GQ List of Most Influential Aussie Album = FAILZ! :(

[NerdBurger]

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! 

[Beergut]

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!

[oldshepp]

Don't forget the Hunters "Human Family" - the not-so-successful follow up to Human Frailty   

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.

[bob]

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

[Dr Keats]

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?

[summercity]

What!...No Mark Holden!!!.   Just Kiddin. He's probably on the countdown silver jubilee album anyway

[Chiko Vincent]

They'd be better off asking punters in the street than whatever "experts" they've consulted for this list!

[togmayday]

What a  piss poor effort *shakes head*

[panda61]

At least Died Pretty got in there.

No V-Capri tho? [joking!!!!] 

[dopamine]

No Masters Apprentices ....but Kylie??? Who did she influence??

[Beergut]

She influenced me to turn off my radio....

[kushiro]

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.