![]() Joseph Earp #98. Empire Of The Sun - ‘Walking On A Dream’ That curling melody and that snarling bassline are works of art by themselves together, they produce a singular kind of antic magic. ‘Apartment’, probably their best known single, is the most slapdash song in their entire catalogue - but all the better for it. Subversive rockers Custard spent their entire career making music the way that Jackson Pollock made paintings, flicking different textures and tones about the place and working out what stuck only after the fact. After establishing themselves firmly on our dancefloors with frenetic experiments like ‘Embrace’ and ‘Wild Strawberries’, they took a couple of left turns with Soft Universe and Good Morning To The Night, the latter being widely panned.īut we learned we should never count PNAU out - after a few years away and dabbling in other projects, Nick Littlemore, Peter Mayes, and the newly added Sam Littlemore came back together with the the bounding and enthralling ‘Chameleon’. Kira Devine)įor a while, it seemed as if PNAU’s best music was behind them. ![]() Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this article may contain the images, voices and words of people who have passed away. Because what this list really represents is an open-armed celebration of Australian music. Take your time walking through this one - get distracted, listen to these songs and the album that spawned them, and generate lists of your own. This piece is the second part of the list - we’ve previously published the songs that made up 200 to 101. But such conversations don’t seem like a bug. That’s all to say we definitely understand that this list will prompt conversations - when we interviewed the artist who took out the top spot, she told us as much herself. If this list seems wonky to you in some way, and that wonkiness makes you think about your own criteria for greatness, well that seems like a big part of the fun. But there’s also something exciting about generating a conversation. We believe that there’s something exciting about forming a critical canon, elevating songs in the most direct and praise-worthy way possible by calling them, in no uncertain terms, The Best. In compiling our list, we here at Music Junkee have used a careful schema - we’ve ranked songs on such factors as commercial heft, critical acclaim, and how well they’ve aged - but there’s no such thing as objectivity in these matters, and a 100 people could use our precise same criteria and form a 100 different lists.īut that’s kinda the point. The 200 Greatest Australian Songs Of All Time, Part One
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