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My Top 50 Albums of 1972

Here's the Spotify playlist with a deep cut from each album:

1. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
2. Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
3. Todd Rundgren – Something / Anything?
4. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars
5. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
6. Curtis Mayfield – Super Fly
7. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.
8. Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill
9. Joni Mitchell – For The Roses
10. Nick Drake – Pink Moon
11. Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You
12. Big Star - #1 Record
13. Neil Young – Harvest
14. Yes - Close To The Edge
15. Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted & Black
16. Townes Van Zandt – The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
17. Can - Ege Bamyasi
18. Bill Withers - Still Bill
19. T. Rex – Slider
20. Lou Reed - Transformer
21. Jackson Browne - Jackson Bowne
22. Leon Ware – Leon Ware
23. Elton John - Honky Chateau
24. The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach
25. Stevie Wonder - Music Of My Mind
26. John Prine - Diamonds In The Rough
27. Lyn Collins – Think (About It)
28. Funkadelic - America Eats Its Young
29. Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace
30. Paul Simon - Paul Simon

31. War – The World Is A Ghetto

32. Van Morrison – Saint Dominic’s Preview
33. Fanny - Fanny Hill
34. Raspberries – Fresh
35. Al Green – Let’s Stay Together
36. Harry Nilsson – Son Of Schmilsson
37. The Grateful Dead - Europe '72
38. Allen Toussaint – Life, Love and Faith
39. Carly Simon – No Secrets
40. Mother’s Finest - Mother’s Finest
41. Roxy Music - Roxy Music
42. Miles Davis – On The Corner
43. The Isley Brothers – Brother, Brother, Brother
44. Willie Nelson - The Words Don't Fit The Picture
45. Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway – Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
46. Thin Lizzy - Shades Of A Blue Orphanage
47. The Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street
48. Jimmy Smith - Root Down
49. Loudon Wainwright III - Album III

50. Sparks – Sparks (Halfnelson)

I may say this again for some other year but this really feels like potentially the all-time greatest year for soul music. And I haven't made a lot of space for jazz in lists for later years but that's going to start to be a more significant presence as I go back towards the '60s. Obviously a lot of artists released multiple albums a year back then, and I can often be happy only including one of them, but Stevie Wonder, Al Green, and Aretha Franklin had pretty remarkable pairs of albums in '72.

My Top 50 Albums of 1972

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