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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37609 Carioca Azymuth · Milestone · 1989 24.800

37610 Orgasmic Nightmare Demented Are Go! · Fury Records · 1991 24.800

37611 Echoes Gene Clark · Columbia · 1991 24.800

37612 Calor Julio Iglesias · Columbia · 1992 24.800

37613 One Night Stand Casanova · wea · 1992 24.800

37614 Love & Liberté Gipsy Kings · Columbia · 1993 24.800

37615 Only What I Feel Patty Loveless · Epic · 1993 24.800

37616 Here Adrian Belew · Caroline Records · 1994 24.800

37617 Big Girl Candy Dulfer · Ariola · 1995 24.800

37618 To Rock or Not to Be Krokus · Phonag Records · 1995 24.800

37619 Teeth & Tissue Headstones · MCA Records · 1995 24.800

37620 It's Love The Softies · K · 1995 24.800

37621 Sursum Luna Funeral Oration · Avantgarde Music · 1996 24.800

37622

The Plutonium Cathedral Vacuum · Stockholm Records · 1997 24.800

37623 Acetone Acetone · Vapor Records · 1997 24.800

37624 Designed Memories Cleen · Zoth Ommog · 1997 24.800

37625 Active Minds / Petrograd Active Minds · Sacro K-Baalismo · 1998 24.800

37626 Livin' Every Day Walter Trout & The Free Radicals · Ruf · 1999 24.800

37627 Dumb Bass Saman-g · 541 · 2001 24.800

37628

Fleurs 3 Franco Battiato · Columbia · 2002 24.800

37629 Random Future Bamboo Forest · Flying Rhino Records · 2002 24.800

37630 Sapphire Blue Larry Carlton · JVC · 2003 24.800

37631

X&Y Coldplay · Parlophone · 2005 24.800

37632

Entre ciment et belle étoile Keny Arkana · Because Music · 2006 24.800