Was there EVER a better year for music than 1972.I dont think so..

Then again I am an old GIT..

1. American Pie Don McLean
2. Black and White Three Dog Night
3. Mother And Child Reunion Paul Simon
4. Horse With No Name America
5. I Can See Clearly Now Johnny Nash
6. Heart of Gold Neil Young
7. Without You Nilsson
8. Day After Day Badfinger
9. Nights in White Satin Moody Blues
10. Take It Easy Eagles
11. I'm Stone In Love With You Stylistics
12. Suavecito Malo
13. Rocket Man Elton John
14. Go All The Way Raspberries
15. Saturday In the Park Chicago
16. Summer Sun Jamestown Massacre
17. Have You Seen Her Chillites
18. Betcha By Golly Wow / Ebony Eyes Stylistics
19. Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress The Hollies
20. Witchy Woman Eagles
21. Bang A Gong (Get It On) T.Rex
22. Morning Has Broken Cat Stevens
23. Family of Man Three Dog Night
24. Listen to the Music Doobie Brothers
25. Brandy Looking Glass
26. Sylvia's Mother Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show
27. Summer Breeze Seals & Croft
28. Too Late To Turn Back Now Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
29. Summer Breeze Seals & Croft
30. Alone Again (Naturally) Gilbert O'Sullivan
31. The Guitar Man Bread
32. Oh Girl Chillites
33. Beautiful Sunday Daniel Boone
34. Everybody Plays the Fool Main Ingredient
35. Ben Michael Jackson
36. Backstabbers O'Jays
37. Never Been To Spain Three Dog Night
38. Layla Derek & the Dominoes
39. Stella's Candy Store Sweet Marie
40. Pipeline Sequence Honk
41. Sweet Surrender Bread
42. Beautiful Morning East
43. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face Roberta Flack
44. Nice To Be With You Gallery
45. Hurting Each Other Carpenters
46. Ventura Highway America
47. Sunshine Jonathan Edwards
48. You're Still A Young Man Tower of Power
49. Roundabout Yes
50. Baby Blue Badfinger
51. One Tin Soldier Coven
52. Sweet Seasons Carole King
53. You Don't Mess Around With Jim Jim Croce
54. Taxi Harry Chapin
55. Rock n Roll Part 2 Gary Glitter
56. School's Out Alice Cooper
57. Back Off Boogaloo Ringo Starr
58. I'll Take You There Staple Singers
59. You Are Everything Stylistics
60. I Believe In Music Gallery
61. Don't Say You Don't Remember Beverly Bremers
62. Song Sung Blue Neil Diamond
63. I'd Love You To Want Me Lobo
64. I Need You America
65. Soley Soley Middle of the Road
66. Looking Through My Window Jackson Five
67. Life And Breath Climax
68. We Got To Get It On Again Addrassi Brothers
69. Respect Yourself Staple Singers
70. You Wear It Well Rod Stewart
71. I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing New Seekers
72. Where Is The Love? Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
73. Honkey Cat Elton John
74. We're On Our Way Chris Hodge
75. People Make The World Go 'Round Stylistics
76. Me & Julio Down By the Schoolyard Paul Simon
77. Footstompin' Music Grand Funk Railroad
78. Vincent Don McLean
79. Hallelujah Sweathog
80. Burning Love / It's A Matter of Time Elvis Presley
81. Down By The Lazy River Osmonds
82. Coconut Nilsson
83. Tumbling Dice Rolling Stones
84. White Lies Blue Eyes Bullet
85. Operator (Isn't That The Way I Feel?) Jim Croce
86. Duncan Paul Simon
87. Witchqueen of New Orleans Redbone
88. Rockin' Robin Michael Jackson
89. I've Been Lonely For So Long Frederick Knight
90. One Monkey (Don't Stop No Show) Honeycone
91. Candy Man Sammy Davis Jr.
92. We're Free Beverly Bremers
93. Brand New Key Melanie
94. How Do You Do? Mouth & McNeal
95. Slippin' Into Darkness War
96. Diary Bread
97. Wonder Girl Sparks
98. The Runway Grass Roots
99. Clair Gilbert O'Sullivan
100. My Ding A Ling / Johnny B. Goode (live) Chuck Berry

 

I suppose it depends on your taste. Most of those songs don't do owt for me so I wouldn't say it was a good year for me. I'd probably say the late 80s or early 90s were the best years for music but I couldn't pick out a particular year.

