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 141

3361

Arular M.I.A. · XL Recordings · 2005 142.740

3362 Octet / Music for a Large Ensemble / Violin Phase Steve Reich · ECM Records · 1980 142.600

3363

X-101 X-101 · Tresor · 1991 142.600

3364 Rendezvous in Outer Space L.S.G. · Superstition · 1995 142.600

3365 September Morn Neil Diamond · Columbia · 1979 142.560

3366 The Burning Red Machine Head · Roadrunner Records · 1999 142.560

3367 The Mad Hatter Chick Corea · Polydor · 1978 142.560

3368 The Black Rider Tom Waits · Island · 1993 142.560

3369 Blood Music: Pentamerous Metamorphosis Global Communication · Dedicated · 1993 142.500

3370 Faithful Todd Rundgren · Bearsville Records · 1976 142.450

3371 Tales From the Punchbowl Primus · Interscope Records · 1995 142.450

3372 Four Sail Love · Elektra · 1969 142.400

3373 Plastic People Birth Control · CBS · 1975 142.400

3374

Allied Forces Triumph · Attic · 1981 142.400

3375 Should the World Fail to Fall Apart Peter Murphy · Beggars Banquet · 1986 142.400

3376 When the World Knows Your Name Deacon Blue · CBS · 1989 142.400

3377 Stacked Up Senser · Ultimate Records · 1994 142.400

3378 Alien Soundtracks Chrome · Siren Records · 1977 142.400

3379 Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) Coil · Threshold House · 1987 142.400

3380 Fields Junip · City Slang · 2010 142.400

3381 Tauhid Pharoah Sanders · impulse! · 1967 142.290

3382 24 Hour Revenge Therapy Jawbreaker · The Communion Label · 1994 142.290

3383 Journey to the Center of the Mind The Amboy Dukes · 1968 142.200

3384 The Cult Is Alive Darkthrone · Peaceville · 2006 142.200