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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70825 Be a Vegetable Drive Blind · [PIAS] France · 1996 10.560

70826 Gedachte & Geheugen Lugubrum · 1997 10.560

70827 Lee Ann Womack Lee Ann Womack · MCA Records · 1997 10.560

70828 Born in the Delta Pinetop Perkins · Telarc Blues · 1997 10.560

70829 Tabula Rasa Arvo Pärt · 1997 10.560

70830 Pearls Before Swine Tribe After Tribe · Bullet Proof Records · 1997 10.560

70831 Juniperfin Silvania · 1997 10.560

70832 Cerrado Christina Rosenvinge · 1997 10.560

70833 Griff'n'Bags Johnny Griffin · 1997 10.560

70834

Buena Vista Social Club Buena Vista Social Club · Nonesuch · 1997 10.560

70835

The Passage Back to Life Ashes You Leave · Morbid Records · 1998 10.560

70836 Slice Up Your Wife Slapping Suspenders · Crazy Love Records · 1998 10.560

70837 Young and Full of the Devil Magic Dirt · Au Go Go · 1998 10.560

70838 Imagination Feels Like Poison Martyn Bates · Ambivalent Scale Recordings · 1998 10.560

70839 Statek kosmiczny Ścianka Ścianka · Biodro Records · 1998 10.560

70840 La cosa che non ha importanza Skruigners · Etichetta Punk · 1998 10.560

70841 Fool’s Parade Peter Wolf · Mercury Records · 1998 10.560

70842 Steel Vengeance Gladiators · Jolly Roger Records · 1998 10.560

70843 Protivofazza Gorky Park · Союз · 1998 10.560

70844 The Rise and Fall of... Brainwash Projects · Jackson/Rubio Entertainment · 1998 10.560

70845 Truth and Tragedy: Life in the Occupied Zone Mudoven · Tri-State Terror · 1998 10.560

70846 A Fact of the Matter Scarub · Heavenbound · 1999 10.560

70847 Friends & Enemies Fred Frith · Cuneiform Records · 1999 10.560

70848 Asteroid DJ Energy · 1999 10.560