My favourite albums from 1972

1. 33

   Foghat

   Foghat

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. I Just Want to Make Love to You
   2. Trouble, Trouble
   3. Leavin' Again (Again!)
   4. Fool's Hall of Fame
   5. Sarah Lee
   6. Highway (Killing Me)
   7. Maybelline ●
   8. A Hole to Hide in
   9. Gotta Get to Know You

   Genres

   • Blues rock
   • Hard rock

2. 32

   Free at Last

   Free

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Catch a Train
   2. Soldier Boy
   3. Magic Ship ●
   4. Sail on
   5. Travelling Man
   6. Little Bit of Love
   7. Guardian of the Universe
   8. Child
   9. Goodbye

   Genres

   • Blues rock
   • Hard rock

3. 31

   Smokin'

   Humble Pie

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Hot 'n' Tasty
   2. The Fixer
   3. You're So Good for Me
   4. C'mon Everybody
   5. Old Time Feelin'
   6. 30 Days in the Hole ●
   7. Road Runner / Road Runner's 'G' Jam
   8. I Wonder
   9. Sweet Peace and Time

   Genres

   • Blues rock
   • Hard rock

4. 30

   Squawk

   Budgie

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Whiskey River
   2. Rocking Man ●
   3. Rolling Home Again
   4. Make Me Haappy
   5. Hot as a Docker's Armpit
   6. Drugstore Woman
   7. Bottled
   8. Young Is a World
   9. Stranded

   Genres

   • Hard rock
   • Heavy metal

5. 29

   Trilogy

   Emerson, Lake & Palmer

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. The Endless Enigma (Part 1)
   2. Fugue
   3. The Endless Enigma (Part 2)
   4. From the Beginning ●
   5. The Sheriff
   6. Hoedown
   7. Trilogy
   8. Living Sin
   9. Abbadon's Bolero

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • Avant-garde rock

6. 28

   Doremi Fasol Latido

   Hawkwind

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Brainstorm ●
   2. Space Is Deep
   3. One Change
   4. Lord of Light
   5. Down Through the Night
   6. Time We Left This World Today
   7. The Watcher

   Genres

   • Space rock
   • Hard rock

7. 27

   Pink Moon

   Nick Drake

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Pink Moon
   2. Place to Be
   3. Road
   4. Which Will
   5. Horn
   6. Things Behind the Sun ●
   7. Know
   8. Parasite
   9. Free Ride
   10. Harvest Breed
   11. From the Morning

   Genres

   • Folk

8. 26

   Waterloo Lily

   Caravan

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Waterloo Lily ●
   2. Nothing at All
   3. Songs and Signs
   4. Aristocracy
   5. To Love in Your Eye
   6. The World Is Yours

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • Jazz fusion

9. 25

   Bare Trees

   Fleetwood Mac

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Child of Mine
   2. The Ghost
   3. Homeward Bound
   4. Sunny Side of Heaven
   5. Bare Trees
   6. Sentimental Lady ●
   7. Danny's Chant
   8. Spare Me a Little fof Your Love
   9. Dust
   10. Thoughts on a Grey Day

   Genres

   • Blues rock
   • Pop rock

10. 24

    Garcia

    Jerry Garcia

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Deal
    2. Bird Song ●
    3. Sugaree
    4. Loser
    5. Late for Supper
    6. Spidergawd
    7. Eep Hour
    8. To Lay Me Down
    9. An Odd Little Place
    10. The Wheel

    Genres

    • Psychedelic rock
    • Folk rock

11. 23

    Still Bill

    Bill Withers

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Lonely Town, Lonely Street
    2. Let Me in Your Life
    3. Who Is He (and What Is He to You)?
    4. Use Me
    5. Lean on Me ●
    6. Kissing My Love
    7. I Don't Know
    8. Another Day to Run
    9. I Don't Want You on My Mind
    10. Take It All in and Check It out

