Favorite #1 Album 1972

Sojourn

 

Machine Head

 

Exile and Harvest but I hit the Exile button.

 

The Rolling Stones got my vote, but Neil's album is roughly on par with theirs. "Exile On Main St." & "Sticky Fingers" are my two fave Stones albums, and while I adore "Harvest", it's not one of my top 3-5 Neil albums...but it's way up there & brilliant.

Level I:
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.
Neil Young - Harvest

Level II:
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Cat Stevens - Catch Bull At Four

Level III:
Carole King - Music
Don McLean - American Pie
Elton John - Honky Chateau

Leve IV:
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
Moody Blues - Seventh Sojourn

Level V:
America - America
Roberta Flack - First Take
Chicago - Chicago V

 

Honky Chateau and Exile On Main St. are favorites of mine and too close to call for finishing second, but I got to vote for Curtis Mayfield's Superfly as it is one of those albums that never leaves my head too long.

* Every track on his landmark album is amazing, from the liltingly sad boogie-down of "Freddie's Dead" to the bruised but hopeful "No Thing On Me."

* The production is stellar and varied, finding a kind of mellow middleground between funk and soul.

* The basslines are amazingly propulsive and being sampled to this day.

* It's a soundtrack album that works even better as a concept album if you haven't seen the film.

 

Exile, no question.

 

That would have been my vote as well. Machine Head was a #1 album in most countries except the U.S.A..

 

Since Machine Head didn't make #1, I must go Exile.

 

"Exile" by roughly 10,000 miles...

 

Tough list, could have picked half a dozen: Elton, Tull, Chicago....
Never really been much of an Exile fan though

Voted for Harvest

 

72' my HS senior year -what's not like? It was all good but I'll take Elton from this list.

 

Finally, an easy one!

 

Wasn't Stevie Wonders Talking Book released 1972?

 

didn't Santana 3 come out that year??

 

'Thick As A Brick', of course.

But 'Exile' comes in a respectable second.

 

For me it was a tie for Exile and Thick as a Brick. I know Exile will get more votes so I went with Tull for some support
KB

 

Gotta be Curtis!

 

Exile On Main St.

 

Harvest...just barely over Brick

 

Cat Stevens Catch Bull At Four

 

Exile, but would've picked Machine Head if it were included.

 

It's amazing how the US charts differed from the UK - like 2 different worlds. Here's my fave UK #1 from '72 (just slightly above "BOLAN BOOGIE").

 

Better than most on the list is PInk Moon by Nick Drake

 

From the list my vote was for Neil.

 

Also, I wish that the Garden Party album by Rick Nelson were a bigger hit than it was. This is a tough poll to vote on as so many of them are great albums.