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Week of 28/2/07

STEPHANIE McINTOSH: Tightrope

THE CURE: The Head on the Door

 

Week of 14/2/07

JAMES BROWN: The Very Best Of

NAS: Hip Hop is Dead

 

Week of 31/1/07

GHOSTFACE KILLER: More Fish

GWEN STEFANI: The Sweet Escape

NAS: Hip Hop is Dead

 

Week of 24/1/07

FAIR TO MIDLAND: The Drawn & Quartered EP

MiG: MiG

CHRIS FINNEN: Electric Number One

 

Week of 10/1/07

DAMIEN LEITH: Winner's Journey

THE SHINS: Wincing the Night Away

 

Week of 29/11/06

THE BEATLES: Love

GEORGE MICHAEL: Twentyfive

 

Week of 8/11/06

THE WHO: Endless Wire

JON AUER: Songs from the Year of Our Demise

 

Week of 1/11/06

JOHN LENNON: The US versus John Lennon

THE KILLERS: Sam's Town

 

Week of 25/10/06

BECK: The Information

JET: Shine On

 

Week of 30/9/06

TONY JOE WHITE: Uncovered

BEYONCE: B'Day

 

Week of 23/8/06

ASH GRUNWALD: Give Signs

DANNY HODGSON: Live

STARKY: Starky

 

 

Week of 16/8/06

GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS: nineteeneighties

VARIOUS ARTISTS: Rockwiz Duets

 

Week of 26/7/06

CUT CHEMIST: The Audience's Listening

MUSE: Black Holes and Revelations

 

Week of 19/7/06

THE FRAY: How to Save a Life

 

Week of 12/7/06

THE TWILIGHTS: Once Upon a Twilight

VARIOUS ARTISTS: Heartworn Highways

 

Week of 21/6/06

SPLIT ENZ: Spellbound

 

Week of 11/1/06

ABBA: 18 Hits

ISAAC HAYES: Can You Dig It?

 

Week of 14/12/05

EMINEM: Curtain Call

LENNY KRAVITZ: Greatest Hits

 

Week of 7/12/05

JOHN LENNON: Sometime in New York City/Walls and Bridges

 

Week of 30/11/05

THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS: The Pussycat Dolls

THE DANDY WARHOLS: Odditorium or Warlords of Mars

KATE BUSH: Aerial

 

Week of 23/11/05

IAN MOSS: Six Strings

GEORGE HARRISON & FRIENDS: The Concert for Bangladesh

 

Week of 16/11/05

HUMAN NATURE: Reach Out: The Motown Record

STEVIE WONDER: A Time to Love

 

Week of 9/11/05

JOHN FARNHAM: I Remember When I Was Young

SUPERTRAMP: Retrospectacle

 

Week of 2/11/05

COLD CHISEL: Last Stand

 

Week of 26/10/05

STEPHEN CUMMINGS: Love-O-Meter

TEX, DON & CHARLIE: All is Forgiven

 

Week of 19/10/05

FRANZ FERDINAND: You Could Have it So Much Better

JOHN SCHUMANN & THE VAGABOND CREW: Lawson

 

Week of 12/10/05

SPIDERBAIT: Greatest Hits

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS: Love Kraft

 

Week of 5/10/05

BON JOVI: Have a Nice Day

PAUL McCARTNEY: Chaos and Creation in the Backyard

SHERYL CROW: Wildflower

 

Week of 21/9/05

IGGY POP: A Million in Prizes

THE ROLLING STONES: A Bigger Bang

TIM ROGERS & THE TEMPERANCE UNION: Ghost Songs/Dirty Ron

 

Week of 14/9/05

B.B. KING & FRIENDS: 80

KANYE WEST: Late Registration

SARAH McLEOD: Beauty Was a Tiger

 

Week of 31/8/05

CHRIS BAILEY: Bone Box

JOSH RITTER: Hello Starling

PERRY KEYES: Meter

 

Week of 24/8/05

BEASTS OF BOURBON: Low Life

JODI MARTIN: 15 Minutes Out to Sea

VARIOUS ARTISTS: Motown Remixed

 

