Great list from a great year in music ! +.....first Roxy Music, "Machine Head" by Deep Purple, "Volume 4" by Black Sabbath and Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly".

You hit most of the high points as usual, Exile, Ziggy, Transformer, Can't Buy a Thrill. My number one would be Superfly, which is in my top ten albums of all time, probably the greatest soundtrack album, and Curtis Mayfield's masterpiece, though he did produce several other great albums during the 70s. I would also rank in my top two or three the other great Bowie produced album, All the Young Dudes, my second favorite Mott the Hoople record, and arguably the one where Ian Hunter's vision begins to truly dominate. You can't go wrong with any year from this period, though for me, a year that doesn't feature a Zeppelin release is a little bit of a letdown. :) The Who were also taking a hiatus between what might be their two greatest accomplishments, so considering the artists who were conspicuous by their absence, 1972 is amazingly overflowing with riches.

@tomrobinson5776

Жыл бұрын

I’ve never owned Superfly. I have a solo Curtis anthology as well as an Impressions collection. Need to pick that up as my next purchase.

@chrisboerger465

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@@tomrobinson5776 You won't be disappointed!

Man! Great line up. Ive got just about all of those. Really enjoy your videos. Keep'em coming brother!

@tomrobinson5776

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Thanks for watching 😉

@ericwhite6912

Жыл бұрын

@@tomrobinson5776 Forgot to mention, a friend of mine went backstage to a Richard Thompson gig and had him sign Henry. "We thought it was a comedy album " my friend said. I always thought it was! he replied. Delighted to see your inclusion of that. Another great vargain bin lp of that time was Petaluma by Norman Greenbaum. Would not be at all suprised if you had it!

@tomrobinson5776

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome regarding the Richard Thompson album. I’ll have to find that Norman Greenbaum LP 😉

Most agreed sir. Cool to see I have most of those. Good pics

Many of those albums I discovered in later years.I do remember buying Concert for Bangladesh and Sometime in New York City.I was 14 that Summer and I didn't have my own stereo and not much spending cash.Also I bought Hot Rocks.Thanks alot.

Fire in the Hole, great piano and lap steel guitar.

@tomrobinson5776

3 ай бұрын

Indeed. Love that track.

Gradually catching up! Haven't listened to Loudon in 20 years, will circle back to it. Mine in order. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot David Bowie - The Rise Of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St. Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 Can - Ege Bamyasi Nick Drake - Pink Moon Yes - Close To The Edge Roxy Music - Roxy Music Curtis Mayfield - Superfly T. Rex - The Slider Al Green - I’m Still In Love With You Fela Kuti - Roforofo Fight Neu! - Neu! Junior Byles - Beat Down Babylon Guru Guru - Känguru Wishbone Ash - Argus Al Green - Let’s Stay Together Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come Stevie Wonder - Talking Book Big Star - #1 Record Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music Horace Andy - Skylarking Night Sun - Mournin’ Dave Holland Quartet - Conference Of The Birds Herbie Hancock - Crossings Eddie Kendricks - People…Hold On Terry Callier - What Color Is Love Free - Free At Last Funkadelic - America Eats Its Young Bill Withers - Still Bill

@tomrobinson5776

5 ай бұрын

Love that Still Bill album by Bill Withers.

Hi 👋 I liked Poco, i liked the song Indian Summer in 1977. It got some good airplay on the radio here in New Zealand back then. 1972 was the year when British Glam Rock was popular. Groups such as T Rex , Slade , The Sweet. I always remember the electronic tune Popcorn by the group Hot Butter being popular. I was into ice skating that year and I would go along to an ice rink and the DJ there would play it. I like Lou Reeds Transformer album where he collaborated with David Bowie. Paul Simon was good in that year. Mother child Reunion was a single that did well for him.

Great great list. i surely would have added the first Roxy Music album and Paul Simon's first. EXILE is in my all time top 5. So glad Nick Drake's PINK MOON is here too. Brilliant album and because of its "nakedness" different from his other 2 classics !

