Only Visiting This Planet is a Christian rock album recorded by Larry Norman in 1972. The album was selected as the second-best album in CCM Magazine's The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music.In April 2014 the album was announced as one of 25 sound recordings inducted for 2013 into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry, that preserves as \"cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures, representing the richness and diversity of the American soundscape\", making it the first Christian rock album chosen for the registry