Week of 17/8/05

EELS: Blinking Lights and other Revelations

PAUL GRABOWSKI & KATIE NOONAN: Before Time Could Change Us

SPLIT ENZ: Extravagenza

 

Week of 10/8/05

DRAG: The Way Out

TAXIRIDE: Axiomatic

VARIOUS ARTISTS: Look Both Ways

 

Week of 22/12/04

CHRIS ISAAK: Christmas

PAULINI: Amazing Grace - Songs for Christmas

THE POLAR EXPRESS: Soundtrack Album

 

Week of 15/12/04

JOEL TURNER: Dream Dealers

NIRVANA: With the Lights Out

INTERPOL: Antics

DURAN DURAN: Astronaut

GWEN STAFANI: Love.Angel.Music.Baby

THE KILLERS: Hot Fuss

 

Week of 8/12/04

AUSTRALIAN LEGENDS

THE CHURCH: El Momento Descuidado

DEF LEPPARD: The Best of Def Leppard

KYLIE MINOGUE: Ultimate Kylie

LIVE: Awake: The Best of Live

PEARL JAM: Rearviewmirror

 

 

Week of 1/12/04

NEIL YOUNG: Greatest Hits

SHANIA TWAIN: Greatest Hits

U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

 

Week of 24/11/04

DELTA GOODREM - Mistaken Identity

ELTON JOHN - Peachtree Road

POWDERFINGER - Fingerprints

 

Week of 17/11/04

LEONARD COHEN - Dear Heather

MARCIA HINES - Hinesight: Songs from the Journey

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Hand in Hand

 

Week of 10/11/04

BRIAN WILSON - Smile

CAKE - Pressure Chief

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - Songbook Volume I

 

Week of 3/11/04

MARK KNOPFLER - Shangri-La

BJORK - Medulla

KARMA COUNTY - Pacifico

 

Week of 27/10/04

GUY SEBASTIAN - Beautiful Life

MARILYN MANSON - Lest We Forget

ROBBIE WILLIAMS - Greatest Hits

 

 

Week of 20/10/04

THE LIVING END - From Here On In

JEFF BUCKLEY - Grace

LL COOL J - The Definition

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS: Abbotoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

 

Week of 13/10/04

ELVIS COSTELLO - The Delivery Man

EVERMORE - Dreams

NELLY - Sweat/Suit

REM - Around the Sun

 

Week of 29/9/04

BEN HARPER & THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA - There Will be a Light

ELVIS COSTELLO - The Delivery Man

MISSY HIGGINS - The Sound of White

 

Week of 22/9/04

THE BLACK SORROWS: One Mo' Time

POWDERFINGER: These Days: Powderfinger Live

VELVET REVOLVER: Contraband

 

Week of 15/9/04

DAVID McCORMACK & THE POLAROIDS: The Truth About Love

THE FINN BROTHERS: Everyone Is Here

PEARL JAM: Live at Bonayora Hall

 

Week of 1/9/04

DEGREES.K - Children of the Night Sky

 

Week of 14/7/04

TANIA BOWRA - A Place in the Sun

DALLAS CRANE: Dallas Crane

WILCO: A Ghost is Born

 

Week of 7/7/04

GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS - Virginia Creeper

 

Week of 30/6/04

EVE - Evesong

 

Week of 23/6/04

TONY BANKS - Seven: A Suite for Orchestra

MARCEL BORRACK - Help

 

Week of 26/5/04

FRANZ FERDINAND - Franz Ferdinand

KATIE & MAGGIE NOONAN -  Two of a Kind

PRINCE - Musicology

 

Week of 28/4/04

CRIMES OF THE PRIMARY - Coma

SUPERSONIC -  Waking Hour

TORTOISE - It's All Around You

 

Week of 7/4/04

FOGG - Fogg

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Under the Influence

 

Week of 31/3/04

EPICURE - The Goodbye Girl

SALLY DASTEY & THE SWEET SCEPTICS - Half a Wish, Half a Moon

GORGEOUS - Air Balloon

VARIOUS ARTISTS - A Day on the Green

 

