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“Holy Grail” by Hunters And Collectors
From the album Cut (1992)
“Holy Grail” by Hunters And Collectors appears on 4 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1993 and 2025. It was first released in 1992 on the album Cut. Its best result is #30 on the Triple M Ozzest 100 (2018). In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #175 alternative song of 1993 and #5,970 alternative song of all time.
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"Holy Grail" is the big one from Hunters & Collectors' 1992 album Cut, a pub-rock anthem with its chest puffed out and mud on its boots. Singer Mark Seymour built the words from Jeanette Winterson's novel The Passion, about Napoleon's chef on the 1812 march into Russia, where the weather wrecked the army. He saw in that tale of survival a mirror of the band grinding through a punishing record and their stalled bid to break America, and wrapped it all in grail-quest imagery.
Australian football claimed it anyway, with the premiership cup standing in for the grail. Channel Ten opened and closed its AFL coverage with it from 2002 to 2006, and Seymour has sung it at the Grand Final in 1998, 2002, 2009, 2013 and 2023. Triple M's Ozzest 100 put it at 30 in 2018, and Triple J listeners voted it 50th in their Hottest 100 of Australian Songs in 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 54 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1993 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 68 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1998) | 100 |
| 2018 | 30 | Triple M | Triple M Ozzest 100 (2018) | 100 |
| 2025 | 50 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs (2025) | 100 |
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