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Top 50 most influential Aussie albums
« on: September 30, 2008, 02:37:14 AM »
AUSSIE rockers AC/DC have once again come out on top, this time in a poll of the most influential Australian albums. But there were some surprising inclusions.

It was the album that made AC/DC an international rock phenomenon and has inspired millions of bedroom headbangers to pick up guitars.

So it's no surprise that Back In Black has topped a compilation of the 50 Most Influential Australian Albums by a panel assembled by GQ magazine.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24418171-5006024,00.html

The full list is:

1. AC/DC - Back in Black

2. The Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever

3. Saints - I'm Stranded

4. The Birthday Party - Junkyard

5. Easybeats - Absolute Anthology

6. The Avalanches - Since I Left You

7. Cold Chisel - East

8. Scientists - Blood Red River

9. Crowded House - Crowded House

10. Silverchair - Young Modern

11. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Good Son

12. Kylie - Kylie

13. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust

14. INXS - Kick

15. Radio Birdman - Radios Appear

16. Reels - Quasimodo's Dream

17. Yothu Yindi - Tribal Voice

18. You Am I - Hourly Daily

19. Go Betweens - Liberty Bell and the Black Diamond Express

20. Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls - Gossip

21. The Church - Starfish

22. Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance

23. Hummingbirds - Love Buzz

24. Split Endz - True Colours

25. The Loved Ones - Magic Box

26. Triffids - Calenture

27. Richard Clapton - Girls on the Avenue

28. The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon Is Over

29. Renee Geyer - It's a Man's Man's World

30. Died Pretty - Doughboy Hollow

31. Dirty Three - Sad and Dangerous

32. Divinyls - Divinyls

33. Augie March - Sunset Studies

34. Flash and the Pan - Flash and the Pan

35. Goanna - Spirit of the Place

36. Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes - The Night of the Wolverine

37. Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars

38. Hunters and Collectors - Human Family

39. Icehouse - Primitive Man

40. The Johnny's - Highlights of a Dangerous Life

41. Spiderbait - Grand Slam

42. Models - The Pleasure of your Company

43. Men at Work - Business as Usual

44. Regurgitator - Unit

45. Savage Garden - Savage Garden

46. Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog

47. Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs - Aztecs Live! At Sunbury

48. Underground Lovers - Leaves Me Blind

49. Various Artists - Countdown Silver Jubilee

50. Various Artists - Cannot Buy My Soul (A Kev Carmody Tribute)

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Re: Top 50 most influential Aussie albums
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2008, 09:09:25 PM »
Split Enz/Crowded House are Noo Zeeloonders  :shh. I guess they're still as much Aussies as Phar Lap  :thumbsup.

I would have Men at Work higher if influential includes grabbing Americans' attention.

tiga asked why pseudo echo isn't in the top 50  ;D

Also FF's music collection apparently  ;).
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