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The Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time was a music poll conducted in 2009 amongst listeners of Australian youth radio network Triple J . Over half a million votes were compiled, with Nirvana 's "Smells Like Teen Spirit " collecting the highest number of votes. Voters could submit a list of up to ten different songs as well as nominating one of these as their "all-time" favourite song. It was the fifth such poll organised by Triple J, following similar polls in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1998. Initially, all songs were eligible for the annual Triple J Hottest 100. However, from 1993 onward (after having no list in 1992), only songs released in the previous year were permitted. Thus, the Hottest 100 of All Time is conducted via a separate vote, held irregularly to reflect listeners' favourite songs across all eras. The 2009 list was designed to reflect the twentieth anniversary of the Hottest 100's inception. The Triple J Hottest 100 of all time was broadcast over two nights on ABC TV 's music show Rage . However, certain songs were omitted from the broadcast because they were never made into music videos .
Full list
Bold : Previous winner of a standard Hottest 100
Green background: Australian artists
#
Song
Artist
Country of origin
Year of release
Hottest 100 of the year position (year if different from year of release)
Previous Hottest 100 of all time position/s (year/s)
1
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana
United States
1991
NA
1 (1991), 1 (1998)
2
Killing in the Name
Rage Against the Machine
United States
1992
6 (1993)
17 (1998)
3
Hallelujah
Jeff Buckley
United States
1994
4
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division
United Kingdom
1980
NA
1 (1989), 1 (1990), 2 (1991), 16 (1998)
5
Paranoid Android
Radiohead
United Kingdom
1997
5
13 (1998)
6
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
United Kingdom
1975
NA
17 (1991), 8 (1998)
7
Last Goodbye
Jeff Buckley
United States
1994
14 (1995)
4 (1998)
8
Under the Bridge
Red Hot Chili Peppers
United States
1991
NA
31 (1998)
9
Everlong
Foo Fighters
United States
1997
61 (2006)
10
Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin
United Kingdom
1971
NA
30 (1989), 61 (1990), 30 (1991), 6 (1998)
11
Imagine
John Lennon
United Kingdom
1971
NA
31 (1989), 66 (1990)
12
Wonderwall
Oasis
United Kingdom
1995
1
13
Creep
Radiohead
United Kingdom
1992
2 (1993)
5 (1998)
14
Bitter Sweet Symphony
The Verve
United Kingdom
1997
4
99 (1998)
15
Karma Police
Radiohead
United Kingdom
1997
9
54 (1998)
16
Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
United Kingdom
1975
NA
33 (1989), 35 (1990), 58 (1991), 41 (1998)
17
The Nosebleed Section
Hilltop Hoods
Australia
2003
9
18
Knights of Cydonia
Muse
United Kingdom
2006
1 (2007)
19
One
Metallica
United States
1988
NA
89 (1991), 7 (1998)
20
Seven Nation Army
The White Stripes
United States
2003
3
21
These Days
Powderfinger
Australia
1998
1 (1999)
22
Teardrop
Massive Attack
United Kingdom
1998
23
23
Throw Your Arms Around Me
Hunters & Collectors
Australia
1985
NA
2 (1989), 2 (1990), 4 (1991), 2 (1998)
24
A Day in the Life
The Beatles
United Kingdom
1967
NA
69 (1989), 49 (1998)
25
Alive
Pearl Jam
United States
1991
NA
3 (1998)
26
Thriller
Michael Jackson
United States
1984
NA
27
My Happiness
Powderfinger
Australia
2000
1
28
Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead
United Kingdom
1995
29
Where Is My Mind?
