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 189

4513 The Guilty Have No Pride Death in June · New European Recordings · 1983 121.440

4514 Vasco Ricardo Villalobos · Perlon · 2008 121.440

4515 Loosing sleep Club Royale 121.440

4516 Cheech & Chong’s Wedding Album Cheech & Chong · Ode Records · 1974 121.360

4517 Bedside Manners Are Extra Greenslade · Warner Bros. Records · 1973 121.360

4518 Bent Out of Shape Rainbow · Polydor · 1983 121.360

4519

Like Weather Leila · Rephlex · 1998 121.360

4520 Love Is All Around The Troggs · Fontana · 1968 121.260

4521 Ma Rare Earth · Rare Earth · 1973 121.260

4522 Wildlife on One Art of Trance · Platipus · 1996 121.260

4523 Dialogue of the Speakers Entheogenic · Universal Symbiosis Records · 2005 121.260

4524 I Want to Live John Denver · RCA · 1987 121.180

4525 Love Will Find a Way Pharoah Sanders · Arista · 1978 121.180

4526

Musicology Prince · NPG Records · 2004 121.180

4527 Kraan Kraan · Intercord · 1972 121.040

4528

Outubro Azymuth · Milestone · 1980 121.040

4529 I Often Dream of Trains Robyn Hitchcock · Midnight Music · 1984 121.040

4530

White Light White Heat White Trash Social Distortion · 550 Music · 1996 121.040

4531

Black Elvis / Lost in Space Kool Keith · Ruffhouse Records · 1999 121.040

4532 Perpetuum Mobile Einstürzende Neubauten · Mute · 2004 121.040

4533 Something Borrowed, Something Blue Deadbeat · ~scape · 2004 121.040

4534 Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill Grouper · Type · 2008 121.040

4535 Road to Freedom Young Disciples · Talkin’ Loud · 1991 121.030

4536 Cassandra's Nightmare Xenomorph · Koyote Records · 1998 121.030