    Genres

    • Soul
    • Funk

12. 22

    What Color Is Love

    Terry Callier

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Dancing Girl ●
    2. What Color Is Love
    3. You Goin' Miss Your Candyman
    4. Just As Long As We're in Love
    5. Ho Tsing Mee (A Song of the Sun)
    6. I'd Rather Be with You
    7. You Don't Care

    Genres

    • Progressive soul

13. 21

    Can't Buy a Thrill

    Steely Dan

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Do It Again ●
    2. Dirty Work
    3. Kings
    4. Midnite Cruiser
    5. Only a Fool Would Say That
    6. Reelin' in the Years
    7. Fire in the Hole
    8. Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)
    9. Change of the Guard
    10. Turn That Heartbeat Over Again

    Genres

    • Jazz rock

14. 20

    Zeit

    Tangerine Dream

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Birth of Liquid Plejades
    2. Nebulous Dawn
    3. Origin of Supernatural Probabilities
    4. Zeit ●

    Genres

    • Dark ambient
    • Krautrock

15. 19

    Argus

    Wishbone Ash

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Time Was
    2. Sometime World
    3. Blowin' Free
    4. The King Will Come ●
    5. Leaf and Stream
    6. Warrior
    7. Throw Down the Sword

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Hard rock

16. 18

    Thick as a Brick

    Jethro Tull

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Thick as a Brick, Pt. 1 ●
    2. Thick as a Brick, Pt. 2

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

17. 17

    Foxtrot

    Genesis

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Watcher of the Skies
    2. Time Table
    3. Get 'Em out by Friday
    4. Can-Utility and the Coastliners
    5. Horizons
    6. Supper's Ready ●

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

18. 16

    Close to the Edge

    Yes

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Close to the Edge ●
    2. And You and I
    3. Siberian Khatru

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

19. 15

    The Magician's Birthday

    Uriah Heep

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Sunrise
    2. Spider Woman
    3. Blind Eye
    4. Echoes in the Dark
    5. Rain
    6. Sweet Lorraine
    7. Tales
    8. The Magician's Birthday ●

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • progressive metal

20. 14

    Talking Book

    Stevie Wonder

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. You Are the Sunshine of My Life
    2. Maybe Your Baby
    3. You And I (We Can Conquer the World)
    4. Tuesday Heartbreak
    5. You've Got It Bad Girl
    6. Superstition ●
    7. Big Brother
    8. Blame It on the Sun
    9. Lookin' for Another Pure Love
    10. I Believe (When I Fall in Love It Will Be Forever)

    Genres

    • Progressive soul
    • Funk

21. 13

    Manassas

    Stephen Stills

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Song of Love
    2. Medley
    3. Jet Set (Sigh)
    4. Anyway
    5. Both of Us (Bound to Lose)
    6. Fallen Eagle
    7. Jesus Gave Love Away for Free
    8. Colorado
    9. So Begins the Task
    10. Hide It So Deep
    11. Don't Look at My Shadow
    12. It Doesn't Matter
    13. Johnny's Garden
    14. Bound to Fall
    15. How Far
    16. Move Around
    17. The Love Gangster
    18. What to Do
    19. Right Now
    20. The Treasure (Take One) ●
    21. Blues Man

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Country rock

22. 12

    Paul Simon

    Paul Simon

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Mother and Child Reunion
    2. Duncan ●
    3. Everything Put Together Falls Apart
    4. Run That Body Down
    5. Armistice Day
    6. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
    7. Peace Like a River
    8. Papa Hobo
    9. Hobo's Blues
    10. Paranoia Blues
    11. Congratulations

    Genres

    • Folk rock

23. 11

    They Only Come out at Night

    The Edgar Winter Group

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Hangin' Around
    2. When It Comes
    3. Alta Mira
    4. Free Ride
    5. Undercover Man
    6. Round & Round
    7. Rock 'n' Roll Woogie Blues
    8. Autumn
    9. We All Had a Real Good Time
    10. Frankenstein ●

