Monday 23 January 2017

Triple J Hottest 100 - the hottest songs by position

My (heavily biased toward guitar based music) take on the best song to place at each position within the annual Triple J Hottest 100 countdowns.



 



Position
Song
Runners up
101a,b
"Feel good hit of the summer" - Queens of the Stone Age (2000)
“What doesn't kill you” – Jake Bugg (2011)
"It's Saturday" - Marcy Playground (1999)
100
“Cough cough” – Everything Everything (2012)
“We Are” – Karnivool (2013)
“The Chariot” – Cat Empire (2003)
99
“Always” – The Butterfly Effect (2004)
“Inertiatic Esp” – The Mars Volta (2003)
“Big” – Dead Letter Circus (2010)
98
“In Paris” – Jay Z & Kanye West (2011)
“The Heinrich Manoeuvre”  - Interpol (2007)
“A certain slant of light” – The Tea Party (2004)
97
“Themata” – Karnivool (2005)
“I’m Shakin’” – Jack White (2012)
“Are you interested?” – Cog (2008)
96
“Bound for the floor” – Local H (1997)
“Six month in a leaky boat” – Little Birdy (2005)
“Mirror, mirror” – After the Fall (2004)
95
“How much does your love cost?” – Thelma Plum (2014)
“Renegades of Funk” – Rage Against the Machine (2000)
“Panic Switch” – Silversun Pickups (2009)
94
“Jewels and Bullets” – You Am I (1995)
“Mankind” – Pearl Jam (1996)
“Blue Lips” – Regina Spektor (2009)
93
“Anyone’s ghost” – The National (2010)
“I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself” – White Stripes (2003)
“All Homeboys are Dickheads” – TISM (1995)
92
“Doctor, doctor” – Gyroscope (2003)
“Called” – Antiskeptic (2002)
“I feel you” – Depeche Mode (1993)
91
“Vampire racecourse” – The Sleepy Jackson (2003)
“The Only Difference Between Martyrdom & Suicide” – Panic! At the Disco (2006)
“Benedict” – Jebediah (1998)
90
“Good Fortune” – PJ Harvey (2000)
“Leaving Here” – Pearl Jam (1996)
“For Tomorrow” – Blur (1993)
89
“First” – Cold War Kids (2014)
“Girl U Have No Faith In Medicine” – White Stripes (2003)
“Grace” – Jeff Buckley (1995)
88
“Like eating glass” – Bloc Party (2005)
“Gina works at hearts” – DZ Deathrays (2014)
“Monster” – Kanye West (2010)
87
“6 Underground” – Sneaker Pimps (1997)
“Eliza” – Jackson Jackson (2007)
“Jailbreak” – Yothu Yindi (1995)
86
“Sleepwalking” – Bring Me the Horizon (2013)
“Woman” – Neneh Cherry (1996)
“Summertime sadness” – Lana Del Rey
85
“Gay Pirates” – Cosmo Jarvis (2011)
“Invalid litter dept.” – At the Drive-In (2001)
“1981” – Gyroscope (2008)
84
“Re-Education (through labor)” – Rise Against (2008)
“Cathy’s clown” – You Am I (1995)
“Saints” – The Breeders (1994)
83
“Future starts slow” – The Kills (2011)
 “Modern Man” – Arcade Fire (2010)
“Reptilia” – The Strokes (2003)
82
“Tighten up” – The Black Keys (2010)
“Good luck” – Basement Jaxx (2003)
“Sunburn” – Muse (2000)
81
“No cars go” – Arcade Fire (2007)
“Devil’s diary” – The Caulfields (1995)
“Rough Diamonds” – End of Fashion (2004)
80
“Soldiers” – You Am I (1996)
“Bliss” – Muse (2001)
“Brain stew” – Green Day (1995)
79
“Explain” – Sarah Blasko (2006)
“All mine” – Portishead (1997)
“Lazaretto” – Jack White (2014)
78
“Tonight’s the night” – Little Birdy (2004)
“Shimmer” – Fuel (1998)
“The Fighter” – After the Fall (2005)
77
“Lay down” – DMA’s (2015)
“Jaimme’s got a girl” – You Am I (1995)
“Fuel” – Metallica (1998)
76
“Dreamshaker” – Redcoats (2011)
“21st century digital boy” – Bad Religion (1995)
“Evil” – Interpol (2004)
75
"Half full glass of wine" - Tame Impala (2008)
"Wait and Bleed" - Slipknot (2000)
"The Drowners" - Suede (1993)
74
"Slow Hands" - Interpol (2004)
"Deeper water" - Deadstar (1999)
"Run the red light" - British India (2007)
73
"Plug in baby" - Muse (2001)
"Gold dust woman" - Hole (1996)
"Lakini's juice" - Live (1997)
72
"Hallways" - Something for Kate (1999)
“Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)” – Run the Jewels (2014)
“I sat by the ocean” – Queens of the Stone Age (2013)
71
“Reach” – The Butterfly Effect (2007)
“Run” – Cog (2005)
“All over you” – Live (1995)
70
“The Con” – Tegan and Sara (2007)
“If You Tolerate This Your Chicldren Will Be Next” – Manic Street Preachers (1998)
