The 100 Best Australian Albums book by John O'Donnell ~ Rolling Stone’s 200 Greatest Australian Albums of All Time

The book was authored by Australian music critics John O’Donnell, Toby Creswell and Craig Mathieson and features all new interviews with Nick Cave, Peter Garrett, Tim Rogers and Rick Rubin. Your Dad desperately wants one for Christmas because he really loves Australian music but also, he’s starting to lose his memory. Here’s the top 100....~

Australian music has a proud, colourful and successful history. In 2008, Australian rock & roll turned 50. This book names the best Australian albums of the last 50 years. It places each album in order (from 1 - 100) and discuss why each album deserves its place. It tells the story behind the making of the album, where the album fits in the artist's career and the album's impact on the local and world stage etc. The entries will feature new interviews with the artists and the producers/managers involved in the recording and the release of the album. "It wouldn't be a good list if it didn't polarise people and we hope that this list will. We also hope that it will get people sitting around comparing their favourites and discovering or re-discovering these great albums and others. With 70 years of loving and writing about Australian music between us, we shamelessly believe we've earned the right to write this book. And we think we've got it right. Let the debate begin." - John O'Donnell, April 2010 Finally, here is a much-needed list of argument-starting top 100 seminal/influential/essential Australian albums of all time. Let the fight begin!....~

100 Best Australian Albums List

1. Midnight Oil – Diesel and Dust ~
2. AC/DC – Back in Black ~
3. Crowded House – Woodface ~
4. Cold Chisel – Circus Animals ~
5. The Triffids – Born Sandy Devotional ~
6. Easybeats – The Best Of ~
7. Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls – Gossip ~
8. You Am I – Hi Fi Way ~
9. Skyhooks – Living in the 70’s ~
10. Avalanches – Since I Left You
11. INXS – Kick
12. Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
13. Radio Birdman – Radio Appears ~
14. Daddy Cool – Daddy Who? Daddy Cool! ~
15. Richard Clapton – Goodbye Tiger ~
16. Bee Gees – Best of
17. The Birthday Party – Junkyard ~
18. Hunters & Collectors – Human Frailty
19. Sarah Blasko – As Day Follows Night
20. The Saints – I’m Stranded
21. Drones – Gala Mill ~
22. Split Enz – True Colours
23. Midnight Oil – 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
24. Slim Dusty – The Very Best of
25. Silverchair – Neon Ballroom
26. Nick Cave Bad Seeds – The Boatman’s Call
27. Regurgitator – Unit
28. Hoodoo Gurus – Stoneage Romeos ~
29. Empire of the Sun – Walking on a Dream
30. Gurrumul – Gurrumul
31. Kasey Chambers – Barricades & Brickwall
32. Johnny O’Keefe – The Wild One
33. The Church – Starfish
34. The Reels – Quasimodo’s Dream
35. Master’s Apprentices – Master’s Apprentices ~
36. Savage Garden – Savage Garden
37. Sunnyboys – Sunnyboys ~
38. Kev Carmody & Various Artists – Cannot Buy My Soul
39. Something For Kate – Echolalia
40. Stephen Cummings – Lovetown
41. The Saints – Prehistoric Sounds
42. Australian Crawl – The Boys Light Up
43. Powderfinger – Odyssey No. 5 ~
44. Mental as Anything – Cats & Dogs
45. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Rush To Relax
46. Models – Pleasure of Your Company
47. Augie March – Moo, You Bloody Choir
48. The Missing Links – The Missing Links ~
49. Ed Kuepper – Honey Steel’s Gold
50. AC/DC – Highway to Hell ~
51. The Sports – Don’t Throw Stones