 

No7 was no1 when I was born. It was obviously a great year.

 

The 70's and early 80's were great times for music.

 

To be honest I think there's still some cracking music to be found today you just need to keep away from the charts but got agree there were some really good songs in that chart

 

Smooth 70's is a pretty good station on DAB. Well worth a listen if you like 70's music.

 

70's crap....eighties ace.

hope this helps clarify the situation

 

Thanks for NOT disappointing me Thereev........

 

Not really, you need to clarify further...

Early 80's: Ska / Mod revival / late Punk = Fantastic music.
Late 80's = Hip Hop / Stock Aitken and Waterman = utter cr@p.

HTH.

 

I was born in '72 so it was a great year.

not sure about the music though...

 

I`m sure you have a Heart of Gold and that you see most things as Black and White but
You're Still A Young Man,and You Wear It Well,but I like a bit of Footstompin' Music with my Summer Sun, you must remember to Respect Yourself.,it may be that you have,Never Been To Spain so I'll Take You There we can show everyone that We're Free and you can play with, My Ding A Ling, I cant imagine life, Without You. As Im Looking Through My Window , hoping that You Don't Mess Around With Jim in his Taxi,. I've Been Lonely For So Long with this Burning Love because You Are Everythingand I'd Love You To Want Me, we should ignore the Backstabbers because as you know the First Time Ever I Saw Your Face I cried Hallelujah[/COLOR ], please Don't Say You Don't Remember that Song Sung Blue. The very second that School's Out we can Listen to the Music and you wont need that,Long Cool Woman In A Black dress, because if you check on your Diary we will fly down Ventura Highway eating American pie drinking Brandy as I'd Love You To Want Me my Rocket Man

I really need to get a life.....

 

Ziggy Stardust that year, reight album

 

Waterman?

Not wrong wi Kylie and Jason... Especially for you is a classic.

Hope this helps

 

I like both. Is that allowed?

 

Best year for music was 1996 for me. Or 1997. No definately 1996. Wait it could be 1997. No i'll stick with 1996.

 

I'd pick about 1968

 