“My girls” – Animal Collective (2009)
69
“Hysteria” – Muse (2003)
“Clocks” – Coldplay (2002)
“Nausea” – Beck (2006)
68
“Don't sit down, 'cause I've moved your chair” – Arctic Monkeys (2011)
“One second of insanity” – The Butterfly Effect (2003)
"Ashes" - The Beautiful Girls (2005)
67
“10am automatic” – The Black Keys (2004)
“Andres” – L7 (1994)
“Denial Twist” – White Stripes (2005)
66
“Farewell rocketship” – Children Collide (2008)
“This train will be taking no passengers” – Augie March (2002)
“The best we got” – The Rubens (2012)
65
“Don't wanna fight” – Alabama Shakes (2015)
“White winter hymnal” – Fleet Foxes (2008)
“Rumble” – You Am I (1998)
64
“Hotel Yorba” – White Stripes (2001)
“Australia” – The Shins (2007)
“Stripsearch” – Faith No More (1997)
63
“Ready to start” –Arcade Fire (2010)
“Wolf like me” – TV on the Radio (2006)
“Repeat” – Grinspoon (1997)
62
“Beware wolf” – Gyroscope (2005)
“Black water rising” – Stonefield (2011)
“Easy” – Faith No More (1993)
61
“Asleep in perfection” –Augie March (1999)
“Wayside” – Birds of Tokyo (2007)
“Wasting my young years” – London Grammar (2013)
60
"Pattern against user" - At the Drive-In (2001)
"Touched" - VAST (1999)
"Cut your hair" - Pavement (1994)
59
"Hard to explain" - The Strokes (2001)
"Your woman" - White Town (1997)
"Chelsea Dagger" - The Fratellis (2007)
58
"Laura" - Scissor Sisters (2004)
"The Leaving Song (part 2)" - AFI (2003)
"The Suburbs" - Arcade Fire (2010)
57
"Tender" - Blur (1999)
"L.E.S. Artistes" - Santogold (2008)
"Into the galaxy" - Midnight Juggernauts (2007)
56
"Bizarre love triangle" - Frente (1994)
"Yippiyo-Ay" - The Presets (2008)
"It's 5!" - Architecture in Helsinki (2005)
55
"No Surprises" - Radiohead (1998)
"Greed for your love" - Missy Higgins (2003)
"Your party" - Ween (2008)
54
"Mum changed the locks" - Frenzal Rhomb (1998)
"Crying lightning" - Arctic Monkeys (2009)
"Golden Skans" - The Klaxons (2007)
53
"Hyperballad" - Bjork (1996)
"Country house" - Blur (1995)
"Wasting my life" - The Hippos (2000)
52
"Until it sleeps" - Metallica (1996)
"Cream on chrome" - Ratatat (2015)
"#1 Crush" - Garbage (1997)
51
"Would?" - Alice in Chains (1993)
"Fifteen feet of pure white snow" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (2001)
"Spoonman" - Soundgarden (1994)
50
"Summer" - Buffalo Tom (1995)
"I bet you look good on the dance floor" - Arctic Monkeys (2005)
"The dark of the matinee" - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
49
"Doin' it right" - Daft Punk featuring Panda Bear (2013)
"Easy to love" - The Jezabels (2011)
"Parabola" - Tool (2001)
48
"There, there" - Radiohead (2003)
"Go with the flow" - Queens of the Stone Age (2002)
"Popular" - Nada Surf (1996)
47
"Do the evolution" - Pearl Jam (1998)
"The truth about cats and dogs (is that they die" - Pony Up! (2006)
"There is no such place" - Augie March (2001)
46
"Rock Star" - NERD (2002)
"Bulls on parade" - Rage against the Machine (1996)
"Take a picture" - Filter (2000)
45
"Glory box" - Portishead (1995)
"Aneurysm" - Nirvana (1996)
"Loser" - Beck (1994)
44
"Juice" - Headless Chickens (1993)
"Electricity" - Something for Kate (1999)
"Better man" - Pearl Jam (1995)
43
"Cherub rock" - Smashing Pumpkins (1993)
"Godhopping" - Dogs Die in Hot Cars (2004)
"Where it's at" - Beck (1996)
42
"Stockholm Syndrome" - Muse (2003)
"Hurricane" - MS MR (2012)
"Teflon" - Jebediah (1998)
41
"I can make you love me" - British India (2012)
"Penguins and polar bears" - Millencolin (2000)
"Pure morning" - Placebo (1998)
40
"Undone (the sweater song)" - Weezer (1994)
"Wynona's big brown beaver" - Primus (1995)
"R U Mine?" - Arctic Monkeys (2012)
39
"Friday, I'm in love" - The Cure (1993)
"A slow descent" - The Butterfly Effect (2006)
"Novocaine for the soul" - The Eels (1996)
38
"Oblivion" - Grimes (2012)
"Memory remains" - Metallica (1997)
"Comedown" - Bush (1996)
37
"This is a call" - Foo Fighters (1995)
"Doncamatic" - Gorillaz featuring Daley (2010)
"I said I'm sorry" - British India (2007)
36
"Pyramid Song" - Radiohead (2001)
"Spin the black circle" - Pearl Jam (1994)
