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 676

16201 Small Change Tom Waits · Asylum Records · 1976 53.100

16202 One to One Syreeta · Tamla · 1977 53.100

16203 Pages Pages · Epic · 1978 53.100

16204 Contemporary Jeep Music Da King & I · Rowdy Records · 1993 53.100

16205 Blue Dirge The Beguiled · Crypt Records · 1994 53.100

16206 Tone Capsule Soul Oddity · Schematic · 1996 53.100

16207 From the 21st Jeff Mills · 1999 53.100

16208 Evolution Fight CYNE · City Centre Offices · 2005 53.100

16209 AW II Ataxia · Record Collection · 2007 53.100

16210 Shogun Trivium · Roadrunner Records · 2008 53.100

16211

Capri Celer · Humming Conch · 2009 53.100

16212 Capri (Expanded and Remastered) Celer · 2012 53.100

16213 Gimme Shelter Merry Clayton · 1970 53.070

16214 The American Revolution David Peel & The Lower East Side · Elektra · 1970 53.070

16215

The Genius of Bud Powell Bud Powell · Verve · 1976 53.070

16216 Hard Volume Rollins Band · Texas Hotel · 1989 53.070

16217 Infinity Within Deee‐Lite · Elektra · 1992 53.070

16218 Music 311 · Capricorn Records · 1993 53.070

16219 No Pain - No Game Dive · Discordia · 1994 53.070

16220 Ambushed Da Bush Babees · 1994 53.070

16221 Two Pages: Reinterpretations 4hero · Mercury Records · 1998 53.070

16222 The Eye That Never Sleeps Orgue Electronique · Bunker Records · 1999 53.070

16223 Fresh Produce Fink · Ntone · 2000 53.070

16224 Atlantis Ascendant Bal-Sagoth · Nuclear Blast · 2001 53.070