Australian Top 100 Song List

[Sleepyjack]

Each year an Australian rado station (Triple J) do a top 100 song list, called the Hottest 100 - where the australian public vote for their top songs of 2004.
I was a little dissapointed with it this year - although, as usual, there's a pretty good Australian contingent (7 in the top 10!).

1 franz ferdinand - take me out
2 missy higgins - scar
3 eskimo joe - from the sea
4 the killers - somebody told me
5 spiderbait - black betty
6 missy higgins - ten days
7 john butler trio - something's gotta give
8 little birdy - beautiful to me
9 powderfinger - bless my soul
10 the white stripes - jolene (live)
11 modest mouse - float on
12 the dresden dolls - coin-operated boy
13 the killers - mr brightside
14 evermore - it's too late
15 ben lee - gamble everything for love
16 grinspoon - hard act to follow
17 butterfingers - yo mama
18 the streets - fit but you know it
19 the streets - dry your eyes
20 spiderbait - f***kin awesome
21 william shatner - common people
22 green day - american idiot
23 scissor sisters - take your mama
24 jet - look what you've done
25 john butler trio - treat yo mama
26 grinspoon - better off alone
27 sarah blasko - don't u eva
28 beastie boys - ch-check it out
29 franz ferdinand - this fire
30 dresden dolls - girl anachronism
31 kings of leon - the bucket
32 eskimo joe - older than you
33 the bees - chicken payback
34 machine gun fellatio - what the fuck?
35 scribe - not many {remix}
36 jeff buckley - forget her
37 ben folds - adelaide
38 u2 - vertigo
39 the killers - smile like you mean it
40 little birdy - this is a love song
41 faithless - mass destruction
42 lior - this old love
43 dogs die in hot cars - godhopping
44 scissor sisters - take me out {cover franz ferdinand}
45 wolfmother - woman
46 rammstein - amerika
47 the living end - i can't give you what i haven't got
48 elliott smith - memory lane
49 missy higgins - casualty
50 franz ferdinand - the dark of the matinee
51 john butler trio - what you want
52 regurgitator - my friend robot
53 placebo english summer rain
54 waifs, the bridal train
55 hives, the walk idiot walk
56 xavier rudd shelter
57 evermore for one day
58 scissor sisters laura
59 xavier rudd solace
60 your wedding night lachlan
61 deep dish - flash dance
62 eskimo joe - smoke
63 n.e.r.d. - she wants to move
64 epicure - self destruct in 5
65 chemical brothers - galvanize
66 devendra banhart - little yellow spider
67 black keys, the - 10am automatic
68 powderfinger - process this
69 freestylers, the - push up
70 starsailor - four to the floor (remix)
71 the von bondies - c'mon c'mon
72 polyphonic spree - hold me now
73 panda band, the - sleepy little deathtoll town
74 interpol - slow hands
75 the spazzys - paco doesn't love me
76 interpol - evil
77 snow patrol - run
78 little birdy - tonights the night
79 dallas crane - dirty hearts
80 the dissociatives - young man old man
81 end of fashion - rough diamonds
82 mylo - drop the pressure
83 dallas crane - numb all over
84 dogs die in hot cars - i love you cause i have to
85 regurgitator - the drop
86 the unicorns - i was born (a unicorn)
87 sia - breathe me
88 a perfect circle - imagine
89 jet - get what you need
90 greenskeepers - lotion
91 decoder ring - somersault
92 scissor sisters - comfortably numb
93 john butler trio - hello
94 the vines - ride
95 placebo - twenty years
96 after the fall - mirror mirror
97 gyroscope - safe forever
98 gomez - catch me up
99 the butterfly effect - always
100 fabienne delsol - i'm gonna haunt you

[radioguy]

thanks for a new list of songs to download . i've never heard of most of these bands. i'm assuming they are all rock oriented or is there some rap or country mixed in? i love hearing new bands.

dude, william shatner #21....come on, is it actually good?

[high_way]

i thought it was pretty good. heard some songs i had forgotten about over the year and the like, but the one that really shocked me was, 38 u2 - vertigo. i dont think they have ever been played on triple j before...

[SiNai]

You know, you Aussie's have wonderful tastes in music (especially compared to the average American radio station, if we would try the same thing)

[Ella]

Good point, high_way....I actually really don't like that U2 song. It's like a join-the-dots anthem they could write in their sleep. Still....good to see Missy in the Top 10 a couple of times - I love her CD. All in all....not a bad day of tunes!

[K-Wise]

Thats a pretty good list. I noticed they have Daniel Johns side project "The Dissociatives" in there too. I checked them out a while back...didn't get to hear enough to consider it anything other than...well...."different" haha.

Asta!!

[Latch]

radioguy.. mostly rock oriented.. but there will be some techno/hip-hop (not rap) tracks in there too. I couldn't see it offhand but I imagine Hilltop Hoods (hip-hop) will be in there.. and I saw Star Sailor - Four To The Floor in there.. which is techno. Most are rock though.

I agree with you high_way, Ella. Vertigo is a classic generic U2 song hehe.

Triple J is known for playing some non-mainstream stuff.. and very little mainstream. They get some good stuff on there (as you'll learn as you hear the songs on the list hehe).

[high_way]

i dont think there was any hilltop hoods in it for 2004. as for what triple j play just go to the website and it will give you lists of what they play aswell what the specialised people play of a night time.

triple j website

also this month is their 30th anniversory so they have some pretty cool stuff up there. enjoy.

[Latch]

ah.. it was just a random guess. I hear them on the Js all the time.

[Sleepyjack]

Scribe was in there - i guess that counts for Hip Hop?

i was dissapointed to not see the fiery furnaces, arcade fire (altho not sure if JJJ played these guys at all?), The Go Team, architecture in helsinki or Ac Newman...

Originally Posted by high_way

also this month is their 30th anniversory so they have some pretty cool stuff up there. enjoy.

yeah, i was surprised to hear this nice Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart compilation of them hosting the show back in the 70's. It was fast'n'bulbous