Best Albums of 1972

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31.

The Harder They Come 
Soundtrack compilation

 Various Artists

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"A very good collection of songs here. The first one, You Can Get It If You Really Want, was the strongest for me. Most the tracks on this album are very uplifting in their mood and there are few which I would call weak. Harder They Come and Sitting In Limbo are also highlights."  Reply

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Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

217 charts

Rank Score:

1,095

Rank in 1972:

31

Rank in 1970s:

299

Overall Rank:

1,556

Average Rating:

 80 (198 votes)

Comments:

13

32.

Caravanserai 

 Santana

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"My favorite Santana album, which is not always easy to explain to people; but looking at the comments here and reflecting on the number of randomly met people who have joined in the opinion, perhaps I shouldn't bother?"  Reply

- Taosjohn | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

185 charts

Rank Score:

1,081

Rank in 1972:

32

Rank in 1970s:

301

Overall Rank:

1,575

Average Rating:

 80 (206 votes)

Comments:

15

33.

You Don't Mess Around With Jim 

 Jim Croce

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"Why is this ranked so low? Jim Croce was one of the best songwriters of all time, not to mention a fantastic guitarist, singer and storyteller. He was in the same social circle as Arlo Guthrie, James Taylor and Jimmy Buffett, and I think he was simply the most talented of the four."  Reply

- louisjwyatt | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

116 charts

Rank Score:

1,079

Rank in 1972:

33

Rank in 1970s:

302

Overall Rank:

1,578

Average Rating:

 78 (124 votes)

Comments:

12

34.

Sail Away 

 Randy Newman

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"It was a consistently good seller(Reprise MS 2064) throughout the 70s and 80s and got a lot of airplay in the same period, especially for "Political Science" and "Sail Away". One of my favorite albums and IMO his best, but also check out Randy Newman Live and "I think its going to rain today". I ...""It was a consistently good seller(Reprise MS 2064) throughout the 70s and 80s and got a lot of airplay in the same period, especially for "Political Science" and "Sail Away". One of my favorite albums and IMO his best, but also check out Randy Newman Live and "I think its going to rain today". I am really glad to see that this album is so popular with the members on this site..albums like this can get lost in the passage of time."  [+]  Reply

- ffudnebbuh | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

228 charts

Rank Score:

1,003

Rank in 1972:

34

Rank in 1970s:

320

Overall Rank:

1,685

Average Rating:

 78 (269 votes)

Comments:

13

35.

Saint Dominic's Preview 

 Van Morrison

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"An essential album, with wonderful songs. The soul of "Jackie Wilson". The tour of force of "Listen To The Lion". Incredible vocal and band."  Reply

- carneham | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

210 charts

Rank Score:

1,001

Rank in 1972:

35

Rank in 1970s:

321

Overall Rank:

1,690

Average Rating:

 80 (256 votes)

Comments:

11

36.

Let My Children Hear Music 

 Charles Mingus

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"Mingus's own personal favourite of all of his albums and not hard to see why. Constructing "buildings of jazz" it seems in deferrence to the primitism of much of the jazz fusion wave that was around at the time. The architects have hit the spot and the view from the top floor is impressive. Shame...""Mingus's own personal favourite of all of his albums and not hard to see why. Constructing "buildings of jazz" it seems in deferrence to the primitism of much of the jazz fusion wave that was around at the time. The architects have hit the spot and the view from the top floor is impressive. Shame, shame I'm the first to post a comment on this one."  [+]  Reply

- stangetzaway | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

151 charts

Rank Score:

979

Rank in 1972:

36

Rank in 1970s:

326

Overall Rank:

1,724

Average Rating:

 82 (156 votes)

Comments:

6

37.

Demons & Wizards 

 Uriah Heep

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"First saw Heep at the Wakes Arms pub in Essex (UK) in July 1970 and they are still going strong 50 years later, although Mick Box lead guitar is the only member of that original lineup. This album is probably their best as more than any other it highlights Ken Hensley's song writing abilities tac...""First saw Heep at the Wakes Arms pub in Essex (UK) in July 1970 and they are still going strong 50 years later, although Mick Box lead guitar is the only member of that original lineup. This album is probably their best as more than any other it highlights Ken Hensley's song writing abilities tackling hard rock, metal, prog and refined gentle acoustic numbers and there are touches of blues, jazz and glam, which creates an album that is accessible to many different tastes. David Byron was one of the best rock lead vocalist's ever. His range, tone and ability to tackle any type of song was almost operatic and together with Mick Box, a top notch lead guitarist, and Ken Hensley's sophisticated and powerful keyboards formed the focal point of the band at the time. I can quite honestly say this album has no duds, no filler, it has its highs but never dips, it maintains a level of consistency throughout that even some so called great albums fail to achieve. Give it a listen. No give it more and let it win you over. 70's rock doesn't get much better than this in my ever so 'umble opinion."  [+]  Reply

