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?

The full board · page 177

4225 Eroc 3 Eroc · Vertigo Berlin · 1979 125.610

4226 Power Kansas · MCA Records · 1986 125.610

4227 Summer Make Good múm · FatCat Records · 2004 125.610

4228

Stormblåst Dimmu Borgir · Nuclear Blast · 2005 125.610

4229 The Information Beck · Interscope Records · 2006 125.610

4230 Life & Times Billy Cobham · Atlantic · 1976 125.600

4231 Ready for the World Ready for the World · MCA Records · 1985 125.600

4232

Reality Killed the Video Star Robbie Williams · Virgin · 2009 125.580

4233 Conference of the Birds David Holland Quartet · ECM Records · 1973 125.580

4234 The Pavilion of Dreams Harold Budd · Obscure · 1978 125.580

4235

Nature Unveiled Current 93 · L.A.Y.L.A.H. Antirecords · 1984 125.580

4236 Go Hawaii Casino Versus Japan · Wobblyhead · 2000 125.580

4237 Spontaneous Illumination Entheogenic · Universal Symbiosis Records · 2003 125.580

4238 The Visitor Jim O’Rourke · Drag City · 2009 125.580

4239

Born Again Randy Newman · Warner Bros. Records · 1979 125.560

4240 ATF After the Fire · Epic · 1982 125.560

4241

Nuclear Furniture Jefferson Starship · Grunt · 1984 125.560

4242 Come Prince · Warner Bros. Records · 1994 125.560

4243

Small Craft on a Milk Sea Brian Eno · Warp · 2010 125.550

4244 Samurai Math Beats Bogdan Raczynski · Rephlex · 1999 125.550

4245

Sungrazer Sungrazer · Elektrohasch Records · 2010 125.550

4246

Lite Me Up Herbie Hancock · CBS · 1982 125.510

4247

Postcards From a Young Man Manic Street Preachers · Columbia · 2010 125.510

4248 Volume 2 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band · 1967 125.490