triple j radio has started their once-a-decade hottest 100 songs of all time countdown. the countdown will gradually unfold over the week with the #1 being revealed at 6pm on sunday.

 

1.Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

2.Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name

3.Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

4.Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

5.Radiohead - Paranoid Android

6.Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

7.Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

8.Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge

9.Foo Fighters - Everlong

10.Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

 

11.John Lennon - Imagine

12.Oasis - Wonderwall

13.Radiohead - Creep

14.The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony

15.Radiohead - Karma Police

16.Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

17.Hilltop Hoods - The Nosebleed Section

18.Muse - Knights Of Cydonia

19.Metallica - One

20.White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

 

21.Powderfinger - These Days

22.Massive Attack - Teardrop

23.Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me

24.The Beatles - A Day in the Life

25.Pearl Jam - Alive

26.Michael Jackson - Thriller

27.Powderfinger - My Happiness

28.Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

29.Pixies - Where Is My Mind?

30.Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

 

31.Metallica - Enter Sandman

32.New Order - Blue Monday

33.Silverchair - Tomorrow

34.The Living End - Prisoner Of Society

35.Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

36.Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms

37.Tool - Stinkfist

38.The Killers - Mr Brightside

39.Pearl Jam - Better Man

40.Nirvana - Come As You Are

 

41.Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

42.Bloc Party - Banquet

43.The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

44.The Beatles - Hey Jude

45.Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows

46.Faith No More - Epic

47.John Butler Trio - Betterman

48.Beastie Boys - Sabotage

49.Guns 'N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

50.Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over

 

51.Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings

52.You Am I - Berlin Chair

53.Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

54.The Cure - Close To Me

55.Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone

56.Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should Have Come Over

57.Tool - Forty Six & 2

58.Daft Punk - Around The World

59.Augie March - One Crowded Hour

60.Johnny Cash - Hurt

 

61.Blur - Song 2

62.Nine Inch Nails - Closer

63.AC/DC - Thunderstruck

64.Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun

65.Underworld - Born Slippy

66.Elton John - Tiny Dancer

67.Ben Folds Five - Brick

68.Blink 182 - Dammit

69.Jeff Buckley - Grace

70.The Prodigy - Breathe

 

71.The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

72.The Shins - New Slang

73.The Clash - London Calling

74.Nirvana - Lithium

75.Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

76.The Stone Roses - Fools Gold

77.Gotye - Hearts A Mess

78.Smashing Pumpkins - Today

79.David Bowie - Life on Mars

80.The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

 

81.Pulp - Common People

82.System Of A Down - Chop Suey!

83.Placebo - Every You Every Me

84.Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman, No Cry

85.The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

86.The Beatles - Come Together

87.Coldplay - Yellow

88.The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

89.Rage Against the Machine - Bulls On Parade

90.Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

 

91.AC/DC - Back In Black

92.Bon Iver - Skinny Love

93.Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

94.Modest Mouse - Float On

95.Stevie Wonder - Superstition

96.Daft Punk - One More Time

97.Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

98.Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

99.TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me

100.Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

TV on The Radio ahead of Franz Ferdinand? This will be a strange 'un.

 

I'm betting Love Will Tear Us Apart will be somewhere in the top 10.

Wolf Like Me is an awesome song but yeh i agree with you in saying that Take Me Out should of been higher.

 

this will be a very interesting countdown. the demographic of the radio station has changed dramatically. nowadays you have alot of people surfing between triple j and NOVA. nonetheless the result of this poll will have little or no impact on the music played on the station.

uhm ok I wonder how will it develop

i'm expecting Radiohead and Muse to dominate both should have at least 3 entries. ac/dc's return will mean that they will be the best represented aussie band while michael jackson's recent death will most probably result in a couple of entries for him.

the countdown has taken a turn for the worse this afternoon with 90 to 81 being revealed. as much as i love placebo i dont think they are a hottest 100 quality band especially not every you every me. i was scared sex on fire might get top 20 and was praying it wouldnt get in at all. so 90 isnt too bad.

 

yellow deserves to be much higher but i guess i am biased.

