This is an update of a similar thread I did in 2015. I recently decided to update the lists I posted there, but instead of bumping that very messy thread, I decided to split it in two and make two new threads containing the new lists.
In this thread, I will be posting my own personal Hottest 100 lists for each year from 1993 up to 2017 and probably beyond.
The rules and make-up of these lists will be slightly different to those in Part 1.
This time, seeing as there are already individual year Hottest 100s from 1993, I don't need to try and predict them. Instead, it will be more about my personal taste. However, it will be a slight advantage to a song if it did well in the actual countdown.
Also, there will be more than 100 songs in each countdown, as I've been supplied with many invaluable links reminding me what songs were out in each year. I will post 101+ first, then 100-1.
Each list will contain the original Hottest 100 list in it. Note that on a few occasions* a song appeared in two Hottest 100s. I will only allow it in once. (* the songs affected were listed in my old thread, see link above).
I will be doing 200 songs per list, based mainly on the Hottest 100 voting lists which are available online (thanks thejuicer145!) - but there will be exceptions!
Apologies in advance if anyone disagrees with what year I put a song in. Sometimes I found it difficult to marry a year up if an album was released in one year when a single from it was released in a different year (usually the year after), also if a song didn't otherwise become big until a year after it's parent album was released. For the songs that were in the original Hottest 100s I've stuck with the year they appeared in even if their albums came out earlier. Happy if you make your own list and disagree with my definition.
I may make minor edits to these lists as I go along, if I find songs that I missed.
I won't be posting lists as frequently as in Part 1, as it's taking me much longer to re-order so many songs! It might only be once a week. Last edited:
Ok, here are #200-101 for 1993 (edited 29/3/21, expanded to 200 songs and revised).
Note that (this time) in order to be consistent with the subsequent lists, I have decided to include every song that made the 1993 Hottest 100, even if they weren't originally released in 1993. It will leave a few holes in my 1992 list in particular, but I won't be going to 200 songs when I revise 1992 next, and anyway that was such a good year for music that it shouldn't be too difficult to fill those holes.
Right, back to 1993, #200-101:
My H100 posn
Song
Real H100 order
Actual Posn
200
PUSH TH' LITTLE DAISIES Ween
101
40
199
SWEAT (A LA LA LA LA LONG) Inner Circle
100
94
198
TEASE ME Chaka Demus & Pliers
99
47
197
SHOOP Salt 'N' Pepa
98
35
196
BABY Barefoot
97
72
195
DEEP East 17
96
78
194
BOOM SHACK-A-LAK Apache Indian
95
67
193
SOMEWHERE EFUA
94
26
192
DREAMS Gabrielle
93
42
191
MR VAIN Culture Beat
92
68
190
MRS. ROBINSON The Lemonheads
91
79
189
DELIVERY MAN The Cruel Sea
90
95
188
HITS FROM THE BONG Cypress Hill
89
17
187
LOST The Badloves
88
77
186
WICKED GARDEN Stone Temple Pilots
NA
NA
185
MONDAY'S EXPERTS Weddings, Parties, Anything
NA
NA
184
GLORIA Van Morrison and John Lee Hooker
87
100
183
NO TIME FOR NOWHERE Def FX
NA
NA
182
WORLD TURNING Yothu Yindi
86
41
181
STOP WHISPERING Radiohead
NA
NA
180
DO IT Swoop
85
87
179
THE SHIP SONG (LIVE) Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
84
22
178
ASSHOLE Denis Leary
83
1
177
GREEN LIMOUSINE The Badloves
82
82
176
START CHOPPIN' Dinosaur Jnr
81
45
175
FREEDOM Kev Carmody
80
98
174
CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? Pet Shop Boys
79
56
173
I HELD HER IN MY ARMS The Violet Femmes
78
14
172
WORLD (THE PRICE OF LOVE) New Order
77
86
171
DREAMS OF HEAVEN Ground Level
NA
NA
170
DIXIE DRUG STORE Grant Lee Buffalo
76
88
169
LAST TRAIN Christine Anu and Paul Kelly
75
61
168
BEFORE Caligula
74
76
167
ABORIGINAL WOMAN Mixed Relations
73
89
166
LOVE SEES NO COLOUR U96
NA
NA
165
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HELEN Things of Stone and Wood
72
91
164
YOU'RE JUST TOO HIP BABY Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes
71
59
163
CANDY EVERYBODY WANTS 10,000 Maniacs
70
96
162
MAN ON THE MOON R.E.M.
69
93
161
GO Pearl Jam
68
8
160
JESSIE Paw
67
32
159
EASY Faith No More
66
62
158
THE DROWNERS Suede
65
75
157
LITTLE MISS CAN'T BE WRONG Spin Doctors
NA
NA
156
THREE LITTLE PIGS Green Jelly
64
85
155
GET ME Dinosaur Jr
63
38
154
GO WEST Pet Shop Boys
62
18
153
TWO PRINCES Spin Doctors
NA
NA
152
SOUL TO SQUEEZE Red Hot Chilli Peppers
61
13
151
OLD MAN SAM Spiderbait
NA
NA
150
OPEN YOUR MIND Usura
NA
NA
149
TRUGANINI Midnight Oil
NA
NA
148
FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE The Cure
60
39
147
HOLY GRAIL Hunters and Collectors
59
54
146
DIVINE HAMMER The Breeders
NA
NA
145
BABY FOR YOU Cleopatra Wong
NA
NA
144
TRICKLE DOWN Mercury Rev
NA
NA
143
ONE MORE FROM THE CITY Sound Unlimited
NA
NA
142
BULLET IN THE HEAD Rage Against The Machine
58
84
141
GOUGH The Whitlams
NA
NA
140
JESUS WAS WAY COOL King Missile
57
58
139
DETACHIBLE PENIS King Missile
56
46
138
ALL THAT SHE WANTS Ace Of Base
55
29
137
NIGHT OF THE WOLVERINE Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes
54
48
136
LEMON U2
53
7
135
HEART-SHAPED BOX Nirvana
52
20
134
THE KEY THE SECRET Urban Cookie Collective
NA
NA
133
SISTER HAVANA Urge Overkill
51
16
132
BREAKAWAY The Falling Joys
NA
NA
131
EVANGELINE Cocteau Twins
NA
NA
130
DISTANT SUN Crowded House
50
65
129
WILD AMERICA Iggy Pop
49
15
128
SCRATCH MY BACK The Sharp
48
63
127
MANTRA The Meanies
NA
NA
126
LOVE U MORE Sunscreem
NA
NA
125
ALL APOLOGIES Nirvana
NA
NA
124
PLUSH Stone Temple Pilots
47
12
123
RUBBERBAND GIRL Kate Bush
46
97
122
BLACK STICK The Cruel Sea
45
21
121
REGRET New Order
44
60
120
BOOM SHAKE SHAKE THE ROOM DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince
NA
NA
119
ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR Radiohead
NA
NA
118
A WINTER'S TALE The Falling Joys
NA
NA
117
BI Living Colour
43
49
116
NO RAIN Blind Melon
42
4
115
BEAUTIFUL MIND The Verve
NA
NA
114
MY TRUTH Cocteau Twins
NA
NA
113
ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY? Lenny Kravitz
41
28
112
TREEHOUSE Buffalo Tom
NA
NA
111
HARNESS UP Died Pretty
NA
NA
110
DOGS OF LUST The The
NA
NA
109
CHOPPERS Headless Chickens
40
57
108
NUMB U2
39
31
107
MARIA PERIPATETICA Ed Kuepper
NA
NA
106
SPACE TIME DISCO Def FX
NA
NA
105
WALKING IN MY SHOES Depeche Mode
NA
NA
104
GET THE GIRL! KILL THE BADDIES! Pop Will Eat Itself
NA
NA
103
RUNAWAY TRAIN Soul Asylum
38
52
102
LIPGLOSS Pulp
NA
NA
101
AIN'T NO LOVE AIN'T NO USE Sub Sub feat Melanie Williams
Forgot to mention that the right hand column is where the song finished in the actual countdown, and NA means that it wasn't in the countdown, though I'm sure everyone has worked that out by now
LA TRISTESSE DURERA (SCREAM TO A SIGH) Manic Street Preachers
NA
NA
23
EVERYBODY HURTS R.E.M.
10
11
22
THE OUTDOOR TYPE Smudge
NA
NA
21
RID OF ME PJ Harvey
NA
NA
20
TAILLIGHTS FADE Buffalo Tom
9
53
A 1992 hangover, but still Buffalo Tom's finest moment. A great anthem to early '90s angst.
19
VENUS AS A BOY Bjork
NA
NA
One of Bjork's earliest solo singles, but my 2nd favourite Bjork song - beauty indeed.
18
INTO YOUR ARMS The Lemonheads
NA
NA
At 18 is the sublime Into Your Arms by the Lemonheads. I seem to remember moshing to this. Very easy to sing along to as well.
17
THE UBIQUITOUS MR LOVEGROVE Dead Can Dance
NA
NA
At 17 is The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove by Melbourne's Dead Can Dance. The 'Goth Frank Sinatra' Brendan Perry takes over vocal duties for this one. It embraces trip hop with its Middle Eastern influences and slow beats.
16
KILLING IN THE NAME Rage Against The Machine
8
6
Perhaps controversially, Killing In The Name only comes in at 16 in my list. It still came in at #6 in the real list despite being over a year old. Being young and naive, I didn't understand what they were on about. I sure as hell do now.
15
RUB IT TIL IT BLEEDS PJ Harvey
NA
NA
This one is the rockiest song on PJ's rockiest album, and the one that sounds best to me now. It was great to finally remember it now (I forgot about it in 2017)
14
WOULD? Alice In Chains
7
51
At 14 is Alice In Chains' brooding masterpiece, Would? Brooding being a recurring theme in 1993, which suited brooding me.
13
MISS LEADER Rollerskate Skinny
NA
NA
I had forgotten about this one too, but hearing the underlying, song-making riff brought it all back again. Then the crunching chorus. At #13 is Miss Leader from Ireland's Rollerskate Skinny. They released a second album in 1996, then broke up apparently.
12
REBEL GIRL Bikini Kill
NA
NA
It's not often a song spawns a movement (arguably #16 did it too) but Rebel Girl did - the Riot Grrrl movement. A nice blast o' punk.
11
ALREADY THERE The Verve
NA
NA
At 11 is the fourth song from t'Verve's fine psychedelic A Storm In Heaven album (unlucky not to have more), Already There. Such a slow, mellow buildup (still struggle to associate Richard Aschcroft with mellow), then a beautiful psychedelic crescendo
10
WILD WOOD Paul Weller
NA
NA
"Climbing, forever trying Find your way out, of the wild,wild wood Now there's no justice There's only yourself, that you can trust in"
The Modfather got soul. At ten is Paul Weller with the beautiful title track of his Wild Wood album. That moment when he goes up a few motes gets me in the feels every time.
9
I FEEL YOU Depeche Mode
6
92
"I feel you Within my mind You take me there You take me where The kingdom comes" Dave Gahan got sex-ay. In the Top 10 again are Depeche Mode with I Feel You. Love the swaggering guitar from Mr Gore.
8
EBENEEZER GOODE The Shamen
5
99
"He's refined, sublime, he makes you feel fine Though very much maligned and misunderstood But if you know 'Ezeer he's a real crowd pleaser He's ever so good, he's Ebeneezer Goode"
Verrry naughty indeed. One of the ultimate early-90s club classics that take me staight back to those dodgy clubs with the smoke machines - memories. Whichever year it was released, a classic.
7
CREEP Radiohead
4
2
The last of the 1992 hangovers on my list, and it's a big 'un. However it was re-released in the latter part of 1993, was all over the radio and TV in late '93 and came in runner-up in the actual countdown (A**hole, really?) so I don't feel as awkward including this in the 1993 list. However much they may hate it, it's still the song synonymous with Radiohead and still soungs good.
6
INTO DUST Mazzy Star
NA
NA
"I could possibly be fading Or have something more to gain I could feel myself growing colder I could feel myself under your fate"
The other (slightly lesser known) absolutely stunning song from the So Tonight That I May See album, Into Dust comes in at #6. Just Hope Sandoval's beautiful voice and the late David Roback's languid acoustic guitar (and some cello) is all that's needed.
5
SOBER Tool
3
27
"I will find a center in you. I will chew it up and leave, I will work to elevate you Just enough to bring you down." Maynard James Keenan's dark ode to alcoholism, Sober, really sounded like nothing else in 1993. In fact, it didn't even sound like them from a year before. The film clip was also the first in a series of stunning, yet creepy ones from them.
4
FUZZY Grant Lee Buffalo
NA
NA
"You know I love it more and more Than before I ran away It triggers off so many hurts Hurtful words and broken plates" Agree with OBOne - why was Dixie Drug Store on the 1993 Hottest 100 voting list, but not this masterpiece? Such a beautiful song. It seems the Gallagher brothers may have listening to this when they put Some Might Say together.
3
BLOW OUT Radiohead
NA
NA
"In my mind And nailed into my heels All the time Killing what I feel" At three is the closer to Pablo Honey, Blow Out. It has everything you'd want in a Radiohead closing track, a slow, instrumental intro with some nice interplay, Thom's soaring (and self-loathing) vocals and a totally rocking, out of control outro.
2
YOUR EYES (REMIX) Underground Lovers
2
83
"When I wake up I see you sleeping My eyes don't focus And I want to die" It's not often that a remix of a song equals the original, but the 8-minute original, guitar-based Your Eyes from the Underground 1992's Leaves Me Blind (which will be considered a different tune ) was remixed into a 4-minute, psychedelic club classic in 1993, and takes me to a great place everytime I hear it. I must transcribe the full lyrics one day, they're not available on the internet.
1
REARVIEWMIRROR Pearl Jam
1
NA
"I took a drive today Time to emancipate I guess it was the beatings made me wise But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize"
Topping the list is Rearviewmirror by Pearl Jam. Again, not sure why the so-so Go was on the voting list but this wasn't. Pearl Jam and Eddie Vedder turn everything up to 11 here - the intensity of the song, the candidness of the lyrics and the volume of the outro. It deservedly made the Hottest 100 of all time. Last edited:
Very good question juicer. I guess it's that 'Indie Cred' everyone hears about. It's a bit subjective. The 80s Duran Duran would never have made it to a Hottest 100 but the 90s version were a bit older and wiser and not 'glamorous' anymore so that's why they were in. Same goes for 80s Madonna vs 90s Madonna and 80s Kylie vs 90s Kylie vs 00s Kylie.
And here is the rest of 1994. The fuzziness and Britpoppy goodness continues (edited 28/11/2020)
Decided to put 'I Alone' by Live in the 1995 list, as it appeared in both the 1994 and 1995 Hottest 100s.
Itch-E and Scratch-E were very unlucky to miss the Top 10. They had to change their name a couple of years later when 20th Century Fox objected, so they changed their name to ... Boo Boo and Mace
Number
Song
Real H100 order
Actual Posn
100
10% WEIRD The Meanies
NA
NA
99
DADDY LONG LEGS Tumbleweed
48
50
98
BELLBOTTOMS Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
NA
NA
97
JAIMME'S GOT A GAL You Am I
47
77
96
GIRLS AND BOYS Blur
46
96
95
SHE DON'T USE JELLY The Flaming Lips
NA
NA
94
HYPOCRITE Lush
NA
NA
93
I NEVER WANT AN EASY LIFE IF ME AND HE WERE EVER TO GET THERE The Charlatans
NA
NA
92
WHAT WENT WRONG Grant McLennan
NA
NA
91
NATURE'S WAY Robert Forster
NA
NA
90
LAP IT UP Penny Flanagan
45
52
89
IN A BOX Ammonia
NA
NA
88
THE MAVEN The Church
NA
NA
87
LIAR Rollins Band
NA
NA
86
EVERYTHING'S COOL Pop Will Eat Itself
44
58
85
BACK IN THE HOLE Hunters And Collectors
NA
NA
84
TOMORROW Silverchair
43
5
83
LANDSLIDE Smashing Pumpkins
NA
NA
82
POISON The Prodigy
NA
NA
81
VOODOO PEOPLE The Prodigy
42
37
80
SUPERNOVA Liz Phair
41
33
79
MASSES LIKE ASSES Def FX
40
95
78
EASY Hunters And Collectors
NA
NA
77
SEETHER Veruca Salt
39
6
76
LILAC WINE Jeff Buckley
NA
NA
75
ETERNAL LIFE Jeff Buckley
NA
NA
74
BLIND Korn
NA
NA
73
HOBO HUMPIN SLOBO BABE Whale
38
66
72
MARCH OF THE PIGS Nine Inch Nails
NA
NA
71
DROPOUT Urge Overkill
37
71
70
BURN The Cure
36
57
69
SAVE YOUR SKIN Powderfinger
NA
NA
68
STAY (I MISSED YOU) Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories
35
100
67
UNDER THE LAW The Bats
NA
NA
66
VASOLINE Stone Temple Pilots
34
54
65
DISARM Smashing Pumpkins
NA
NA
64
ABOUT A GIRL Nirvana
33
7
63
COMING DOWN The Cult
NA
NA
62
LA DI DOH Ed Kuepper
32
55
61
SOMETHING'S ALWAYS WRONG Toad The Wet Sprocket
NA
NA
60
LOVERMAN Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
NA
NA
59
NO GOOD The Prodigy
NA
NA
58
AM I WRONG? Love Spit Love
31
83
57
AFTERGLOW Incursion
NA
NA
56
AMEN Falling Joys
30
49
55
4ST 7LB Manic Street Preachers
NA
NA
54
TODAY Smashing Pumpkins
29
25
53
SOMETIMES ALWAYS Jesus and Mary Chain
28
59
52
BULL IN THE HEATHER Sonic Youth
27
65
51
SOUR TIMES Portishead
NA
NA
50
RED RIGHT HAND Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
26
NA
49
COMA Max Sharam
25
8
48
WARREN'S WALTZ The Dirty Three
NA
NA
47
FALL Single Gun Theory
24
31
46
VOODOO LADY Ween
NA
NA
45
ICH BIN EIN AUSLANDER Pop Will Eat Itself
NA
NA
44
ROUNDABOUT Caligula
NA
NA
43
YOUR GHOST Kristen Hersh
23
41
42
7 SECONDS Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry
22
26
41
TWO PLACES AT ONCE The Church
NA
NA
40
SHE'S A LADY Pulp
NA
NA
39
SHE IS SUFFERING Manic Street Preachers
NA
NA
38
CONNECTION Elastica
NA
NA
37
SLY Massive Attack
NA
NA
36
BLACK HOLE SUN Soundgarden
21
22
35
CORNFLAKE GIRL Tori Amos
20
35
34
TIME BOMB Nick Barker
19
20
33
LOVE SPREADS The Stone Roses
NA
NA
32
GEORGE Headless Chickens
NA
NA
31
A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins
NA
NA
30
ZOMBIE The Cranberries
18
1
29
VIOLET Hole
NA
NA
28
DOLL PARTS Hole
17
28
27
LOW Cracker
16
78
26
THIS IS A LOW Blur
NA
NA
25
DO YOU REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME? Pulp
NA
NA
24
LOSIN' IT Underground Lovers
15
19
23
SELF ESTEEM The Offspring
14
3
22
BUG POWDER DUST Bomb The Bass
13
13
21
YOU MADE ME THE THIEF OF YOUR HEART Sinead O'Connor
NA
NA
20
LAID James
12
12
19
IMMORTALITY Pearl Jam
NA
NA
18
YES, ANASTASIA Tori Amos
NA
NA
17
DO YOU LOVE ME? Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
11
11
16
SABOTAGE Beastie Boys
10
16
15
BERLIN CHAIR You Am I
9
23
14
A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT The Tea Party
8
98
13
ICE Magic Dirt
NA
NA
12
THE LAST NIGHT The Dirty Three
NA
NA
11
SWEETNESS AND LIGHT Itch-E and Scratch-E
7
21
"One in a million That's what I tell myself, oh wo Atomic electric This feeling that comes and goes"
Number 10 is Atomic Electric by Melbourne's Rebecca's Empire.
Just a great singalong indie track, and love the key change for the last chorus. Key changes often get me interested.
It still sounded fantastic when Rebecca Barnard performed it acoustically for an online lockdown concert a few months back.
10
ATOMIC ELECTRIC Rebecca's Empire
6
38
"Can't stop what's coming Can't stop what's on its way Bells and footfalls and soldiers and dolls Brothers and lovers she and I were"
With her third entry in the Top 40 is Tori Amos with Bells For Her, the beautifully chilling third song on Under The Pink. Some people have said that Under The Pink was too similar to Little Earthquakes, but I don't see it.
Anyway, another plaintive piano ballad with excellent vocals makes my Top 10.
9
BELLS FOR HER Tori Amos
NA
NA
"If I could start again A million miles away I would keep myself I would find a way"
I'm sure those lines are familar to many...
If the last song doesn't kill any Hottest 100 parties, this one will.
Number eight is the song you find when you get the end/bottom of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral - Hurt. Perhaps Johnny Cash's cover seems to get all the plaudits but it's interesting to hear it from both the young drug addict showing regret and the old man at the point of death doing the same. Both are brilliant in their own way.
8
HURT Nine Inch Nails
NA
NA
"By strange coincidence, a thunderstorm had been brewing, When Mahon doing his grisly work at the bungalow, Was dealing with the most grisly job of all, The head, the woman's head."
In my 1984 list, Severed Heads came in at #7 with The Dead Eyes Opened. In my 1994, Severed Heads come in at #7 with the remix of the Dead Eyes Opened. Both versions are seminal Australian dance tunes. Around this time was my brief dalliance with clubbing and this one filled floors (and didn't turn any stomachs despite the subject matter).
7
THE DEAD EYES OPENED Severed Heads
5
10
<no lyrics available>
Put another $2 in the australian-charts.com swear jar...
At six is the song that got me into The Dirty Three and their epic instrumentals, Everthing's F****d, the third song off their self-titled 1994 album to make this list. Hasn't aged at all, will never age, and the title is more relevant than ever...
6
EVERYTHING'S F*****D The Dirty Three
NA
NA
"We all get hurt by love And we all have our cross to bear But in the name of understanding now Our problems should be shared"
If you had told me at the start of 1994 that Kylie Minogue, who hadn't had any sort of hit for a couple of years, would come back to #1 with her best ever song AND also make the JJJ Hottest 100 in doing so, I would have had you certified. But here we are. And it still makes number 5 in my own list. She would go on to make the Hottest 100 again the following year, with some help from Nick Cave.
5
CONFIDE IN ME Kylie Minogue
4
30
"I got nobody on my side And surely that ain't right"
At four is what many, including me, consider to be Portishead's finest moment - Roads. Beth Gibbons' achingly despairing vocal is put over Geoff Barrow's brooding, orchestral/synth background. Puts a chill up the spine everytime I hear it.
4
ROADS Portishead
NA
NA
"You can have my isolation You can have the hate that it brings You can have my absence of faith You can have my everything"
Another $16-odd dollars to the swear jar..
Number three is the song I expected/thought would be Number 1 in the actual countdown, Closer by Nine Inch Nails. In fact, so must JJJ as when they played a selection of Hottest 100 Number 1s several years later, they played this and not Zombie. It caused a fair bit of controversy then, but imagine what it would cause now...
As for the song itself, it still sounds amazing with its driving (heart)beats and Trent Reznor's earnest vocals.
3
CLOSER Nine Inch Nails
3
2
"You live your life, you go in shadows You'll come apart and you'll go black Some kind of night into your darkness Colours your eyes with what's not there"
At #2 is Mazzy Star with the divine Fade Into You. Hope Sandoval's soft, seductive voice frequently transports me to other places, and this has always been the best example of it, and David Roback's guitar is equally as otherworldly.
It looks like the band are still pressing on after Roback's passing earlier this year Here's hoping they can keep the flame alive.
2
FADE INTO YOU Mazzy Star
2
32
"Well I've heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do ya?"
At the top is Jeff Buckley's sparse, angelic cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. For best results, listen to this one in a darkened room on a cold winter evening. They were the circumstances in which this version of the song became a permanent favourite, and Jeff Buckley's passing seemed ever more tragic.
Firstly it addresses the travesty of The Bends from Radiohead not having a single track in the actual 1995 countdown. There are four tracks from this album in my version (and another in the 1994 list).
The Foo Fighters, Alanis Morissette and silverchair all came out with strong first albums. Grinspoon make an early appearance on the back of them winning the JJJ new artist Unearthed comp.
Here are #100-1:
My H100
Song
Real H100 order
Actual Posn
100
REVEREND BLACK GRAPE Black Grape
NA
NA
99
HEY MAN, NICE SHOT Filter
NA
NA
98
ALL HOMEBOYS ARE D******DS TISM
52
93
97
SHE LOVES SHE Deadstar
NA
NA
96
JESUS Spiderbait
NA
NA
95
SLEEPWALKING Ammonia
NA
NA
94
QUEER Garbage
51
21
93
SWEET DISORDER Strawpeople
NA
NA
92
HEROIN GIRL Everclear
50
6
91
IT'S OH SO QUIET Bjork
49
5
90
BY MYSELF Hecate
48
98
89
I KISSED A GIRL Jill Sobule
47
18
88
I CAN DREAM Skunk Anansie
46
41
87
FUNTIME Boy George
NA
NA
86
BLUBBER BOY Regurgitator
45
17
85
SUNDAY Mr Blonde
44
82
84
THIS IS MUSIC The Verve
NA
NA
83
ISLAND HOME Christine Anu
43
47
82
AMOXYCILLIN Magic Dirt
NA
NA
81
EVIDENCE Faith No More
42
29
80
MELLOW DOUBT Teenage Fanclub
NA
NA
79
MUD PUDDLE Violetine
NA
NA
78
TIME BOMB Rancid
41
31
77
WAKE UP, BOO The Boo Radleys
NA
NA
76
ROCK N' ROLL IS WHERE I HIDE Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes
40
16
75
AEROPLANE Red Hot Chilli Peppers
39
28
74
LIFE IS SWEET The Chemical Brothers
NA
NA
73
SICKFEST Grinspoon
38
74
72
APARTMENT Custard
37
7
71
EVERYTHING ZEN Bush
36
33
70
ISRAEL'S SON Silverchair
NA
NA
69
MONTY Spiderbait
35
43
68
DIGGING THE GRAVE Faith No More
34
91
67
SORTED FOR E'S AND WIZZ Pulp
NA
NA
66
PARAFFIN Ruby
NA
NA
65
BIRTHDAY Big Heavy Stuff
NA
NA
64
IF FINGERS WERE XYLOPHONES Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
NA
NA
63
JUST Radiohead
NA
NA
62
STARGAZER Siouxsie and The Banshees
NA
NA
61
EMPIRE STATE (SON HOUSE IN EXCELSIS) Mercury Rev
NA
NA
60
THE WORLD I KNOW Collective Soul
NA
NA
59
ARMY OF ME Bjork
33
83
58
CAR SONG Elastica
NA
NA
57
DRIVE BY KISS The Dambuilders
NA
NA
56
SETTING SUN Drop City
NA
NA
55
TINGLY Pop! featuring Angie Hart
32
97
54
SIA'S SONG Crisp
NA
NA
53
APPLE EYES Swoop
31
32
52
LOVE OUT ME Siouxsie and The Banshees
NA
NA
51
WHERE THE WILD ROSES GROW Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue
30
8
50
I ALONE Live
29
34
49
UP TO OUR NECKS IN IT Skunkhour
28
55
48
KEN CARTER Ammonia
NA
NA
47
GREG! THE STOP SIGN! TISM
27
10
46
BLACK STEEL Tricky
26
36
45
TO BRING YOU MY LOVE PJ Harvey
NA
NA
44
PURPLE SNEAKERS You Am I
25
24
43
RICOCHET Faith No More
NA
NA
42
ISOBEL Bjork
NA
NA
41
DOWN BY THE WATER PJ Harvey
NA
NA
40
BETTER MAN Pearl Jam
24
44
39
WARPED Red Hot Chilli Peppers
23
75
38
AFTERNOON IN BED The Bats
NA
NA
37
GLORY BOX Portishead
22
45
36
ONE WAY TICKET TO ANTARCTICA Bluebottle Kiss
NA
NA
35
THE GIRL WITH THE SUN IN HER EYES Drop City
NA
NA
34
GRACE Jeff Buckley
21
89
33
NEIL JUNG Teenage Fanclub
NA
NA
32
SUMMER Buffalo Tom
20
50
31
VOW Garbage
19
15
30
POLITICAL PRISONERS Insurge
18
25
29
MIS-SHAPES Pulp
NA
NA
28
FIRE IN THE HEAD The Tea Party
17
66
27
APPLE TREE Drop City
NA
NA
26
LIGHTNING CRASHES Live
16
22
25
TEENAGE LOSER ANTHEM The Dambuilders
NA
NA
24
HISTORY The Verve
NA
NA
23
MY FRIENDS Red Hot Chilli Peppers
15
20
22
NEEDLE IN THE HAY Elliott Smith
NA
NA
21
ALRIGHT Supergrass
14
79
20
DIAMOND SEA Sonic Youth
13
42
19
INSOMNIA Faithless
NA
NA
18
WHY YOU ASKING Glide
NA
NA
17
TRICK WITH A KNIFE Strawpeople
12
78
16
I'LL STICK AROUND Foo Fighters
11
70
15
C'MON BILLY PJ Harvey
NA
NA
14
YOU OUGHTA KNOW Alanis Morrisette
10
39
13
MISS SARAJEVO Passengers
9
23
12
PROTECTION Massive Attack feat. Tracey Thorn
8
95
11
MISSING (REMIX) Everything But The Girl
NA
NA
"I think I have the best of me Inside my head No one else competes with me I think I'm great Got spirit tucked away inside"
Coming in at #10 is another one for the swear jar, the epic, brooding 'Eat My Dust You Insensitive F**k', by UK shoegaze band Catherine Wheel. Ironically it's the most shoegazey song from what is actually their their rockiest album, Happy Days. Trivia: Lead singer Rob Dickinson is first cousin to Iron Maiden's Bruce.
