(My Own) 100 Greatest Australian Artists of All-time

Intro: yet another insane list posted on my blog today! As I say in the brackets it’s my own which meaning who’s the very most important to me personally, OK? It’s a mix of currently working acts and acts no longer working or from the past. Mainly really kicking off in late 70’s but they’re some before that time. Anyway I’m humbly suggest are the best or I should say just love the very most, OK? I guess, inspired by or because of that edited down version of RS mags top 50 list I’ve been re-posting earlier this month, thinking about it while re-posting those and as you can see, I’d had to double the grand total number plus are in some kind-of order. Amazingly with numbers 1 to 100 which I don’t normally do on anything, you might notices is a bit different for me? Take all this with a grain of salt because I could easy re-order it tomorrow or sometime? You know, because I don’t rate things, never really have here on my blog but I think, it does a pretty good job showing what I do love the most or the very, very best!

Also trying something totally different that’s might be a bit odd too, I’m linking one song below, it’s a bit of a mystery because I’m NOT naming it below in this post itself? By clicking on the link below should take you to one track on YouTube I’ve decided is a good one to represented the acts’ whole back catalog. If you wanna go clicking mad you can see/hear if I did a good/not bad job at picking just one track? I guess, it’s more or mostly indie acts and bigger part of it is punk stuff included below too! Let’s finish this long intro thingy and just get on with it, here is my very own 100 Greatest Australian Artists of All-time:

1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. The Drones
3. HTRK
4. The Triffids
5. Ed Kuepper
6. Dirty Three
7. The Necks
8. Augie March
9. Magic Dirt
10. Kev Carmody
11. The Paradise Motel
12. Lost Animal
13. Eddy Current Suppression Ring
14. Beasts Of Bourbon
15. Laughing Clowns
16. Primitive Calculators
17. Scientists
18. My Disco
19. Sarah Blasko
20. Archie Roach
21. Paul Kelly
22. You Am I
23. The Birthday Party
24. The Go-Betweens
25. The Saints
26. King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard
27. Regurgitator
28. Seekae
29. Jen Cloher
30. Jimmy Little
31. Dave Graney ‘N’ The Coral Snakes
32. Died Pretty
33. Hard-Ons
34. The Cruel Sea
35. Rowland S. Howard
36. Severed Heads
37. The Avalanches
38. X
39. The Blackeyed Susans
40. Warumpi Band
41. Don Walker
42. Holly Throsby
43. Tumbleweed
44. The Mark Of Cain
45. Cosmic Psychos
46. GOD
47. Courtney Barnett
48. Not From There
49. theredsunband
50. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
51. Alex Cameron
52. Kim Salmon & The Surrealists
53. Venom P. Stinger
54. Crime & The City Solution
55. Divinyls
56. Hoodoo Gurus
57. The Church
58. The Reels
59. The Meanies
60. Essendon Airport
61. Pel Mel
62. Use No Hooks
63. Bluetile Lounge
64. Ricaine
65. Palm Springs
66. Witch Hats
67. PVT
68. Gerling
69. Lubricated Goat
70. Little Ugly Girls
71. The Lighthouse Keepers
72. Australian Crawl
73. Custard
74. Abbe May
75. Spencer P. Jones
76. Ben Salter
77. Vic Simms
78. Stephen Cummings/The Sports
79. Charlie Marshall & The Body Electric
80. UV Race
81. Tendrils
82. The Victims
83. Manikins
84. Bird Blobs
85. The Fauves
86. TISM
87. High Tension
88. The Nation Blue
89. Kirin J. Callinan
90. The Peep Tempel
91. Deaf Wish
92. Snowman
93. Beaches
94. Standish/Carlyon
95. The Clouds
96. Falling Joys
97. The Celibate Rifles
98. Daddy Cool
99. Kylie Minogue
100. AC/DC

That is it, what do you think? What or who did you click on? I bet no one clicked on all one hundred? Maybe, should have just made a playlist! I don’t know why I haven’t done something like this before because I do bang on about Aussie music a little bit! So some musicians appear under different acts but I’ve try to limited them. Like it’s Warren Ellis who seem to has top the first muso to be in a couple of acts, both in top ten which are Dirty Three and The Bad Seeds also he was in line-ups of both The Blackeyed Susans and Charlie Marshall & The Body Electric, you know?

After editing out or not re-posting both Kylie and Acca Dacca from Aussie RS mag list, I’ve included them as the closing couple acts as number #99 and #100 so kind-of changing my mind already. It could be say it’s 99 Aussie acts I prefer before AC/DC as well. Sorry to everyone who missed but I can’t include everyone, even with 100 on the list I’ve missed some really great ones out. So I could have easy most likely done 150 or 200 or something? But above is my own version of what I think is most important Aussie music in my very, very biased opinion. Like I’d kind-of say above in the intro it seems I’ve culling out a lot of the well-known or more mainstream acts but they don’t really need me to list them because they’re on just about every other list like this eg. the RS mag that I was just kind-of re-posting. Well, I did think very briefly to blog a post per act or breaking it down into five or ten or something per post but that might be even more mad, what do you think? But it gives you, dear reader/listener no idea about who each artist is? Other than one song, which might be a big huge problem! If you google them hopefully you’ll find something about them? Wanna ask any questions about any artist/s above, please do?

Love to know, who your own favorite Aussie acts are too, please? Love to see/hear any other bloggers doing your own list too? Or have you already do it, please give me a link or something? Anyone else readers/listeners or even bloggers that can’t be fucked doing something as long as this? Do you what to say something about it all! Please do below?

As you can see I’ve just used the front cover of that RS mag, I didn’t know what other image to use? Off course my own list some of these artists are missing, not that they’re bad or anything, you know?

Cheers! 🙂