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The top 50 Australian albums ever (according to The Age)

The Age (it's a newspaper - yeah, they still make newspapers! ha!) today released their definite list of what they reckon are the top fifty BEST EVER Australian albums.

1. Midnight Oil - 10 to 1
2. Skyhooks - Living in the 1970s
3. Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
4. The Saints - I'm Stranded
5. Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos
6. You Am I - Hifi Way
7. Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls - Gossip
8. INXS - Kick
9. Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
10. AC/DC - Back In Black
11. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
12. Crowded House - Crowded House
13. The Easybeats - Easy
14. Loved Ones - Magic Box
15. AC/DC - Highway To Hell
16. Sunnyboys - Sunnyboys
17. INXS - The Swing
18. Go-Betweens - 16 Lover's Lane
19. Hunters and Collectors - Human Frailty
20. Drones - Wait Long By the River and The Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By
21. Archie Roach - Charcoal
22. You Am I - Hourly, Daily
23. Avalanches - Since I Left You
24. AC/DC - High Voltage
25. Saints - Prodigal Son
26. Cold Chisel - East
27. Cold Chisel - Circus Animals
28. Died Pretty - Doughboy Hollow
29. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Good Son
30. Paul Kelly - Post
31. Richard Clapton - Tiger
32. Beasts of Bourbon - Low Life
33. Daddy Cool - Daddy Who
34. Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
35. Rose Tattoo - Rose Tattoo
36. Even - Less Is More
37. AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
38. Flowers - Icehouse
39. Chain - Toward The Blues
40. The Easybeats - Anthology
41. Stephen Cummings - Lovetown
42. The Angels - Face to Face
43. Crowded House - Woodface
44. Go-Betweens - Liberty
45. Regurgitator - Tu Plang
46. The Whitlams - Eternal Nightcap
47. Silverchair - Diorama
48. The Church - Starfish
49. Master Apprentices - A Toast to Panama
50. Jet - Get Born

Big-ups up to the Drones, Avalanches and Birthday Party for (somehow) getting onto list, which as a whole, is pretty fucking poor.

And the panel who put their collective brains together to come up with the list were...

Patrick Donovan, Andrew Murfett, Shaun Carney, Katy Steele, Chris Johnston, Jo Roberts, Kylie Northover, Jeff Glorfeld, Michael Dwyer, Craig Mathieson, Barb Walters, Gary Munro, Larry Schwartz, Khalil Hegarty, Patrick Smithers, Karl Quinn, Mahalia Barnes, Darren Seltmann, Stephen Cummings, Joel Ma, Missy Higgins, Andy Baylor, Dan Warner, Ella Thompson, Phil Gianfriddo, Clinton Walker, Mary Mihelakos, Neil Wedd, Keith Glass, Laura Jean, John Watson, Rae Harvey, Murray Engleheart, Jeff Jenkins, Billy Pinnell, Neil Rogers, Amanda Roff, Dylan Lewis, Clem Bastow, Bruce Milne, Ella Hooper, Ian McFarlane, Brian Wise, Kath Letch, Ed Nimmervoll, Ed St John, Patti Revson, Stuart Coupe, Michael Gudinski, Sarah Morgan, Craig Kamber, Brian De Courcy, Jane Rocca, Vivian Lees, Warwick Brown, Paul Oldham, Dave Laing, Steve Cross, Steve Tauschke, Michael Coppel, Karen Leng, Kav Temperley, Emily York, Robbie Buck, and Glenn A Baker.

Hmmm.. John Watson? And only one Silverchair record? Ha?

Some notable omissions include:

1. any album by Ratcat
2. any album by The Cult
3. Tucker B's - Chubby
4. Witch Hats - Cellulite Soul
5. that new Cut Copy record
6. the upcoming Vital Organs EP