Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1972

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1972

Listing for 365 records from 1972 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Manfred Mann's Earth Band: *Manfred Mann's Earth Band* [Polydor] The Rolling Stones: *Exile on Main Street* [Rolling Stones] Paul Simon: *Paul Simon* [Columbia]
A	The Chi-Lites: *Greatest Hits* [Brunswick] Delaney & Bonnie: *The Best of Delaney & Bonnie* [Atco] Bob Dylan: *Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume II* [Columbia] John Fahey: *Of Rivers and Religion* [Reprise] Aretha Franklin: *Young, Gifted and Black* [Atlantic] The Dave Holland Quartet: *Conference of the Birds* [ECM] Mississippi John Hurt: *Last Sessions* [Vanguard] The Kinks: *The Kink Kronikles* [Reprise] Joni Mitchell: *For the Roses* [Asylum] Bonnie Raitt: *Give It Up* [Warner Bros.] Steely Dan: *Can't Buy a Thrill* [ABC] The Wailers: *Catch a Fire* [Island] Bill Withers: *Still Bill* [Sussex] Stevie Wonder: *Talking Book* [Tamla] *You Must Remember These: Volume 1* [Bell]
A-	James Brown: *Soul Classics* [Polydor] James Brown: *There It Is* [Polydor] The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: *Golden Butter: The Best of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band* [Elektra] George Carlin: *Class Clown* [Little David] Bill Cosby: *Inside the Mind of Bill Cosby* [Uni] Manu Dibango: *Soul Makossa* [Atlantic] Dr. John: *Dr. John's Gumbo* [Atco] Duke Ellington and Ray Brown: *This One's for Blanton* [Pablo] Al Green: *I'm Still in Love With You* [Hi] Al Green: *Let's Stay Together* [Hi] Grin: *All Out* [Spindizzy] Buddy Guy & Junior Wells: *Buddy Guy and Junior Wells Play the Blues* [Atco] Jimi Hendrix: *Hendrix in the West* [Reprise] John Lee Hooker: *Never Get Out of These Blues Alive* [ABC] Elton John: *Honky Chateau* [Uni] George Jones: *The Best of George Jones, Vol. 1* [RCA Victor] Janis Joplin: *Joplin in Concert* [Columbia] Joy of Cooking: *Castles* [Capitol] Curtis Mayfield: *Super Fly* [Curtom] Bette Midler: *The Divine Miss M* [Atlantic] Van Morrison: *Saint Dominic's Preview* [Warner Bros.] Mott the Hoople: *All the Young Dudes* [Columbia] National Lampoon: *Radio Dinner* [Banana] Randy Newman: *Sail Away* [Reprise] Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: *Will the Circle Be Unbroken* [United Artists] Ann Peebles: *Straight from the Heart* [Capitol] Paul Pena: *Paul Pena* [Capitol] John Prine: *Diamonds in the Rough* [Atlantic] Charlie Rich: *The Best of Charlie Rich* [Epic] Todd Rundgren: *Something/Anything?* [Bearsville] Brinsley Schwarz: *Nervous on the Road* [United Artists] Johnny Shines: *Johnny Shines* [Blue Horizon] Chris Smither: *Don't It Drag On* [Poppy] Rod Stewart: *Never a Dull Moment* [Mercury] Howard Tate: *Howard Tate* [Atlantic] Richard Thompson: *Henry the Human Fly* [Reprise] Peter Townshend: *Who Came First* [Track] Conway Twitty: *Conway Twitty's Greatest Hits Vol. I* [Decca] Loudon Wainwright III: *Album III* [Columbia] Bob Weir: *Ace* [Warner Bros.] *Echoes of a Rock Era: The Early Years* [Roulette]
