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 856

20521 Road Salt One Pain of Salvation · Inside Out Music · 2010 44.000

20522 Dreamcatcher Nitrous Oxide · Anjunabeats · 2010 44.000

20523

This Modern Glitch The Wombats · 14th Floor Records · 2011 44.000

20524 Rock and Rollin’ With Fats Domino Fats Domino · London Records · 1956 44.000

20525 Easy Walker Stanley Turrentine · Blue Note · 1967 44.000

20526 Moving South Southside Movement · 20th Century Records · 1975 44.000

20527 Rendez‐vous Eric Tagg · ViViD SOUND · 1977 44.000

20528 Clubhouse Dexter Gordon · Blue Note · 1979 44.000

20529

Back in Black AC/DC · Atlantic · 1980 44.000

20530 Spät-Europa Asmus Tietchens · Sky Records · 1982 44.000

20531 Destiny's Dance Chico Freeman · Contemporary · 1982 44.000

20532 Paint Your Wagon Red Lorry Yellow Lorry · Red Rhino Records · 1986 44.000

20533 Letters Home News From Babel · ReR Megacorp · 1986 44.000

20534 From a Northern Shore Twice a Man · 1989 44.000

20535 Bad Boy Skanking Yellowman · Greensleeves Records · 1990 44.000

20536 Lunar Womb The Obsessed · Hellhound Records · 1991 44.000

20537 Dream Circle Rapoon · DOVe · 1992 44.000

20538 Sensory Deprivation Benestrophe · Ras Dva Records · 1994 44.000

20539 Iranian Female Olympic Table Tennis Team Theme Muslimgauze · Staalplaat · 1999 44.000

20540

Karjalan Sissit Karjalan Sissit · Cold Spring · 2001 44.000

20541 Full Collapse Thursday · Victory Records · 2001 44.000

20542

Korova Milky Bar Myslovitz · Sony Music · 2002 44.000

20543 An Evil Heat Oxbow · Neurot Recordings · 2002 44.000

20544 …Or Stay Tuned People Under the Stairs · Om Records · 2003 44.000