Vote now for RTRFM’s 45 Greatest WA Songs

The countdown is on!

In celebration of RTRFM’s 45th birthday, we are counting down the 45 greatest WA songs as voted by you, our listeners.

(Yes, ranking art is pretty silly, but hey, it’s our birthday so we’ll rank what we want to.)

From 2pm to 7pm on 1 April, RTRFM’s Breakfast host Taylah Strano and station music director and Drivetime presenter Matt Perrett will play the list in full, building up to the #1 WA song.

RTRFM’s General Manager Simon Miraudo joined Taylah on Breakfast this morning to bring you this special announcement and explain how to place your vote.

You can vote at rtrfm.com.au/45greatest. Voting closes on Sunday 20 March. See the shortlist of songs as selected by RTRFM presenters and industry experts below (don’t worry, you can also write-in your favourite song if it wasn’t featured).

• 6s & 7s – Holidayz
• Abbe May – Karmageddon
• Abbe May – Mammalian Locomotion
• Abbe May – Doomsday Clock
• Akioka – Ah, Mr Speaker
• Alexia Parenzee – Creed and Colour
• Allan Moarywaalla Barker – Run Dingo Run
• Allegiance – Torn Between Two Worlds
• Ammonia – Drugs
• Ammonia – You’re Not the Only One Who Feels This Way
• Anodyne 500 – Tour De Couch
• Apricot Rail – Pouring Milk Out the Window
• Apricot Rail – If You Can’t Join Them, Beat Them
• Bakery – No Dying in the Dark
• Beaverloop – Shot Hole Fungus
• Beaverloop – Bad Acid Jazz
• Benedict Moleta & Julian Bolleter – The Gift of Friendship
• Benjamin Witt – Dead Fish
• Bluetile Lounge – Wriding
• Boat Show – Cis White Boy
• Bolt Gun – Man Is Wolf To Man Part. 1
• Bucket – Wishing
• Butter – Kablam!
• Calmly/Childsaint – Hallelujah Heartache
• Capital City – Let’s Throw Our Love Away
• Catlips – Kanimbla
• Chad’s Tree – Stroller in the Attic
• Charlotte’s Web – Big Letdown
• Christie Allen – Goosebumps
• Cinema Prague – Mushroom Cloud
• Cinema Prague – Say It’s the Day
• Circus Murders – Sensibility
• Cold Meat – I Hate Myself
• Cow Cablin – Red Clay
• Cuss – Never Again
• Datura4 – Blessed is the Boogie
• Dave Warner’s From the Suburbs – Just A Suburban Boy
• Debbie Downers – Nay Nays
• Demon Days – Disco Baby
• Dennis Cometti – WAXIT
• Didion’s Bible – Scriptspeak
• Diger Rokwell – Squirrel Jam
• Diger Rokwell – Build My…
• Doctopus – Wobbegong
• Downsyde – LesFortunate
• Drapht – Rapunzel
• Dream Rimmy – Sunshine
• Drowning Horse – The Barrow Stones
• Effigy – Lovers
• Eleventh He Reaches London – Hollow Be My Name
• Eleventh He Reaches London – For the Commonwealth and the Queen
• Em Burrows – Boy
• Emperors – Be Ready When I Say Go
• End of Fashion – Rough Diamonds
• Erasers – Haze and Clouds
• Erasers – Wandering
• Errol H Tout – Metaphoric Allusions
• Eskimo Joe – From the Sea
• Eskimo Joe – Planet Earth
• Eurogliders – Heaven (Must Be There)
• Ewan Jansen – Submerge
• Extortion – Degenerate
• Fatty Lumpkin – Don’t Knock My Boogie
• Felicity Groom – Finders & Keepers
• Fitzroy Xpress – Home Sweet Home
• Flanders – Anky Fremp
• Flanders – Waste Away
• FOAM – When Does It Get Better
• Fourth Floor Collapse – Resigned
• French Rockets – 1×1
• Furchick – Spiders at the Opera
• Gazey – Sleep
• Ghost Care – Another
• Gina Williams & Guy Ghouse – Wanjoo
• Gina Williams & Guy Ghouse – Djidi Djidi
• Grace Barbé – Afro-Sega
• Grace Barbé – Mardilo
• Grievous Bodily Calm – Footwork
• Gunns – Give Me Sunshine
• Gyroscope – Safe Forever
• HAIRCARE – Hot Topic
• Halogen – Hole Around My Heart
• HAMJAM – Love
• Header – Restoration
• Header – Downer
• Heathcote Blue – Easter Monday
• HELTA SKELTA – Nightclubbin’
• Hideous Sun Demon – Bad Girl
• Holy Rollers – Above the Law
• Humbug – First Flight
• Hunter – Never Commit
• Hunter – Yokine (Drugs & Crime)
• Hyclass – Queen
• Infected – Assimilate
• Injured Ninja – Golden Top Mountain Journey
• Institut Polaire – City Walls and Empires
• Jack Davies and the Bush Chooks – Vegemite Sandwich
• Jacob Diamond – Some Christmas
• Jacob Diamond – Bins
• Jebediah – Leaving Home
• Jebediah – Harpoon
• Johnny Young – Cara-Lyn
• Joni in the Moon – Tarantella
• Kitchen People – Invisible Spear
• Koi Child – 1-5-9
• Kučka – Unconditional
• Kuckles – Bran Nue Dae
• Last Quokka – Privilege
• Little Birdy – Beautiful To Me
• Little Birdy – Relapse
• Love Camp 7 – I’d Love to See Him Go 20 Rounds With Satan in a Fistfight
• Lower Spectrum – Khlever
• Lucy Peach – Be So Good
• Mach Pelican – Dance in Chicago
• Mardi Picasso – Down
• Mathas – Enforce Less
• Mathas – Nourishment