"A hazy shade of winter" - Bodyjar (1999)
35
"Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (2008)
"I got Id" - Pearl Jam (1995)
"Cornflake girl" - Tori Amos (1994)
34
"Miss World" - Hold (1994)
"I predict a riot" - Kaiser Chiefs (2005)
"Judith" - A Perfect Circle (2000)
33
"Solitude is bliss" - Tame Impala (2010)
"Military strongmen" - Jebediah (1997)
"Hate to say I told you so" - The Hives (2002)
32
"My enemy" - Cog (2005)
"Black bugs" - Regurgitator (1998)
"Living Type" - Powderfinger (1996)
31
"Bird of feather" - Cog (2008)
"Fall" - Single Gun Theory (1994)
"Ashes to Ashes" - Faith No More (1997)
30
"Laura" - Bat For Lashes (2012)
"The girl of my dreams (is giving me nightmares)" - Machine Gun Fellatio (2001)
"Forty Six and 2" - Tool (1997)
29
"All I want" - Sarah Blasko (2009)
"The Pot" - Tool (2006)
"Fast girl" - Gyroscope (2005)
28
"Steady as she goes" - The Saboteurs (2006)
"Feet touch the ground" - Jebediah (1999)
"Doll parts" - Hole (1994)
27
"Sober" - Tool (1993)
"B.Y.O.B." - System of a Down (2005)
"Begging for thread" - Banks (2014)
26
"Paris is burning" - Ladyhawke (2008)
"Polyester girl" - Regurgitator (1998)
"Setting sun" - Chemical Brothers (1996)
25
"Today" - Smashing Pumpkins (1994)
"Meds" - Placebo (2006)
"Pacifier" - Shihad (2000)
24
"Hunting for witches" - Bloc Party (2007)
"ADIDAS" - Korn (1997)
"Purple Sneakers" - You Am I (1995)
23
"Berlin Chair" - You Am I (1994)
"Teardrop" - Massive Attack (1998)
"Human Behaviour" - Bjork (1993)
22
"Black hole sun" - Soundgarden (1994)
"Lightning crashes" - Live (1995)
"Vicarious" - Tool (2006)
21
"Down in the park" - Foo Fighters (1996)
"Undercover martyn" - Two Door Cinema Club (2010)
"Lucky star" - Alex Lloyd (1999)
20
"Heart shaped box" - Nirvana (1993)
"Mountain at my gates" - Foals (2015)
"Not the same" - Bodyjar (2000)
19
"Heart it races" - Architecture in Helsinki (2007)
"Business time" - Flight on the Conchords (2008)
"Special ones" - George (2001)
18
"Toxicity" - System of a Down (2002)
"Just ace" - Grinspoon (1998)
"Longview" - Green Day (1994)
17
"Fire" - Kasabian (2009)
"Blubber boy" - Regurgitator (1995)
"Without me" - Eminem (2002)
16
"Sabotage" - Beastie Boys (1994)
"Freak on a leash" - Korn (1999)
"Mace spray" - The Jezabels (2010)
15
"Vow" - Garbage (1995)
"Prisoner of Society" - Living End (1997)
"Like soda" - Violent Soho (2015)
14
"Covered in chrome" - Violent Soho (2013)
"Hardest button to button" - White Stripes (2003)
"Schism" - Tool (2001)
13
"Sleep now in the fire" - Rage Against the Machine (2000)
"Mr Brightside" - The Killers (2004)
"Freak" - Silverchair (1997)
12
"You know you're right" - Nirvana (2002)
"Gooey" - Glass Animals (2014)
"Born Slippy.nuxx" - Underworld (1996)
11
"Never be" - Meg Mac (2015)
"Float on" - Modest Mouse (2004)
"Heads will roll" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs (2009)
10
"Leaving home" - Jebediah (1997)
"Bohemain like you" - Dandy Warhols (2000)
"Jolene (live)" - White Stripes (2004)
9
"(He'll never be an) Ol' man River" - TISM (1995)
"Clint Eastwood" - Gorillaz (2001)
"Nosebleed section" - Hilltop Hoods (2003)
8
"The day you come" - Powderfinger (1998)
"Hang me up to dry" - Cold War Kids (2007)
"Heart's a mess" - Gotye (2006)
7
"Paranoid android" - Radiohead (1997)
"Elephant" - Tame Impala (2012)
"Breathe" - The Prodigy (1996)
6
"Killing in the name" - Rage Against the Machine (1993)
"Frontier Psychiatrist" - The Avalanches (2000)
"Pick you up" - Powderfinger (1996)
5
"Cannonball" - The Breeders (1993)
"Got the life" - Korn (1998)
"Let it happen" - Tame Impala (2015)
4
"Do I wanna know?" - Arctic Monkeys (2013)
"Pepper" - Butthole Surfers (1996)
"No rain" - Blind Melon (1993)
3
"Seven Nation Army" - White Stripes (2003)
"Chop suey" - System of a Down (2001)
"Breezeblocks" - Alt J (2012)
2
"Stinkfist" - Tool (1996)
"Bullet with butterfly wings" - Smashing Pumpkins (1995)
"Creep" - Radiohead (1993)
1
"No one knows" - Queens of the Stone Age (2002)
"Knights of Cydonia" - Muse (2007)
"These Days" - Powderfinger (1999)



