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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87121 How Will You? Azita · Drag City · 2009 6.840

87122 Ye Viols! Lithops · Thrill Jockey · 2009 6.840

87123 Juju Claudius The Chatham Singers · Damaged Goods · 2009 6.840

87124 Steel City Trawler Luke Doucet and The White Falcon · Six Shooter Records · 2010 6.840

87125 Delay Trees Delay Trees · Pyramid · 2010 6.840

87126 Year One The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion · 2010 6.840

87127 It’s Here カヒミ・カリィ · Victor · 2010 6.840

87128 Shore Obsessed Soft Circle · Post Present Medium · 2010 6.840

87129

It’s a Sonic Life Rusconi · Sony Classical · 2010 6.840

87130

Alive Ed Kowalczyk · earMUSIC · 2010 6.840

87131

Anti‐Gravity The Blue Aeroplanes · Art Star · 2011 6.840

87132 Mindset The Necks · Fish of Milk · 2011 6.840

87133 Fuerteventura Russian Red · Octubre · 2011 6.840

87134 White Wilderness John Vanderslice · Dead Oceans · 2011 6.840

87135 A Holiday Carole Carole King · Hear Music · 2011 6.840

87136 Together Talvin Singh · World Village · 2011 6.840

87137 Ewig Eisblume · B1 Recordings · 2012 6.840

87138

The Ringmaster General Dave Stewart · 2012 6.840

87139

An Awesome Wave alt‐J · Infectious Music · 2012 6.840

87140 Skin Panic Room · Esoteric Antenna · 2012 6.840

87141

Sapessi dire no Biagio Antonacci · 2012 6.840

87142 Plusminus Automat · 2015 6.840

87143 Licht und Schatten Rantanplan · 2017 6.840

87144 Better Than the Rest Robert Tepper · 2019 6.840