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 695

16657 Two Bugs and a Roach Earl Hooker · Arhoolie · 1969 51.920

16658 Love Call Ornette Coleman · Blue Note · 1971 51.920

16659 World Trade Jeff & Jane Hudson · Infidelity · 1981 51.920

16660 Fortune Fortune · MCA Records · 1986 51.920

16661 Impulse to Destroy Blood · Wild Rags Records · 1989 51.920

16662

No Pocky for Kitty Superchunk · Matador · 1991 51.920

16663 Dreams for the Dying Shadow Project · Triple X Records · 1992 51.920

16664 Dream U. Srinivas · Caroline Records · 1995 51.920

16665 Renevolution MC Rene · 1995 51.920

16666 The Lost Generation Shyheim · No̅o̅ Trybe · 1996 51.920

16667 Basic Blaze Blaze · Slip ’n’ Slide · 1997 51.920

16668 Spacelines Nodens Ictus · Original Masters · 2000 51.920

16669 Contemporary Movement Duster · Up Records · 2000 51.920

16670 Emuna Emuna · YoYo Records · 2000 51.920

16671 13 & God 13 & God · Alien Transistor · 2005 51.920

16672 La Radiolina Manu Chao · Because Music · 2007 51.920

16673

Ode to the Ghetto Guilty Simpson · Stones Throw Records · 2008 51.920

16674

K.O.D. Tech N9ne · Strange Music · 2009 51.920

16675 It's Smoke Time The Smoke · Metronome · 1967 51.870

16676

Toward the Blues Chain · Infinity · 1971 51.870

16677 Bulldozer Bulldozer · RCA Victor · 1978 51.870

16678 Guerreira Clara Nunes · Odeon · 1978 51.870

16679 Just Ain't Good Enough Johnnie Taylor · Beverly Glen Music · 1982 51.870

16680 Ek-Tunkul Jorge Reyes · Grabaciones Lejos del Paraíso · 1983 51.870