The ARIA Music Award for Best Adult Alternative Album was an award presented at the annual ARIA Music Awards. The ARIA Awards recognise "the many achievements of Aussie artists across all music genres", and have been given by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) since 1987.
To be eligible for this award, the album must be of an Adult Alternative genre by solo artists and groups; only album recordings are eligible; recordings must be directed toward Adult Alternative formats; the recording cannot be entered in any other genre category. Best Adult Alternative Album was judged by a specialist judging school of representatives experienced with the genre.
Best Adult Alternative Album was first handed out in 1994. Up until 2001 it was called Best Alternative Release, which was awarded for an album or single release. From 2002 to 2009 the award was discontinued before being reinstated in 2010 as Best Adult Alternative Album. Again, from 2012 to 2015, the award was not presented until the 2016 awards and did not return the following year.
You Am I and Regurgitator were the only artists to win twice in this category. You Am I received the most nominations with five, followed by Dirty Three, Regurgitator and Spiderbait with three and Magic Dirt, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Something for Kate with two. Martyn P. Casey, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis and Jim Sclavunos have earned three nominations each as members of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman. Ellis was the only musician nominated as part of two acts in the same year, as in 1997 he was nominated as a member of both Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Only six solo acts were nominated for the award, with one artist, Sarah Blasko, winning in 2016 for her album Eternal Return.
Winners and nominees In the following table, the years are listed as per the ARIA Award ceremony.
+ Table key Indicates the winner
Year Artist Album title 1994 (8th) You Am I Sound as Ever The Clouds Thunderhead Crow My Kind of Pain The Cruel Sea The Honeymoon Is Over Dave Graney & the Coral Snakes Night of the Wolverine 1995 (9th) You Am I Hi Fi Way Custard Wahooti Fandango Magic Dirt Life Was Better Regurgitator Regurgitator Silverchair Frogstomp 1996 (10th) Regurgitator Tu-Plang Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Murder Ballads Pollyanna Long Player Spiderbait The Unfinished Spanish Galleon of Finley Lake You Am I Hourly, Daily 1997 (11th) Spiderbait Ivy and the Big Apples Dirty Three Horse Stories Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Boatman's Call The Fauves Future Spa Powderfinger Double Allergic 1998 (12th) Regurgitator Unit Dirty Three Ocean Songs The Living End "Second Solution / Prisoner of Society" The Paradise Motel Flight Paths You Am I #4 Record 1999 (13th) Not from There Sand on Seven Gerling Children of Telepathic Experiences Tim Rogers What Rhymes with Cars and Girls Something for Kate Beautiful Sharks Spiderbait Grand Slam Tendrils Soaking Red 2000 (14th) Dirty Three Whatever You Love, You Are 28 Days "Rip It Up" David Bridie Act of Free Choice Nokturnl "Neva Mend" Tumbleweed Mumbo Jumbo 2001 (15th) Art of Fighting Wires Big Heavy Stuff Size of the Ocean Magic Dirt What Are Rockstars Doing Today Something for Kate Echolalia You Am I Dress Me Slowly 2002 - 2009 No award given. The Adult Alternative Album Award was not given from 2002 to 2009 and again from 2012 to 2015, according to the individual yearly award pages. 2010 (24th) Angus & Julia Stone Down the Way Basement Birds Basement Birds Clare Bowditch Modern Day Addiction The Cat Empire Cinema Washington I Believe You Liar Whitley Go Forth, Find Mammoth 2011 (25th) Boy & Bear Moonfire Grinderman Grinderman 2 Little Red Midnight Remember Seeker Lover Keeper Seeker Lover Keeper The Panics Rain on the Humming Wire 2012 - 2015 No award given. 2016 (30th) Sarah Blasko Eternal Return Jarryd James Thirty One Matt Corby Telluric Peter Garrett A Version of Now The Temper Trap Thick as Thieves
Artists with multiple wins 2 wins Regurgitator You Am I
Artists with multiple nominations 6 nominations Tim Rogers
5 nominations You Am I Warren Ellis
3 nominations Martyn P. Casey Nick Cave Dirty Three Regurgitator Jim Sclavunos Spiderbait
2 nominations Sarah Blasko Magic Dirt Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Something for Kate
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