Odyssey Number Five is the number on Best Australian albums of the 80's-NOW! After months of random posts of selected records making the Best Australian albums of the 80's-NOW! now it's time for the final in the series.
Coming next will be more celebrations of the Fresh Friday Countdown series turning 300 soon.
Tomorrow the Australian Album(s) of the week commence. You may find Hatchie, Daniel Johns, Lisa Mitchell, Just a Gent, OCEAN GROVE or Sticky Fingers.
Right now, back to the fourth studio album by Powderfinger, produced by Nick DiDia.
Released on 4 September 2000, the album won the 2001 ARIA Music Award for Highest Selling Album, Best Group and Best Rock Album.
The album produced four singles, My Happiness, reaching #4 on the ARIA Singles Chart, winning the 2001 ARIA Music Award for Single of the Year & topping Triple J's Hottest 100 in 2000.
The album also featured These Days, which topped Triple J's Hottest 100 in 1999.
Overall, the album won five ARIA Music Awards in 2001 and was certified platinum seven times, and earned an eighth in 2004. Odyssey Number Five was Powderfinger's first album to chart in the United States, and the band toured extensively around North America to promote its release.
Of the four singles were released from the album, My Kind of Scene was the first.
Released as a promotional single in June 2000, the track was written for the 2000 film Mission: Impossible 2, and appeared on its soundtrack.
The second single from the album was My Happiness, it peaked at #7 on the New Zealand singles chart, and spent 23 weeks in the top 50. Furthermore, My Happiness was Powderfinger's first single to chart in the US, reaching #23 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Like a Dog was released as the third single on 15 January 2001.
The song was heavy in political sentiment, the riff for the song was written by Ian Haug, and the song's music video featured Australian Aboriginal boxer Anthony Mundine, and was based on the 1980 Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull.
Drummer Jon Coghill said the song revolved around the question of "why the hell won’t John Howard say sorry to the Aboriginal people! Like a Dog spent one week on the ARIA Singles Chart, at #40. Not their most successful single.
Two songs from the album, The Metre & Waiting for the Sun, were released as a double A-side to form the final single.
The single was released on 21 August 2001, and included a cover of Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast.
This was a huge album when I was growing up. Powderfinger were literally EVERYWHERE, at every festival during the Odyssey Number Five days.
Powderfinger will always be one of the biggest Australian acts of all time. Listen to the album in full below, then return this week for way more new Australian music, all week long!
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