13 albums from 1972 and 12 albums from 1973

After another long series starting with 2024 and working my way down yearly to 2005 which had three sections (PA Album Charts Top 8, PA Album of the Year Event, my personal 8 choices) I made a poll with three sections of albums from 1967, 1968 and 1969 and then one with two sections of 1970 and 1971. Doug is also making series right now per year and I am inspired to do this today because of his latest 1973 poll and because I could not sleep. I like that dynamic, I like to compare and contrast lists and to me it just feels kind of vibrant to do so. It almost feels to me like the polls as are in some kind of dialectic and I'm ever in search of some kind of synergy. I really appreciate polls and topics that cover a variety of people's personal favourites and I do love to share my tastes, even if it can get too repetitive.

This is multiple choice. Please try to vote for up to three for each year, so three from 1972 and three from 1973 in the list and mention those in a post. If you go over, it's not a big deal. If you only like one album in the list, that's fine. If you like none in the list, that's fine, please say so and mention your own favourites. I do like to see other people's favourites and lists that may or may not include the same selections that I have. Thanks. I have not bothered with an other as I want people to mention what they like on the list and not on the list in post. It's not a contest and reading through the posts interests me more than just seeing the results of the poll itself.

I have opted to leave out Stringtronics, which is not in PA, I love it, but it is likely to be very little known except to some I have shared it with before here. Also sadly left out Nick Drake, an album and artist I love. I do consider him to be in the progressive folk camp and don't distinguish him in my collection as separate from other folk artists of the era that are in PA. I get that he does not rock, and I am not complaining that he is not in PA, but he still fits with the others in folk for me. Nick Drake has more in common with, say, Vashti Bunyan who is in PA than with, say, Meshuggah which is in PA.

The list order is quite arbitrary and I could have so many other albums. These are years where I would like to offer much longer lists, but going for economy, at least in the poll itself. I like writing these rambling, extemporaneous opening posts.

here are my top 25 for each year at AwersomeProg. I have been doing 20 but I prefer 25 as that is how many poll options there are and I am more of a maximalist than a minimalist.

Here are my longer lists at AwesomeProg:
https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-1972/users/Logan
https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa/aoty-1973/users/Logan

1972

1. Jean-claude Vannier - L'enfant assassin des mouches
2. Can - Ege Bamyasi
3. Dom - Edge of Time
4. Brave New World - Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley
5. Stringtronics - Mindbender (not in PA so not in poll)
6. Faust - So Far
7. Alpes & Catherine Ribeiro - Paix
8. Herbie Hancock - Crossings
9. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (not in PA, so sadly not in poll)
10. Popol Vuh - Hosianna Mantra
11. Moving Gelatine Plates - The World of Genius Hans
12. Khan - Space Shanty
13. Gentle Giant - Three Friends
14. Haikara - Haikara
15. Neu! - NEU!
16. Gnidrolog - In Spite of Harry's Toenail
17. Matching Mole - Little Red Record
18. Agitation Free - Malesch
19. Brainticket - Psychonaut
20 William Sheller - Lux Aeterna
21. Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso - Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso
22. McLuhan - Anomaly
23. Osanna - Palepoli
24. Weather Report - I Sing The Body Electric
25. Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
     
1973

1. Spirogyra - Bells, Boots and Shambles
2. Message - From Books and Dreams
3. Franco Battiato - Sulle corde di Aries
4. Can - Future Days
5. Herbie Hancock - Sextant
6. Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
7. Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 2 - Angel's Egg
8. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
9. These Trails - These Trails
10. Ralf Nowy - Lucifer's Dream
11. Alain Goraguer - La planète sauvage
12. 16. Henry Cow - Leg End
13. Eddie Henderson - Realization
14. Sergius Golowin - Lord Krishna Von Goloka
15. Karl Heinz Schäfer - Les gants blancs du diable (not in PA, similar to the Alain Goraguer)
16. Ennio Morricone - Un uomo da rispettare (not in PA)
17. Faust - IV
19. Dedalus - Dedalus
20. Mandingo - The Primeval Rhythm of Life (not in PA)
21. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
22. Sven Libaek - Ron & Val Taylor's Inner Space (not in PA)
23. Kraftwerk - Ralf and Florian
24. Samla Mammas Manna - Måltid
25. Piero Umiliani - La ragazza fuoristrada (not in PA)

Edited by Logan - February 26 2025 at 07:29

1972

1972

Can, Ege Bamyasi
Herbie Hancock, Crossings
Khan, Space Shanty

1973

Gong, Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 2 – Angel's Egg
Alain Goraguer, La Planète Sauvage
Herbie Hancock, Sextant

For 1973, I know I'm gonna vote:

Alain Goraguer - La planète sauvage
Can - Future Days

-but for my third vote, I can't decide on one over the other:

Magma - Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

...and I though of these two as well.

Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 2 - Angel's Egg
Spirogyra - Bells, Boots and Shambles

The remaining albums are also great.

1972: Can, Herbie Hancock, and Khan

richardh wrote: 1972- Three Friends 1973 - Houses Of The Holy

I picked the same. Love both these albums, my favorite from each band.