ARIA Award for Best Adult Alternative Album explained

ARIA Award for Best Adult Alternative Album
Presenter:Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)
Country:Australia
Year:1994
Holder:Sarah Blasko, Eternal Return (2016)

The ARIA Music Award for Best Adult Alternative Album is an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards. The ARIA Awards recognise "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres",[1] and have been given by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) since 1987.[2]

To be eligible for this award the album must be of an Adult Alternative genre by solo artists and groups; only album recordings are eligible; recordings must be directed toward Adult Alternative formats; the recording cannot be entered in any other genre category. Best Adult Alternative Album is judged by a specialist judging school of representatives experienced with the genre.[3]

Best Adult Alternative Album was first handed out in 1994. Up until 2001 it was called Best Alternative Release, which was awarded for an album or single release. From 2002 to 2009 the award was discontinued before being reinstated in 2010 under its current name. Again, from 2012 to 2015 the award was not presented until 2016 awards, the most recent ceremony.

You Am I and Regurgitator have won the most awards in this category with two each. You Am I have received the most nominations with five followed by Dirty Three, Regurgitator and Spiderbait with three and Magic Dirt, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Something for Kate with two. Martyn P. Casey, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis and Jim Sclavunos have earned three nominations each as members of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. Since the award's inception only six solo acts have been nominated with one artist, Sarah Blasko, winning in 2016 for her album Eternal Return.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per the ARIA Award ceremony.

Table key
Indicates the winner
YearArtistAlbum title
1994
(8th)		You Am I Sound as Ever [4]
Thunderhead
My Kind of Pain
The Honeymoon Is Over
Night of the Wolverine
1995
(9th)		You Am I Hi Fi Way [5]
Wahooti Fandango
Life Was Better
Regurgitator
Frogstomp
1996
(10th)		Regurgitator Tu-Plang [6]
Murder Ballads
Long Player
The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake
Hourly, Daily
1997
(11th)		Spiderbait Ivy and the Big Apples [7]
Horse Stories
The Boatman's Call
Future Spa
Double Allergic
1998
(12th)		Regurgitator Unit [8]
Ocean Songs
"Second Solution / Prisoner of Society"
Flight Paths
  1. 4 Record
1999
(13th)		Not from There Sand on Seven [9]
Children of Telepathic Experiences
What Rhymes with Cars and Girls
Beautiful Sharks
Grand Slam
Soaking Red
2000
(14th)		Dirty Three Whatever You Love, You Are [10]
"Rip It Up"
Act of Free Choice
"Neva Mend"
Mumbo Jumbo
2001
(15th)		Art of Fighting Wires [11]
Size of the Ocean
What Are Rockstars Doing Today
Echolalia
Dress Me Slowly
2002 - 2009 No award given.[12]
2010
(24th)		Angus & Julia Stone Down the Way [13]
Basement Birds
Modern Day Addiction
Cinema
I Believe You Liar
Go Forth, Find Mammoth
2011
(25th)		Boy & Bear Moonfire [14]
Grinderman 2
Midnight Remember
Seeker Lover Keeper
Rain on the Humming Wire
2012 - 2015 No award given.
2016
(30th)		Sarah Blasko Eternal Return [15]
Thirty One
Telluric
A Version of Now
Thick as Thieves

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ARIA Awards 2011 overview. Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 15 April 2012.
  2. Web site: What We Do . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 15 April 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120129113827/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/what-we-do.htm . 29 January 2012.
  3. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20170104084756/http://aria.com.au/pages/documents/ARIAAwards2016Eligibility-FINAL.pdf . ARIA Awards 2016 - Eligibility Criteria and Category Definitions . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 4 January 2017 . 4 January 2017 .
  4. Web site: ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 1994: 8th Annual ARIA Awards. Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). 4 January 2017.
  5. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235646/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1995 . Winners by Year 1995 . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 26 September 2007 . 4 January 2017 .
  6. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20071214142950/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1996. Winners by Year 1996 . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 14 December 2007 . 4 January 2017 .
  7. Web site: ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 1997 . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 4 January 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235734/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1997 . 26 September 2007 .
  8. Web site: ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 1998: 12th Annual ARIA Awards . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 4 January 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083330/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1998 . 29 September 2007 .
  9. Web site: ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 1999 . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 4 January 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110519015907/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=1999 . 19 May 2011 .
  10. Web site: ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2000 . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 4 January 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235639/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2000 . 26 September 2007 .
  11. Web site: ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2001: 15th Annual ARIA Awards . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 4 January 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235727/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2001 . 26 September 2007 .
  12. Web site: ARIA Music Awards - History - Winners by year. 4 January 2017. Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The Adult Alternative Album Award was not given from 2002 to 2009 and again from 2012 to 2015, according to the individual yearly award pages.
  13. Web site: ARIA Awards 2010 : History: Winners by Year 2010: 24th Annual ARIA Awards . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 4 January 2017 .
  14. Web site: 2011 ARIA Awards Winners By Year . Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) . 4 January 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131014174953/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2011 . 14 October 2013 .
  15. Web site: ARIA Award nominations have a hairy surprise among the Flumes and Avalanches. Zuel. Bernard. 2016-10-05. The Age. 4 January 2017.

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