Song · Augie March
“One Crowded Hour” by Augie March
From the album Moo, You Bloody Choir (2006)
“One Crowded Hour” by Augie March appears on 8 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2006 and 2025. It was first released in 2006 on the album Moo, You Bloody Choir. Its best result is #1 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 2006. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #291 alternative song of 2007 and #5,615 alternative song of all time.
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"One Crowded Hour" was the first taste of Augie March's third album, Moo, You Bloody Choir, in 2006, though the band and frontman Glenn Richards, solo and acoustic, had been playing it for more than two years before the record caught up. Richards wrote it while minding Deborah Conway's house, and a book she owned about the Australian war photographer Neil Davis gave him both the spark and the title, which goes back further still, to a poem by Thomas Osbert Mordaunt.
He has owned up to a diet of early Bob Dylan at the time, and you can hear it in the rolling chords. Richards and Eric Drew Feldman produced it and Mark Howard mixed it, all wistful sway and slow-building ache. Triple J got on it first, Nova followed, and in 2025 it was voted 34 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of Australian Songs.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 1 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 2006 | 100 |
| 2007 | 99 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2007 | 100 |
| 2007 | 49 (tie) | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2007 | 129 |
| 2008 | 14 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2008 | 136 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 59 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (2009) | 100 |
| 2013 | 24 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years (2013) | 100 |
| 2018 | 878 | WTMD | WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 | 896 |
| 2025 | 33 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs (2025) | 100 |
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