Yet another Triple J Hottest 100

[Non Terminator]

I am so happy about that coming 90th. Thank you, you have seriously made my day.

 

[Paullyboy]

90 - Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
89 - Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
88 - The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
87 - Coldplay - Yellow
86 - The Beatles - Come Together
85 - Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
84 - Bob Marley and the Wailers - No Woman, No Cry
83 - Placebo - Every You, Every Me
82 - System Of A Down - Chop Suey
81 - Pulp - Common People

 

[Paullyboy]

The first of many Beatles songs I think. I'm picking we'll see at least 4 more - just not sure what they'll be. I'd like to think we'll still see Hey Jude, Something, All You Need Is Love and Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band at the very least. Yesterday, Helter Skelter, Eleanor Rigby and Revolution 9 will have to be right up there too.

 

[carcharias]

The first of many Beatles songs I think. I'm picking we'll see at least 4 more - just not sure what they'll be. I'd like to think we'll still see Hey Jude, Something, All You Need Is Love and Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band at the very least. Yesterday, Helter Skelter, Eleanor Rigby and Revolution 9 will have to be right up there too.

in my life - by the beatles was voted the greatest ever in Mojo mag a few years ago.

 

[DB]

Thank f**k Sex on Fire is there at 90.

 

[Alex28]

Would have been better not there at all to be honest...it's my greatest fear about this poll - full of KOL and MGMT because they were insanely popular last year...

 

[DB]

I agree.... I was just saying thank christ it was there in the 80's rather than in the top 10. Plus I could think over more KoL songs way better than Sex on Fire.... pretty much any song on Because of the Times I prefer over that.

 

[natheel]

Kinda surprised soad got in at 82 but I love it!!!! Toxicity will be there somewhere too I rekon

 

[Twizzle]

it started today

91Back in Black
AC/DC

AuthorsAngus Young, Malcolm Young, Brian Johnson
ReleasedJuly 25, 1980 on Back In Black LP
Produced byRobert John ‘Mutt’ Lange
Recorded atCompass Point Studios, the Bahamas
Possessing one of the most instantaneously recognisable opening riffs, ‘Back in Black’ is, quite simply, an awesome rock song: just try to listen to it without developing a strut. It was dedicated to former frontman Bon Scott, found dead in a mate’s car in London after another night of hard drinking months earlier.

Asked years later by Costa Zouliou about his first gigs for a triple j AC/DC tribute, Brian Johnson admitted, “I cannae remember much about the early ’80s at all, mate… the gigs in Australia were magic for me. I happened to be replacing Bon and he was a bit of a national hero to the Australians – and he should be, rightly so.”

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92Skinny Love
Bon Iver

AuthorsJustin Vernon
ReleasedFebruary 19, 2008 on For Emma, Forever Ago LP
Produced byJustin Vernon
Recorded atNorthwestern Wisconsin
“It’s not for me to decide what it’s about for people,” says Justin Vernon of his gentle lullaby. The Wisconsin singer secluded himself in a snowbound cabin to pen his ode to a broken relationship, capturing ‘Skinny Love’ – a break-up letter/suicide note.

“It shouldn’t be my job to worry about that,” Justin told jmag, when asked if he thinks the story of his recording experience overshadows the songs themselves. “The reality of it for me is that whatever visions people have of what happened to this person who went into this cabin and recorded an album… there is a resonance,” he insisted softly. “And it spawned this record.”

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93Unfinished Sympathy
Massive Attack

AuthorsGrant Marshall, Andrew Vowles,
Robert Del Naja, Shara Nelson, J. Sharp
ReleasedFebruary 11, 1991 (single, later appeared on Blue Lines LP)
Produced byMassive Attack, Cameron McVey, Jonny Dollar
Recorded atAbbey Road, London
The huge influence and evocative power of the Bristol-based outfit’s killer single remains just as potent as it was back in ‘91. Fusing British club beats with hip-hop in a whole new style – later nicknamed ‘trip-hop’ – former DJs Massive Attack pioneered new musical ground with this, lifted from their debut LP.

The video also broke tradition, filmed in one continuous take. “We don’t feel like, ‘Were Massive Attack, we’re important,’” 3D confessed to Richard Kingsmill. “If you’re a band and you have a frontman, then that image gets rammed down your throat. But people actually recognise us less. We’re becoming more… cipher-like.”