@tomrobinson5776

Жыл бұрын

I agree. Pink Moon has a vibe all its own.

Good choices! I would have included the debut albums by Paul Simon, Jackson Browne and Manassas in my top twenty for 1972 along with the debut by The Eagles. My favorite live albums from 1972 are Last of the Red Hot Burritos by the Flying Burrito Brothers and Live In Europe by Rory Gallagher.

I'm with you on picks one and two but also high up there for me would be Bob Weir's Ace, which is essentially just classic Dead

Great list glad you had Poco on your list . Under appreciated band. I’d add Santana caravanserai groundbreaking album !

@tomrobinson5776

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I’ll have to check out that Santana record.

@dannyschneider553

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@@tomrobinson5776 it’s mostly instrumental unlike any other album of theirs

Hey wait a minute, can't CHICAGO 5, which was a #1 album for 9 straight weeks in 1972, get just a little love around here????

"And You and I" is my favorite Yes song!

‘72 was probably the last year when I liked almost all of pop music and felt I understood the thought behind it (I was 14). Since then I feel I’ve been looking at it ‘through a glass darkly’.

Dang, my number one (and easily a top ten album of all time for me) doesn't make your list at all...the total masterpiece that is Superfly. But a very interesting list as always, with several that I'm not familiar with. Amazing how much new (to me) old music there is.

@tomrobinson5776

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I need to pick up Superfly. I have an anthology of Curtis Mayfield but none of the official solo releases. I love his stuff with The Impressions as well.

20. Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards 19. Lou Reed - Transformer 18. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book 17. Van Morrison - St. Dominic's Preview 16. Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill 15. Randy Newman - Sail Away 14. Barnstorm - Barnstorm 13. Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes 12. Roxy Music - Roxy Music 11. Wishbone Ash - Argus 10. Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? 9. Deep Purple - Machine Head 8. Grin - 1+1 7. Black Sabbath - Vol.4 6. Yes - Close To The Edge 5. Santana - Caravanserai 4. Rory Gallagher - Live! In Europe 3. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick 2. Blue Oyster Cult - Blue Oyster Cult 1. T. REX - THE SLIDER

@berniebobbie

6 ай бұрын

Love No 16 & 17

My fave Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street

Yes, the Eagles first should on 1972. I was in 9th grade. We played it through high school. Witchy woman grabs me still. The band were able to rock + play soft ballads. I like Some of Us Are Sad.

I agree 100% about For The roses - not in my top 10 - found Joni a few years back - in 1972 I saw her as a folky artist in ignoramce

Salute To Exile on Main Street & Close To The Edge Great year

Eagles debut should have been on the top 20 list. Powerful, strong debut. Some of Us Are Sad. Witchy Woman. Take it easy. Why was it only an honorable mention. Sure better than Hotel California+ the later albums.

1972, maybe the best year for progressive music : Close to the edge, Foxtrot, etc. 20 favorite 1972 albums, in alphabetical order : - The Association - Waterbeds In Trinidad - Capability Brown - From Scratch - Caravan - Waterloo Lily - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy - Flash - (self-titled album) - The Four Seasons - Chameleon - Genesis - Foxtrot - Gentle Giant - Octopus - Gentle Giant - Three Friends - The Grass Roots - Move Along - Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick - The Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn - PFM - Per un amico - Renaissance - Prologue - Wakeman, Rick - The Six Wifes Of Henry VIII - Wishbone Ash - Argus - Wonder, Stevie - Talking Book - Yes - Close To The Edge (favorite album) - Young, Neil - Harvest - A New Place To Live (concept album)

You left out: Octopus by Gentle Giant; the debut album by ELO (the greatest album to be overlooked by all, it's actually the last album by The Move); Argus by Wishbone Ash; the first Roxy Music album (sounding like no one else); Bandstand by Family; Trilogy by ELP. Volume 4 by Black Sabbath; Second Wind by Brian Auger; Waka Jawaka by Zappa. Pity you forgot these.

