In December of 2021, Rolling Stone Australia unleashed its annual collector’s edition featuring a countdown of the 200 Greatest Australian Albums of all Time. An exhaustive undertaking, the list combined some of the country’s best artists with in-depth discussions of what made these records so great and why they deserved to be listed as one of the greatest Australian albums of all time.
But of course, what about those that didn’t make the final cut? There’s countless albums out there which have received critical acclaim, won awards, and are favourites amongst some of the country’s most vocal tastemakers yet don’t appear on the final 200 list.
That’s not to say they’re not deserving of recognition by any means, so to honour the records that made it into the final shortlist, we’ve compiled a list of records that deserve honourable mentions alongside the 200 Greatest Australian Albums of all Time.
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Rolling Stone Australia’s 200 Greatest Australian Albums of All Time – Honourable Mentions
#1 Dads – About Face (2014)
28 Days – Upstyledown (2000)
Abbe May – Design Desire (2011)
Ainslie Wills – All You Have Is All You Need (2019)
Alex Lloyd – Black the Sun (1999)
Alex the Astronaut – The Theory of Absolutely Nothing (2020)
Amyl and The Sniffers – Amyl and The Sniffers (2019)
Angie McMahon – Salt (2019)
Angus & Julia Stone – A Book Like This (2007)
Architecture in Helsinki – Places Like This (2007)
Art vs. Science – The Experiment (2011)
Augie March – Sunset Studies (2000)
Baby Animals – Shaved and Dangerous (1993)
Bad//Dreems – Dogs at Bay (2015)
Ball Park Music – Museum (2012)
Beaches – Beaches (2008)
Beaches – Second of Spring (2017)
Ben Frost – The Centre Cannot Hold (2017)
Ben Lee – Breathing Tornadoes (1998)
Bertie Blackman – Secrets and Lies (2009)
Big Scary – Animal (2016)
Big Scary – Not Art (2013)
Birds of Tokyo – Birds of Tokyo (2010)
Blake Scott – Niscitam (2020)
Bliss n Eso – Running on Air (2010)
Bluejuice – Problems (2007)
Bob Evans – Suburban Songbook (2006)
Bodyjar – How It Works (2000)
Briggs – Sheplife (2014)
Butterfingers – Breakfast at Fatboys (2004)
C. W. Stoneking – Gon’ Boogaloo (2014)
C. W. Stoneking – Jungle Blues (2008)
Caitlin Park – The Sleeper (2014)
Camp Cope – Camp Cope (2016)
Camp Cope – How to Socialise and Make Friends (2018)
Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band – Smoke Dreams (1973)
Cash Savage and The Last Drinks – One of Us (2016)
Ceres – Drag It Down on You (2016)
Children Collide – Theory of Everything (2010)
Cloud Control – Bliss Release (2010)
Clowns – I’m Not Right (2013)
Cog – The New Normal (2005)
Cold Chisel – Cold Chisel (1978)
Cosmic Psychos – Go the Hack (1989)
Cosmic Psychos – Self Totalled (1995)
Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel (2018)
D.D Dumbo – Utopia Defeated (2016)
Dan Kelly – Dan Kelly’s Dream (2010)
Dan Kelly and The Alpha Males – Drowning in The Fountain of Youth (2006)
Dardanelles – Mirror Mirror (2007)
Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of A Dying Sun (1987)
Def Wish Cast – Knights of The Underground Table (1993)
Dick Diver – Calendar Days (2013)
Dick Diver – Melbourne, Florida (2015)
Dirty Three – Whatever You Love, You Are (2000)
Dispossessed – Warpath Never Ended (2019)
Divinyls – Divinyls (1990)
Ed Kuepper – Honey Steel’s Gold (1991)
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Rush to Relax (2010)
Eurogliders – This Island (1984)
Faker – Addicted Romantic (2005)
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! – Sea Priest (2010)
Frenzal Rhomb – Meet the Family (1997)
Frenzal Rhomb – Not So Tough Now (1996)
Gareth Liddiard – Strange Tourist (2010)
Gerling – Children of Telepathic Experiences (1998)
Gordi – Our Two Skins (2020)
Grand Salvo – Sea Glass (2018)
Grinspoon – Thrills, Kills and Sunday Pills (2004)
Guy Sebastian – T.R.U.T.H. (2020)
Gyroscope – Are You Involved? (2008)
Gyroscope – Breed Obsession (2008)
Hard-Ons – Love Is a Battlefield of Wounded Hearts (1989)
Hard-Ons – Smell My Finger (1986)
Hard-Ons – Yummy! (1990)
Hilltop Hoods – Walking Under Stars (2014)
Hoodoo Gurus – Blow Your Cool! (1987)
Hoodoo Gurus – Magnum Cum Louder (1989)
Horror My Friend – Stay In, Do Nothing (2016)
HTMLflowers – Chrome Halo (2017)
HTRK – Venus in Leo (2018)
HTRK – Work (Work, Work) (2011)
Jack Ladder – Love Is Gone (2008)
Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders – Hurtsville (2011)
Jarryd James – Thirty One (2015)
Jebediah – Of Someday Shambles (1999)
Jen Cloher – Jen Cloher (2017)
Jet – Shine On (2006)
Josh Pyke – Chimney’s Afire (2008)
Julia Jacklin – Crushing (2019)
Kate Miller-Heidke – Little Eve (2007)
