Your Favourite Australian Albums + Recommendations

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Thought it would be cool to share some of the best/favourite Australian albums -
It was very tough, but I've kept my top 10 list to 1 album per artist

You Am I - Hourly Daily
Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls - Gossip
Silverchair - Diorama
Gang of Youths - The Positions
Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
Powderfinger - Internationalist
Crowded House - Temple of Low Men
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Jimmy Barnes - Freight Train Heart
British India - Guillotine

Lots of great albums and artist left out of my top 10, but these are my favourites.
Hard to leave out The Angels, Living End, Hunters and Collectors, Hoodoo Gurus, Diesel, Easybeats

2-feign-reluctance

Powderfinger Odyssey 5
Jebediah Of Someday Shambles
Silverchair Diorama
Bernard Fanning Tea & Sympathy
Radio Birdmen - collective works
Hunters and Collectors In Living Rooms...
Midnight Oil - collective works

That's all I've got.

fl4tdriven

Silverchair - Frogstomp is the first that comes to mind.

Dr. Delight

No Men at Work, Business as Usual?
Hell of a album.

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Dr. Delight said:

No Men at Work, Business as Usual?
Hell of a album.

That is a very good album - Personally sick to death of Down Under, but enjoy most of their other work. Love Overkill off their second album Cargo

Dr. Delight

No Coder said:

Dr. Delight said:

No Men at Work, Business as Usual?
Hell of a album.

That is a very good album - Personally sick to death of Down Under, but enjoy most of their other work. Love Overkill off their second album Cargo

Regardless of that song, it's a very good album. Down By the Sea is stellar.
Gotta have INXS here too.

HesCalledDyer

A few of my favorites:

Skyhooks - Living in the 70's
Midnight Oil - take your pick, they're all great
Silverchair - Freak Show
Gossling - Harvest of Gold
Hilltop Hoods - The Calling
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
Bliss n Eso - Flying Colours
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love
Drapht - The Life of Riley
Illy - The Chase

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Dr. Delight said:

No Coder said:

Dr. Delight said:

No Men at Work, Business as Usual?
Hell of a album.

That is a very good album - Personally sick to death of Down Under, but enjoy most of their other work. Love Overkill off their second album Cargo

Regardless of that song, it's a very good album. Down By the Sea is stellar.
Gotta have INXS here too.

Never been a huge INXS fan. I did like the Kick album, but wasn't into much of their earlier work.

eeriepadave

Silverchair- Frogstomp or Freak Show
The Vines- Highly Evolved
Wolfmother- Wolfmother
Tame Impala- Lonerism
Jagwar Ma- Howlin
AC/DC- Back in Black
Jet- Get Born
Spiderbait- Tonight Alright
The Living End- The Living End

catefrances

shall have to get back to you on this... its going to take some serious thinking... my love afffair with oz music is a long one.

goldrush

The very first one that came to mind is You Am I's 'Sound As Ever', still one of my favourite albums. If I made a top 10 list, over half of it would probably be You Am I or Tim Rogers!

A couple of these have been mentioned already but off the top of my head I'll add:

Ash Grunwald - Give Signs
Bernard Fanning - Tea & Sympathy
Tim Rogers & The Bamboos - The Rules of Attraction
Alex Lloyd - Black The Sun
Powderfinger - probably Odyssey #5
Ben Lee - Breathing Tornados
Hilltop Hoods - The Calling

ledvedderman

Silverchair- Diorama x 1,000,000

Such a masterpiece

reesdog

No Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds?! About half his albums or more should be on any top Aussie albums list and I'm a kiwi!

Natashapearljamfan

OP great thread....It's too hard to narrow it to 10 albums so many great albums have been mentioned, I have to really think about my list. I'm enjoying reading everyone's favorites.

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eeriepadave said:

Silverchair- Frogstomp or Freak Show
The Vines- Highly Evolved
Wolfmother- Wolfmother
Tame Impala- Lonerism
Jagwar Ma- Howlin
AC/DC- Back in Black
Jet- Get Born
Spiderbait- Tonight Alright
The Living End- The Living End

Love the Highly Evolved album!!

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reesdog said:

No Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds?! About half his albums or more should be on any top Aussie albums list and I'm a kiwi!

He's not in my top 10, although I do acknowledge how good he is. The Boatman's Call is great, but I can't say I listen to him that often. My list is based on albums I consistently keep going back to

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ledvedderman said:

Silverchair- Diorama x 1,000,000

Such a masterpiece

Damn right!! I enjoy all their work, but this album is world class by any standards

pljam

John Butler Trio - April Uprising
" " " - Flesh and blood
" " " - Grand National
Bonjah - Until Dawn
" - Go Go Chaos
Kingfisha - Kingfisha
Screaming Jets - Hits and Pieces
Bernard Fanning - Tea and Symhany
Xavier Rudd - Spirit Bird

helplessdancer

i'm obsessed with paul kelly's "spring and fall" and xavier rudd's "nana"
totally obsessed

eeriepadave

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eeriepadave said:

Silverchair- Frogstomp or Freak Show
The Vines- Highly Evolved
Wolfmother- Wolfmother
Tame Impala- Lonerism
Jagwar Ma- Howlin
AC/DC- Back in Black
Jet- Get Born
Spiderbait- Tonight Alright
The Living End- The Living End

Love the Highly Evolved album!!

yeah i'm a big vines fan. Wish they would tour more, especially in the states. I'll settle for a new album though. Their alst one I thought was one of their best in awhile.

Also forgot Empire of the Sun- Ice on the Dune

I would have put The Sleepy Jackson on here, but don't own any of their albums, just a handful of songs off their first album, Lovers.

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helplessdancer said:

i'm obsessed with paul kelly's "spring and fall" and xavier rudd's "nana"
totally obsessed

Was lucky enough to see Paul Kelly tour the Spring and Fall album. Such a great concert. He played the album from start to finish and explained that the concert would be like listening to a record. Side A was falling in Love and Side B was when the relationship encountered problems. After finishing those songs, he did another hour + of his other stuff. One of the best shows I've seen