As part of my Decades project, I counted down my own favorite albums of each year then explored other notable releases with which I was less familiar.

My birth year, 1972, featured releases by several artists who would go on to be favorites of mine. I’d stack this top five against pretty much any year in this series.

Originally published: 2015 | Song of the Day posts featured: 15

My top five albums of 1972:

#1. Sail Away – Randy Newman

#2. Exile on Main Street – The Rolling Stones

#3. No Secrets – Carly Simon

#4. Paul Simon – Paul Simon

#5. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars – David Bowie

Other notable albums of 1972…

Eat a Peach – The Allman Brothers

#1 Record – Big Star

Jackson Browne – Jackson Browne

Ege Bamyasi – Can

Thick as a Brick – Jethro Tull

Super Fly – Curtis Mayfield

The Raspberries – The Raspberries

Tansformer – Lou Reed

Talking Book – Stevie Wonder

Harvest – Neil Young