Triple J's Hottest 100 of Australian Songs

[JackOutback]

Not a fan of songs triple j wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot barge pole at the time making the count but he we are looking at the Veronicas, John Farnham and Daryl Braithwaite polling well.

 

[DaRenegade]

Not a fan of songs triple j wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot barge pole at the time making the count but he we are looking at the Veronicas, John Farnham and Daryl Braithwaite polling well.

once Beyonce made the countdown, it basically opened it up to any mainstream pop artist.

there will be a plethora of those kind of tracks in this one haha.

wonder if any artist will get the Ruel treatment of the Decade countdown, I reckon G-Flip will most likely.

 

[LeakyValve]

See DJ Albo's picks are in.
That dog song.
Jeepers.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

I think of these, only the Powderfinger songs, Jet, Gotye, Vance Joy and Flume will feature.

Augie March? I think One Crowded Hour will scrape in.

The rules are that only songs released post 1975 - i.e. the 50th anniversary of 2JJ - are eligible. Otherwise, The Easybeats, The Seekers and Master's Apprentices would also be glaring omissions.

Masters Apprentices are on the shortlist, so it's all-time rather than just the last 50 years, which makes the likes of Friday On My Mind and The Real Thing (Russell Morris) very notable omissions. You can make an argument about voting demographics not favouring them, but they're both iconic songs which would've featured IMO, especially Friday On My Mind.

 

[MJG14]

I chose to stay mainstream and stick with the prescribed picks to make it easier. After all, these songs are highly regarded for a reason. Thought I would be able to narrow down to 10 pretty easily from that list.

Instead, my 'shortlist' is at 33 so a lot of narrowing down to get it down to 10...

 

[Perko16]

Almost impossible to predict as someone has already said but thought I’d have a crack anyway so here’s my Hottest 100 of Australian Songs Prediction:



