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?

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17377 Exilarch Conjure One · Nettwerk · 2010 50.400

17378

93 Million Miles Africa HiTech · Warp · 2011 50.400

17379

W.A.R. (We Are Renegades) Pharoahe Monch · Duck Down · 2011 50.400

17380 Original Album Series The Electric Prunes · Rhino · 2013 50.400

17381 Sound of Joy Sun Ra and the Arkestra · Delmark Records · 1968 50.400

17382 Did You Give the World Some Love Today, Baby Doris · EMI Music Sweden AB · 1970 50.400

17383 Tjader Cal Tjader · Fantasy · 1971 50.400

17384 Mutantes e seus cometas no país do baurets Os Mutantes · Polydor · 1972 50.400

17385 El patio Triana · Movieplay · 1975 50.400

17386 The Cecil Taylor Unit Cecil Taylor · 1978 50.400

17387 Air Lore Air · Arista Novus · 1979 50.400

17388 Better Luck The Plugz · Fatima Recordz · 1981 50.400

17389 The Revolution Starts at Closing Time Serious Drinking · Upright Records · 1983 50.400

17390

Electro-Soma B12 · Warp · 1993 50.400

17391 Black in Mind Rage · GUN Records · 1995 50.400

17392 Inna Heights Buju Banton · Penthouse Records · 1997 50.400

17393 Naturalist Naturalist · Rather Interesting · 1998 50.400

17394 Axxess & Ace Songs: Ohia · Secretly Canadian · 1999 50.400

17395 Leben Azad · 2001 50.400

17396 Church of the Ghetto P.C. o9 · Schematic · 2004 50.400

17397 Witam was w rzeczywistosci WWO · Prosto. · 2005 50.400

17398 Cult Copy Aardvarck · 2005 50.400

17399 Define the Great Line Underoath · Tooth & Nail Records · 2006 50.400

17400

Bonkers 16: Maximum Hardcore Energy! Hixxy · Resist Music · 2006 50.400