B+	Duane Allman: *An Anthology* [Capricorn] The Belmonts: *Cigars, Acappella, Candy* [Buddah] Marc Benno: *Ambush* [A&M] Big Star: *#1 Record* [Ardent] Blue Oyster Cult: *Blue Oyster Cult* [Columbia] David Bowie: *The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars* [RCA Victor] The Bunch: *Rock On* [A&M] Johnny Bush: *The Best of Johnny Bush* [Million] Captain Beefheart: *The Spotlight Kid* [Reprise] Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: *Clear Spot* [Reprise] Ray Charles: *A Message From the People* [ABC/Tangerine] Joe Cocker: *Joe Cocker* [A&M] Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: *Hot Licks, Cold Steel and Trucker's Favorites* [Paramount] The Counts: *What's Up Front That--Counts* [Westbound] Creedence Clearwater Revival: *Creedence Gold* [Fantasy] Cymande: *Cymande* [Janus] Ray D'Ariano: *Are You on Something?* [Kama Sutra] Miles Davis: *On the Corner* [Columbia] Detroit Emeralds: *You Want It, You Got It* [Westbound] Dion and the Belmonts: *Reunion* [Warner Bros.] Dave Edmunds: *Rockpile* [MAM] The Family: *Bandstand* [United Artists] Fleetwood Mac: *Bare Trees* [Reprise] Aretha Franklin: *Amazing Grace* [Atlantic] Jerry Garcia: *Garcia* [Warner Bros.] Grateful Dead: *Europe '72* [Warner Bros.] Norman Greenbaum: *Petaluma* [Reprise] Arlo Guthrie: *Hobo's Lullaby* [Reprise] Merle Haggard: *The Best of the Best of Merle Haggard* [Capitol] Merle Haggard and the Strangers: *Let Me Tell You About a Song* [Capitol] Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks: *Striking It Rich!* [Blue Thumb] Millie Jackson: *Millie Jackson* [Spring] Linda Jones: *Your Precious Love* [Turbo] B.B. King: *Guess Who* [ABC] B.B. King: *L.A. Midnight* [ABC] The Kinks: *Everybody's in Showbiz* [RCA Victor] Al Kooper: *A Possible Projection of the Future/Childhood's End* [Columbia] Denise LaSalle: *Trapped by a Thing Called Love* [Westbound] Laura Lee: *Laura Lee* [Hot Wax] Little Feat: *Sailin' Shoes* [Warner Bros.] Loretta Lynn: *One's on the Way* [Decca] Manfred Mann's Earth Band: *Glorified Magnified* [Polydor] Country Joe McDonald: *Paris Sessions* [Vanguard] Mer-Da: *Long Burn the Fire* [Janus] The Steve Miller Band: *Anthology* [Capricorn] Geoff & Maria Muldaur: *Sweet Potatoes* [Reprise] Harry Nilsson: *Son of Schmilsson* [RCA Victor] The O'Jays: *Back Stabbers* [Philadelphia International] The Persuasions: *Spread the Word* [Capitol] Nolan Porter: *Nolan* [ABC] Elvis Presley: *He Touched Me* [RCA Victor] Professor Longhair: *New Orleans Piano* [Atlantic] Lou Reed: *Lou Reed* [RCA Victor] John Renbourn: *Faro Annie* [Reprise] Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: *1957-1972* [Tamla] The Rolling Stones: *More Hot Rocks (Big Hits and Fazed Cookies)* [London] Diana Ross: *Lady Sings the Blues* [Motown] Roxy Music: *Roxy Music* [Reprise] Brinsley Schwarz: *Silver Pistol* [United Artists] Mike Seeger: *Music from the True Vine* [Mercury] Joe Simon: *Joe Simon's Greatest Hits* [Sound Stage 7] Slade: *Slade Alive!* [Polydor] Spring: *Spring* [United Artists] The Stylistics: *Round 2* [Avco] The Supremes: *Floy Joy* [Motown] Koko Taylor: *Koko Taylor* [Chess] The Temptations: *All Directions* [Gordy] Allen Toussaint: *Life, Love and Faith* [Warner Bros.] William Truckaway: *William Truckaway* [Reprise] Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan: *The Phlorescent Leech & Eddie* [Reprise] Stevie Wonder: *Music of My Mind* [Tamla] Betty Wright: *I Love the Way You Love* [Alston] Neil Young: *Harvest* [Reprise]
