It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

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El Numero Uno LP of 1972

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
8
9%
David Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
11
12%
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
1
1%
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
2
2%
Blue Oyster Cult
0
No votes
Paul Simon
1
1%
Neil Young - Harvest
2
2%
Grateful Dead - Europe '72
1
1%
Jerry Garcia - Garcia
0
No votes
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
2
2%
Allman Bros Band - Eat a Peach
1
1%
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
2
2%
Bread - Baby, I'm a Want You
0
No votes
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
4
4%
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
3
3%
Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix in the West
1
1%
Deep Purple - Machine Head
2
2%
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
0
No votes
Ry Cooder - Into the Purple Valley
1
1%
Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using
0
No votes
Capt. Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid
1
1%
Capt. Beefheart - Clear Spot
4
4%
Santana - Caravanserai
1
1%
Hot Tuna - Burgers
0
No votes
Strawbs - Grave New World
2
2%
Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees
0
No votes
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud
0
No votes
Graham Nash/David Crosby
0
No votes
Manassas
2
2%
Gentle Giant - Octopus
0
No votes
Big Star - Number One Record
1
1%
T. Rex - The Slider
2
2%
Lou Reed - Transformer
3
3%
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
0
No votes
Yes - Close to the Edge
6
7%
Elton John - Honky Château
0
No votes
Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
2
2%
Roxy Music
8
9%
Alice Cooper - School's Out
2
2%
Frank Zappa - Waka Jawaka
0
No votes
Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
2
2%
The Harder They Come (soundtrack)
2
2%
Rod Stewart - Never a Dull Moment
1
1%
Van Morrison - Saint Dominic's Preview
0
No votes
Super Fly (soundtrack)
2
2%
Michael Nesmith - And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'
0
No votes
Genesis - Foxtrot
4
4%
Miles Davis - On the Corner
2
2%
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
0
No votes
Can - Ege Bamyasi
1
1%
 
Total votes: 90

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It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby Matt Wilson » 31 Jul 2022, 19:19

Forgot I started that other thread. So here's the updated version.

1972 was half a century ago. What were the five best LPs of the ones listed? If your fave isn't here, tell us what it is.

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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby Matt Wilson » 31 Jul 2022, 19:20

Shit, I forgot Nuggets. Oh well, just list your fave if it's not above.

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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby Nervous Ned » 01 Aug 2022, 07:02

My fave would be TD's Zeit ... but full marks for including On The Corner ... easily my favourite on that list.

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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby Limpin' Jez McKenzie » 01 Aug 2022, 07:24

Superfly, Talking book, Ziggy, Exile, Transformer
I kept thinking "swim as far as you can, swim as far as you can".

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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby Darkness_Fish » 01 Aug 2022, 08:49

Neu's debut and Hunky Dory would be the main contenders for me.
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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby Purgatory Brite » 01 Aug 2022, 13:34

Bowie
Deep Purple
Yes
Alice Cooper
Genesis.

Difficult to restrict my choices to just 5. I have to admit it's been quite a while since I played School's Out.

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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby ChrisB » 01 Aug 2022, 13:51

Todd, Yes, Genesis, Roxy, Manassas. Could probably submit another five lists. What a year, full of music and full of diversity

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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby The Modernist » 01 Aug 2022, 14:27

Positive passion wrote:Superfly, Talking book, Ziggy, Exile, Transformer


Easier to quote this. Swap Exile for Roxy and you've got my five.

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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby Diamond Dog » 01 Aug 2022, 15:23

Bowie, Sabbath, Deep Purple (Machine Head), Yes & Alice Cooper .

That was VERY difficult.
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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby The Modernist » 01 Aug 2022, 16:19

Diamond Dog wrote:Bowie, Sabbath, Deep Purple (Machine Head), Yes & Alice Cooper .

That was VERY difficult.


What's with all the metal Pete? I thought you were a man of sophistication!

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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby BARON CORNY DOG » 01 Aug 2022, 16:36

EXILE



Let's Stay Together
Pink Moon
Talking Book
Manassas

With apologies to Sabbath, Rio Grande Mud, Bare Trees, Eat A Peach, Garcia, and, well, lots of other things, I suppose.
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Postby Limpin' Jez McKenzie » 01 Aug 2022, 17:06

The Modernist wrote:
Diamond Dog wrote:Bowie, Sabbath, Deep Purple (Machine Head), Yes & Alice Cooper .

