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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22681 An Announcement to Answer Quantic · Ubiquity · 2006 40.420

22682 Wrong Meeting Two Lone Swordsmen · Rotters Golf Club · 2007 40.420

22683 A Grave Is a Grim Horse Steve von Till · Neurot Recordings · 2008 40.420

22684 Songs for the Broken Hearted Windy & Carl · kranky · 2008 40.420

22685 End Titles... Redux UNKLE · Surrender All · 2008 40.420

22686 New York Days Enrico Rava · ECM Records · 2009 40.420

22687 May the Fleas of a Thousand Camels Infest Your Armpits Nurse With Wound · United Dairies · 2009 40.420

22688 A.N.T.I. Diapsiquir · Necrocosm Records · 2011 40.420

22689

Beyond the Black Sky Monkey3 · 2011 40.420

22690 Sufferer The Kingstonians · Doctor Bird · 1970 40.420

22691 Notes From Underground Bernt Rosengren · Harvest · 1974 40.420

22692 For the Time Being Human Beings · Deviate · 1995 40.420

22693 Interiors Brad · Epic · 1997 40.420

22694 Preschool Gang Green · Taang! Records · 1997 40.420

22695 Self Titled LP Karp · K · 1997 40.420

22696 Jhazmyne’s Lullaby 7 Angels 7 Plagues · Uprising Records · 2001 40.420

22697 Femina The Legendary Tiger Man · Metrodiscos · 2009 40.420

22698 Knight Time Gladys Knight & the Pips · Soul · 1974 40.320

22699

All You Can Eat k.d. lang · Warner Bros. Records · 1995 40.320

22700 Wax Ecstatic Sponge · Columbia · 1996 40.320

22701 Reminiscing Buddy Holly · Coral Records · 1963 40.320

22702 A Gift From Euphoria Euphoria · Capitol Records · 1969 40.320

22703 A Passenger to Paramaribo Jukka Tolonen · Love Records · 1977 40.320

22704 Freak in the Light of the Moon The Universal Robot Band · 1978 40.320