Favorite #1 Album 1972

This poll includes all the albums which were reached #1 in 1972 on the U.S. Billboard Top 200 Album chart.

Not all of them were released in 1972 but they were all at the #1 spot on the Billboard U.S. album chart in 1972.

Which is your favorite #1 album of 1972?

Here are the links for the other polls so far:
1970: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=258208&highlight=

1971: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=258498&highlight=

1979: http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=257052&highlight=

For albums which were #1 in overlapping years my criteria is if the album was at #1 for one week in it's original year and one week in the following year it will only be listed in it's original year of #1 status.

If an album is #1 for 5 weeks with 4 weeks in it's original year and 1 week in the following year than it will only be listed in it's original year. Now if it's the other way around with 1 week in it's original year and 4 weeks in the following year it will be listed in only in the following year.

If an album has 5 weeks or more at #1 and crosses over to a following year it must have at least 2 weeks at #1 in the following year to be listed in the following year.

If the album has 10 weeks or more at #1 and crosses into a following year than it must log at least 3 weeks at #1 in the following year to be listed in the following year.

I know it seems like a lot of criteria but just for the sake of keeping clarity in these polls I wanted to give everybody an idea of how i am figuring these polls out for albums that do cross over into a following year at #1.

 

Heads up you put in the link to the original 1970 poll...I'd suggest putting in the link to the corrected 1970 poll with "Abbey Road" in it. Just a thought...
I think you have 15 minutes to edit & correct your post if you want to...good luck!

 

Thank you linclink... got it fixed...

 

Best music year ever!

I picked Catch Bull here, but Yes' Close to The Edge is easily 1972's best album.

 

Neil gets my vote for 1972.

 

Exile just barely over Harvest and Brick.

 

Exile!

 

Went for Curtis. Fan of Exile and Brick as well.

 

I just got Superfly this week.

I played it 3 times in a row! It's so good.

 

Went with my favorite Moody Blues album..."Seventh Sojourn"!!!
I DO have every album on the list in my library, though!!!

 

Exile

 

Since I was born in '72 and I like the Stones the most out of anyone on that list I went with Exile.

 

Though it was my favorite at the time, Harvest is just too pot-ridden a memory to listen to now. So I chose Roberta Flack. I liked all of these albums, though, except for the Chicago album and the profoundly disappointing Exile, which was my exile from the Stones.

 

Exile but a very good year there...

 

How about Big Star #1 Record.....

 

Another vote for Neil here.

 

Tull, no contest...

Didn't Deep Purple¡s Machine Head reach # 1?

 

So many good ones.... I let Harvest edge out Exile...but I hope Honky Chateau get its due. That's a killer album.

 

Machine head made it to #7 in the U.S. although it did reach #1 in the UK - but this poll is on U.S. #1's.

 

Very clever... Big Star did indeed release an album in 1972 called #1 Record.

 

An amazing year for music, back in the days when popularity genuinely equalled quality. Who'd have thought a prog rock album about as British as they come would be #1 in America? Well, I voted for that, although Exile in Main Street comes a close second.

Surprised that Ziggy Stardust didn't reach no.1 though...

 

Elton

 

Neil Young - Harvest

Runners up:
Elton John - Honky Chateau
Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn

 

oh man.... what a bummer year! my favorite artist of all time is on this list with my least favorite album he ever did - couldn't even vote for him. I went for "Music" - I listen to that one from time to time.

 

Much love for 1972, top of my list from the list:
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Don McLean - American Pie
Neil Young - Harvest
Elton John - Honky Château