10 Favourite Australian Albums Ever

General Gibberish Forums
41

Five Star Laundry - Motor Ace
Bloom - RUFUS
Penny Century - Clouds
Get On Board - The Badloves
Down To Earth - Flight Facilities
A Song Is A City - Eskimo Joe
Back In Black - AC/DC
Blackbird - Dan Sultan
Matchbook - Ian Moss
All For One - Screaming Jets

1 Like
42

It’s originally just your favorite 10 albums - the oz ones have been a bit of spin off. Unless you meant Austrian albums. :disguised_face:

Having said that I could easily get 10 Swiss albums…:metal:

2 Likes
43
  1. Icehouse - Primitive Man
  2. Paul Kelly - Songs from the South (yep it’s a compilation but I can’t leave it out)
  3. Goanna Band - Spirit of Place
  4. Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining
  5. Kasey Chambers - The Captain
  6. Skyhooks - Living in the 70’s
  7. Aussie Crawl - The Boys Light Up
  8. James Reyne - James Reyne
  9. Bee Gees - One
  10. Shane Nicholson - Bad Machines
2 Likes
44

Radiobirdman - Radios Appear

One inch punch - Lost in What we lack

Cosmic psychos - go the hack

Bodyjar - Rimshot

Powdermonkeys - smashed on a knee

Spiderbait - Shashavaglava

BIFF - BIFFTAPE #1

AC/DC - back in black

Probably got Bored, G.O.D., Hardons, HOSS in there too but I ran out of time.

4 Likes
45

Nice!

1 Like
46

The other thread is favourite all time, no country requirements

47
  1. Cold Chisel- Circus Animals.
  2. Rose Tattoo- Eponymous
  3. AC/DC- Highway to Hell.
    4.Triffids- Calenture.
  4. Skyhooks- Livin’ in the 70s
  5. Australian Crawl- Boys Light Up
  6. Richard Clapton - Great Escape
  7. Ian Moss- Matchbook
  8. Hoodoo Gurus- Stoneage Romeos
  9. Do Re Mi- Happiest Place in Town
2 Likes
48

In no particular order:

AC/DC - Back In Black
Sunny Boys - Sunny Boys
Australian Crawl - The Boys Light Up
TISM - www.tism.wanker.com
Dingoes - Five Times the Sun
INXS - Kick
Midnight Oil - Head Injuries
Midnight Oil - Place Without A Postcard
The Butterfly Effect - Imago
Divinyls - What A Life!

1 Like
49

Good to see someone else rates Circus Animals (even though Bow River is done to death). Great album.

Also, thanks @GRR for the Aus Jazz intros - most of those I don’t know but will try to check out.

Can probably agree with other popular selections incl. Stoneage Romeos, Back in Black, Livin’ in the 70s.

Can’t do a top 10, but would have on my shortlist:

Kill Devil Hills - In on Under Near Water
Harem Scarem - Pilgrims Progress
Fumes - Guns of God

3 Likes
50

I deliberately tried to spread my choices over the past 4 decades.

But albums really started in the 70s and died in the early 2000s(with a couple of exceptions) in Australia.

51

Oh and someone has to throw a bone to SIA.

Probably the best pop talent this country has ever produced.

Come at me blitz!

2 Likes
52

Who??? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

53

I haven’t done mine, but Eternal Nightcap is a stone cold lock.

3 Likes
54

Australian

  1. AC/DC - Powerage
  2. Cosmic Psychos - go the hack
  3. King Gizzard - Nonagon Infinity
  4. Warped - Quicker ways to Blacker Eyes
  5. Grinspoon - Guide to Better Living
  6. Tumbleweed - Galactaphonic
  7. Radio Birdman - Radio’s appear
  8. The Drones - Miller’s Daughter
  9. Violent Soho - Violent Soho
  10. Silverchair - Frog Stomp
5 Likes
55

Ah the Whitlams. That was/is a very good album.

4 Likes
56

Surprisingly so.
I still remember going to the independent record (well…cd) shop, asking the guy for the album with A Picture of You on it.
Do you mean No Aphrodisiac?
Yes. Yes, I do.

I’d just heard it and had to have it, but I truly didn’t expect the whole album to be just as good.

1 Like
57

Yeah what did they follow up with?(album)

58

Follow-up album was Love This City (singles: Love This City, Blow Up The Pokies) recorded with a totally different line-up. By this point it was pretty clear The Whitlams was really just Tim Freedman’s solo venture and was a band in name only (though having said that, I see they’ve had a stable line-up for quite some time now).

2 Likes
59

Can’t remember the album, but pretty sure it had Blow Up The Pokies, Thank You (for loving me at my worst), Gotta Love This City and I Will Not Go Quietly on it…
Which, if true, is a pretty impressive follow up.

1 Like
60

That’s right…… written about Sydney. :wink:

Pity half of the institutions mentioned have gone. The nightlife here is now shithouse, the pokies didn’t get blown up, just multiplied. The nightlife cornered by a pub billionaire,

Im old but it’s ■■■■ because I want to live in a young city.

1 Like