The Top Albums from 1972

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	8	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	78	Lou Reed	Transformer
4	97	Neil Young	Harvest		Listen
5	111	Stevie Wonder	Talking Book		Listen
6	145	Curtis Mayfield	Superfly		Listen
7	203	Roxy Music	Roxy Music		Listen
8	213	The Original Soundtrack	The Harder They Come		Listen
9	254	Deep Purple	Machine Head		Listen
10	267	Todd Rundgren	Something/Anything?		Listen
11	270	Nick Drake	Pink Moon		Listen
12	374	Randy Newman	Sail Away		Listen
13	447	Deep Purple	Made in Japan		Listen
14	454	Steely Dan	Can't Buy a Thrill		Listen
15	465	Big Star	#1 Record		Listen
16	533	Neu!	Neu!		Listen
17	583	Al Green	I'm Still in Love with You		Listen
18	594	Little Feat	Sailin' Shoes		Listen
19	614	Yes	Close to the Edge		Listen
20	639	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Clear Spot		Listen
21	642	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Will the Circle Be Unbroken		Listen
22	656	Al Green	Let's Stay Together		Listen
23	754	Van Morrison	Saint Dominic's Preview		Listen
24	759	Can	Ege Bamyasi		Listen
25	773	The O'Jays	Back Stabbers		Listen
26	812	T. Rex	The Slider		Listen
27	817	Paul Simon	Paul Simon		Listen
28	834	Aretha Franklin	Amazing Grace		Listen
29	846	Black Sabbath	Vol. 4		Listen
30	1086	Stevie Wonder	Music of My Mind		Listen
31	1098	Genesis	Foxtrot		Listen
32	1126	Miles Davis	On the Corner
33	1152	Mott the Hoople	All the Young Dudes		Listen
34	1186	Tim Buckley	Greetings from L.A.
35	1208	Chick Corea	Return to Forever		Listen
36	1229	Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges	Clube da esquina		Listen
37	1244	Santana	Caravanserai		Listen
38	1420	The Allman Brothers Band	Eat a Peach		Listen
39	1446	Alice Cooper	School's Out		Listen
40	1478	Elton John	Honky Chateau		Listen
41	1481	Joni Mitchell	For the Roses		Listen
42	1526	Aretha Franklin	Young, Gifted and Black		Listen
43	1567	The Band	Rock of Ages		Listen
44	1583	War	The World Is a Ghetto		Listen
45	1663	Os Novos Baianos	Acabou Chorare		Listen
46	1713	Dr. John	Dr. John's Gumbo		Listen
47	1735	Jethro Tull	Thick as a Brick		Listen
48	1755	Jackson Browne	Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using)
49	1761	Faust	So Far		Listen
50	1775	Spinners	The Spinners		Listen
51	1796	Donny Hathaway	Live		Listen
52	1909	Caetano Veloso	Transa
53	2020	Bette Midler	The Divine Miss M		Listen
54	2047	Klaus Schulze	Irrlicht
55	2052	The Flatlanders	More a Legend Than a Band		Listen
56	2072	Rod Stewart	Never a Dull Moment		Listen
57	2141	Gilberto Gil	Expresso 2222
58	2231	The Temptations	All Directions
59	2272	Townes Van Zandt	The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
60	2341	Stephen Stills	Manassas		Listen
61	2372	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	The Spotlight Kid		Listen
62	2395	Ash Ra Tempel	Schwingungen
63	2412	Charles Mingus	Let My Children Hear Music		Listen
64	2416	PFM	Storia di un Minuto		Listen
65	2445	Hawkwind	Doremi Fasol Latido		Listen
66	2536	Bonnie Raitt	Give It Up		Listen
67	2548	Sandy Denny	Sandy
68	2563	John Cale	The Academy in Peril		Listen
69	2616	Bill Withers	Still Bill		Listen
70	2634	Weather Report	I Sing the Body Electric		Listen
71	2665	Fela Kuti	Roforofo Fight		Listen
72	2680	Ornette Coleman	Skies of America		Listen
73	2695	David Ackles	American Gothic
74	2717	Rory Gallagher	Live! In Europe		Listen
75	2760	Matching Mole	Matching Mole
76	2835	Francesco Guccini	Radici
77	2843	Marvin Gaye	Trouble Man		Listen
78	2928	Eric Andersen	Blue River		Listen
79	2992	Ornette Coleman	Science Fiction
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Van Dyke Parks	Discover America		Listen
		Eagles	Eagles		Listen
		Wishbone Ash	Argus		Listen
		Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Blacknuss		Listen
		Slade	Slayed?
		Slade	Slade Alive!		Listen
		Carly Simon	No Secrets		Listen
		Carmen McRae	The Great American Songbook		Listen
		Cat Stevens	Catch Bull at Four		Listen
		Kevin Ayers	Whatevershebringswesing
		Grateful Dead	Europe '72		Listen
		Bread	Baby I'm-A Want You		Listen
		Popol Vuh	Hosianna Mantra		Listen
		Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Trilogy
		Manfred Mann's Earth Band	Manfred Mann's Earth Band
		Tangerine Dream	Zeit		Listen
		Julius Hemphill	Dogon A.D.
		The Mothers	The Grand Wazoo		Listen
		Michael Nesmith	And the Hits Just Keep On Comin'
		Aphrodite's Child	666		Listen
		Paul Winter / Winter Consort	Icarus		Listen
		The Belmonts	Cigars, Acappella, Candy
		Larry Norman	Only Visiting This Planet		Listen
		The Staple Singers	Be Altitude: Respect Yourself		Listen
		McCoy Tyner	Sahara		Listen
		Ry Cooder	Into the Purple Valley		Listen
		Jorge Ben	Ben
		Elvis Presley	He Touched Me		Listen
		Mellow Candle	Swaddling Songs
		McCoy Tyner	Echoes of a Friend		Listen
		The Stylistics	Round 2		Listen
		Frank Zappa	Waka/Jawaka		Listen
		The Crusaders	Crusaders 1		Listen
		Leo Kottke	Greenhouse		Listen
		American Spring	Spring/American Spring		Listen
		Pharoah Sanders	Black Unity		Listen
		Bobby Charles	Bobby Charles

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