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94Float On
Modest Mouse

AuthorsIsaac Brock, Dann Gallucci, Eric Judy
ReleasedFebruary 14, 2004 (single, later appeared on
Good News For People Who Love Bad News LP)
Produced byDennis Herring
Recorded atSweet Tea studio, Oxford, Mississippi
It took Modest Mouse a decade and four albums to rise above cult status, but through ‘Float On’ the Seattle indie rockers were paid tribute to on ‘American Idol’. Frontman Isaac Brock relished the irony.

“I have a sense of humour. Nothing seemed funnier to me than hearing ‘American Idol’ contestants ‘soul-delling’ away – which is the combination of soul and yodelling that they all do,” he told Myf, Jay and the Doctor in ’07. “The idea of seeing them soul-del away to it was too funny for me to pass on. I like to laugh. That did it.” ‘Float On’ reached No. 11 on the ’04 Hottest 100.

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95Superstition
Stevie Wonder

AuthorsStevie Wonder
ReleasedOctober 28, 1971 on Talking Book LP
Produced byStevie Wonder, Robert Margouleff, Malcolm Cecil
Recorded when he was a mere 22-years-old, the first slice on side two of Stevie’s 17th – that’s right, 17th – release is still one of the funkiest tracks around. The former child star debuted this song (which he wrote on the drums, humming the melody) while on tour supporting the Rolling Stones in the summer of ’72. Stevie took home two Grammys in ‘74 for the hit track: Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song. It’s unthinkable to imagine ‘Superstition’ sung by Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck – but that’s who he actually wrote the track for If his manager hadn’t convinced Stevie to keep the tune, we’d never have had the opportunity to catch him grooving on down on “Sesame Street”.

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96One More Time
Daft Punk

AuthorsThomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo,
Anthony Moore
ReleasedNovember 13, 2000 on Discovered LP
Produced byDaft Punk
Recorded atDaft House, Paris, France
Leading the charge of the Gallic dance brigade in the ’90s, Daft Punk possessed a seemingly inexhaustible collection of funk-flecked stardust to sprinkle over their records. ‘One More Time’ became their biggest global hit. Singer Romanthony’s vocodered-to-buggery vocal was anchored to effortless breakdowns to create a perfect crystallisation of the duo’s future disco that simply dared you to not to raise your hands skywards.

Their spectacular live show finally came to Australia in ’07. Old friend and manager Busy P told Zan Rowe, “With this live show, the Daft Punk boys show once again that they rule this game.”

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97Beds Are Burning
Midnight Oil

AuthorsRob Hirst, James Moginie, Peter Garrett
ReleasedAugust 1987 on Diesel And Dust LP
Produced byWarne Livesey, Midnight Oil
Recorded atAlbert Studios, Sydney, NSW
A musical bombshell: a pummelling, horn and dust-filled demand for the land rights of Indigenous Australians to be recognised. Five years before Mabo, the Oils – inspired by their Black Fella White Fella tour of remote communities alongside the Warumpi Band – wrote a song which captured the road rhythms of driving in the outback alongside their anger.

John Howard confessed to ABC Radio in Perth that he “quite liked” the track (he refused to comment on ‘US Forces’, however). It’s a song he’ll never forget – or anyone else who watched the closing ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where an all-in-black Oils performed the anthem with ‘Sorry’ printed across their chests.

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98Kashmir
Led Zeppelin

AuthorsPage, Plant, Bonham
ReleasedFebruary 24, 1975 on Physical Graffiti LP
Produced byJimmy Page
Recorded atHeadley Grange, East Hampshire, UK
“It was an amazing piece of music to write to, and an incredible challenge for me,” explained Led Zep frontman Robert Plant to Richard Kingsmill, about the band’s eight-and-a-half minute Middle Eastern-influenced epic. “Because of the time signature, the whole deal of the song is… not grandiose, but powerful: it required some kind of epithet, or abstract lyrical setting about the whole idea of life being an adventure and being a series of illuminated moments. But everything is not what you see. It was quite a task, ’cause I couldn’t sing it. It was like the song was bigger than me. It’s true: I was petrified, it’s true. It was painful; I was virtually in tears,” Robert admitted.

