Hottest 100 Australian Albumsof All Time countdown

The wise heads of the music business declared that The Avalanche’s Since I Left You is the greatest album ever recorded by folks with Australian passports, but which albums are the Hottest local records for triple j listeners?

The voting has closed and now the results are ready to be released – by dripfeed. So soon we’ll know the answers to the important questions: How many Nick Cave albums will make the cut? How many records that never got played on triple j will make the cut? Can Striborg sneak onto the list? And how many albums will provoke angry grumbling about how triple j has ‘lost it’?

The Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time (listener’s choice)
#1 Odyssey Number 5 – Powderfinger
#2 Frogstomp – Silverchair
#3 Back In Black – AC/DC
#4 The Living End – The Living End
#5 Kick – INXS
#6 Internationalist – Powderfinger
#7 Apocalypso – The Presets
#8 Wolfmother – Wolfmother
#9 Since I Left You- The Avalanches
#10 Unit – Regurgitator
#11 Like Drawing Blood – Gotye
#12 Guide to Better Living – Grinspoon
#13 Crowded House – Crowded House
#14 Vulture Street – Powderfinger
#15 Slightly Odway – Jebediah
#16 The Hard Road – Hilltop Hoods
#17 Eternal Nightcap – The Whitlams
#18 Woodface – Crowded House
#19 Innerspeaker – Tame Impala
#20 Conditions – The Temper Trap
#21 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 – Midnight Oil
#22 Diorama – Silverchair
#23 The Calling – Hilltop Hoods
#24 Sunrise Over Sea – The John Butler Trio
#25 Get Born – Jet
#26 Hourly, Daily – You Am I
#27 Neon Ballroom – Silverchair
#28 The Cat Empire – The Cat Empire
#29 The Sound of White – Missy Higgins
#30 Themata – Karnivool
#31 Down the Way – Angus & Julia Stone
#32 Universes – Birds of Tokyo
#33 Diesel and Dust – Midnight Oil
#34 Memories & Dust – Josh Pyke
#35 Hi Fi Way – You Am I
#36 In Ghost Colours – Cut Copy
#37 Highly Evolved – The Vines
#38 A Book Like This – Angus & Julia Stone
#39 Birds of Tokyo – Birds of Tokyo
#40 Echolalia – Something for Kate
#41 Double Allergic – Powderfinger
#42 East – Cold Chisel
#43 Freak Show – Silverchair
#44 Tu-Plang – Regurgitator
#45 Sound Awake – Karnivool
#46 Walking On A Dream – Empire Of The Sun
#47 Black Fingernails, Red Wine – Eskimo Joe
#48 Ivy and the Big Apples – Spiderbait
#49 Whispering Jack – John Farnham
#50 The New Normal – Cog
#51 I Believe You Liar – Washington
#52 Murder Ballads – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
#53 Three – The John Butler Trio
#54 Tea & Sympathy – Bernard Fanning
#55 Blue Sky Mining – Midnight Oil
#56 Bliss Release – Cloud Control
#57 The Honeymoon Is Over – The Cruel Sea
#58 New Detention – Grinspoon
#59 As Day Follows Night – Sarah Blasko
#60 We Are Born – Sia
#61 Hold Your Colour – Pendulum
#62 Cruel Guards – The Panics
#63 Grand National – The John Butler Trio
#64 Polyserena – george
#65 Cold Chisel – Cold Chisel
#66 Running on Air – Bliss N Eso
#67 Flying Colours – Bliss N Eso
#68 The Experiment – Art vs. Science
#69 Gossip – Paul Kelly and The Coloured Girls
#70 Young Modern – Silverchair
#71 Beams – The Presets
#72 Beautiful Sharks – Something For Kate
#73 Highway To Hell – AC/DC
#74 The Overture & The Underscore – Sarah Blasko
#75 Living In The 70s – Skyhooks
#76 Human Frailty – Hunters & Collectors
#77 Immersion – Pendulum
#78 Lovers – The Sleepy Jackson
#79 Gravity Won’t Get You High – The Grates
#80 (I’m) Stranded – The Saints
#81 Feeler – Pete Murray
#82 Up All Night – The Waifs
#83 Wonder – Lisa Mitchell
#84 16 Lovers Lane – The Go-Betweens
#85 State Of The Art – Hilltop Hoods
#86 This Is The Warning – Dead Letter Circus
#87 A Song Is A City – Eskimo Joe
#88 Imago – The Butterfly Effect
#89 Pnau – Pnau
#90 The Long Now – Children Collide
#91 Gilgamesh – Gypsy & The Cat
#92 A Man’s Not A Camel – Frenzal Rhomb
#93 Moo, You Bloody Choir – Augie March
#94 Everything Is True – Paul Dempsey
#95 Stoneage Romeos – Hoodoo Gurus
#96 Paging Mr. Strike – Machine Gun Fellatio
#97 Begins Here – The Butterfly Effect
#98 The Boatman’s Call – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
#99 Thrills, Kills & Sunday Pills – Grinspoon
#100 Two Shoes – The Cat Empire

Check out the industry voted Hottest 100 Australian Albums of All Time list