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

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64417 In Person Gregory Isaacs · 1974 12.428

64418 Live at the Cafe Carlyle George Shearing · Concord Jazz · 1984 12.428

64419 Das Kantatenwerk, Volume 6 Johann Sebastian Bach · TELDEC · 1985 12.428

64420 Aerial View Gamalon · MCA Records · 1990 12.428

64421 Shine Up & Other Great Hits Doris D. & the Pins · 1991 12.428

64422 L'opificio Officine Schwartz · Kom-Fut Manifesto · 1991 12.428

64423 Life Takes Too Long The Fireballs · 1994 12.428

64424 Veil of Tears Organum · Matchless Recordings · 1994 12.428

64425 Twenty-Two Hits of the Carpenters Carpenters · Polydor · 1995 12.428

64426 Caffeine Fifty Foot Combo · Drunkabilly Records · 2002 12.428

64427 The Rosary Sonatas Biber · harmonia mundi · 2004 12.428

64428 Meisterwerk Leichenzug · Hammerbund · 2004 12.428

64429 Vikalpa (分別) サイケアウツG · 2004 12.428

64430 By the Stream Darren Tate · Fungal · 2004 12.428

64431 Küsi eneselt Mess · 2004 12.428

64432 The Party Scene All Time Low · 2005 12.428

64433 Spots in the Sun Matt Shoemaker · The Helen Scarsdale Agency · 2007 12.428

64434 Me, but Perfect Engine7 · 2008 12.428

64435 Off Skeetaz · Proboscis · 2008 12.428

64436 The Chinchilla Album Uncle Outrage · 2008 12.428

64437 Completion of the Amphoras Table Heinrich Dressel · Strange Life Records · 2009 12.428

64438 This Is The Place Das Hobos · In Gute Hände · 2014 12.428

64439 Music Inspired by the Little Prince The Ryszard Kramarski Project · 2017 12.428

64440 Camille Prince · Paisley Park 12.428