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 206

4921 Steeltown Big Country · Mercury Records · 1984 115.500

4922

Demolition Judas Priest · Atlantic · 2001 115.440

4923 Human Conditions Richard Ashcroft · Hut Recordings · 2002 115.440

4924 Adventures in Utopia Utopia · Bearsville Records · 1980 115.440

4925

Blue Öyster Cult Blue Öyster Cult · CBS · 1972 115.370

4926 Where You Been Dinosaur Jr. · Sire Records · 1993 115.370

4927 Miss Machine The Dillinger Escape Plan · Relapse Records · 2004 115.370

4928 Insides Out Bohannon · EMI · 1975 115.340

4929

Junkyard Funk Peace Division · Low Pressings · 2000 115.340

4930

Modern Guilt Beck · DGC Records · 2008 115.340

4931 Maria Fumaça Banda Black Rio · Atlantic · 1977 115.313

4932 The Sunlandic Twins of Montreal · Polyvinyl · 2005 115.280

4933

Degenerate Vex’d · Planet Mu · 2005 115.280

4934 Descend Into Depravity Dying Fetus · Relapse Records · 2009 115.280

4935 By a Thread Gov’t Mule · Evil Teen Records · 2009 115.280

4936 River Terry Reid · Atlantic · 1973 115.240

4937 The Incredible Shrinking Dickies The Dickies · A&M Records · 1979 115.240

4938 Ordeals in Sound Vector · Planet Rhythm Records · 1994 115.240

4939 Chainsaw Dismemberment Mortician · Relapse Records · 1999 115.240

4940 Diana & Marvin Diana Ross · Motown · 1973 115.200

4941

Shangó Santana · CBS/Sony · 1982 115.200

4942 Planetary Invasion Midnight Star · Solar · 1984 115.200

4943 Music for Cats cEvin Key · Subconscious Communications · 1998 115.200

4944

Open the Gates Manilla Road · Black Dragon Records · 1985 115.200