That was VERY difficult.


What's with all the metal Pete? I thought you were a man of sophistication!


Or is it hard rock?
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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby toomanyhatz » 01 Aug 2022, 18:00

Exile, of course. (But not Ziggy. Have @me.)

Into the Purple Valley - yeah, I voted for a few for which mine might be the only vote. I don't love this as much as I used to - he gets some lyrics wrong for one thing - but this is what I've always hoped "Americana" would turn into (it hasn't). Personal renditions of 'The Great American Songbook" infused with the personality of their interpreter. For the wild syncopation on "Jesse James" alone, this is right up my (quiet suburban) back alley.

Clear Spot - not much I have to say about this one, do I? It's between this and Decals for favorite Beefheart album - between the most outré one (but with a stream-of-consciousness bent I find very relatable) and the one where he 'plays it straight' and proves he has a gift for melody and silly humor. His weirdness contains multitudes.

Grave New World - I definitely don't rate this as high as I used to, but I figured anything that ever lived in my top ten - as this did for at least part of the following decade - deserves a vote. See my Strawbs thread for more info. "Queen of Dreams" is still a masterpiece of British psych (a few years too late).

The Harder They Come - It's not often the perfect primer for an entire genre can be encapsulated in one 40-minute LP. Not the whole history, I realize, and fairly Cliff-centric (though his songs for it might be his very best), but it's probably the record here that you could MOST say affected everything. The next decade would have been VERY different without it.

Lots of runners-up. Ziggy, BOC, Simon, Drake, Crosby/Nash (particularly the Crosby stuff, which I like better than ...name), Little Feat, and Miles, in particular.
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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby robertff » 01 Aug 2022, 18:31

So many great albums it’s hard to choose.

Nevertheless I went with old and true favourites, Stones, Bowie, Roxy, Rod and Yes.

One favourite, not there but which I would most probably have ticked is Wishbone Ash’s masterpiece Argus. Think I’ve probably got at least 95% of these albums.


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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby robertff » 01 Aug 2022, 18:35

Darkness_Fish wrote:Neu's debut and Hunky Dory would be the main contenders for me.




Before Matt says it, I think Hunky Dory came out late ‘71 not ‘72 but happy to be wrong.


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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

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The Modernist wrote:
Diamond Dog wrote:Bowie, Sabbath, Deep Purple (Machine Head), Yes & Alice Cooper .

That was VERY difficult.


What's with all the metal Pete? I thought you were a man of sophistication!


:lol: Not a thing I'm often accused of, G!

Firstly- Bowie ain't metal (but you knew that).

Secondly - Alice Cooper isn't metal (and that album has some things that would blow your mind, if you'd listen to it).

Thirdly - Yes aren't metal!! They're even worse - PROG!! But maybe the greatest Prog album, so I forgive them.

Machine Head is one of those albums that kind of cemented my childhood. It is very deeply ingrained - I cannot desert it (nor would I want to).

Lastly...there are days that Vol 4 is the greatest rock album ever made. Genuinely. It's not your thing but... it's glorious. Truly.

As I said - it was tough. I can't believe Harvest isn't in there, for instance. Amongst others. You pays your money......
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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby The Fish » 01 Aug 2022, 20:04

Diamond Dog wrote:I can't believe Harvest isn't in there....


It is. You were probably too busy averting your eyes from the Dead/Garcia immediately below.
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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby The Fish » 01 Aug 2022, 20:14

Exile
Superfly
Pink Moon
Talking Book
Clear Spot

Point of order: There is no such album as Saturate Before Using It is self titled.
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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby BARON CORNY DOG » 01 Aug 2022, 20:16

The Fish wrote:
Diamond Dog wrote:I can't believe Harvest isn't in there....


It is.


Nobody asked, but it’s my least favorite of his 70s records.
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Re: It Was 50 Years Ago Today, 1972

Postby naughty boy » 01 Aug 2022, 20:25

Exile
Ziggy
Clear Spot
Transformer
Roxy

All five would make a personal top 30, the last two in that list probably a top ten. What a year!
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