These current results are really quite bizarre if you consider Hottest 100 results in previous years. I wonder who actually voted, I didn't - too much to choose from!

Another best-of list

 

Yawn

I don't know, the Hottest 100 is by far definitely the most popular music list in Australia

the end of year hottest 100 is the biggest annual poll in the world. in case non-aussies are wondering what the hell triple j is, its basically the australian equivalent of BBC's Radio 1 (well so they say at least, looking at the stuff Radio 1 plays nowadays i would like to think not).

 

like i said before most of the triple j's audience are the type who flick between the commercial stations like nova, triple m and austereo network and triple j, which from what i hear wasnt the case so much 10 years when the poll last took place. what makes it into the poll now is quite trivial. its the top 20 thats really going to get people talking.

 

personally i think that positions 80 to 71 is a massive improvement and i'm really impressed with the amount of songs pre-1991 considering that 85% of the station's audience is between 18 and 25.

sex on fire?

wtf

I'm tipping these to come in the top 10

 

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (Hate this mind you)

Paranoid Android - Radiohead

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Knights of Cydonia - Muse

Killing in the Name - Rage Against The Machine.

 

Over Half a million people have voted in this and the annual hottest 100 is the world's largest music poll. by a long way!

thats quite a good selection for the top 10. i will be very surprised if Queen make it that high simply because the audience doesnt match the band.

 

@ricardo

jump onto the stations website and take a look at the response to sex on fire making it. almost went into meltdown when that was announced. it was the biggest song in australia last year (and im sure it was up there in the UK and around europe) so its only natural for it to feature in a countdown of this nature. my theory is that people who dont really listen to alternative music but wanted to vote thought to themselves, hey whats an "alternative" band i know...KoL, whats the only song i know by them....sex on fire. put the two together and you have a song in the hottest 100. sad but true

 

next lot of songs starts in 5 mins for anyone interested.

70 to 61 is pretty solid. i liked all the songs

According to whom?

According to whom?

 

The hottest 100 is a poll conducted by Australian radio station triple j. (Roughly the equivalent to radio 1 in the UK). It generally gets about 700,000+ votes and is the largest music poll in the world.

 

Every year, the top 100 songs from that year are voted for.

Every 10 years, the top 100 of all time are voted for!

a significant proportion of the votes come from outside of australia as the poll is open to the whole world. looking at the entries so far it's hard to tell its an aussie poll, hardly any of the songs are home-grown.

blink 182?

Kashmir under blink 182 and Kol?

Although I like the list, well ate least part of it

the reason why kashmir is below those songs is because led zep have loads and loads of big songs. so the votes were spread over all those songs. most people didnt want to vote for one band more than once. you'll find that alot of really hate led zeppelin especially those you loved that punk era that came just after led zeppelin broke through.

 

songs 60 to 51 were awesome for the most part. Tool's 46&2 and Comfortably Numb are my two favourites so far. they also played half of a rick astley song at number 53 which almost gave me a heart attack but they stopped it halfway and said the actual 53 was Like A Rolling Stone by the legendary Bob Dylan.

I guess this is a mainstream top 100.

you are right mate

 

tv on the radio, modest mouse, bon iver, rage against the machine, dandy warhols, placebo, the smiths, ben folds five, underworld, you am i and faith no more are the most mainstream bands in music history. it would of been sooo much better if they had britney spears and the backstreet boys had dominated it.

 

the top 50 has started and aside from sweet child o mine and betterman its an awesome selection of songs. note: the poll closed 2 days after MJ died.

Greenday doesn't belong in any Top lists they belong in bottom lists.

arhghg what do people have against green day!! just beacuse everything they've done in the last 5yrs has been shit doesnt mean the classic songs they wrote in the 90s arent still freken amazing!!

Greenday doesn't belong in any Top lists they belong in bottom lists.

 

 

 

Agreed,they are friggin useless,and i can't stand em,in fact i hate them almost as much as My Chemical Romance.

Has radiohead ever been big in Australia?