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 631

15121

Black Dots Bad Brains · Caroline Records · 1996 56.070

15122 Another Day at the Orifice Baby Mammoth · Pork Recordings · 1998 56.070

15123 Funeral Music for Perez Prado Nurse With Wound · United Dairies · 2001 56.070

15124 Mayasongs David Alvarado · Peacefrog Records · 2002 56.070

15125

Kinder des Lichtes Wappenbund · Greyland · 2004 56.070

15126

All About Eve PJ Harvey · 2019 56.070

15127 A New Way to Pay Old Debts Bill Orcutt · Palilalia Records · 2009 56.050

15128

Deconsecrated and Pure Alio Die · Projekt · 2012 56.050

15129 Téo & Téa Jean Michel Jarre · Aero Productions · 2007 56.000

15130 Artful Dodger Artful Dodger · Columbia · 1975 56.000

15131 Tragedy Strikes Abomination · Nuclear Blast · 1991 56.000

15132 W.F.O. Overkill · Atlantic · 1994 56.000

15133 The Golden Age Cracker · Virgin · 1996 56.000

15134 The World According to Gessle Per Gessle · Fundamental Records · 1997 56.000

15135 Old Nobody Blumfeld · Rough Trade · 1999 56.000

15136

Imperium Internum Von Thronstahl · Cold Spring · 2000 56.000

15137

Hurricane Bar Mando Diao · EMI Music Sweden AB · 2004 56.000

15138 The Way Out The Books · Temporary Residence Limited · 2010 56.000

15139 The Smoke The Smoke · Sidewalk Records · 1968 55.900

15140 Fourth Wall The Flying Lizards · Virgin · 1981 55.900

15141 Anywhere New Musik · Epic · 1981 55.900

15142 Carry On Bobby Caldwell · Polydor · 1982 55.900

15143 Sister Double Happiness Sister Double Happiness · SST Records · 1988 55.900

15144 In It for Life Extreme Noise Terror · Rhythm Vicar · 1989 55.900