52. The Seekers – Greatest Hits
53. Cold Chisel – East ~
54. Underground Lovers – Leaves Me Blind
55. You Am I – Hourly, Daily
56. INXS – The Swing
57. The Living End – The Living End
58. Jimmy Barnes – For the Working Class Man
59. Russell Morris – Wings of an Eagle
60. Hoodoo Gurus – Mars Needs Guitars
61. The Presets – Apocalypso
62. The Dingoes – The Dingoes ~
63. The Cruel Sea – The Honeymoon is Over
64. The Angels – Face to Face
65. The Hummingbirds – loveBUZZ
66. Paul Kelly – Foggy Highway
67. Chain – Towards the Blues ~
68. Dragon – O Zambesi ~
69. Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs – Live at Sunbury ~
70. The Scientists – Blood Red River
71. Crowded House – Temple of Low Men
72. Died Pretty – Doughboy Hollow
73. Axiom – Fool’s Gold ~
74. Bob Evans – Suburban Songbook
75. Dirty 3 – Oceans Songs
76. Renee Geyer – Ready to Deal ~
77. The Church – The Blurred Crusade
78. The Vines – Highly Evolved
79. John Farnham – Whispering Jack
80. The Loved Ones – Magic Box ~
81. Sleepy Jackson – Lovers
82. Bliss N Eso – Flying Colours
83. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey
84. Tex, Don + Charlie – Sad But True
85. Flowers – Icehouse
86. Missy Higgins – The Sound of White
87. Go-Betweens – Before Hollywood
88. Normie Rowe – Ain’t Necessarily So
89. Jet – Get Born ~
90. Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band – Smoke Dreams ~
91. Ben Lee – Awake is the New Sleep
92. Rose Tattoo – Rose Tattoo ~
93. I’m Talking – Bear Witness
94. X – X-Aspirations
95. Beaches – Beaches
96. Baby Animals – Baby Animals ~
97. Bernard Fanning – Tea & Sympathy~
98. Kylie Minogue – Fever
99. Men at Work – Business As Usual
100. Morning of the Earth – Soundtrack ~

Rolling Stone’s 200 Greatest Australian Albums of All Time

Midnight Oil : Diesel and Dust (1987)~
AC/DC : Back in Black (1980)
Crowded House : Woodface (1991) ~
Cold Chisel : Circus Animals (1982)
The Triffids : Born Sandy Devotional (1986)
The Easybeats : The Best of the Easybeats (1967)
Paul Kelly : Gossip (1986)
You Am I : Hi Fi Way (1995)
Skyhooks : Living in the 70's (1974)
The Avalanches : Since I Left You (2000)
INXS : Kick (1987)
The Go-Betweens : 16 Lovers Lane (1988)
Radio Birdman : Radios Appear (1977)
Daddy Cool : Daddy Who? Daddy Cool (1971)
Richard Clapton : Goodbye Tiger (1977)
Bee Gees : Best of Bee Gees (1969)
The Birthday Party : Junkyard (1982)
Hunters & Collectors : Human Frailty (1986)
Sarah Blasko : As Day Follows Night (2009)
The Saints : (I'm) Stranded (1976)
The Drones : Gala Mill (2006)
Split Enz : True Colours (1980)
Midnight Oil : 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (1982)
Slim Dusty : The Very Best of Slim Dusty (1998)
Silverchair : Neon Ballroom (1999)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds : The Boatman's Call (1997)
Regurgitator : Unit (1997)
Hoodoo Gurus : Stoneage Romeos (1984)
Empire of the Sun : Walking on a Dream (2008)
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu : Gurrumul (2008)
Kasey Chambers : Barricades & Brickwalls (2001)
Johnny O'Keefe : The Wild One (1958)
The Church : Starfish (1988)
The Reels : Quasimodo's Dream (1981)
The Masters Apprentices : Master's Apprentices (1967)
Savage Garden : Savage Garden (1997)
Sunnyboys : Sunnyboys (1981)
Kev Carmody : Cannot Buy My Soul (2007)
Something For Kate : Echolalia (2001)
Stephen Cummings : Lovetown (1988)
The Saints : Prehistoric Sounds (1978)
Australian Crawl : The Boys Light Up (1980)
Powderfinger : Odyssey Number Five (2000)
Mental As Anything : Cats & Dogs (1981)
Eddy Current Suppression Ring : Rush to Relax (2010)
