
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""mother and child reunion" and "me and julio down by the schoolyard" are both here. This is as good as you'd expect from the chief songwriter and main voice of simon & garfunkel. You still hear the same street-wise, folksy common-folk narratives woven into songs as catchy as he is short. There ar..." [+] Reply
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paladisiac | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1972
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"Each track blends so well with each other I noticed it had ended 5 minutes after it actually ended." Reply
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Defago | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +12 votes (13 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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"As colorful a first eight bars of an album as you'll ever hear, and with four funky songs behind it - and then along comes "Baby Boomerang," aimed at... Babies? I'm asking because it certainly wasn't aimed the three decades-old American who just sat listening to it. Also, did they have "Seventeen..." [+] Reply
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"Rundgren's master stroke. It should be called Something/Everything since he pretty much does it all on this inspired smorgasbord of styles, ranging from hard rock and ballads to blue-eyed soul and grunge. And, of course, that tape hiss. Hugely influential, it is a miniature pop world unto itself." Reply
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"Another strong album from Elton John when he was unstoppable. Personally, I don't think, honky chateau, is quite as good as, madman, or, tumbleweed, but it's still a decent record. Honky cat, I think I'm going to kill myself, are strong cuts, but the best without doubt is, rocket man, one of Elto..." [+] Reply
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"I really like this album as it has focus and direction which was not on a few of their previous outings. My favourite would have to be Childhood's End - great feel, awesome lyrics and a typically haunting Gilmour solo." Reply
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1972
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"#5 on my list. The masterpiece of the greatest genius of brazilian music. Few people have understood and loved Brazil as Caetano and this is historic. Valeu, brasucas!" Reply
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bonafini | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 3 of 100
Best Albums of 1972 composition
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| Various Artists | 12 | 1% | |
| Elvis Presley | 4 | 0% | |
| Deep Purple | 4 | 0% | |
| Jimi Hendrix | 4 | 0% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 4 | 0% | |
| Ray Barretto | 3 | 0% | |
| Georges Brassens | 3 | 0% | |
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426 | 43% | |
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201 | 20% | |
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67 | 7% | |
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36 | 4% | |
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33 | 3% | |
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29 | 3% | |
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23 | 2% | |
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| Best Artists of the 1970s | |
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| 1. Pink Floyd | |
| 2. David Bowie | |
| 3. Led Zeppelin | |
| 4. Neil Young | |
| 5. The Rolling Stones | |
| 6. The Clash | |
| 7. Black Sabbath | |
| 8. Fleetwood Mac | |
| 9. Stevie Wonder | |
| 10. The Who |
