APRA's Top 30 Australian songs was a list created by the
Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 2001, to celebrate its 75th anniversary.
A panel of 100 music personalities were asked to list the "ten best and most significant Australian songs of the past 75 years". The top ten songs, in numerical order, were announced on 28 May 2001 at the
APRA Awards.
The next twenty were not ordered and had been released nearly four weeks earlier, on 2 May, in a media statement by APRA representative
Debbie Kruger
Debbie Kruger (born 14 August 1962) is an Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer, she wrote ''Songwriters Speak'' in August 2005, which contains interviews with 45 Australian and New Zealand songwriters about their craft. Kruger was t ...
.
At the 2001 APRA Awards ceremony
You Am I
You Am I are an Australian alternative rock band, fronted by its lead singer-songwriter and guitarist, Tim Rogers. They formed in December 1989 and are the first Australian band to have released three successive albums that have each debuted ...
performed the No.1 listed song "
Friday on My Mind
"Friday on My Mind" is a 1966 song by Australian rock group the Easybeats. Written by band members George Young and Harry Vanda, the track became a worldwide hit, reaching no. 16 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in May 1967 in the US, no. ...
" with
Harry Vanda
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of
The Easybeats
The Easybeats were an Australian rock band that formed in Sydney in late 1964. They enjoyed a level of success that in Australia rivalled The Beatles. They became the first Australian rock act to score an international hit, with the 1966 sing ...
guesting on guitar.
Ross Wilson of
Daddy Cool performed the No.2 listed song "
Eagle Rock", while
Midnight Oil's "
Beds are Burning
"Beds Are Burning" is a 1987 song by the Australian rock band Midnight Oil, the first track from their album '' Diesel and Dust''. This song was released as the second single from the album.
It reached No. 1 in New Zealand, South Africa and Ca ...
" at No.3 was shown on video introduced by
Senator Aden Ridgeway as an
Indigenous
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*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
*Indigenous (band), an American blues-rock band
*Indigenous (horse), a Hong Kong racehorse ...
spokesperson on
reconciliation
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Accounting
* Reconciliation (accounting)
Arts, entertainment, and media Sculpture
* ''Reconciliation'' (Josefina de Vasconcellos sculpture), a sculpture by Josefina de Vasconcellos in Coventry Cathedra ...
.
Top Ten songs
The remaining 20 songs
Listed in chronological order:
See also
*
APRA Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time
References
External links
Milesago website
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Lists of rated songs