"Feel good hit of the summer" assumed to have placed at #101 due to featuring on the Hottest 100 Volume 8 album
"It's Saturday" assumed to have placed at #101 due to (recollection of) announcers stating during the 1999 countdown that Marcy Playground placed at #101.

Artists with multiple # ranks:
4:         Radiohead ("Paranoid Android", “Pyramid Song”, "There, There", "No Surprises)

3:         Muse (“Stockholm Syndrome”, “Hysteria”, “Plug in Baby”)
You Am I (“Berlin Chair”, “Soldiers”, “Jewels and Bullets”)

2:         Arcade Fire (“Ready to Start”, “No Cars Go”)
Arctic Monkeys (“Do I Wanna Know?”, “Don’t sit down ‘cause I’ve moved your chair)
Sarah Blasko (“All I Want”, “Explain”)
Black Keys ("10am Automatic", "Tighten Up")
Bloc Party (“Hunting for Witches”, “Like Eating Glass”)
Butterfly Effect (“Reach”, “Always”)
Cog (“Bird of Feather”, “My Enemy”)
Foo Fighters (“Down in the Park”, “This is a Call”)
Gyroscope (“Beware Wolf”, “Doctor, Doctor”)
          Nirvana (“You know you’re right”, “Heart Shaped Box”)
Rage Against the Machine (“Killing in the Name”, “Sleep now in the Fire”
Smashing Pumpkins (“Today”, “Cherub Rock”)
Tame Impala (“Solitude is Bliss”, “Half Full Glass of Wine”)
Tool (“Stinkfist”, “Sober”)
White Stripes (“Seven Nation Army”, “Hotel Yorba”)
 



Years with most #1 ranks:
1993 (8) (“Cannonball”, “Killing in the Name”, “Heart Shaped Box”,  “Sober”, “Friday I'm in Love”, “Cherub Rock”, “Juice”, “Would?”)

1994 (7) (“Sabotage”, “Black Hole Sun”, “Berlin Chair”, “Today”, “Miss World”, “Undone (The Sweater Song)”, “Bizarre Love Triangle”)

1995 (6) (“(He'll Never be an) 'Ol Man River”, “Vow”, “This is a Call”, “Glory Box”, “Summer”, “Jewels and Bullets”)

2003 (6) (“Seven Nation Army”, “Stockholm Syndrome”, “There There”, “Hysteria”, “Vampire Racecourse”, “Doctor, Doctor”)

2008 (6) (“Paris Is Burning”, “Bird of Feather”, “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”, “Farewell Rocketship”, “Half Full Glass of Wine”, “Re-Education (Through Labor)”)




Years with most top 5 ranks
1997 (31)
1994 (30)
1995 (30)
2006 (28)
1996 (27)


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