[Music] These albums are 50 years old in 2022

[Lyndhurst 14]

1972 was a peak year for soul, singer songwriters and progressive rock

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Blimey I must be getting old.
Dark side of the moon is over 49 years old now, so far ahead of its time.

 

[southstandandy]

Blimey - 15 of those I still have on Vinyl

 

[Brovion]

Wow, what a great year! But yeah, getting old. BTW one of those is the wrong way round, 'Clear Spot' was an album by Captain Beefheart, not the other way round.

 

[Machiavelli]

Wow, what a great year! But yeah, getting old. BTW one of those is the wrong way round, 'Clear Spot' was an album by Captain Beefheart, not the other way round.

It's a rather good one too (I have a double CD also featuring Spotlight Kid). Turn it down!

 

[Icy Gull]

I have/had 25 of them

I have 14 of them on my Iphone today

 

[Superphil]

Strange how some of those albums are so revered, yet were commercial flops.

 

[Gwylan]

Hmm ... I have five of them. Not that vintage a year ... Now if it were 1977...

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

A handful of classics, but that’s it. Like most years really.

 

[swindonseagull]

Steve HAckett is doing a Foxtrot @ 50 live tour where he is playing the entire album live......we have tickets for Bath Forum.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Yup, got 22 of those, still love them and listen to them. 70s the best.

 

[Is it PotG?]

A handful of classics, but that’s it. Like most years really.

Exactly. Pick a year, any year. Don't show it to me. List the best albums from it.
Yep, there are some classics there, and some dross.

 

[Icy Gull]

A handful of classics, but that’s it. Like most years really.

Way more than a handful if they are the albums of your youth. Do you actually know ALL those albums well enough to reduce it to a handful?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Exactly. Pick a year, any year. Don't show it to me. List the best albums from it.
Yep, there are some classics there, and some dross.

Agree.

I randomly looked up 1990 and there’s 5 albums which I could term as classics in their fields. I might not necessarily like them all myself but that’s not the point.

 

[Icy Gull]

Exactly. Pick a year, any year. Don't show it to me. List the best albums from it.
Yep, there are some classics there, and some dross.

The dross being?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Way more than a handful if they are the albums of your youth. Do you actually know ALL those albums well enough to reduce it to a handful?

This isn’t really my point. My point is more that, in my opinion, each and every year there’s some amazing albums released…as well as a lot of good ones….just like 1972. That’s all.

 

[Is it PotG?]

The dross being?

To which year are you referring?

My point was that this scenario plays out in any given year.

Don't forget, music is highly subjective. There is no wrong or right (unless you disagree with my views of course).

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

And Little Feat are still not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

 

[Icy Gull]

This isn’t really my point. My point is more that, in my opinion, each and every year there’s some amazing albums released…as well as a lot of good ones….just like 1972. That’s all.

You need to know every album listed intimately on whatever year you choose to come to that conclusion surely?

Assuming it’s your decision rather than a rock journalists

 

[Icy Gull]

To which year are you referring?

My point was that this scenario plays out in any given year.

Don't forget, music is highly subjective. There is no wrong or right (unless you disagree with my views of course).

I was interested in which of the albums listed for 1972 that you considered to be dross. There are a handful that I would say are dross, just interested to know which ones you were thinking of