- imyourman | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

164 charts

Rank Score:

940

Rank in 1972:

37

Rank in 1970s:

339

Overall Rank:

1,789

Average Rating:

 77 (191 votes)

Comments:

9

38.

Irrlicht 

 Klaus Schulze

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"It may not be fair, but I have always less appreciated the work of Schulze (who left Tangerine Dream (TD) because of artistic differences with Edgar Froese in 1970) than TD's. As a young boy you may need variety. Possibly it was difficult for me at that time to appreciate the musical and artistic...""It may not be fair, but I have always less appreciated the work of Schulze (who left Tangerine Dream (TD) because of artistic differences with Edgar Froese in 1970) than TD's. As a young boy you may need variety. Possibly it was difficult for me at that time to appreciate the musical and artistic values of the currently highly acclaimed and groundbreaking "Irrlicht". Track 1 ("Ebene") gets under way with heavily manipulated strings. The mixed in drones are accompanied by strings played backwards. The process of generating music (indeed, you can call it "Musique concrète") is more important here than the result. Occasionally you hear sounds that seem to come from a synthesizer, but Schulze did not have a synthesizer for recording Irrlight. I would therefore like to know all the details of the process and the instruments used. Later in Track 1, Schulze plays his special, modified organ as if his life depended on it. I fear that I am too old and less sensitive to experiments. Track 3 is more monotonous and sounds like the relentlessly held and amplified background noise from a factory in the metal industry. I do not think we are in Berlin but in the Ruhr area, and here everything is dark, angry and hostile. This does not make you happy. On the contrary. We have to wait for the sublime "Mirage" to find a more accessible sound carpet. But for now this is the "Dark Ambient" of a sound artist. The recording of the reverse playback of an orchestra is interwoven with the noise that turns the background gray. I can't make up my mind. Does Irrlicht have such great artistic value? Is this album still relevant, or can we talk about musical archeology?"  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

131 charts

Rank Score:

900

Rank in 1972:

38

Rank in 1970s:

349

Overall Rank:

1,861

Average Rating:

 77 (152 votes)

Comments:

9

39.

Octopus 

 Gentle Giant

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"My favourite prog album after Genesis' Foxtrot and SEBTP. Actually there is no 19 minutes electric caribbean viola jam in 15/4 on this album, just simple rock songs, but which all have a clear prog trajectory, with unusual instruments, some time signatures changes, and many structure variations i...""My favourite prog album after Genesis' Foxtrot and SEBTP. Actually there is no 19 minutes electric caribbean viola jam in 15/4 on this album, just simple rock songs, but which all have a clear prog trajectory, with unusual instruments, some time signatures changes, and many structure variations inside one song. It's a really breathtaking record."  [+]  Reply

- drakonium | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

201 charts

Rank Score:

832

Rank in 1972:

39

Rank in 1970s:

368

Overall Rank:

1,988

Average Rating:

 79 (224 votes)

Comments:

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40.

Let's Stay Together 

 Al Green

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"Lovely soul album from Al Green. The timeless title track is absolutely beautiful and there's plenty of other strong songs on this great record. He made some fine albums in the seventies. This is one of them."  Reply

- garycottier | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

230 charts

Rank Score:

713

Rank in 1972:

40

Rank in 1970s:

415

Overall Rank:

2,257

Average Rating:

 79 (234 votes)

Comments:

9

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Best Albums of 1972 composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	11	1%
Elvis Presley	4	0%
Deep Purple	4	0%
Jimi Hendrix	4	0%
The Rolling Stones	4	0%
Georges Brassens	3	0%
Ray Barretto	3	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	423	42%
	203	20%
	69	7%
	35	4%
	34	3%
	29	3%
	23	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	943	94%
Yes	57	6%

Live?	Albums	%
No	951	95%
Yes	49	5%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	986	99%
Yes	14	1%