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Comments, Suggestions, Discussions => Lets have a Winge => Topic started by: NerdBurger on Tue 30 Sep 2008 04:49:03
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Another st0000pid aussie album list!!!!
How can you have the most important aussie album and have best of compilations, some horrible disco soundtrack and various artists CD's in the mix?
No Bon Scott ACCA-DACCA!!!! What a travesty! There's a friggin' singing budgie in there! Even worse...Savage Garden! They spell Split Enz as...."Split Endz".
HEY! Don't get me started! >:(
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AC/DC's Back in Black voted Australia's most influential
Article from: Herald Sun
September 29, 2008 12:00am
AUSSIE rockers AC/DC have once again come out on top, this time in a poll of the most influential Australian albums. But there were some surprising inclusions.
It was the album that made AC/DC an international rock phenomenon and has inspired millions of bedroom headbangers to pick up guitars.
So it's no surprise that Back In Black has topped a compilation of the 50 Most Influential Australian Albums. The Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever soundtrack was nominated as the second most influential Australian record by a panel assembled by GQ magazine.
There is bound to be plenty of harrumphing from critics and fans that the Easybeats come in at No. 5, behind The Saints' I'm Stranded and The Birthday Party's Junkyard.
And the panel may have betrayed their collective age with the majority of the records included in the top 50 from the 1980s to now.
There was only one album from the 1960s - The Loved Ones. The Easybeats' Absolute Anthology was released in 1980.
Johnny O'Keefe is a glaring omission, with The Wild One celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
Several artists were also asked to nominate the records they considered influential on their generation with The Living End frontman Chris Cheney citing You Am I's Hourly Daily, and Sydney singer songwriter Josh Pyke selecting Augie March's Sunset Studies.
The magazine's 2008 Music Issue hits stands on Wednesday.
The full list is:
1. ACDC - Back in Black
2. The Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
3. Saints - I'm Stranded
4. The Birthday Party - Junkyard
5. Easybeats - Absolute Anthology
6. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
7. Cold Chisel - East
8. Scientists - Blood Red River
9. Crowded House - Crowded House
10. Silverchair - Young Modern
11. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Good Son
12. Kylie - Kylie
13. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
14. INXS - Kick
15. Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
16. Reels - Quasimodo's Dream
17. Yothu Yindi - Tribal Voice
18. You Am I - Hourly Daily
19. Go Betweens - Liberty Bell and the Black Diamond Express
20. Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls - Gossip
21. The Church - Starfish
22. Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance
23. Hummingbirds - Love Buzz
24. Split Endz - True Colours
25. The Loved Ones - Magic Box
26. Triffids - Calenture
27. Richard Clapton - Girls on the Avenue
28. The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon Is Over
29. Renee Geyer - It's a Man's Man's World
30. Died Pretty - Doughboy Hollow
31. Dirty Three - Sad and Dangerous
32. Divinyls - Divinyls
33. Augie March - Sunset Studies
34. Flash and the Pan - Flash and the Pan
35. Goanna - Spirit of the Place
36. Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes - The Night of the Wolverine
37. Hoodoo Gurus - Mars Needs Guitars
38. Hunters and Collectors - Human Family
39. Icehouse - Primitive Man
40. The Johnny's - Highlights of a Dangerous Life
41. Spiderbait - Grand Slam
42. Models - The Pleasure of your Company
43. Men at Work - Business as Usual
44. Regurgitator - Unit
45. Savage Garden - Savage Garden
46. Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog
47. Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs - Aztecs Live! At Sunbury
48. Underground Lovers - Leaves Me Blind
49. Various Artists - Countdown Silver Jubilee
50. Various Artists - Cannot Buy My Soul (A Kev Carmody Tribute)
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Start ranting...NOW! ;)
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It just beggars belief!
All these so called (probably self-appointed) "experts" are showing is their ignorance of Aussie Music.
Kylie at No.12?? Gimme a break!
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Don't forget the Hunters "Human Family" - the not-so-successful follow up to Human Frailty ;D
How do they justify compilations and a various artists album in the list? Almost too lazy to think of a couple of other albums.
Apologies to Skyhooks, Sports and the Angels. Even Aussie Crawl. They never did anything influential ! >:(
And finally apart from still considering the Bee Gees Australian, you could hardly say that Saturday Night Fever was influential in Australia. Can't recall too many Bee Gees clones springing up on the charts.
Rant complete. :)
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Damn no Ed Kuepper again, apart from his old high school band.
Some really dreadful inclusions and some rather odd ones.
A number of usual suspects as well.
I sort of remember Saturday Night Fever having a few BGs tracks
combined with a number of other artists who aren't even Australian,
plus its an American film soundtrack, I can't see how it even qualifies.
Liberty Bell and the Black Diamond Express is an unusual choice for
best GOBs album. Dead Can Dance are a surprise, deserving however.
Calenture's not the usual best triffids choice ether.
Countdown Silver Jubilee, now that just makes me shake my head.
Cannot Buy My Soul (A Kev Carmody Tribute) is a damn fine album,
but Kev's first album Pillars of society is far more deserving, a true
masterpiece in the way early Dylan albums are.
Well you all can tell my list would be rather different.
ciao bob
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I guess the Enz' "True Colours" gets in by virtue of being recorded in Australia..
Rick Springfield's "Working Class Dog"?? Seriously? Firstly, recorded in America by someone who had all but become an American, and secondly - what influence did it have other than causing people to change stations?
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What!...No Mark Holden!!!. Just Kiddin. He's probably on the countdown silver jubilee album anyway
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They'd be better off asking punters in the street than whatever "experts" they've consulted for this list!
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What a piss poor effort *shakes head*
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At least Died Pretty got in there.
No V-Capri tho? [joking!!!!] ;D
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No Masters Apprentices ....but Kylie??? Who did she influence??
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She influenced me to turn off my radio....
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I'm no fan of Kylie, either, but she has definitely been influential in pop and dance, in terms of musical style, fashion and the spectacle of her performances. She is absolutely huge in Europe and pretty popular in the US (from time to time) as well. That particular album, and at no.12? Definitely not. But influential? Definitely yes.
In my book, anyone whom Wayne Coyne wants to cover can't be entirely bad.