Few people have lived more unlikely, more successful and more utterly preposterous lives than Ozzy Osbourne. The man was a walking Darwin...

People who know me will probably have guessed that the Oils were going feature in this list. Not only was their inclusion a given for me,...

Don Walker, along with Nick Cave, are the two best lyricists this country has produced. Whilst Cave has long proclaimed his...

Most of the songs I’ve written about on this list have been played on loop whilst I’ve written about them, just to capture those little...

Penumbra isn’t the most common of words. Astronomically, it’s most used to describe the shaded area of the earth or moon when...

In 2022, King Stingray released their eponymous debut album. It was an absolute blinder. A proper, soaring, distinctly Australian...

Why do so many of the greatest Australian songs have a rhythmic pulse to them? There must be something about the soul of this place. A...

AC/DC are beyond criticism, really. Beloved, genuinely global and singular. They hit paydirt the minute the Young brothers started...

Man, this song is a beauty. There aren’t many that hit so close to home for me at this point in my life as this one. It’s the modern...

Few Australian musical artists ever achieved the international level of renown that Peter Allen experienced at his peak, which makes his...

The Angels are one of the country’s unluckiest bands. They should’ve been fucking huge. The had the beat, the riffs, and most importantly...

Note: this isn’t strictly a ‘song’, so I’ve decided I can include it alongside my top 10. (My game, my rules!) The opening music for the...

In response to a request from Triple J – who are soon to commence a countdown of the top 100 Australian songs of all time – Prime...

The tricky thing about artificial intelligence is that whilst humans are its authors, no individual human being possesses the processing...

In the pantheon of troubled geniuses, few occupy as distinguished a place as Brian Wilson. The only person who seems to have trodden a...

It breaks your heart. Two brothers, twins, gone within months of one another. It's incomprehensible. It truly is. We are not wired to...

I met Anthony Albanese after a Midnight Oil concert in 2017. Chatted to him for a couple of minutes and came away happy to have met the...

It genuinely surprises me that so many Australians seem not to have figured out what a Welcome to (or Acknowledgement of) Country...

Lest We Forget.   It ought to be that simple. But it isn't.   What is it we need to remember? The loss of lives in war is a simple enough...

The Catholic Church is a web of infinite complexity, every intersecting silken thread an insoluble contradiction. And at its centre is...