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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83089 The Way of the World Mose Allison · Anti‐ · 2010 7.600

83090 Masts of Manhatta Tracy Bonham · Engine Room Recordings · 2010 7.600

83091 Stuck on Nothing Free Energy · Astralwerks · 2010 7.600

83092

Shit Happens Raga Rockers · EMI · 2010 7.600

83093 Wreckorder Fran Healy · 2010 7.600

83094

Mundial Daddy Yankee · Craft Recordings Latino · 2010 7.600

83095

Mute Demians · Inside Out Music · 2010 7.600

83096 Rhizomes Effi Briest · Sacred Bones Records · 2010 7.600

83097 Many Colored Kite Mark Olson · 2011 7.600

83098

Rayman Origins: Original Soundtrack Christophe Héral · 2011 7.600

83099 The Descent Demonic Death Judge · Inverse Records · 2011 7.600

83100

4th Street Feeling Melissa Etheridge · Island · 2012 7.600

83101 Encore DJ Snake · Interscope Records · 2016 7.600

83102 Perpetual Blackness The Fog · Memento Mori · 2016 7.600

83103 Digital Contact Kanabis The Edit Assassin 7.600

83104 George Benson George Benson 7.600

83105 The Voice of Audrey Morris Audrey Morris · Bethlehem Records · 1956 7.600

83106 Tjader Plays Mambo Cal Tjader · Fantasy · 1956 7.600

83107 Folksongs and Instrumentals With Guitar Elizabeth Cotten · Folkways Records · 1958 7.600

83108 The Alegre All Stars Alegre All Stars · Alegre Records · 1961 7.600

83109 Gospel Time Ruth Brown · Philips · 1962 7.600

83110 Bouncing with Bud Bud Powell · Dreyfus Jazz · 1962 7.600

83111 Trouble Is a Lonesome Town Lee Hazlewood · Mercury Records · 1963 7.600

83112 Fearless Frank Foster Frank Foster · Prestige · 1966 7.600