Sunday, July 12, 2009

The annotated Triple J Hottest 100

I did try and vote, but left it until around 5 o'clock in the afternoon Perth time on the last day and by then I think the system was starting to melt down a bit.
 
Anyhoo, songs I like have been marked in bold and there are some other comments I felt needed to be made, such as "WTF!"
 
Somebody at work just made a good point I hadn't thought of - not one REM song?
 
  • 1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
  • 2. Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name
  • 3. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
  • 4. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
  • 5. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
  • 6. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Why? This song is just overblown rubbish)
  • 7. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
  • 8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge (would have preferred Suck My Kiss)
  • 9. Foo Fighters - Everlong
  • 10. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
  • 11. John Lennon - Imagine (Boring as well as trite and jejune)
  • 12. Oasis - Wonderwall
  • 13. Radiohead - Creep
  • 14. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
  • 15. Radiohead - Karma Police
  • 16. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
  • 17. Hilltop Hoods - The Nosebleed Section
  • 18. Muse - Knights Of Cydonia (I hate Muse so much)
  • 19. Metallica - One
  • 20. White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
  • 21. Powderfinger - These Days
  • 22. Massive Attack - Teardrop
  • 23. Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me (Yawn)
  • 24. The Beatles - A Day in the Life
  • 25. Pearl Jam - Alive
  • 26. Michael Jackson - Thriller (For fuck sake, so the freak died!)
  • 27. Powderfinger - My Happiness
  • 28. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
  • 29. Pixies - Where Is My Mind?
  • 30. Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
  • 31. Metallica - Enter Sandman
  • 32. New Order - Blue Monday
  • 33. Silverchair - Tomorrow
  • 34. The Living End - Prisoner Of Society
  • 35. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
  • 36. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
  • 37. Tool - Stinkfist
  • 38. The Killers - Mr Brightside
  • 39. Pearl Jam - Better Man
  • 40. Nirvana - Come As You Are
  • 41. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Give it a rest you wankers)
  • 42. Bloc Party - Banquet
  • 43. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
  • 44. The Beatles - Hey Jude
  • 45. Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
  • 46. Faith No More - Epic
  • 47. John Butler Trio - Betterman (Okay, he's a hippie, but still)
  • 48. Beastie Boys - Sabotage
  • 49. Guns 'N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine (Why, why, why?)
  • 50. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
  • 51. Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
  • 52. You Am I - Berlin Chair
  • 53. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
  • 54. The Cure - Close To Me
  • 55. Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
  • 56. Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should Have Come Over
  • 57. Tool - Forty Six & 2
  • 58. Daft Punk - Around The World (I hate Daft Punk, I really do)
  • 59. Augie March - One Crowded Hour
  • 60. Johnny Cash - Hurt
  • 61. Blur - Song 2
  • 62. Nine Inch Nails - Closer
  • 63. AC/DC - Thunderstruck
  • 64. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
  • 65. Underworld - Born Slippy
  • 66. Elton John - Tiny Dancer (WTF?)
  • 67. Ben Folds Five - Brick
  • 68. Blink 182 - Dammit
  • 69. Jeff Buckley - Grace
  • 70. The Prodigy - Breathe
  • 71. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
  • 72. The Shins - New Slang
  • 73. The Clash - London Calling
  • 74. Nirvana - Lithium
  • 75. Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
  • 76. The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
  • 77. Gotye - Hearts A Mess
  • 78. Smashing Pumpkins - Today
  • 79. David Bowie - Life on Mars
  • 80. The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
  • 81. Pulp - Common People
  • 82. System Of A Down - Chop Suey!
  • 83. Placebo - Every You Every Me
  • 84. Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman, No Cry
  • 85. The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
  • 86. The Beatles - Come Together
  • 87. Coldplay - Yellow
  • 88. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
  • 89. Rage Against the Machine - Bulls On Parade
  • 90. Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
  • 91. AC/DC - Back In Black
  • 92. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
  • 93. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
  • 94. Modest Mouse - Float On
  • 95. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
  • 96. Daft Punk - One More Time
  • 97. Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning (Yawn. God I hate hippies)
  • 98. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
  • 99. TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
  • 100. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
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