Hottest 100 of All Time

[deaths_friend]

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

[Famous Old Painter]

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.

[deaths_friend]

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.

[ricardo]

uhm ok I wonder how will it develop

[deaths_friend]

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.

[deaths_friend]

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.

[Famous Old Painter]

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!

[Kite]

Another best-of list

Yawn

[Famous Old Painter]

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

[deaths_friend]

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.

[ricardo]

sex on fire?
wtf

[jimmyneutron]

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!

[deaths_friend]

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.

[deaths_friend]

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

[RICK8]

According to whom?

[jimmyneutron]

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!

[deaths_friend]

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.

[ricardo]

blink 182?
Kashmir under blink 182 and Kol?
Although I like the list, well ate least part of it

[deaths_friend]

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.

[RICK8]

I guess this is a mainstream top 100.

[deaths_friend]

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.

[TyM218]

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

[deaths_friend]

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!!

[RICK8]

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.

[The Escapist]

Has radiohead ever been big in Australia?

[RICK8]

Radiohead is big everywhere dude.....:p

[jimmyneutron]

Funnily enough, they have never had a number 1 album here, their last 5 have reached #2.

OK Computer was voted Australia's Third Favourite album ever in an ABC poll about a year ago, behind Dark Side of the Moon and something else.

So yes, they are pretty big here despite not having a number 1, but not as big as elsewhere. I think in the Australia network on facebook they were about 5th or 6th most popular a while back, behind The Killers, Foo Fighters, Powderfinger and Muse.

[deaths_friend]

i always thought that In Rainbows went to number 1, i guess i'm wrong

Radiohead are massive on the "alternative" scene. that is usually defined by the triple j audience (which isnt totally true but it just makes things easier). Creep came in at 5 on the last Hottest 100 of All Time. Paranoid Andriod was No. 13 in the same poll and Karma Police at No.54. The album of the year poll started in 1999 and all 4 radiohead albums since then have made the top 10, with Kid A topping it in 2000 and In Rainbows was 2nd in 07.

if Radiohead dont manage 3 songs in the countdown i will be shocked. but the big problem is that its sooo difficult to choose a favourite radiohead song. everyone i know said that there were about 15 - 20 songs they could of voted for, so the votes are loosely spread across loads of songs.

[Famous Old Painter]

This is a strange list. I agree with the songs that have gotten in, but not the order. I guess it gives you an idea of who actually voted.

Anyway, I'm holding out for the top 10! That should be interesting

[deaths_friend]

songs 40 down to 31 would have to be my favourite lot of 10 so far. these are some of my favourite songs of all time especially Better Man, Come As You Are, Stinkfist, Enter Sandman and Prisoner Of Society. naturally theres been some backlash to Mr Brightside making it to 38 but this is the entry that im the most happy about. i love the song and dont really care what other people think about it.

and a little something i noticed today. out of the 70 songs played so far, not a single hip hop or rap song has made it. despite the fact that the station plays at least 2 or 3 rap songs every hour.

[Famous Old Painter]

Lets hope it stays that way :laugh3:

[deaths_friend]

there has also been a noticeable lack of women in the countdown. there have been 3 Smashing Pumpkins songs who of course have a female member and just then Massive Attack's Teardrop made it in which has vocals from Elizabeth Fraser.

just listened to song 30 down to 21 and it has topped everything else but in a bad way. songs i hoped would make the top 10 have already been played, including Alive and Throw Your Arms Around Me. great to see radiohead open their account and 2 songs from Powderfinger. the second of which These Days is my favourite so far.

[Famous Old Painter]

And #1 is...... Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana. I saw that coming.

[bjaiken]

That is such a weird list. I have so many objections, but I guess that is true for every list I have ever seen. Oh well, makes for good discussion :)

By the way, one of the things that I thought was funny about the list is that there are many artists whose best song was passed over in lieu of another. Just goofy to me.

Edit: Also, not one single U2 song on the list. That alone makes it null and void. For a station that seems to play alternative music, that is a joke. No Sunday Bloody Sunday, With or Without You, Where the Streets Have No Name, Pride (In the Name of Love), I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, or New Years Day...Please!

[anna111]

^Yeah reeeally weird about the U2. Actually this whole list is bizarre, it makes little sense to me. glad to see Paranoid Android up there I guess.

[Famous Old Painter]

In no universe does RATM deserve to be #2.

[bjaiken]

^ Yeah, I like Rage but that is way, way, way..................way too high.

[Famous Old Painter]

Agreed. I don't mind RATM and Killing In The Name Of is a fairly decent song. But 2nd best song of all time? No way in hell.

[deaths_friend]

i thought both #1 and #2 were a bit suss. killing in the name of is a wicked song but no where near the second best of all time, no idea how it managed soo many votes. smells like teen spirit was the obvious choice for no.1 but im starting to get sick of it. other than that i've really really enjoyed the last week of music.

just in response to some of the criticisms of the list. U2 arent in it because they've lost that alternative music fan base down here over the last 6 to 7 years. in the previous countdown in 1998 they featured heavily. alot has changed in that time. nonetheless the band has polled very strongly in the annual countdowns since 1989.

best song countdowns are always going to be controversial, people views can be sooo radically different. i guess this countdown reflects my taste in music very well, almost all of my favourite bands made it on and some like radiohead featured heavily.

why is this list so bizarre? i've said this a few times before. alot of the biggest bands who have the most number of hits were at a massive disadvantage as fans voted for a variety of different songs as opposed focussing on one or two songs.

[bjaiken]

^ Because it is a mash up and full of inconsistencies.

[RICK8]

The whole list is an epic fail.

[deaths_friend]

music is completely subjective. when you have half a million people voting on something you're obviously going to get a massive variety of music.

no list of songs will ever satisfy everyone. initially people were complaining that the list is too "classic" then came the Gen Y bashing and now its too 'random'. what did people expect!!

[bjaiken]

^ I expect a less random list ;)

[Famous Old Painter]

Who actually voted? I know I didn't vote because there were far too many songs to choose from. I do vote in the annual polls though because the task of selection is easier and the annual polls tend to get better results. However having said that, I still believe last years Hottest 100 was awful!

[ricardo]

it's ok

[RICK8]

I sure didn't vote.....:mellow:

[deaths_friend]

look im with most of you on the horrible order of the list. but it doesnt really bother me. i just think that that's an excellent selection of songs. if i was to choose my 100 favourite songs of all time most of them would be in it. the people who voted in that poll are people who are into a diverse range of music and believe me if you're not then you wont be able to listen to that station for more than 5mins.

if someone sat me down and made me listen to those 100 songs i would be on top of the world afterwards. and please please lets not forget that this is a vote of the MOST POPULAR songs not a definitive list of the BEST SONGS.