Models : The Pleasure of Your Company (1983)
Augie March : Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006)
The Missing Links : The Missing Links (1965)
Ed Kuepper : Honey Steel's Gold (1991)
AC/DC : Highway to Hell (1979)
The Sports : Don't Throw Stones (1979)
The Seekers : Greatest Hits (1968)
Cold Chisel : East (1980)
Underground Lovers : Leaves Me Blind (1992)
You Am I : Hourly, Daily (1996)
INXS : The Swing (1984)
The Living End : The Living End (1998)
Jimmy Barnes : For the Working Class Man (1985)
Russell Morris : Wings of an Eagle and Other Great Hits (1973)
Hoodoo Gurus : Mars Needs Guitars! (1985)
The Presets : Apocalypso (2008)
The Dingoes : The Dingoes (1974) ~
The Cruel Sea : The Honeymoon Is Over (1993)
The Angels : Face to Face (1978)
The Hummingbirds : LoveBUZZ (1989)
Paul Kelly & the Stormwater Boys : Foggy Highway (2005)
Chain : Toward the Blues (1971)
Dragon : O Zambezi (1978) ~
Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs : Aztecs Live at Sunbury (1972) ~
The Scientists : Blood Red River (1983)
Crowded House : Temple of Low Men (1988)
Died Pretty : Doughboy Hollow (1991)
Axiom : Fool's Gold (1970) ~
Bob Evans : Suburban Songbook (2006)
Dirty Three : Ocean Songs (1998)
Renée Geyer : Ready to Deal (1975)
The Church : The Blurred Crusade (1982)
The Vines : Highly Evolved (2002)
John Farnham : Whispering Jack (1986)
The Loved Ones : Magic Box (1967)
The Sleepy Jackson : Lovers (2003)
Bliss N Eso : Flying Colours (2008)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds : Tender Prey (1988)
Tex, Don and Charlie : Sad But True (1993)
Flowers : Icehouse (1980)
Missy Higgins : The Sound of White (2004)
The Go-Betweens : Before Hollywood (1983)
Normie Rowe : Ain't Necessarily So (1965)
Jet : Get Born (2003) ~
The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band : Smoke Dreams (1973)
Ben Lee : Awake is the New Sleep (2005)
Rose Tattoo : Rose Tattoo (1978) ~
I'm Talking : Bear Witness (1986)
X : X-Aspirations (1979)
Beaches : Beaches (2008)
Baby Animals : Baby Animals (1991) ~
Bernard Fanning : Tea & Sympathy (2005) ~
Kylie Minogue : Fever (2001)
Men at Work : Business As Usual (1981)
V.A. "Morning of the Earth" G. Wayne Thomas, Terry Hannagan, Tamam Shud, Brian Cadd, John J. Francis, Peter Howe : Morning of the Earth (1971) soundrack~

200 Greatest Australian Albums of All Time,Rolling Stone - another list

#1 Dads – About Face (2014)
28 Days – Upstyledown (2000)
Abbe May – Design Desire (2011)
Ainslie Wills – All You Have Is All You Need (2019)
Alex Lloyd – Black the Sun (1999)
Alex the Astronaut – The Theory of Absolutely Nothing (2020)
Amyl and The Sniffers – Amyl and The Sniffers (2019)
Angie McMahon – Salt (2019)
Angus & Julia Stone – A Book Like This (2007)
Architecture in Helsinki – Places Like This (2007)
Art vs. Science – The Experiment (2011)
Augie March – Sunset Studies (2000)
Baby Animals – Shaved and Dangerous (1993)
Bad//Dreems – Dogs at Bay (2015)
Ball Park Music – Museum (2012)
Beaches – Beaches (2008)
Beaches – Second of Spring (2017)
Ben Frost – The Centre Cannot Hold (2017)
Ben Lee – Breathing Tornadoes (1998)
Bertie Blackman – Secrets and Lies (2009)
Big Scary – Animal (2016)
Big Scary – Not Art (2013)
Birds of Tokyo – Birds of Tokyo (2010)
Blake Scott – Niscitam (2020)
Bliss n Eso – Running on Air (2010)
Bluejuice – Problems (2007)
Bob Evans – Suburban Songbook (2006)
Bodyjar – How It Works (2000)
Briggs – Sheplife (2014)
Butterfingers – Breakfast at Fatboys (2004)
C. W. Stoneking – Gon’ Boogaloo (2014)
C. W. Stoneking – Jungle Blues (2008)