1. My Happiness – Powderfinger

Nosebleed Section - Hilltop Hoods

These days - Powderfinger

Innerbloom - Rufus du Sol

The Less I know the better - Tame Impala

Somebody That I Used To Know – Gotye / Kimbra

Untouched - Veronicas

Scar - Missy Higgins

Khe Sanh – Cold Chisel

10. Riptide - Vance Joy



Never Tear Us Apart – INXS

Horses – Daryl B

Down Under - Men At Work

Sweet Disposition

You’re The Voice – John Farnham

Thunderstruck – AC/DC

How to make gravy – Paul Kelly

Don’t Dream It’s Over – Crowded House

Can’t Get You Out Of My Head – Kylie Minogue

20. Tomorrow - silverchair



Never Be Like You - Flume

Covered in Crome

Booster Seat - Spacey Jane

Magnolia - Gang of Youths

Hearts A Mess – Gotye

The Worst person alive - G Flip

Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again - The Angels

Beds Are Burning – Midnight Oil

Walking on a dream - Empire of the Sun

30. Saving Up - Dom Dolla



Torn – Natalie Imbruglia

Straight Lines – Silverchair

Are u gonna b my girl - Jet

One Crowded Hour – Augie March

Brother - Matt Corby

Solid Rock – Goanna

Working Class Man – Jimmy Barnes

Stay - The kid LAROI

Throw Your Arms Around Me – Hunters & Collectors

40. Frontier Psychiatrist - The Avalanches



Talk is Cheap - Chet Faker

Prisoner of Society - The Living End

Great Southern Land - Icehouse

Let Me Down Easy - Gang of Youths

Hot Potato - The Wiggles

Big Jet Plane - Angus & Julia Stone

Australia street - Sticky Fingers

To her door - Paul Kelly

Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House

50. Chandelier - Sia



Better in blak

Confidence - Ocean Alley

Power And The Passion – Midnight Oil

Elephant - Tame Impala

It's Nice To Be Alive - Ball Park Music

I Want u – Savage Garden

Joker & the Thief - Wolfmother

High - Peking Duk

Back In Black – AC/DC

60. Losing it - FISHER



! (The Song Formerly Known As) – Regurgitator

On my mind – Powderfinger

Shooting Stars - Bag Raiders

My My My - Troye Sivan

Monsters - Something for Kate

Highway To Hell – AC/DC

Delete - Dma’s

Into My Arms – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel

70. Robbery - Lime Cordiale



I Was Only 19 – Redgum

One of your Girls - Troye Sivan

Reckless – Australian Crawl

Since I Left You - The Avalanches

The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows

Under The Milky Way – The Church

Rush - Troye Sivan

Chateau - Angus & Julia Stone

Cosby sweater

80. Rum Rage - Sticky Fingers



Crave You - Flight Facilities & Giselle

Absolutely Everybody

Freak - Silverchair

Wide Open Road – The Triffids

I Touch Myself – Divinyls

Pictures / UFO - Sneaky Sound System

Chemical Heart - Grinspoon

Clair de Lune - Flight Facilities

The Presets

90. Without you - The Kid Laroi



Say nothing - Flume

What about me - Shannon Noll

Chains – Tina Arena

Ben Lee

Adore u - Amy Shark

Gay4me - G Flip

Confide in me - Kylie Minogue

Drink too much - G Flip

Oysters in the pocket - Royel Otis

100. Eagle Rock - Daddy Cool


101. Themata - Karnivool
or
Evie, Parts 1,2 & 3

A little Rejig to last quarter of the intial prediction:


My People - The Presets (Replaces My My My)


72. Clair de Lune - Flight Facilities

Eagle Rock - Daddy Cool

Cosby sweater

Treaty - Yothu Yindi

Crave You - Flight Facilities & Giselle

Rum Rage - Sticky Fingers

Black fingernails red wine - Eskimo Joe

Adore u - Amy Shark

80. Rush - Troye Sivan


Chateau - Angus & Julia Stone

Hoops - The Rubens

Say nothing - Flume & MAY-A

Cigarettes Will Kill You - Ben Lee

Chemical Heart - Grinspoon

Without you - The Kid Laroi

Absolutely Everybody

Since I Left You - The Avalanches

No Aphrodisiac - The Whitlams

90. The Buzz - Hermitude


What about me - Shannon Noll

Under The Milky Way – The Church

Jungle - Tash Sultana

Buy me a pony - Spiderbait

I Touch Myself – Divinyls

Gay4me - G Flip

Boys in love - The Presets

Oysters in the pocket - Royel Otis

Rhyme Dust - MK & Dom Dolla

100. Hertz - Amyl & the Sniffers


101. Awkward - San Cisco

 

[Borough Blood]

 

[ye olde mole]

anyone reckon some local yearly #1s will miss the cut?

Hoops looks the most vulnerable, only #46 in the 2010s decade countdown a few years back

then you have Wish You Well (Fanning) & Say Nothing (Flume) having to compete with other #1s more likely from those artists, although recency will help the latter. I think the rest for various reasons will scrape enough votes to have a shot. Buy Me a Pony might be vulnerable, as it didn’t make the 2009 all-time and there are more subsequent Spiderbait singles to compete with now compared to 1996 (depends how many or few got shortlisted). A lot of the others are still relatively defining tunes for those artists in the main.

that’s all without a glance at how they all fare on modern streaming

While I accept it's vulnerable, I do hope Buy Me a Pony makes the cut. A band with JJJ in their DNA, the first Australian number one, and a tune that still sounds fresh (to me), I think it deserves its place.

Of the eligible number one songs, I think only two will miss out - Amazing and Talk is Cheap.

Probably way off...I've no idea what the kids think is cool these days.

 

[Roobs321]

While I accept it's vulnerable, I do hope Buy Me a Pony makes the cut. A band with JJJ in their DNA, the first Australian number one, and a tune that still sounds fresh (to me), I think it deserves its place.

Of the eligible number one songs, I think only two will miss out - Amazing and Talk is Cheap.

Probably way off...I've no idea what the kids think is cool these days.

Talk is Cheap did ok in the decade countdown a few years ago so I’ve given it the benefit of the doubt, probably still has enough of a following to sneak in.

Amazing might be my fave of the local winners (besides Gotye). Probably a good shot at 81-100. Might slip though the cracks with the present demo, but a respectable oldie of broad appeal that would’ve soundtracked a lot of memories for older voters.

 

[DaRenegade]

once Beyonce made the countdown, it basically opened it up to any mainstream pop artist.

there will be a plethora of those kind of tracks in this one haha.

wonder if any artist will get the Ruel treatment of the Decade countdown, I reckon G-Flip will most likely.

I think I’ll have to add Thelma Plum to this, crazy the amount of votes I’ve seen “Better in Blak” receive especially from the triple j curated ‘celeb’ votes

 

[ye olde mole]

]['p;yh Talk is Cheap did ok in the decade countdown a few years ago so I’ve given it the benefit of the doubt, probably still has enough of a following to sneak in.

