SILVERCHAIR have taken out a substantial chunk of Rolling Stone's rankings for the best Australian albums of all time.
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The Newcastle band racked up five albums in the list, including one in the top ten.
Frogstomp finished number six in the list to pip Crowded House, Kylie Minogue and The Avalanches.
Diorama narrowly missed out on a place in the top 20, coming in at 22, while Freakshow finished 46, Neon Ballroom at 66 and Young Modern at 133.
Machine Gun Fellatio, whose founded members include Newcastle's Glenn Dormand (aka Chit Chat von Loopin Stab) also scored a spot on the list with album Paging Mr Strike.
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The top five were AC/DC's Back in Black, INXS' Kick, John Farnham's Whispering Jack, Cold Chisel's East and Midnight Oil's Diesel and Dust.
The list is featured in the December edition, with deep dives on the full 200 recordings.
Rolling Stone Australia editor Tylor Jenke said it had been an honour to delve through the list as it came together.
"It's been an amazing experience to go in-depth with many of these records, realising and understanding the blood, sweat, and tears that went into making each and every one," he said.
"It's been an honour to go back and listen to all of these records, rediscovering some old favourites, uncovering some new favourites, and shining a light on some of this country's finest artists."
The two oldest albums came out within months of each other in 1965, with the most recent releases put out during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The most common year of release for albums on the list was 1991, with the average year 1997.
More than 800 industry figures, journalists, producers and artists were called on to help compile the final list based on the cultural and critical impact of each record.
