Powderfinger Named ‘Hottest Of All Time’; Striborg Misses Out
News posted Sunday, July 10 2011 at 07:00 PM.
Related: Triple J, Powderfinger, Striborg.
More than 47,000 triple j listeners have named Powderfinger’s Odyssey Number Five the Hottest Australian Album of All Time.
The band’s 2000 album – their fourth – was announced the winner of the national poll on triple j earlier this afternoon (July 10). It beat out the likes of silverchair’s Frogstomp (#2), AC/DC’s Back In Black (#3), The Living End by The Living End (#4) and Gilgamesh by Gypsy & The Cat (#91). It marked Powderfinger’s fourth entry into the poll, with the Internationalist (#6), Vulture Street (#14) and Double Allergic (#41) also making the cut. Only three Powderfinger albums – Parables for Wooden Ears, Dream Days at the Hotel Existence and Golden Rule – failed to make the top 100, while singer Bernard Fanning's 2005 solo album Tea & Sympathy came in at #54.
Powderfinger, who called it quits after a national tour last year, expressed their gratitude to voters on Twitter: “Thanks to all you voters & @triplej. We're so excited & grateful for the love.”
Despite a guerrilla campaign by M+N, which included stickers, Solitude by Tasmanian black metal legend Striborg failed to make the top 100, leading us to question the poll’s validity. However, M+N successfully predicted nine out of the top 10 albums. Credibility restored!
THE HOTTEST 100 AUSTRALIAN ALBUMS OF ALL TIME:
1. Odyssey Number Five - 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 - 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
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Art vs Science is the one that has me baffled.
just that one has you baffled? the rest is pretty spot on?
the rest is as expected.
The lack of Severed Heads and the existence of the Presets have me baffled.
Not surprised though. If the Presets didn't exist we would have to invent them.
What a disgrace of a list... This entire list shows the power of the Bogan vote.
Fuck off and go play sex on fire
anybody actually listened to all of these albums?
for that matter, anybody actually heard all of these ?
to give some answers to my own questions - I've heard, at some point, 23 of the 100 jjj list (1, 2, 6, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18, 19, 22, 27, 28, 29, 37, 40, 41, 52, 54, 64, 72, 74, 93, 98) and listened to about 10 of those more than once (9, 11, 17, 27, 37, 52, 72, 74, 93, 98) all of which probably tells you more about my age and friends than anything else.
yes yes, as probably you have too, I've heard the singles from many of the artists listed, but who knows, maybe something magical happens when they put a whole album of songs together…
Let us all observe a moment of respectful silence for the taste of the average triple j listener. Ashes to ashes...
Bluebottle Kiss- Doubt seeds.
I guess that list is a pretty good indicator as to why I listen to abc classical fm when I listen to the radio.
surely someone has already ranted about the death of the album somewhere around here, and its subsequent irrelevance to young people today...
NEWS JUST IN: People who don't like triple j disagree with triple j poll.
regardless of that the fact that i 'don't like tripe j and hence disagree with the poll', what i don't get is this:
it's a best 100 of all time list but it's littered with shitty releases from the last two years. doesn't it take a little more time to establish if something's truly a classic? i mean, the temper trap at number 20?
Triple J mentioned over and over and over that it wasn't a 'best 100 of all time list', and that it was simply a listener poll of their favourite albums, as of right now. Anyone upset that 'Release X is no where near the best album ever', guess what, no one ever said it was about the best albums..
Ah, who cares? It's fun to hate triple j and they make it so easy.
I think cog were deserving of #50.
It surely is, and privately I do my fair share of it. I just prefer a nice informed insult. By attacking a particular type of music or radio station with no understanding or knowledge of it, a lot of people here are not better than the 'bogans' they spend their time railing against.
Evilio, what do ''bogans'' have to do with anything?
STOP HATING ON BOGANS YA BLOODY POOFTAS.
cracks open can of beer, and puts on Acca Dacca
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OF ALL TIME
glances at watch
Did anyone on mess and noise vote seriously? If not then you can't really complain about the shite that won. I don't know 1 person that voted (I also did not vote) therefore I am not surprised that this shit won. If you want good music to win you gotta vote for it. Why would you though, this whole thing is super gross.
I voted for the same reason I sign Avaaz petitions and work for the Greens, because there are so many people who for one reason or another are uninformed and/or stupid, and the good people, good ideas and good music deserves to have someone in its corner.
Of my list only The Avalanches made it into the Top 100. I'm kind of surprised, given the sheer number of people with shit music taste who voted, that The Go Between snuck in there at all (16 Lovers Lane at 84). WHEN would these youth have heard that album or anything from it?
Everyone voted for Striborg.
I voted for a bunch of other shit but really, I don't give two fucks which way this poll lands. I'm pretty sure I'll never be a 'triple j person'. Good people, good ideas and good music sometimes just need to exist in their own corner.
They do already. But they're GOOD untold, therefore everyone needs to know!
But if you spread the good stuff to the 'wrong' people, you curse it with backlash!
Of all the Powderfinger albums, Odyssey Number 5 is my favourite.
I did not vote though.
i voted. unit got the highest of albums i voted for. my number 1 pick was stoneage romeos. there's hardly 94 albums in all of music better than that so i was disillusioned with the whole countdown about two minutes into it.
Hmmm...I guess that must have happened to some degree since the Go Betweens, HUnters and Collectors and The Saints made it in and they'd be getting next to no help from the Js. Is there much backlash against them?
Wonder if they'll release a 101-200 like they did a few years back on Kingsmill's blog.
how many of the votes for whispering jack were genuine and how many ironic? fuck that noise
Who cares?
PANAMA!
There was that ''Write Your Adventures Down'' CD/concert/video extravaganza of JJJ favourites like Bob Evans covering them, a sizeable amount of listeners might have investigated from there. I reckon the list partly skewed lamestream because JJJ rarely plays old stuff, and so most of what they would have heard from 10 years or 20 years ago is stuff they've found on other radio stations like MMM (etc).
subjectivity
Eddie should have died his hair neon green for that Panama clip .....
Powderfingered
Wow. That top ten itself is just weird. I'm pissed that custard didn't even make the list. So people who now listen to triple j are bogan/mor? Oh dear.
I've only heard 10 of those albums in their entirety... I feel very ignorant.
