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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