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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39721 Victory Larry Graham · Warner Bros. Records · 1983 23.460

39722 The Other Side of Life The Moody Blues · Polydor · 1986 23.460

39723 Baby Woman Naomi Campbell · Epic · 1994 23.460

39724 C4 Holymen · Digital Underground Recordings · 1999 23.460

39725 Blood Money Bobby Peru · 20/20 Vision · 2004 23.460

39726

Hardwired… to Self‐Destruct Metallica · Blackened · 2016 23.460

39727 Brainbloodvolume Ned’s Atomic Dustbin · Furtive Records · 1995 23.450

39728 Grand Bassam Zion Rock Alpha Blondy · EMI · 1996 23.450

39729 Social Dancing bis · V2 · 1999 23.450

39730 Nasty Little Thoughts Stroke 9 · Universal Records · 1999 23.450

39731 1812 Overture Tchaikovsky · Classics for Pleasure · 1970 23.430

39732 Terre de France Julien Clerc · 1974 23.430

39733 Apart From the Crowd Great Buildings · Columbia · 1981 23.430

39734 Bathhouse Betty Bette Midler · Warner Bros. Records · 1998 23.430

39735

Far From the Sun Amorphis · Virgin · 2003 23.430

39736

Superfiction Cold · Eleven Seven Music · 2011 23.430

39737 Sax à gogo James Last · Polydor · 1967 23.400

39738 Copperfields The Dillards · Elektra · 1970 23.400

39739 October Claire Hamill · Island · 1973 23.400

39740 I Just Came Home to Count the Memories John Anderson · Warner Bros. Records · 1981 23.400

39741 Lâchez les fauves Pierre Rapsat · Milan · 1982 23.400

39742 Uschi Brüning Uschi Brüning · AMIGA · 1982 23.400

39743 Inside Out Philip Bailey · Columbia · 1986 23.400

39744 Kev's Back (The Return of the Yobbo) Kevin Bloody Wilson · 1986 23.400