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?

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77065 Op Zop Too Wah Adrian Belew · Discipline Global Mobile · 1996 9.000

77066 Where Will It End!? Julian Sas · 1996 9.000

77067 Wandatta Lio · wea music · 1996 9.000

77068

Richard D. James Album Aphex Twin · Warp · 1996 9.000

77069 Helioself Papas Fritas · Minty Fresh · 1997 9.000

77070 Entropia Pain of Salvation · AVALON · 1997 9.000

77071

Programmed to Respond Inertia · Khazad-Dûm · 1997 9.000

77072 After the Fall Mary Coughlan · Big Cat Records · 1997 9.000

77073 The World Despaires... Death Sentence · Leviathan Records · 1997 9.000

77074 Bruiser Queen Cake Like · Vapor Records · 1997 9.000

77075 Songs From Renaissance Days Renaissance · 1997 9.000

77076 Blindside Blindside · Tooth & Nail Records · 1997 9.000

77077 Easy Is a 4 Letter Word James Hardway · Shadow Records · 1998 9.000

77078 Cornerstone Richard X. Heyman · Permanent Press · 1998 9.000

77079 Legalize for Cannibalism / Sperman Purulent Spermcanal · Leviathan Records · 1998 9.000

77080

Protest and Survive Generation X-ED · Liberation & Ecstasy · 1998 9.000

77081 Elasticated Waveband Alpha Stone · Enraptured · 1998 9.000

77082 Conditioned Straight Faced · Epitaph · 1998 9.000

77083 Eat Shit Texas Terri & The Stiff Ones · Twenty Stone Blatt · 1998 9.000

77084 The Strength to Dream Warning · Cyclone Empire · 1999 9.000

77085 Clik! Corduroy · Big Cat Records · 1999 9.000

77086 Strange Weather Lately Astrid · Fantastic Plastic Records · 1999 9.000

77087 For John Cage Morton Feldman · hat[now]ART · 1999 9.000

77088 De Totem Lugubrum · 1999 9.000