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 212

5065 Stone Sour Stone Sour · Roadrunner Records · 2002 113.600

5066 Audentity Klaus Schulze · Illuminated Records · 1983 113.520

5067

Karma Kamelot · Noise Records · 2001 113.520

5068 Fotheringay Fotheringay · Island · 1970 113.520

5069

Cosmic Truth The Undisputed Truth · 1975 113.520

5070 Buried Dreams Clock DVA · Wax Trax! Records · 1989 113.520

5071 Gemini Sven van Hees · Life Enhancing Audio · 1999 113.520

5072

printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n"); Venetian Snares · Isolate · 2000 113.520

5073 The Shining J Dilla · BBE · 2006 113.520

5074 Part Two: The Endless Not Throbbing Gristle · Mute · 2007 113.520

5075

Amesoeurs Amesoeurs · Code666 · 2009 113.520

5076 No Turning Back Calyx · Moving Shadow · 2005 113.460

5077 A Pagan Place The Waterboys · Ensign · 1984 113.400

5078

Wild Wood Paul Weller · Go! Discs · 1993 113.400

5079

Planet Punk Die Ärzte · Metronome · 1995 113.400

5080

Soulfly Soulfly · Roadrunner Records · 1998 113.400

5081

Scale Herbert · !K7 · 2006 113.400

5082 Diamonds in the Rough John Prine · Atlantic · 1972 113.400

5083 Star People Miles Davis · Columbia · 1983 113.400

5084

Exotic Mysteries Lonnie Liston Smith · Columbia · 1978 113.400

5085 Spiral Insana Nurse With Wound · Torso · 1986 113.400

5086 AmeriKKKa’s Nightmare Spice 1 · Jive · 1994 113.400

5087

Synergy Cosmosis · Transient Records · 1998 113.400

5088

Automne Fold Kangding Ray · Raster‐Noton · 2008 113.400