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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71041 Pleasure Ground Prurient · 2006 10.483

71042

Combat Circus Talco · KOB Records · 2006 10.483

71043 Nobody Urged You to Get Canonised Catholic Boys in Heavy Leather · Pflichtkauf · 2007 10.483

71044 Sex pastels Gatillazo · Maldito Records · 2008 10.483

71045 Le streghe Piero Piccioni · Digitmovies · 2009 10.483

71046 Lawson Graham Factor · Fake Four Inc. · 2010 10.483

71047 Phenomedia Punish Yourself · Audiotrauma Records · 2010 10.483

71048 Lost Again on Waking Glacis · Fluid Audio · 2011 10.483

71049 In Trance JuJu · Real World · 2011 10.483

71050

Stories Textural Being · Cold Tear Records · 2012 10.483

71051 Slowfast Philippe Lamy · Dronarivm · 2012 10.483

71052 Abyssinia Afterlife Black Flower · Zephyrus · 2014 10.483

71053 Kuollut mies Köyhä Jonne · 2015 10.483

71054 Laughing Eye Laughing Eye · 2019 10.483

71055 Tiebreaker Ruby Haunt · 2020 10.483

71056 Sargo / Posidonia Sleep Research Facility · Cold Spring · 2023 10.483

71057 In the Temple of the Tyrant Behölder · Black Lion Records · 2025 10.483

71058 Nuestras raíces Orquesta Tentación 10.483

71059 New Maps of Hell God’s Little Monkeys · Cooking Vinyl · 1989 10.450

71060 Bastard Colin Newman · swim ~ · 1997 10.450

71061 Roamin' With Richardson Jerome Richardson · New Jazz · 1959 10.450

71062

The First Recordings Albert Ayler · Bird Notes · 1962 10.450

71063 Missa in tempore Belli Joseph Haydn · Deutsche Grammophon · 1964 10.450

71064 Sawan Belta Jaye Nirmala Devi · His Master’s Voice · 1966 10.450