Triple M's Top 100 Albums -a familiar list in an odd order

Today, I found that Triple M have made a list of the Top 100 Albums of All Time.

It is the first time for a while I have found a list I want to report, though this time (unlike most cases I will confess) I had no expectations for anything unusual.

What is a little odd, as the notes suggest, is the way in which the list is ordered. Whilst one cannot question Back in Black being number one on any rock albums list in terms of its musical and cultural influence. In fact, I wonder why Benjamin Wiker and similar people do not discuss AC/DC because the whole history of the Baby Boomers in Eurasia, Blue America, Canada and New Zealand can be seen as a desire to purify Epicureanism from the influence of Christianity. In this quest, AC/DC were, along with such philosophers as Richard Dawkins and Peter Singer, the absolute "vanguard". However, when one moves even lightly down the list, it seems odd. It is hard to understand why Pearl Jam should be at number three: neither in popularity or influence can they compare with Nirvana or perhaps even Soundgarden. The same could be said to be true of

• Live
• Supertramp
• solo Sting
• Kings of Leon

1. Back in Black - AC/DC
2. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
3. Ten - Pearl Jam
4. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
5. Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen
6. Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
7. The Joshua Tree - U2
8. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
9. Kick - INXS
10. Nevermind - Nirvana
11. East - Cold Chisel
12. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zepplin
13. Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
14. Odyssey No.5 - Powderfinger
15. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
16. Hysteria - Def Leppard
17. What's the Story Morning Glory - Oasis
18. Purple Rain - Prince
19. Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
20. Diesel and Dust - Midnight Oil
21. Hotel California - The Eagles
22. Smash - Offspring
23. Achtung Baby - U2
24. Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
25. Thriller - Michael Jackson
26. Throwing Copper - Live
27. For the Working Class Man - Jimmy Barnes
28. Dookie - Green Day
29. The Swing - INXS
30. A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
31. Appetite for Destruction - Guns 'N' Roses
32. The Beatles - The Beatles
33. Metallica - Metallica
34. Graceland - Paul Simon
35. Who's Next? -The Who
36. The Wall - Pink Floyd
37. Breakfast in America - Supertramp
38. Use Your Illusion II - Guns 'N' Roses
39. Whispering Jack - John Farnham
40. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - Midnight Oil
41. A Night at the Opera - Queen
42. Urban Hymns - The Verve
43. T.N.T - AC/DC
44. True Colours - Split Enz
45. Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix
46. So - Peter Gabriel
47. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
48. Listen like Thieves - INXS
49. Vulture Street - Powderfinger
50. Human Frailty - Hunters & Collectors
51. The Doors - The Doors
52. Crowded House - Crowded House
53. American Idiot - Green Day
54. Business As Usual - Men At Work
55. Grace - Jeff Buckley
56. Little Creatures - Talking Heads
57. Abbey Road - The Beatles
58. Circus Animals - Cold Chisel
59. Automatic for the People - REM
60. Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin
61. Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting
62. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
63. 1984 - Van Halen
64. Living in the 70's - Skyhooks
65. Use Your Illusion I - Guns 'N' Roses
66. Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil
67. Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
68. Mars Needs Guitars - Hoodoo Gurus
69. The Stranger - Billy Joel
70. War - U2
71. The Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
72. Synchronicity -The Police
73. Cosmo's Factory - Creedance Clearwater Revival
74. Shabooh Shoobah - INXS
75. Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
76. Scarecrow - John Mellencamp
77. Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morrisette
78. Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty
79. MTV Unplugged - Nirvana
80. Cats and Dogs - Mental As Anything
81. Yourself and Someone Like You - Matchbox Twenty
82. L.A. Woman - The Doors
83. Sirocco - Australian Crawl
84. Frampton Comes Alive - Peter Frampton
85. Only by the Night - Kings of Leon
86. Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
87. Harvest - Neil Young
88. Internationalist - Powderfinger
89. Keep the Faith - Bon Jovi
90. Woodface - Crowded House
91. Dire Straits - Dire Straits
92. Imagine - John Lennon
93. Cut - Hunters and Collectors
94. Ghost in the Machine - The Police
95. Gossip - Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls
96. Get Born - Jet
97. Reckless - Bryan Adams
98. Slowhand - Eric Clapton
99. The Lonesome Jubilee - John Mellencamp
100. Destroyer - Kiss