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 1864

44713 Weltraumstaunen Weltraumstaunen · Nasoni Records · 1999 20.400

44714 Departure Can Wait Monomorph · Nature Records · 2000 20.400

44715 Inhuman Desecration · Copro Records · 2000 20.400

44716

Blessed Be The 69 Eyes · Gaga Goodies · 2000 20.400

44717 Fragments and Fractions Satanic Surfers · Bad Taste Records · 2000 20.400

44718

Eurotrash Zeromancer · Cleopatra Records · 2001 20.400

44719

Steal This Album! System of a Down · Columbia · 2002 20.400

44720 The Crystalline Address Kim Cascone · Sub Rosa · 2002 20.400

44721 Monument The Wounded · Cold Blood Industries · 2002 20.400

44722 Murder Death Kill Paganizer · Xtreem Music · 2003 20.400

44723 Once Upon Our Yesterdays Cornerstone · Massacre Records · 2003 20.400

44724 Revival of the Shittest Gang Gang Dance · The Social Registry · 2003 20.400

44725

La Vie privée de Zorg Zorg · Mole Listening Pearls · 2003 20.400

44726 Agonizing Journey Through The Burning Universe And Transcendental Ritual Of Transfiguration Anima Damnata · Pagan Records · 2003 20.400

44727 Nostra Глюк’oZa · Монолит Рекордс · 2003 20.400

44728

Love's Burial Ground Forgotten Tomb · Adipocere Records · 2004 20.400

44729 The Black Ravens Flew Again Veles · 2004 20.400

44730

Chiasmata Ian Boddy · DiN · 2004 20.400

44731 Where The Fun Starts Early In The Day Banzai Republic · Music for Dreams · 2004 20.400

44732 Olyckssyster Lisa Ekdahl · RCA · 2004 20.400

44733 Transhuman Cyanotic · Glitch Mode Recordings · 2005 20.400

44734 Get Right With the Man Van Zant · Columbia · 2005 20.400

44735 On My Way to Absence Damien Jurado · Secretly Canadian · 2005 20.400

44736 Harvest Ritual, Volume 1 Necrophagia · 2005 20.400