Week of 4/2/04

BLINK 182

GUIDED BY VOICES - Human Amusements at Hourly Rates

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Homebake

 

Week of 14/1/04

JIM CONWAY'S BIG WHEEL - Little Story

HIP MO' TOAST BIG BAND - Mischievous Girl

 

Week of 22/12/03

NATALIE MERCHANT - The House Carpenter's Daughter

RYAN ADAMS - Rock n Roll

SPENCER P. JONES: Fait Accompli

 

Week of 16/12/03

THE BEATLES - Let It Be ... Naked

THE ROYAL DAVE GRANEY SHOW - The Brother Who Lived

VARIOUS ARTISTS - The Spirit of Christmas

 

Week of 12/11/03

ANTHONY WARLOW - Face the Music

BOO YAA TRIBE - West Koastra Nostra

 

Week of 5/11/03

BASEMENT JAXX - Kish Kash

BELLE & SEBASTIAN - Dear Catastrophe Waitress

ELVIS COSTELLO - North

SINEAD O'CONNOR - She Who Dwells ...

 

Week of 17/9/03

THE BITES - White Lines and Runaways

MOJAVE 3 - Spoon and Rafter

CLASSIC ALBUMS - Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon  (music DVD)

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Masked and Anonymous

 

Week of 3/9/03

GERLING - Bad Blood

JUNKIE JXL - Radio JXL, A Broadcast from the Computer Hell Cabin

 

Week of 27/8/03

AMIEL - Audio Out

LO-TEL - The Lost Thing

SOMETHING FOR KATE - The Official Fiction

 

Week of 9/7/03

EVANESCENCE - Fallen

LUCINDA WILLIAMS - World Without Tears

POWDERFINGER - Vulture Street

RICHARD THOMPSON - The Old Kit Bag

 

Week of 2/7/03

ERIC BIBB - Natural Light

LUCINDA PETERS - Show Me the Way to Your Heart

RINGO STARR - Ringo Rama

 

Week of 28/5/03

OH SUSANHAH - Oh Susannah

PERNICE BROTHERS - Yours, Mine and Ours

JOSH ARNOLD - Scarifier

SKULKER - The Double Life

BIG BROVAZ - Nu Flow

 

Week of 30/4/03

DANNI MINOGUE - Neon Nights

KASEY CHAMBERS - True Colours (single)

 

Week of 16/4/03

AUDREY AULD - Losing Faith

DAVID LANE - Compass

JOE JACKSON BAND - Volume 4

JOHN SCHUMANN - Portrait: The Very Best of John Schumann

KELLY JOE PHELPS - Slingshot Professionals

MELISSA ETHERIDGE - Live ... and Alone  (music DVD)

MICK THOMAS & THE SURE THING - The Horse's Prayer

t.A.T.u. - 200km/h in the Wrong Lane

 

Week of 9/4/03

AFI - Sing the Sorrow

DAVE HOLE - The Live One

DELTA GOODREM - Innocent Eyes

SOPHIE MONK - Get the Music On (single)

STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS - Pig Lib

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Istanbul - the Sex, the City, the Music

 

Week of 2/4/03

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Conception

CALEXICO - Feast of Wire

 

Week of 12/3/03

ALEXIA - Don't You Know (single)

DARREN HAYES - I Miss You (single)

THE GO-BETWEENS - Bright Yellow Bright Orange

HARRY K - Love + Respect + Happiness

KANGA BENTLEY'S HOT FOOT SEVEN WITH GAIL KINGSTON - 'Wimmin' - Aah!