10
EAT MY DUST YOU INSENSITIVE F**K Catherine Wheel
NA
NA
"Have I been blind Have I been lost Inside myself and My own mind Hypnotized Mesmerized By what my eyes have seen?"
At nine is ex-10000 Maniacs (one Maniac?) lead singer Natalie Merchant with her first solo single Carnival. It still stands up beautifully today, so effortlessly, languid and cool.
9
CARNIVAL Natalie Merchant
7
30
"All your dreams are made When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade Today's the day that all the world will see"
At eight are the 'it' band of 1995, Oasis, with their (more or less) title track from their (What's The Story) Morning Glory album (which came out 25 years ago this Friday ). And they rocked out harder than they did before or since.
8
MORNING GLORY Oasis
6
13
"And all the roads we have to walk are winding And all the lights that lead us there are blinding There are many things that I Would like to say to you but I don't know how"
Surprise! Making it an Oasis back-to-back is the song voted the best ever Hottest 100 song by JJJ voters in 2015, as well as the #1 in the actual 1995 countdown - Wonderwall. It's dropped back ever so slightly in my estimation to #7 probably due to overplay, but it still remains a definitive 90s track. Do you really need me to describe it?
7
WONDERWALL Oasis
5
1
"This is our last embrace Must I dream and always see your face? Why can't we overcome this wall? Baby, maybe its just because you didn't know you at all"
Speaking of iconic 90s songs, at #6 is many people's introduction to Jeff Buckley, Last Goodbye. Another song that placed highly in the Top 100 Hottest 100 songs in 2015. Not a lot more needs to be said about this song either, except that it still gets me in the feels every time.
6
LAST GOODBYE Jeff Buckley
4
14
"This machine will, will not communicate These thoughts and the strain I am under Be a world child, form a circle Before we all go under"
Radiohead sure know how to end an album, don't they? Coming in at five is The Bends' closer, Street Spirit (Fade Out). Apparently REM were pat of the inspiration behind the song, well that and anti-capitalism. I think it wasn't released as a single anywhere until early '96, hence it not appearing on the 1995 Hottest 100 voting list.
5
STREET SPIRIT Radiohead
NA
NA
"Strangely not inside strangely not outside Drowning in the middle of an eerie transition And I don't know your name Never been alive - yet I haven't died I hover disembodied in a semi-wakened haze"
In my 1978 list, Siouxsie and The Banshees came in at #4 with their first single, the short, sharp 2 minute 57 Hong Kong Garden. In my 1995 list, they come in at #4 again, with their sprawling 11-minute epic title track from their swansong album, The Rapture. A great way for them to sign off in hindsight, as they broke up the following year.
4
THE RAPTURE Siouxsie and The Banshees
NA
NA
"Even though I know I suppose I'll show All my cool and cold Like ol' Job"
At number 3 is Bullet With Butterfly Wings by The Smashing Pumpkins. It's their rockiest number, it spoke to a 21 year old me and it remains my favourite song of theirs. It's kind of taken on a new relevance in 2020.
3
BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS The Smashing Pumpkins
3
2
"He used to do surgery For girls in the eighties But gravity always wins"
Whom do we know that could possibly come up with lyrics like that? Yep, that's right, T. Yorke. Radiohead equal their best ever position in my lists with 'Fake Plastic Trees'. Very glad to see it make the Hottest 100 of All Time lists after it somehow missed the 1995 Hottest 100. Not sure if it was ever released as a single in Australia, but if it was, it didn't chart.
2
FAKE PLASTIC TREES Radiohead
2
NA
"But still you'll never get it right 'Cause when you're laid in bed at night Watching roaches climb the wall If you called your dad he could stop it all"
Those of you playing at home will realise there's still one song missing from the 1995 Hottest 100 which must be #1, and it's Pulp's classic, epic Common People. During the Britpop era, whenever anyone asked me who my favourite Britpop bnd was out of 'Oasis' and 'Blur', I always answered 'Pulp'. Love Jarvis Cocker's lyrics and style to this day.
Now for one of my favourite Hottest 100 lists: 1996 I don't know about you but it was pure joy for me when Double J played the actual 1996 list in full early in 2017.
The Britpop battle was still in full swing, while grunge was in its death throes.
Howvever, the good music didn't run very deep,and it was a battle coming up with 200 songs.
(Edit 14/10/17: expanded to 175 songs) (Edit 2/8/20: expanded to 200 songs and revised) - here are #200-101:
My H100
Song
Real H100 order
Actual posn
200
WHOEVER YOU ARE Geggy Tah
101
41
199
MAH NA MAH NA Skin
100
31
198
MACH 5 Presidents of the USA
99
50
197
KILLING ME SOFTLY Fugees
98
35
196
CREEP Matthew Trapnell
97
95
195
ALL I WANT Skunk Anansie
96
93
194
PUNK ROCK SONG Bad Religion
95
63
193
MANKIND Pearl Jam
94
94
192
PUNCH IN THE FACE Frenzal Rhomb
93
72
191
HOW BIZARRE OMC
92
78
190
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Mullen/Clayton
91
68
189
HEAVEN BESIDE YOU Alice In Chains
NA
NA
188
CHARMLESS MAN Blur
NA
NA
187
DOWN 311
90
11
186
SO RUDE Rebecca's Empire
89
57
185
LAY LADY LAY Ministry
88
74
184
FSO Regurgitator
NA
NA
183
PROFESSIONAL WIDOW Tori Amos
87
98
182
SURF'S UP TONIGHT Midnight Oil
86
75
181
WAKING UP TIRED Hoodoo Gurus
85
83
180
DANG Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
NA
NA
179
ROLL WITH IT Oasis
NA
NA
178
HORSE The Dirty Three
NA
NA
177
CROMAGNON MAN Snout
84
89
176
LEAVIN HERE Pearl Jam
83
90
175
DOGS ARE THE BEST PEOPLE The Fauves
82
20
174
SINGLE GIRL Lush
NA
NA
173
SATURDAY NIGHT Suede
NA
NA
172
MR FREEZE K'S Choice
NA
NA
171
WOMBO LOMBO Angelique Kidjo
81
64
170
SMILER Jebediah
NA
NA
169
1979 Smashing Pumpkins
80
13
168
SIT ON MY HANDS Frente!
NA
NA
167
WONDER Natalie Merchant
NA
NA
166
HAIL CAESAR AC/DC
79
97
165
TALULA Tori Amos
NA
NA
164
UNTIL IT SLEEPS Metallica
78
52
163
ROOTS BLOODY ROOTS Sepultura
NA
NA
162
SAM GRIBBLE'S Spiderbait
NA
NA
161
PEOPLE OF THE SUN Rage Against The Machine
NA
NA
160
UNDERWATER Midnight Oil
NA
NA
159
PRISTINE CHRISTINE Magic Dirt
NA
NA
158
HOW THE WEST WAS WON AND WHERE IT GOT US REM
NA
NA
157
HERE NOW The Clouds
NA
NA
156
BIG ME Foo Fighters
NA
NA
155
NOT THE GIRL YOU THINK YOU ARE Crowded House
NA
NA
154
I CAN DO Robert Forster
NA
NA
153
BIG BANG BABY Stone Temple Pilots
NA
NA
152
SELF ABUSER The Fauves
77
30
151
GOLD TO ME Ben Harper
76
100
150
SPIDERWEBS No Doubt
NA
NA
149
SONG OF ANOTHER LOVE Underground Lovers
NA
NA
148
GOLD DUST WOMAN Hole
75
73
147
HOPE The Dirty Three
NA
NA
146
LAVABREAD Tumbleweed
NA
NA
145
MIFFY'S SIMPLICITY Regurgitator
NA
NA
144
HERE IN YOUR BEDROOM Goldfinger
74
65
143
SILVER LIZARD Tumbleweed
73
59
142
DOWN IN THE PARK Foo Fighters
72
21
141
PRETTY NOOSE Soundgarden
NA
NA
140
SET THE CONTROLS Barry Adamson
71
91
139
HAMMER AND TONGUES Soulwax
NA
NA
138
DEAN MARTIN Something For Kate
NA
NA
137
I'LL BE YOUR MAJICK Def FX
70
61
136
DISCO 2000 Pulp
68
71
135
SOLDIERS You Am I
68
80
134
ANEURYSM Nirvana
67
45
133
NOT COMING HOME Sidewinder
NA
NA
132
HUMAN ON THE INSIDE Divinyls
NA
NA
131
CAUGHT A LITE SNEEZE Tori Amos
NA
NA
130
HEARTSPARK DOLLARSIGN Everclear
66
58
129
SALVATION The Cranberries
65
44
128
SALE OF THE CENTURY Sleeper
NA
NA
127
YOU'RE ONE Imperial Teen
NA
NA
126
BURDEN IN MY HAND Soundgarden
64
77
125
MILK Garbage
63
40
124
SPECULATOR Insurge
62
69
123
YOU AND ME SONG The Wannadies
NA
NA
122
TWO WRONGS Tex Perkins
NA
NA
121
IN THE MEANTIME Spacehog
61
76
120
CRYIN' LOVE Robert Forster
NA
NA
119
AENEMA Tool
NA
NA
118
NEW POLLUTION Beck
NA
NA
117
GOOD MORNIN' You Am I
60
84
116
THE GOOD IN EVERYONE Sloan
NA
NA
115
POOR HOWARD Ed Kuepper
NA
NA
114
GUTLESS FEELING Violetine
NA
NA
113
SUGAR COATED ICEBERG Lightning Seeds
NA
NA
112
SANTA MONICA (WATCH THE WORLD DIE) Everclear
59
24
111
IF I COULD TALK I'D TELL YOU The Lemonheads
58
54
110
DOWN FROM THE SKY The Clouds
NA
NA
109
WHERE IT'S AT Beck
57
43
108
JET SKI Bikini Kill
NA
NA
107
YOU'RE GORGEOUS Babybird
56
10
106
HEY DUDE Kula Shaker
55
60
105
HELPING YOU HATE ME Bluebottle Kiss
NA
NA
104
SUSAN'S HOUSE Eels
54
56
103
DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER Oasis
NA
NA
102
ELLA'S UNCLE Matthew Trapnell
53
96
101
AT THE BAR The Dirty Three
NA
NA
(Sidenote re #102 - I actually have a niece named Ella ) Last edited:
TRIPPIN' OVER A HOLE IN A PAPER HEART Stone Temple Pilots
NA
NA
41
PASS THE VIBES Definition Of Sound
26
49
40
UNDERGROUND Ben Folds Five
25
3
39
HOURLY, DAILY You Am I
NA
NA
38
COMEDOWN Bush
24
38
37
VIRTUAL INSANITY Jamiroquai
23
37
36
CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA Oasis
NA
NA
35
HERO OF THE DAY Metallica
22
62
34
BULLS ON PARADE Rage Against The Machine
21
46
33
WOMAN Neneh Cherry
20
86
32
STEREOTYPES Blur
NA
NA
31
STAGGER LEE Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
NA
NA
30
EVERYTHING IS GOOD FOR YOU Crowded House
19
67
29
MOTHER MOTHER Tracy Bonham
18
34
28
ZERO The Smashing Pumpkins
17
28
27
HEY JUPITER Tori Amos
NA
NA
26
NOVOCAINE FOR THE SOUL Eels
16
39
25
SONG OF JOY Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
NA
NA
24
CHILDREN Robert Miles
NA
NA
23
YOU SHOWED ME The Lightning Seeds
NA
NA
22
POPULAR Nada Surf
15
48
21
READY TO GO Republica
14
99
20
TOUCH ME WITH YOUR LOVE Beth Orton
NA
NA
19
EXIT MUSIC (FOR A FILM) Radiohead
NA
NA
18
BORN SLIPPY (NUXX) Underworld
13
12
17
STINKFIST Tool
12
2
16
OH YEAH Ash
11
22
15
FIRESTARTER The Prodigy
10
17
14
E-BOW THE LETTER R.E.M.
9
87
13
SETTING SUN Chemical Brothers
8
26
12
ALICE The Cocteau Twins
NA
NA
11
ALL YOUR SISTERS Mazzy Star
NA
NA
"We're going to be grooving down to the morning show Grooving before the sun comes up Grooving down by the water Holding me tight"
Number 10 is Grooving by the Hunting Party, who consisted of the unlikely trio of Bones Hillman (Midnight Oil bassist), Chris Abrahams (DJ) with the vocals by Melanie Oxley, meaning that she joins her two older brothers (Jeremy and Peter of Sunnyboys fame) in making my Top 10. And groove I did to this sultry tune in the summer of '96 after finishing Uni.
10
GROOVING Hunting Party
7
88
"And you said that I Let it be a lesson Come and take and more Or less you lose some I will stay here in your imagination"
At nine are The Mavis', straight outta Geelong. 'Cry' is the song everyone remembers them for, and also the song that helped finish them, but "Thunder' is infinitely better IMO, with its sweet-sounding verse/rocking chorus combination.
9
THUNDER The Mavis'
6
92
"You want me? F****n' well, come and find me I'll be waitin' With a gun and a pack of sandwiches And nothin'"
Thom Yorke drops some more expletives at #8 with Talk Show Host - Radiohead's second song from the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack. Mr Greenwood's guitar riff is the real start of the show here.
8
TALK SHOW HOST Radiohead
NA
NA
"Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free What price now For a shallow piece of dignity"
The Manic Street Preachers didn't really become a thing in Australia until 1998, despite being huge in the UK. More's the pity, as one of their most popular songs, A Design For Life, with it sing-along chorus, only came across my radar about a decade ago as a result. It started to grow on me, and made #37 in my original 1996 list in 2017. It has continued to grow on me since then, as has its lyrics, and has now come in at #7.
7
A DESIGN FOR LIFE Manic Street Preachers
NA
NA
"The sickening taste Homophobic jokes Images of fascist folks Beam me up 'cause I can't breathe"
The one-hit-wonder of 1996, if not the '90s - the very Bowieesque Spaceman by Babylon Zoo (aka Jaz Mann). But what a hit. The lyrics for this one have taken on more meaning recently as well. It comes in at #6.
6
SPACEMAN Babylon Zoo
5
16
"Hello Dan, it's Joe here, I hope you're keeping well It's the 21st of December, and now they're ringing the last bells If I get good behaviour, I'll be out of here by July Won't you kiss my kids on Christmas Day Please don't let 'em cry for me"
At five is Paul Kelly's endearing Christmas tune, How To Make Gravy. Yes, it gets played every December 21st. It may take on a different tone this year for me as I live in a different state to the rest of my immediate family Still warms the heart even if it isn't Christmas.
5
HOW TO MAKE GRAVY Paul Kelly
NA
NA
"And if I die before I learn to speak Can money pay for all the days I lived awake But half asleep?"
At number 4 is a song with the longest title this side of Panic! At the Disco, Standing Outside A Broken Phonebooth With Money In My Hand from the Primitive Radio Gods. Apparently this song is well known from The Cable Guy movie, butI have never seen it, so I only know it from JJJ. In recent years it too taken on an anthemic quality with me. Love the inspired use of the BB King "I've been downhearted..." sample as well.
4
STANDING OUTSIDE A BROKEN PHONEBOOTH WITH MONEY IN MY HAND Primitive Radio Gods
4
36
"Breathe the pressure Come play my game, I'll test ya Psychosomatic, addict, insane"
This one isn't about the lyrics...rather the killer beats/strings. Hard to imagine how some people (not me) thought this was scary, even offensive back in the day. RIP Keith Flint.
3
BREATHE The Prodigy
3
7
"'Coz there's nobody else like you And we sure care just what you're doing After we have gone our seperate ways"
Runner-up in my list is the winner of the actual countdown, Spiderbait's short, sharp, stinging ode to the music industry, Buy Me A Pony. One minute 42 of pure, energetic vitriol. It still sounds great.
2
BUY ME A PONY Spiderbait
2
1
"When you are set to throw in your hand When you are far from home When what you believe is buried in your hands When you feel outgrown"
Coming in at #1 is the first song on my voting list, the first song I used the World Wide Web to vote for and my pick for #1 in our sweep that year (which didn't quite come to fruition). It's still my favourite Powderfinger song ever and it's Pick You Up. Love a song with a good key change and some rockin' guitars.
I find it odd that a number of these songs missed the 96 Hottest 100. Missing, Children, Don't Speak, Don't Look Back In Anger, Champagne Supernova, Ironic, Not an Addict, Hey Jupiter, How To Make Gravy, Peaches, Charmless Man and Wonder all seem like classic songs and were all pretty popular at the time so to be beaten by more obscure songs and a song like How Bizzare makes it just that especially when you look at Hottest 100s previously and songs like Deep and Dreams made it.
That reason is a large part of my motivation for doing these lists. That and revisiting some of the forgotten gems of this era, and maybe bringing these to more people's attention.
The 1995 (especially) and the 1994 lists were similar in this regard.
We move on to 1997. Along with 1994 and 1996 so far, the actual Hottest 100 was one of my favourites, and it was coupled with the best Hottest 100 party I ever had But I digress....
This is the year of the Whitlams' great Enternal Nightcap album, from which No Aphrodisiac came in at Number 1 of the actual Hottest 100 that year, and several other songs appeared in the 1997 and 1998 Hottest 100s as well.
Silverchair (the members of which were 18 now) released their excellent second album, Freakshow, which will also supply several songs in this list.
The Prodigy released their seminal Fat Of The Land album, two songs from which featured high on the 1996 list, but with many more tracks available to come.
And of course, Radiohead released OK Computer, widely regarded as one of the all-time greatest albums, and I must say I agree. One song from this album has already appeared in the 1996 list, but there will be many more in 1997 and 1998.
Kylie Minogue was still indie enough to appear in the Hottest 100 this year.
Here are songs #200-101:
My H100
Song
Real H100 order
Actual posn
200
BRIMFUL OF ASHA Cornershop
102
42
199
I GO OFF Dina Ah Naid
101
58
198
NOTHING Beaverloop
100
88
197
SHAKE HANDS WITH BEEF Primus
99
82
196
EVERYBODY'S FREE (TO WEAR SUNSCREEN) Quindon Tarver/Lee Perry
98
16
195
DCX3 Grinspoon
97
34
194
SANDMAN Blue Boy
NA
NA
193
AROUND THE WORLD Daft Punk
96
NA
192
SOCIETY Pennywise
95
90
191
BACKDOOR MAN Pauline Pantsdown
94
5
190
FROM 'JUMBLED IN THE COMMON BOX' Underground Lovers
NA
NA
189
SO MUCH FOR THE AFTERGLOW Everclear
93
51
188
DEGENERATE BOY The Mark Of Cain
92
78
187
WRONG NUMBER The Cure
91
45
186
DISCOTHEQUE U2
NA
NA
185
SOME KIND OF BLISS Kylie Minogue
NA
NA
184
OFF HE GOES Pearl Jam
NA
NA
183
NORTH COUNTRY BOY The Charlatans
NA
NA
182
WAVING MY DICK IN THE WIND Ween
90
69
181
LOVERS Effigy
NA
NA
180
STAND BY ME Oasis
NA
NA
179
THE DOOR Silverchair
89
27
178
TURN MY HEAD Live
NA
NA
177
THE END IS THE BEGINNING IS THE END The Smashing Pumpkins
88
62
176
ANATOMICALLY CORRECT Custard
87
48
175
A LIFE LESS ORDINARY Ash
NA
NA
174
NEW YORK CITY They Might Be Giants
86
60
173
JOYCE'S HUT Spiderbait
NA
NA
172
AIN'T THAT ENOUGH Teenage Fanclub
NA
NA
171
YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE A WHORE Everclear
NA
NA
170
RADIATION VIBE Fountains Of Wayne
NA
NA
169
TRIKE You Am I
NA
NA
168
INTERLOPER The Mark Of Cain
NA
NA
167
ALL I WANT The Offspring
NA
NA
166
CHAMPION Grinspoon
NA
NA
165
M.O.R. Blur
NA
NA
164
TOURNIQUET Marilyn Manson
NA
NA
163
FEELIN' KINDA SPORTY Dave Graney and The Coral Snakes
85
84
162
SMOKIN' JOHNNY CASH Blackeyed Susans
84
86
161
DESPERATELY WANTING Better Than Ezra
NA
NA
160
SUNDAY MORNING No Doubt
NA
NA
159
POPSCENE Blur
NA
NA
158
LOVE ROLLERCOASTER Red Hot Chilli Peppers
83
55
157
FREAKS Live
NA
NA
156
RED LIGHT DISCO Moler
NA
NA
155
STARSIGNS Underground Lovers
NA
NA
154
BARREL OF A GUN Depeche Mode
NA
NA
153
YOU KNOW Violetine
NA
NA
152
PLACE YOUR HANDS Reef
82
70
151
TUESDAY You Am I
NA
NA
150
THE GOOD LIFE Weezer
NA
NA
149
THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD Rage Against The Machine
81
74
148
GIRL FROM MARS Ash
NA
NA
147
DAMMIT Blink-182
80
6
146
PEDESTRIAN Grinspoon
NA
NA
145
WAIL The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
NA
NA
144
ONLY YOU Portishead
NA
NA
143
NEIGHBOURHOOD Space
NA
NA
142
TRIUMPH Wu-Tang Clan
NA
NA
141
COOLING YOUR HEELS Polyanna
NA
NA
140
FADED Ben Harper
79
80
139
FUNKY S**T The Prodigy
78
56
138
JUST A PICTURE Something For Kate
NA
NA
137
LAKINI'S JUICE Live
77
73
136
YOB TISM
NA
NA
135
POSTCARD Karma County
NA
NA
134
EAT ME Arkarna
76
50
133
CEMETERY Silverchair
NA
NA
132
MONKEY WRENCH Foo Fighters
75
21
131
JC Powderfinger
74
66
130
I WILL SURVIVE Cake
73
20
129
SICK WITH LOVE Robyn Loau
72
71
128
GOD Sidewinder
NA
NA
127
HOW HIGH The Charlatans
NA
NA
126
SATURATED Beasts Of Bourbon
NA
NA
125
COLD CONTAGIOUS Bush
NA
NA
124
SINK TO THE BOTTOM Fountains Of Wayne
NA
NA
123
LOVEFOOL The Cardigans
71
77
122
SEMI-CHARMED LIFE Third Eye Blind
70
29
121
WEIGHTLESSNESS Skunkhour
69
93
120
ISAAC OR FUZZ Machine Gun Fellatio
NA
NA
119
JOGA Bjork
NA
NA
118
COSMIC GIRL Jamiroquai
68
68
117
I WANT TO BE THERE WHEN YOU COME Echo and The Bunnymen
Not going to hang about this time - here are #100-1:
I must thank K8 for reminding me of Leonardo's Bride - such a lovely voice and hence two appearances in my Top 100.
Have just noticed how many songs from this year have made the subsequent Hottest 100 all time lists.