Amazing might be my fave of the local winners (besides Gotye). Probably a good shot at 81-100. Might slip though the cracks with the present demo, but a respectable oldie of broad appeal that would’ve soundtracked a lot of memories for older voters.

An update on this - I was under the impression cover songs weren't eligible but have since learned that Black Betty is one of the three songs listed for Spiderbait. That's likely to steal some votes from Buy me a Pony.

 

[DaRenegade]

cover songs are eligible but Like a Versions are not is what they've gone with.

I'd like to see Amazing make it but havent seen many people voting for it.

Hoops and Talk is Cheap would be the main ones alongside Wish You Well I can do without making it.

 

[Roobs321]

An update on this - I was under the impression cover songs weren't eligible but have since learned that Black Betty is one of the three songs listed for Spiderbait. That's likely to steal some votes from Buy me a Pony.

exactly, as I indicated earlier in the quoted post I don’t think they are a great example of a That Song band. Buy Me a Pony never had to contend with those three subsequent singles cycles in 1999, 2001 & 2004, too much cannibalising. Thanks for confirming that three were shortlisted.

even the local H100 comp in 1996 was a bit weak. You have a few Double Allergic & Tu Plang tracks, some Future Spa, some Hourly, Daily lower down, legacy acts. I know DJ Albo voted some of these, but 1996 could miss entirely.

 

[sherb]

The only Shannon Noll song that should be considered is Lift, utter banger that

I ignored him for 15 years because I wrote off any artist who won talent quest type shows (Idol, Voice, etc).

Came across one of his album tracks a number of years back and decided to give some more of his material a listen.

I'm so glad I did. It's right up my alley.

And he's got heaps more songs worth a listen - Shine, My Place In The Line, Take It Back, Switch Me On, Sittin' Pretty, Living In Stereo, Walls, Drive, Prove, We Only Live Once to name a few.

He's not everyone's cup of tea for various reasons though, I get that. I guess he falls in the "not trendy" category for many serious music fans.

 

[sherb]

I wouldn't even vote for the original.

One of the most godawful songs ever written IMHO, no idea why it keeps 'coming back' every decade or so.

Same. I'm from the era of the original release and it's never really done anything for me.

 

[thewitness]

I convinced my 9 yo son to vote. He went for some interesting choices.
Vance Joy - Riptide
The Black Sorrows - Chained To The Wheel
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Genesis Owusu - Get Inspired
Gotye - STIUTK
Dan Sultan - Kingdom
Briggs - Ballad of the GOATS
Sheppard - Geronimo
The Masters Apprentices - Because I Love You
Yolanda Be Cool - We No Speak Americano

 

[two blue tiger]

Votes submitted.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Feel like I've seen/heard an unreasonable amount of Jessica Mauboy being mentioned by artists on their lists. Even got called Australia's Beyonce by one. Then they play one of her tracks and it's just a 6/10 knock off of whatever was popular in the US that particular year.

Can anybody actually name a Jessica Mauboy song?

I can't.

 

[DaRenegade]

her first couple of songs were all over mainstream radio back in the day, there was a song with Flo Rida I remember vaguely, but I agree, surely there's 100 better songs out there than anything she's done haha

 

[Achy Blakey Heart]

See DJ Albo's picks are in.
That dog song.
Jeepers.

His hottest 100 list was clearly done by a staffer.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

her first couple of songs were all over mainstream radio back in the day, there was a song with Flo Rida I remember vaguely, but I agree, surely there's 100 better songs out there than anything she's done haha

Running Back. (With Flo Rida.)
Get 'Em Girls. (With Snoop Dizzle.)
Saturday Night.
Burn.
It This Ain't Love.

 

[Plugger35]

I've got my votes in.



I've voted for some songs that a lot of people will have voted for including Albo but I doubt many would have voted for The Panics.

 

[The Casey Cat]

Had to manually put Come Said The Boy in which was a bit ridiculous.

 

[Loonerty]

I think I’ll have to add Thelma Plum to this, crazy the amount of votes I’ve seen “Better in Blak” receive especially from the triple j curated ‘celeb’ votes

Don't think it's the same at all, it's a very good song from 6 years ago?

 

[Plugger35]

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Had to manually put Come Said The Boy in which was a bit ridiculous.

Ganggajang's Sounds of Then wasn't available automatically either which surprised me, I voted for Goanna's Solid Rock instead.

I didn't realise that you could put songs in manually that weren't available automatically to still have them included in your votes.