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 187

4465 NY Muscle Hell · Motor Music · 2003 122.180

4466 Energy to Burn B.T. Express · Columbia · 1976 122.120

4467 Speechless Fred Frith · Ralph Records · 1981 122.120

4468 Absinthe: La Folie Verte Blood Axis · Athanor · 2002 122.120

4469 Rise Hamunaptra · Enzyme Records · 2006 122.120

4470

Happy Birthday Altered Images · Epic · 1981 122.100

4471 Hymns to the Silence Van Morrison · Polydor · 1991 122.010

4472 Widescreen RMB · Low Spirit Recordings · 1998 122.010

4473 Ravishing Grimness Darkthrone · Moonfog Productions · 1999 122.010

4474 Terje Rypdal Terje Rypdal · ECM Records · 1971 121.940

4475 Âme Âme · Sonar Kollektiv · 2004 121.940

4476 Wuzzelbud "KK" Robag Wruhme · Musik Krause · 2004 121.940

4477 Sleep’s Holy Mountain Sleep · Earache Records · 1992 121.930

4478 Live In Amsterdam Holy Ghost Inc. · Tresor · 1998 121.930

4479

Colours Circulation · Circulation · 2000 121.930

4480 Make It Last Forever Donna McGhee · 1978 121.830

4481 Deliquescence Swans · Young God Records · 2017 121.830

4482 Katharsis Czesław Niemen · Polskie Nagrania “Muza” · 1976 121.800

4483 The Track of the Hunted Der Blutharsch · 2000 121.800

4484

Versus the World Amon Amarth · Metal Blade Records · 2002 121.800

4485

We Are the Night The Chemical Brothers · Freestyle Dust · 2007 121.800

4486 Cluster II Cluster · Spalax Music · 1972 121.800

4487

Abandon Pharmakon · Sacred Bones Records · 2013 121.800

4488 Behind the Sun (2020 Anniversary mixes) Chicane · Modena Records · 2020 121.800