The 100 Best Australian Albums celebrates the sound and the fury, the beauty and invention of the best Australian music.
This is very special 5CD compilation which is to be released as a companion to the new book ‘The 100 Best Australian Albums’ by John O’Donnell (former music editor of Rolling Stone Australia and CEO of EMI Australasia), Toby Creswell (former editor of Rolling Stone Australia and author of Too Much Ain’t Enough and The Real Thing: Adventures in Australian Rock N Roll – 1957-Now) and Craig Mathieson (author of Hi-Fi Ways and The Sell-In) which is released via Hardie Grant on October 27, 2010. The book lists the 100 best Australian albums of the rock & roll/pop era – the albums that have had the greatest influence on the musical fabric of our country. Each album has an individual entry, revealing the artists and stories behind the making of the music and highlighting the reasons for its inclusion.
The compilation album includes tracks from 95 of the albums and is sequenced in the same order as the book.
TRACKLISTING: 95 tracks over 5 CD’s.
Artists included:
Midnight Oil
Augie March
Paul Kelly
You Am I
John Farnham
Hoodoo Gurus
Cold Chisel
Radio Birdman
The Saints
Sarah Blasko
The Triffids
The Church
Empire of the Sun