My H100 posn
Song
Real H100 order
Actual Posn
100
FEMALE OF THE SPECIES Space
61
75
99
THE CONTENDER The Mark Of Cain
NA
NA
98
MAY Big Heavy Stuff
NA
NA
97
WAY OF ALL THINGS Rebecca's Empire
60
94
96
HUNTER Bjork
NA
NA
95
BEER SANDWICH The F*** F***s
NA
NA
94
ROCK CITY The Avalanches
NA
NA
93
POST INEBRIATED ANXIETY Grinspoon
NA
NA
92
CAPTAIN (MILLION MILES AN HOUR) Something For Kate
59
39
91
S-E-X-X-Y They Might Be Giants
NA
NA
90
DID IT AGAIN Kylie Minogue
58
81
89
HITCHIN' A RIDE Green Day
57
25
88
ABUSE ME Silverchair
56
NA
87
D'YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN Oasis
NA
NA
86
COWS WITH GUNS Dana Lyons
55
28
85
I WANNA BE A DRUG-SNIFFING DOG Lard
54
83
84
BUDDHA BABY Leonardo's Bride
NA
NA
83
I GIVE IN Effigy
53
100
82
THE MEMORY REMAINS Metallica
52
38
81
I CHOOSE The Offspring
51
67
80
WHY'S EVERYBODY ALWAYS PICKIN' ON ME? Bloodhound Gang
50
40
79
MILITARY STRONGMAN Jebediah
49
33
78
INFATUATION Moler
NA
NA
77
TEMPTATION The Tea Party
48
44
76
IT'S NO GOOD Depeche Mode
NA
NA
75
EVERYDAY FORMULA Regurgitator
47
19
74
BATTLE OF WHO COULD CARE LESS Ben Folds Five
NA
NA
73
DA FUNK Daft Punk
46
98
72
ASHES TO ASHES Faith No More
45
31
71
BREATHING THROUGH MY EYES Skunkhour
NA
NA
70
LEGEND OF A COWGIRL Imani Coppola
44
76
69
GENERIC TEEN Bluebottle Kiss
NA
NA
68
ELYSIUM Portishead
NA
NA
67
DANCE WITH THE DEVIL Raggadeath
NA
NA
66
RICHARD III Supergrass
NA
NA
65
IDIOT PRAYER Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
NA
NA
64
HELP THE AGED Pulp
NA
NA
63
SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK ALIEN Radiohead
NA
NA
62
THE FUTURE'S OVERRATED Arkarna
43
97
61
CHARLIE NO. 1 The Whitlams
NA
NA
60
PULSE Front End Loader
42
72
59
(CAN'T YOU) TRIP LIKE I DO Filter and the Crystal Method
41
47
58
THE DRUGS DON'T WORK The Verve
40
22
57
COME TO DADDY Aphex Twin
NA
NA
56
UNDERWATER LOVE Smoke City
NA
NA
55
REMEMBER ME Blue Boy
39
91
54
NIGHTMARE Brainbug
38
85
53
CALYPSO Spiderbait
37
23
52
ONE ANGRY DWARF AND 200 SOLEMN FACES Ben Folds Five
36
12
51
WALKIN' ON THE SUN Smash Mouth
35
11
50
BLOCK ROCKIN BEATS The Chemical Brothers
34
61
49
SUN HITS THE SKY Supergrass
NA
NA
48
REPEAT Grinspoon
33
63
47
VOLCANO GIRLS Veruca Salt
NA
NA
46
TITANIC DAYS Sidewinder
32
92
45
#1 CRUSH Garbage
31
52
44
MUTILATED LIPS Ween
30
36
43
THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE Marilyn Manson
29
8
42
EVEN WHEN I'M SLEEPING Leonardo's Bride
NA
NA
41
MAGNET Headless Chickens
NA
NA
40
STRIPSEARCH Faith No More
28
64
39
BEETLEBUM Blur
NA
NA
38
ARE YOU THE ONE I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR? Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
NA
NA
37
LEAVING HOME Jebediah
27
10
36
A.D.I.D.A.S. Korn
26
24
35
SUMMERTIME The Sundays
25
35
34
BOUND FOR THE FLOOR Local H
24
96
33
THE OUTDOOR TYPE The Lemonheads
23
65
32
LUCKY Radiohead
NA
NA
31
DOWN AGAIN The Superjesus
22
14
30
46 AND 2 Tool
21
30
29
YOUR WOMAN White Town
20
59
28
ALL IS FULL OF LOVE Bjork
NA
NA
27
YOU SOUND LIKE LOUIS BURDETT The Whitlams
19
53
26
NAUGHTY BOY The Mavis'
18
37
25
SILENCE Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan
NA
NA
24
WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME? Monaco
NA
NA
23
6 UNDERGROUND Sneaker Pimps
17
87
22
SONG 2 Blur
16
2
21
ALL MINE Portishead
15
79
20
TUBTHUMPING Chumbawumba
14
3
19
YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT FEELS THIS WAY Ammonia
13
43
18
LUCKY MAN The Verve
NA
NA
17
TRULY Something For Kate
NA
NA
16
THE PERFECT DRUG Nine Inch Nails
12
26
15
BACHELORETTE Bjork
NA
NA
14
FREAK Silverchair
11
13
13
CRAZY Cordrazine
10
17
12
SLOW MOVING TRAINS Godspeed You! Black Emperor
NA
NA
11
NOT IF YOU WERE THE LAST JUNKIE ON EARTH The Dandy Warhols
9
89
"Karma police Arrest this man He talks in maths He buzzes like a fridge He's like a detuned radio"
At 10 is 'Karma Police', the third track on my list from the best album of all-time, OK Computer. I was tempted to add more
10
KARMA POLICE Radiohead
8
9
"Now that I've found you And seen behind those eyes How can I Carry on"
Number 9 is Portishead's frankly chilling 'Undenied' from their self-titled second album. It's been described as that album's 'Roads', which is a massive compliment. Beth Gibbons' amazing voice is really allowed to shine.
9
UNDENIED Portishead
NA
NA
"(English translation) And lead us not into sickness, But deliver us from evil, Because yours is the earth And the body And the health Amen"
Sigur Ros make their first appearance in my lists with 'Hun Jord' from their quite dark first album 'Von', at #8. Apparently GoT fans might know his song. Jordi's vocal talents were apparent from the get go.
8
HUN JORD Sigur Ros
NA
NA
"Hug me till you drug me honey Kiss me till I'm in a coma"
Number 7 is the industrial Brave-New-World-inspired trip-hop of 'Coma' from Pendulum. This Pendulum hailed from Melbourne and is not to be confused with the Perth act of the same name from the 2000s. It sounded like nothing else at the time and holds up well today.
7
COMA Pendulum
7
32
"Well, we don't need no one to tell us what to do Oh yes, we're on our own and there's nothing you can do So we don't need no one like you to tell us what to do We don't refer to the past when we're showing what we've done Our generation gap means the war is never won The past is in your head, the future's in our hands"
At six is The Living End's grand statement of intent, the anthemic 'Prisoner Of Society'. They wore their Stray Cats/Ska influences on their sleeve and within a couple years a number of similar bands to them would crop up. As for them, they would make 10 Hottest 100s staight starting here. I seem to recall this song came out very late in the year and was unlucky not to place higher in the actual countdown.
6
PRISONER OF SOCIETY The Living End
6
15
"And I don't believe in the existence of angels But looking at you I wonder if that's true But if I did I would summon them together And ask them to watch over you"
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds come in at Number 5 with their most beautiful song ever, 'Into My Arms'. The Boatman's Call was a welcome return to form for them after 'Murder Ballads'.
5
INTO MY ARMS Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
5
18
"When I am King You will be first against the wall With your opinion Which is of no consequence at all"
Coming in at #4 (and moving up a position from my original list) is Radiohead again with the pivotal track from 'OK Computer', Paranoid Android. A six-minute epic with more twists and turns than you can poke a stick at, and of course mega props for the Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy reference.
4
PARANOID ANDROID Radiohead
4
7
"Forty, shaved, sexy, wants to do it all day With a gun-toting trigger-happy tranny named Kinky Renée Tired teacher, twenty-eight, seeks regular meetings For masculine, muscular, nappy-clad, brutal breeding"
At #3 is the winner of the actual Hottest 100, 'No Aphrodisiac', from The Whitlams masterpiece, 'Eternal Nightcap'. It was a surprise #1 at the time but in hindsight, it was the right choice. I was living 2700km from the person and family I loved at the time, so this one resonated with me - a lot.
3
NO APHRODISIAC The Whitlams
3
1
"And I wonder When I sing along with you If everything could ever feel this real forever If anything could ever be this good again The only thing I'll ever ask of you You gotta promise not to stop when I say when"
Runner-up is Everlong by the Foo-Fighters, the JJJ All-Time staple, and rightfully so. It remains a mystery how it didn't make either the 1997 or 1998 Hottest 100s. Don't think it even made the voting lists.
2
EVERLONG Foo Fighters
2
NA
"'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life Tryna make ends meet Tryna find some money then you die I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down You know the one that takes you to the places Where all the veins meet yeah"
On top is 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' by The Verve, from another of 1997's great albums, Urban Hymns. Those soaring strings and the message of the song do it for me each time. A shame The Verve couldn't go on with it.
Been an avid follower since the beginning and even been playlisting your lists on Lastfm
Anyway as some may know, to me this is part of the golden era of Australian chart music and Australian music in general (early '96 through to early '99) and coincidentally contain the best Hottest 100's ever
On your summaries first, yes Leonardo's Bride were indeed a wonderful band and you could forever get lost in Abby Dobson's lovely vocal.
I was really late into loving Radiohead but I did enjoy several songs at the time. I still at times struggle to love them as an album act though but as time goes on they definitely did push the envelope by offering something nobody has been able to replicate and probly never will.
Pendulum 90's is a totally different act to the Pendulum of 00's (How does this happen?)
'Prisoner Of Society' was an absolute monster movement in Australian music in general imo, I put it up there with 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' as being the leader of a genre movement. Apart from the bubblegum pop movement of '99-'00 the next big thing would be 'Chop Suey' for me.
Like Radiohead I was very late into Nick Cave. 'Into My Arms' is indeed a very special track.
Freak? Really? It's good but imo the majority of Frogstomp was better but their best was to come later on for me
'No Aphrodisiac' is just one of those universally timeless tunes that we'll continue to hear until we die, superb and Tim Freedman's best work easily.
At the time the Foo Fighters were still gaining their credit and becoming the live band they were and still are. 'Monkey Wrench' & 'My Hero' got a lot more exposure on radio and RAGE but 'Everlong' over the years has become their go to track especially live and of course because of that wonderful video. It was indeed released as a single but again wasn't the monster it should've been. They began turning heads here in Australia after the 'Learn To Fly' single/video.
Now I love Urban Hymns and I like 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' but give me 'The Drugs Don't Work' any day!
I agree '96 to '99 was a very special time in Australian indie music and chart music in general. We had Recovery to look forward to every Saturday morning to get exposure to this great music too. This time coincided with my first time away from home and independence.
Yep - Freak. Some of their Diorama songs were excellent too I must admit. Very interesting to track their musical growth from 14 year olds again.
I will start on 1998 this weekend, and hopefully by next weekend I'll finish it - another 175 songs to get through! Last edited:
Btw finally somebody gives some love to Cold Contagious! I still remember only ever catching the clip one late Friday night but will always remember their epic performance on Recovery Easily their best track and I really think they are an underrated group in general.
I guess this is a more subjective list on your personal tastes rather than what might have been so I won't make any comments on the order of the songs, (other than Paranoid Android not #1 )
Looking at 1997 (won't go all the way back), I'll add some songs I would have included (in my personal list)
I WOULD HURT A FLY Built To Spill HOW HIGH The Charlatans (Prefer this to North Country Boy) BOYS BETTER Dandy Warhols MOGWAI FEAR SATAN Mogwai R U STILL IN 2 IT? Mogwai SUMMER Mogwai AVENGING ANGELS Space THE LAST AUSTRALIAN GUITAR HERO TISM
The 1998 list is taking longer than expected, but that's because there will be 200 songs in it!!
Boys Better from the Dandy Warhols will be in it.
You're right about The Living End Beanster, I've seen the 1998 and 1999 shortlists and there are several Australian ska-influenced groups springing up such as Area 7.
Sorry about Paranoid Android but at least I had it higher than in the actual countdown
(revised 27/5/2020) Blimey that was tough ... but I have completed the 1998 list. All 200 songs (for the first time)
Not as strong as the two years prior, but I have definitely enjoyed revisiting the music of this year. '
Here are the new #200-101. Note that in this list and in #100-1, a few songs have gone back to 1997, and one has come back from 1999. Apologies if these render the follow up commentary nonsensical.
My H100 order
Song
Real H100 order
Actual posn
200
THE ROCKAFELLER SKANK Fatboy Slim
100
63
199
SIMULTANEOUS Chef
99
20
198
MR CHARISMA Frenzal Rhomb
98
72
197
JOSIE (EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE FINE) Blink-182
97
14
196
NO SUBSTITUTE Chef
96
90
195
MUM CHANGED THE LOCKS Frenzal Rhomb
95
54
194
BUBBLEGOOSE Wyclef Jean
94
19
193
THE UNFORGIVEN II Metallica
93
67
192
I DON'T LIKE IT Pauline Pantsdown
92
58
191
GOT SOLD ON HEAVEN Snout
NA
NA
190
TAINTED LOVE (LIVE) The Living End
91
17
189
UNTOUCHABLE FACE Ani DiFranco
90
60
188
SUSPICION BELLS Effigy
NA
NA
187
ICE HOCKEY HAIR Super Furry Animals
NA
NA
186
THE CHARLES ATLAS WAY The Fauves
NA
NA
185
ONE 85 Muzzy Pep
NA
NA
184
SUIT YOUR STYLE Hunters and Collectors
NA
NA
183
HARPOON Something For Kate
89
85
182
SAINT JOE ON THE SCHOOL BUS Marcy Playground
88
76
181
UNTITLED Silverchair
87
93
180
MAMA'S TRIPPIN' Ben Harper
86
86
179
PERFECT The Smashing Pumpkins
85
94
178
MUSIC IS CRAP Custard
84
24
177
ANY DAY Violetine
NA
NA
176
YOU'LL DO The Cruel Sea
NA
NA
175
FUEL Metallica
83
77
174
LEVER The Mavis'
NA
NA
173
TROPICALIA Beck
82
95
172
THE GROUCH Green Day
81
52
171
DON'T GO AWAY Grinspoon
80
79
170
SHEEP GO TO HEAVEN Cake
NA
NA
169
DOO WOP (THAT THING) Lauryn Hill
NA
NA
168
LAST STOP THIS TOWN Eels
NA
NA
167
AWFUL Hole
NA
NA
166
BAD OLD MAN Babybird
79
80
165
WALKING AFTER YOU Foo Fighters
NA
NA
164
DIE DIE MY DARLING Metallica
NA
NA
163
HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN The Living End
NA
NA
162
SILVER BULLETS Hot Rollers
NA
NA
161
WHAT I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU You Am I
NA
NA
160
DEATH TO THE APPLE GERLS Gerling
NA
NA
159
PARTY HARD Pulp
NA
NA
158
SPECIAL Garbage
78
89
157
GOOD RIDDANCE (TIME OF YOUR LIFE) Green Day
77
84
156
AMNESIA Chumbawumba
NA
NA
155
GET MYSELF ARRESTED Gomez
NA
NA
154
PRIVATE HELICOPTER Harvey Danger
NA
NA
153
DELICIOUS Moler
NA
NA
152
I MIGHT BE A CUNT, BUT AT LEAST I'M NOT A FUCKING CUNT TISM
NA
NA
151
CHANGE Iota
NA
NA
150
BITTERSWEET Skulker
NA
NA
149
NOW AND THEN The Superjesus
76
83
148
SURF CITY LIMITS The Fauves
NA
NA
147
PUBERTY SONG The Mavis'
NA
NA
146
CABOOLTURE SPEED LAB Custard
NA
NA
145
SOMEBODY KILL ME Adam Sandler
75
39
144
GOT THE LIFE Korn
74
5
143
FATHER OF MINE Everclear
73
53
142
VICIOUS PRECIOUS Primary
NA
NA
141
DRAGULA Rob Zombie
72
75
140
NO SHELTER Rage Against The Machine
71
66
139
BAKER STREET Foo Fighters
70
98
138
DISSOLVED GIRL Massive Attack
NA
NA
137
LUNCHBOX Marilyn Manson
NA
NA
136
SWEATER Eskimo Joe
69
33
135
BENEDICT Jebediah
68
91
134
MORE THAN YOU ARE Grinspoon
NA
NA
133
THE EVERLASTING Manic Street Preachers
NA
NA
132
INERTIA CREEPS Massive Attack
NA
NA
131
EX-FACTOR Lauryn Hill
NA
NA
130
WAY OVER YONDER IN THE MINOR KEY Billy Bragg and Wilco
Some great tracks in this list. Was Lauryn Hill played on JJJ? I sort of fell out of JJJ around this time as Wild FM was more my thing.
Also Madonna confuses me as sometimes she is on JJJ and other times she's not? What's the story with her? Pre 90s she has had one hit make the all time lists but many more could have especially Like A Virgin which has a segment named after it on JJJ. I would have thought Vogue and Justify My Love would have been JJJ hits. Erotica and Secret have a JJJ appeal to them too. I could see Frozen and Ray of Light on JJJ and then Beautiful Stranger, Music and Don't Tell Me either made the Hottest 100 or on the voting lists. Nothing from her thereafter. Die Another Day could have had potential. I am glad she has featured on JJJ but confused by how they feature some and not all her music.
Not 100% sure about Lauryn Hill but I know the Fugees were played on JJJ two years before. But 'The 'Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' was and is a highly regarded hip hop album.
Madonna confuses me too. I agree with you about Vogue and Justify My Love, then she got lost in her own excesses in the early 90s, before coming back in a big way with the 'Ray Of Light' album. she did make the actual 1999 and 2000 Hottest 100s before losing her 'edge' disappearing again in the early 00s. Like you I thought 'Ray Of Light' and particularly 'Frozen' were worthy of making the list too.
(revised 23/6/2020, with lyrics and slight revisions) Now that I am pretty much up to date, I have looked back and started revising my old lists, starting with 1998 - still one of my favourites. I will go through rest of the 1990s (hopefully expanding the 1993-97 lists to 200 songs, then the 1980s).
Apologies if these revisions render the follow up comments nonsensical.
Here is the revised #100-11:
My H100 order
Song
Real H100 order
Actual posn
100
WICKERMAN SHOES Hot Rollers
NA
NA
99
CIRCLE HIGH AND WIDE Snout
NA
NA
98
MY HERO Foo Fighters
59
74
97
JUST ACE Grinspoon
58
18
96
DAYSLEEPER R.E.M.
NA
NA
95
REDNECK WONDERLAND Midnight Oil
57
96
94
I THINK I'M PARANOID Garbage
56
57
93
TEFLON Jebediah
55
42
92
NEVER THERE Cake
54
30
91
PUSH IT Garbage
53
87
90
BLACK BUGS Regurgitator
52
32
89
SHUT UP AND KISS ME Paul McDermott and Fiona Horne
NA
NA
88
SEX AND CANDY Marcy Playground
51
21
87
ADDICTED TO BASS Josh Abrahams and Amiel Daemion
50
16
86
SICH OFFNEN Not From There
49
100
85
ROAD RAGE Catatonia
48
48
84
GET 'EM OUTTA HERE Sprung Monkey
NA
NA
83
CRIMINAL Fiona Apple
NA
NA
82
HELLO Happyland
47
71
81
SAVE THE DAY The Living End
46
10
80
BODY MOVIN' Beastie Boys
NA
NA
79
MUSIC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU Stardust
45
73
78
CRY The Mavis'
44
61
77
DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM? Happyland
43
28
76
THE SWEETEST THING U2
42
11
75
POLYESTER GIRL Regurgitator
41
26
74
THE IMPRESSION THAT I GET The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
40
38
73
BOYS BETTER The Dandy Warhols
NA
NA
72
THUNDERBIRDS ARE COMING OUT TISM
NA
NA
71
INTERGALACTIC Beastie Boys
39
25
70
COLD FEELING Underground Lovers
NA
NA
69
KELLY WATCH THE STARS Air
NA
NA
68
BEGIN AGAIN Space
NA
NA
67
EL PRESIDENT Drugstore
38
82
66
DON'T WANNA BE LEFT OUT Powderfinger
37
46
65
PURE MORNING Placebo
36
41
64
THE BALLAD OF TOM JONES Space with Cerys of Catatonia
35
92
63
UNTITLED VAST
NA
NA
62
THE RESTLESS WAVES The Dirty Three
NA
NA
61
SPARK Tori Amos
NA
NA
60
SONG FOR THE DUMPED Ben Folds Five
34
40
59
HISTORY REPEATING Propellerheads feat. Shirley Bassey
33
59
58
PRETTY FLY (FOR A WHITE GUY) The Offspring
32
1
57
TWO HEADED BOY Neutral Milk Hotel
NA
NA
56
GIRLS LIKE THAT (DON'T GO FOR GUYS LIKE US) Custard
31
3
55
CIGARETTES WILL KILL YOU Ben Lee
30
2
54
SHE-RIFF Magic Dirt
NA
NA
53
ONE WEEK Barenaked Ladies
29
34
52
I LIKE YOUR OLD REMIX BETTER THAN YOUR NEW REMIX Regurgitator
28
27
51
MELBOURNE The Whitlams
27
43
50
SHE WILL HAVE HER WAY Neil Finn
NA
NA
49
IF YOU TOLERATE THIS YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT Manic Street Preachers
26
70
48
EVERYDAY SHOULD BE A HOLIDAY Dandy Warhols
25
68
47
LA FEMME DE ARGENT Air
NA
NA
46
GIVEN TO FLY Pearl Jam
24
51
45
SEXY BOY Air
NA
NA
44
THE DOPE SHOW Marilyn Manson
23
44
43
DIRTY HOLE VAST
NA
NA
42
WHATAREYA? TISM
22
36
41
BLACK THE SUN Alex Lloyd
NA
NA
40
METAL HEART Cat Power
NA
NA
39
BRITTLE THEN BROKEN Polyanna
NA
NA
38
AVA ADORE Smashing Pumpkins
21
45
37
RASPBERRY SWIRL Tori Amos
NA
NA
36
TALISMAN Air
NA
NA
35
THE FEAR Pulp
NA
NA
34
! (THE SONG FORMERLY KNOWN AS) Regurgitator
20
6
33
ONLY WHEN I LOSE MYSELF Depeche Mode
NA
NA
32
IT'S LIKE THAT Run DMC vs Jason Nevins
19
50
31
BLACK FRIDAY Grinspoon
18
22
30
SUNDAY Sonic Youth
NA
NA
29
CELEBRITY SKIN Hole
17
4
28
SHIMMER Fuel
16
78
27
SECOND SOLUTION The Living End
15
15
26
BLACK UMBRELLA Even
14
97
25
WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING Placebo
NA
NA
24
NO SURPRISES Radiohead
13
55
23
HEAVY HEART You Am I
12
9
22
MALIBU Hole
11
49
21
COME ON SPRING Antenna
10
64
20
RABBIT IN YR HEADLIGHTS U.N.K.L.E
NA
NA
19
THE FUNNY BIRD Mercury Rev
NA
NA
18
HARD Stella One Eleven
NA
NA
17
STEREO The Watchmen
NA
NA
16
THE RIVER PJ Harvey
NA
NA
15
GONE AWAY The Offspring
9
62
14
ANGEL Massive Attack
NA
NA
13
THIS IS HARDCORE Pulp
NA
NA
12
CROSS BONES STYLE Cat Power
NA
NA
11
HARPOON Jebediah
8
7
The Top 10 as it now stands: "And love it like a little dog, and feed it on the scraps you find And kiss it while you're still asleep You buy now and pay later, you buy now and pay later Here's a girl going crazy about you, and I'm not far behind"
At #10 is Charlie No.2 (Buy Now Pay Later) by the Whitlams, the beautiful ode to Stevie Plunder. A hangover from 1997, yes, but one of their best songs.
10
BUY NOW PAY LATER (CHARLIE NO. 2) The Whitlams
7
37
"And one day we will die And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea But for now we are young Let us lay in the sun And count every beautiful thing we can see"
Number nine is In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel. This song eluded me at the time, but seeing it (and its parent album) recommended several times on this site, I checked it out, and this is the song that blew me away. It's such a evocative track.
9
IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA Neutral Milk Hotel
NA
NA
"I'm ahead, I'm a man I'm the first mammal to wear pants, yeah I'm at peace with my lust I can kill 'cause in god I trust, yeah It's evolution, baby"
#8 is Do The Evolution by Pearl Jam, who were as popular as ever, and accompanied by a spectacular if depressing animated video. Nice rockin' tune nonetheless.
8
DO THE EVOLUTION Pearl Jam
6
47
"Been around the world and found That only stupid people are breeding The cretins cloning and feeding And I don't even own a TV"
Peep Show fans will recognise #7, Flagpole Sitta, such a fine, angsty song. I still had plenty of angst back then.
7
FLAGPOLE SITTA Harvey Danger
5
35
"Such a thing of wonder in this crowd, I'm a stranger in this town, you're free with me. And our eyes locked in downcast love, I sit here proud, Even now you're undressed in your dreams with me."
#6 is Jeff Buckley's beautiful posthumous love ballad Everybody Wants You, which is still as good as anything on Grace IMO. Have heard it described as the sexiest song outside of Prince.
6
EVERYBODY HERE WANTS YOU Jeff Buckley
4
29
"Love is a bird, she needs to fly Let all the hurt inside of you die You're frozen When your heart's not open"
#5 is still Madonna's best ever song, Frozen. She had disappeared a***wards in the early 90s, been pretty quiet since 1994 - then she went away, reinvented herself, made the Ray Of Light album, gothed up for the filmclip, looked amazing doing it and released this as the first single. It made for a massive impact.
5
FROZEN Madonna
NA
NA
"As weeks went by, it showed that she was not fine They told me, "Son, it's time to tell the truth" And she broke down and I broke down 'Cause I was tired of lying"
To keep the misery going, #4 is Brick by Ben Folds Five, his very dark but beautiful ode to personal experience of relationships gone bad (slight understatement).
4
BRICK Ben Folds Five
3
12
"Vision is rejected The people's choice is tested So ignorance has won"
#3 is Powderfingers second finest song and still relevant ode to Pauline Hanson, The Day You Come. Such great guitar and layered vocals.
3
THE DAY YOU COME Powderfinger
2
8
"This is my church This is where I heal my hurts For tonight God is a DJ"
#2, another one to file under 'How the hell did it not make the Hottest 100?'. I speak of the mighty floor-filling God Is A DJ by Faithless (well it filled the floors I was on) Still one of, if not the, best beats of the decade.
2
GOD IS A DJ Faithless
NA
NA
"Love, love is a verb Love is a doing word Fearless on my breath Gentle impulsion Shakes me, makes me lighter Fearless on my breath"
And at #1, Massive Attack go one better than they did in 1991, and Liz Fraser goes four better than she did in 1983, with the sublime Teardrop, and its amazing 'baby' videoclip. The whole song just takes me to a better place and time. I do wonder what that baby is up to now, aged 22
1998 was a good year and I like your #1 much much better than the actual #1 .
I had been really into the music of the mid-late 80s and early 90s but all the bands I loved were gone (Pixies, Smiths et al) or not making great albums (Cure, Ride etc) by the mid 90s and the bands that replaced them I just wasn't into (grunge and industrial) so I had lost interest in new music to an extent.
I heard the Gomez song Whipping Picadilly on the radio while in England late that year and picked up the CD Bring It On, which I loved. Also heard Placebo while over there and got Without You I'm Nothing. First new music I had bought for a while. Got home and played these to my friends, who introduced me to Neutral Milk Hotel, Godspeed and Boards of Canada.
So in honour of 1998, here is my Hottest 51 of the year
<nothing to see here, please move along >
P.S. Looking at your list, I missed Rabbit In Yr Headlights, thought it was early 2000s, it can have the honorary #52 position Last edited:
Thanks OBOne for your list and feedback first of all.
I don't dislike the actual #1 in the '98 Hottest 100 nearly as much as I did then, in fact it has grown on me enough over the years to make it to #16.
I too nearly missed UNKLE, until someone posted its amazing videoclip a few days ago. Then I was reminded it was indeed 1998 when it was released. It was in fact the last song added.
First thing to say is that I'll have to check Neutral Milk Hotel out! You are clearly a fan. As well as the other songs not common to my list. Also I'll have to check Boads Of Canada's earlier music out as I go through the years, I'm only familiar with their Dayvan Cowboy-era material.
Very nice #2 and #4 I must say
I don't think I have given the Beautiful South enough credit, though admittedly 1998 is the first year I (finally) heard their music.
Hopefully I will have 1999 ready by the end of next week.
@K8 Yep, Bongo Bong was 1998. He played at the Sydney Festival 3-4 years ago (was that the festival you were at?) and it was huge. Robbie Williams and Lily Allen do a pretty decent cover as well.
@benji2 I must admit Pretty Fly has never grown on me. Do check out Neutral Milk Hotel, the album (In The Aeroplane Over The Sea) is, to my mind, one of the best! Last edited:
No OB..., it was at a festival from 2001 to 2005. I don't remember which as I used to be a bit of a festival junkie back then. Might have been BDO one year. I just remember everyone loving it!
The Watchmen, and Stereo in particular are unjustly forgotten.
Hoping to get 1999 up tomorrow, if not early in the week. Only about 35 songs to place, but at least I have a chance to do appraise them this weekend. Last edited:
The end of the 90s, Recovery and a great era of indie music.
