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

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31993 Adult Orientation Bad Habit · MTM Music · 1998 29.160

31994 Flood Jocelyn Pook · Virgin · 1999 29.160

31995 Stash Bongzilla · Relapse Records · 1999 29.160

31996 Seven More Minutes The Rentals · Maverick · 1999 29.160

31997 Under Cold Blue Stars Josh Rouse · Slow River Records · 2002 29.160

31998 All the King's Horses The Legendary Pink Dots · Caciocavallo · 2002 29.160

31999 Escapexstacy Poisonblack · Century Media · 2003 29.160

32000 The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed The Wildhearts · Sanctuary Records · 2003 29.160

32001 Philadelphia Freeway Freeway · Roc‐A‐Fella Records · 2003 29.160

32002 Land of Lurches Kevin Drumm · Hanson Records · 2003 29.160

32003 Invent Modest Fires Ghost Cauldron · !K7 · 2003 29.160

32004 This Is My Battlefield Panzer AG · Metropolis Records · 2004 29.160

32005 Forbidden Planet Explored Jack Dangers · Important Records · 2004 29.160

32006 DC2: Bars of Death 7L & Esoteric · Babygrande · 2004 29.160

32007 Maritime Minotaur Shock · 4AD · 2005 29.160

32008 Heading for the Top Bullet · Black Lodge Records · 2006 29.160

32009 I Put a Record On Gudrun Gut · Monika Enterprise · 2007 29.160

32010

Mystery Repeats Pete Philly & Perquisite · Handcuts Records · 2007 29.160

32011 Studentessi Elio e le Storie Tese · Hukapan · 2008 29.160

32012 Communion The Soundtrack of Our Lives · Yep Roc Records · 2008 29.160

32013 Sinners International Zeromancer · Trisol · 2009 29.160

32014 Album of the Year Black Milk · Fat Beats Records · 2010 29.160

32015

The Industrialist Fear Factory · AFM Records · 2012 29.160

32016

Sic Alps Sic Alps · Drag City · 2012 29.160