The Groove

The greatest albums of all time

108,862 albums ranked by the Groove — music.nw’s own measure of renown. Not an opinion, a fact computed from the record. Why?

No. 1

Harvest

Neil Young · Warner Bros. Records · 1972

2,621.940

Why this number?

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24529 Promises Impure Demented Ted · Pavement Music · 1993 37.720

24530 Endangered Species Lynyrd Skynyrd · Capricorn Records · 1994 37.720

24531 Star Tracks Basic Element · EMI · 1996 37.720

24532 Stars on E.S.P. His Name Is Alive · 4AD · 1996 37.720

24533 Psy Force Star Sounds Orchestra · Spirit Zone Recordings · 1997 37.720

24534

Play: The B Sides Moby · V2 · 1999 37.720

24535 The Destruction of Commercial Scum Waco Jesus · United Guttural Records · 1999 37.720

24536 Touch Works, for Hurdy Gurdy and Voice Phill Niblock · Touch · 2000 37.720

24537 Tonite Bad Boys Blue · Coconut · 2000 37.720

24538

Low Kick and Hard Bop Solex · Matador · 2001 37.720

24539 The Best of Pigface: Preaching to the Perverted Pigface · Invisible Records · 2001 37.720

24540 Meter Mittelstandskinder ohne Strom · GTN · 2001 37.720

24541 Spirit of the Century The Blind Boys of Alabama · Real World · 2001 37.720

24542 Realize Karsh Kale · Six Degrees Records · 2001 37.720

24543 Invention Daedelus · Plug Research · 2002 37.720

24544 Heavy Traffic Status Quo · Universal Music TV · 2002 37.720

24545 Dream to Make Believe Armor for Sleep · Equal Vision Records · 2003 37.720

24546 Zitilites Kashmir · Columbia · 2003 37.720

24547 Blood Thicker Than Water, Volume 1 Infamous Mobb · IM³ Records · 2004 37.720

24548

True Nature Unfolds Callisto · Fullsteam Records · 2004 37.720

24549 Rattenkönig Mütiilation · End All Life Productions · 2005 37.720

24550 Where You Live Tracy Chapman · Elektra · 2005 37.720

24551 Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters London Sinfonietta · Warp · 2006 37.720

24552

A Friend of a Friend Dave Rawlings Machine · Acony Records · 2009 37.720