Hottest 100 Australian Albumsof All Time

Thanks to triple j we know that the hottest song of 2010 was Angus & Julia Stone’s Big Jet Plane; that Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Sprit is the hottest song ever written and that women can’t write decent tunes. Now the national broadcaster is looking for your help to find the Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time.

You can only vote for full length albums – so no EPs, mini-albums or greatest hits collections allowed – and, of course, the bands must be Australian. Australian citizens who currently and mainly work overseas are fine – Hello, Nick Cave, AC/DC and Kylie! As are overseas born musicians who live (or have lived) and have (or have had) a base in Australia – we think that’s called the ‘ Crowded House clause’.

To get you thinking about which albums you might include in your votes triple j asked more than 175 musicians and ‘industry experts’ – including FasterLouder’s editor Sarah Smith, The Living End’s Chris Cheney, Dan Sultan, Gareth Liddiard, Megan Washington, Patience Hodgson from the Grates and the Splendour In The Grass and Laneway promoters – for their favourite Australian albums of all time.

The expert panel’s top 100 Australian Albums of All Time:

1.Since I Left You – The Avalanches
2.Kick – INXS
3.Back in Black – AC/DC
4.Hourly, Daily – You Am I
5.Woodface – Crowded House
6.Born Sandy Devotional – The Triffids
7.Diesel and Dust – Midnight Oil
8.10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 – Midnight Oil
9.Hi Fi Way – You Am I
10.Lovers – The Sleepy Jackson
11.16 Lovers Lane – The Go-Betweens
12.(I’m) Stranded – The Saints
13.Unit – Regurgitator
14.Crowded House – Crowded House
15.Gossip – Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls
16.Like Drawing Blood – Gotye
17.Sunset Studies – Augie March
18.Innerspeaker – Tame Impala
19.Gala Mill – The Drones
20.Murder Ballads – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
21.East – Cold Chisel
22.In Ghost Colours – Cut Copy
23.Let Love In – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
24.Wait Long by the River… – The Drones
25.Apocalypso – The Presets
26.The Swing – INXS
27.Highly Evolved – The Vines
28.Starfish – The Church
29.Internationalist – Powderfinger
30.Tu-Plang – Regurgitator
31.As Day Follows Night – Sarah Blasko
32.Diorama – silverchair
33.Highway to Hell – AC/DC
34.Magic Box – The Loved Ones
35.Junkyard – The Birthday Party
36.Radios Appear – Radio Birdman
37.The Boatman’s Call – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
38.Havilah – The Drones
39.Stoneage Romeos – Hoodoo Gurus
40.Slightly Odway – Jebediah
41 Teenage Snuff Film – Rowland S. Howard
42 Walking on a Dream – Empire of the Sun
43 Frogstomp – Silverchair
44 Moo, You Bloody Choir – Augie March
45 Odyssey Number Five – Powderfinger
46 Sunnyboys – Sunnyboys
47 Sex – The Necks
48 Dream It Down – Underground Lovers
49 Friends in Danger – Magic Dirt
50 What Rhymes With Cars and Girls – Tim Rogers & The Twin Set
51 Tender Prey – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
52 The Living End – The Living End
53 Primary Colours – Eddy Current Suppression Ring
54 The Honeymoon Is Over – The Cruel Sea
55 The Calling – Hilltop Hoods
56 Under the Sun – Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls
57 Beams – The Presets
58 Horse Stories – Dirty Three
59 Whispering Jack – John Farnham
60 Henry’s Dream – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
61 Powerage – AC/DC
62 Wires – Art of Fighting
63 Children of Telepathic Experiences – Gerling
64 No More Shall We Part – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
65 Post – Paul Kelly
66 Prayers on Fire – The Birthday Party
67 Personality: One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird – The Sleepy Jackson
68 Dirty Three – Dirty Three
69 Bright Like Neon Love – Cut Copy
70 Charcoal Lane – Archie Roach
71 Easy – The Easybeats
72 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap – AC/DC
73 Tumbleweed – Tumbleweed
74 Young and Full of the Devil – Magic Dirt
75 Circus Animals – Cold Chisel
76 Ocean Songs – Dirty Three
77 Gurrumul – Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
78 Your Funeral… My Trial – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
79 Calenture – The Triffids
80 Sound as Ever – You Am I
81 Whatever You Love, You Are – Dirty Three
82 The New Normal – Cog
83 Young Modern – Silverchair
84 Eternal Nightcap – The Whitlams
85 The Good Son – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
86 Fever – Kylie Minogue
87 X-Aspirations – X
88 T.N.T. – AC/DC
89 Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express – The Go-Betweens
90 The Dissociatives – The Dissociatives
91 Knights of the Underground Table – Def Wish Cast
92 Blue Sky Mining – Midnight Oil
93 Colour the Small One – Sia
94 Granddance – Dappled Cities
95 Great Truckin’ Songs of the Renaissance – TISM
96 Blind Love – Ratcat
97 Drowning in the Fountain of Youth – Dan Kelly and The Alpha Males
98 Skeleton Jar – Youth Group
99 Flowers – Icehouse
100 Living in the 70’s – Skyhooks

As a reward for offering up your picks one lucky voter will win triple j’s Green & Golden ticket – free entry for you and a friend to all the Australian artist gigs that station supports for an entire year.

To vote for your own favourites head to the Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time poll booth