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POLL: Favorite album from 1972?

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POLL: Favorite album from 1972?  

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  1. 1. POLL: Favorite album from 1972?

    • Yes - Close to the Edge
      13
    • David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
      0
    • Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
      5
    • Nick Drake - Pink Moon
      0
    • Neil Young - Harvest
      1
    • Deep Purple - Machine Head
      2
    • Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
      2
    • Genesis - Foxtrot
      1
    • Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
      0
    • Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
      0
    • The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
      0
    • Black Sabbath - Vol 4
      2
    • Santana - Caravanserai
      1
    • Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
      1
    • other (name it below)
      3

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driventotheedge

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Again I just can't vote. Too many good choices....Vol 4 is my favorite Sabbath album, Machine Head is incredible as is Exile, Can't Buy A Thrill, Eat A Peach, Harvest.......

 

One of my all-time favorite albums was also released in '72 and is not on this list. It made number one on both the soul and pop charts. The World Is A Ghetto by War

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Lorraine

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The year I graduated high school.

If you had asked me back then, I would have, without hesitation, said Seventh Sojourn, with Harvest following ever so slightly.

I didn't hear Close To The Edge until at least a year later. i don't associate it with 1972, but I do think it is way better than the Moodies album and Harvest.

Can't Buy A Thrill is a great album, but it was hit and miss. The other three I mentioned didn't have, in my opinion at the time, one bad song on them.

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ozzy85

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Oddly enough, I didn`t pick Sabbath. I gave it to Caravanserai. Vol.4 is a very good but not my favorite Sab slab. Caravanserai is an exceptional Santana album. Now... if it was 1975 and Sabotage is on the list...
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Entre_Perpetuo

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Oh that's easy it has to be my favorite album by my 4th favorite band, Foxtrot by Gene...wait, Close To The Edge came out that year?...well I mean that's some pretty stiff competition but I have favorites for a reason so...oh, Ziggy Stardust came out that year?...that's a little tougher but...and Thick As A Brick? Machine Head? Talking Book? Exile On Main St.? School's Out? Made In Japan? Eat A Peach? Chicago V? Honky Chateau? Trilogy? Octopus? Captain Beyond? Per Un Amico? Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso? Ys? Palepoli? okay I started looking them up, but DANG! That's a lot of great albums and I probably missed a few as well. I guess for me it comes down to about four truly brilliant records that are significant pieces of who I am as a music listener

 

Foxtrot - Genesis

Close To The Edge - Yes

Per Un Amico - Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM)

The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars - David Bowie

 

Genesis and Bowie are both in my top 5 bands/artists of all time, and each one is represented here by my favorite record of theirs. Yes isn't far behind though, and Close To The Edge is one of the first albums that comes to mind (along with Quadrophenia, Queen II, AFTK, and a few others) when I try to determine my second favorite album of all time (the first of course being Queen's 1975 masterpiece, A Night At The Opera). Meanwhile PFM have very nearly snuck their way into a potential top 20 band for me almost on the strength of Per Un Amico alone, a prog rock masterpiece that everyone and their mother should listen to if they have a taste for prog (language barriers are over exaggerated, and their isn't a ton of singing anyway). So let's see...

 

Foxtrot: a record that speaks to me of spring and summer, of my senior year of high school as well as each homecoming since college began. It has Supper's Ready, probably my 2nd favorite song of all time, but the rest of the record is nearly as strong and every bit as beautiful.

 

Ziggy Stardust: a record that brings me to the early spring and summer of my senior year of high school, but has never ceased to amaze me in its song by song brilliance and its ability to bear influence from all corners of rock before it and have influence on all corners of rock after it

 

Close To The Edge: a winter record for me, even Christmasy. I put it on in the past couple weeks and couldn't keep the smile from my face. Not a not is out of place in any one of these three songs, and I feel lost in another world full of fantasy and wonder for the whole of its runtime

 

Per Un Amico: An album that brings to mind the lighter side of my studies as an architecture major. It has often soundtracked my studio work and strongly soundtracked my Italian experience last school year. It brings me nothing but comfort and childlike wonder. Serene and enriching.

 

Okay, I don't want to decide. I'm gonna toss my vote to Foxtrot for two reasons. One: Supper's Ready. Two: it probably has the fewest votes between itself Ziggy and CTTE (Per Un Amico having not made the list).

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laughedatbytime

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I’ve never owned any of these albums.

Not surprised, it predates synth pop crap.

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