The Top Albums from 1972

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	7	The Rolling Stones	Exile on Main St		Listen
2	16	David Bowie	The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars		Listen
3	79	Lou Reed	Transformer
4	109	Stevie Wonder	Talking Book		Listen
5	118	Neil Young	Harvest		Listen
6	151	Curtis Mayfield	Superfly		Listen
7	196	The Original Soundtrack	The Harder They Come		Listen
8	207	Roxy Music	Roxy Music		Listen
9	247	Deep Purple	Machine Head		Listen
10	259	Nick Drake	Pink Moon		Listen
11	264	Todd Rundgren	Something/Anything?		Listen
12	390	Randy Newman	Sail Away		Listen
13	413	Deep Purple	Made in Japan		Listen
14	431	Steely Dan	Can't Buy a Thrill		Listen
15	478	Little Feat	Sailin' Shoes		Listen
16	486	Big Star	#1 Record		Listen
17	522	Al Green	I'm Still in Love with You		Listen
18	594	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Clear Spot		Listen
19	615	Yes	Close to the Edge		Listen
20	635	Van Morrison	Saint Dominic's Preview		Listen
21	658	Paul Simon	Paul Simon		Listen
22	660	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Will the Circle Be Unbroken		Listen
23	669	T. Rex	The Slider		Listen
24	670	Al Green	Let's Stay Together		Listen
25	691	Can	Ege Bamyasi		Listen
26	703	The O'Jays	Back Stabbers		Listen
27	767	Black Sabbath	Vol. 4		Listen
28	788	Aretha Franklin	Amazing Grace		Listen
29	857	Genesis	Foxtrot		Listen
30	921	Chick Corea	Return to Forever		Listen
31	943	Mott the Hoople	All the Young Dudes		Listen
32	1039	Stevie Wonder	Music of My Mind		Listen
33	1062	The Mahavishnu Orchestra	Birds of Fire		Listen
34	1077	Miles Davis	On the Corner
35	1135	The Band	Rock of Ages		Listen
36	1190	Elton John	Honky Chateau		Listen
37	1237	Tim Buckley	Greetings from L.A.
38	1254	War	The World Is a Ghetto		Listen
39	1304	Alice Cooper	School's Out		Listen
40	1317	Joni Mitchell	For the Roses		Listen
41	1353	Aretha Franklin	Young, Gifted and Black		Listen
42	1354	Carla Bley	Escalator over the Hill		Listen
43	1389	The Allman Brothers Band	Eat a Peach		Listen
44	1483	Santana	Caravanserai		Listen
45	1507	Jackson Browne	Jackson Browne
46	1549	Jethro Tull	Thick as a Brick		Listen
47	1557	Rod Stewart	Never a Dull Moment		Listen
48	1564	Dr. John	Dr. John's Gumbo		Listen
49	1680	Planxty	Planxty		Listen
50	1717	Faust	Faust So Far		Listen
51	1776	Dave Holland	Conference of the Birds		Listen
52	1838	Klaus Schulze	Irrlicht
53	1839	Faust	Faust		Listen
54	1840	Townes Van Zandt	The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
55	1848	Popol Vuh	In den Gärten Pharaohs
56	2059	Donny Hathaway	Live		Listen
57	2066	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	The Spotlight Kid		Listen
58	2121	Ornette Coleman	Skies of America		Listen
59	2187	Ornette Coleman	Science Fiction
60	2191	Hawkwind	Doremi Fasol Latido		Listen
61	2210	Eric Andersen	Blue River		Listen
62	2304	Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges	Clube da esquina		Listen
63	2338	Bette Midler	The Divine Miss M		Listen
64	2366	The Temptations	All Directions
65	2470	Ash Ra Tempel	Schwingungen
66	2473	Weather Report	I Sing the Body Electric		Listen
67	2477	Carmen McRae	The Great American Songbook		Listen
68	2486	Stephen Stills	Manassas		Listen
69	2559	John Cale	The Academy in Peril		Listen
70	2574	Van Dyke Parks	Discover America		Listen