The first list I've done with the aid of the actual Hottest 100 voting list. Many thanks to thejuicer145 for giving me the links to that.
Also for K8 again for reminding me of The New Radicals, it's in the list at #119.
Trent Reznor gave us The Fragile double album, which provides four songs out of the 200.
It was also a great year for the various types of dance and electronic music. The Chemical Brothers, Moby, Endorphin, P'nau, Underworld, sonicanimation, Groove Armada, Gerling, Aphex Twin, Friendly and Primal Scream all out with some great new material during the year, and some remnants of Fatboy Slim's 1998 album You've Come A Long Way Baby also making the list.
Here are #200-101:
My H100 posn
Song
Real H100 order
Actual H100 posn
200
BEVAN: THE MUSICAL Peter Helliar
100
35
199
NEVER HAD SO MUCH FUN Frenzal Rhomb
99
26
198
MOFO ON A MOTORCYCLE Machine Gun Fellatio
98
59
197
DOWN UNDER Pennywise
97
91
196
CHUNKY CHUNKY AIR GUITAR The Whitlams
96
38
195
WE'RE GOING OUT TONIGHT Frenzal Rhomb
95
64
194
HAZY SHADE OF WINTER Bodyjar
94
36
193
AROUND THE WORLD Red Hot Chilli Peppers
93
37
192
NICE GUYS FINISH LAST Green Day
92
89
191
GET IN THE CAR Snout
NA
NA
190
THE BAD TOUCH Bloodhound Gang
91
6
189
BIGGER THAN TINA The Fauves
90
50
188
CRASH Propellorheads
NA
NA
187
TOUCH Tea Party
NA
NA
186
CRIMINAL PAST Motor Ace
NA
NA
185
LADYFINGERS Luscious Jackson
NA
NA
184
JAPANESE GAME SHOW B(if)tek
NA
NA
183
PURPLE CROWN Turnstyle
NA
NA
182
MISS YOU LOVE Silverchair
89
30
181
GHOST PATROL Gerling
NA
NA
180
RADIO FUNK Endorphin
NA
NA
179
HIT SONG Custard
88
83
178
JUANITA'S COCKTAIL PARTY Not From There
NA
NA
177
ANGRY ANY MORE Ani DiFranco
NA
NA
176
RUBY WEDNESDAY Eskimo Joe
87
99
175
SHE KEEPS SOUVENIRS Pretty Violet Stain
NA
NA
174
STEAL MY KISSES Ben Harper
86
85
173
WHATEVER YOU WANT Something For Kate
85
70
172
FIND MY BABY Moby
NA
NA
171
GLOW IN THE DARK Tumbleweed
NA
NA
170
WHAT A YEAR Alex Lloyd
NA
NA
169
PLASTIC Spiderbait
84
96
168
YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT US Placebo
83
87
167
KARAOKE QUEEN Catatonia
NA
NA
166
NO LEAF CLOVER Metallica
82
56
165
HERMIT INERTIA Pollyanna
NA
NA
164
AIN'T GONNA TAKE IT Suicidal Tendencies
NA
NA
163
BIG IN JAPAN Tom Waits
NA
NA
162
WHEN I GROW UP Garbage
81
12
161
EVERY YOU EVERY ME Placebo
80
5
160
BABY BRITAIN Elliot Smith
NA
NA
159
INSOMNIA Feeder
NA
NA
158
SOMETHING SPECIAL Alex Lloyd
NA
NA
157
SOMEWHERE ELSE Stella One Eleven
NA
NA
156
SUPERSONIC Jamiroquai
NA
NA
155
EXERCISER Rhubarb
79
20
154
BLUE MONDAY Orgy
78
86
153
AT THE RIVER Groove Armada
NA
NA
152
LOVE LIES BLEEDING sonicanimation
NA
NA
151
CLICHÉ ZOO Muzzy Pep
NA
NA
150
TORNADOES Ben Lee
NA
NA
149
PUSH UPSTAIRS Underworld
NA
NA
148
YOU S**T ME TO TEARS The Tenants
77
3
147
FIVE FATHOMS Everything But The Girl
NA
NA
146
YOU'VE BEEN GOOD TO ME SO FAR Tim Rogers and The Twin Set
NA
NA
145
PRETTY THINGS ARE GOING TO HELL David Bowie
NA
NA
144
SUN IS SHINING Bob Marley/Funstar De Luxe
76
77
143
THE GENERAL ELECTRIC Shihad
NA
NA
142
I WANNA BE A NUDIST Regurgitator
75
58
141
SUNSHINE COMES Even
NA
NA
140
NOTHING MUCH HAPPENS Ben Lee
74
81
139
BAD BLOOD Rebecca's Empire
NA
NA
138
THE NEW MATTHEW Custard
NA
NA
137
SHE'S GOT ISSUES The Offspring
NA
NA
136
SAVING ME FROM ME Kim Salmon & The Business
NA
NA
135
SEXX LAWS Beck
73
53
134
SECOND CLASS CITIZEN Area 7
72
49
133
WHAT'S MY AGE AGAIN Blink-182
71
13
132
GUILTY CONSCIENCE Eninem
NA
NA
131
THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME AT MY WORST The Whitlams
70
54
130
BREATHE AROUND YOU Tanya Donelly
NA
NA
129
DIDLEY SQUAT sonicanimation
NA
NA
128
ONLY GOOD FOR CONVERSATION Stella One Eleven
NA
NA
127
GODDESS ON A HIWAY Mercury Rev
NA
NA
126
LOVESTRUCK Madness
NA
NA
125
STEVIE Spiderbait
69
84
124
UNDERDOG Testeagles
NA
NA
123
CANCER FOR THE CURE The Eels
NA
NA
122
BURN TO SHINE Ben Harper
68
65
121
BRING IT ON Gomez
NA
NA
120
JUMBO Underworld
NA
NA
119
YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE New Radicals
NA
NA
118
AFTERWARDS Endorphin
NA
NA
117
JOURNEY AGENT P'Nau
NA
NA
116
ZERO Rhubarb
NA
NA
115
SEX O MATIC VENUS FREAK Macy Gray
67
92
114
STOLEN CAR Beth Orton
NA
NA
113
I LEFT MY HEART ALL OVER THE PLACE Tim Rogers and The Twin Set
Here are #100-1 of 1999 (updated 23/6/2020, with lyrics for the Top 10, such as they are for a ambient/techno/Hopelandic-heavy bunch)
A young British band named Muse make their first appearance. As does a young(ish) rapper from Detroit named Eminem.
My H100 posn
Song
Real H100 order
Actual H100 posn
100
RINGO (I FEEL LIKE) Custard
63
42
99
FEEDING CIRCLE Pollyanna
NA
NA
98
BLUE MOON Endorphin
NA
NA
97
CANNED HEAT Jamiroquai
62
63
96
I HATE STUPID PEOPLE Insurge
NA
NA
95
SKINTIGHT The Donnas
NA
NA
94
SCAR TISSUE Red Hot Chilli Peppers
61
10
93
EVERY MORNING Sugar Ray
60
98
92
ARMY Ben Folds Five
59
51
91
HOME Skunkhour
58
82
90
WHAT IT'S LIKE Everlast
57
76
89
MY MIND'S SEDATE Shihad
NA
NA
88
RUN BABY RUN Deadstar
NA
NA
87
TURN THAT SHIT UP Testeagles
56
66
86
ANA'S SONG Silverchair
55
15
85
HAPPINESS (ROTTING MY BRAIN) Regurgitator
54
62
84
YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND Frenzal Rhomb
53
34
83
ALL THE SMALL THINGS Blink-182
52
31
82
PERFECT FAMILY Diana Ah Naid
51
55
81
HERE COMES ANOTHER ONE Groove Terminator feat. Basshoppa
NA
NA
80
THE KIDS AREN'T ALRIGHT The Offspring
50
97
79
IF EVERYBODY LOOKED THE SAME Groove Armada
NA
NA
78
KOOL 28 Days
NA
NA
77
STRIPPED Rammstein
49
90
76
DEEPER WATER Deadstar
48
74
75
SPRAY WATER ON THE STEREO Turnstyle
47
94
74
LET FOREVER BE Chemical Brothers
NA
NA
73
VOIDY NUMBNESS The The
NA
NA
72
GOOD-DAY RAY Powderfinger
46
68
71
ALL TORN DOWN The Living End
45
41
70
BAD LIGHT Built To Spill
NA
NA
69
SING IT BACK Moloko
44
80
68
TENDER Blur
43
57
67
LADYSHAVE Gusgus
NA
NA
66
READY 1 Grinspoon
42
33
65
LAST KISS Pearl Jam
41
9
64
WEIR Killing Heidi
40
2
63
LEARN TO FLY Foo Fighters
39
11
62
DON'T CALL ME BABY Madison Avenue
38
22
61
I TRY Macy Gray
37
24
60
PRAISE YOU Fatboy Slim
36
4
59
ENTER SPACE CAPSULE Gerling
35
45
58
NUMBSKULL Ash
NA
NA
57
RUN ON Moby
34
88
56
ALREADY GONE Powderfinger
33
25
55
DU HAST Rammstein
NA
NA
54
ASLEEP IN PERFECTION Augie March
32
61
53
RACE FOR THE PRIZE The Flaming Lips
NA
NA
52
IT WON'T LAST The Cruel Sea
31
52
51
MY NAME IS Eminem
NA
NA
50
PULLED ALONG BY LOVE Mutton Birds
30
71
49
HER FLOOR IS MY CEILING The Whitlams
NA
NA
48
AULD LILANXIETY ATTACK The Dumb Earth
NA
NA
47
CHARLIE BIG POTATO Skunk Anansie
NA
NA
46
BEAUTIFUL STRANGER Madonna
29
67
45
HOLES Mercury Rev
NA
NA
44
MY FAVOURITE GAME The Cardigans
28
78
43
WINDOW LICKER Aphex Twin
NA
NA
42
UNO Muse
NA
NA
41
MASCARA Klling Heidi
27
14
40
WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER Nine Inch Nails
NA
NA
39
MOVING Supergrass
NA
NA
38
OUT OF CONTROL Chemical Brothers
NA
NA
37
BLOOD RED RIVER Beth Orton
NA
NA
36
ELECTRICITY Something For Kate
26
44
35
ALL I NEED Air
NA
NA
34
SANDSTORM Darude
NA
NA
33
BODYROCK Moby
25
79
32
HEAVEN COMING DOWN The Tea Party
24
32
31
BACKSEAT CLAUSE Alex Lloyd
NA
NA
30
NOOKIE Limp Bizkit
23
8
29
LEAVE ME ALONE Killing Heidi
NA
NA
28
FREAK ON A LEASH Korn
22
16
27
FEET TOUCH THE GROUND Jebediah
21
28
26
ANTHEM FOR THE YEAR 2000 Silverchair
20
29
25
LITTLE DISCOURAGE Idlewild
NA
NA
24
PUMPING ON YOUR STEREO Supergrass
19
73
23
THE DAY THE WORLD WENT AWAY Nine Inch Nails
NA
NA
22
NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN Blur
NA
NA
21
COFFEE AND TV Blur
18
47
20
THEOPHILUS THISTLER ... AN EXERCISE IN VOWELS sonicanimation
17
18
19
ANIMAL Jebediah
16
19
18
PASSENGER Powderfinger
15
100
17
STARF***ERS INC. Nine Inch Nails
14
69
16
SOME KIND OF LOVE SONG Friendly
13
75
15
THE CHEMICALS BETWEEN US Bush
12
46
14
FALLING AWAY FROM ME Korn
11
17
13
EMOTION SICKNESS Silverchair
10
43
12
HALLWAYS Something For Kate
9
72
11
SHAZAM! Spiderbait
8
40
<lyrics not applicable>
In the Top 10 at #10 is the sparse 11-minute instrumental epic, Moya, by Canada's Godspeed! You Black Emperor, as per some recommendations on this site.
10
MOYA Godspeed! You Black Emperor
NA
NA
"Right here, right now Right here, right now Waking up to find your love's not real Waking up to find your love's not real"
#9 continues the techno music avalanche of 1999 and sees Fatboy Slim with Right Here, Right Now come in its great, evolutionary videoclip.
9
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW Fatboy Slim
7
23
"Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil? Or for the vultures who thirst for blood and oil? Yes, a spectacle monopolized They hold the reins and stole your eyes"
#8 is Rage Against The Machine with the mighty Guerrilla Radio. It's good to see them back as they are currently more relevant than ever.
8
GUERRILLA RADIO Rage Against The Machine
6
7
"It's coming round again The slowly creeping hand Of time and its command It settles in its place Its shadow in my face Puts pressure in my day"
#7 is the actual #1 song in the Hottest 100 of that year, These Days by Powderfinger. Thought they were unlucky in 1996 and 1998 not to finish closer to the top so was very glad for them at the time. And this is the stark version from the Two Hands movie (which I much prefer), not the album version from the following year.
7
THESE DAYS Powderfinger
5
1
"Tjú, tjú, tjú Tjú, tjú, tjú Tjú, tjú, tjú, tjú, tjú Ég spring út og friðurinn í loft…"
At #6 are Iceland's Sigur Ros with their beautiful, divine debut 'single' Svefn-G-Englar, With a beautiful videoclip to match. The third Icelandic act to make one of my Top 10s, if you treat The Sugarcubes and Bjork as separate.
6
SVEFN-N-ENGLAR Sigur Ros
NA
NA
"I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow Now she's done and they're calling someone Such a familiar name I'm so glad that my memory's remote"
#5 sees the late Eliot Smith with easily his most beautiful, if generically-titled song, Waltz #2 (XO).
5
WALTZ #2 Elliott Smith
4
93
"Buy and sell the things you need Money comes you spend exceed Waiting for your friends to call Waiting for the wall to fall"
#4 sees Alex Lloyd with Lucky Star, his achingly beautiful song about the heroin epidemic of the late 90s.
4
LUCKY STAR Alex Lloyd
3
21
"I'll vent my spleen I'll keep my dreams My flesh my bones my soul I own My mind's a weapon immune from infection Blood in my eyes, my vision is clear"
#3 is a bit of a bolter, Primal Scream with the intense, many-beated-per-minute but awesome Swastika Eyes. which was released ahead of the Xterminatr album of 2000.
3
SWASTIKA EYES Primal Scream
NA
NA
"Hey girls Hey boys Superstar DJ's Here we go"
#2 is another dance anthem of the 90s, Hey Boy Hey Girl by The Chemical Brothers.
2
HEY BOY, HEY GIRL The Chemical Brothers
2
27
"I looked into your eyes and Saw a world that does not exist, I looked into your eyes and, Saw a world I wish I was in"
And at #1, the amazing Touched by VAST, which Angel fans may be familiar with. More musicians should use Bulgarian choirs, they sound absolutely awesome. This is a song I can never get sick of, even if the videoclip was a bit odd. VAST never even got close to following this up.
The 'Top ten' blurbs have been updated for 1993-96.
I've posted the Hottest 100s up to 1997 on my YouTube page.
Before I leave the 90s (and probably lose K8 ), I will revise the lists I've done. I will especially look at those from 1987-96, based on some of your suggestions and some other songs I've realised I've missed.
I may expand the 1992-96 lists as well. Last edited:
Is benji2 your YouTube name? I'll definitely check these out!
Have my own 50-odd faves from 1999 to post as well but still sorting the order of the bottom few (and have added Let Forever Be to my list after looking through yours as I thought it was later). My #1 for 99 wasn't in the actual hottest 100 (same as my list for 98) but you do have it on your list (unlike 98). Should be higher though and you have misspelt it Last edited:
Well have sorted out the end of my faves for 1999. Ended up with a "Hottest" 56 (I had 55 and added Let Forever Be after looking at your list) headed by the completely otherworldly Svefn-G-Englar by Sigur Ros!
100
Theophilis Thistler - Sonic Animation
99
Waltz #2 - Elliot Smith
98
Bigger Than Tina - Fauves, The
97
Blue Moon - Endorphin
96
Charlie Big Potato - Skunk Anansie
95
Six - Mansun
94
Easter Theatre - XTC
93
The Free Design - Stereolab
92
Spit On A Stranger - Pavement
91
Photograph - Something For Kate
90
Can We Start Again? - Tindersticks, The
89
Bodyrock - Moby
88
If Everyone Looked The Same - Groove Armada
87
Good Witch/Bad Witch - Charlatans, The
86
Demetrius - Sufjan Stevens
85
I Know What I'm Here For - James
84
Glockenpop - Spiderbait
83
Billie - Pavement
82
Get Up - Sleeter-Kinney
81
Else - Built To Spill
80
Hey Boy Hey Girl - Chemical Brothers, The
79
Major Leagues - Pavement
78
Lucky Denver Mint - Jimmy Eat World
77
Spider In The Snow - Dismemberment Plan, The
76
Sexx Laws - Beck
75
Falling Down - Muse
74
Hallways - Something For Kate
73
Nice Guys Finish Last - Green Day
72
The Day The World Went Away - Nine Inch Nails
71
Bad Light - Built To Spill
70
I See A Darkness - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
69
The Next Movement - Roots, The
68
Rendez-vous - Basement Jaxx
67
Devil Will Ride - Gomez
66
The Plan - Built To Spill
65
Pumping On Your Stereo - Supergrass
64
Already Gone - Powderfinger
63
Praise You - Fatboy Slim
62
Lucky Star - Alex Lloyd
61
Stop The Rock - Apollo 440
60
Never Meant - American Football
59
Touched - V.A.S.T.
58
All The Small Things - Blink 182
57
The City - Dismemberment Plan, The
56
Otherside - Red Hot Chili Peppers
55
Rhythm and Blues Alibi - Gomez
54
Electricity - Something For Kate
53
Harvest Festival - XTC
52
It's Not Too Beautiful - Beta Band, The
51
Burn Girl Prom Queen - Mogwai
50
Beautiful Stranger - Madonna
49
Testify - Rage Against The Machine
48
Blow Up The Pokies - Whitlams, The
47
Ana's Song (Open Fire) - Silverchair
46
Willful Suspension Of Disbelief - Modest Mouse
45
Bring It On - Gomez
44
Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
43
Mutha Fucka On A Motorcycle - Machine Gun Fellatio
42
My Favourite Game - Cardigans
41
Let Forever Be {Ft. Noel Gallagher} - Chemical Brothers, The
40
Guerilla Radio - Rage Against The Machine
39
I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio - Sterophonics
38
The Pop Singers Fear Of The Pollen Count - Divine Comedy, The
I left a couple of songs to 2000 as well, even though I remember listening to (and liking) them in 1999 as the vagaries of the Hottest 100 voting lists put them in 2000.
I have now posted the 1998 and 1999 lists on my YouTube site.
About the 1999 list...when I was posting it to YouTube, I looked at and listened to Svefn-G-Englar again, then some of the songs above it, then back to Svefn-G-Englar again ... and the upshot is I have revised the 1999 list accordingly.
Have added a couple of songs to the 1993 and 1994 lists, and made some minor edits accordingly. #48 was about the highest position affected in either list.
The 2000 list is still a little way away, sorry. Last edited:
Blimey, that was hard work. 2000 wasn't the strongest year IMO.
We seemed to reach peak nu-metal and skate punk and skate metal and nu-punk that year. Lots of videoclips featured young kids jumping up and down madly around wrestling rings containing the band.
Powderfinger came up with Odyssey No.5, widely regarded as their best album, the Dandy Warhols came up with Thirteen Tales from Suburbia (their best album IMO), and Radiohead finally came up with a follow-up to OK Computer, with Kid A.
A young band from the UK named Coldplay made their first appearance.
The Sydney Olympics were on, which 'inspired' a couple of songs in the list as well.
Here are #200-101:
My H100 posn
Song
Real H100 order
Actual posn
200
RESPONSIBILITY MxPx
98
69
199
HEAVEN IS A HALFPIPE OPM
97
68
198
NOTHING'S WRONG Frenzal Rhomb
96
71
197
WE HAVEN'T TURNED AROUND Gomez
95
35
196
LAST RESORT Papa Roach
94
40
195
GIVE UP YOUR DAY JOB The Fauves
93
58
194
START MAKING SENSE Area-7
92
91
193
MY GENERATION Limp Bizkit
91
21
192
MATERIAL BOY Millencolin
NA
NA
191
100 FRESH DISCIPLES Machine Gun Fellatio
NA
NA
190
MY KIND OF SCENE Powderfinger
90
3
189
SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT Reef
89
93
188
SHIVER Coldplay
88
63
187
GENRE CASTING Lo-Tel
NA
NA
186
MACHINES WORK B(if)tek
NA
NA
185
CHAUFFEUR CALLED TUNE Muzzy Pep
NA
NA
184
FULL MOON Armand Van Helden
NA
NA
183
BOILING POINT The The
NA
NA
182
BOTTLES TO THE GROUND NOFX
87
76
181
WASTING MY LIFE The Hippos
86
53
180
ORIGINAL PRANKSTER The Offspring
85
51
179
DISCONNECTED Kim Salmon
NA
NA
178
SUNSET (BIRD OF PREY) Fatboy Slim
84
43
177
MOVIN ON Friendly
NA
NA
176
BOBBY FISCHER Lazy Susan
NA
NA
175
COMING HOME The Mavis'
NA
NA
174
THE WAY I AM Eminem
NA
NA
173
OVER THE RADIO Deadstar
NA
NA
172
LOOSE Stella One Eleven
NA
NA
171
FINE MESS Tex Perkins
NA
NA
170
BEAUTIFUL WAY Beck
NA
NA
169
A POP SONG SAVED MY LIFE Lo-Tel
NA
NA
168
PORTAMENTO Turnstyle
NA
NA
167
SPIKE Infusion
NA
NA
166
SUPAGLOO Magic Dirt
NA
NA
165
TOO BIG FOR YOUR BOOTS The Porkers
NA
NA
164
BEN LEE Klinger
83
97
163
WAIT AND BLEED Slipknot
82
75
162
SECRETS Grinspoon
81
73
161
COURTNEY Nerf Herder
NA
NA
160
WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? Madison Avenue
80
99
159
LOVE'S SO HEAVY Rollins Band
NA
NA
158
BREAKERFALL Pearl Jam
NA
NA
157
EURO TRASH GIRL Chicks On Speed
NA
NA
156
DEATH DEFY Motor Ace
79
98
155
CALIFORNICATION Red Hot Chilli Peppers
78
7
154
HAPPINESS CAN'T BUY MONEY The Tom Tom Club
NA
NA
153
COPYCAT Rocket Science
NA
NA
152
STAND INSIDE YOUR LOVE The Smashing Pumpkins
77
78
151
TAKE A PICTURE Filter
76
46
150
CAVE Muse
NA
NA
149
TRASH Korn
NA
NA
148
THE DEER IN YOU Gerling
NA
NA
147
OUT OF THIS WORLD The Cure
NA
NA
146
AMERICAN SHOES Motor Ace
75
65
145
SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW Elliot Smith
NA
NA
144
GENERATOR Foo Fighters
74
8
143
PLANET OF THE WEEDS Tumbleweed
NA
NA
142
YOU CAN'T SEE Groove Terminator
NA
NA
141
ENOUGH TO KNOW Superjesus
NA
NA
140
MINORITY Green Day
73
14
139
MAN OVERBOARD Blink-182
72
54
138
SON OF SAM Elliot Smith
NA
NA
137
IN A BEAUTIFUL PLACE OUT IN THE COUNTRY Boards Of Canada
(small edit 4/12/17: Pissing In The Wind moved to 2001, One Line added)
Note the #100 song - one sport higher than its actual finish and justifying it's inclusion on the H100 CD
At #10 is RATM doing what they do best, raging against Wall Street with Sleep Now In The Fire. Still as relevant as ever.
#9 is The Eels' signature song, Mr E's Beautiful Blues. Come to think of it, that song is still relevant too.
You Am I make the Top 10 at #8 with their most beautiful song, Damage.
At #7 are The Dandy Warhols with their biggest hit and perhaps THEIR signature song, Bohemian Like You.
#6 comes all the way from Finland with the funky Freestyler, one of the biggest dance tracks of the year.
At #5 is the actual #1, My Happiness by Powderfinger. It's not quite my favourite Powderfinger song, but it's a damn fine song.
Number 4 is the big dance track of the year, Groovejet, featuring a young Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Spiller. It still sounds great.
The Avalanches are at #3 with a song from an album that broke new ground and took 16 years to follow up. The song is of course Frontier Psychiatrist.
The runner-up is Sour Girl by the the Stone Temple Pilots. Very late in their career and a bit atypical of their usual sound, it's still a sweet sounding indie tune. RIP Scott.
And at Number 1, Machine Gun Fellatio, also with a very atypical sounding song for them (i.e. serious), Unsent Letter. It may or may not have been co-written by Tim Friedman of The Whitlams fame (he and Pinky did 'No Aphrodisiac'). Their best song by a mile.
My H100 posn
Song
Real H100 order
Actual posn
100
FEEL GOOD HIT OF THE SUMMER Queens Of The Stone Age
58
101
99
CELEBRATE THE FAILURE The Fauves
NA
NA
98
MIXED BIZNESS Beck
NA
NA
97
VEGETABLES Ruck Rover
NA
NA
96
MACHISMO Gomez
57
38
95
PURE PLEASURE SEEKER Moloko
NA
NA
94
HELLO CRUEL WORLD Klinger
56
86
93
I DISAPPEAR Metallica
55
84
92
SALT David Bridie
NA
NA
91
GLOCKENPOP Spiderbait
NA
NA
90
DADDY I'M FINE Sinead O'Connor
54
44
89
EVERY F****N CITY Paul Kelly
53
9
88
DIRTY JEANS Magic Dirt
52
12
87
HEWLETT'S DAUGHTER Grandaddy
NA
NA
86
ORPHEUS BEACH The Go-Betweens
NA
NA
85
AFTERWORDS Endorphin
NA
NA
84
LIVE WITHOUT IT Killing Heidi
51
92
83
SUPERMAN/SUPERGIRL Killing Heidi
50
70
82
ONE MORE TIME (THE SUNSHINE SONG) Groove Terminator
49
74
81
LOST ART OF KEEPING A SECRET Queens Of The Stone Age
NA
NA
80
PICKAPART John Butler Trio
NA
NA
79
TEENAGE DIRTBAG Wheatus
48
4
78
MAKE ME BAD Korn
47
81
77
EVERYTHING IN ITS RIGHT PLACE Radiohead
46
42
76
SUCKER 28 Days
45
52
75
SAY IT AGAIN Badly Drawn Boy
NA
NA
74
LOVELY HEAD Goldfrapp
NA
NA
73
PENGUINS AND POLARBEARS Millencolin
44
41
72
THAT LOOK BEFORE Died Pretty
NA
NA
71
WHY DOES IT ALWAYS RAIN ON ME? Travis
43
31
70
PLEASE LEAVE Jebediah
42
30
69
LOW FIVE Sneaker Pimps
NA
NA
68
BRUTAL New Order
NA
NA
67
SUMMER Machine Gun Fellatio
NA
NA
66
MARIA Rage Against The Machine
41
77
65
HEJ Skulker
40
80
64
NO MAN'S WOMAN Sinead O'Connor
39
60
63
I SEE YOU BABY Groove Armada feat. Gram'ma Funk
38
57
62
GO LET IT OUT Oasis
NA
NA
61
THE TIME IS NOW Moloko
37
45
60
CRUSH THE LOSERS Regurgitator
36
48
59
BEAUTIFUL SHARKS Something For Kate
35
59
58
FAST AS YOU CAN Fiona Apple
34
62
57
FEEL THE BEAT Darude
NA
NA
56
I CHANGED MY MIND Quannum
NA
NA
55
EVERYDAY Yo La Tengo
NA
NA
54
FLYSWATTER The Eels
NA
NA
53
MUSIC IS MY RADAR Blur
NA
NA
52
MY WAY HOME Alex Lloyd
NA
NA
51
SLEEP The Dandy Warhols
NA
NA
50
I FOUND A REASON Cat Power
NA
NA
49
STAN Eminem
NA
NA
48
THE HOLLOW A Perfect Circle
NA
NA
47
NOTHING AS IT SEEMS Pearl Jam
33
85
46
SHE SPEAKS A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE Tex Perkins
NA
NA
45
BEAUTIFUL DAY U2
32
2
44
RIP IT UP 28 Days
31
11
43
MUSIC Madonna
30
87
42
PLAYGROUND LOVE Air
NA
NA
41
DISILLUSION Badly Drawn Boy
NA
NA
40
WHY DOES MY HEART FEEL SO BAD? Moby
NA
NA
39
PORCELAIN Moby
29
22
38
GET OFF The Dandy Warhols
28
49
37
NOT AFRAID OF ROMANCE Machine Gun Fellatio
NA
NA
36
ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY Morcheeba
27
88
35
TOCA'S MIRACLE Fragma
NA
NA
34
ONE LINE PJ Harvey
NA
NA
33
ROCKSHOW Grinspoon
26
33
32
YELLOW Coldplay
25
5
31
ROCK SUPERSTAR Cypress Hill
24
36
30
UTOPIA Goldfrapp
NA
NA
29
TASTE IN MEN Placebo
23
39
28
BLOW UP THE POKIES The Whitlams
NA
NA
27
SPAWN george
22
61
26
THE GREAT BEYOND R.E.M.