PAUL BRADY - The Paul Brady Songbook

TEENAGE FANCLUB - Four Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-Six Seconds: A Shortcut to Teenage Fanclub

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Tales from the Australian Underground

WAXHEADS - Makin' Waves

 

Week of 19/2/03

KELLY ROWLAND - Simply Deep

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Chicago soundtrack

 

Week of 29/1/03

JEBEDIAH - Glee Sides & Sparities

THE WAIFS - Up All Night

 

Week of 22/1/03

SHAKIRA - The One (single)

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Icehouse: Meltdown - The Re-mixes

 

Week of 18/12/02

BECK - Sea Change

BEN FOLDS - Ben Folds Live

BRUCE SPRINSTEEN - The Rising

CIRCLE CLAN - Follow the White Line

COLIN HAY - Going Somewhere

THE DIXIE CHICKS - Home

ELVIS COSTELLO - When I Was Cruel

HI-5 - Celebrate

JACKSON BROWNE - The Naked Ride Home

JENNIFER LOPEZ - This is Me ... Then

KELLY OSBOURNE - Shut Up

MARIAH CAREY - Charmbracelet

NIRVANA - Nirvana

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN - Olivia (2)

PETER GABRIEL - Up

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - By the Way

THE ROLLING STONES - 40 Licks

RYAN ADAMS - Demolition

SILVERCHAIR - Rarities 1994-1999

SOFT CELL - Cruelty Without Beauty

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Moonlight Recordings Vol. 3

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Now

THE WALLFLOWERS - Red Letter Days

WILCO - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

 

Week of 11/12/02

ABS - What You Got

BACHELOR GIRL - Dysfunctional

DISCO MONTEGO - Disco Montego

GARY & THE RUSTLERS - Broken Pieces

JEFF BUCKLEY & GARY LEWIS - Songs to No One, 1991-1992

JIMMY LITTLE - Passage, 1959-2001

HEATHER FRAHN - Earthen Heart

LIBERTY X - Thinking It Over

MATT WALKER & THE NECESSARY FEW - Right from Wrong

MICHELLE NICOLLE - Keep Your Heart Right

NATALIE IMBRUGLIA - White Lilies Island

PATTY GRIFFIN - 1000 Kisses

PINK - Missundaztood

RICHARD CLAYDERMAN - Everybody Loves Someone Sometime

RUMANASTONE - By Design

SELWYN - Meant to Be

SHAGGY - Lucky Day

SHAKAYA - Shakaya

SOPHIE MONK - Inside Outside

SOULCRAFT - This Time

SUGABABES - Angels with Dirty Faces

TAXIRIDE - Garage Mahal

TOYA - Toya

U2 - The Best Of 1990-2000

SUSIE KEYNES - Kiss for Her Fears

YEAH YEAH YEAHS - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

 

Week of 6/11/02

INXS album feature by Melissa Phillips

 

Week of 28/7/02

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Bustafunk

 

Week of 31/7/02

DEBORAH CONWAY - Only the Bones

JACKIE BRISTOW - Thirsty

OASIS - Heathen Chemistry

 

Week of 17/7/02

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Soundbombing III

 

Week of 10/7/02

DAVID BOWIE - Heathen

 

Week of 3/7/02

KANGA BENTLEY'S HOT FOOT SEVEN - To Life

 

Week of 26/6/02

ANGELIK - Mutual Obsession

ELVIS COSTELLO - When I Was Cruel

THOSE BLOODY McKENNAS - Ticket to the Moon

 

Week of 19/6/02

GRINSPOON - The New Detention

RONAN KEATING - Destination

SEAMAN DAN - Steady, Steady

VAN MORRISON - Down the Road

 

Week of 12/6/02

BELLE & SEBASTIAN - Storytelling

EMINEM - The Eminem Show

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Verve/Remixed

 

Week of 5/6/02

THINGS OF STONE & WOOD - So Far ... 1992-2002

WEEZER - Maladoit

TOMMY LEE - Never a Dull Moment

IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS - Ten More Turnips

 

Week of 8/5/02

GRANT-LEE BUFFALO - Mobilize

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Moulin Rouge #2

 

Week of 24/4/02

LASH - The Beautiful and the Damned

 

Week of 10/4/02

ZEPHYR QUARTET - Zephyr

 

Week of 3/4/02

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Moonlight Recordings Vol. 2

 

Week of 27/3/02

VNB - The Future is Now

 

Week of 9/1/02

Best of CD list for 2001 by Melissa Phillips & Jeff Crawford

 

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