Rearrange the Triple J Hottest 100 top 10

[JackOutback]

As the title says, I'll post the top 10 for a particular year's Hottest 100 and rearrange from best to worst with the benefit of hindsight. Feel free to name your preferred number one or greatest snub. The first year is 1997, as that was what I was listening to this morning. The top 10 as voted at the time was...

No Aphrodisiac - The Whitlams
Song 2 - Blur
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Back Door Man - Pauline Pantsdown
Dammit - Blink-182
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
Karma Police - Radiohead
Leaving Home - Jebediah

 

[james Dean]

Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Karma Police - Radiohead
No Aphrodisiac - The Whitlams
Dammit - Blink-182
Song 2 - Blur
The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
Leaving Home - Jebediah
Back Door Man - Pauline Pantsdown
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba

 

[JackOutback]

Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Karma Police - Radiohead
No Aphrodisiac - The Whitlams
Dammit - Blink-182
Song 2 - Blur
The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
Leaving Home - Jebediah
Back Door Man - Pauline Pantsdown
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba

I almost don't have to make my list, just a few tweaks in the bottom half for me.

Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Karma Police - Radiohead
No Aphrodisiac - The Whitlams
Dammit - Blink-182
Leaving Home - Jebediah
Song 2 - Blur
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
Back Door Man - Pauline Pantsdown

Biggest snub, Everlong didn't even make the 100, but would easily fit into my top 10.

 

[thewitness]

Obviously this rank is by my personal preference and not a rank of popularity that the H100 is.
No Aphrodisiac - The Whitlams
Dammit - Blink-182
Leaving Home - Jebediah
Song 2 - Blur
Karma Police - Radiohead
The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
Back Door Man - Pauline Pantsdown
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba

 

[PhatBoy]

Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Leaving Home - Jebediah
Karma Police - Radiohead
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
No Aphrodisiac - The Whitlams
(Controversial)
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
Dammit - Blink 182
Song 2 - Blur
Back Door Man - Pauline Pantsdown
Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson

I actually don’t mind Tubthumping. It’s simple and it is, for all intents and purposes, shit. But it is, to me, louts, lads, beer, fun. Things I associate with a good time.

 

[JackOutback]

I actually don’t mind Tubthumping. It’s simple and it is, for all intents and purposes, shit. But it is, to me, louts, lads, beer, fun. Things I associate with a good time.

I tend to agree; I was listening to this hottest 100 the other day and I didn't mind the song when it came on. I think the fact it was picked up by mainstream media and thrashed to death, as well as its very high ranking, contributed to it becoming something of a joke. Also, Chumbawamba never followed up on it with another hit as big, so it became something of a footnote. If it had finished at 10 or 11, I don't think it would have the negative reputation it does now.

Interestingly, the band didn't take off because their sound is generally the opposite of radio friendly, being an anarcho punk pop band. You can hear definitely hear some of that in Tubthumping. And, of course, it sounds like a fun party song even if it's not about that.

 

[PhatBoy]

I tend to agree; I was listening to this hottest 100 the other day and I didn't mind the song when it came on. I think the fact it was picked up by mainstream media and thrashed to death, as well as its very high ranking, contributed to it becoming something of a joke. Also, Chumbawamba never followed up on it with another hit as big, so it became something of a footnote. If it had finished at 10 or 11, I don't think it would have the negative reputation it does now.

Interestingly, the band didn't take off because their sound is generally the opposite of radio friendly, being an anarcho punk pop band. You can hear definitely hear some of that in Tubthumping. And, of course, it sounds like a fun party song even if it's not about that.

1000 per cent this.

At Oasis the other week I actually thought to myself at one point when I was having a beer before the concert outside the stadium and all the Britpop stuff was playing at ear splitting levels and everyone was just having the time of their lives ‘Tubthumping would probably be a perfect song for right now, or a Supergrass song.’

 

[JackOutback]

2010

Big Jet Plane - Angus & Julia Stone
Rock It - Little Red
Dance The Way I Feel - Ou est le Swimming Pool
Plans - Birds of Tokyo
Fall At Your Feet - Boy & Bear
Teenage Crime - Adrian Lux
**** You - CeeLo Green
Tokyo - The Wombats
Magic Fountain - Art vs Science
Somebody to Love Me - Mark Ronson

This one is more difficult. While the 90s Hottest 100s feel like they are full of bangers with the odd comedy song, this feels like it has less songs that have stood the test of time and some I can't even remember. Some of it is nostalgia as the 90s were my musical formative years, but I still love new music and don't subscribe to the idea that all new stuff sucks.