21
55
25
TEENAGER OF THE YEAR Lo-Tel
20
15
24
GODLESS The Dandy Warhols
NA
NA
23
BASTARD SON george
19
28
22
I'VE SEEN IT ALL Bjork and Thom Yorke
NA
NA
21
STRANGELOVE ADDICTION Supreme Beings Of Leisure
NA
NA
20
SUNBURN Muse
18
82
19
PACIFIER Shihad
17
25
18
HOW TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY Radiohead
NA
NA
17
RENEGADES OF FUNK Rage Against The Machine
16
95
16
NY BATTERI Sigur Ros
NA
NA
15
GOOD FORTUNE PJ Harvey
15
90
14
JUDITH A Perfect Circle
14
34
13
I KNOW YOU KNOW I KNOW Tex Perkins
13
72
12
STACKED ACTORS Foo Fighters
12
18
11
NAUGHTY Skulker
11
50
10
SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE Rage Against The Machine
10
13
9
MR E'S BEAUTIFUL BLUES The Eels
9
26
8
DAMAGE You Am I
8
23
7
BOHEMIAN LIKE YOU The Dandy Warhols
7
10
6
FREESTYLER Bomfunk MCs
6
24
5
MY HAPPINESS Powderfinger
5
1
4
GROOVEJET (IF THIS AIN'T LOVE) Spiller feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
OK I came up with a top 65 for 2000. We nearly had the same #1 but the excellent Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes (from the equally excellent Moon & Antarctica) just got the nod this year. I had problems splitting the two GYBE songs so I put them together, mainly as I reckon it would be ace to have 40+ minutes of instrumental rock in the countdown.
100
I Can Only Dissapoint U - Manson
99
Stupidly Happy - XTC
98
Playground Love - Air
97
Gravity - Superjesus
96
Son Of Sam - Elliot Smith
95
How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead
94
Taste In Men - Placebo
93
No Leaf Clover (live) - Metallica
92
Pace It - Magic Dirt
91
Charlie's Angels 2000 - Apollo 440
90
Celebrate The Failure - Fauves
89
Man Overboard - Blink 182
88
Music Is My Radar - Blur
87
I Need Direction - Teenage Fanclub
86
Smash It Up - International Noise Conspiracy
85
Lives - Modest Mouse
84
Teenager of the Year - Lo-Tel
83
Rip It Up - 28 Days
82
Wasting My Life - Hippos
81
Death Defy - Motor Ace
80
Maria - Rage Against The Machine
79
The Metre - Powderfinger
78
Please Leave - Jebediah
77
None One - Elbow
76
The Last Day Of Summer - The Cure
75
This Is Love - PJ Harvey
74
Mixed Bizness - Beck
73
Waiting - Green Day
72
Generator - Foo Fighters
71
Pacifier - Shihad
70
Hej - Skulker
69
Holiday - The Get Up Kids
68
Frontier Psychatrist - The Avalanches
67
Yellow - Coldplay
66
Good Fortune - PJ Harvey
65
Get The Girls/Song 5 - Interpol
64
Once Around The Block - Badly Drawn Boy
63
Mistakes and Regrets - Trail Of The Dead
62
Warning - Green Day
61
Static - Godspeed You! Black Emporer
60
The Cedar Room - The Doves
59
Apple Blossom - White Stripes, The
58
Ysbeidau Heulog - Supper Furry Animals
57
Where The Birds Always Sing - The Cure
56
The National Anthem - Radiohead
55
Mohammed - Dandy Warhols
54
I Know You Know I Know - Tex Perkins
53
Dark Centre Of The Universe - Modest Mouse
52
Rome Wasn't Built In A Day - Morcheeba
51
Penguins and Polarbears - Millencolin
50
Freestyler - Bomfunk MCs
49
No Man's Woman - Sinead O'Connor
48
Hello Cruel World - Klinger
47
Legal Man - Belle and Sebastian
46
Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead
45
B.O.B. - Outkast
44
Mary - Supergrass
43
Bohemian Like You - Dandy Warhols
42
Don't Falter - Mint Royal
41
Catch The Sun - Doves
40
Wait And Bleed - Slipknot
39
Sunburn - Muse
38
Music - Madonna
37
Central Reservation - Beth Orton
36
Sleep - Godspeed! You Black Emporer
35
Judith - A Perfect Circle
34
3rd Planet - Modest Mouse
33
You Said Something - PJ Harvey
32
Take A Picture - Filter
31
Why Does It Always Rain On Me? - Travis
30
Autophilia Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Car - Bluetones, The
29
Machismo - Gomez
28
Don't Panic - Coldplay
27
Stand Inside Your Love - Smashing Pumpkins
26
Dirty Jeans - Magic Dirt
25
Spawn - George
24
Nothing As It Seems - Pearl Jam
23
Green - Goodshirt
22
Storm - Godspeed You! Black Emporer
21
Renegades of Funk - Rage Against The Machine
20
Ny Batteri - Sigur Ros
19
Antennas To Heavan - Godspeed You! Black Emporer
18
The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret - Queens Of The Stone Age
Now that the festive season is over with, and I have managed to put together my Top 10 of 2017 for more current Hottest 100s, I hope to have 2001 done in the next week or two.
OH WOMAN OH MAN London Grammar GREEN LIGHT Lorde WHAT CAN I DO IF THE FIRE GOES OUT? Gang Of Youths LOVE Lana Del Rey PHOENIX Sara Blasko BOUNDARY ROAD All Our Exes Live In Texas THE END OF THINGS Gary Numan TRUTH IS A BEAUTIFUL THING London Grammar MURDER TO THE MIND Tash Sultana DO WANT YOU WANT The Presets
Nice. I'll have to check out the Gary Numan as I haven't heard his newer stuff but love the old. Love the Lana and Gangs songs in particular and the London grammar ones have grown on me as I've heard them more. Sarah Blasko is my wife's favourite so she'll be happy.
I'm currently trying to whittle mine down to 10 including which Gang if Youths song (either the one you picked or Blood or both).
Double J will be replaying the 1997 Hottest 100 on Sunday Jan 28th starting at noon EDST. Still one of the best, if not the best, one ever. Just the songs, not the between song banter sadly, but still it'll be great.
And now onto 2001. Apologies that it's taken so long, what with Xmas/New Year holidays, and the 2017 Hottest 100 to vote for, and there being no Sigur Ros songs to put in the list
The year of 9/11
Nu-metal and nu-punk had their last hurrah, while The Strokes, System Of A Down, The White Stripes, Gorillaz, The Hilltop Hoods, The Herd, Missy Higgins and Faker all made first appearances, all of whom would be prominent players in the noughties and beyond.
Radiohead were still going strong with Amnesiac, and Tool with Lateralus
Here are #200-101:
My H100 posn
Song
Real H100 order
Actual posn
200
SMOOTH CRIMINAL Alient Ant Farm
100
6
199
IT BEGAN IN AFRIKA The Chemical Brothers
99
99
198
LITTLE THINGS Good Charlotte
98
93
197
FAT LIP Sum 41
97
91
196
THE ROCK SHOW Blink-182
96
54
195
LIGHT ON YOUR SHOULDER Rhubarb
95
86
194
LOWRIDER Cypress Hill
NA
NA
193
REST OF THE DAY OFF Neil Finn
NA
NA
192
B'COS WE ROCK Brassy
NA
NA
191
MAN IT'S SO LOUD IN HERE They Might Be Giants
94
52
190
REHAB Arkarna
NA
NA
189
LIFE AIN'T WHAT IT SEEMS John Butler Trio
NA
NA
188
STEP BACK Superheist
93
97
187
PRINCESS UNIVERSE Itch-E and Scratch-E
NA
NA
186
REBOUND GIRL Polyanna
NA
NA
185
LET'S PRETEND WE'RE BUNNY RABBITS Magnetic Fields
NA
NA
184
FRISCO DISCO Not From There
NA
NA
183
DOWNTOWN Alex Lloyd
92
63
182
SPECIAL K Placebo
91
32
181
WEAPON OF CHOICE Fatboy Slim
90
21
180
SHORT SKIRT/LONG JACKET Cake
89
10
179
DOMINO Screamfeeder
NA
NA
178
MINISKIRT The Sleepy Jackson
NA
NA
177
I SHOULDA Celibate Rifles
NA
NA
176
CUT HERE The Cure
NA
NA
175
DEEP DOWN AND DIRTY Stereo MCs
NA
NA
174
SHE HATES ME Puddle of Mudd
NA
NA
173
MUHAMMAD ALI Faithless
NA
NA
172
DREAM ON Depeche Mode
NA
NA
171
TEENAGE WEREWOLF Faker
NA
NA
170
GRACE Ruby
NA
NA
169
EXCESS Tricky
NA
NA
168
WHAT ABOUT US Ministry
NA
NA
167
UNTITLED The Smashing Pumpkins
88
46
166
JOHNNY APPLESEED Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros
NA
NA
165
OUTTA MY HEAD Spiderbait
87
71
164
BREAKAWAY Basement Jaxx
NA
NA
163
HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM Lazaro's Dog
86
82
162
HUDSON NY Lo-Tel
NA
NA
161
YOUR NUMBER IS ONE The Rollins Band
NA
NA
160
THE SOUL OF THE BEAT Hilltop Hoods
NA
NA
159
INVALID LETTER DEPT. At the Drive-In
85
85
158
ELECTRIC LIGHT Even
NA
NA
157
SCALLOPS The Herd
NA
NA
156
SUPER STRAIGHT Regurgitator
84
41
155
GONE, GONE, GONE You Am I
NA
NA
154
ROLL ON The Living End
83
76
153
PLANET EARTH Eskimo Joe
82
31
152
HEATSEEKING PLASURE MACHINE Paul Mc feat. Tex Perkins
NA
NA
151
THE TREES Pulp
NA
NA
150
E-VILLE Sonic Animation
NA
NA
149
BEAUTY QUEEN Lash
NA
NA
148
YOU'RE SO PRETTY WE'RE SO PRETTY Charlatans
NA
NA
147
MILLION MILES iOTA
NA
NA
146
UNVEILED Nokturnl
NA
NA
145
ALL THE WAY TO RENO REM
NA
NA
144
FOUR ON THE FLOOR Spiderbait
81
88
143
CALM BEFORE THE STORM Sparks
NA
NA
142
19/2000 Gorillaz
80
15
141
DRINK TO GET DRUNK Different Gear vs Sia
NA
NA
140
LIFE GETS IN THE WAY Even
NA
NA
139
LAMPLIGHT Ruby
NA
NA
138
BRIGHTER IDEAS Died Pretty
NA
NA
137
REVOLUTION REGAINED Living End
NA
NA
136
PACKT LIKE SARDINES IN A CRUSHD TIN BOX Radiohead
NA
NA
135
LAST NITE The Strokes
79
12
134
PARTICULAR PEOPLE Pollyanna
NA
NA
133
KIDS ON OVERLOAD Faker
NA
NA
132
RETALIATE Mark Of Cain
NA
NA
131
GIRLS Tricky
NA
NA
130
SOMETIMES Michael Franti and Spearhead
NA
NA
129
BLISS Muse
78
83
128
A CHICKEN WITH HIS HEAD CUT OFF Magnetic Fields
NA
NA
127
40 BOYS IN 40 NIGHTS The Donnas
NA
NA
126
KICK A HOLE IN THE SKY You Am I
77
56
125
SINCE I LEFT YOU The Avalanches
76
8
124
PATTERN AGAINST USER At The Drive-In
75
60
123
PAGAN POETRY Bjork
NA
NA
122
LA LA LAND Green Velvet
NA
NA
121
NEW YORK CITY COPS The Strokes
74
66
120
I FEEL LOVED Depeche Mode
73
94
119
RADIO #1 Air
NA
NA
118
FOREST System Of A Down
NA
NA
117
DOCTOR? Orbital
NA
NA
116
I HAVEN'T GOT TIME TO SPELL IT OUT Muzzy Pep
NA
NA
115
CRAZY ENGLISH SUMMER Faithless
NA
NA
114
CONTROL Puddle of Mudd
NA
NA
113
SATURN RETURN REM
NA
NA
112
CRAWLING Linkin Park
NA
NA
111
RISE The Cult
NA
NA
110
THE MORDECHAI TAPES The Hive
NA
NA
109
STRAWBERRY DELUXE Skulker
NA
NA
108
NUMBERS The Church
NA
NA
107
HARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGER (Daft Punk)
72
NA
106
BUTTERFLY Crazy Town
71
81
105
FAT COP Regurgitator
70
27
104
HEY DRIVER Motor Ace
69
53
103
FIFTEEN FEET OF PURE WHITE SNOW Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
At number 10 are the funky beats of Dust Me Selectaa by Gerling. I dimly remember boogieing along at a bush doof to this...
Number 9 is the epic Citizen Erased by Muse. Shades of Knights Of Cydonia in this one, which is no bad thing..
At 8 is James with the extremely catchy (and brilliant) Getting Away With It (All Messed Up). That title sums me up over the years,
Number 7 is the divine Special Ones by george. Katie Noonan's voice gave me goosebumps then and still does now, and this song was an excellent showcase for it.
System Of A Down crash in at 6 with Chop Suey. It was was like nothing I'd heard before then and still kicks ass now. It was everywhere in late 2001. We will be seeing more songs from Toxicity in 2002.
At number 5 is the John Butler Trio with Take, which is another epic. I always preferred it when he got a bit angry, prefer this one to Better Man.
Number 4 is New Order's great return to form with Crystal, eighteen years after they topped my list with Blue Monday. I found most of their 90s output a bit forgettable so this was a great surprise.
At three is another great comeback song, Schism from Tool, after a five year absence. IIRC this song wasn't on the Hottest 100 voting list but still made it to Number 14 in the actual countdown, such is its epic awesomeness.
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The top two were very difficult to separate, but in the end I went with what is still my favourite Radiohead song, Pyramid Song. The videoclip conveys the sense of slow drowning beautifully. Gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it.
And on top is Something For Kate's masterpiece, Monsters. This song summed up exactly how I felt for much of 2001 given everything that was happening. And it still applies, and sounds great, today
My H100 posn
Song
Real H100 order
Actual posn
100
ELEVATION U2
65
40
99
IF YOU'RE NOT FAMOUS BY 14, YOU'RE FINISHED TISM
NA
NA
98
GET UR FREAK ON Missy Elliott
NA
NA
97
F**K AUTHORITY Pennywise
64
96
96
IMITATION OF LIFE R.E.M.
61
79
95
SILVER SCREEN Felix Da Housecat
NA
NA
94
HIDDEN PLACE Bjork
NA
NA
93
EVOLUTION REVOLUTION LOVE Tricky
NA
NA
92
SHINING LIGHT Ash
63
80
91
SHINING STAR Even
NA
NA
90
HIBERNATE Big Heavy Stuff
62
72
89
STONE BY STONE Catatonia
NA
NA
88
THE BOOK OF LOVE Magnetic Fields
NA
NA
87
THE SHAME OF LIFE Butthole Surfers
60
95
86
TAKE ME AWAY Lash
NA
NA
85
ROCKIN' THE SUBURBS Ben Folds Five
59
17
84
GET UP You Am I
58
57
83
THE GIRL OF MY DREAMS (IS GIVING ME NIGHTMARES) Machine Gun Fellatio
57
30
82
MAKING THE NOUVEAU RICHE Blueline Medic
56
68
81
HOTEL YORBA The White Stripes
55
64
80
ANDROGYNY Garbage
54
44
79
THE DRUGS DON'T WORK Ben Harper
53
22
78
AERODYNAMIC Daft Punk
NA
NA
77
RADIO The Avalanches
52
77
76
HIDE U Kosheen
NA
NA
75
ROCK THE NATION Michael Franti and Spearhead
51
87
74
ONE MORE TIME Daft Punk
50
61
73
LINKS 2-3-4 Rammstein
49
70
72
FALL DOWN Jebediah
48
28
71
NY HOTEL The Knife
NA
NA
70
PISSING IN THE WIND Badly Drawn Boy
NA
NA
69
60 MILES AN HOUR New Order
47
90
68
I WILL NOT GO QUIETLY (DUFFY'S SONG) The Whitlams
46
42
67
THREE DIMENSIONS Something For Kate
45
13
66
BIG EXIT PJ Harvey
NA
NA
65
MY FRIEND Groove Armada
44
75
64
IMOGEN Mr Blonde
NA
NA
63
JUMP Stella One Eleven
NA
NA
62
BURN BABY BURN Ash
43
65
61
PLUG IN BABY Muse
42
73
60
FALLING AEROPLANES Darren Hanlon
NA
NA
59
DEEP Nine Inch Nails
NA
NA
58
COCAINE The Cruel Sea
41
39
57
THRILL POPPER The Hive
NA
NA
56
THE CELL The Butterfly Effect
NA
NA
55
ONE STEP CLOSER Linkin Park
40
55
54
RUN George
39
92
53
A SIMPLE GOODBYE The Cruel Sea
38
78
52
SUPERSTYLIN' Groove Armada
37
48
51
CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD Kylie Minogue
NA
NA
50
KNIVES OUT Radiohead
36
74
49
ONE ARMED SCISSOR At The Drive-In
NA
NA
48
WHO SOLD HER OUT Eskimo Joe
35
34
47
STRANGE LITTLE GIRL Tori Amos
34
45
46
SOULJACKER PART I The Eels
33
43
45
BETTER MAN John Butler Trio
32
5
44
FELL IN LOVE WITH A GIRL The White Stripes
NA
NA
43
FREELOVE Depeche Mode
NA
NA
42
BLEED AMERICAN Jimmy Eat World
31
58
41
PARABOLA Tool
30
49
40
THANK YOU Dido
29
35
39
MEN ARE NOT NICE GUYS Grand Popo Football Club
NA
NA
38
BUS STOP BOXER Eels
NA
NA
37
CHERRY LIPS (GO BABY GO!) Garbage
28
11
36
HASH PIPE Weezer
27
20
35
JUST THE THING Paulmac feat. Peta Morris
26
50
34
SAY WHAT? 28 Days and Apollo 440
25
16
33
ALL FOR BELIEVING Missy Higgins
NA
NA
32
THERE IS NO SUCH PLACE Augie March
24
47
31
MS. JACKSON Outkast
NA
NA
30
NEW SLANG Shins
23
NA
29
TWENTY YEARS Something For Kate
22
37
28
GO SLOW GIRL Stella One Eleven
NA
NA
27
NEW BORN Muse
21
89
26
LITTLE L Jamiroquai
20
26
25
WE COME 1 Faithless
19
98
24
AS I SAT SADLY BY HER SIDE Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
If you associate Kids On Overload more with 2002, by all means put it there I can't remember exactly when I first heard it, but it was on the 2001 Hottest 100 voting list (available online is you google search) which is what I've been going with from 1999 onwards - you guys don't have to
I won't have the 2002 list done before January 27th, so I hope everyone has got their votes for the 2017 Hottest 100 in and that they enjoy the countdown.
Kylie made the list! For some reason I thought her music from Fever was played on JJJ. Don't know why I thought that. Maybe it's because the album appeared somewhere on JJJ.
Good to see Linkin Park's In The End make it too. I often wondered how this was overlooked on JJJ when a few other songs from the same album were on the voting list. Great song!
It's not that I associate it with 2002, just my recollection is off. I remember Robbie Buck at the time saying that if it wasn't in the Hottest 100 he'd eat his hat. It wasn't . I'm not sure if any hats got eaten.
OBOne: Don't think any hats were eaten, most disappointed...we should hold him to that!
I seem to recall Missy Higgins offering to do a nudie run if her song came in at #1 in 2004...hmm, could make that happen
I also remember the furore about the ABC news theme supposedly making the 2004 countdown. Then it actually did make #11 six years later.
K8: Yes, haven't given up on Kylie's indie cred just yet! And if One Step Close can make the countdown, then the much better In The End certainly can. RIP Chester 😢 Last edited:
Gang Of Youths - Blood {triple j Like A Version 2017} Smith Street Band, The - Shine Nothing But Thieves - Amsterdam Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses Ball Park Music - Exactly How You Are Angus & Julia Stone - Chateau Queens Of The Stone Age - The Way You Used To Do Ocean Grove - Thunderdome {Ft. Running Touch} Big Thief - Mythological Beauty National, The - The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness
In reality, my top 10 songs would be a little different, I would have Shark Smile instead of Mythological Beauty (wasn't on the list) and maybe 2 Wolf Alice, Smith Street Band and Gang Of Youths songs (those being Beautifully Unconventional, Birthdays and What Can I Do If The Fire Goes Out) instead of either QOTSA or The National.
Sorry about the delay, but I've finally done my 2002 list (aka Annus Davus Grohlus). Although it was also Annus The Vinus too, they made a huge impact on the year too.
I seem to remember being a bit disappointed with the actual Hottest 100 of this year, and the 10 Dave Grohl songs actually saved it a bit.
Consequently only 53 of the original Hottest 100 made my Top 100.
Here are #200-101:
My H100 posn
Song
Real H100 order
Actual posn
200
6.66 Salmon Hater
100
26
199
BUCKET BONG Frenzal Rhomb
99
70
198
ARSE HUGGIN' PANTS Spiderbait
98
94
197
STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER Ben Harper
97
82
196
CLEANING OUT MY CLOSET Eminem
96
86
195
A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD Coldplay
95
100
194
HAS IT COME TO THIS? The Streets
94
77
193
OCTOBER Jebediah
NA
NA
192
GOD IS IN THE RADIO Queens Of The Stone Age
93
44
191
ONE SAID TO THE OTHER The Living End
92
52
190
CALLED Antiskeptic
91
92
189
POCKETS Iota
NA
NA
188
GYROSCOPE Boards of Canada
NA
NA
187
TAKE ME AWAY 28 Days
90
83
186
BONDI Cog
NA
NA
185
ROYAL IN THE AFTERNOON The Whitlams
NA
NA
184
HICCUPS Darren Hanlon
NA
NA
183
COOL DOWN 1200 Techniques
NA
NA
182
WAKE UP CALL Front End Loader
NA
NA
181
PUSSYTOWN Machine Gun Fellatio
89
8
180
HIGHWAY ONE The Waifs
88
80
179
N.D.C. Jebediah
NA
NA
178
LUCKY Waikiki
NA
NA
177
ETHER Decoder Ring
NA
NA
176
SHAKIN' ROCK N ROLL TONIGHT Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
NA
NA
175
HERE TO STAY New Order
NA
NA
174
LITTLE WONDER Augie March
NA
NA
173
WITHOUT YOU Silverchair
87
25
172
DOPE NOSE Weezer
86
73
171
DO YOUR THING Basement Jaxx
85
71
170
I AM MINE Pearl Jam
84
28
169
AMMYL Killing Heidi
NA
NA
168
THE LIGHTS ARE BACK ON The Whitlams
NA
NA
167
DREAMING OF YOU The Coral
NA
NA
166
DOWN RIVER Wilcannia Mob
83
51
165
DY-NA-MIT-EE Ms. Dynamite
82
75
164
PURPLE HAZE Groove Armada
81
89
163
OTHERWISE Morcheeba
NA
NA
162
PUNK'S NOT DEAD Darren Hanlon
80
45
161
PARTY HARD Andrew WK
NA
NA
160
IVANKA Imperial Teen
NA
NA
159
MAIN OFFENDER The Hives
NA
NA
158
WHO PUT THE DEVIL IN YOU You Am I
79
79
157
WORLD UPON YOUR SHOULDERS Silverchair
78
76
156
RELEASE george
77
32
155
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT Jet
NA
NA
154
ONE IN A MILLION Bodyjar
76
31
153
WHAT WOULD YOU DO Living End
NA
NA
152
WHAT'S THE DEAL? 28 Days
75
41
151
SLIPPING AWAY Evermore
NA
NA
150
LUV YOUR LIFE Silverchair
74
35
149
WEAK BECOME HEROES The Streets
NA
NA
148
FULL TILT BOOGIE Hilltop Hoods
NA
NA
147
BREAKING IT SLOWLY george
73
43
146
NOBODY LIKES A BOGAN Area 7
72
65
145
BY THE WAY Red Hot Chilli Peppers
71
9
144
WASTED AND READY Ben Kweller
NA
NA
143
CURIOUS My Friend The Chocolate Cake
NA
NA
142
CONCRETE SKY Beth Orton
NA
NA
141
ROLLER COASTER Machine Gun Fellatio
70
6
140
LIES The Waifs
69
96
139
THE ZEPHYR SONG Red Hot Chilli Peppers
68
16
138
HIGHLY EVOLVED The Vines
67
19
137
HONESTLY Zwan
NA
NA
136
PAPER TIGER Beck
NA
NA
135
MADE FROM CONCENTRATE Muzzy Pep
NA
NA
134
FRENETIC Orbital
NA
NA
133
LOST CONTROL Grinspoon
66
14
132
TIMES LIKE THESE Foo Fighters
65
23
131
A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION Elvis v JXL
64
60
130
SILENT SIGH Badly Drawn Boy
63
90
129
GHETTO Supreme Beings Of Leisure
NA
NA
128
SWEET N SOUR Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
NA
NA
127
SON OF THREE Breeders
NA
NA
126
WHERE THE FLAVOUR IS Mudhoney
NA
NA
125
LITTLE RHYMES Mercury Rev
NA
NA
124
LONDON STILL The Waifs
62
3
123
THE TEST Chemical Brothers
NA
NA
122
THE INNER WEST David McCormack and The Polaroids
NA
NA
121
SHE WEARS A MASK Machine Translations
61
95
120
GETAWAY The Music
NA
NA
119
TAKE IT SLOW Machine Gun Fellatio
60
59
118
A THOUSAND MILES Grinspoon
59
47
117
DO IT Lash
NA
NA
116
TOO DRUNK TO DRIVE Bodyjar
58
99
115
BRING IT ON Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
NA
NA
114
YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS: PT 1 The Flaming Lips
Basement Jaxx make the Top 10 for the second year in a row with their very steamy 'Get Me Off'. A much pleasanter film clip too than 'Where's Your Head At' I must say
george released their fine 'Polyserena' album after a long wait, but well worth it. They too make the Top 10 for the second year in a row at #9 with Katie Noonan's beautiful vocal on Breathe In Now.
