SilverchairBest Silverchair Albums Ranked

Young Modern

rollingstone

8.0

“In the mid-nineties, the Australian trio Silverchair was a true boyband — very young men playing strong, original hard-rock songs on their own instruments. Drummer Ben Gillies, bassist Chris Joannou and singer-guitarist-songwriter Daniel Johns are still young (in their late twenties). They are also aggressively modern in the long reach of Young Modern, their first […]”

Freak Show

rollingstone

7.0

“Bonding with Silverchair’s ’95 debut, Frogstomp, was like finding cool clothes at your local mall: No matter how much you wanted to dismiss it as a fluke, one that somehow stumped your hip radar, it ultimately fulfilled some deep, aesthetic need. So Freak Show should be the teenage trio’s embarrassing second album, one that proves […]”

Diorama

rollingstone

6.0

“The fifteen-year-old mall rats who recorded Silverchair’s mid-Nineties debut, Frogstomp, got plenty of flak from folks who couldn’t get beyond the band’s preoccupation with Pearl Jam, Nirvana and, later, Radiohead. But behind the loud-soft dynamics of the music and frontman Daniel Johns’ warbled, Eddie Vedder vocals, the songs sounded earnest if not all that original. […]”

Neon Ballroom

rollingstone

6.0

“When Silverchair wrap up their mopey opening track with the words "lessons learned," it’s hard to suppress a sigh at the overt lyrical reference to Kurt Cobain’s "Dumb." But Australia’s answer to Nirvana are going through some changes: Silverchair’s third album, Neon Ballroom, wants to prove that this grungeling power trio has continued to mature […]”