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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69265 Cool Water Maxmillion Dunbar · Ramp Recordings · 2010 11.050

69266 Pieces of a Real Heart Sanctus Real · Sparrow Records · 2010 11.050

69267

Empire Madball · Nuclear Blast · 2010 11.050

69268 The Wants The Phantom Band · Chemikal Underground · 2010 11.050

69269

TRON: Legacy Daft Punk · Walt Disney Records · 2010 11.050

69270 Manannán Mael Mórdha · 2010 11.050

69271 Warghosts Bomshot · Clear Label Records · 2010 11.050

69272

War Horse John Williams · Sony Classical · 2011 11.050

69273

Adalita Adalita · Liberation Music · 2011 11.050

69274 The Transhuman Condition Encephalon · Artoffact Records · 2011 11.050

69275 Capricorn Orchid · The Church Within Records · 2011 11.050

69276 Applied Structure in a Void Die Sektor · Deathwatch Asia · 2011 11.050

69277 A Cradle in the Bowery Matt Christensen · Under the Spire · 2011 11.050

69278 Folk Tale Christy Moore · Sony Music · 2011 11.050

69279 Welcome Abroad People Like Us · 2011 11.050

69280 Irreversible Pneumatic Detach · 2012 11.050

69281 Welcome to Pussyville Pitbullfarm · 2012 11.050

69282 Strix: Maledictae in aeternum Opera IX · Agonia Records · 2012 11.050

69283 Forty Eight Hours Yan Wagner · Pschent · 2012 11.050

69284 Love Is the Movement Yarah Bravo · Duzz Down San · 2014 11.050

69285 Inner Dialog Jérôme Chassagnard · Hymen Records · 2014 11.050

69286 Mare Nostrum II Paolo Fresu · ACT · 2016 11.050

69287 Rivages Jean-Louis Matinier · ECM Records · 2020 11.050

69288 Blockbuster La La Love You · Subterfuge Records · 2023 11.050