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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7777 Wolverine Blues Entombed · Earache Records · 1993 87.550

7778

Echo Vibrasphere · 2000 87.550

7779 if_then_else The Gathering · Century Media · 2000 87.550

7780 Electroretard Melvins · 2001 87.550

7781 Strife Desiderii Marginis · Cold Meat Industry · 2004 87.550

7782

Beat Konducta, Volume 1 & 2: Movie Scenes Madlib · Stones Throw Records · 2006 87.550

7783

My Maudlin Career Camera Obscura · 4AD · 2009 87.550

7784 Mirror Graham Central Station · Warner Bros. Records · 1976 87.480

7785 Organized Con Funk Shun Con Funk Shun · Pickwick · 1978 87.480

7786 Open Mind Jean‐Luc Ponty · Atlantic · 1984 87.480

7787 Dial Hard Gotthard · Ariola · 1993 87.480

7788

Clawfinger Clawfinger · wea · 1997 87.480

7789 Metalhead Saxon · Steamhammer · 1999 87.480

7790 When Vincent Gallo · Warp · 2001 87.480

7791 Headphoneasy Rider Baby Ford · Black Market International · 1997 87.420

7792 Pale Ravine Deaf Center · Type · 2005 87.420

7793

The Lonely Bull Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass · A&M Records · 1962 87.400

7794 Tonårsdrömmar Noice · Sonet · 1979 87.400

7795 Blue and Gray Poco · MCA Records · 1981 87.400

7796 I Am Not a Doctor Moloko · Echo · 1998 87.400

7797 For the Sake of the Song Townes Van Zandt · Poppy · 1968 87.400

7798

World Galaxy Alice Coltrane · impulse! · 1972 87.400

7799 L'espionne aimait la musique Moderne · Arabella · 1981 87.400

7800 Cosmology Cosmosis · Transient Records · 1996 87.400