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Aussie Top 100
John O'Donnell, Toby Creswell and Craig Mathieson have bravely stuck out their collective necks and unleash their list in book form next Monday.
The 100 Best Australian Albums includes two entries each for Midnight Oil, AC/DC, Cold Chisel, Crowded House, You Am I, The Go-Betweens, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Hoodoo Gurus, the Church, INXS, Paul Kelly and The Saints while Jimmy Barnes, Neil Finn and Nick Cave garner three mentions apiece thanks to their various band incarnations and solo work.
And lest you think that 3 blokes have compiled an exclusively blokey list, there are ten albums in the Top 100 by female artists or by groups fronted by women, and Sarah Blasko's latest As Day Follows Night even makes it into the top 20.
What do you think of the choices?
The authors' Top 20:
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.Easy Beats – The Best Of
7.Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls – Gossip
8.You Am I – Hi Fi Way
9.Skyhooks – Living In The 70s
10.Avalanches – Since I Left You
11.INXS – Kick
12. The Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
13. Radio Birdman – _ Radios Appear_
14. Daddy Cool – Daddy Who? Daddy Cool!
15. Richard Clapton – Goodbye Tiger
16. Bee Gees – Best of (Vol 1)
17. The Birthday Party – Junkyard
18. Hunters & Collectors – Human Frailty
19. Sarah Blasko – As Day Follows Night
20. The Saints – (I’m) Stranded
Source: Faster Louder 
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Midnight Oil (also known informally as "The Oils" to fans), were an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie. While vocalist Peter Garrett was studying at Australian National University in Canberra, he answered an advertisement for a spot in Farm, and by 1975 the band...
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Comments
Not a bad summation, but I would also have given Augie March a geurnsey for Moo You Bloody Choir, The Gin Club for Junk and Powderfinger for Internationalist..... What a hard task to limit it to 20..... Maybe 200?!!!
well, good on them for having a go. The top 10 is certainly interesting at the very least - did the Avalanches really create one of the best ten albums to ever come out of this country? Were Gossip and Woodface really the best records from PK&tCG's and Crowded House? Regurgitator at 27? Glad to see Cannot Buy My Soul get a guernsey at 38 - well deserved, arguably not high enough. The Cruel Sea way down at 63? As I said, good on 'em for having a shot. I can't believe there isn't a place for Things of Stone and Wood's debut, but there you go. And quite how Woodface is rated higher than Together Alone is, frankly, impossible to understand.
nice list . one album only albums if theyre good enough, deserve a place in anyones list like this, but surely best of and greatest hit albums is a sneaky move. are best of's real albums and is that legit? :)) 'only the good ones'
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