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 287

6865 Musa: Ancestral Streams Stanley Cowell · Strata-East · 1974 94.860

6866 Star Peace Droids · Barclay · 1978 94.860

6867 A New Chapter of Dub Aswad · Island · 1982 94.860

6868

Walls Apparat · Shitkatapult · 2007 94.860

6869 Inland Pyrolator · Warning Records · 1979 94.830

6870 Codona 2 Codona · ECM Records · 1981 94.830

6871 A Word of Science: The 1st & Final Chapter Nightmares on Wax · Warp · 1991 94.830

6872

An Evil Shade of Grey Cemetary · Black Mark · 1992 94.830

6873 Lord Willin’ Clipse · Star Trak · 2002 94.830

6874

Bullinamingvase Roy Harper · Harvest · 1977 94.800

6875 From Me to You George Duke · Epic · 1977 94.800

6876

Tenacious D Tenacious D · Epic · 2001 94.800

6877 Elysian Encounter Baker Gurvitz Army · ATCO Records · 1975 94.770

6878 Streetheart Streetheart · Capitol Records · 1982 94.770

6879 Force Fed Prong · Relativity Records · 1988 94.770

6880 The Very Best of Rainbow Rainbow · Polydor · 1997 94.770

6881

Band of Joy Robert Plant · Es Paranza · 2010 94.770

6882 Keine Macht für Niemand Ton Steine Scherben · David Volksmund Produktion · 1972 94.760

6883 Homotopy to Marie Nurse With Wound · United Dairies · 1981 94.760

6884 Witchcraft Obtained Enslavement · Wounded Love Records · 1997 94.760

6885 Diamond Daze Pantha du Prince · Dial · 2004 94.760

6886 BAP rockt andere kölsche Leeder Wolfgang Niedecken’s BAP · Eigelstein Musikproduktion · 1979 94.720

6887

Go Away White Bauhaus · Imperial Records · 2008 94.720

6888

Hollywood Véronique Sanson · Parlophone France · 1977 94.710