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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38521 Portrait Gwen Guthrie · Island · 1983 24.080

38522 Harmonium John Adams · ECM New Series · 1984 24.080

38523 Keep Your Cool and Read the Rules Plan 9 · 1985 24.080

38524 Oggi Fausto Papetti · CBS · 1985 24.080

38525 Stay Ugly Piledriver · Cobra Records · 1986 24.080

38526 Box Office Bomb Dramarama · 1987 24.080

38527 Pick Hits Live John Scofield Band · Gramavision · 1987 24.080

38528 Hard Machine Stacey Q · Atlantic · 1988 24.080

38529 Slow Dance Anthony Phillips · Virgin · 1990 24.080

38530 Second Verses Drunks With Guns · Intellectual Convulsion · 1990 24.080

38531 Electric Angels Electric Angels · Atlantic · 1990 24.080

38532 Drives Igra Staklenih Perli · 1991 24.080

38533 Reflections of the Solstice Goatlord · JL America · 1991 24.080

38534 Continuous Celebrate the Nun · Westside Music · 1991 24.080

38535 The Feast Begins at Dawn Dead Head · Bad Taste Recordings · 1991 24.080

38536 The Life of Riley The A-Bones · Norton Records · 1991 24.080

38537 Sven Gali Sven Gali · Ariola · 1992 24.080

38538

Powertool Sleeze Beez · Atlantic · 1992 24.080

38539

Bleeding Star The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience · Matador · 1993 24.080

38540 Verba manent Frankie Hi-NRG MC · RCA · 1993 24.080

38541 Great Sporting Moments in Dub! Zion Train · Universal Egg · 1993 24.080

38542 Magnetized Light Nocturnal Emissions · Musica Maxima Magnetica · 1993 24.080

38543 Fairytales of Slavery Miranda Sex Garden · Mute · 1994 24.080

38544

Come to Grief Grief · Century Media · 1994 24.080