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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38545 Designer Time Reptilicus · Soleilmoon Recordings · 1994 24.080

38546 Clockseed Vampire Rodents · 1994 24.080

38547 Lies Krabathor · Morbid Records · 1995 24.080

38548 Big Easy Fantasy Willy DeVille · 1995 24.080

38549 This Is My First Album Kwest Tha Madd Lad · American Recordings · 1996 24.080

38550 Cold as Ever Ice‐T · Blue Dolphin Entertainment Corp. · 1996 24.080

38551 Fuck the World Driller Killer · Kron-H · 1997 24.080

38552 Kontiki Cotton Mather · Copper Records · 1997 24.080

38553 The Comrads Comrads · Street Life · 1997 24.080

38554 Hopeless Hopes Martyr · Relapse Records · 1997 24.080

38555 Breaking the Ethers Tuatara · Epic · 1997 24.080

38556 Yang-Tul Andrew Chalk · Cold Spring · 1998 24.080

38557 Live at Winterland ’76 Electric Light Orchestra · Eagle Records · 1998 24.080

38558

Fettes Brot lässt grüßen Fettes Brot · Intercord · 1998 24.080

38559 Who Dares Wins Bolt Thrower · Earache Records · 1998 24.080

38560 Moments of Bloom Diary of Dreams · Accession Records · 1999 24.080

38561 Distant Pulses Negative Format · 2000 24.080

38562 If I Could Tell You Yanni · Virgin · 2000 24.080

38563 Are You Afraid of the Dark The Headbanger · Megarave Records · 2001 24.080

38564 The Chicago Sensation Stacy Kidd · Tilted Records · 2001 24.080

38565 An Un World Andrew Liles · Infraction · 2001 24.080

38566 The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg To Live and Shave in L.A. · Menlo Park Recordings · 2002 24.080

38567 Paradize Indochine · Columbia · 2002 24.080

38568 More Cuts for You in Zero 2 The Shocks · Dirty Faces · 2002 24.080