Caitlin Park – The Sleeper (2014)
Camp Cope – Camp Cope (2016)
Camp Cope – How to Socialise and Make Friends (2018)
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band – Smoke Dreams (1973)
Cash Savage and The Last Drinks – One of Us (2016)
Ceres – Drag It Down on You (2016)
Children Collide – Theory of Everything (2010)
Cloud Control – Bliss Release (2010)
Clowns – I’m Not Right (2013)
Cog – The New Normal (2005)
Cold Chisel – Cold Chisel (1978)
Cosmic Psychos – Go the Hack (1989)
Cosmic Psychos – Self Totalled (1995)
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (2018)
D.D Dumbo – Utopia Defeated (2016)
Dan Kelly – Dan Kelly’s Dream (2010)
Dan Kelly and The Alpha Males – Drowning in The Fountain of Youth (2006)
Dardanelles – Mirror Mirror (2007)
Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of A Dying Sun (1987)
Def Wish Cast – Knights of The Underground Table (1993)
Dick Diver – Calendar Days (2013)
Dick Diver – Melbourne, Florida (2015)
Dirty Three – Whatever You Love, You Are (2000)
Dispossessed – Warpath Never Ended (2019)
Divinyls – Divinyls (1990)
Ed Kuepper – Honey Steel’s Gold (1991)
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Rush to Relax (2010)
Eurogliders – This Island (1984)
Faker – Addicted Romantic (2005)
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! – Sea Priest (2010)
Frenzal Rhomb – Meet the Family (1997)
Frenzal Rhomb – Not So Tough Now (1996)
Gareth Liddiard – Strange Tourist (2010)
Gerling – Children of Telepathic Experiences (1998)
Gordi – Our Two Skins (2020)
Grand Salvo – Sea Glass (2018)
Grinspoon – Thrills, Kills and Sunday Pills (2004)
Guy Sebastian – T.R.U.T.H. (2020)
Gyroscope – Are You Involved? (2008)
Gyroscope – Breed Obsession (2008)
Hard-Ons – Love Is a Battlefield of Wounded Hearts (1989)
Hard-Ons – Smell My Finger (1986)
Hard-Ons – Yummy! (1990)
Hilltop Hoods – Walking Under Stars (2014)
Hoodoo Gurus – Blow Your Cool! (1987)
Hoodoo Gurus – Magnum Cum Louder (1989)
Horror My Friend – Stay In, Do Nothing (2016)
HTMLflowers – Chrome Halo (2017)
HTRK – Venus in Leo (2018)
HTRK – Work (Work, Work) (2011)
Jack Ladder – Love Is Gone (2008)
Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders – Hurtsville (2011)
Jarryd James – Thirty One (2015)
Jebediah – Of Someday Shambles (1999)
Jen Cloher – Jen Cloher (2017)
Jet – Shine On (2006) ~
Josh Pyke – Chimney’s Afire (2008)
Julia Jacklin – Crushing (2019)
Kate Miller-Heidke – Little Eve (2007)
Keith Urban – The Speed of Now Part 1 (2020)
Kisschasy – United Paper People (2005)
Kylie Minogue – Impossible Princess (1997)
Laura Jean – Laura Jean (2014)
Leader Cheetah – The Sunspot Letters (2009)
Leonardo’s Bride – Angel Blood (1997)
Lior – Autumn Flow (2004)
Lisa Mitchell – Wonder (2008)
Little Red – Listen to Little Red (2008)
Machine Gun Fellatio – Bring It On! (2000)
Matt Corby – Telluric (2015)
Methyl Ethel – Oh Inhuman Spectacle (2015)
Mia Dyson – Parking Lots (2005)
Middle Kids – Lost Friends (2018)
Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia (2007)
Midnight Oil – Red Sails in The Sunset (1984)
Miiesha – Nyaaringu (2020)
Models – Out of Mind, Out of Sight (1985)
Motor Ace – Five Star Laundry (2001)
My Disco – Severe (2015)
My Friend the Chocolate Cake – Brood (1994)
New Buffalo – Somewhere, Anywhere. (2007)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – From Her to Eternity (1984)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Let Love In (1994)
Non-Intentional Lifeform – Uisce (1997)
Northlane – Alien (2019)
Not Drowning, Waving – Another Pond (1984)