Pixies
United States
1988
NA
30
All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix
United States
1968
NA
49 (1989), 83 (1990), 61 (1991), 70 (1998)
31
Enter Sandman
Metallica
United States
1991
NA
60 (1991), 9 (1998)
32
Blue Monday
New Order
United Kingdom
1983
NA
5 (1989), 5 (1990), 10 (1991), 30 (1998)
33
Tomorrow
Silverchair
Australia
1994
5
59 (1998)
34
Prisoner of Society
The Living End
Australia
1997
15
18 (1998)
35
1979
The Smashing Pumpkins
United States
1996
13
71 (1998)
36
Into My Arms
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Australia
1997
18
84 (1998)
37
Stinkfist
Tool
United States
1996
2
24 (1998)
38
Mr. Brightside
The Killers
United States
2004
14
39
Better Man
Pearl Jam
United States
1994
44 (1995)
22 (1998)
40
Come as You Are
Nirvana
United States
1991
NA
76 (1991), 62 (1998)
41
Billie Jean
Michael Jackson
United States
1983
NA
42
Banquet
Bloc Party
United Kingdom
2005
43
God Only Knows
The Beach Boys
United States
1966
NA
44
Hey Jude
The Beatles
United Kingdom
1968
NA
45
No One Knows
Queens of the Stone Age
United States
2002
1
46
Epic
Faith No More
United States
1990
NA
19 (1998)
47
Betterman
The John Butler Trio
Australia
2001
5
48
Sabotage
Beastie Boys
United States
1994
16
44 (1998)
49
Sweet Child o' Mine
Guns N' Roses
United States
1988
NA
27 (1991), 77 (1998)
50
Don't Dream It's Over
Crowded House
Australia
1986
NA
76 (1998)
51
Bullet with Butterfly Wings
The Smashing Pumpkins
United States
1995
2
33 (1998)
52
Berlin Chair
You Am I
Australia
1994
23
61 (1998)
53
Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd
United Kingdom
1979
NA
95 (1990), 73 (1991), 90 (1998)
54
Close to Me
The Cure
United Kingdom
1985
NA
89 (1998)
55
Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan
United States
1965
NA
56
Lover, You Should've Come Over
Jeff Buckley
United States
1994
47 (1998)
57
Forty-Six & 2
Tool
United States
1997
30
57 (1998)
58
Around the World
Daft Punk
France
1997
59
One Crowded Hour
Augie March
Australia
2006
1
60
Hurt
Johnny Cash
United States
2003
61
Song 2
Blur
United Kingdom
1997
2
46 (1998)
62
Closer
Nine Inch Nails
United States
1994
2
14 (1998)
63
Thunderstruck
AC/DC
Australia
1990
NA
64
Blister in the Sun
Violent Femmes
United States
1982
NA
46 (1989), 41 (1990), 9 (1991), 15 (1998)
65
Born Slippy
Underworld
United Kingdom
1995
12 (1996)
66
Tiny Dancer
Elton John
United Kingdom
1971
NA
67
Brick
Ben Folds Five
United States
1997
12 (1998)
32 (1998)
68
Dammit (Growing Up)
Blink-182
United States
1997
6
20 (1998)
69
Grace
Jeff Buckley
United States
1994
89 (1995)
29 (1998)
70
Breathe
The Prodigy
United Kingdom
1996
7
95 (1998)
71
How Soon Is Now?
The Smiths
United Kingdom
1984
NA
7 (1989), 3 (1990), 6 (1991), 28 (1998)
72
New Slang
The Shins
United States
2001
73
London Calling
The Clash
United Kingdom
1979
na
18 (1989), 28 (1990), 97 (1991)
74
Lithium
Nirvana
United States
1991
NA
3 (1991), 45 (1998)
75
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Green Day
United States
1997
84
76
Fools Gold
The Stone Roses
United Kingdom
1989
NA
6 (1990), 7 (1991), 39 (1998)
77
Hearts a Mess
Gotye
Australia
2006
8
78
Today
The Smashing Pumpkins
United States
1993
25 (1994)
40 (1998)
79
Life on Mars?
David Bowie
United Kingdom
1971
NA
80
Paint It, Black
The Rolling Stones
United Kingdom
1966
NA
81
Common People
Pulp
United Kingdom
1995
38
82
Chop Suey!
System of a Down
United States
2001
3
83
Every You Every Me
Placebo
United Kingdom
1999
5
84
No Woman, No Cry
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Jamaica
1974
NA
85
Bohemian Like You
The Dandy Warhols
United States
2000
10
86
Come Together
The Beatles
United Kingdom
1969
NA
87
Yellow
Coldplay
United Kingdom
2000
5
88
Gimme Shelter
The Rolling Stones
United Kingdom
1969
NA
89
Bulls on Parade
Rage Against the Machine
United States
1996
46
90
Sex on Fire
Kings of Leon
United States
2008
1
91
Back in Black
AC/DC
Australia
1980
NA
92
Skinny Love
Bon Iver
United States
2007
21 (2008)
93
Unfinished Sympathy
Massive Attack
United Kingdom
1991
NA
64 (1991), 34 (1998)
94
Float On
Modest Mouse
United States
2004
11
95
Superstition
Stevie Wonder
United States
1972
NA
96
One More Time
Daft Punk
France
2000
61 (2001)
97
Beds Are Burning
Midnight Oil
Australia
1987
NA
98
Kashmir
Led Zeppelin
United Kingdom
1975
NA
63 (1998)
99
Wolf Like Me
TV on the Radio
United States
2006
63
100
Take Me Out
Franz Ferdinand
United Kingdom
2004
1
Artists with multiple entries
Five Tracks
Four Tracks
Three Tracks
Two Tracks
AC/DC (63, 91)
Daft Punk (58, 96)
Led Zeppelin (10, 98)
Massive Attack (22, 93)
Metallica (19, 31)
Michael Jackson (26, 41)
Pearl Jam (25, 39)
Pink Floyd (16, 53)
Powderfinger (21, 27)
Rage Against the Machine (2, 89)
The Rolling Stones (80, 88)
Tool (37, 57)
Trivia
News of Michael Jackson 's death surfaced during the final week of voting. Triple J announcers pointed out that both "Thriller " and "Billie Jean " were already polling enough votes to feature in the top 100, but that the final week of voting pushed both songs further up the list.
