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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25945 Cappella Cappella · cutting edge · 1998 35.700

25946

Le Testament La Brigade · Barclay · 1999 35.700

25947

Tuonela Amorphis · Nuclear Blast · 1999 35.700

25948 Greatest Hits 1990–1999: A Tribute to a Work in Progress The Black Crowes · American Recordings · 2000 35.700

25949 Aix Em Klemm Aix Em Klemm · kranky · 2000 35.700

25950 Slightly Askew Chris Bowden · Ninja Tune · 2002 35.700

25951

New Medicines Dead Poetic · Solid State Records · 2004 35.700

25952 The Usual Suspects Joe Lynn Turner · YAMAHA MUSIC COMMUNICATIONS · 2005 35.700

25953 Mongrel The Number Twelve Looks Like You · Eyeball Records · 2007 35.700

25954 Vell Vagranz Funckarma · n5MD · 2008 35.700

25955 Here Comes Science They Might Be Giants · Disney Sound · 2009 35.700

25956 Bellum omnium contra omnes Diocletian · 2010 35.700

25957

Gangs And So I Watch You From Afar · Richter Collective · 2011 35.700

25958 Original Album Series Peter Tosh · Warner Bros. Records · 2014 35.700

25959 Tonight’s the Night The Shirelles · Scepter · 1961 35.690

25960 Super Psychedelics The Ventures · Liberty · 1967 35.690

25961 Bird on a Wire Tim Hardin · Columbia · 1971 35.690

25962 Nan Madol Edward Vesala · Japo Records · 1974 35.690

25963

Tutto il resto è noia Franco Califano · Ricordi · 1976 35.690

25964 Be a Winner Yarbrough & Peoples · Total Experience Records · 1984 35.690

25965 Scarred for Life Obsession · Enigma · 1986 35.690

25966

Sur le chemin des incendies Paul Piché · Audiogram · 1988 35.690

25967 Seven Year Itch Etta James · Island · 1988 35.690

25968 Storyteller Razorcuts · Creation Records · 1988 35.690