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“No Aphrodisiac” by The Whitlams
From the album Eternal Nightcap (1997)
“No Aphrodisiac” by The Whitlams appears on 4 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1997 and 2025. It was first released in 1997 on the album Eternal Nightcap. Its best result is #1 on the Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #128 alternative song of 1997 and #4,881 alternative song of all time.
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"No Aphrodisiac" came off Eternal Nightcap, the Whitlams' third album, and went out as its second single in December 1997, a bruised, wry piece of work from the band's founding mainstay, Tim Freedman, who wrote it with Pinky Beecroft and Chit Chat Von Loopin Stab of Machine Gun Fellatio. Freedman sings and plays piano, the FourPlay String Quartet (Lara Goodridge, Chris Emerson, Tim Hollo and Peter Hollo) wraps him in strings, and Òscar Briz on guitar, Andy Lewis on bass and Mike Richards on drums keep it moving. Freedman produced it with Rob Taylor.
It won Song of the Year at the 1998 ARIA Music Awards, and when its Hottest 100 win was announced, the man who broke the news on air was Gough Whitlam, the former prime minister the band was named after. Fittingly, one of the B-sides is called "Gough", and Machine Gun Fellatio remixed the song for the single's remix edition.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 1 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 36 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1998) | 100 |
| 2013 | 58 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years (2013) | 100 |
| 2025 | 91 | Triple J | Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs (2025) | 100 |
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