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 757

18145 From Wisdom to Hate Gorguts · Season of Mist · 2001 48.720

18146 Sueños Ataraxia · Cruel Moon International · 2001 48.720

18147 Gronibard Gronibard · Bones Brigade · 2001 48.720

18148 Special Edition Infamous Mobb · Landspeed Records · 2002 48.720

18149 Effloresce Oceansize · Beggars Banquet · 2003 48.720

18150 Album Mokira · Type · 2004 48.720

18151 The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions Chicken Shack · Columbia · 2005 48.720

18152 Fires in Distant Buildings Gravenhurst · Warp · 2005 48.720

18153 Close as You Get Gary Moore · Eagle Records · 2007 48.720

18154

Touch Yello Yello · Polydor · 2009 48.720

18155 Thoughts Become Things Dakota · Armada Music · 2009 48.720

18156 I, Vigilante Crippled Black Phoenix · Kscope · 2010 48.720

18157 Medicine Show No. 5: History of the Loop Digga: 1990-2000 Madlib · 2010 48.720

18158 Gorilla Rose Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds · In the Red Records · 2011 48.720

18159

Silverthorn Kamelot · Steamhammer · 2012 48.720

18160 Do You See What I See? The Bar‐Kays · Volt · 1972 48.640

18161 Preservation Act 2 The Kinks · RCA Victor · 1974 48.640

18162 It Looks Like Snow Phoebe Snow · Columbia · 1976 48.640

18163

Far Beyond the World Ten · Frontiers Records · 2001 48.640

18164

Life, Love and Faith Allen Toussaint · Warner Bros. Records · 1972 48.603

18165 Mare Idiophonika Troum · 2010 48.603

18166 In From the Cold Ashkan · Decca Records · 1969 48.600

18167 Loudon Wainwright III Loudon Wainwright III · Atlantic · 1970 48.600

18168 Cold Day in Hell Otis Rush · Delmark Records · 1976 48.600