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 132

3145 Stellar Supreme Cosmic Baby · MFS · 1992 148.520

3146 Law and Order Lindsey Buckingham · Asylum Records · 1981 148.500

3147 Hey Now Hey (The Other Side of the Sky) Aretha Franklin · Atlantic · 1973 148.420

3148 Sea Biscuit Spacetime Continuum · Astralwerks · 1994 148.330

3149 Full Sail Loggins & Messina · Columbia · 1973 148.320

3150

Mind Elevation Nightmares on Wax · Warp · 2002 148.230

3151 Now & Then Carpenters · A&M Records · 1973 148.200

3152

34.788%… Complete My Dying Bride · Peaceville · 1998 148.200

3153 Nightwatch Kenny Loggins · Columbia · 1978 148.190

3154 Golden Double Album ABBA · Disques Vogue · 1976 148.000

3155

Ballad of the Broken Seas Isobel Campbell · V2 · 2006 148.000

3156 DJ-Kicks: Stacey Pullen Stacey Pullen · !K7 · 1996 147.920

3157

Cold Water Music Aim · Grand Central Records · 1999 147.920

3158 Damnation Opeth · Music for Nations · 2003 147.920

3159 Second Album Roy Buchanan · Polydor · 1973 147.900

3160

Land of the Midnight Sun Al Di Meola · Columbia · 1976 147.900

3161

Legendary Tales Rhapsody · Limb Music Products · 1997 147.900

3162 International New Order · London Records 90 · 2002 147.900

3163

Samba esquema novo Jorge Ben · Philips · 1963 147.870

3164 Alice Clark Alice Clark · EMI · 1972 147.870

3165 The Rapture Siouxsie and the Banshees · Geffen Records · 1995 147.840

3166

Ragged Glory Neil Young · 1990 147.840

3167 Rancid Rancid · Epitaph · 1993 147.840

3168

Listen Like Thieves INXS · Atlantic · 1985 147.840