Some excellent sounds THIS year. 1968


1 "Hey Jude"...........................................The Beatles
2 "Young Girl".........................................Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
3 "People Got to Be Free"..............................The Rascals
4 "Mrs. Robinson"......................................Simon and Garfunkel
5 "Love is Blue".......................................Paul Mauriat
6 "Beautiful Morning"..................................The Rascals
7 "Those Were the Days"................................Mary Hopkin
8 "MacArthur Park".....................................Richard Harris
9 "This Guy's in Love With You"........................Herb Alpert
10 "Simon Says"........................................The 1910 Fruitgum Company
11 "Honey".............................................Bobby Goldsboro
12 "Cry Like a Baby"...................................The Box Tops
13 "Born to Be Wild"...................................Steppenwolf
14 "Love Child"........................................Diana Ross and the Supremes
15 "Tighten Up"........................................Archie Bell and the Drells
16 "Stoned Soul Picnic"................................The Fifth Dimension
17 "Green Tambourine"..................................The Lemon Pipers
18 "Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)"...................John Fred and his Playboy Band
19 "Lady Willpower"....................................Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
20 "Harper Valley P.T.A."..............................Jeannie C. Riley
21 "Lady Madonna"......................................The Beatles
22 "Hello I Love You"..................................The Doors
23 "Light My Fire".....................................Jose Feliciano
24 "Valleri"...........................................The Monkees
25 "Turn Around, Look at Me"...........................The Vogues
26 "Woman, Woman"......................................The Union Gap
27 "Jumpin' Jack Flash"................................The Rolling Stones
28 "Hurdy Gurdy Man"...................................Donovan
29 "Little Green Apples"...............................O. C. Smith
30 "Midnight Confessions"..............................The Grass Roots
31 "Mony Mony".........................................Tommy James and the Shondells
32 "Bend Me, Shape Me".................................The American Breed
33 "Reach Out of the Darkness".........................Friend and Lover
34 "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay"..................Otis Redding
35 "Spooky"............................................The Classics IV
36 "Sunshine of Your Love".............................Cream
37 "Yummy Yummy Yummy".................................The Ohio Express
38 "Hush"..............................................Deep Purple
39 "Angel of the Morning"..............................Merrilee Rush
40 "Theme from Valley of the Dolls"....................Dionne Warwick
41 "Magic Carpet Ride".................................Steppenwolf
42 "1-2-3 Red Light"...................................The 1910 Fruitgum Company
43 "I've Gotta Get a Message to You"...................The Bee Gees
44 "Baby, Now That I've Found You".....................The Foundations
45 "Hello, Goodbye"....................................The Beatles
46 "Since You've Been Gone"............................Aretha Franklin
47 "Fire"..............................................The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
48 "The Horse".........................................Cliff Nobles and Company
49 "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly"....................Hugo Montenegro
50 "Classical Gas".....................................Mason Williams
51 "Chain of Fools"....................................Aretha Franklin
52 "Daydream Believer".................................The Monkees
53 "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"..................Gladys Knight and the Pips
54 "The Mighty Quinn"..................................Manfred Mann
55 I Wish It Would Rain"...............................The Temptations
56 "Elenore"...........................................The Turtles
57 "Nobody But Me".....................................The Human Beinz
58 "Cowboys to Girls"..................................The Intruders
59 "White Room"........................................Cream
60 "Love Is All Around"................................The Troggs
61 "Just Dropped In"...................................The First Edition
62 "Dance to the Music"................................Sly and the Family Stone
63 "The Unicorn".......................................The Irish Rovers
64 "The Look of Love"..................................Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
65 "The Fool on the Hill"..............................Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
66 "Who's Making Love".................................Johnny Taylor
67 "Grazing in the Grass"..............................Hugh Masekela
68 "Chewy Chewy".......................................The Ohio Express
69 "For Once in My Life"...............................Stevie Wonder
70 "Abraham, Martin and John"..........................Dion
71 "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde"....................Georgie Fame
72 "Dream a Little Dream of Me"........................Mama Cass
73 "I Second That Emotion".............................Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
74 "Different Drum"....................................The Stone Poneys
75 "Stormy"............................................The Classics IV
76 "The Time Has Come Today"...........................The Chambers Brothers
77 "Think".............................................Aretha Franklin
78 "Over You"..........................................Gary Puckett and the Union Gap
79 "Do You Know the Way to San Jose"...................Dionne Warwick
80 "Delilah"...........................................Tom Jones
81 "My Baby Must Be a Magician"........................The Marvelettes
82 "Girl Watcher"......................................The O'Kaysions
83 "Both Sides Now"....................................Judy Collins
84 "Summertime Blues"..................................Blue Cheer
85 "My Special Angel"..................................The Vogues
86 "You're All I Need to Get By".......................Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
87 "I Love How You Love Me"............................Bobby Vinton
88 "Playboy"...........................................Gene and Debbie
89 "La La Means I Love You"............................The Delfonics
90 "Nothing Like The Real Thing".......................Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
91 "We’re a Winner"....................................The Impressions
92 "Hold Me Tight".....................................Johnny Nash
93 "Indian Lake".......................................The Cowsills
94 "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow"...................The Four Seasons
95 "Pictures of Matchstick Men"........................The Status Quo
96 "Susan".............................................The Buckinghams
97 "Court of Love".....................................The Unifics
98 "Goin' Out of My Head/Can't Take My Eyes Off You"...The Lettermen
99 "Wichita Lineman"...................................Glen Campbell
100 "Do It Again"......................................The Beach Boys

 

1996 I'd say. 95-97 the Britpop peak

 

How could you leave out Jean Genie David Bowie and Virginia Plain Roxy Music ?!

 

Thanks for that Paul, cant imagine why they weren`t on my list.. big mistake.. but adds more credence to my claim that 72 was the best year ever for music..