The list
1 AC/DC Back in Black
2 INXS Kick
3 John FarnhamWhispering Jack
4 Cold Chisel East
5 Midnight Oil Diesel and Dust
6 Silverchair Frogstomp
7 Crowded House Crowded House
8 The Avalanches Since I Left You
9 Savage Garden Savage Garden
10 Kylie Minogue Fever
11 You Am I Hourly, Daily
12 Tame Impala Currents
13 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Murder Ballads
14 Regurgitator Unit
15 The Go-Betweens 16 Lovers Lane
16 Powderfinger Odyssey Number Five
17 5 Seconds of Summer 5 Seconds of Summer
18 Powderfinger Internationalist
19 Midnight Oil 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
20 Dr G. Yunupingu Gurrumul
21 Sia 1000 Forms of Fear
22 Silverchair Diorama
23 The Saints (I'm) Stranded
24 The Whitlams Eternal Nightcap
25 Hoodoo GurusStoneage Romeos
26 Skyhooks Living in The 70's
27 Midnight Oil Blue Sky Mining
28 Flowers Icehouse
29 AC/DC Highway to Hell
30 Jet Get Born
31 Flume Flume
32 INXS The Swing
33 Paul Kelly Post
34 Dirty Three Ocean Songs
35 Archie Roach Charcoal Lane
36 Rowland S Howard Teenage Snuff Film
37 The Living End The Living End
38 Crowded House Woodface
39 Paul Kelly and The Messengers Gossip
40 Wolfmother Wolfmother
41 Eddy Current Suppression Ring Primary Colours
42 Cold Chisel Circus Animals
43 The Presets Apocalypso
44 The Triffids Born Sandy Devotional
45 Kasey Chambers Barricades & Brickwalls
46 Silverchair Freak Show
47 Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road
48 Gotye Like Drawing Blood
49 Jimmy Barnes Soul Deep
50 The Church Starfish
51 Radio Birdman Radios Appear
52 Powderfinger Vulture Street
53 Killing Heidi Reflector
54 The John Butler Trio Grand National
55 Something for Kate Echolalia
56 Grinspoon New Detention
57 Hoodoo GurusMars Needs Guitars!
58 Divinyls What A Life!
59 Jimmy Barnes For the Working Class Man
60 AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
61 Cut Copy In Ghost Colours
62 A.B. Original Reclaim Australia
63 Men At Work Business As Usual
64 Tame Impala InnerSpeaker
65 The Drones Wait Long By The River and The Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By
66 Silverchair Neon Ballroom
67 Eskimo Joe Black Fingernails, Red Wine
68 The Loved Ones Magic Box
69 Hunters & Collectors Human Frailty
70 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call
71 Icehouse Man of Colours
72 Spiderbait Ivy and The Big Apples
73 The Birthday Party Junkyard
74 TISM Machiavelli and The Four Seasons
75 You Am I Hi Fi Way
76 Jebediah Slightly Odway
77 Regurgitator Tu-Plang
78 Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs Live! At Sunbury
79 Missy Higgins The Sound of White
80 King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard Nonagon Infinity
81 Sunnyboys Sunnyboys
82 The Missing Links The Missing Links
83 The Beasts of Bourbon The Low Road
84 Crowded House Temple of Low Men
85 Parkway DriveHorizons
86 Kasey Chambers The Captain
87 Vance Joy Dream Your Life Away
88 Paul DempseyEverything Is True
89 Gang of Youths The Positions
90 Hilltop Hoods The Calling
91 Gotye Making Mirrors
92 Australian Crawl The Boys Light Up
93 Empire of The Sun Walking on A Dream
94 Custard Loverama
95 Ben Lee Awake Is the New Sleep
96 Died Pretty Doughboy Hollow
97 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Ghosteen
98 Augie March Moo, You Bloody Choir
99 The Kid LAROI F*CK LOVE
100 Sampa the Great The Return
101 The Whitlams Love This City
102 TISM Great Truckin' Songs of The Renaissance
103 Paul Kelly and The Messengers Under the Sun
104 Magic Dirt Friends in Danger
105 Sarah Blasko What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have
106 Grinspoon Guide to Better Living
107 The Cruel SeaThe Honeymoon Is Over
108 The Fauves Future Spa
109 Flume Skin
110 Sarah Blasko As Day Follows Night
111 Delta Goodrem Innocent Eyes
112 Yothu Yindi Tribal Voice
113 The Easybeats It's 2 Easy
114 Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
115 The Vines Highly Evolved
116 Dirty Three Horse Stories
117 The Go-Betweens Before Hollywood
118 The Cat Empire The Cat Empire
119 Tame Impala Lonerism
120 Tina Arena Don't Ask
121 Gang of Youths Go Farther in Lightness
122 RFS DU SOL Bloom
123 The Mark of Cain Ill at Ease
124 The Avalanches Wildflower
125 Something for Kate Beautiful Sharks
126 Frente!Marvin the Album
127 Pendulum Immersion
128 Baby Animals Baby Animals
129 Hiatus KaiyoteTawk Tomahawk
130 Tash Sultana Flow State
131 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Skeleton Tree
132 Bernard Fanning Tea & Sympathy
133 Silverchair Young Modern
134 Angus & Julia Stone Down the Way
135 The Angels Face to Face
136 AC/DC Powerage
137 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Tender Prey
138 Sia We Are Born
139 Adalita Adalita
140 Royal Headache High
141 Pete Murray Feeler
142 Boy & Bear Moonfire
143 Frenzal Rhomb A Man's Not a Camel
144 The Masters Apprentices The Masters Apprentices
145 Thelma Plum Better in Blak
146 The Scientists Blood Red River
147 The Saints Prehistoric Sounds
148 Ratcat Blind Love
149 Sampa the Great Birds and The BEE9
150 The Cat Empire Two Shoes
151 CloudsPenny Century
152 The Living End State of Emergency
153 Died Pretty Free Dirt
154 The Hummingbirds loveBUZZ
155 The Drones Gala Mill
156 Tex, Don & Charlie Sad, But True
157 Sticky Fingers Land of Pleasure
158 Keith Urban Golden Road
159 Art of Fighting Wires
160 Rose Tattoo Rose Tattoo
161 ModelsThe Pleasure of Your Company...
162 I'm Talking Bear Witness
163 Guy Sebastian Armageddon
164 Chet Faker Built on Glass
165 PNAU PNAU
166 The Superjesus Sumo
167 Children Collide The Long Now
168 Amy Shark Love Monster
169 Troye Sivan Bloom
170 Josh Pyke Memories & Dust
171 The Sports Don't Throw Stones
172 Violent Soho Hungry Ghost
173 Bliss n Eso Flying Colours
174 The John Butler Trio Sunrise Over Sea
175 Machine Gun Fellatio Paging Mr. Strike
176 X X-Aspirations
177 Richard Clapton Goodbye Tiger
178 The Panics Cruel Guards
179 The Temper Trap Conditions
180 George Polyserena
181 RVG A Quality of Mercy
182 Mental As Anything Cats & Dogs
183 Renée Geyer Ready to Deal
184 The Reels Quasimodo's Dream
185 Karnivool Themata
186 Iggy Azalea The New Classic
187 The Dingoes The Dingoes
188 Private Function St. Anger
189 Normie Rowe & The Playboys It Ain't Necessarily So But It Is... Normie Rowe
190 Flight Facilities Down to Earth
191 GerlingWhen Young Terrorists Chase the Sun
192 Dr G. Yunupingu Djarimirri (Child of The Rainbow)
193 Stephen Cummings Lovetown
194 Daddy Cool Daddy Who? Daddy Cool
195 The Amity Affliction Let the Ocean Take Me
196 Dean Lewis A Place We Knew
197 Chain Toward the Blues
198 Lime Cordiale 14 Steps to A Better You
199 I Killed the Prom Queen Music for The Recently Deceased
200 The Teskey Brothers Run Home Slow
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