GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1972

[dorian gray]

Are you drunk?

Yes. But that’s beside the point

 

[CiG]

Yes. But that’s beside the point

I only ask because you're talking about 70's movies, which you just cleared up why. The French Connection rules (second one not so much) and Jaws is '75.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I'm gonna keep this open for a little bit longer. I could still use some votes from @HamburgerBoy @Burkhard @Terasophe @challenge_everything @dwellerINTHEdark @jimmy101 @Satanstoenail @Slayed Necros @-CyanideChrist- @TechnicalBarbarity @zabu of nΩd @Talos of Atmora @Einherjar86 @Krow @Serjeant Grumbles

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Yes - Close to the Edge
2. Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
3. Gentle Giant - Octopus
4. The Isley Brothers - Brother, Brother, Brother
5. Funkadelic - America Eats Its Young
6. Bill Withers - Still Bill
7. Tower of Power - Bump City
8. O'Jays - Back Stabbers
9. Ohio Players - Pleasure
10. Dust - Hard Attack
Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Captain Beefheart - The Spotlight Kid
Four Tops - Nature Planned It
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Ohio Players - Pain
The Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun
Scorpions - Lonesome Crow
The Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Malik
Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
Night Sun - Mournin'
Gentle Giant - Three Friends
WAR - The World Is a Ghetto
Highway Robbery - For Love or Money
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

 

[Burkhard]

I won't participate in this round. I only have got three albums from this year, out of which I consider Nektar's "A Tab in the Ocean" the most enjoyable, followed by Birth Control's "Hoodoo Man". The third album is Genesis' "Foxtrot", but it does nothing for me. It's my least favourite with Peter Gabriel on vocals and doesn't contain a single song I really like.

 

[challenge_everything]

1. WIshbone Ash - Argus. Not entirely perfect - I can do without the bluesy tracks - but when they get going with the prog epics with the dual guitar leads, it's just mindblowing. And 'Leaf and Stream' is one of the most beautiful songs ever.

2. Focus - Focus 3. Exactly what I want from progressive rock - loose and jammy but coherent and flowing, without all that twee folksy Village Green bullshit that cluttered so much of the UK scene.

3. Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond
4. Nektar - A Tab in the Ocean
5. Yes - Close to the Edge
6. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
7. Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
8. PFM - Storia di un Minuto

 

[CiG]

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I intend to close this on Tuesday, by midnight.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

1. Jacula - Tardo Pede in Magiam Versus
2. Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
3. Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
4. Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday
5. Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes - Paix
6. Steeleye Span - Below the Salt
7. Deep Purple - Machine Head
   
8. Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Alright, I'll be needing a couple more votes.

 

[CiG]

Too many ties?

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

Yeah. Plus it's three fewer people than we had for the previous poll, and two fewer than the last 70's poll we did.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i'll just chuck in an unordered list since you're stuck. i doubt my final list would resemble this but w/e, i like these albums.

captain beyond - s/t
wishbone ash - argus
night sun - mournin'
dust - hard attack
uriah heep - demons and wizards
dark - round the edges
scorpions - lonesome crow
jerusalem - s/t
jericho - s/t
steeleye span - below the salt

 

[CiG]

steeleye span - below the salt

<3

 

[no country for old wainds]

legendary.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I have a enough for a top 8, as I do not feel I can justify including the albums with 10 points and only one vote that are tied for 9th. However, this has just been going on too long, so my plan is to just post tonight.

 

[CiG]

legendary.

Was digging through old boxes in storage last night and came across my vinyl copy of this album. Decided to put it on and had a real moment, haha.

 

[CiG]

@Terasophe got a list for this one man?

 

[Sophii]

@Terasophe got a list for this one man?

Don't think so man. Think I might pass on this?
Lemme check the RYM real quik

EDIT - Yeah I'll do it. Gimme a sec

 

[Sophii]

1972 Top Ten

1.) David Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust...
2.) Deep Purple - Machine Head
3.) Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
4.) Nick Drake - Pink Moon
5.) Genesis - Foxtrot
6.) Neu! - Neu!
7.) Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction
8.) Renaissance - Prologue
9.) Joni Mitchell - For the Roses
10.) Rory Gallagher - Deuce

Not as hard as I thought to be honest. Upset that I couldn't throw down Budgie or Sabbath.