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 543

13009 Start the Machine Fu Manchu · DRT Entertainment · 2004 62.400

13010 Texas Gold Asleep at the Wheel · Capitol Records · 1975 62.370

13011 Vive le Rock Adam Ant · CBS · 1985 62.370

13012 Mad Not Mad Madness · Geffen Records · 1985 62.370

13013

How to Make Friends and Influence People Terrorvision · EMI · 1994 62.370

13014 Unholy Terror W.A.S.P. · Metal-is Records · 2001 62.370

13015 Human Nitin Sawhney · V2 · 2003 62.370

13016 Filth Venetian Snares · Planet Mu · 2009 62.370

13017

Forevermore Whitesnake · Frontiers Records · 2011 62.370

13018 Dirty Water The Standells · Tower · 1966 62.370

13019 Black Widow Black Widow · 1971 62.370

13020 Sunday's Child John Martyn · Island · 1975 62.370

13021

Colonial Man Hugh Masekela · Casablanca Records · 1976 62.370

13022 The Wonderful World of Wreckless Eric Wreckless Eric · Stiff Records · 1978 62.370

13023 Mont Klamott Silly · AMIGA · 1983 62.370

13024 #7 George Strait · MCA Records · 1986 62.370

13025 Impurity New Model Army · EMI · 1990 62.370

13026 Brigade Heart · Capitol Records · 1990 62.370

13027 True at Heart Doro · Vertigo · 1991 62.370

13028 I Say I Say I Say Erasure · Mute · 1994 62.370

13029 Red Air Liquide · Sm:)e Communications · 1995 62.370

13030 Booth and the Bad Angel Booth and the Bad Angel · Mercury Records · 1996 62.370

13031

Maverick a Strike Finley Quaye · Epic · 1997 62.370

13032

Daisies of the Galaxy EELS · DreamWorks Records · 1999 62.370