Top One Hundred Albums In Australia
Australia: Land of the Guitar, the Drum Kit, the Male Vocalist, and that Pink Floyd Album I Never Liked..
I do, however, quite like Jeff Buckley's Grace, which came in at number two.
1-10
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Radiohead - Ok Computer
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Nirvana - Nevermind
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 4
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (EDIT: Except that I really like the song, 'Under the Bridge'. But the rest of the album is rubbish.)
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
U2 - The Joshua Tree
11-20
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Beatles - The Beatles - White Album
The Beatles - Revolver
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Radiohead - The Bends (EDIT: But I quite like 'My Iron Lung'.)
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
Neil Young - Harvest
Carole King - Tapestry
Pearl Jam - Ten
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
21-30
Tool - Aenima (EDIT: Depends on the day, really.)
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Midnight Oil - 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Silverchair - Diorama
AC/DC - Back In Black
The Clash - London Calling
The Whitlams - Eternal Nightcap
Queen - A night at the Opera
The Pixies - Doolittle
Missy Higgins - The Sound Of White
31-40
Paul Simon - Graceland
Anthony Callea - Anthony Callea
U2 - Achtung Baby
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars
Radiohead - Kid A
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory
Tool - Lateralus
41-50
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (EDIT: As if you could feel a strong emotion in relation to Coldplay. They exist on your ambivalence.)
Bob Dylan - Highway 61
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
The Living End - The Living End
The Strokes - Is this It?
Silverchair - Neon Ballroom
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
You Am I - Hourly Daily
51-60
The Cure - Disintegration
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde (EDIT: I've just never bought a Bob Dylan album.)
Lou Reed - Transformer
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
R.E.M - Automatic For The People
Muse - Absolution
Joni Mitchell - Blue
61-70
Prince - Purple Rain
ABBA - Arrival
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Cold Chisel - East (EDIT: I actually have no idea what's on this album. I'm striking this for all those times I've been in a pub, and some bastard has played Cold Chisel. You fucks all deserve to die.)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (EDIT: There's some really cool tracks on these albums, but lets face it, it didn't need to be two albums. Just one.)
The Who - Who's Next
Yes - Close To The Edge
Deep Purple - Machine Head
71-80
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Green Day - American Idiot
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
INXS - Kick
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Foo Fighters - The Colour and The Shape
U2 - Rattle and Hum
Delta Goodrem - Innocent Eyes
81-90
John Farnham - Whispering Jack (EDIT: I am having very painful childhood flashbacks right now.)
You Am I - Hi Fi Way
Darren Hayes - The Tension & The Spark
Crowded House - Woodface
Live - Throwing Copper (EDIT: Again, depends on the day.)
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 2
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
91-100
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Crowded House - Crowded House
Powderfinger - Vulture Street
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Silverchair - Frogstomp
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Portishead - Dummy
Soundgarden - Superunknown
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
And, as an optional, ten albums I would have liked to have seen there:
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Beasts of Bourbon - Low Life
The Herd - The Sun Never Sets
A Silver Mt. Zion - Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward
The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon is Over
The Stooges - Fun House
Linda Perry - In Flight
the Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Art of Fighting - Wires
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas
No particular order, and you know, tomorrow, I'm sure it'll change. I can already think of the Flaming Lips, the Drones, about three or four other Tom Waits albums...
I do, however, quite like Jeff Buckley's Grace, which came in at number two.
1-10
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Radiohead - Ok Computer
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Nirvana - Nevermind
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 4
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (EDIT: Except that I really like the song, 'Under the Bridge'. But the rest of the album is rubbish.)
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
U2 - The Joshua Tree
11-20
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Beatles - The Beatles - White Album
The Beatles - Revolver
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Radiohead - The Bends (EDIT: But I quite like 'My Iron Lung'.)
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
Neil Young - Harvest
Carole King - Tapestry
Pearl Jam - Ten
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
21-30
Tool - Aenima (EDIT: Depends on the day, really.)
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Midnight Oil - 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Silverchair - Diorama
AC/DC - Back In Black
The Clash - London Calling
The Whitlams - Eternal Nightcap
Queen - A night at the Opera
The Pixies - Doolittle
Missy Higgins - The Sound Of White
31-40
Paul Simon - Graceland
Anthony Callea - Anthony Callea
U2 - Achtung Baby
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars
Radiohead - Kid A
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
The Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory
Tool - Lateralus
41-50
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (EDIT: As if you could feel a strong emotion in relation to Coldplay. They exist on your ambivalence.)
Bob Dylan - Highway 61
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
The Living End - The Living End
The Strokes - Is this It?
Silverchair - Neon Ballroom
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
You Am I - Hourly Daily
51-60
The Cure - Disintegration
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde (EDIT: I've just never bought a Bob Dylan album.)
Lou Reed - Transformer
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
R.E.M - Automatic For The People
Muse - Absolution
Joni Mitchell - Blue
61-70
Prince - Purple Rain
ABBA - Arrival
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Cold Chisel - East (EDIT: I actually have no idea what's on this album. I'm striking this for all those times I've been in a pub, and some bastard has played Cold Chisel. You fucks all deserve to die.)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (EDIT: There's some really cool tracks on these albums, but lets face it, it didn't need to be two albums. Just one.)
The Who - Who's Next
Yes - Close To The Edge
Deep Purple - Machine Head
71-80
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Green Day - American Idiot
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
INXS - Kick
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Foo Fighters - The Colour and The Shape
U2 - Rattle and Hum
Delta Goodrem - Innocent Eyes
81-90
John Farnham - Whispering Jack (EDIT: I am having very painful childhood flashbacks right now.)
You Am I - Hi Fi Way
Darren Hayes - The Tension & The Spark
Crowded House - Woodface
Live - Throwing Copper (EDIT: Again, depends on the day.)
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 2
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
91-100
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Crowded House - Crowded House
Powderfinger - Vulture Street
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Silverchair - Frogstomp
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Portishead - Dummy
Soundgarden - Superunknown
The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
And, as an optional, ten albums I would have liked to have seen there:
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Beasts of Bourbon - Low Life
The Herd - The Sun Never Sets
A Silver Mt. Zion - Born into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward
The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon is Over
The Stooges - Fun House
Linda Perry - In Flight
the Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Art of Fighting - Wires
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas
No particular order, and you know, tomorrow, I'm sure it'll change. I can already think of the Flaming Lips, the Drones, about three or four other Tom Waits albums...