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  1. Jan 26, 2014 · Other artists featured in the countdown include Paul Kelly, Stevie Wright, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Crowded House, Australian Crawl, Hunters & Collectors, The Saints and more. MAX surveyed some of the country’s greatest songwriters and artists to decide the Top 100.

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    • ‘Boys In Town’ – Divinyls. You’d be hard-pressed to find a debut single that sets the bar as high as this sultry stomper. When Chrissy Amphlett passed away in 2013, many in the Australian music industry cited this as one of their favourite songs ever, and it’s not hard to hear why.
    • ‘Beds Are Burning’ – Midnight Oil. With a song as overtly political as ‘Beds Are Burning’, it’s no surprise that Midnight Oil have gone on to be considered one of the most important Australian bands of all time.
    • ‘Tomorrow’ – Silverchair. If you’re ever in need of an inferiority complex, just remember that the members of Silverchair were only 15 when they wrote and recorded this song.
    • ‘Errol’ – Australian Crawl. What could be more Australian than a track by a band whose name actually includes the word ‘Australian’ in it? Why, it would be a song by that very band about one of Australia’s most famous exports, actor Errol Flynn.
  2. Appearance. APRA's Top 30 Australian songs was a list created by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 2001, to celebrate its 75th anniversary. [ 1 ] A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the "ten best and most significant Australian songs of the past 75 years". The top ten songs, in numerical order, were ...

  3. But ‘Calendar Days’, the best song in the Dick Diver arsenal, is precisely that; a little slice of kindness, designed to make you lean back a little in your chair and let your arms go slack. — JE. #181. Angus & Julia Stone — ‘Chateau’. At their best, Angus & Julia Stone are capable of writing truly transcendent songs.

    • The Godfather: Michael Gudinski Launches Mushroom. Michael Gudinski was the first to acknowledge his ignorance. He could have been better at selling watermelons, for instance.
    • Chart Attack: ARIA Introduces Australia’s First Official Music Charts. The claims about the demise of the music sales charts have been grossly overblown.
    • Big Day Out Bags Nirvana. 1992 became a pivotal year for Australia. We had survived the necessary recession; the ABC introduced two bananas dressed in pyjamas, Queensland rejected daylight saving time, the Prime Minister acquired the nickname “the Lizard of Oz” after caressing the monarch’s back, and, most importantly, Australian music underwent a permanent transformation.
    • The Countdown Revolution Begins on ABC TV. It’s hard to communicate the significance of Countdown to someone who wasn’t of a specific age at the time.
  4. Jul 30, 2016 · I Still Call Australia Home – Peter Allen. Most iconic Australian songs are sure to remind any Aussie of home, however, it is this song that brings goosebumps to our arms every time. Originally released in 1980 by Peter Allan, I Still Call Australia Home became an iconic song when performed by children’s choirs in 1997 for Qantas ...

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  6. Jan 15, 2014 · The full list of contributing artists for Top 100 Greatest Australian Songs of All Time. Alex Lloyd. Andrew Duffield (Models) Andrew Stockdale (Wolfmother) Brian Canham (Pseudo Echo) Chris Cheney (The Living End) Darren Hayes. Darren Middleton (Powderfinger) Daryl Braithwaite.

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