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?

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62713 Anno Aspera: 2003 Years After Bastard's Birth Barathrum · Spinefarm Records · 2005 12.920

62714 Black Cat John Brown Alamo Race Track · Excelsior Recordings · 2006 12.920

62715 Retroglide Level 42 · 2006 12.920

62716 Made Within the Upper Stairs of Heaven Sasse · 2006 12.920

62717 Passing Stranger Scott Matthews · Universal Island Records · 2006 12.920

62718

Street Gospels Bedouin Soundclash · SideOneDummy Records · 2007 12.920

62719 New Revelation Astral Doors · Locomotive Records · 2007 12.920

62720 Little Kingdom Citay · Dead Oceans · 2007 12.920

62721

Tempo Tempo blackmail · City Slang · 2008 12.920

62722 Weird Machine Treponem Pal · Listenable Records · 2008 12.920

62723 The Colourful Life Cajun Dance Party · XL Recordings · 2008 12.920

62724

The Knot Wye Oak · Merge Records · 2009 12.920

62725 Origin:Orphan The Hidden Cameras · Arts & Crafts · 2009 12.920

62726 Mind Chaos Hockey · EMI · 2009 12.920

62727 Cutting the Edge Chicks on Speed · Chicks on Speed Records · 2009 12.920

62728 Jigsaw Lady Sovereign · Midget Records · 2009 12.920

62729 ...A Splendid Chaos Coram Lethe · Punishment 18 Records · 2009 12.920

62730 Endzeit Metropolis Ketzer · Iron Bonehead Productions · 2012 12.920

62731 Wilde Winter Songbook Kim Wilde · Wildeflower Records · 2013 12.920

62732 Interzone Trümmer · [PIAS] · 2016 12.920

62733

Illmatic Nas · Columbia · 1994 12.900

62734 ¿Got Cock? Revolting Cocks · 13th Planet Records · 2010 12.880

62735 Rockin’ & Driftin’ The Drifters · Atlantic · 1958 12.880

62736

Love at First Sting Scorpions · Mercury Records · 1984 12.880