Ooh Yeah I'm A Wild One

awfurby — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:20:20 -0800

50 years ago Johnny O'Keefe released "Wild One" and Australia had its first homegrown rock'n'roll star. To commemorate the 50th year of Australian rock'n'roll The Age newspaper has asked various Australian music industry figures to pick the top 50 Australian albums (scroll down for the Top 50 - or check the (more inside)). The Top 24 with some YouTube links to songs from the albums: 1 "10.9.8.7.6.5.4.3.2.1" Midnight Oil (1981) Power and the Passion Only the Strong 2 "Radios Appear" Radio Birdman (1977) Aloha Steve and Dano 3 "Living in the 70s" Skyhooks (1974) Horror Movie 4 "Hi-Fi Way" You Am I (1995) Cathy's Clown Purple Sneakers 5 "Stoneage Romeos" Hoodoo Gurus (1984) Leilani Tojo 6 "Gossip" Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls (1986) Darling It Hurts 7 "(I'm) Stranded" the Saints (1977) I'm Stranded 8 "Kick" INXS (1987) Devil Inside 9 "Diesel and Dust Midnight Oil" (1987) Beds are Burning 10 "Back in Black" AC/DC (1980) Back in Black 11 "Magic Box" Loved Ones (1967) The Loved One Ever Lovin' Man 12 "Easy" The Easybeats (1965) Friday On My Mind She's So Fine 13 "Born Sandy Devotional" The Triffids (1986) Wide Open Road 14 "Crowded House" Crowded House (1986) Don't Dream It's Over 15 "Human Frailty" Hunters and Collectors (1986) Say Goodbye 16 "High Voltage" AC/DC (1976) It's A Long Way To the Top (If You Wanna Rock n' Roll) 17 "Sunnyboys" Sunnyboys (1981) Alone With You 18 "Wait Long By The River and the Bodies of Your Enemies will Float By" The Drones (2005) www.thedrones.com.au - can't find any videos from this album on YouTube, except for some live vids with bad sound quality, so go to the official site for some better vids. 19 "16 Lovers Lane" Go-Betweens (1988) Was There Anything I Could Do? 20 "Prehistoric Sounds" The Saints (1988) 21 "Circus Animals" Cold Chisel (1980) Forever Now 22 "Hourly, Daily" You Am I (1996) Good Mornin' Soldiers Soldiers (live) Good Mornin' (live) 23 "East" Cold Chisel (1980) Cheap Wine 24 "Doughboy Hollow" Died Pretty (1991) DC Sweetheart And the rest (with vids on a couple of choice picks): 25 "Goodbye Tiger" Richard Clapton (1977) 26 "Daddy Who" Daddy Cool (1971) 27 "Prayers on Fire" The Birthday Party (1981) 28 "Charcoal Lane" Archie Roach (1992) 29 "Rose Tattoo" Rose Tattoo (1978) 30 "Less is More" Even (1996) 31 "Let There Be Rock" AC/DC (1977) Let There Be Rock (Hard Ons & Henry Rollins) 32 "Since I Left You" The Avalanches (2001) Frontier Psychiatrist 33 "Flowers" Icehouse (1980) 34 "Toward the Blues" Chain (1971) 35 "Anthology" The Easybeats (2000) 36 "The Good Son" Nick Cave (1990) 37 "Highway to Hell" AC/DC (1979) 38 "The Low Road" Beasts of Bourbon (1991) Chase the Dragon 39 "The Swing" INXS (1984) 40 "Lovetown" Stephen Cummings (1988) 41 "Face to Face" The Angels (1978) 42 "Post" Paul Kelly (1985) 43 "Woodface" Crowded house (1991) 44 "Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express" Go-Betweens (1986) 45 "Tu Plang" Regurgitator (1996) 46 "Eternal Nightcap" The Whitlams (1997) 47 "Diorama" Silverchair (2002) 48 "Starfish" The Church (1988) 49 "A Toast to Panama Red" Masters' Apprentices (1972) 50 "Get Born" Jet (2003)

A prize goes to whomever does the best pastiche of a prominent poster from last year's version of this thread.

kenko — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 23:55:59 -0800

Everyone is aware, I'm sure, that year-end or best–however many lists are really just not that interesting, and the discussion surrounding them falls along similar lines all the time. However, someone always links to them anyway. Here's Pitchfork's, of the top 50 albums of this year. Here's some guy's top ten of 2004. Two writers for Dusted (the rest to be linked from this page, theoretically). Stylus Magazine's picks, and those of Pop Matters.

Top 50 albums of 2002

mathowie — Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:30:38 -0800

And so it begins: while I've already seen half a dozen "best ___ of 2002" lists, the year end list I look forward to, Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums list is out for 2002. It's just the right mix between "so mainstream there are no surprises" and "so indie even your second cousin's girlfriend's brother in that band hasn't heard of them" though perhaps they're leaning towards the latter this year, seeing how I've only heard about a quarter of all the albums listed.

Darke — Thu, 06 Dec 2001 10:04:27 -0800

NME has picked their top 50 albums of 2001 They picked The Stroke's "Is This It." We haven't had a music discussion thread lately, so the opportunity arises to ask the question: What was your favorite album of 2001?

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Ooh Yeah I'm A Wild One

A prize goes to whomever does the best pastiche of a prominent poster from last year's version of this thread.

Top 50 albums of 2002