Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time

In July Triple J had a countdown of the 100 best Australian albums of all time, which includes albums recorded in Australia by Australian artists (in 2009 the hottest albums from the whole world of all time were voted!) The albums are voted by Triple J listeners from all over the world.

# 1 – 20

1 Odyssey Number Five – Powderfinger
2 Frogstomp – Silverchair
3 Back in Black – ACDC
4 The Living End – The Living End
5 Kick – INXS
6 Internationalist – Powderfinger
7 Apocalypso – The 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 Slighty 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

My Kind of Scene – Powderfinger (Odyssey Number Five)

# 21 – 40

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

Albums from the last six decades – (old vs. new)

1960s – 0
1970s – 4
1980s – 11
1990s – 21
2000s – 53
2010s – 11

#41 – 60

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

Triple J Hottest albums (top ten) of all time (the whole world)

1 Nirvana – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

2 Rage Against the Machine – “Killing in the Name”

3 Jeff Buckley – “Hallelujah”

4 Joy Division – “Love Will Tear Us Apart”

5 Radiohead – “Paranoid Android”

6 Queen – “Bohemian Rhapsody”

7 Jeff Buckley – “Last Goodbye”

8 Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Under The Bridge”

9 Foo Fighters – “Everlong”

10 Led Zeppelin – “Stairway To Heaven”

#61 – 80

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

Artists with multiple entries

Five entries

Silverchair (2, 22, 27, 43, 70)

Bernard Fanning (Once solo and four times with Powderfinger) (1, 6, 14, 41, 54)

Four entries

Powderfinger (1, 6, 14, 41)

Ian Kenny (Twice with Karnivool and twice with Birds of Tokyo) (30, 32, 39, 45)

Three entries

Grinspoon (12, 58, 99)

Hilltop Hoods (16, 23, 85)

Midnight Oil (21, 33, 55)

The John Butler Trio (24, 53, 63)

Paul Dempsey (Once solo and twice with Something For Kate) (94, 40, 72)

Two entries

AC/DC (3, 73)

Regurgitator (10, 44)

Crowded House (13, 18)

You Am I (26, 35)

The Cat Empire (28, 100)

Karnivool (30, 45)

Angus & Julia Stone (31, 38)

Birds of Tokyo (32, 39)

Something For Kate (40, 72)

Eskimo Joe (47, 87)

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (52, 98)

Sarah Blasko (59, 74)

Bliss n Eso (66, 67)

Pendulum (61, 77)

The Butterfly Effect (88, 97)

Nick Littlemore (Once with Pnau and once with Empire of the Sun) (89, 46)

Luke Steele (Once with The Sleepy Jackson and once with Empire of the Sun) (78, 46)
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# 81 – 100

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