B	The Allman Brothers Band: *Eat a Peach* [Capricorn] The Band: *Rock of Ages* [Capitol] Jackson Browne: *Jackson Browne* [Asylum] Tim Buckley: *Greetings from L.A.* [Warner Bros.] Paul Butterfield: *Better Days* [Bearsville] The Byrds: *The Best of the Byrds: Greatest Hits Volume II* [Columbia] J.J. Cale: *Really* [Shelter] John Cale: *The Academy in Peril* [Reprise] Randy California: *Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds* [Epic] Ray Charles: *Through the Eyes of Love* [ABC/Tangerine] Chee Chee & Peppy: *Chee Chee & Peppy* [Buddah] The Chi-Lites: *A Lonely Man* [Brunswick] Eric Clapton: *History of Eric Clapton* [Atco] Ry Cooder: *Boomer's Story* [Reprise] Creedence Clearwater Revival: *Mardi Gras* [Fantasy] Tyrone Davis: *Tyrone Davis' Greatest Hits* [Dakar] Deep Purple: *Machine Head* [Warner Bros.] Jackie DeShannon: *Jackie* [Atlantic] The Eagles: *Eagles* [Asylum] John Entwistle: *Whistle Rymes* [Decca] The Flying Burrito Brothers: *Last of the Red Hot Burritos* [A&M] Free: *Free at Last* [A&M] George Gerdes: *Son of Obituary* [United Artists] Steve Goodman: *Somebody Else's Troubles* [Buddah] Tom T. Hall: *The Storyteller* [Mercury] Tom T. Hall: *Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits* [Mercury] Jimi Hendrix: *War Heroes* [Reprise] The Isley Brothers: *Brother, Brother, Brother* [T-Neck] Jackson 5: *Lookin' Through the Windows* [Motown] Gladys Knight & the Pips: *Neither One of Us* [Soul] Laura Lee: *Women's Love Rights* [Hot Wax] Jerry Lee Lewis: *The "Killer" Rocks On* [Mercury] Charles Lloyd: *Waves* [A&M] Taj Mahal: *Recycling the Blues and Other Related Stuff* [Columbia] Man: *Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day* [United Artists] Ellen McIlwaine: *Honky Tonk Angel* [Polydor] Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: *I Miss You* [Philadelphia International] The Meters: *Cabbage Alley* [Reprise] Mott the Hoople: *Brain Capers* [Atlantic] Anne Murray: *Annie* [Capitol] Johnny Nash: *I Can See Clearly Now* [Epic] Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth: *Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth* [Reprise] NRBQ: *Scraps* [Kama Sutra] Danny O'Keefe: *O'Keefe* [Signpost] The Osmonds: *Phase III* [MGM] Gilbert O'Sullivan: *Himself* [MAM] Junior Parker: *I Tell Stories Sad and True, I Sing the Blues and Play Harmonica Too, It Is Very Funky* [United Artists] Freda Payne: *The Best of Freda Payne* [Invictus] The Persuasions: *Street Corner Symphony* [Capitol] Esther Phillips: *Alone Again, Naturally* [Kudu] Esther Phillips: *From a Whisper to a Scream* [Kudu] Charley Pride: *The Best of Charley Pride Volume 2* [RCA Victor] Helen Reddy: *I Am Woman* [Capitol] Johnny Rivers: *L.A. Reggae* [United Artists] Boz Scaggs: *My Time* [Columbia] Jeannie Seely: *Jeannie Seely's Greatest Hits* [Monument] The Sidewinders: *The Sidewinders* [RCA Victor] Joe Simon: *Drowning in the Sea of Love* [Spring] Stealers Wheel: *Stealers Wheel* [A&M] Stories: *Stories* [Kama Sutra] String Driven Thing: *String Driven Thing* [Charisma] Koko Taylor: *Basic Soul* [Chess] Ten Years After: *Rock & Roll Music to the World* [Columbia] T. Rex: *Electric Warrior* [Warner Bros.] War: *The World Is a Ghetto* [United Artists] Muddy Waters: *The London Muddy Waters Sessions* [Chess] Weather Report: *I Sing the Body Electric* [Columbia] The Edgar Winter Group: *They Only Come Out at Night* [Epic] Yes: *Fragile* [Atlantic] Frank Zappa: *Waka/Jawaka--Hot Rats* [Bizarre/Reprise]
