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?

The full board · page 360

8617 Magic Fields X‐Perience · WEA Records · 1996 82.170

8618 Dreaming Apes Wolfsheim · Strange Ways Records · 1996 82.170

8619 Attila, Volume 1 Mina · PDU · 2001 82.170

8620 Solarized Ian Brown · Polydor · 2004 82.170

8621

Leave Your Sleep Natalie Merchant · Nonesuch · 2010 82.170

8622

Dreams and All That Stuff Leo Kottke · Capitol Records · 1974 82.160

8623

Low Ride Earl Klugh · Capitol Records · 1983 82.160

8624

Party Time? Kurtis Blow · Mercury Records · 1983 82.160

8625 Metropol Lunatic Calm · MCA Records · 1997 82.160

8626 At the Edge of Time Blind Guardian · Nuclear Blast · 2010 82.160

8627 Sweet Deceiver Kevin Ayers · Island · 1975 82.140

8628 Beaubourg Vangelis · RCA Victor · 1978 82.080

8629

Sound Elixir Nazareth · Vertigo · 1983 82.080

8630 Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply Slade · CBS · 1984 82.080

8631 Dark Days in Paradise Gary Moore · Virgin · 1997 82.080

8632 The Wirtschaftswunder The Wirtschaftswunder · Polydor · 1982 82.000

8633 False Accusations The Robert Cray Band · Mercury Records · 1985 82.000

8634 Ebbhead Nitzer Ebb · Mute · 1991 82.000

8635 Headware Logic Bomb · 2000 82.000

8636

Silence Sonata Arctica · Фоно · 2001 82.000

8637

Visions of Gandhi Jedi Mind Tricks · Babygrande · 2003 82.000

8638

Showtime Dizzee Rascal · XL Recordings · 2004 82.000

8639

24→24 Music Dinosaur L · Sleeping Bag Records · 1981 81.958

8640 Soma My Sleeping Karma · Napalm Records · 2012 81.958