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 413

9889 Progressive Trance Indoor · MCA Records · 1995 75.330

9890 If I Should Love Again Barry Manilow · Arista · 1981 75.260

9891 Girls With Guns Tommy Shaw · A&M Records · 1984 75.260

9892 The Missing Piece Gentle Giant · Chrysalis · 1977 75.240

9893 Citadel Starcastle · Epic · 1978 75.240

9894 Congregation The Afghan Whigs · Sub Pop Records · 1992 75.240

9895 Banba Clannad · Atlantic · 1993 75.240

9896 Stars Cher · Warner Bros. Records · 1975 75.200

9897 Go to Heaven Grateful Dead · Arista · 1980 75.200

9898 Buona fortuna Pooh · CGD · 1981 75.200

9899 Sheffield Steel Joe Cocker · Island · 1982 75.200

9900 Black Jesus Voice Richard H. Kirk · Rough Trade · 1986 75.200

9901

Worlds Neuroses Living Death · AAARRG Records · 1989 75.200

9902 About Time Pennywise · Epitaph · 1995 75.200

9903 The Future's Right Now Space Tribe · Spirit Zone Recordings · 1998 75.200

9904 Pretty in Black The Raveonettes · Columbia · 2005 75.200

9905 Generator Aborym · Season of Mist · 2006 75.200

9906

A Sun That Never Sets Neurosis · Howling Bull Records · 2001 75.200

9907 A Lost Era in NYC 87-92 Bobby Konders · International Deejay Gigolo Records · 2002 75.200

9908 100% Syntetika Syntetika · Shaped Harmonics · 2002 75.200

9909 The Studio Albums 1992–2011 Dream Theater · Warner Music · 2014 75.200

9910 Ride a Rock Horse Roger Daltrey · Castle Music · 1975 75.190

9911 Outside the Gate Killing Joke · E’G · 1988 75.190

9912 Nobody but Me The Human Beinz · Capitol Records · 1968 75.050