Number 8 sees the best of the many Foo Fighters tracks of 2002 IMO - All My Life. Still kicks a fair but of ass.
At Number 7 is the best U2 track in many, many years - Electrical Storm. Such a beautiful song. How this one only got to #97 in the actual countdown, when Sweetest Thing, Beautiful Day, Elevation and Vertigo all made the Top 40, I've never understood.
At number 6 is The People from Leeds' sadly forgotten The Music. This song was a massive opening salvo from them, followed by a strong first album - then another album in 2004 - then I never heard from them again here in Australia, although apparently they kept going until 2011. I think this song came out at the tail end of 2002 which is why I think it didn't feature in the Hottest 100 that year. It should have, it's another kick-ass song.
Fair play, Marshall Mathers. I've never been much of a fan of Eminem but he knocked it out of the park with this tongue-in-cheek number. And you can dance and sing along to it. I'm talking about Without Me of course, it comes in at #5. The film clip still cracks me up too.
At #4 is Howlin' Pete Almqvist and the rest of The Hives with I Hate To Say I Told You So. Pete never howled better than in this belter track.
Number three is Grinspoon's finest song, Chemical Heart. So wonderfully heartfelt. Unlucky not to top the actual poll that year too...
But it was kept from that spot by the Number 2 track in my list, the killer No One Knows from the Queens Of The Stone Age. A deserved winner of the actual poll, and it still stands up as one of the strongest Hottest 100 Number 1s.
And at number one - the closing track from Sigur Ros' () album - Untitled 8 or Popplagio. Eleven minutes of sheer awesomeness which they haven't come close to replicating since. The same could be said about the whole () album really.
The Top 100:
My H100 posn
Song
Real H100 order
Actual posn
100
DO IT WITH MADONNA The Androids
53
54
99
KEEP FISHIN' Weezer
52
24
98
SUPER SHOWBIZ STAR Sonic Animation
NA
NA
97
SEEN IT COMING The Church
NA
NA
96
MF FROM HELL The Datsuns
NA
NA
95
NO CHOICE Cruel Sea
NA
NA
94
MISS LUCIFER Primal Scream
NA
NA
93
PERISCOPES The Beautiful Girls
NA
NA
92
TWO MONTHS OFF Underworld
NA
NA
91
SNOW PATROL Alpinestars
NA
NA
90
A SORTA FAIRYTALE Tori Amos
51
93
89
DISENCHANTED LULLABY Foo Fighters
50
55
88
DIVINE Supreme Beings Of Leisure
NA
NA
87
BANG Yeah Yeah Yeahs
NA
NA
86
BANGIN ON Johnny Marr and the Healers
NA
NA
85
TAKE THE LONG ROAD AND WALK IT The Music
NA
NA
84
DEAD STAR Muse
NA
NA
83
IF IT FEELS GOOD DO IT Sloan
NA
NA
82
HARMONIC GENERATOR The Datsuns
NA
NA
81
EVERYTHING'S GONE BAD The Fergusons
49
88
80
IT'S IN OUR HANDS Bjork
NA
NA
79
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER Jebediah
NA
NA
78
MS. JACKSON The Vines
48
30
77
MADDER Groove Armada
NA
NA
76
X-PRESS-2 FEAT. DAVID BYRNE Lazy
NA
NA
75
FEET AND BODY Wicked Beat Sound System
NA
NA
74
ACNE AND PEROXIDE Klinger
NA
NA
73
LOVE FOOLOSOPHY Jamiroquai
47
57
72
PARIS, TEXAS Cog
NA
NA
71
DON'T BOMB WHEN YOU'RE THE BOMB Blur
NA
NA
70
YOU THINK I AIN'T WORTH A DOLLAR Queens Of The Stone Age
46
81
69
BURNDT JAMB Weezer
NA
NA
68
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MY ROCK'N'ROLL Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
45
68
67
SICK Sneaker Pimps
NA
NA
66
THERE GOES THE FEAR Doves
NA
NA
65
THE GREATEST VIEW Silverchair
44
10
64
TAKEN FOR GRANTED Sia
NA
NA
63
THIS TRAIN WILL BE TAKING NO PASSENGERS Augie March
Hopefully the wait for the 2003 and 2004 lists won't be as long as I've already got 'shortlists' of more of 200 songs, something it took me ages to get to for 2002.
I didn't include Popplagio on my list as I prefer some of the other songs but it was a highlight (and finale) of their live set when I saw them last year.
I got to 100 songs for 2002, mainly because of the sheer volume of songs from Interpol's majestic Turn On The Bright Lights, which is right up there for my favourite album of all time. There were also brilliant albums from QOTSA, Sigur Ros, Beck and Broken Social Scene, making it a very good year IMHO
100
Sweetness - Jimmy Eat World
99
Love Burns - BRMC
98
Nothing Lasts Forever - Jebediah
97
Time Like These - Foo Fighters
96
Now She Sleeps In The Good Soil Of Denmark - Dave & The Citizens
95
Clocks - Coldplay
94
The Way We Get By - Spoon
93
Punk's Not Dead - Darren Hanlon
92
Hope Is Where The Heart Is - Seraphs Coal
91
Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl - Broken Social Scene
90
Called - Antiskeptic
89
This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers - Augie March
88
Killian's Red - Nada Surf
87
Comfort Me - Pacifier
86
The Scientist - Coldplay
85
Main Offender - The Hives
84
Carry On - Motor Ace
83
Rollercoaster - Machine Gun Fellatio
82
Without You - Silverchair
81
1000 Miles - Grinspoon
80
Shock (Living Without You) - Cartman
79
Aerials - System Of A Down
78
The Go Slow - Biffy Clyro
77
The Zephyr Song - Red Hot Chili Peppers
76
The Sky Is Fallin' - Queens Of The Stone Age
75
A Little Less Conversation - Elvis vs JXL
74
The New - Interpol
73
Man Or Mouse - Millencolin
72
Karma - 1200 Techniques
71
Lost Control - Grinspoon
70
What's Golden - Jurasssic 5
69
Work It - Missy Elliot
68
You Think I 'Aint Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire - Queens Of The Stone Age
67
Is This The Part? - One Dollar Short
66
Get Free - The Vines
65
Already Dead - Beck
64
Something To Talk About - Badly Drawn Boy
63
M62 Song - Doves
62
Keep Fishin' - Weezer
61
The Specialist - Interpol
60
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
59
Shot Shot - Gomez
58
Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers
57
Too Drunk To Drive - Bodyjar/Adalita
56
Arse Huggin Pants - Silverchair
55
Guess I'm Doing Fine - Beck
54
Hitting The Ground - PJ Harvery/Gordon Gano
53
Frysta - Sigur Ros
52
Crave - The Butterfly Effect
51
Dy-Na-Mi-Te - Ms. Dynamite
50
Capitalism Stole My Virginity - International Noise Conspiracy
49
Lucky - Waikiki
48
Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground - The White Stripes
47
Don't Mug Yourself - The Streets
46
Get Me Off - Basement Jaxx
45
God Is In The Radio - Queens Of The Stone Age
44
Lover's Spit - Broken Social Scene
43
Something Borrowed Something Blue - Ben Lee
42
Attack Of The Ghost Riders - The Raveonettes
41
Pounding - Doves
40
Rock Star - N*E*R*D
39
Another Morning Stoner - Trail Of The Dead
38
A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
37
She Wears A Mask - Machine Translations
36
Take It Slow - Machine Gun Fellatio
35
Here Comes September - Waikiki
34
A Praise Chorus - Jimmy Eat World
33
Roland - Interpol
32
KC Accidental - Broken Social Scene
31
London Still - The Waifs
30
Hurt - Johnny Cash
29
There Goes The Fear - Doves
28
Hangin' Tree - Queens Of The Stone Age
27
Ms Jackson - The Vines
26
Toxicity - System Of A Down
25
Being Followed - Rocket Science
24
Do You Realise? - Flaming Lips
23
PDA - Interpol
22
Fell In Love With A Girl - The White Stripes
21
The Golden Age - Beck
20
NYC - Interpol
19
Hot Computer (Summer Laptop Remix) - Gerling
18
To Hell With Good Intentions - McCluskey
17
Highly Evolved - The Vines
16
First It Giveth - Queens Of The Stone Age
15
Purple Haze - Groove Armada
14
Joy.Discovery.Invention - Biffy Clyro
13
Cause = Time - Broken Social Scene
12
Up For Sale - International Noise Conspiracy
11
Hands Away - Interpol
10
You Are My Joy - The Reindeer Section
9
Untitled - Interpol
8
Go With The Flow - Queens Of The Stone Age
7
Njosnavellin- Sigur Ros
6
Leif Erickson - Interpol
5
Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives
4
Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down - Interpol
2003: The year of Powderfinger and 'Byron Bay' music
By that I mean in the actual countdown there were five Powderfinger songs, three of which made the Top 10, and every third song seemed to be an acoustic number from one of Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Pete Murray, Xavier Rudd, Michael Franti or The Beautiful Girls!
A couple of big 2000s acts appeared for the first time: Little Birdy, Gyroscope, The Panics (all from WA too)
The White Stripes released their appropriately huge Elephant album, Powderfinger released Vulture St and The Dandy Warhols released Welcome To The Monkey House. Very animal themed indeed...
Like every year from 1999, the majority (but not all) of the songs on this list were either in the actual countdown or on the official voting list.
Here are #200-101:
My posn
Song
H100 order
Actual posn
200
WE DON'T PLAY GUITARS Chicks On Speed (featuring Peaches)
101
84
199
CLOCKS (ROYKSOPP REMIX) Coldplay
100
5
198
RUSSELL CROWE'S BAND Frenzal Rhomb
99
26
197
FEELING THIS Blink-182
98
53
196
MILKSHAKE Kelis
97
79
195
GIRL, YOU HAVE NO FAITH IN MEDICINE The White Stripes
96
89
194
SNEAKER SEX Friendly
NA
NA
193
TAYLOR Jack Johnson
95
17
192
VOICES IN MY HEAD Machine Gun Fellatio
94
88
191
ST. ANGER Metallica
93
61
190
PASS THAT DUTCH Missy Elliott
92
85
189
HIGH ROLLING The Beautiful Girls
NA
NA
188
VAMOS Endorphin
NA
NA
187
THE CHARIOT The Cat Empire
91
100
186
TIMES LIKE THESE Jack Johnson
90
40
185
PLEASURE LOVERS Muzzy Pep
NA
NA
184
SISTA (LIVE) The John Butler Trio
89
51
183
SPEAKERS PUSH THE AIR Pretty Girls Make Graves
NA
NA
182
THE OWLS GO Architecture In Helsinki
NA
NA
181
WHERE DID YOU GET THAT FUNK? Brassy
NA
NA
180
GIRL'S NOT GREY AFI
88
71
179
I WANNA GO HOME Ugly Duckling
NA
NA
178
NAKED Ben Lee
NA
NA
177
FRIDAY COME FIVE Bob Evans
NA
NA
176
OPEN UP Cog
NA
NA
175
VAMPIRE RACECOURSE The Sleepy Jackson
87
91
174
JUST A RASCAL Dizzee Rascal
NA
NA
173
SET YOU FREE Black Keys
NA
NA
172
COMING HOME Skulker
NA
NA
171
TALKIN' GYPSY MARKET BLUES The Coral
NA
NA
170
WOOMERA Nokturnl
NA
NA
169
WASTED TIME Kings Of Leon
NA
NA
168
TESTIMONIAL YEAR Hilltop Hoods
NA
NA
167
12:51 The Strokes
86
43
166
FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER The Waifs
85
50
165
A MOVIE SCRIPT ENDING Death Cab For Cutie
NA
NA
164
THIS IS IT Ryan Adams
NA
NA
163
ONLY A THOUGHT The Panics
NA
NA
162
DAYS LIKE THESE The Cat Empire
84
37
161
TABLOID MAGAZINE The Living End
83
66
160
I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF The White Stripes
82
93
159
WATCHING YOU The Baggsmen
NA
NA
158
LYRIC Zwan
NA
NA
157
SPREAD Outkast
NA
NA
156
EVERYTIME Butterfingers
81
38
155
WATCH OUT BOYS Magic Dirt
80
60
154
WHO'S GONNA SAVE US? The Living End
79
23
153
LOOK GOOD IN LEATHER Cody ChesnuTT
78
74
152
DIAMONDS ON THE INSIDE Ben Harper
77
18
151
GROWING ON ME The Darkness
76
97
150
LET'S GET SPAZZY The Spazzys
NA
NA
149
CISH CASH Basement Jaxx
NA
NA
148
BEAT ON/BEAT OFF Presets
NA
NA
147
ROCK OF GIBRALTAR Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
NA
NA
146
BREAK IT DOWN (JAMES BROWN) Offcutts
75
90
145
LITTLE EYES Yo La Tengo
NA
NA
144
BULLETPROOF Pacifier
NA
NA
143
CHERRY BLOSSOM GIRL Air
NA
NA
142
LUCID Tex Perkins
NA
NA
141
LIGHTHOUSE The Waifs
74
12
140
SIX BARREL SHOTGUN Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
NA
NA
139
LITTLE ELECTRIC CHAIR Iggy Pop
NA
NA
138
EVERYONE DESERVES MUSIC Michael Franti and Spearhead
73
34
137
THE CALLING Hilltop Hoods
NA
NA
136
HANGING AROUND THE DAY Polyphonic Spree
NA
NA
135
THE SEED (2.0) The Roots (featuring Cody ChesnuTT)
72
75
134
WELCOME SHOPPERS Decoder Ring
NA
NA
133
LOVESONG Amiel
71
67
132
SUNSETS Powderfinger
70
7
131
THE SWITCH Planet Funk
NA
NA
130
EVOLUTION Cat Power
NA
NA
129
STRICT MACHINE Goldfrapp
NA
NA
128
DATE WITH THE NIGHT Yeah Yeah Yeahs
NA
NA
127
THREE BRANDS OF IMPOSSIBLE Baggsmen
NA
NA
126
I-E-A-I-A-I-O System of A Down
NA
NA
125
GET YOURSELF HIGH Chemical Brothers
NA
NA
124
GAY BAR Electric Six
69
33
123
RISE OR FALL Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
NA
NA
122
OF A BROKEN HEART Zwan
NA
NA
121
YOUNG PILGRIMS The Shins
NA
NA
120
SEEING RED Killing Joke
NA
NA
119
THE PRICE OF OIL Billy Bragg
NA
NA
118
SOMEWHERE I BELONG Linkin Park
NA
NA
117
LET ME BE Xavier Rudd
68
54
116
CONSEQUENCE Butterfly Effect
NA
NA
115
ROCKIN' ROCKS Powderfinger
67
76
114
ROLL OVER DJ Jet
66
19
113
MUSIC The Beautiful Girls
65
62
112
DOCTOR, DOCTOR Gyroscope
64
92
111
THE GOLDEN PATH The Chemical Brothers (feat. The Flaming Lips)
63
81
110
SONG FOR A SLEEPWALKER Something For Kate
62
63
109
MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW (SKEEWIFF REMIX) Soggy Bottom Boys
At Number 10 was Hardest Button To Button, another corker from the Elephant album. The videoclip is great too, as was the Simpsons parody of it
Number nine is what remains my favourite Missy Higgins songs, Greed For Your Love. So sweet.
At 8 is my pick of the many Powderfinger songs in the list, Love Your Way. It most resembled their earlier work and is my favourite of that album.
At the same position as the original finished 18 years earlier is Placebo's brilliant, eerie cover of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill.
Number 6 is another great, early tune from an up and coming new act - Relapse from Little Birdy. My favourite track of theirs too.
At #5 is another fine Dandy Warhols song, We Used To Be Friends. Welcome To The Monkey House didn't get much love at the time, but upon re-listening to it I have to say it isn't bad at all.
At #4 is the mighty funky Danger! High Voltage! by The Electric Six (feat. Jack White). It suffered in the real countdown by coming out in January and not one month earlier or six months later. This song was everywhere that summer.
In a position they would become all too familiar with are The Hilltop Hoods with the tune that brought them to national attention, The Nosebleed Section. It has featured highly in subsequent All Time countdowns, and it should (though maybe not #4). Also, Blackwood High School reprazent!
Number 2 is The White Stripes with their masterpiece, Seven Nation Army. Always sounds good.
One the top is Johnny Cash with Hurt. It could have gone into 2002 when the album was released, but the iconic film clip was filmed in 2003, and of course we lost both June and Johnny in 2003 as well It still gives me goosebumps at the very least every time I hear it, if not brings me to tears. Even Trent Reznor says this is the best version.
My posn
Song
H100 order
Actual H100 posn
100
ARMIES AGAINST ME Epicure
56
21
99
GOOD DANCERS The Sleepy Jackson
NA
NA
98
THE INCH Peaches
NA
NA
97
COMING HOME Alex Lloyd
55
39
96
FEELER Pete Murray
54
20
95
THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEONE COOLER THAN YOU Ben Folds
53
27
94
WICKED AND WEIRD Buck 65
NA
NA
93
I LOVE WORK Butterfingers
52
15
92
WHO SAID (STUCK IN THE UK) Planet Funk
NA
NA
91
INERTIATIC ESP The Mars Volta
51
99
90
BORN ENTERTAINER Veruca Salt
NA
NA
89
OUT OF TIME Blur
50
98
88
HOW'S IT FEEL The Panics
NA
NA
87
SPEAK FOR ME Cat Power
NA
NA
86
DANCE COMMANDER Electric Six
NA
NA
85
PLASTIC LOVELESS LETTER Magic Dirt
49
35
84
FUTURE Cut Copy
NA
NA
83
TIME TO SEE Even
NA
NA
82
TRAIN Goldfrapp
NA
NA
81
FOLLOW THE SUN Sarah Blasko
NA
NA
80
ZEBRA John Butler Trio
48
8
79
SPECIAL CASES Massive Attack
NA
NA
78
FALLS STREET Jodi Phillis
NA
NA
77
SATURDAY MORNING Eels
NA
NA
76
READ TO ME - B(if)tek
NA
NA
75
LATE NIGHT CHA CHA Gus And Frank
NA
NA
74
PUNCH UP AT A WEDDING Radiohead
NA
NA
73
I LOVE ACID Luke Vibert
NA
NA
72
LIGHT AND MAGIC Ladytron
NA
NA
71
HOTEL RADIO David Bridie
NA
NA
70
DUMB ENOUGH Hilltop Hoods
47
44
69
SING FOR ABSOLUTION Muse
NA
NA
68
SLEEPING WITH GHOSTS Placebo
NA
NA
67
LIFE SENTENCE Epicure
46
73
66
77% The Herd
45
46
65
FOR TODAY Bob Evans
NA
NA
64
MIDNIGHT EXPRESS Gyroscope
NA
NA
63
PLAN A Dandy Warhols
NA
NA
62
ALL MY CRUSHES Magic Dirt
NA
NA
61
JUST PRETEND The Bens
44
52
60
CRACKED LCD Ladytron
NA
NA
59
THERE THERE Radiohead
43
48
58
TUNA IN THE BRINE Silverchair
NA
NA
57
MAPS Yeah Yeah Yeahs
NA
NA
56
HE WAR Cat Power
NA
NA
55
EYE FOR AN EYE U.N.K.L.E.
NA
NA
54
STUMBLIN' Powderfinger
42
77
53
REPTILIA The Strokes
41
83
52
1 SECOND OF INSANITY The Butterfly Effect
40
68
51
THE LEAVING SONG PT. II AFI
39
58
50
IN THE COLD, COLD NIGHT The White Stripes
38
94
49
WHO'S YA DADDY? Gerling
37
78
48
HYSTERIA Muse
36
69
47
EVERYWHEN Massive Attack
NA
NA
46
VULCANELLA Magic Dirt
NA
NA
45
2+2=5 Radiohead
35
49
44
SPECIAL NEEDS Placebo
34
95
43
LINES Pete Murray
33
86
42
WEAK AND POWERLESS A Perfect Circle
32
45
41
THE OUTSIDER A Perfect Circle
31
70
40
BLUE BLACK SKY David Bridie and Dave Mason
NA
NA
39
HEY YA! Outkast
30
2
38
ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL? Jet
29
1
37
WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS Ben Harper
28
29
36
LONELY Mia Dyson
NA
NA
35
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME Muse
27
42
34
BABY BLUE Little Birdy
26
25
33
HELLO The Cat Empire
25
6
32
KICK IT Peaches
NA
NA
31
GOOD LUCK Basement Jaxx feat. Lisa Kekaula
24
82
30
BLOOD ON THE MICROPHONE Gerling
NA
NA
29
MOVE YOUR FEET Junior Senior
23
87
28
THE SCIENTIST Coldplay
NA
NA
27
BLACK BIRD The Beautiful Girls
22
41
26
TIME IS RUNNING OUT Muse
21
31
25
EPIPHANOUS MOMENT David Bridie
NA
NA
24
THINK TWICE Groove Armada
NA
NA
23
SOMETHING WHITE AND SIGMUND Love Outside Andromeda
2003 was the year Ministry of Sound was getting alot of plays for me and Satisfaction was at the top of the list. Planet Funk's Who Said was up there too. Shame this missed the countdown.
I find the 2003 countdown on the ordinary side and it might have somerhing to do with the Acoustic overload.
I saw Linkin Park where in the voting list for 2003. Such a shame they missed making the countdown. Bigger shame In The End was never on any voting list because it would have been interesting to see if it would have done well on the Hottest 100.
Nice as always! Your entire Top 10 made my list (last year's in Hurt's case)
2003 wasn't the best of years I agree but there were some fine highlights, White Stripes, Outkast, Death Cab For Cutie and Magic Dirt for sure and there was a lot of Bens (which is good).
100
Sister Surround - The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
99
So Entertaining - Gus And Frank
98
Relapse - Little Birdy
97
Roses - Outkast
96
Who's Gonna Save Us - The Living End
95
Greed For Your Love - Missy Higgins
94
Just Because - Janes Addiction
93
All The Way Down: Prologue Chapter 1 - Biffy Clyro
92
St Anger - Metallica
91
Happy - The Wrens
90
Bowtie - Outkast
89
Coming Home - Alex Lloyd
88
Life Sentence - Epicure
87
Danger! High Voltage - Electric Six
86
Rockin'Rocks - Powderfinger
85
Feeling This - Blink 182
84
Run Into Flowers - M83
83
Title And Registration - Death Cab For Cutie
82
Special Needs - Placebo
81
I Love Work - Butterfingers
80
Time Is Running Out - Muse
79
Wasting Time - Jack Johnson
78
In The Cold Cold Night - The White Stripes
77
Déjà Vu - Something For Kate
76
Tiny Vessels - Death Cab For Cutie
75
Stumblin - Powderfinger
74
We Used To Be Friends - The Dandy Warhols
73
Girls Not Grey - AFI
72
Watch Out Boys - Magic Dirt
71
The Golden Path - The Chemical Brothers
70
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - The White Stripes
69
This Boy Is Exhausted - The Wrens
68
Clocks (Royksopp Remix) - Coldplay
67
Drain The Blood - The Distillers
66
Gay Bar - Electric Six
65
Myxomatosis - Radiohead
64
Love Your Way - Powderfinger
63
Russell Crowe's Band - Frenzal Rhomb
62
Prototype - Outkast
61
Let Me Be - Xavier Rudd
60
Times Like These - Jack Johnson
59
In The City - Gerling
58
Good Dancers - Sleepy Jackson
57
Good Luck - Basement Jaxx
56
Kelis - Milkshake
55
Hello - The Cat Empire
54
All My Crushes - Magic Dirt
53
The Bitter End - Placebo
52
I Know You Are But What Am I? - Mogwai
51
The Leaving Song pt. 2 - AFI
50
I Miss You - Blink 182
49
The Ideal Height - Biffy Clyro
48
Golden Retriever - Super Furry Animals
47
The Nosebleed Section - Hilltop Hoods
46
Weak And Powerless - A Perfect Circle
45
Go To Sleep - Radiohead
44
77% - The Herd
43
Feeler - Pete Murray
42
Inertiatic ESP - The Mars Volta
41
Last Call - Outkast
40
Molly's Chambers - Kings Of Leon
39
Painkiller - Turin Brakes
38
There There - Radiohead
37
The Seed (2.0) - The Roots
36
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
35
Reptillia - The Strokes
34
Nothing Quite Like This - Genshen
33
The Horizon Has Been Defeated - Jack Johnson
32
Hysteria - Muse
31
The New Year - Death Cab For Cutie
30
Plastic Loveless Letter - Magic Dirt
29
The Way You Move - Outkast
28
Just Pretend - The Bens
27
Running Up That Hill - Placebo
26
Out Of Time - Blur
25
Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up Look Sharp
24
Step Into My Office Baby - Belle & Sebastian
23
Heartbeats - The Knife
22
Franco Un-American - NOFX
21
The Hardest Button To Button - The White Stripes
20
Lines - Pete Murray
19
Obstacle 1 (Arthur Baker Remix) - Interpol
18
Hunted By A Freak - Mogwai
17
We Looked Like Giants - Death Cab For Cutie
16
You Were The Last High - The Dandy Warhols
15
Hands Around My Throat - Death In Vegas
14
Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine - The White Stripes
I have heard some songs from it. I seem to recall hearing Jaz Coleman's very scary laugh while being interviewed on JJJ around this time.
It would certainly be eligible for this list and I have one of the songs from it at #120.
And thanks for the bump I can announce that having moved house over Easter, I am now back into doing the 2004 list which should be up in the next few days.
The only Outkast songs on the Voting Lists (http://hottest100.org/votinglists.html) were Hey Ya, Spread, Prototype (from 2003) and Ghetto Musick (from 2004).
Don't think So Beautiful was played much (if at all) on JJJ.
A few big Australian Hottest 100 acts make their first appearance in one of my lists this year, namely The Presets, The Grates and one Wouter De Backer (aka Gotye). A band out of Scotland name Franz Ferdinand also made something of an impact, taking out the actual Hottest 100 and have three songs in that list.
Here are #200-101:
My posn
Song
H100 order
Actual H100 posn
200
LACHLAN Your Wedding Night
100
60
199
YO MAMA Butterfingers
99
17
198
COMMON PEOPLE William Shatner
98
21
197
MODERN GIRLS AND OLD FASHIONED MEN The Strokes
NA
NA
196
PACO DOESN'T LOVE ME The Spazzys
97
75
195
TAKE ME OUT (FRANZ FERDINAND COVER) Scissor Sisters
96
44
194
RUN RUN RUN Phoenix
NA
NA
193
PARALEXIC CLICHES sonicanimation
NA
NA
192
READY 2 WEAR Felix Da Housecat
NA
NA
191
WAKE UP CALL The Prodigy
NA
NA
190
ALRIGHT Little Birdy
NA
NA
189
THINKING IN REVERSE The Dissociatives
NA
NA
188
HONEST J The Herd
NA
NA
187
CATCH ME UP Gomez
95
98
186
BONG IN MY EYE Regurgitator
NA
NA
185
WHO IS IT? Bjork
NA
NA
184
ELEPHANT WOMAN Blonde Redhead
NA
NA
183
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT Little Birdy
94
78
182
MAYBE N.E.R.D.
