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The band’s fourth record, released in 2000, pipped Silverchair’s Frogstomp into second place ahead of AC/DC’s Back In Black at number three.

Powderfinger, who called it quits after a national tour late last year, tweeted their gratitude to voters with “Thanks to all you voters...We're so excited and grateful for the love.”

From July 11 – 22, ABC Digital Radio will be broadcasting ‘triple j hottest’, the whole 100 albums from the Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time - start to finish. Details here

Here's the full list - hang on...what's that?...John Farnham at number 49?

triple j's hottest 100 Aussie albums:

1. Odyssey Number Five - Powderfinger
2. Frogstomp - silverchair
3. Back In Black - AC/DC
4. The Living End - The Living End
5. Kick - INXS
6. Internationalist - Powderfinger
7. Apocalypso - Presets
8. Wolfmother - Wolfmother
9. Since I Left You - The Avalanches
10. UNIT - Regurgitator
11. Like Drawing Blood - Gotye
12. Guide To Better Living - Grinspoon
13. Crowded House - Crowded House
14. - Vulture Street - Powderfinger
15. Slightly Odway - Jebediah
16. The Hard Road - Hilltop Hoods
17. Eternal Nightcap - The Whitlams
18. Woodface - Crowded House
19. Innerspeaker - Tame Impala
20. Conditions - The Temper Trap
21. 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 – Midnight Oil
22. Diorama – silverchair
23. The Calling – Hilltop Hoods
24. Sunrise Over Sea – The John Butler Trio
25. Get Born – Jet
26. Hourly, Daily – You Am I
27. Neon Ballroom – silverchair
28. The Cat Empire – The Cat Empire
29. The Sound of White – Missy Higgins
30. Themata – Karnivool
31. Down the Way – Angus & Julia Stone
32. Universes – Birds of Tokyo
33. Diesel and Dust – Midnight Oil
34. Memories & Dust – Josh Pyke
35. Hi Fi Way – You Am I
36. In Ghost Colours – Cut Copy
37. Highly Evolved – The Vines
38. A Book Like This – Angus & Julia Stone
39. Birds of Tokyo – Birds of Tokyo
40. Echolalia – Something for Kate
41. Double Allergic – Powderfinger
42. East – Cold Chisel
43 Freak Show – silverchair
44 Tu-Plang – Regurgitator
45 Sound Awake – Karnivool
46– Walking on a Dream – Empire of the Sun
47 Black Fingernails, Red Wine – Eskimo Joe
48 Ivy and the Big Apples – Spiderbait
49 Whispering Jack – John Farnham
50 The New Normal – Cog
51 I Believe You Liar – Washington
52 Murder Ballads – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
53 Three – The John Butler Trio
54 Tea & Sympathy – Bernard Fanning
55 Blue Sky Mining – Midnight Oil
56 Bliss Release – Cloud Control
57 The Honeymoon Is Over – The Cruel Sea
58 New Detention – Grinspoon
59 As Day Follows Night – Sarah Blasko
60. We Are Born – Sia
61. Hold Your Colour – Pendulum
62. Cruel Guards – The Panics
63. Grand National – The John Butler Trio
64. Polyserena – george
65. Cold Chisel – Cold Chisel
66. Running on Air – Bliss N Eso
67. Flying Colours – Bliss N Eso
68. The Experiment – Art vs. Science
69. Gossip – Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls
70. Young Modern – silverchair
71. Beams – The Presets
72. Beautiful Sharks – Something For Kate
73. Highway To Hell – AC/DC
74. The Overture & The Underscore – Sarah Blasko
75. Living In The 70s – Skyhooks
76. Human Frailty – Hunters & Collectors
77. Immersion – Pendulum
78. Lovers – The Sleepy Jackson
79. Gravity Won't Get You High – The Grates
80. (I'm) Stranded – The Saints
81. Feeler – Pete Murray
82. Up All Night – The Waifs
83. Wonder – Lisa Mitchell
84. 16 Lovers Lane – The Go-Betweens
85. State Of The Art – Hilltop Hoods
86. This Is The Warning – Dead Letter Circus
87. A Song Is A City – Eskimo Joe
88. Imago – The Butterfly Effect
89. Pnau – Pnau
90. The Long Now – Children Collide
91. Gilgamesh – Gypsy & The Cat
92. A Man’s Not A Camel – Frenzal Rhomb
93. Moo, You Bloody Choir – Augie March
94. Everything Is True – Paul Dempsey
95. Stoneage Romeos – Hoodoo Gurus
96. Paging Mr. Strike – Machine Gun Fellatio
97. Begins Here – The Butterfly Effect
98. The Boatman’s Call – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
99. Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills – Grinspoon
100. Two Shoes – The Cat Empire

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