B-	James Brown: *Get on the Good Foot* [Polydor] Ruth Brown: *The Real Ruth Brown* [Cobblestone] Bulldog: *Bulldog* [Decca] Cheech & Chong: *Big Bambu* [A&M] Alice Cooper: *School's Out* [Warner Bros.] Crazy Horse: *At Crooked Lake* [Epic] Jim Croce: *You Don't Mess Around With Jim* [ABC] The Doors: *Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine* [Elektra] Electric Light Orchestra: *No Answer* [United Artists] Elephant's Memory: *Elephant's Memory* [Apple] Fanny: *Fanny Hill* [Reprise] Peter Frampton: *Wind of Change* [A&M] Al Green: *Al Green* [Bell] Michael Hurley: *Hi-Fi Snock Uptown* [Raccoon] The J.B.'s: *Food for Thought* [People] Jukin' Bone: *Way Down East* [RCA Victor] Arthur Lee: *Vindicator* [A&M] Ian Matthews: *Tigers Will Survive* [Vertigo] Melanie: *Four Sides of Melanie* [Buddah] Martin Mull: *Martin Mull* [Capricorn] Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band: *Garden Party* [Decca] Osibisa: *Heads* [Decca] Osibisa: *Woyaya* [Decca] Procol Harum: *Live in Concert With the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra* [A&M] The Rascals: *The Island of Real* [Columbia] The Raspberries: *Fresh* [Capitol] Jerry Reed: *The Best of Jerry Reed* [RCA Victor] Lou Reed: *Transformer* [RCA Victor] Linda Ronstadt: *Linda Ronstadt* [Capitol] Leon Russell: *Carney* [Shelter] Buffy Sainte-Marie: *Moonshot* [Vanguard] Santana: *Caravanserai* [Columbia] Savoy Brown: *Hellbound Train* [Parrot] Gary and Randy Scruggs: *The Scruggs Brothers* [Vanguard] Carly Simon: *No Secrets* [Elektra] Spirit: *Feedback* [Epic] Staple Singers: *Be Altitude: Respect Yourself* [Stax] Joe Tex: *I Gotcha* [Dial] Ike Turner: *Blues Roots* [United Artists] Ike & Tina Turner: *Feel Good* [United Artists] Uriah Heep: *The Magician's Birthday* [Mercury] The Velvet Underground: *Live at Max's Kansas City* [Cotillion] Jesse Winchester: *Third Down, 110 to Go* [Bearsville]
C+	Babe Ruth: *First Base* [Harvest] Joan Baez: *Come From the Shadows* [A&M] The Beach Boys: *Carl and the Passions--So Tough/Pet Sounds* [Brother/Reprise] Jeff Beck Group: *Jeff Beck Group* [Epic] J. Henry Burnett: *The B-52 Band & the Fabulous Skylarks* [Uni] Judy Collins: *Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins* [Elektra] Larry Coryell: *Offering* [Vanguard] Cream: *Live Cream Volume II* [Atco] Bo Diddley: *Where It All Began* [Chess] Earth, Wind & Fire: *Last Days and Time* [Columbia] Electric Light Orchestra: *The Electric Light Orchestra* [United Artists] Yvonne Elliman: *Yvonne Elliman* [Decca] Funkadelic: *America Eats Its Young* [Westbound] Mickey Hart: *Rolling Thunder* [Warner Bros.] Ronnie Hawkins: *Rock and Roll Resurrection* [Monument] The Hollies: *Distant Light* [Epic] The Hoodoo Rhythm Devils: *Rack Jobbers Rule* [Capitol] Jefferson Airplane: *Long John Silver* [Grunt] Elton John: *Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player* [MCA] Laura Lee: *Love More Than Pride* [Chess] Lindisfarne: *Fog on the Tyne* [Elektra] Taj Mahal: *Sounder* [Columbia] The Moonglows: *Return of the Moonglows* [RCA Victor] The Raspberries: *Raspberries* [Capitol] Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: *Flying High Together* [Tamla] Ed Sanders: *Beer Cans on the Moon* [Reprise] Bob Seger: *Smokin' O.P.'s* [Palladium] John David Souther: *John David Souther* [Asylum] Rick Springfield: *Beginnings* [Capitol] Stephen Stills: *Manassas* [Atlantic] Alice Stuart and Snake: *Believing* [Fantasy] The Supremes: *The Supremes* [Motown] James Taylor: *One Man Dog* [Warner Bros.] B.J. Thomas: *Billy Joe Thomas* [Scepter] Dionne Warwick: *Dionne* [Arista] Yes: *Close to the Edge* [Atlantic]