Keith Urban – The Speed of Now Part 1 (2020)
Kisschasy – United Paper People (2005)
Kylie Minogue – Impossible Princess (1997)
Laura Jean – Laura Jean (2014)
Leader Cheetah – The Sunspot Letters (2009)
Leonardo’s Bride – Angel Blood (1997)
Lior – Autumn Flow (2004)
Lisa Mitchell – Wonder (2008)
Little Red – Listen to Little Red (2008)
Machine Gun Fellatio – Bring It On! (2000)
Matt Corby – Telluric (2015)
Methyl Ethel – Oh Inhuman Spectacle (2015)
Mia Dyson – Parking Lots (2005)
Middle Kids – Lost Friends (2018)
Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia (2007)
Midnight Oil – Red Sails in The Sunset (1984)
Miiesha – Nyaaringu (2020)
Models – Out of Mind, Out of Sight (1985)
Motor Ace – Five Star Laundry (2001)
My Disco – Severe (2015)
My Friend the Chocolate Cake – Brood (1994)
New Buffalo – Somewhere, Anywhere. (2007)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus (2004)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – From Her to Eternity (1984)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Let Love In (1994)
Non-Intentional Lifeform – Uisce (1997)
Northlane – Alien (2019)
Not Drowning, Waving – Another Pond (1984)
Not From There – Sand on Seven (1998)
Ocean Alley – Chiaroscuro (2018)
Oh Mercy – Privileged Woes (2009)
Olympia – Self Talk (2016)
Parkway Drive – Atlas (2012)
Paul Kelly – Deeper Water (1995)
Paul Kelly – Life Is Fine (2017)
PNAU – Sambanova (1999)
Powderfinger – Double Allergic (1996)
PVT – O Soundtrack My Heart (2008)
Redgum – Caught in The Act (1983)
Ripe – The Plastic Hassle (1993)
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs (2018)
Royal Headache – Royal Headache (2011)
Ryan Downey – Running (2018)
Sally Seltmann – Heart That’s Pounding (2010)
Sarah Blasko – As Day Follows Night (2009)
Sarah Blasko – The Overture & The Underscore (2004)
Seeker Lover Keeper – Seeker Lover Keeper (2011)
Sia – Colour the Small One (2004)
Sia – Some People Have Real Problems (2007)
Sidewinder – Tangerine (1997)
Sleepmakeswaves – Love of Cartography (2014)
Snout – Circle High and Wide (1998)
Something for Kate – Elsewhere for 8 Minutes (1997)
Something for Kate – The Official Fiction (2003)
Spencer P. Jones – Fait Accompli (2003)
Spiderbait – The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake (1995)
Sunk Loto – Between Birth and Death (2003)
Tame Impala – The Slow Rush (2020)
The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You (2020)
The Birthday Party – Prayers on Fire (1981)
The Dissociatives – The Dissociatives (2004)
The Drones – Havilah (2009)
The Fauves – Lazy Highways (1998)
The Getaway Plan – Other Voices, Other Rooms (2008)
The Go-Betweens – Liberty Belle and The Black Diamond Express (1986)
The Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart (2005)
The Grates – Gravity Won’t Get You High (2006)
The Jezabels – Prisoner (2011)
The John Butler Trio – Three (2001)
The Jungle Giants – Quiet Ferocity (2017)
The Killjoys – Ruby (1990)
The Lucksmiths – Naturaliste (2003)
The Mess Hall – Devils Elbow (2007)
The Middle East – I Want That You Are Always Happy (2011)
The Necks – Sex (1989)
The Panics – Rain on The Humming Wire (2011)
The Peep Tempel – Joy (2016)
The Peep Tempel – Tales (2014)
The Preatures – Blue Planet Eyes (2014)
The Presets – Beams (2005)
The Presets – Pacifica (2012)
The Sleepy Jackson – Lovers (2003)
The Sleepy Jackson – Personality (One Was a Spider, One Was a Bird) (2006)
The Vasco Era – Oh We Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside (2007)
The Veronicas – The Secret Life Of… (2005)
The Waifs – Up All Night (2002)
Things of Stone & Wood – The Yearning (1993)
Tiddas – Sing About Life (1993)
Tim Rogers & The Twin Set – What Rhymes with Cars and Girls (1999)
TISM – www.tism.wanker.com (1998)
Total Control – Henge Beat (2011)
Total Control – Typical System (2014)
Troye Sivan – Blue Neighbourhood (2015)
Tumbleweed – Tumbleweed (1993)
Twerps – Twerps (2011)
TZU – Smiling at Strangers (2005)
Underground Lovers – Dream It Down (1994)
Underground Lovers – Leaves Me Blind (1992)
Urthboy – The Signal (2007)
Vance Joy – Nation of Two (2018)
Various Artists – Cannot Buy My Soul: The Songs of Kev Carmody (2007)
Various Artists – She Will Have Her Way: The Songs Of Tim & Neil Finn (2005)
Various Artists – He Will Have His Way: The Songs Of Tim & Neil Finn (2010)
Various Artists – Morning Of The Earth (Original Film Soundtrack) (1972)
Velociraptor – Velociraptor (2014)
WAAX – Big Grief (2019)
Washington – Batflowers (2020)
Washington – I Believe You Liar (2010)
West Thebarton – Different Beings Being Different (2018)
Whitley – The Submarine (2007)
You Am I – Sound as Ever (1993)
Youth Group – Skeleton Jar (2004)
Ziggy Ramo – Black Thoughts (2020)