NA
NA
181
HOT RIDE The Prodigy
NA
NA
180
BREATHLESS Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
NA
NA
179
THE WRONG WAY TV On The Radio
NA
NA
178
BRIDAL TRAIN The Waifs
93
54
177
HEY HEY BABY The Spazzys
NA
NA
176
FLY OR DIE N.E.R.D.
NA
NA
175
DIFFIDENT STROKES TISM
NA
NA
174
HANDSHAKE DRUGS Wilco
NA
NA
173
HORROR WITH EYEBALLS The Dissociatives
NA
NA
172
GIRLS THE Prodigy
NA
NA
171
TIME STANDS STILL Cut Copy
NA
NA
170
CASUALTY Missy Higgins
92
49
169
GET WHAT YOU NEED Jet
91
89
168
TRAMPOLINE The Grates
NA
NA
167
PEASANT BAR Even
NA
NA
166
HOMESICK Big Heavy Stuff
NA
NA
165
WHATEVER'S LEFT Snow Patrol
NA
NA
164
KISS OF LIFE Supergrass
NA
NA
163
NEVER FAR AWAY Jack White
NA
NA
162
SHELTER Xavier Rudd
90
56
161
SOLACE Xavier Rudd
89
59
160
I'M GOING TO EXECUTE YOUR EX-BOYFRIEND David McCormack & The Polaroids
NA
NA
159
HELLO John Butler Trio
88
93
158
I WAS BORN (A UNICORN) The Unicorns
87
86
157
BORN IN THE 70S Ed Harcourt
NA
NA
156
YOU'VE RUINED ALL MY FAVOURITE SONGS Machine Gun Fellatio
I don't think So Beautiful was a JJJ hit either, if it was played there at all, but I liked it better than any of his songs that made the 2003 countdown so I've included it at #38, ironically where another non-JJJ song from U2 came in the actual countdown.
Unfortunately I couldn't make the nudie run Missy Higgins promised she'd do way back on Australia Day 2005 if any of her songs made #1 happen
At Number 10 is Love Outside Andromeda with the powerful Tongue Like A Tether. I liked their self-titled album (Boxcutter Baby came in at 47 as well) and was hoping they'd kick on and rock the rest of the decade but I think they and their style of rock went by the wayside not long after this, more's the pity.
At number nine is an extraordinary epic early track from Gotye, The Only Thing I Know. It actually came out on an EP in 2002 originally, then on his first album in 2003, but only hit JJJ in 2004, appearing on that year's voting list. A hidden gem.
At 8 and 7 is an Evermore double header, For One Day and It's Too Late. Another band from across the dutch that made a huge impact in 2004 with these fine songs. And you all remember the OC, don't you? Even without that connection, these songs still sound great.
Number 6 is a lot of people's wedding tune apparently, This Old Love by Lior. It still sounds beautiful and gets me in the feels whenever I hear it.
At number 5 is the Gary Jules' beautiful version of Mad World. It would probably have killed several Hottest 100 parties stone dead but that's not what these lists are about! Had trouble deciding which year to put it on as it was originally recorded in 2001 for Donnie Darko, released in 2002, re-released overseas in last 2003 before being played all over JJJ in early 2004. So I've gone with the latter.
Sara Blasko comes in at #4 with Don't U Eva, another song that gets me in the feels everytime I hear it. Not sure exactly why but Sara's beautiful voice may have something to do with it. 2004 was the year she released her first full album, The Underscore and The Overture, and a great one it still is.
At number 3 is divine Breathe Me. The best way to listen to this song is the extended version over the last 5 minutes of Six Feet Under and to try not to become a blubbering wreck.
Number two is Block Party's statement of intent, Banquet. It has rightfully made the Hottest 100 of all time list in 2009 on JJJ and if it come out a month or two later, would have taken out the 2005 Hottest 100 easily I think. If it came out a bit earlier it would have given Take Me Out some competition.
Speaking of which, Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand I think was the most convincing number 1 ever in the actual Hottest 100 and is my number one too. It still sounds amazing. Very hard to picture it not coming in on top.
My posn
Song
H100 order
Actual H100 posn
100
FIRING SQUAD Epicure
NA
NA
99
GET UP sonicanimation
NA
NA
98
IT'S YOU PJ Harvey
NA
NA
97
FAVOURITE JEANS Bertie Blackman
NA
NA
96
GIRL'S BEST FRIEND The Datsuns
NA
NA
95
MESSIN' AROUND The Datsuns
NA
NA
94
BEAUTIFUL TO ME Little Birdy
68
8
93
RIDE The Vines
67
94
92
EVIL Interpol
66
76
91
MIRROR MIRROR After The Fall
65
96
90
MY FRIEND ROBOT Regurgitator
64
52
89
I CAN'T GIVE YOU WHAT I HAVEN'T GOT The Living End
63
47
88
CASH The Panics
NA
NA
87
F****N AWESOME Spiderbait
62
20
86
WHAT THE F**K? Machine Gun Fellatio
61
34
85
NOT MANY Scribe
60
35
84
NO "W" Ministry
NA
NA
83
OLDER THAN YOU Eskimo Joe
59
32
82
SUKKAFISH The Grates
NA
NA
81
YOUNG MAN OLD MAN The Dissociatives
58
80
80
LOTION The Greenskeepers
57
90
79
SLEEPY LITTLE DEATHTOLL TOWN The Panda Band
56
73
78
WOMAN Wolfmother
55
45
77
TREAT YO' MAMA John Butler Trio
54
25
76
THE BUCKET Kings Of Leon
53
31
75
GODHOPPING Dogs Die In Hot Cars
52
43
74
MAKE LOVE F**K WAR Moby & Public Enemy
NA
NA
73
PASSIVE A Perfect Circle
NA
NA
72
QUARTER TO THREE Faker
NA
NA
71
ROUGH DIAMONDS End Of Fashion
51
81
70
SEX CALL Rocket Science
NA
NA
69
ALIVE Shihad
NA
NA
68
ALWAYS The Butterfly Effect
50
99
67
SAFE FOREVER Gyroscope
49
97
66
WHAT YOU WANT John Butler Trio
48
51
65
SELF DESTRUCT IN 5 Epicure
47
64
64
LAURA Scissor Sisters
46
58
63
CLONES Ash
NA
NA
62
CH-CH-CHECK IT OUT Beastie Boys
45
28
61
THIS IS A LOVE SONG Little Birdy
44
40
60
SMOKE Eskimo Joe
43
62
59
SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE John Butler Trio
42
7
58
MR BRIGHTSIDE The Killers
41
13
57
THIS FIRE Franz Ferdinand
40
29
56
SCAR Missy Higgins
39
2
55
PUSH UP Freestylers
38
69
54
SOMERSAULT Decoder Ring
37
91
53
JOLENE (LIVE) The White Stripes
36
10
52
FIT BUT YOU KNOW IT The Streets
35
18
51
GIRLS CAN BE CRUEL Infusion
NA
NA
50
THERE SHE GOES MY BEAUTIFUL WORLD Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
NA
NA
49
STARING AT THE SUN TV On The Radio
NA
NA
48
MEMORY LANE Elliot Smith
34
48
47
BOXCUTTER BABY Love Outside Andromeda
NA
NA
46
AMERICAN IDIOT Green Day
33
22
45
10AM AUTOMATIC The Black Keys
32
67
44
BLESS MY SOUL Powderfinger
31
9
43
HARD ACT TO FOLLOW Grinspoon
30
16
42
SOMEBODY TOLD ME The Killers
29
4
41
BETTER WORLD Infusion
NA
NA
40
COIN OPERATED BOY Dresden Dolls
28
12
39
ENGLISH SUMMER RAIN Placebo
27
53
38
SO BEAUTIFUL Pete Murray
NA
NA
37
AMERIKA Rammstein
26
46
36
OUT HERE IN THE COLD Gotye
NA
NA
35
WELCOME TO THE NORTH The Music
NA
NA
34
IMAGINE A Perfect Circle
25
88
33
I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY BOYFRIEND The Magnetic Fields
Nice list as always! Your 1 and 2 are in my top 5! I associate Mad World with Donnie Darko so I should have put it in my 2001 list (which I will as I'm expanding it out to 100)! I had Tongue Like A Tether just outside the 100 and Hecate Pose inside. Haven't listened to the early Gotye, will have to.
2004 had some cracking tunes and albums. Interpol's Antics was as good as their debut (ie awesome), Franz Ferdinand, The Killers and Arcade Fire (even though wasn't picked up on JJJ at the time) announced themselves with great debuts.
100
Wash In The Rain - The Bees
99
Galang - MIA
98
True Intentions - Sarah Blasko
97
The Coast Is Always Changing - Maximo Park
96
You Are the Generation Who Bought More Shoes and You Get What You Deserve - Johnny Boy
95
Glitter and Trauma - Biffy Clyro
94
Somebody Told Me - The Killers
93
Scar - Missy Higgins
92
Push Up - The Freestylers
91
Four To The Floor (Thin White Duke Remix) - Starsailor
90
The End Of The World - The Cure
89
Yeah - LCD Soundsystem
88
I Luv The Valley OH! - Xiu Xiu
87
From The Sea - Eskimo Joe
86
The Dark Of The Matinee - Franz Ferdinand
85
Cherry Blossom Girl - Air
84
My Friend Robot - Regurgitator
83
I Love You Cause I Have To - Dogs Die In Hot Cars
82
Get It Together - The Go! Team
81
Summer Of Love - Black Cab
80
Walk Idiot Walk - The Hives
79
The Sweat Descends - Les Savy Fav
78
Juneau - Funeral For A Friend
77
Into My Arms - Mylo
76
Numb All Over - Dallas Crane
75
Club Foot - Kasabian
74
The Letter - PJ Harvey
73
Breathe Me - Sia
72
The Power Is On - The Go! Team
71
Mr Raven - MC Lars
70
Memory Lane - Elliott Smith
69
I'm Gonna Haunt You - Fabienne Delsol
68
F***kin Awesome - Spiderbait
67
So Alive - Ryan Adams
66
Twenty Years - Placebo
65
Sleep Forever - theredsunband
64
Look What You've Done - Jet
63
Die On A Rope - The Distillers
62
Godhopping - Dogs Die In Hot Cars
61
Taper Jean Girl - Kings Of Leon
60
She Will Only Bring You Happiness - McClusky
59
Unmade Bed - Sonic Youth
58
Mass Destruction - Faithless
57
Mirror Mirror - After The Fall
56
Ageless Beauty - Stars
55
Next Exit - Interpol
54
Forget Her - Jeff Buckley
53
Favourite Jeans - Bertie Blackman
52
Jolene (live) - The White Stripes
51
Never Far Away - Jack White
50
Laura - Scissor Sisters
49
Drop The Pressure - Mylo
48
He Woke Me Up Again - Sufjan Stevens
47
Do The Whirlwind - Architecture In Helsinki
46
Belle and Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo
45
Gamble Everything For Love - Ben Lee
44
Hecate Pose - Love Outside Andromeda
43
Dirty Hearts - Dallas Crane
42
First Of The Gang To Die - Morrissey
41
Always - Butterfly Effect
40
Blinded By The Lights - The Streets
39
Quarter To Three - Faker
38
Narc - Interpol
37
Bukowski - Modest Mouse
36
Bottle Rocket - The Go! Team
35
The Bucket - Kings Of Leon
34
Going Nowhere - Cut Copy
33
Chicken Payback - The Bees
32
English Summer Rain - Placebo
31
Shame - PJ Harvey
30
The Tide That Left And Never Came Back - The Veils
#18 - theredsunband was the first "free download" I got from the JJJ website. It was a precursor to unearthed website maybe but they put free MP3s of new bands up on the front page! Also discovered Berti Blackman through these.
#17 - The Go! Team. Their 2004 album Thunder, Lightning, Strike is one of the oddest albums to try and pigeon hole. From their wiki page, a mix of indie rock, garage rock, blaxploitation and bollywood soundtracks, double dutch chants, old school hip hop and distorted guitars. It works fantastically (hence 4 songs from it on my list).
I'll start by saying that the actual Hottest 100 is still one of the weakest ever, especially if you don't like Wolfmother and Ben Lee. It made putting this list together quite tricky. In fact none of the Top 4 of my list made the actual Hottest 100, only 5 made the Top 10 and only 52 made the Top 100.
Me, I'm ambivalent towards Wolfmother. Three of their six -- 6! - Hottest 100 songs made my Hottest 100.
That said, there was still plenty of good music around that year.
Anyway, here are #200-101:
My posn
Song
H100 order
Actual H100 posn
200
AMERICA, F**K YEAH DVDA (From Team America: World Police)
100
52
199
GOLD DIGGER Kanye West
99
13
198
JESUS I WAS EVIL Butterfingers
98
69
197
SMOKE IT The Dandy Warhols
97
82
196
FOXTROT UNIFORM CHARLIE KILO The Bloodhound Gang
96
24
195
BUMP N GRIND Friendly
NA
NA
194
F**K FOREVER Babyshambles
95
79
193
AMPHIBIOUS Children Collide
NA
NA
192
RADIO/VIDEO System Of A Down
94
57
191
JESUS OF SUBURBIA Green Day
93
61
190
AIN'T NO EASY WAY Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
NA
NA
189
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELTS Pendulum
NA
NA
188
WISHBONE Architecture In Helsinki
NA
NA
187
UNEMPLOYED Bluejuice
NA
NA
186
BEST OF YOU Foo Fighters
92
4
185
SIX MONTHS IN A LEAKY BOAT Little Birdy
91
96
184
THE FALLEN Franz Ferdinand
90
93
183
THE RIDER SONG Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
NA
NA
182
THE TIME British India
NA
NA
181
SPEAK SLOW Tegan And Sara
NA
NA
180
DOWN DOWN DOWN Presets
NA
NA
179
WHAT'S ON YOUR RADIO? The Living End
89
49
178
JUICEBOX The Strokes
88
46
177
TWO SHOES The Cat Empire
87
54
176
THE DOLDRUMS Josh Pyke
NA
NA
175
THIS WILL BE OUR YEAR Ok Go
NA
NA
174
MUSHABOOM Feist
NA
NA
173
BETTER TOGETHER Jack Johnson
86
73
172
NIGHTMARE Wicked Beat Sound System
NA
NA
171
SHUTTERSPEED Karnivool
NA
NA
170
AUTUMN FLOW Lior
85
43
169
INTO THE DARK Ben Lee
84
86
168
HOLIDAY Green Day
NA
NA
167
LOUNGER Dogs Die In Hot Cars
NA
NA
166
THE DENIAL TWIST The White Stripes
83
67
165
NEIGHBOURHOOD #2 (LAIKA) Arcade Fire
NA
NA
164
FEELS LIKE A DEMON Magic Dirt
NA
NA
163
WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Ben Lee
82
53
162
WHY DO YOU LOVE ME Garbage
81
98
161
STUFF AND NONSENSE Missy Higgins
80
47
160
ON THIS SIDE Clare Bowditch
79
94
159
HEY MAN Eels
NA
NA
158
LOVE ME UNIQUE Michael Franti
NA
NA
157
DOESN'T REMIND ME Audioslave
NA
NA
156
ALL THE MONEY OR THE SIMPLE LIFE HONEY The Dandy Warhols
78
60
155
FROZEN ARMIES Children Collide
NA
NA
154
WAITING FOR THE SIREN'S CALL New Order
NA
NA
153
WONDERS NEVER CEASE Morcheeba
NA
NA
152
SAME Frente
NA
NA
151
PRETTY GIRLS SWEAR Regurgitator
NA
NA
150
BELIEVE The Chemical Brothers
77
80
149
FRAME Kaki King
NA
NA
148
OUTSIDE 109 British India
NA
NA
147
FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE Bright Eyes
76
77
146
LET'S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME The Beautiful Girls
75
81
145
SLY The Cat Empire
74
38
144
THE CAR SONG The Cat Empire
73
25
143
APPLE TREE Wolfmother
72
16
142
NEW HEALTH ROCK TV On The Radio
NA
NA
141
TELEVISION Bertie Blackman
NA
NA
140
COUNTING SHEEP Sarah Blasko
NA
NA
139
FACE WITHOUT A NAME Kisschasy
71
95
138
LIKE EATING GLASS Bloc Party
70
88
137
THE HAND THAT FEEDS Nine Inch Nails
NA
NA
136
HURRICANE Faker
69
21
135
FIGJAM Butterfingers
68
11
134
TWO MORE YEARS Bloc Party
67
23
133
PARTY STARTED The Cat Empire
66
100
132
MESSAGE Grates
NA
NA
131
I GO HARD I GO HOME Presets
NA
NA
130
SNOW WHITE Magic Dirt
NA
NA
129
DIMENSION Wolfmother
65
37
128
CATCH MY DISEASE Ben Lee
64
2
127
SUGAR Ladytron
NA
NA
126
COMPUTER CAMP LOVE Datarock
63
12
125
LITTLE SELF CENTRED QUEEN Clare Bowditch & The Feeding Set
We nearly had two Icelandic acts in the Top 10, and neither of them Bjork, but Emiliana Torrini just slipped out of the Top 10 in the final washup.
At number 10 is Brooklyn's The Bravery is the still punchy An Honest Mistake, accompanied by a really cool Rube Goldberg-type videoclip way before Ok Go tried it.
Flame Trees is still my favourite Chisel song, and Sara Blasko (whom I am seeing this week) is still one of my favourite Australian singer-songwriters. Put them together in a wonderfully stripped down version and you have #9 in my list. As The Chaser boys said on the day, it's the song where you turn to your mate after a few drinks during the countdown and tell them how much you love them. Though I have several of those high up in my countdown.
Still not sure how a fine rocker like Themata by Karnivool only came in at #97 in the actual Hottest 100 list #shouldhavebeenhigher. I have it at #8.
Number seven is a great lost Radiohead track, I Want None Of This. Leave Thom Yorke alone with a piano and some depressing lyrics, and beauty usually ensues, just like it did with Pyramid Song, still my favourite of theirs.
At #6 is the pick of the Gorillaz songs that came out in the 2005, Dare, featuring a certain Shaun Ryder. Still danceable and fine-sounding.
Number five is Fast Girl by Gyroscope. I remember voting for it and remember thinking on the day how much better it sounded than a lot of the songs I had heard up to that point and would hear. In fact it is the highest ranking song from the actual Hottest 100 in my list.
Sigur Ros were back in 2005 with a new album, Takk. I didn't quite get into this album as much as I did their previous two. They were starting to get too accessible! However Glosoli, taken from it, is as good as anything taken from Agnaetis Byjrun or (). It builds up to its climax nicely, and comes in at #4.
At #3 is a song I want played at my funeral, Hope There's Someone by Antony (now Anhoni) and The Johnsons. Again, a song that would lead to many hugs and 'I Love Yous' if it was played during an actual Hottest 100. So beautiful, especially when he hits those high notes.
Love Outside Andromeda are in the runners-up spot with their finest song, Bound By Hurt Dissolved (despite what I may have said about Tongue Like A Tether). Sianna Lee is seriously underrated as both a songwriter and a vocalist, in the 00s or any other decade.
A few years back, a number of indie musos were polled as to their favourite song, and Sharkfin Blues by The Drones came out on top. Who am I to disagree? It helps though that I love this song too. A worthy winner.
My posn
Song
H100 order
Actual H100 posn
100
GIRL Beck
52
35
99
I DON'T WANT TO KNOW (IF YOU DON'T WANT ME) Donnas
NA
NA
98
I'M SO POSTMODERN The Bedroom Philosopher
51
72
97
EVERYBODY HAS HAD MORE SEX THAN ME TISM
NA
NA
96
UNDER PRESSURE Herd
NA
NA
95
YOU ARE MY SISTER Antony & The Johnsons
NA
NA
94
DIVORCEE BY 23 Clare Bowditch
50
63
93
BASTARD Ben Folds
49
89
92
LITTLE SISTER Queens of The Stone Age
48
58
91
OOH LA LA Goldfrapp
NA
NA
90
DAKOTA Stereophonics
NA
NA
89
LOVE IS A DESERTER Kills
NA
NA
88
IT'5 Architecture In Helsinki
47
56
87
WALKING WITH A GHOST Tegan And Sara
NA
NA
86
WISH YOU WELL Bernard Fanning
46
1
85
THE FIGHTER After The Fall
45
78
84
O YEAH End Of Fashion
44
8
83
DOING THE WRONG THING Kaki King
NA
NA
82
CONCRETE BOOTS After The Fall
43
30
81
EVIE PT. 1 The Wrights
42
99
80
BLOODY MOTHER F****N A**HOLE Martha Wainwright
41
59
79
DONNIE DARKO P'nau
NA
NA
78
LET THERE BE LOVE Oasis
NA
NA
77
HOPPIPOLLA Sigur Ros
NA
NA
76
THE LINE BEGINS TO BLUR Nine Inch Nails
NA
NA
75
DORIS Dirty Three
NA
NA
74
DOA Foo Fighters
40
20
73
ACROSS YER OCEAN Mercury Rev
NA
NA
72
CHARADES Cog
NA
NA
71
SOUL MEETS BODY Death Cab For Cutie
NA
NA
70
SADDEST SONG IN THE WORLD Shihad
NA
NA
69
FILTHY/GORGEOUS Scissor Sisters
39
83
68
DO THE WHIRLWIND Architecture In Helsinki
NA
NA
67
TIGHTROPE WALKER Epicure
38
85
66
NEIGHBOURHOOD #4 (KETTLES) Arcade Fire
NA
NA
65
GET READY FOR LOVE Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
NA
NA
64
HERE COMES A CITY Go-Betweens
NA
NA
63
PRECIOUS Depeche Mode
NA
NA
62
I WAS ONLY 19 The Herd
37
18
61
LANDED Ben Folds
36
55
60
OH MY GOSH! Basement Jaxx
NA
NA
59
FIX YOU Coldplay
35
26
58
EVERYDAY I LOVE YOU LESS AND LESS The Kaiser Chiefs
34
28
57
ARE YOU THE ONE? Presets
NA
NA
56
SITTING, WAITING, WISHING Jack Johnson
33
64
55
RUN Cog
32
71
54
ON MY WAY Spiderbait
NA
NA
53
SONGBIRD Bernard Fanning
31
14
52
WE ARE ALL ON DRUGS Weezer
NA
NA
51
DO YOU WANT TO Franz Ferdinand
30
10
50
SWEET AS SUGAR Grinspoon
29
42
49
WALKING SHADE Billy Corgan
NA
NA
48
JOKER AND THE THIEF Wolfmother
28
9
47
DO DO'S AND WHOA OH'S Kisschasy
27
22
46
FRACTIONS Decoder Ring
NA
NA
45
HYPNOTISE System Of A Down
26
76
44
TILL I GET MY WAY Black Keys
NA
NA
43
THE SOUND OF WHITE Missy Higgins
25
74
42
THIRTEEN Elliott Smith
NA
NA
41
UNDERWEAR GOES INSIDE THE PANTS Lazyboy
NA
NA
40
KING OF THE MOUNTAIN Kate Bush
NA
NA
39
GABRIELLE Ween
24
66
38
DIRTY HARRY Gorillaz
23
41
37
NEIGHBOURHOOD #1 (TUNNELS) Arcade Fire
NA
NA
36
LATE Ben Folds
NA
NA
35
LIFT ME UP Moby
NA
NA
34
B.Y.O.B System Of A Down
22
27
33
BEWARE WOLF Gyroscope
21
62
32
WHITE UNICORN Wolfmother
20
84
31
LOVE IS A DANCEFLOOR Endorphin
NA
NA
30
NATURAL Infusion
NA
NA
29
MY DOORBELL The White Stripes
19
7
28
MIDDLE OF THE HILL Josh Pyke
18
19
27
PHOENIX The Butterfly Effect
17
33
26
SPACE THEY CANNOT TOUCH Kate Miller-Heidke
NA
NA
25
DON'T SAVE US FROM THE FLAMES M83
NA
NA
24
FEEL GOOD INC. Gorillaz
16
3
23
HELICOPTER Bloc Party
15
40
22
MY ENEMY Cog
14
32
21
DESTROY EVERYTHING YOU TOUCH Ladytron
NA
NA
20
SPEED OF SOUND Coldplay
13
36
19
I PREDICT A RIOT The Kaiser Chiefs
12
34
18
DAYVAN COWBOY Boards Of Canada
NA
NA
17
BLUE ORCHID The White Stripes
11
17
16
BE YOURSELF Audioslave
10
51
15
MIND'S EYE Wolfmother
9
6
14
THE SPECIAL TWO Missy Higgins
8
31
13
I BET YOU LOOK GOOD ON THE DANCEFLOOR Arctic Monkeys
Great as always. I particularly like your #4 and #6
I'm unaware of your #2 and #7 so I'll definitely have to check them out as both bands are awesome. Didn't register that Dakota was this year, might have been a chance of getting in my list.
I agree that it wasn't a great 100 but there was some good stuff about in 2005. And at #33 is the first Like A Version I can remember, quite a few covers in general as well (#21, #31, #33, #67, #71 and #82).
#1 goes to my fave song by one of my fave bands of the era, the mighty Butterfly Effect.
100
Ain't Done That For A While - The Holy Soul
99
Hope There's Someone - Antony & The Johnsons
98
Only One Word Comes To Mind - Biffy Clyro
97
fake palindromes - Andrew Bird
96
The Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother
95
The Sporting Life - The Decemberists
94
Na Na Na Na Na - Kaiser Chiefs
93
Bastard - Ben Folds
92
I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At The Disco
91
Little Sister - Queens of the Stone Age
90
Sweet As Sugar - Grinspoon
89
Two More Years - Bloc Party
88
DOA - Foo Fighters
87
Run - Cog
86
Blue Orchid - The White Stripes
85
Emily Kane - Art Brut
84
Funny Little Frog - Belle and Sebstian
83
Daft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD Soundsystem
82
Stuff and Nonsense - Missy Higgins
81
We Can't Hear You - The Herd
80
Divorcee by 23 - Claire Bowditch
79
Shutterspeed - Karnivool
78
Disintegration - Jimmy Eat World
77
The Fallen - Franz Ferdinand
76
Hey Now Now - Cloud Room
75
Radio/Video - System Of A Down
74
Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park
73
Get Out Give In - Expatriate
72
Mylo Vs Miami Sound Machine - Doctor Pressure
71
Hand On Your Heart - Jose Gonzalez
70
Fucking the Exhibits - Faker
69
Neighbourhood #2 - Arcade Fire
68
A Distinctive Sound - Gotye
67
Hounds Of Love - The Futureheads
66
Leaders of the Free World - Elbow
65
Off The Record - My Morning Jacket
64
Two Shoes - The Cat Empire
63
We Are Mapping Your Dreams - Laura
62
Over - Jimmy Eat World
61
Destroy Everyhting You Touch - Ladytron
60
Soul Meets Body - Death Cab For Cutie
59
The Denial Twist - The White Stripes
58
Dirty Harry - Gorillaz
57
Forget Myself - Elbow
56
America Fuck Yeah - Team America
55
Don't Save Us From The Flames - M83
54
Walk Away - Franz Ferdinand
53
Gong - Sigur Ros
52
Tribulations - LCD Soundsystem
51
Lost In The Plot - The Dears
50
An Honest Mistake - The Bravery
49
Ariadne - Laura
48
You Kill Me - Bertie Blackman
47
Girl - Beck
46
Party Started - The Cat Empire
45
Shark Fin Blues - The Drones
44
Saeglopur - Sigur Ros
43
I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
42
Ashes - The Beautiful Girls
41
Beware Wolf - Gyroscope
40
The Fighter - After The Fall
39
Always Worth It - Sarah Blasko
38
Blue Light - Bloc Party
37
Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
36
Middle of the Hill - Josh Pyke
35
Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand
34
Hurricane - Faker
33
Andy Warhol - Love Outside Andromeda {Like A Version}
32
Graffiti - Maximo Park
31
I Was Only 19 - The Herd
30
Hypnotise - System Of A Down
29
Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros
28
Tightrope Walker - Epicure
27
Helicopter - Bloc Party
26
Fix You - Coldplay
25
The Sound of White - Missy Higgins
24
Wake Up - Arcade Fire
23
In My Head - Queens of the Stone Age
22
I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab For Cutie
21
Flame Trees - Sarah Blasko
20
Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
19
Positive Tension - Bloc Party
18
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
A nice #1 (even if it only got to 27 in my list), our #4 and #6 match, and nice to see the Go-Betweens in the Top 10 one last time before Grant McLennan's sad passing the following year.
