Australia's Favourite Album

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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
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
Neil Diamond — Hot August Night
Neil Young — Harvest
Carole King — Tapestry
Pearl Jam — Ten
Fleetwood Mac — Rumours

21–30
Tool — Aenima
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
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
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
The Smashing Pumpkins — Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
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
You Am I — Hi Fi Way
Darren Hayes — The Tension & The Spark
Crowded House — Woodface
Live — Throwing Copper
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

Discuss

www.abc.com.au/myfavouritealbum
 
It's a pretty terrible list, but I guess you cant really expect much better.
 
As I said previously, this was a popular vote for Australia's favourite album. So people nominated the album they liked the best. Obviously, DSoTM got nominated more than anything else. It had nothing to do with the best, the greatest, most unusual, funniest, or anything else. Just the most popular. Grace and OK Computer are not retarded. :) However, if this poll was done again in ten years, I bet neither of them would be in the Top 20, and DSoTM still would be.
 
I dunno; Grace was release 12 years ago, and it really is a good album. Buckley also has the advantage of being a rock'n'roll tragic legend now, as well...

OK Computer is almost 10 years old.
 
That's true about Grace. Dicko panned it because he said it had no songs, and people only remembered the covers on it. I've had that album since it came out, and apart from "Hallelujah" the other two covers are the tracks I like/listen to the least.
 
Not too bad. Glad to see Floyd at number one although I prefer WYWH to DSoTM. Suprised to see Tool featured to be honest.

Ive never understand the hype around Jeff Buckley.
 
1–10
Pink Floyd — Dark Side Of The Moon

11–20
Pink Floyd — Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd — The Wall



21–30
Midnight Oil — 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
Queen — A night at the Opera

31–40
Paul Simon — Graceland
David Bowie — Ziggy Stardust and the spiders from Mars

41–50

Silverchair — Neon Ballroom
The Eagles — Hotel California


51–60
The Cure — Disintegration

Metallica — Master of Puppets
Muse — Absolution

61–70
Prince — Purple Rain
Elton John — Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The Smashing Pumpkins — Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

71–80

Guns N Roses — Appetite For Destruction
INXS — Kick
Def Leppard — Hysteria
Foo Fighters — The Colour and The Shape

81–90
John Farnham — Whispering Jack
Nine Inch Nails — The Downward Spiral

91–100
Ben Folds Five — Whatever and Ever Amen

Out of the list, these are the albums I personally like. Whether they belong in a Top 100 is another story. Some would, some wouldn't.
 
I voted for 10 albums and these got in the list:

Radiohead - OK Computer
Muse - Absolution
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Led Zepplin IV
Tool - Aenima
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf

...therefore, I am pretty happy with the results. I basically voted only for albums I thought had a chance to rech heights with the mainstream voters.

I only have a couple real gripes with the list, like Bat Out of Hell and Anthony Callea...
 
I do like it but it isn't one of my favourite albums.

I don't understand how people are so against Bat Out Of Hell. It is such an epic, theatrical album.
 
Odd seeing AC/DC and Cold Chisel so low in an Australian pick. The Cure trounced the Chisel, classic.