The winning track received close to double the number of votes as the second-placed song.
The Triffids
In honour of RTRFM's 45th anniversary, the Perth community radio station has revealed the results of its publicly voted '45 Greatest WA Songs' countdown, with The Triffids' iconic Wide Open Road taking out the #1 spot.
The winning track received close to double the number of votes as the second-placed song, Leaving Home by Jebediah.
Then followed The Kill Devil Hills third with their 2004 released Drinking Too Much, above early favourite Elephant, by Fremantle's Tame Impala, which placed fourth.
More than 17,000 votes were cast by 2,000+ individuals in advance of the special anniversary broadcast, with listeners able to select from a ‘Top 250’ shortlist curated by RTRFM presenters and music industry experts.
The most recently released track in the Top 45 was 2020 punk tune WAXIT by Dennis Cometti, while the oldest was Television Addict by The Victims, released in 1977, the year of RTRFM's inception.
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Check out the full list of tracks below.
1. The Triffids - Wide Open Road
2. Jebediah - Leaving Home
3. The Kill Devil Hills - Drinking Too Much
4. Tame Impala - Elephant
5. The Waifs - London Still
6. Eskimo Joe - From the Sea
7. The Panics - Don't Fight It
8. The Triffids - Bury Me Deep in Love
9. The Stems - At First Sight
10. Stella Donnelly - Boys Will Be Boys
11. The Victims - Television Addict
12. Jebediah - Harpoon
13. Tame Impala - Half Full Glass of Wine
14. The Sleepy Jackson - Good Dancers
15. Methyl Ethel - Twilight Driving
16. Eurogliders - Heaven (Must Be There)
17. Little Birdy - Beautiful To Me
18. Ammonia - Drugs
19. The Scientists - Swampland
20. San Cisco - Awkward
21. Abbe May - Karmageddon
22. Methyl Ethel - Ubu
23. Dave Warner's From the Suburbs - Just A Suburban Boy
24. Pendulum - Tarantula
25. The Scientists - Frantic Romantic
26. Dennis Cometti - WAXIT
27. Ammonia - You're Not the Only One Who Feels This Way
28. Little Birdy - Relapse
29. Abbe May - Mammalian Locomotion
30. Peter Bibby - Medicine
31. The Scientists - We Had Love
32. The Stems - Tears Me In Two
33. Gyroscope - Safe Forever
34. Turnstyle - Spray Water on the Stereo
35. The Pigram Brothers - Going Back Home
36. Abbe May - Doomsday Clock
37. Jack Davies and The Bush Chooks - Vegemite Sandwich
38. Eskimo Joe - Planet Earth
39. Verge Collection - Our Place
40. Pond - Paint Me Silver
41. Cinema Prague - Say It's the Day
42. The Rosemary Beads - Breath
43. End of Fashion - Rough Diamonds
44. Spacey Jane - Feeding the Family
45. Effigy - Lovers