Not to take it back to 1993 but after seeing a Triple J ad from tue 1994 year end the music being played was The Key: The secret. Were they played on JJJ? It looks like they may have been.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky9IKe-vsCY The 3:15 mark is the ad I am referring too. Also uses Boom! Shake the Room. I doubt JJJ would be promoting either artist if they weren't on their playlists.
I am surprised that neither song could crack the Hottest 100 in a pop heavy year and a song like Deep could. Even Shoop, Somewhere and Boom-shackalacka made it. It does seem odd that this is the case.
Just letting you all know that I have revised my 1998 list, based on new discoveries since the list was first created 18 months ago. It is in the original post. I will be doing the same to 1999 once the actual Hottest 100 of that year is replayed on Double J on the 27th *plug* , as well as attempting to expand my 1993-97 lists to 200 songs and revising those. Eventually I will also look at 2000-05, but not for a while yet.
A quick glance over the 1993 voting list and I could identify these songs were on the official voting list.
I have included the ones I could figure out and left blanks for the others which someone might be able to add if they know. Being in alphabetical order might help. I have included words I could figure out.
1st Column Aboriginal Woman - Mixed Relations Accidently Kelly Street - Frente Acid Rain - Tumbleweed Adam’s Rib - You Am I Ain’t No Love Ain’t No Use - Sub Sub Alive & Brilliant - Deborah Conway All That She Wants - Ace Of Base Animal Nitrate - Suede Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz Asshole - Denis Leary
Baby - Barefoot Baby For You - Cleopatra Wong Beautiful Girl - INXS Beauty & Danger - Killjoys Before - Caligula Believe - Lenny Kravitz Bi - Living Color Big Gun - AC/DC Black Stick - Cruel Sea Boom Shack-a-Lak - Apache Indian Bootyfull - Skunkhour Brothers & Sisters - Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers Bullet In The Head - Rage Against The Machine Byrralku Dhangudha (Great Southern Land) - Icehouse
Can I Get Over - Definition Of Sound Can You Forgive Her - Pet Shop Boys Can’t Do A Thing (To Stop Me) - Chris Isaak Candy Everybody Wants - 10,000 Maniacs Cannonball - Breeders Cantaloop - US3 C Cat’s In The Cradle - Ugly Kid Joe Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins Choppers - Headless Chickens Connected - Stereo MC’s Constant Craving - KD Lang Crazy Birds - Not Drowning Waving Creep - Radiohead Cupid - JC.001
Deep - East 17 Deep Forest - Deep Forest Delicate - Terence Trent D’arby Delivery Man - Cruel Sea Detachable Penis - King Missile Different Colours - Lucky Dube Distant Sun - Crowded House Dixie Drug Store - Grant Lee Buffalo Do It - Swoop Do You Love Me Like You Say - Terence Trent D’arby Don’t Tell Me What To Do - Baby Animals Dream All Day - The Posies Dreams - Gabrielle Dreams Of Heaven - Ground Level Dyslexic Heart - Paul Westerberg
Easy - Faith No More Ebeneezer Goode - Shamen Erotica - Madonna Everybody Hurts - REM
Feed The Tree - Belly Fiesta - Falling Joys ***Foolish - For Tomorrow - Blur Form One Planet - Rockmelons Freak Me - Silk Free Your Mind - En Vogue Freedom - Kev Carmody Friday I’m In Love - The Cure Friday’s Child - Wendy Matthews ***F ***Fun Funky Junky - Peter Andre
Gangsta - Bell Biv Devoe Get A Haircut - George Thorogood Get Me - Dinosaur Jr Gloria - Van Morrison Go - Pearl Jam Go West - Pet Shop Boys
2nd Column ***G Green Limousine - The Badloves
Happy Birthday Helen - Things Of Stone & Wood ***H Headaround - Died Pretty Heal It Up - Concrete Blonde Heal The World - Michael Jackson Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana Hip Hop Hooray - Naughty By Nature Hits From The Bong - Cypress Hill Holy Grail - Hunters & Collectors ***Holy House Of Love - East 17 Human Behaviour - Bjork
I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore - Divinyls I Feel You - Depeche Mode I Held Her In My Arms - Violent Femmes I Put A Spell On You - Bryan Ferry I Wanna Get High - Cypress Hill If - Janet Jackson If I Had No Loot - TTT In The Morning - Boom Crash Opera Informer - Snow Insane In The Brain - Cypress Hill Is It Like Today? - World Party Is This Love - Radio Freedom It Keeps Rainin - Bitty McLean It’s A Shame About Ray - Lemonheads
Jessie - Paw Jesus Was Way Cool - King Missile Jimmy Olsen’s Blues - Spin Doctors Juice - Headless Chickens
Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine
Last Train - Christine Anu & Paul Kelly Layla - Eric Clapton Lemon - U2 Let Me Be Your Underwear - Club 69 Lights Out At Eleven - Baby Animals Linger - Cranberries Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong - Spin Doctors Livin’ On The Edge - Aerosmith Love Sees No Colour - U96 Lost - The Badloves Love U More - Sunscream ***Love
Man On The Moon - REM ***M Monday’s Experts - Weddings Parties Anything ***Movin’ Mr Vain - Culture Beat Mr Wendal - Arrested Development Mrs Robinson - Lemonheads My Country - Midnight Oil My Sister - The Juliana Hatfield Three ***M ***M
Nearly Lost You- The Screaming Jets Never Miss Your Water - Diesel Nights Of The Wolverine - Dave Graney & The Coral Snakes No Rain - Blind Melon No Time - Frente Nothingness - Living Color Numb - U2
Oh Carolina - Shaggy One More From The City - Sound Unlimited Only - Anthrax Open Your Mind - Usura Outbreak Of Love - Midnight Oil
People Everyday - Arrested Development Persuasion - Tim Finn Pets - Porno For Pyros Plush - Stone Temple Pilots ***P ***P Push Th’ Little Daisies - Ween
Rain - Madonna Re-invent Yourself - DIG Regret - New Order Rock This Boat - Things Of Stone & Wood Rooster - Alice In Chains
Column 3 Rubberband Girl - Kate Bush Rump Shaker - Wreckx N Effect Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
Satellite - Icehouse ***S Scratch My Back - Sharp ***S ***S Serve The Servants - Nirvana ***S Seven - Prince Sex Type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots She Kissed Me - Terence Trent D’arby Shivers - Screaming Jets Shock To The System - Billy Idol Shoop - Salt N Pepa ***S Sister Havana - Urge Overkill Sleepy Head - Ed Kuepper Sober - Tool ***S ***S Something Good - Utah Saints Somewhere - Efua Soul To Squeeze - RHCP Space Time Disco - Def FX ***S ***S ***Start ("Forbidden You don't have permission to access /forum.asp on this server." every time I include the song title for this one) - Dinosaur Jr Steam - Peter Gabriel Step It Up - Stereo MC’s Stone Me Into The Groove - Atomic Swing *** Sundial - Tumbleweed Sweat - Inner Circle Sweet Lullaby - Deep Forest
Taillights Fade - Buffalo Tom Taste It - INXS Tease Me - Chaka Demus & Pliers Tennessee- Arrested Development That’s The Way Love Goes - Janet Jackson The Day You Went Away - Wendy Matthews The Drowners - Suede The Floor - Johnny Gill The Gift - INXS The Hitman - AB Logic The Honeymoon Is Over - Cruel Sea The Right Decision - Jesus Jones The Right Time - Hoodoo Gurus The Ship Song - Nick Cave ***T ***T This Isn’t Love - Boom Crash Opera Three Little Pigs - Green Jelly ***T Too Young To Die - Jamiroquai Train Of Thought - Sharp Tribal Dance - 2 Unlimited Trout - Neneh Cherry/Michael Stipe True Tears Of Joy - Hunters & Collectors Truganini - Midnight Oil
West End Girls - East 17 ***W ***W We The People - Hunters & Collectors What If I Came Knocking - John Mellencamp What’s Up - 4 Non Blondes Wherever I May Roam - Metallica ***W Wild America - Iggy Pop W ***W World Turning - Yothu Yindi Would? - Alice In Chains
You Ain’t Thinking About Me - Sonia Dada You Don’t Treat Me No Good - Sonia Dada You’re Just Too Hip Baby - Dave Graney You’re So Vain - Chocolate Starfish Young Dumb & Ugly - Weird Al
311 - Prisoner Diana Ah Naid - I Go Off Almighty Ultrasound - Christmas At Brandos Alpha - Sometime Later Ambersunshower - Running Song Ammonia - You’re Not The Only One Apache Indian - Lovin’ (Let Me Love You) Apollo Four Forty - Ain’t Talkin Bout Dub Arkarna - Eat Me Arkarna - Future’s Overrated Artificial Joy Club - Sick & Beautiful Natasha Atlas - Amulet Automatic - Five Bean - Letterman Beasts Of Bourbon - Saturated Beaverloop - Nothing Beck - Deadweight Bellicose - Candlestick Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf... Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentley’s Gonna Sort You Out Big Heavy Stuff - May Bjork - Joga Black Grape - Get Higher Blackeyed Susans - Smokin’ Johnny Cash Blackout - Gotta Have Hope Blekbala Mujik - Walking Together Blink 182 - Dammit Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn Bloodhound Gang - Why’s Everybody Always Pickin’ On Me Blue Boy - Remember Me Bluebottle Kiss - Generic Teen Blur - MOR Blur - Song 2 CJ Bolland - Sugar Is Sweeter Boo Boo & Mace - Flowers In The Sky David Bowie - Little Wonder Brad - Lift Brainbug - Nightmare Brand New Heavies - Sometimes Brethren - Slingshot Bush - Greedy Fly Cactus Child - Fall ‘97 Cake - I Will Survive ***Campus – If (I think) Cardigans - Lovefool Cast - Free Me Cat - Four Leaf Clover (I’ve Made Up My Mind) Nick Cave - Into My Arms Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin’ Beats Chumbawamba - Tubthumping Coldcut - I’m Wild About That Thing Imani Coppola - Legend Of A Cowgirl Cordrazine - Crazy
column 2 (something in this list is giving me the forbidden error message) Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha Crowded House - Instinct The Crystal Method - Busy Child The Cure - Wrong Number Custard - Anatomically Correct Daft Punk - Da Funk Death In Vegas - Dirt Depeche Mode - Barrel Of A Gun Depeche Mode - Useless Dinosaur Jr - Take A Run At The Sun Tanya Donelly - Pretty Deep Drop City - Living In The Machine The Dumb Earth - I Closed My Eyes And A Truck Came Through The Window The Earthman - Whoever’s Been Using This Bed ? Bunnymen (forbidden message) Effigy - I Give In Endorphin - Solar Flare Eta - Casual Sub (Burning Speak) Even - I Have Nothing Everclear - Everything To Everyone Everclear - So Much For The Afterglow Faithless - Don’t Leave Faith No More - Ashes To Ashes Faith No More - Stripsearch The Fauves - Don’t Get Death Threats Anymore The Fauves - Sunbury ‘97 Filter & The Crystal Method - Can’t You Trip Like I Do Flanders – Anky Fremp Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench Forest For The Trees - Dream Fountains Of Wayne - Radiation Vibe Framing Watson – Phenomenal S**t Frente - What’s Come Over Me Front End Loader - Pulse Garbage - #1 Crush ***G - Theme From Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Patio Song Dave Graney - Feelin’ Kinda Sporty Green Day - Hitchin’ A Ride Grinspoon - DCx3 Grinspoon - Post Enebriated Anxiety Grinspoon - Repeat Ben Harper - Faded Headless Chickens - George Hot Rollers - Wickerman’s Shoes Janet Jackson - Got ‘Til It’s Gone Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye James - She’s A Star Jamiroquai - Alright Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl
3rd column Jebediah - Leaving Home Jebediah - Military Strongmen Karma County - Postcard Paul Kelly - Tease Me Kiva - Eternity Born Knievel - Something Good Must Come DJ Kool - Let Me Clear My Throat Korn - ADIDAS Lamb - Gorecki Robyn Loau - Sick With Love Lard - I Wanna Be A Drug Sniffing Dog Ben Lee - Career Choice Lemonheads - Outdoor Type Leonardo’s Bride - So Brand New Life Of Agony - Weeds Linoleum - On A Tuesday Live - Freaks Live - Lakini's Juice Live - Turn My Head The Living End - From Here On In The Living End - Prisoner Of Society LL Cool J - Phenomenon Local H - Bound For The Floor Lor’ds Garden - Morning Light Love Me - Got You On My Mind Dana Lyons - Cows With Guns Machine Gun Fellatio - Isaac Or Fuzz Manbreak - Ready Or Not Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People Mark Of Cain - Degenerate Boy Mark Of Cain - The Contender The Mavis’s - Naughty Boy Metallica - Memory Remains Midnight Oil - White Skin Black Heart Moby - James Bond Theme Moler - Infatuation Moler - Invite Me To Your Party Monaco - Sweet Lips Mono - Life On Mono Morphine - Early To Bed Mr Blonde - Blow Up Mr Blonde - Heaven My Drug Hell - Girl At The Bus Stop Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug Non Intentional Lifeform - Living Or Existing Nuno - Crave Odds - Someone Who's Cool The Offspring - I Choose Olive - You’re Not Alone Orb - Toxygene Beth Orton - She Cries Your Name Pangaea - Boys Pangaea - Smile Pauline Pantsdown - Back Door Man Pendulum - Coma
4th Column Pennywise - Society Pollyanna - Peachy Keen Portishead - All Mine Powderfinger - JC Primal Scream - Star Primus - Shake Hands With Beef Prodigy - Funky Shit Propellerheads - Take California Finley Quaye - Sunday Shining Radiohead - Karma Police Radiohead - Paranoid Android Rage Against The Machine - The Ghost Of Tom Joad Raggadeath - Dance With The Devil Raggadeath - Electric Avenue (is what it looks like - band is correct) Rail - I Am Awake Rami - Always On My Mind Rebecca’s Empire - Way Of All Things Red Hot Chili Peppers - Love Rollercoaster Reef - Place Your Hands Reef - Summer’s In Bloom Reef - Yer Old Regurgitator - Phenomenon Regurgitator - Everyday Formula Archie Roach - Beggar Man Screamfeeder – Static Mark Seymour - Last Ditch Cabaret DJ Shadow - High Noon Shihad - La La Land Shock Poets - Love And Live A Lie Sidewinder - Here She Comes Again Sidewinder - Titanic Days Silverchair - Abuse Me Silverchair - Freak Silverchair - The Door Skeleton Key – Watch The Fat Man Swing Skunkhour - Breathing Through My Eyes Skunkhour - Weightlessness Skunk Anansie - Twisted Slacker - Scared Smash Mouth - Walkin’ On The Sun Smashing Pumpkins - The End Is The... Smoke City - Mr Gorgeous Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar Snout - Hey Hey Hey Snout - Winning Smile Jill Sobule - Bitter Sol Brothers - That Elvis Track Something For Kate - Captain (Million Miles An Hour) Something For Kate - Prick DJ Soup - A Thing Of Beauty Soundgarden - Bleed Together Space - Female Of The Species Spain - Every Time I Try
5th Column Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Chicken Dog Spiderbait - Calypso Spiderbait - Joyce’s Hut Spiritualized - Electricity Sublime - Wrong Way Sugar Ray - Fly The Sundays - Summertime Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky The Superjesus - Down Again The Superjesus - Saturation Super Discount – The Boss Has Gone Mad Quindon Tarver - Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen The Tea Party - Temptation Teenage Fanclub - Sparky's Dream They Might Be Giants - New York City They Might Be Giants – S-E-X-X-Y Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life Tiddas – Walk Alone TISM - Yob Tomorrow People - Bloodsuckee Tomorrow People - Proof Tonic - Casual Affair Tool - Forty Six And 2 Matthew Trapnell – The Pusher Tumbleweed – Gonna Make You U2 - Discotheque U2 - Mofo Underground Lovers - Jumbled In A Common Box Underground Lovers - Starsigns ***V - Candlelight The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony The Verve - The Drugs Don’t Work Wannadies - You And Me Song Ween - Mutilated Lips Ween - Waving My Dick In The Wind White Town - Your Woman The Whitlams - No Aphrodisiac Wicked Beat Sound System - Local MP ***W - Sex (last word looks like it says sex) You Am I - Cats & Dogs You Am I - Trike Yummy Fur - Life
I keep getting a forbidden error message when I post the last column of the 1993 list and that happens if I edit the post above or start a new post so I will post letter by letter as there are a few songs I haven't figured out however am confident I am correct with the songs I have figured out.
Looking at 100% Hits Volume 7, 8 and 9 were helpful and it's interesting that almost 15/18 songs from each volume are included in the voting list. Hit Machine Volumes 1, 2 and 3 as well as Sweat It Out weren't as evident but still a good 50% represented from each edition. A handful of 100% Hits Volume 6 songs were also featured. One song that appears absent and featured on 100% Hits Volume 7 and one of the few songs not included from the compilation is Sleeping Satellite by Tasmin Archer.
The songs I haven't figured out I have left a space for them if someone else has a chance to fill in the blanks. The forbidden message appears to have something to do with this post so I will post in small blocks.
Start Chopin - Dinosaur Jr Steam - Peter Gabriel Step It Up - Stereo MC’s Stone Me Into The Groove - Atomic Swing S Sundial - Tumbleweed Sweat - Inner Circle Sweet Lullaby - Deep Forest
Baby For You - Cleopatra Wong Crazy Birds - Not Drowning Waving Dreams Of Heaven - Ground Level Hits From The Bong - Cypress Hill I Put A Spell On You - Bryan Ferry (not sure of the artist but he had a 1993 version) Let Me Be Your Underwear - Club 69
Some insights/observations from what I can see: -The Forbidden message is to do with the Dinosaur Jr song title by the looks of it.
-DJ Jazzy Jeff isn't included despite being used in one of their ads.
-Funky Junky is on the list however, Gimme Little Sign is not!
-Give Into Me not on the list either despite MJ & Guns n Roses being featured in previous lists and one MJ included in this list!
-No Guns n Roses songs (Civil War or Yesterdays were releases in 1993)
-Two Princes appears absent which is a surprise especially as Little Miss features and a song of theirs I am not familiar with called Jimmy Olsen's Shoes.
-The Crying Game is also absent from the voting list!
-No The Key The Secret either (another song which featured on a Triple J advertisement).
-The absence of late '93 releases indicates Voting List cut off appears to be October 1993 as it features late 1992 hits with the likes of Arrested Development, Wendy Matthews, Utah Saints, Divinyls, Madonna and Frente. This might explain why The Weight and Tears Of A Clown are also absent from the list. Got To Get It is another that is missing.
-The Day I Went Away & Friday's Child both feature however If Only I Could does not and one of 4 songs from 100% Hits Volume 8 missing from the list!
-Looking at 100% Hits Volume 7, 8 and 9 were helpful and it's interesting that almost 15/18 songs from each volume are included in the voting list. Hit Machine Volumes 1, 2 and 3 as well as Sweat It Out weren't as evident but still a good 50% represented from each edition. A handful of 100% Hits Volume 6 songs were also featured. One song that appears absent and featured on 100% Hits Volume 7 and one of the few songs not included from the compilation is Sleeping Satellite by Tasmin Archer.
-With all the pop inclusion and almost the whole 100% Hits volume 7 included, Charles & Eddie is not on the list!
-No Bon Jovi for a station that had a large rock following.
-No Jimmy Barnes for an Aussie Rocker and having two solid hits with Sweat It Out and Stone Cold.
-No John Farnham and his song Seemed Like A Good Idea which featured the crew from ABC's The Late Show.
-Jump Around made the Hottest 100 but is not on the voting list!
-PM Dawn also doesn't appear on the Voting list!
-Only one RHCP's song on the list!
-Inner Circle don't appear with Bad Boys.
-Snow features with Informer however fails to appear with the lesser known Girl I've Been Hurt and is one of a handful songs missing from the list from 100% Hits Volume 9.
-Erotica and Rain by Madonna appear but no Deeper & Deeper or Bye Bye Baby. Last edited:
Wow - thanks again K8! Keep that 1993 voting list coming along. Hopefully someone can find 1994-96 and 1998.
I've been looking closer at the 1997 list and can fill in some of the blanks from A-E: Almighty Ultrasound - Christmas At Brandos Ambersunshower - Running Song Natacha Atlas - Amulet Bellicose - Candlestick Brad - Lift Brand New Heavies - Sometimes Brethren - Slingshot Crystal Method - Busy Child Death In Vegas - GBH Depeche Mode - Barrel Of A Gun Depeche Mode - Useless Dinosaur Jr - Take A Run At The Sun Tanya Donnelly - Pretty Deep Drop City - Living In The Machine The Dumb Earth - I Closed My Eyes And A Brick Came Through The Window The Earthmen - Whoever's Been Using This Bed Echo and The Bunnymen - I Want To Be There When You Come Effigy - I Give In Endorphin - Solar Flare Eta - Casual Sub (Burning Speak) Even - I Have Nothing Everclear - Everything To Everyone Everclear - So Much For The Afterglow
It's amazing that there were only 254 songs on the list, with several of them being 1996 'hangovers'.
I don't think any song titles trigger the 'Forbidden' error, rather I think it's a bandwidth problem/too many people logging in problem. Anyway, one way around it is to replace 'www.australian-charts.com' with 'www.hitparade.ch' and do your post on Steffen Hung's sister site. And thanks for the heads up that it’s been an issue today
I edited the 1997 post above. The forbidden message is to do with the Bunnymen song so make sure you add that one as I excluded it. It goes above Effigy.
1997 Main observations include: - Not as pop heavy as 1993 voting list.
- Daft Punk features with Da Funk but not with Around The World.
- Faithless features with Don't Leave but not Insomnia
- Leonardo's Bride features with So Brand New but not with Even When I'm Sleeping or Buddah Baby
- The Offspring features with I Choose but not with Gone Away
- Foo Fighters feature with Monkey Wrench but not Everlong
- Oasis look absent from voting list with all 1997 releases which is interesting considering they had the #1 song for the 1995 Countdown.
- U2 don't appear in voting list with Staring At The Sun and some other 1997 releases.
- Kylie is not on the voting list despite making the countdown with Did It Again. Both Some Kind Of Bliss and Breathe featured on different volumes of an Indie Compilation at the time consisting of all Indie songs which pretty much all made the Hottest 100 countdown.
- Gala's Freed From Desire which I first heard on JJJ and instantly fell in love with is missing from the list! This is where I ask the question if any song that featured with the Wild FM series had been excluded for some reason. MIght explain things for Around the World, Insomnia and Meet Her At The Love Parade. Even Jellyhead had a punk feel to it!
I always wondered how a song like Barbie Girl would have faired especially as Aussies like the gimmick/novelty songs. Last edited:
Knievel - Something Good Must Come Lamb - Gorecki (an awesome song BTW) Lord's Garden - Morning Light Morphene - Early To Bed Mr Blonde - Blow Up Mr Blonde - Heaven Non Intentional Lifeform - Living Or Existing The Orb - Toxygene
Yeah, I think the overt pop songs mainly disappeared after 1994, with a few exceptions.
Surprised Gone Away wasn't on the 1997 voting list, but it must have been on the 1998 list, coming in at #62 that year (should have been higher than Pretty Fly).
Interesting that Kylie wasn't on the voting list considering she made the 1994 and 1995 countdowns, yet still came in at #81 in the 1997 coundown.
Insomnia is a strange one. It was actually released in album format in 1995 (which is where it'll be in my lists), but not released as a single until 1997. That time discrepancy didn't stop JJJ then so strange not to see it anywhere.
And even though Be Here Now was released in 1997, and as you say, Oasis topped the 1995 Hottest 100, it was very strange not to see them in the 1997 list. I know Be Here Now isn't very highly regarded, but jeez, they must really have been on the nose.
Forgot to mention that the www.hitparade.ch site is in German, sorry . My Year 9 German is just good enough to navigate around it, but if you enter the English version of the thread you want to edit first, then type in 'www.hitparade.ch', and remember that the login and password windows are in the same place, you should be ok.
Benj, did you know there was a voting scandal in the 1994 Hottest 100? I think I got the gist of it where fans campaigned in the hopes to get a certain song to the #1 spot however, only managed to get it in the sixties in a time when voting pins per song and unlimited voting from fans was quite possible. The song is called Lemon Sparked and wasn't even tipped to make the top 100. I had never heard this before.
Found a few more unknowns from the 1997 voting list: Blekbala Mujik - Walking Together Boo Boo & Mace - Flowers In The Sky Cactus Child – Fall ‘97 Kiva - Eternity Born Nuno - Crave Screamfeeder - Static (confirmed) Wannadies - You And Me Song
....and that 1997 voting list has proved to be useful, as it transpires that there are several 1996 releases on it.
It has helped me extend my 1996 Hottest list to 200. I will post the revised #200-101 shortly in the original 1996 post above, followed by #100-11 tomorrow, then the Top 10 from Tuesday.
I think when I first did the 1996 list, I paid the original 1996 Hottest 100 list too much respect. So there will be many changes.
Like most people here I will be going into 2020 list compilation mode now that it's December, but I will also keep working on the 1993 list. Thanks to K8's and OBOne's detective work on the 1993 Hottest 100 voting list pic my shortlist for 1993 is much more advanced than it otherwise would have been.
After that, I'm planning keep going back, and posting versions of my 1975-92 Hottest 100s (in a new thread this time) based solely on my own preference, while tweaking and archiving the predictive ones in the current thread.
Wow, we're finally gotten some of the pre-2000 voting lists. Awesome.
A couple of songs I could make out on K8's post.
*The 'Beauty &' song is Beauty & Danger by Killjoys *The 'Booty' song is Bootyfull by Skunkhour *The 'Cupid' song is by JC-001. *Under 'Detachable Penis' is Different Colours One People by Lucky Dube. *Don't Walk Away by Jade is actually Dream All Day by the Posies. *The 'Silent' song by Paul Westerberg looks more like Dyslexic Heart. *The Falling Joys song starting with F is Fiesta!
This posting Top indie songs of 1993 looks like a lark. I will have a go at it too...
Tonight at 6pm-ish will be #200-101 (where the original list was at the top of this thread) Then #100-21 7am tomorrow morning (Tues 30/3) #20-11 tomorrow evening (from about 6pm, two at a time) #10-6 Wednesday evening (~6pm, one at a time) #5-1 Thursday evening (one at a time)
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It was really Grunge's last big year, while it was Britpop's first big one.
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Still warms the heart even if it isn't Christmas.
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I'm not a fan and that's being nice 
. My Year 9 German is just good enough to navigate around it, but if you enter the English version of the thread you want to edit first, then type in 'www.hitparade.ch', and remember that the login and password windows are in the same place, you should be ok.