    Genres

    • Southern rock
    • Jazz fusion

24. 10

    Eat a Peach

    The Allman Brothers Band

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Ain't Wastin' Time No More
    2. Les Brers in A Minor
    3. Melissa ●
    4. Mountain Jam
    5. One Way out
    6. Trouble No More
    7. Stand Back
    8. Blue Sky
    9. Little Martha
    10. Mountain Jam (continued)

    Genres

    • Southern rock
    • Jam rock

25. 9

    6 6 6

    Aphrodite's Child

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The System
    2. Babylon
    3. Loud, Loud, Loud
    4. The Four Horsemen ●
    5. The Lamb
    6. The Seventh Seal
    7. Aegian Sea
    8. Seven Bowls
    9. The Wakening Beast
    10. Lament
    11. The Marching Beast
    12. The Battle of the Locusts
    13. Do It
    14. Tribulation
    15. The Beast
    16. Ofis
    17. Seven Trumpets
    18. Altamont
    19. The Wedding of the Lamb
    20. The Capture of the Beast
    21. ∞
    22. Hic et nunc
    23. All the Seats Were Occupied
    24. Break

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Psychedelic rock

26. 8

    Blue Öyster Cult

    Blue Öyster Cult

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Transmaniacon MC
    2. I'm on the Lamb but I Ain't No Sheep
    3. Then Came the Last Days of May ●
    4. Stairway to the Stars
    5. Before the Riss, a Redcap
    6. Screams
    7. She's as Beautiful as a Foot
    8. Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll
    9. Workshop of the Telescopes
    10. Redeemed

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • heavy metal

27. 7

    The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

    David Bowie

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Five Years
    2. Soul Love
    3. Moonage Daydream
    4. Starman ●
    5. It Ain't Easy
    6. Lady Stardust
    7. Star
    8. Hang on to Yourself
    9. Ziggy Stardust
    10. Suffragette City
    11. Rock'n'Roll Suicide

    Genres

    • Glam rock
    • progressive rock

28. 6

    School's out

    Alice Cooper

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. School's out ●
    2. Luney Tune
    3. Gutter Cat vs. the Jets
    4. Street Fight
    5. Blue Turk
    6. My Stars
    7. Public Animal #9
    8. Alma Mater
    9. Grande Finale

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • glam rock

29. 5

    Captain Beyond

    Captain Beyond

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Dancing Madly Backwards (on a Sea of Air)
    2. Armworth
    3. Myopic Void
    4. Mesmerization Eclipse ●
    5. Raging River of Fear
    6. Thousand Days of Yesterday (Intro)
    7. Frozen Over
    8. Thousand Days of Yesterday (Time Since Come and Gone)
    9. I Can't Feel Nothin' (Part 1)
    10. As the Moon Speaks (to the Waves of the Sea)
    11. Astral Lady
    12. As the Moon Speaks (Return)
    13. I Can't Feel Nothin' (Part 2)

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • space rock

30. 4

    Harvest

    Neil Young

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Out on the Weekend
    2. Harvest
    3. A Man Needs a Maid
    4. Heart of Gold
    5. Are You Ready for the Country?
    6. Old Man
    7. There's a World
    8. Alabama ●
    9. The Needle and the Damage Done
    10. Words

    Genres

    • Folk rock
    • country rock

31. 3

    Vol. 4

    Black Sabbath

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Wheel of Confusion
    2. Tomorrow's Dream
    3. Changes
    4. FX
    5. Supernaut
    6. Snowblind
    7. Cornucopia
    8. Laguna Sunrise
    9. St. Vitus Dance
    10. Under the Sun ●

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • doom metal

32. 2

    Demons and Wizards

    Uriah Heep

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Wizard
    2. Traveller in Time
    3. Easy Livin' ●
    4. Poet's Justice
    5. Circle of Hands
    6. Rainbow Demon
    7. All My life
    8. Paradise
    9. The Spell

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • progressive metal

33. 1

    Machine Head

    Deep Purple

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Highway Star
    2. Maybe I'm a Leo
    3. Pictures of Home
    4. Never Before
    5. Smoke on the Water
    6. Lazy ●
    7. Space Truckin'

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • heavy metal