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 1389

33313 Silence A.C.T · Inside Out Music · 2006 28.080

33314 Threes Sparta · Suburban Home Records · 2006 28.080

33315 Mastercutor U.D.O. · AFM Records · 2007 28.080

33316 Make Another World Idlewild · Sanctuary Records · 2007 28.080

33317

Objectif : Thunes Ultra Vomit · Listenable Records · 2008 28.080

33318 Black Butterfly Buckcherry · Eleven Seven Music · 2008 28.080

33319 Depart From Me Cage · Definitive Jux · 2009 28.080

33320 Acid in the Style of David Tudor Hecker · Editions Mego · 2009 28.080

33321 Oasis OC · Nature Sounds · 2009 28.080

33322 Tropico Gato Barbieri · A&M Records · 2009 28.080

33323 Road to the Octagon Impaled Nazarene · Osmose Productions · 2010 28.080

33324 Next to Me Ilse DeLange · Firefly · 2010 28.080

33325 Catholic Gavin Friday · Rubyworks · 2011 28.080

33326 Orgy in Rhythm, Volume Two Art Blakey · Blue Note · 1957 28.050

33327 Gravy Train Lou Donaldson · Blue Note · 1962 28.050

33328 The Graham Gouldman Thing Graham Gouldman · RCA Victor · 1968 28.050

33329 I Am Now Jon Lucien · RCA Victor · 1970 28.050

33330 Dr. Siegel's Fried Egg Shooting Machine Flied Egg · Vertigo · 1972 28.050

33331 All Things Beautiful Jimmy Ponder · 1978 28.050

33332 Classics Kenny Rogers · United Artists · 1979 28.050

33333 Caligula Paul Clemente · Penthouse · 1980 28.050

33334 Iron Curtain Innocence Bobb Trimble · Vengeance Records · 1980 28.050

33335

Tragic Figures Savage Republic · Independent Project Records · 1982 28.050

33336 Jyothi Charlie Mariano · ECM Records · 1983 28.050