 

[james Dean]

What a shit top 10, I had completely forgotten about that Fall at Your Feet cover

**** You - CeeLo Green
Dance The Way I Feel - Ou est le Swimming Pool
Somebody to Love Me - Mark Ronson
Tokyo - The Wombats
Big Jet Plane - Angus & Julia Stone
Rock It - Little Red
Teenage Crime - Adrian Lux
Plans - Birds of Tokyo
Fall At Your Feet - Boy & Bear
Magic Fountain - Art vs Science

 

[JackOutback]

Very surprised to see the CeeLo Green love. Listening to it, I thought it was still a good break-up song, even if the vocals are a bit whiney. But thought most would have it much lower. I agree, it's a bog average top 10, some songs completely unremarkable. Magic Fountain is a poor dance track and even though it's not my cup of tea, Barbara Streisand was right there at number 15. Also, Fall at your Feet is a great song and Boy & Bear give it their own twist but I personally hate Like a Versions in the top 10 of the Hottest 100. Padding it out is fine, but there's enough good original music to fill a top 10. Anyway, my top 10...

Dance The Way I Feel - Ou est le Swimming Pool
Rock It - Little Red
Tokyo - The Wombats
**** You - CeeLo Green
Somebody to Love Me - Mark Ronson
Plans - Birds of Tokyo
Big Jet Plane - Angus & Julia Stone
Teenage Crime - Adrian Lux
Fall At Your Feet - Boy & Bear
Magic Fountain - Art vs Science

Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National and Arcade Fire at 58 and 64 with The Suburbs and Ready to Start pretty wild misses for mine. Those two bands almost define that era for me.

 

[thewitness]

Magic Fountain - Art vs Science
Dance The Way I Feel - Ou est le Swimming Pool
Rock It - Little Red
Plans - Birds of Tokyo
Fall At Your Feet - Boy & Bear
Big Jet Plane - Angus & Julia Stone
Somebody to Love Me - Mark Ronson
Teenage Crime - Adrian Lux (I didn't remember this well enough and had to re-listen)
**** You - CeeLo Green
Tokyo - The Wombats

The Boy & Bear song wasn't a "Like A Version" it was from the He Will Have His Way Finn Brothers Tribute album.

 

[Loonerty]

2010

Big Jet Plane - Angus & Julia Stone
Rock It - Little Red
Dance The Way I Feel - Ou est le Swimming Pool
Plans - Birds of Tokyo
Fall At Your Feet - Boy & Bear
Teenage Crime - Adrian Lux
**** You - CeeLo Green
Tokyo - The Wombats
Magic Fountain - Art vs Science
Somebody to Love Me - Mark Ronson

This one is more difficult. While the 90s Hottest 100s feel like they are full of bangers with the odd comedy song, this feels like it has less songs that have stood the test of time and some I can't even remember. Some of it is nostalgia as the 90s were my musical formative years, but I still love new music and don't subscribe to the idea that all new stuff sucks.

Magic Fountain - Art vs Science
Tokyo - The Vampires
Teenage Crime - Adrian Lux
Rock It - Little Red
Dance The Way I Feel - Ou est le Swimming Pool (this would have stood the test of time had it not been for the singer's passing I reckon)
Plans - Birds of Tokyo
Somebody to Love Me - Mark Ronson
**** You - CeeLo Green
Fall At Your Feet - Boy & Bear
Big Jet Plane - Angus & Julia Stone

 

[JackOutback]

Dance The Way I Feel - Ou est le Swimming Pool (this would have stood the test of time had it not been for the singer's passing I reckon)

This was played on JJJ the other day, it's still around.

 

[JackOutback]

1998

Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring
Cigarettes Will Kill You - Ben Lee
Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us) - Custard
Celebrity Skin - Hole
Got the Life - Korn
! (The Song Formerly Known As ) - Regurgitator
Harpoon - Jebediah
The Day You Come - Powderfinger
Heavy Heart - You Am I
Save The Day - The Living End

 

[thewitness]

Heavy Heart - You Am I
Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us) - Custard
The Day You Come - Powderfinger
Harpoon - Jebediah
Got the Life - Korn
! (The Song Formerly Known As ) - Regurgitator
Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring
Save The Day - The Living End
Cigarettes Will Kill You - Ben Lee
Celebrity Skin - Hole

 

[JackOutback]

Cigarettes Will Kill You - Ben Lee
The Day You Come - Powderfinger
Celebrity Skin - Hole
! (The Song Formerly Known As ) - Regurgitator
Heavy Heart - You Am I
Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring
Save The Day - The Living End
Harpoon - Jebediah
Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us) - Custard
Got the Life - Korn

Cigarettes Will Kill You holds up very well and would have been a deserving number one. Good year for Aussie music with Lee, Powderfinger, You Am I, Gurg, Living End, Jebediah and Custard. Don't think Pretty Fly is a horrible song, just landing at number one increased the criticism to the point it's considered a complete joke. I like that Custard were going for something different, but it just isn't a particularly good song.

