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?

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34897 Goin’ West Grant Green · Blue Note · 1969 26.700

34898 An Evening With Dando Shaft Dando Shaft · Young Blood · 1970 26.700

34899 שבלול אריק איינשטיין · פונודור · 1970 26.700

34900 The Psyche Revolutionary Ensemble · RE: Records · 1975 26.700

34901

Fogarty's Cove Stan Rogers · Fogarty’s Cove Music · 1976 26.700

34902 Île de fièvre Shylock · CBS · 1978 26.700

34903 November Cotton Flower Marion Brown · Baystate · 1979 26.700

34904 Piano Solos of Erik Satie Bill Quist · Windham Hill Records · 1979 26.700

34905 NATURAL WOMAN 清野由美 · BLOW UP · 1981 26.700

34906 Pokvarena mašta i prljave strasti Riblja čorba · PGP-RTB · 1981 26.700

34907 Τρύπες Τρύπες · Ano-Kato Records · 1985 26.700

34908 Days of Deformity The Grinning Plowman · Carlyle Records · 1987 26.700

34909 Zwijnen Bij Candlelight Boegies · Top Hole Records · 1988 26.700

34910 Between Happiness and Heartache Breathless · 1991 26.700

34911 The Album Shades of Rhythm · ZTT · 1992 26.700

34912 Under My Skin I Am Laughing Earwig · 1992 26.700

34913 Spoonfed Hybrid Spoonfed Hybrid · Guernica · 1993 26.700

34914 Borreroak baditu milaka aurpegi Negu Gorriak · Esan Ozenki Records · 1993 26.700

34915 It's My Loving Thing CB Milton · Byte Records · 1994 26.700

34916 Genocide & Juice The Coup · Wild Pitch Records · 1994 26.700

34917 Unisex Blueboy · Sarah Records · 1994 26.700

34918 Mustaches Wild Karp · K · 1994 26.700

34919 Doomsday Boo‐Yaa T.R.I.B.E. · Bullet Proof Records · 1994 26.700

34920 Tribe Sadist · Nosferatu Records · 1995 26.700