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 660

15817 O'Keefe Danny O’Keefe · Signpost Records · 1972 54.000

15818 Cactus Choir Dave Greenslade · Warner Bros. Records · 1976 54.000

15819 Rock’n’Country Freddy Fender · 1976 54.000

15820 Feel the Heat Henry Paul Band · Atlantic · 1980 54.000

15821 Black Pearl Pat Travers · Polydor · 1982 54.000

15822 Natalia Touré Kunda · Celluloid · 1985 54.000

15823 'Vorsprüng, Dürch, Techno' The Men From Del Bosca · Boscaland Recordings · 1993 54.000

15824 Kamienie Breakout · Polskie Nagrania “Muza” · 1974 54.000

15825 Blues Hit Big Town Junior Wells · Delmark Records · 1977 54.000

15826 Menergy Patrick Cowley · 1981 54.000

15827 Rainbow Brown Rainbow Brown · Vanguard · 1981 54.000

15828 Disc-Jockey Mix: Let's Go to the Mix Mike Platinas · Key Records International · 1986 54.000

15829 Князь тишины Nautilus Pompilius · 1988 54.000

15830

Twisted Into Form Forbidden · Under One Flag · 1990 54.000

15831 Patriot Games Gunshot · Vinyl Solution · 1993 54.000

15832 Noisembryo: Psycho‐Analytic Study of Coital Noise Posture Merzbow · The Releasing Eskimo · 1994 54.000

15833 Through Being Cool Saves the Day · Equal Vision Records · 1999 54.000

15834

Last Light Tor Lundvall · Strange Fortune · 2004 54.000

15835 Suspended Night Tomasz Stańko Quartet · ECM Records · 2004 54.000

15836 King of Jeans Pissed Jeans · Sub Pop Records · 2009 54.000

15837 Necro Acoustic Kevin Drumm · Pica Disk · 2010 54.000

15838 Aeolian Mode Alwoods · Altar Records · 2011 54.000

15839 Circuitous Afrikan Sciences · PAN · 2014 54.000

15840

Je suis malade Serge Lama · Philips · 1973 53.960