Album: Ege Bamyasi - Can

Released: 9 November 1972

Recorded: Inner Space Studio, 1972

Genre: Krautrock, Experimental rock, Psychedelic rock

Length: 39:26

Label: United Artists

Producer: Can

Album: Foxtroti - Genesis

Released: 6 October 1972

Recorded: August–September 1972 at Island Studios, London, England

Genre: Progressive rock, Art rock

Length: 51:08

Label: Charisma

Producers: Dave Hitchcock and Genesis

Album: Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull

Released: 10 March 1972

Recorded: December 1971 at Morgan Studios, London

Genre: Progressive rock

Length: 43:46

Label: Chrysalis (Europe), Reprise (America, Japan and Oceania)

Producers: Ian Anderson, Terry Ellis

Album: Machine Head – Deep Purple

Released: 25 March 1972
Recorded: 6–21 December 1971
Studio Grand Hotel (Montreux, Switzerland) with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio
Genre:
Hard rockheavy metal
Length: 37:46
Label: Purple
Producer: Deep Purple

Album: Close to the Edge - Yes

Released: 13 September 1972

Recorded: February–July 1972 at Advision Studios, London, England

Genre: Progressive rock

Length: 37:51

Label: Atlantic

Producers: Eddy Offord and Yes

Album: Transformer - Lou Reed

Released: November 8, 1972

Recorded: August 1972 at Trident Studios, Londonk

Genre: Glam rock

Length: 36:40

Label: RCA

Producers: David Bowie and Mick Ronson

Album: Harvest - Neil Young

Released: 14 February 1972

Recorded: January–September 1971

Genre: Country rock

Length: 37:11

Label: Reprise

Producers: Neil Young, Elliot Mazer, Henry Lewy and Jack Nitzsche

Album: Pink Moon - Nick Drake

Released: 25 February 1972

Recorded: 30–31 October 1971 at Sound Techniques, London

Genre: Folk

Length: 39:29

Label: Island

Producer: John Wood

Album: Exile on Main St - The Rolling Stones

Released: 12 May 1972

Recorded: October 1970, June 1971 – March 1972 at Olympic Studios, London; Nellcôte, France; Sunset Sound Recorders, Los Angeles

Genre: Rock and roll, Hard rock

Length: 67:07

Label: Rolling Stones

Producers: Jimmy Miller

Album: The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie

Released: 16 June 1972

Recorded: 9 July 1971; November 1971; 12–18 January 1972; 4 February 1972 at Trident Studios, London

Genre: Glam rock, Art rock

Length: 38:37

Label: RCA Records

Producers: David Bowie and Ken Scott