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 650

15577 The Source Grandmaster Flash · Elektra · 1986 54.670

15578 Perfect Machine Herbie Hancock · Columbia · 1988 54.670

15579 Contradictions Collapse Meshuggah · Nuclear Blast · 1991 54.670

15580 Defekt Oomph! · Dynamica · 1995 54.670

15581 Saints & Sinners All Saints · London Records · 2000 54.670

15582

Genetic World Télépopmusik · EMI · 2001 54.670

15583 Another Place Another Time Jerry Lee Lewis · Smash Records · 1968 54.600

15584 Ekseption 3 Ekseption · Philips · 1970 54.600

15585 Be What You Want To Link Wray · Polydor · 1973 54.600

15586 Farther Along Spirit · Mercury Records · 1976 54.600

15587 Where Do We Begin Made in Sweden · Polydor · 1976 54.600

15588 Suite for Violin and Jazz Piano Claude Bolling · CBS Records Masterworks · 1978 54.600

15589 Clean Edwin Starr · 20th Century Records · 1978 54.600

15590 Urgentissimo Banco del Mutuo Soccorso · CBS · 1980 54.600

15591

Opium KMFDM · 1984 54.600

15592 Nothing Wrong Red Lorry Yellow Lorry · RCA · 1988 54.600

15593 The Language of Life Everything but the Girl · Blanco y Negro Records · 1990 54.600

15594 Pull Winger · Atlantic · 1993 54.600

15595 THE LAW Is an Anagram of WEALTH Anne Clark · SPV Recordings · 1993 54.600

15596

Idiots savants Arno · Delabel · 1993 54.600

15597 The Explorer E-Type · Prime Cut · 1996 54.600

15598 Let Us Prey Electric Wizard · Rise Above Records · 2002 54.600

15599 Marathon Saga · Steamhammer · 2003 54.600

15600 Into the Blue Again The Album Leaf · Sub Pop Records · 2006 54.600