GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1972

[Serjeant Grumbles]

1 9 7 2


Obviously make sure to hit up RYM yourself and search your favourite genres.

The deadline is 31st of December 2018.

The rules:
- submit at least 5 releases.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.

GNMD = General Non-Metal Discussion, so NO METAL ALBUMS are to be included in anybody's list.

 

[Slammed]

1. The Aztec Live At Sunbury – The Aztecs
2. Elf – Elf
3. Neil Diamond – Moods
4. Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds
5. Spectrum – Milesago
6. Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show - Sloppy Seconds
7. Deep Purple - Machine Head
8. Wishbone Ash – Argus
9. Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido
10. Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim


HM
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Neil Young – Harvest
Todd Rundgren - Something / Anything?
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Trilogy
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Machine Head is heavy metal.

 

[no country for old wainds]

it begins...

 

[CiG]

1. The Aztec Live At Sunbury – The Aztecs

 

[no country for old wainds]

hoping to see some love for dust, captain beyond, night sun etc here

 

[CiG]

Are Flower Travellin' Band too metal for this game? "Hiroshima" is pretty proto-doom TBH.

 

[challenge_everything]

Dust is on the cusp of metal too. I'd call Hard Attack a metal album tbh

 

[CiG]

Captain Beyond is also pretty fucking heavy proto-metal basically.

 

[challenge_everything]

Lots of proggy goodness this year

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

1. Genesis - Foxtrot
2. Lou Reed - Transformer
3. Miles Davis - On the Corner
4. Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka
5. Waylon Jennings - Ladies Love Outlaws
6. Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction
7. Françoise Hardy - Et si je m'en vais avant toi
8. Frank Zappa and the Mothers - The Grand Wazoo
9. Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
10. Merle Haggard - Let Me Tell You About a Song

 

[CiG]

1. Sandy Denny - Sandy
2. Wishbone Ash - Argus
3. Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs
4. Steeleye Span - Below the Salt
5. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
6. Yes - Close to the Edge
7. NRBQ - Scraps
8. The Dubliners - Double Dubliners
9. Joni Mitchell - For the Roses
10. Van Morrison - Saint Dominic's Preview

HM:

James Brown - Get on the Good Foot
The Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Neil Young - Harvest
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud
Slim Dusty - Live at Wagga Wagga
Ticket - Awake

Removed anything that could be construed as heavy metal, except for Wishbone Ash because I love it too much. If I have to though I will.

 

[Slammed]

Removed anything that could be construed as heavy metal, except for Wishbone Ash because I love it too much. If I have to though I will.

Stop being a patsy and make your list without caring what others think is metal

 

[CiG]

Well, it's also more fun to be honest, plus I'd like to make a bunch of proto-metal lists on RYM so I'll save them for those.

 

[Slammed]

When Machine Head is listed in the link in the OP as hard rock I see it as Hard Rock as I see Wishbone Ash.
If others disagree fuck 'em, until someone important and/or knowledgeable comes out with a definitive list of what is and isn't metal I'm gonna call them as I see them.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

When Machine Head is listed in the link in the OP as hard rock I see it as Hard Rock as I see Wishbone Ash.
If others disagree fuck 'em, until someone important and/or knowledgeable comes out with a definitive list of what is and isn't metal I'm gonna call them as I see them.

Is metal archives not good enough for you? What about literally the whole world referring to their early Mark II lineup work(with Machine Head *arguably being their heaviest) as some of the earliest examples of heavy metal? Still not enough? What about some of the greatest metal musicians referring to them as a heavy metal band? Are they not knowledgeable enough for you?

Shit, VOL 4. is also considered hard rock/heavy metal on that RYM list, why not include that one on your list too since they're the important/knowledgeable site that you're going with?

 

[no country for old wainds]

it escalates...

 

[Slammed]

Are they not knowledgeable enough for you?

No.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

it escalates...

... ooo i bet you were waiting for that one weren't you?

 

[CiG]