A Toast to Panama Red by the Masters Apprentice's (Australia). Psych prog. The Opeth song Masters Apprentices is a tribute. You would be surprised how influential early 1970's Australia bands were, including on USA grunge bands. For example, the tune Freedom (1973) by Buffalo, and the tune GOD (guitar over drive) by Lobby Loyde and the Coloured Balls, and Mama (1971) by Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs live on GTK. Cobain was a fan of some of this work. Panama Red was recorded at Abbey Road.

@tomrobinson5776

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Interesting. I’ll have to check out those titles.

@lupcokotevski2907

Жыл бұрын

@@tomrobinson5776 Coincidentally, Dillon on his Noble Records channel showed the Buffalo LP in his latest video yesterday, Volcanic Rock (1973).

These are my 20, at least what I could come up with: 1) Miles Davis: On The Corner 2) Yes: Close To The Edge 3) Curtis Mayfield: Superfly 4) Roxy Music: Roxy Music 5) Rolling Stones: Exile On Main St 6) Black Sabbath: Vol 4 7) Allman Brothers Band: Eat A Peach 8) Gentle Giant: Octopus 9) Slade: Slayed? 10) Faust: So Far 11) Hawkwind: Doremi Fasol Latido 12) Big Youth: Screaming Target 13) Big Star: #1 Record 14) Genesis: Foxtrot 15) Weather Report: I Sing The Body Electric 16) Alice Cooper: School's Out 17) Santana: Caravanseri 18) Chick Corea: Return To Forever 19) Deep Purple: Machine Head 20) Randy Newman: Sail Away I have to say there are albums by Ornette Coleman and Stevie Wonder (among others) I haven't heard yet or heard fully, otherwise this list would be somewhat different.

@tomrobinson5776

Жыл бұрын

Cool list 😉

Brinsley Schwarz RULE!!! Black Sabbath "Vol. 4" Fleetwood Mac "Bare Trees" Roxy Music "S/T" Miles Davis "On the Corner"

@lenpey

Жыл бұрын

Yah that is a good Mac album.

Eat a Peach needs to be top 5 for 1972

Great years allman ,genesis,yes ,lou reed,zappa,neil young,black sabbath deep purple

GENESIS 🦊 Foxtrot 🎼

I believe the Cale album is called “Naturally “ ?

