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

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37729 Ruff Life Brothers uv da Blakmarket · Select Records · 1992 24.650

37730 Sins of the Flesh Sister Machine Gun · Wax Trax! Records · 1993 24.650

37731 Veil Band of Susans · Restless Records · 1993 24.650

37732 Made in Japan Siniestro Total · Ariola · 1993 24.650

37733

Twice Removed Sloan · DGC Records · 1994 24.650

37734 Causal Collapse Seofon · Visible Records · 1994 24.650

37735 First Blood Ryker's · Lost and Found Records · 1995 24.650

37736 Extreme Paranoia in Stocktown Absent Minded · Polydor · 1996 24.650

37737 Accelerator Royal Trux · Drag City · 1998 24.650

37738 The Days of Our Nights Luna · Jericho · 1999 24.650

37739

Messenger Jimmy Little · Festival Records · 1999 24.650

37740 Eden Roc Ludovico Einaudi · Ricordi · 1999 24.650

37741 Pulsing Redlight/Reconstruct Pierrepoint · Pro Noize · 1999 24.650

37742 The Cooler Sound Track · Caipirinha Productions · 2000 24.650

37743 Prayers to the Protector Thupten Pema Lama · Celestial Harmonies · 2000 24.650

37744 Bullfrog Bullfrog · Ropeadope · 2001 24.650

37745 Helium Vola Helium Vola · Chrom Records · 2001 24.650

37746 Neural Dysorder Syndrome C-Drone-Defect · NoiTekk · 2001 24.650

37747 Endless Days Eberhard Weber · ECM Records · 2001 24.650

37748

Sobrenatural S-Tone Inc. · Schema Records · 2002 24.650

37749 Saint Mary of the Woods James McMurtry · Sugar Hill Records · 2002 24.650

37750

Seclusion Penumbra · Season of Mist · 2003 24.650

37751 This Needs to Be Your Style Donna Summer · 2003 24.650

37752 Red Headed Stranger Carla Bozulich · DiCristina Stair Builders · 2003 24.650