Triple J want to know if you think they play too much Skip Hop! No, actually, they’re asking you to vote in a poll they’re conducting of the hottest 100 Australian albums of all time. To get your minds thinking, they took a poll of 175 Triple J disc jockeys, festival and tour promoters, bookers and ‘industry figures’ to come up with an ‘industry voted’ hottest 100.
They also polled a number of local artists to get their thoughts on must have Aussie albums in the list, who included Chris Cheney of The Living End, Powderfinger, Art vs Science, Cut Copy, Birds of Tokyo, The Grates, Hilltop Hoods and The Avalanches. Indeed it was the latter that took out the industry nominated gong, with their 2000 mash up masterpiece Since I Left You voted the greatest album of all time, ahead of INXS’ 1987 chart topper Kick and AC/DC’s 1980 comeback masterpiece, Back In Black.
Interestingly, only four female artists or female fronted bands were included in the list, and despite what you may hear incessantly throughout the day on the youth network, the industry thumbed its nose at Skip Hop, with no Aussie hip hop represented in the list. You can have your say in the public vote here
Industry’s Hottest 100 of all time 2011
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 and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By – 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