@tomrobinson5776

7 ай бұрын

You’re correct 😉

I was surprised by the paucity of qualifying material, for my list of the Best Albums of 1972. The Top 50 wasn't too hard, and there are some undiscovered gems, but there was a lot of dreck. It's the only year, between 1965 and 1984 that I couldn't easily come up with 100 LPs. Maybe it had to do with the deaths of Jimi, Janis and Jim, but 1972 was an odd year, consumed by Watergate, and the reelection of Donnie-Lite, aka Tricky Dick, the Unindicted Co-Conspirator of the JFK Assassination, and the eminence grise of the Kent State murders. His campaign committee wasn't called CReEP for nothing, after all. It wasn't all bad. In 18 months, Yes, all but unknown before The Yes Album, exploded out of the gate, releasing three LPs in 18 months that redefined rock 'n' roll. Rick Wakeman came out of the Strawbs, amid a blizzard of hype, and lived up to most of it. The Strawbs went on to their own rewards, and Yes was unable to repeat the glory of their brief moment in the Sun. Ironically, it was Where Is this Dream of Your Youth, from Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios, which got heavy airplay by progressive FM stations, in 1970, that brought the Strawbs to my attention. In early 1971, I heard Starship Trooper on the radio, and eagerly sought a copy of The Yes Album. Both bands would occupy a favored place in my collections from that moment on. The real surprise of 1972 was the arrival of David Bowie, with The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. I caught them at the Santa Monica Civic, in October, and the Houston Music Hall, in November. The Civic was a big barn of a place, with lousy acoustics, but great ambience. I saw two dozen acts there, over the years. The Music Hall, was an acoustic dream, in comparison. I saw the Kinks concert I've mentioned, at the Music Hall, with Stoneground supporting, and Steely Dan opening. Ziggy Stardust was Bowie's finest moment, a role he was born to play. The band was knife-sharp, and the sound system was the best I'd heard to date. All the freaks came out to play. Nice list. Best of 1972 01 T H E R I S E A N D F A L L O F Z I G G Y S T A R D U S T A N D T H E S P I D E R S F R O M M A R S David Bowie 02 H A R V E S T Neil Yound 03 P A U L S I M O N Paul Simon 04 C L O S E T O T H E E D G E Yes 05 E X I L E O N M A I N S T R E E T the Rolling Stones 06 F O R T H E R O S E S Joni Mitchell 07 S A I N T D O M I N O ' S P R E V I E W Van Morrison 08 S A T U R A T E B E F O R E U S I N G Jackson Browne 09 H O N K Y C H A T E A U Elton John 10 M A N A S S A S Stephen Stills 11 A R G U S Wishbone Ash 12 E A G L E S ( I ) the Eagles 13 E A T A P E A C H the Allman Brothers Band 14 L O G G I N S A N D M E S S I N A ( I I ) Loggins & Messina 15 N E V E R A D U L L M O M E N T Rod Stewart 16 E V E R Y B O D Y ' S I N S H O W - B I Z the Kinks 17 T A L K I N G B O O K Stevie Wonder 18 G R A V E N E W W O R L D the Strawbs 19 R O C K ' N ' R O L L M U S I C T O T H E W O R L D Ten Years After 20 M Y T I M E Boz Scaggs 21 H E N D R I X I N T H E W E S T Jimi Hendrix 22 M A C H I N E H E A D Deep Purple 23 T H I C K A S A B R I C K Jethro Tull 24 B A R E T R E E S Fleetwood Mac 25 C A N ' T B U Y A T H R I L L Steely Dan 26 S A I L A W A Y Randy Newman 27 T R A N S F O R M E R Lou Reed 28 T H E S L I D E R T Rex 29 A G O O D F E E L I N ' T O K N O W Poco 30 M U S I C O F M Y M I N D Stevie Wonder 31 D E M O N S A N D W I Z A R D S Uriah Heep 32 P I N K M O O N Nick Drake 33 D E M O N I N D I S G U I S E David Bromberg 34 S C H O O L ' S O U T Alice Cooper 35 S A I L I N ' S H O E S Little Feat 36 G A R C I A Jerry Garcia 37 T O U L O U S E S T R E E T the Doobie Brothers 38 M A N F R E D M A N N ' S E A R T H B A N D Manfred Mann's Earth Band 39 W H O C A M E F I R S T Pete Townshend 40 B L U E Ö Y S T E R C U L T Blue Öyster Cult 41 E U R O P E ' 7 2 the Grateful Dead 42 T H E M A G I C I A N ' S B I R T H D A Y Uriah Heep 43 T R I L O G Y Emerson, Lake & Palmer 44 G I V E I T U P Bonnie Raitt 45 P R O L O G U E Renaissance 46 G R E E N H O U S E Leo Kottke 47 A L L T H E Y O U N G D U D E S Mott the Hoople 48 B U R G E R S Hot Tuna 49 R O X Y M U S I C ( I ) Roxy Music 50 T H E H A R D E R T H E Y C O M E Jimmy Cliff, et al

@tomrobinson5776

Жыл бұрын

That’s awesome you saw The Kinks and Steely Dan on the same bill. 😉

@TheAnarchitek

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​@@tomrobinson5776 In the Top Ten, to be sure.

Don McLean

I would have selected Poco + A Brothers in top 10. Many honorable mentions belong on your top 20, such as Al Green. I am not Yes fan

After reading L Reed's biography or autobiography I can't stand him. So many years of shit records. I was uncomfortable with his S&M. I prefer The Velvet Underground period, such as Venus in Furs (so gritty).

@tomrobinson5776

4 ай бұрын

His solo career is pretty spotty, but those Velvet records are timeless.

13:05-13:06.....Did you say what I thought you said?............Not in my book.....Sorry.