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?

The full board · page 131

3121 Gal Gal Costa · Philips · 1969 148.800

3122 Back to Wreck Shop Tuff Crew · Soo Deff Records · 1989 148.800

3123

Black Secret Technology A Guy Called Gerald · Juice Box · 1995 148.800

3124

Paranoid Experience Acid Junkies · Djax-Up-Beats · 1994 148.780

3125 Delta Aquarids Total Eclipse · Blue Room Released · 1995 148.780

3126 Alles ist gut Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft · Virgin · 1981 148.770

3127 69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields · Merge Records · 1999 148.770

3128 Nancy & Lee Nancy Sinatra · Boots Enterprises, Inc. · 1968 148.750

3129 Moontan Golden Earring · Polydor · 1973 148.750

3130 Mas Hysteria Carolyne Mas · Mercury Records · 1980 148.750

3131 Yankees raus Slime · Aggressive Rockproduktionen · 1982 148.750

3132

Viva Emptiness Katatonia · Peaceville · 2003 148.750

3133

New Wave Against Me! · Sire Records · 2007 148.750

3134 Schwarz auf Weiß Spliff · CBS · 1984 148.740

3135 White Men Can't Funk Secret Cinema · EC Records · 2001 148.720

3136

The Call of the Wretched Sea Ahab · Irond · 2006 148.720

3137

Trancefer Klaus Schulze · 1981 148.680

3138 High Visibility The Hellacopters · Polar · 2000 148.680

3139 White1 Sunn O))) · Southern Lord · 2003 148.680

3140

Amok Koma Abwärts · Zickzack · 1980 148.630

3141 Black Oak Arkansas Black Oak Arkansas · ATCO Records · 1971 148.610

3142 Powerlight Earth, Wind & Fire · Columbia · 1983 148.610

3143

Kala M.I.A. · XL Recordings · 2007 148.610

3144 Love Island Eumir Deodato · Warner Bros. Records · 1978 148.570