Album · Hilltop Hoods
The Calling by Hilltop Hoods
The Calling is an album by Hilltop Hoods, released in 2003. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Nosebleed Section”, on 4 lists with a best position of #2.
The Calling, the third album from Adelaide's Hilltop Hoods, came out through Obese Records on 22 September 2003, and it's the record that dragged Australian hip-hop up out of the basement and into the daylight. Suffa and Pressure, the pair who started the group, trade verses with cocky, conversational ease, and DJ Debris, who stepped in after founding DJ Next left in 1999, cuts and loops the beats underneath with a crate-digger's patience.
"The Nosebleed Section" is the calling card, a head-nodding anthem with a hook built for a festival crowd, while "Dumb Enough" shows a sharper edge. Until then local rap had lived on a small, devoted underground following; this album proved a far wider audience was ready to listen. Next came The Hard Road, which went all the way to number one on the ARIA albums chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Calling on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Nosebleed Section | 4 | #2 | – | 2003–2025 | |
| 2 | Dumb Enough | 1 | #44 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.