Artist · chart history
Grinspoon
Band Lismore Australia Formed 1995
Grinspoon formed in 1995 in Lismore, Australia. Grinspoon has 20 chart appearances on 12 radio countdowns from 1 station on RockLists, spanning 1995–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Chemical Heart”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #2. The station that charted Grinspoon most often is Triple J (Australia (national)), with 20 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2002.
Grinspoon came out of Lismore, New South Wales, in 1995, the year the band won Triple J's Unearthed competition for their town with a post-grunge rager called "Sickfest". Phil Jamieson sings and plays guitar, Pat Davern handles guitar, Joe Hansen plays bass and Kristian Hopes drums, and they named themselves after Lester Grinspoon, the Harvard psychiatrist who backed marijuana as medicine, which tells you something about their sense of humour.
Guide to Better Living (1997) was loud and scrappy, with "Just Ace" and "Dcx3" leading the charge; Easy (1999) followed with "Rock Show" and "Ready 1". Then New Detention (2002) cleaned up the fuzz and went for big mainstream rock, and "Chemical Heart", a big, aching slow-burner, led the way, with "Lost Control", "No Reason" and "1000 Miles" riding along. The album went to No. 2 on the ARIA chart.
Thrills, Kills + Sunday Pills (2004) won the ARIA Award for Best Rock Album, and Alibis & Other Lies (2007) matched New Detention at No. 2. In fact all eight of their studio albums have made the ARIA top 10. After an indefinite hiatus announced in 2013 they returned in earnest in 2017, and Whatever, Whatever (2024) reached No. 3.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Grinspoon on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chemical Heart | 3 | #2 | – | 2002 | |
| 2 | Just Ace | 2 | #18 | – | 1998 | |
| 3 | Lost Control | 1 | #14 | – | 2002 | |
| 4 | No Reason | 1 | #15 | – | 2002 | |
| 5 | Hard Act to Follow | 1 | #16 | – | 2004 | |
| 6 | Black Friday | 1 | #22 | – | 1998 | |
| 7 | Better Off Alone | 1 | #26 | – | 2004 | |
| 8 | Ready 1 | 1 | #33 | – | 1999 | |
| 9 | Rock Show | 1 | #33 | – | 2000 | |
| 10 | Dcx3 | 1 | #34 | – | 1997 | |
| 11 | Sweet as Sugar | 1 | #42 | – | 2005 | |
| 12 | 1000 Miles | 1 | #47 | – | 2002 | |
| 13 | Repeat | 1 | #63 | – | 1997 | |
| 14 | Black Tattoo | 1 | #73 | – | 2007 | |
| 15 | Secrets | 1 | #73 | – | 2000 | |
| 16 | Sickfest | 1 | #74 | – | 1995 | |
| 17 | Don't Go Away | 1 | #79 | – | 1998 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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