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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31609 Ready for Hell Killer · WEA Records · 1980 29.520

31610 Total Sex Whitehouse · Come Organisation · 1980 29.520

31611 Okno Emil Viklický · Supraphon · 1981 29.520

31612 The Very Best of Rufus with Chaka Khan Rufus · MCA Records · 1982 29.520

31613 New Britain Whitehouse · Come Organisation · 1982 29.520

31614 D.E. 7th Dave Edmunds · Arista · 1982 29.520

31615 Abyssinians June Tabor · Topic Records · 1983 29.520

31616 Cybernetic Dreams of Pi The Slickee Boys · Twin/Tone Records · 1983 29.520

31617 Byzantium Blaine L. Reininger · Les Disques du Crépuscule · 1987 29.520

31618 Χορεύω Βασίλης Παπακωνσταντίνου · Μίνως Μάτσας & Υιός Α.Ε. · 1989 29.520

31619 Kerosene Man Steve Wynn · Rhino · 1990 29.520

31620 Tear the House Down Hericane Alice · Atlantic · 1990 29.520

31621 Organic? The Overlords · ZYX Records · 1991 29.520

31622 Positively Beale St. Walter Trout Band · 1991 29.520

31623 Rochambeau Farside · 1992 29.520

31624

Just Look Around Sick of It All · Relativity Records · 1992 29.520

31625 No Deeper Blue Townes Van Zandt · Sugar Hill Records · 1994 29.520

31626 Ain’t Enough Comin’ In Otis Rush · Mercury Records · 1994 29.520

31627 Collective Journeys Tribal Drift · 1995 29.520

31628 Shack-Man Medeski Martin & Wood · Gramavision · 1996 29.520

31629 Blue Clear Sky George Strait · MCA Records · 1996 29.520

31630 Broken Promise Land Weeping Willows · Grand Recordings · 1997 29.520

31631 Songs From Northern Britain Teenage Fanclub · Creation Records · 1997 29.520

31632

Still Waters Bee Gees · Polydor · 1997 29.520