Some pretty wild misses with No Surprises by Radiohead and Given to Fly by Pearl Jam in the 50s, both would sit in my top 10.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

1997
Paranoid Android - Radiohead
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Leaving Home - Jebediah
Dammit - Blink-182
Karma Police - Radiohead
No Aphrodisiac - The Whitlams
Song 2 - Blur
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
Back Door Man - Pauline Pantsdown
The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson

A very strong ten for the most part. Pauline Pantsdown feels out of place (should've stuck with the one song really) and MM just isn't my thing at all.

1998
The Day You Come - Powderfinger
Harpoon - Jebediah
Heavy Heart - You Am I
Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us) - Custard
Celebrity Skin - Hole
Cigarettes Will Kill You - Ben Lee
Save The Day - The Living End
! (The Song Formerly Known As ) - Regurgitator
Got the Life - Korn
Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring

Tough one to rank. Not a terrible ten, but nothing that really stands out at #1. Pretty Fly would've basically been the Thrift Shop of that year. A dumb novelty song that became popular at the right time, but most were sick of it by the time the countdown rolled around.

2010
Dance The Way I Feel - Ou est le Swimming Pool
Tokyo - The Wombats
Teenage Crime - Adrian Lux
Somebody to Love Me - Mark Ronson
Magic Fountain - Art vs Science
Rock It - Little Red
Plans - Birds of Tokyo
**** You - CeeLo Green (liked this at the time, but I don't think it's held up well)
Fall At Your Feet - Boy & Bear
Big Jet Plane - Angus & Julia Stone

Yeah, pretty forgettable, I feel 2011 had more songs that have stood the test of time better.

 

[james Dean]

Had to go back and listen to a few of these as I haven’t heard some of them in a long time.

Cigarettes Will Kill You - Ben Lee
Celebrity Skin - Hole
The Day You Come - Powderfinger
Save The Day - The Living End
Got the Life - Korn
! (The Song Formerly Known As ) - Regurgitator
Harpoon - Jebediah
Heavy Heart - You Am I
Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us) - Custard
Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring

 

[JackOutback]

I feel like Pretty Fly, just like Tubthumping, gets a bum rap, in this case because it came in at number 1. If it had come in at 5, people might view it as an amusing song from a band that was traditionally quite heavy (Smash is an all-timer for me). But it came in at 1, took off in the mainstream and kinda encouraged them to ditch the anger and deliver some more comedy songs.

 

[Dancing Potato]

1997

1. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
2. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
3. The Whitlams - No Aphrodisiac
4. Jebediah - Leaving Home
5. Blue - Song 2
6. Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
7. Radiohead - Karma Police
8. Dammit - Blink-182
9. Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
10. Pauline Pants Down - Back Door Man

1998

1. Regurgitator - ! (The Song Formerly Known As)
2. Powderfinger - The Day You Come
3. Jebediah - Harpoon
4. Ben Lee - Cigarettes Will Kill You
5. You Am I - Heavy Heart
6. Hole - Celebrity Skin
7. The Living End - Save The Day
8. Custard - Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us)
9. Korn - Got the Life
10. The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

2010

1. Little Red - Rock It
2. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - Dance The Way I Feel
3. The Wombats - Tokyo
4. Birds of Tokyo - Plans
5. Angus & Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane
6. Adrian Lux - Teenage Crime
7. CeeLo Green - **** You
8. Boy & Bear - Fall At Your Feet
9. Art vs Science - Magic Fountain
10. Mark Ronson - Somebody to Love Me

Justice for Regurgitator and Little Red.

 

[JackOutback]

2005

Wish You Well - Bernard Fanning
Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
Best of You - Foo Fighters
Dare - Gorillaz
Mind's Eye - Wolfmother
My Doorbell - The White Stripes
Oh Yeah - End of Fashion
Joker and The Thief - Wolfmother
Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

2005

Wish You Well - Bernard Fanning
Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
Best of You - Foo Fighters
Dare - Gorillaz
Mind's Eye - Wolfmother
My Doorbell - The White Stripes
Oh Yeah - End of Fashion
Joker and The Thief - Wolfmother
Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand

Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz (clear #1 to me)
Dare - Gorillaz
Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand
Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother
My Doorbell - The White Stripes
Best of You - Foo Fighters
Wish You Well - Bernard Fanning
Mind's Eye - Wolfmother
Oh Yeah - End of Fashion
Catch My Disease - Ben Lee (never liked this)

 

[JackOutback]

2005

Joker and The Thief - Wolfmother (I know it became fashionable to hate on them and they never followed that first album up, but this is an absolute banger that is regularly wheeled out today to rev people up. Unbelievable that it finished behind Mind's Eye)
Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
Do You Want To - Franz Ferdinand
Wish You Well - Bernard Fanning
Best of You - Foo Fighters
Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
Oh Yeah - End of Fashion
Dare - Gorillaz
Mind's Eye - Wolfmother
My Doorbell - The White Stripes