Not From There – Sand on Seven (1998)
Ocean Alley – Chiaroscuro (2018)
Oh Mercy – Privileged Woes (2009)
Olympia – Self Talk (2016)
Parkway Drive – Atlas (2012)
Paul Kelly – Deeper Water (1995)
Paul Kelly – Life Is Fine (2017)
PNAU – Sambanova (1999)
Powderfinger – Double Allergic (1996)
PVT – O Soundtrack My Heart (2008)
Redgum – Caught in The Act (1983)
Ripe – The Plastic Hassle (1993)
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs (2018)
Royal Headache – Royal Headache (2011)
Ryan Downey – Running (2018)
Sally Seltmann – Heart That’s Pounding (2010)
Sarah Blasko – As Day Follows Night (2009)
Sarah Blasko – The Overture & The Underscore (2004)
Seeker Lover Keeper – Seeker Lover Keeper (2011)
Sia – Colour the Small One (2004)
Sia – Some People Have Real Problems (2007)
Sidewinder – Tangerine (1997)
Sleepmakeswaves – Love of Cartography (2014)
Snout – Circle High and Wide (1998)
Something for Kate – Elsewhere for 8 Minutes (1997)
Something for Kate – The Official Fiction (2003)
Spencer P. Jones – Fait Accompli (2003)
Spiderbait – The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake (1995)
Sunk Loto – Between Birth and Death (2003)
Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (2020)
The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (2020)
The Birthday Party – Prayers on Fire (1981)
The Dissociatives – The Dissociatives (2004)
The Drones – Havilah (2009)
The Fauves – Lazy Highways (1998)
The Getaway Plan – Other Voices, Other Rooms (2008)
The Go-Betweens – Liberty Belle and The Black Diamond Express (1986)
The Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart (2005)
The Grates – Gravity Won’t Get You High (2006)
The Jezabels – Prisoner (2011)
The John Butler Trio – Three (2001)
The Jungle Giants – Quiet Ferocity (2017)
The Killjoys – Ruby (1990)
The Lucksmiths – Naturaliste (2003)
The Mess Hall – Devils Elbow (2007)
The Middle East – I Want That You Are Always Happy (2011)
The Necks – Sex (1989)
The Panics – Rain on The Humming Wire (2011)
The Peep Tempel – Joy (2016)
The Peep Tempel – Tales (2014)
The Preatures – Blue Planet Eyes (2014)
The Presets – Beams (2005)
The Presets – Pacifica (2012)
The Sleepy Jackson – Lovers (2003)
The Sleepy Jackson – Personality (One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird) (2006)
The Vasco Era – Oh We Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (2007)
The Veronicas – The Secret Life Of… (2005)
The Waifs – Up All Night (2002)
Things of Stone & Wood – The Yearning (1993)
Tiddas – Sing About Life (1993)
Tim Rogers & The Twin Set – What Rhymes with Cars and Girls (1999)
TISM – www.tism.wanker.com (1998)
Total Control – Henge Beat (2011)
Total Control – Typical System (2014)
Troye Sivan – Blue Neighbourhood (2015)
Tumbleweed – Tumbleweed (1993)
Twerps – Twerps (2011)
TZU – Smiling at Strangers (2005)
Underground Lovers – Dream It Down (1994)
Underground Lovers – Leaves Me Blind (1992)
Urthboy – The Signal (2007)
Vance Joy – Nation of Two (2018)
Various Artists – Cannot Buy My Soul: The Songs of Kev Carmody (2007)
Various Artists – She Will Have Her Way: The Songs Of Tim & Neil Finn (2005)
Various Artists – He Will Have His Way: The Songs Of Tim & Neil Finn (2010)
Various Artists – Morning Of The Earth (Original Film Soundtrack) (1972)
Velociraptor – Velociraptor (2014)
WAAX – Big Grief (2019)
Washington – Batflowers (2020)
Washington – I Believe You Liar (2010)
West Thebarton – Different Beings Being Different (2018)
Whitley – The Submarine (2007)
You Am I – Sound as Ever (1993)
Youth Group – Skeleton Jar (2004)
Ziggy Ramo – Black Thoughts (2020