Are These The Greatest WA Songs Of All Time?

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.

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