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 145

3457

Everything Bangles · CBS · 1988 140.910

3458 Swagger Gun · A&M Records · 1994 140.910

3459

Opium fürs Volk Die Toten Hosen · JKP · 1996 140.800

3460

Drowning in a Sea of Love Nathan Fake · Border Community · 2006 140.800

3461 Niagara Niagara · United Artists · 1970 140.760

3462

The Open Door Evanescence · Wind‐up · 2006 140.620

3463 Eyes Open Snow Patrol · Polydor · 2006 140.620

3464 Cosmic Funk Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes · Flying Dutchman · 1974 140.620

3465 Mysteries of the World MFSB · TSOP · 1980 140.620

3466

Houdini Melvins · Atlantic · 1993 140.620

3467 Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Spiritualized · Dedicated · 1997 140.620

3468 Nord Imminent Starvation · Ant‐Zen · 1999 140.620

3469 Takin My Time Bonnie Raitt · Warner Bros. Records · 1973 140.600

3470 Morph the Cat Donald Fagen · 2006 140.430

3471 The Jewel in the Lotus Bennie Maupin · ECM Records · 1974 140.400

3472

Little Earthquakes Tori Amos · EastWest · 1991 140.270

3473

DJ‐Kicks: Stereo MC’s Stereo MC’s · !K7 · 2000 140.270

3474 Silver Side Up Nickelback · Roadrunner Records · 2001 140.250

3475 Spirit in the Dark Aretha Franklin · Atlantic · 1970 140.250

3476 Born to Dance The Players Association · Vanguard · 1977 140.250

3477 Carl Carlton Carl Carlton · Republic Records · 1981 140.250

3478 Go for It Stiff Little Fingers · Chrysalis · 1981 140.250

3479

Gloryhallastoopid (or, Pin the Tail on the Funky) Parliament · Casablanca Records · 1979 140.220

3480 Budapest Live Manfred Mann’s Earth Band · Bronze · 1984 140.220