• Mei Saraswati – Power In ur Soul
• Mei Saraswati – Swamp Gospel
• Methyl Ethel – Ubu
• Methyl Ethel – Twilight Driving
• Mile End – Rumblefish
• Mining Tax – Footy
• Mink Mussel Creek – They Dated Steadily
• MissGenius – I Don’t Wanna Be
• Mt Mountain – Dust
• Mukaizake – Pilot
• Naik – Melting Machine
• Nerve Quakes – Dive Wreck
• Nerve Quakes – 1000 Years
• New Nausea – Bright Bloody Blue
• New Rules for Boats – Skips on My Record
• NEW TALK fka Rag ‘N Bone – Pissy Flow
• Nicholas Allbrook – Advance
• Nika Mo – Divination
• Noah Dillon – Maggots
• Odette Mercy and Her Soul Atomics – You Lose
• Pat Chow – Outta Words
• Pendulum – Tarantula
• Peter Bibby – Medicine
• Peter Brandy – Long Time Ago
• Pond – Paint Me Silver
• Pond – Moth Wings
• Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Mr Prism
• Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – Found God in a Tomato
• Rabbit Island – Deep in the Big
• Rabbit Island – Adam’s Song
• Red Jezebel – Kicking Deadly Sins
• Red Jezebel – Sail
• Rhibosome – Walking
• Roza Terenzi – The Right Zone
• Ruby Boots – Wrap Me in a Fever
• Runner – Outlines & Colours
• Rupture – Everyone’s a Hypocrite
• Ryan Beno – Saline
• Sabre Tooth Tigers – Ode to Friends Forever
• San Cisco – Awkward
• Schvendes – Small Mercies Sweet Graves
• Schvendes – Lay the Noose
• Scrap Metal – Broken Down Man
• Scrap Metal – Make It Work
• Segue – Salutations
• Shit Narnia – Claremont Boys
• Sid Rumpo – Breakin’ My Back
• Simone & Girlfunkle – Summer Rain
• Simone & Girlfunkle – Gary Song
• Smol Fish – Sad Girl Summer
• Snowman – You Are a Casino
• Snowman – Hyena
• Sodastream – Another Little Loafer
• Spacey Jane – Feeding the Family
• Split Seconds – Top Floor
• Split Seconds – All You Gotta Do
• Stella Donnelly – Boys Will Be Boys
• Stella Donnelly – Mechanical Bull
• Sugar Army – Hook For Hands
• Ta-ku – Make You Wanna
• Tame Impala – Half Full Glass of Wine
• Tame Impala – Elephant
• Tangled Thoughts of Leaving – Deaden the Fields
• Team Jedi – Change of Pace
• Team Jedi – Superman’s Hometown
• The Bamboos – With Which to Love You
• The Bank Holidays – Tread Easy
• The Blackeyed Susans – Blue Skies, Blue Seas
• The Blackeyed Susans – Sheets of Rain
• The Devil Rides Out – Slow Gun
• The Dugites – Never Touch
• The Dugites – In Your Car
• The Fergusons – Sad Simone
• The Floors – Pills
• The Fruity Whites – Getting It Together
• The Fuzz – Elephant Song
• The Ghost Hotel – Juliette
• The Holy Sea – Ghost Town
• The Homicides – Red Room
• The Jam Tarts with the Nansing Quartet – Don’t Walk Away
• The Kill Devil Hills – Drinking Too Much
• The Kill Devil Hills – Hydra
• The Leap Year – This Is a Setup
• The Leap Year – Let It Go Let It Go
• The Love Junkies – Maybelene
• The Love Junkies – Oxymoron
• The Manikins – I Never Thought I’d Find
• The Marigolds – Waiting in Line
• The Painkillers – Drunk On a Train
• The Panda Band – Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town
• The Panics – Don’t Fight It
• The Panics – This Day Last Year
• The Pigram Brothers – Nothing Really Matters
• The Pigram Brothers – Going Back Home
• The Proclamation – King of the Mountain
• The Rainyard – Wasted Rain
• The Rosemary Beads – Breath
• The Rosemary Beads – She Ain’t Around
• The Scientists – Frantic Romantic
• The Scientists – Swampland
• The Scientists – Last Night
• The Scientists – We Had Love
• The Scotch of Saint James – My Shoes
• The Shakeys – Pink Demon
• The Silents – Ophelia
• The Sizlacks – State of Mind
• The Sleepy Jackson – This Day
• The Sleepy Jackson – Good Dancers
• The Stems – At First Sight
• The Stems – Tears Me In Two
• The Summer Suns – Girl in a Mexican Restaurant
• The Tigers – Beautiful Florist
• The Triffids – Wide Open Road
• The Triffids – Bury Me Deep in Love
• The Valentines – My Old Man’s a Groovy Old Man
• The Vegetable Garden – Even Stevens
• The Victims – Perth Is a Culture Shock
• The Victims – Television Addict
• The Volcanics – Cryin’ Feet
• The Waifs – London Still
• The Wednesday Society – Pedant
• Timothy Nelson and the Infidels – Mary Lou
• Tucker B’s – Los Alamos
• Tucker Bs – Set It On Fire
• Turnstyle – I’m a Bus
• Turnstyle – Spray Water on the Stereo
• Umpire – Streamers
• Umpire – Green Light District
• Verge Collection – Our Place
• Verona – At the Crevice
• Web Rumors – Moving On
• Yikes – Corroboree
• Yummy Fur/Six Mile High – Hallowed Ground

Update: See the results of the 45 Greatest WA Songs here.

Then, see what else made the Top 100, as voted by the public.