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The 100 Best Australian Albums Post by: Dave-O 27 October, 2010 - 8:13 AM
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Let the arguments begin. A new book has been released that lists the best 100 Australian albums of all time. And we want to know if they got it right (definitely not the inclusion of Kylie over Chrissy Amphlett. C'mon guys!)
The 100 Best Australian Albums was compiled by three guys who have been working in the music biz for a long, long time. Toby Creswell and Craig Mathieson are two of Australia's most respected rock journalists, while John O'Donnell is the record industry head who famously signed Silverchair.
It's a massive effort and John O'Donnell told the Sydney Morning Herald that he'd been talking about this idea for years.
"Toby and I have been having this argument between ourselves for 22 years," he remembered. "And Craig joined in on the argument about 15 years ago. We just thought it was time we shared it with everyone else.
This is the first time a list like this has ever been compiled in Australia.
The Top 10 pretty much picks itself with Midnight Oil, AC/DC and Cold Chisel, but the rest of the list covers varied terrain with classic artists like The Church (No. 33) and The Angels (No. 64) alongside Slim Dusty (No. 24) and Kylie Minogue (No. 98).
The Top 100
1. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
2. AC/DC - Back in Black
3. Crowded House - Woodface
4. Cold Chisel - Circus Animals
5. The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
6. Easybeats - The Best Of
7. Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls - Gossip
8. You Am I - Hi Fi Way
9. Skyhooks - Living in the 70's
10. Avalanches - Since I Left You
11. INXS - Kick
12. Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
13. Radio Birdman - Radio Appears
14. Daddy Cool - Daddy Who? Daddy Cool!
15. Richard Clapton - Goodbye Tiger
16. Bee Gees - Best of
17. The Birthday Party - Junkyard
18. Hunters & Collectors - Human Frailty
19. Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night
20. The Saints - I'm Stranded
21. Drones – Gala Mill
22. Split Enz – True Colours
23. Midnight Oil – 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
24. Slim Dusty - The Very Best of
25. Silverchair – Neon Ballroom
26. Nick Cave Bad Seeds – The Boatman’s Call
27. Regurgitator – Unit
28. Hoodoo Gurus – Stoneage Romeos
29. Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream
30. Gurrumul – Gurrumul
31. Kasey Chambers – Barricades & Brickwall
32. Johnny O’Keefe – The Wild One
33. The Church – Starfish
34. The Reels – Quasimodo’s Dream
35. Master’s Apprentices – Master's Apprentices
36. Savage Garden – Savage Garden
37. Sunnyboys – Sunnyboys
38. Kev Carmody & Various Artists – Cannot Buy My Soul
39. Something For Kate – Echolalia
40. Stephen Cummings – Lovetown
41. The Saints – Prehistoric Sounds
42. Australian Crawl – The Boys Light Up
43. Powderfinger – Odyssey No. 5
44. Mental as Anything – Cats & Dogs
45. Eddy Current Suppression Ring– Rush To Relax
46. Models – Pleasure of Your Company
47. Augie March – Moo, You Bloody Choir
48. The Missing Links – The Missing Links
49. Ed Kuepper – Honey Steel's Gold
50. AC/DC – Highway to Hell
51. The Sports – Don’t Throw Stones
52. The Seekers – Greatest Hits
53. Cold Chisel – East
54. Underground Lovers – Leaves Me Blind
55. You Am I – Hourly, Daily
56. INXS – The Swing
57. The Living End – The Living End
58. Jimmy Barnes – For the Working Class Man
59. Russell Morris – Wings of an Eagle
60. Hoodoo Gurus – Mars Needs Guitars
61. The Presets – Apocalypso
62. The Dingoes – The Dingoes
63. The Cruel Sea – The Honeymoon is Over
64. The Angels – Face to Face
65. The Hummingbirds – loveBUZZ
66. Paul Kelly – Foggy Highway
67. Chain – Towards the Blues
68. Dragon – O Zambesi
69. Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs – Live at Sunbury
70. The Scientists – Blood Red River
71. Crowded House – Temple of Low Men
72. Died Pretty – Doughboy Hollow
73. Axiom – Fool’s Gold
74. Bob Evans – Suburban Songbook
75. Dirty 3 – Oceans Songs
76. Renee Geyer – Ready to Deal
77. The Church – The Blurred Crusade
78. The Vines – Highly Evolved
79. John Farnham – Whispering Jack
80. The Loved Ones – Magic Box
81. Sleepy Jackson – Lovers
82. Bliss N Eso – Flying Colours
83. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey
84. Tex, Don + Charlie – Sad But True
85. Flowers – Icehouse
86. Missy Higgins – The Sound of White
87. Go-Betweens – Before Hollywood
88. Normie Rowe – Ain’t Necessarily So
89. Jet – Get Born
90. Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band - Smoke Dreams
91. Ben Lee – Awake is the New Sleep
92. Rose Tattoo – Rose Tattoo
93. I’m Talking – Bear Witness
94. X – X-Aspirations
95. Beaches – Beaches
96. Baby Animals – Baby Animals
97. Bernard Fanning - Tea & Sympathy
98. Kylie Minogue – Fever
99. Men at Work – Business As Usual
100. Morning of the Earth – Soundtrack
The 100 Best Australian Albums is out now through Hardie Grant. Plus 5CD box set will be available from this Friday.
Tell us which albums would have made your Top 10?
Leave your comment
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Adrian says
Inxs Kick a definite!!
Posted Wednesday 27 October, 2010 8:53 AM -
Mark says
YESSSSSS>> INXS YA THINK IF YA WERE LOCKED UP IN A SMALL ROOM AND ONE ALBUM OR BAND> WHO WOULD IT really be? head banging or easy listening ?
Posted Wednesday 27 October, 2010 8:54 AM -
Nathan Currie says
Rapt to see Circus Animals in the top five, it's my fave album of all time!
Posted Wednesday 27 October, 2010 11:04 AM -
gavin says
Where's Ian Moss - Matchbook? And... I'm Talking... whaaaaaat??? U serious.
Posted Wednesday 27 October, 2010 11:43 AM -
Johno11 says
You can't have best of's on the list. Come on
Posted Wednesday 27 October, 2010 2:13 PM -
Muchacho says
Sif have Diesel and Dust over Back In Black, seriously.
Posted Wednesday 27 October, 2010 4:08 PM -
marie shaw says
i love the top 100 albums list u got there.
Posted Wednesday 27 October, 2010 4:16 PM -
donisgood says
so when did split ends become aussies!!!!!!! get a grip
Posted Wednesday 27 October, 2010 6:24 PM -
Anthony Ruigrok says
Did Joe Camillieri write, play and sing in vain? Do you really think Human Frailty is superior to The Fireman's Curse? Alex Lloyd's Watching Angels Mend isn't superior to half your list? Baby f***ing Animals? (I thought the expletive appropriate, but you can certainly discount it if it transgresses your CoU)
Posted Wednesday 27 October, 2010 6:46 PM -
barry says
what a mess... where is spy v spy, the choirboys, the radiators, ian moss, screaming jets?
Posted Wednesday 27 October, 2010 9:14 PM