This is the first Hottest 100 Of All Time where The Cure did not achieve more than one track.
This is the first Hottest 100 Of All Time where R.E.M. did not achieve any tracks. In all other years, they had achieved at least two.
Only one vote separated No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age from Hey Jude by The Beatles.
Franz Ferdinand is the second band behind Powderfinger to come 1st and 100th in a Hottest 100. Take Me Out is also the first song in the Hottest 100 to have reached both ends of the countdown.
This is the first Of All Time countdown to not feature any songs from the year of the countdown.
This countdown also is the first to not feature any Australian artists in the Top 10.
It was announced at the beginning of the countdown that the 101st song was Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana.
Only two songs in the entire Hottest 100 featured a female lead vocalist: Shara Nelson and Elizabeth Fraser , both of whom were guest vocalists on songs by Massive Attack ("Unfinished Sympathy " and "Teardrop " respectively). As such, there were no female artists or bands with permanent female vocalists who reached the countdown.
Overall, six bands with songs on the countdown included female instrumentalists. These were The Dandy Warhols , New Order , Pixies , Pulp , The Smashing Pumpkins and The White Stripes , accounting for eight songs between them, the only other songs which featured contributions from a female musician were "Wolf Like Me " by TV on the Radio , which featured backing vocals from musician Katrina Ford, and "Gimme Shelter " by The Rolling Stones , which featured backing vocals from singer Merry Clayton .
CD release
Triple J released a compilation disc including 36 of the tracks.
CD 1
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (#1)
Paranoid Android - Radiohead (#5)
Knights of Cydonia - Muse (#18)
The Nosebleed Section - Hilltop Hoods (#17)
Around The World - Daft Punk (#58)
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division (#4)
Wonderwall - Oasis (#12)
Epic - Faith No More (#46)
Prisoner Of Society - The Living End (#34)
Betterman - The John Butler Trio (#47)
Where Is My Mind? - Pixies (#29)
Teardrop - Massive Attack (#22)
Fools Gold - The Stone Roses (#76)
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes (#64)
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes (#20)
These Days - Powderfinger (#21)
Life On Mars? - David Bowie (#79)
One Crowded Hour - Augie March (#59)
CD 2
Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine (#2)
Banquet - Bloc Party (#42)
Blue Monday - New Order (#32)
No One Knows - Queens Of The Stone Age (#45)
Berlin Chair - You Am I (#52)
Mr. Brightside - The Killers (#38)
New Slang - The Shins (#72)
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys (#43)
Close To Me - The Cure (#54)
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand(#100)
Breathe - The Prodigy (#70)
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil (#97)
Hearts A Mess - Gotye (#77)
Into My Arms - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (#36)
Tomorrow - Silverchair (#33)
Common People - Pulp (#81)
Throw Your Arms Around Me - Hunters & Collectors (#23)
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley (#3)
DVD
Paranoid Android - Radiohead.
Killing In The Name - Rage Against The Machine.
Knights Of Cydonia - Muse.
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley.
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division.
Wonderwall - Oasis.
The Nosebleed Section - Hilltop Hoods.
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes.
Teardrop - Massive Attack.
My Happiness - Powderfinger.
Throw Your Arms Around Me - Hunters And Collectors.
Blue Monday - New Order.
Mr. Brightside - The Killers.
Prisoner Of Society - The Living End.
Tomorrow - Silverchair.
Into My Arms - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds.
Banquet - Bloc Party.
Epic - Faith No More.
Berlin Chair - You Am I.
Betterman - The John Butler Trio.
Close To Me - The Cure.
One Crowded Hour - Augie March.
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes.
Dammit - Blink-182.
Breathe - The Prodigy.
Fools Gold - The Stone Roses.
New Slang - The Shins.
Brick - Ben Folds Five.
Hearts A Mess - Gotye.
Life On Mars? - David Bowie.
Common People - Pulp.
Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols.
Chop Suey! - System Of A Down.
Float On - Modest Mouse.
Yellow - Coldplay.
Wolf Like Me - TV On The Radio.
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil.
Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand.
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead.
Countries represented
United States - 46
United Kingdom - 36
Australia - 16
France - 2 (Both Daft Punk)
Jamaica - 1 (Bob Marley)
Songs by decade
1960s - 8
1970s - 11
1980s - 15
1990s - 44
2000s - 22
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