C	All in the Family: *2nd Album* [Atlantic] Eric Andersen: *Blue River* [Columbia] The Beach Boys: *Holland* [Brother/Reprise] Ronee Blakley: *Ronee Blakley* [Elektra] Blood, Sweat & Tears: *Greatest Hits* [Columbia] Roy Buchanan: *Roy Buchanan* [Polydor] David Clayton-Thomas: *David Clayton-Thomas* [Columbia] Rita Coolidge: *The Lady's Not for Sale* [A&M] John Denver: *Rocky Mountain High* [RCA Victor] The Doobie Brothers: *Toulouse Street* [Warner Bros.] The Doors: *Full Circle* [Elektra] The Everly Brothers: *Stories We Could Tell* [RCA Victor] Marvin Gaye: *Trouble Man* [Tamla] Genesis: *Foxtrot* [Charisma] Gary Glitter: *Glitter* [Bell] Luther Ingram: *(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right* [Koko] James Gang: *Passin' Thru* [ABC] Waylon Jennings: *Ladies Love Outlaws* [RCA Victor] The Johnstons: *The Johnstons* [Mercury] Carole King: *Rhymes and Reasons* [Ode] King Crimson: *Islands* [Atlantic] Labelle: *Moon Shadow* [Warner Bros.] John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band: *Some Time in New York City* [Apple] Loggins and Messina: *Sittin' In* [Columbia] Groucho Marx: *An Evening with Groucho* [A&M] Dave Mason: *Headkeeper* [Blue Thumb] Megan McDonough: *Megan Music* [Wooden Nickel] Melton, Levy and the Dey Brothers: *Melton, Levy and the Dey Brothers* [Columbia] The Mothers: *Just Another Band From L.A.* [Bizarre] Mike Nesmith & the Second National Band: *Tantamount to Treason Volume 1* [RCA Victor] Pink Floyd: *Obscured by Clouds* [Harvest] Elvis Presley: *Elvis as Recorded at Madison Square Garden* [RCA Victor] Ramatam: *Ramatam* [Atlantic] Cat Stevens: *Catch Bull at Four* [A&M] Booker T. & Priscilla: *Home Grown* [Dunhill] The Temptations: *Solid Rock* [Gordy] Three Dog Night: *Seven Separate Fools* [Dunhill] Tower of Power: *Bump City* [Warner Bros.] ZZ Top: *Rio Grande Mud* [London] *Jamming With Edward* [Rolling Stones]
C-	David Ackles: *American Gothic* [Elektra] Chuck Berry: *The London Chuck Berry Sessions* [Chess] Solomon Burke: *We're Almost Home* [MGM] Canned Heat: *Historical Figures and Ancient Heads* [United Artists] Harry Chapin: *Heads and Tails* [Elektra] Chi Coltrane: *Chi Coltrane* [Columbia] Emerson, Lake & Palmer: *Trilogy* [Cotillion] Firesign Theatre: *Not Insane* [Columbia] Flash: *Flash* [Capitol] Four Tops: *Keeper of the Castle* [Dunhill] Grand Funk Railroad: *Phoenix* [Capitol] The Hollies: *Romany* [Epic] Jethro Tull: *Thick as a Brick* [Reprise] Alexis Korner: *Bootleg Him!* [Warner Bros.] Looking Glass: *Looking Glass* [Epic] John Mayall: *Jazz/Blues Fusion* [Polydor] Don McLean: *Don McLean* [United Artists] The Steve Miller Band: *Recall the Beginning . . . A Journey from Eden* [Capitol] Graham Nash/David Crosby: *Graham Nash/David Crosby* [Atlantic] New Riders of the Purple Sage: *Powerglide* [Columbia] Valerie Simpson: *Valerie Simpson* [Tamla] Bobby Whitlock: *Bobby Whitlock* [Dunhill]
D+	Stephen Ambrose: *Gypsy Moth* [Elektra] Brian Auger's Oblivion Express: *Second Wind* [RCA Victor] Crazy Horse: *Loose* [Reprise] Mike d'Abo: *Down at Rachel's Place* [A&M] Neil Diamond: *Hot August Night* [MCA] Emerson, Lake & Palmer: *Pictures from an Exhibition* [Cotillion] The Partridge Family: *The Partridge Family Notebook* [Bell]
D	Birtha: *Birtha* [Dunhill] Tom Fogerty: *Tom Fogerty* [Fantasy] Eric Justin Kaz: *If You're Lonely* [Atlantic] Jerry Stiller & Anne Meara: *Laugh When You Like* [Atlantic] Strawbs: *Grave New World* [A&M]
D-	Sandy Baron: *God Save the Queens* [A&M] Marshall Efron: *The Nutrino News Network* [Polydor] Mama Lion: *Mama Lion* [Family Productions] Supa: *Homespun* [Paramount]
E+	Harrison & Tyler: *Try It--You'll Like It* [Dore] Murray Roman: *Busted* [United Artists]
E	David Peel and the Lower East Side: *The Pope Smokes Dope* [Apple] Bernie Taupin: *Bernie Taupin* [Elektra] Wolfman Jack: *Wolfman Jack* [Wooden Nickel]
E-	Kim Fowley: *I'm Bad* [Capitol]

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