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99Wolf Like Me
TV On The Radio

AuthorsTunde Adebimpe
ReleasedJuly 6, 2006 on Return To Cookie Mountain LP
Produced byDavid Sitek
Recorded atStay Gold Studios, Brooklyn, NY
“We wanted this one to be an accurate depiction of what we’re capable of,” explained David Sitek to jmag, shortly after the release of ‘Wolf Like Me’, the lead track from the Brooklyn collective’s breakthrough second album. “The trajectory of our music has gotten more optimistic,” he pointed out.

“At the time we did [debut EP] Young Liars, we were literally in a city that had just blown up, so it was hard to piece together the whole, ‘Where do we go from here?’ thing. But this is like… we can’t exclude all these other factors in our life. It’s not about one thing, but that’s where we are at: we are concerned with our fellow humans.”

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100Take Me Out
Franz Ferdinand

AuthorsAlex Kapranos, Nicholas McCarthy
ReleasedJanuary 12, 2004
(single, later appeared on Franz Ferdinand LP)
Produced byTore Johansson
One minute and four seconds into the Glasgow art-rockers debut comes a tempo change that wallops you in the stomach. ‘Take Me Out’ was the defining track of ’04, coming first place in the Hottest 100 countdown.

With lyrics urging the track’s subject to give it their best, ‘Take Me Out’’s winning structure was a bit of a cheeky pun for the former club promoter-turned-songwriter. “Lyric writing, it’s like having a very dry, sardonic sense of humour,” Alex reckons of lines like, “I know I won’t be leaving here with you.” “People often can’t tell when you’re joking!”

I reckon Kashmir would be Led Zepplin's highest ranking song

surprised to see it so low

 

[Eelementary]

90 - Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
89 - Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade
88 - The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
87 - Coldplay - Yellow
86 - The Beatles - Come Together
85 - Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
84 - Bob Marley and the Wailers - No Woman, No Cry
83 - Placebo - Every You, Every Me
82 - System Of A Down - Chop Suey
81 - Pulp - Common People

...Serious?

Woeful.

 

[Non Terminator]

I reckon Kashmir would be Led Zepplin's highest ranking song

surprised to see it so low

Stairway To Heaven will beat it easily. Always does in these polls.

 

[Misanthrope]

When's the voting deadline on this?

 

[Phillips]

Stairway To Heaven isnt even anywhere close to there best song

 

[Alex28]

I agree.... I was just saying thank christ it was there in the 80's rather than in the top 10. Plus I could think over more KoL songs way better than Sex on Fire.... pretty much any song on Because of the Times I prefer over that.

Youth and Aha are much much better albums...

 

[Paullyboy]

Stairway To Heaven isnt even anywhere close to there best song

Unfortunately that doesn't mean much in these polls. I love Triple J, but the fans of JJJ often do vote for some sh*t.

Having said that, I'd take JJJ fans (of which I am one) over Nova/Aus Stereo fans any day of the week - we'd probably have whatever the current Pink song is as the best song of all time if they voted.

 

[Paullyboy]

in my life - by the beatles was voted the greatest ever in Mojo mag a few years ago.

I love the Beatles, but dont know how they chose In My Life ahead of some of the other brilliant songs. I'd love to see it in the 100 somewhere, but I'm not expecting it.

 

[Non Terminator]

I would love to see A Day In The Life...doubt I will.

 

[carcharias]

I love the Beatles, but dont know how they chose In My Life ahead of some of the other brilliant songs. I'd love to see it in the 100 somewhere, but I'm not expecting it.

I was living in London at the time when this Mojo list came out.
I ended up getting a few Billie Holiday cd's because of it.

too make it more strange is that the people who voted were all famous muscians or industry knobs.

here it is

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/jul/13/colinblackstock


1 In my life, The Beatles
2 Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones
3 Over the rainbow, Judy Garland
4 Here, there and everywhere, The Beatles
5 Tracks of my tears, The Miracles
6 The times they are a-changin', Bob Dylan
7 Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday
8 I can't make you love me, Bonnie Rait
9 People get ready, Aretha Franklin
10 You've lost that lovin' feelin', The Righteous Brothers
11 Yesterday, The Beatles
12 I say a little prayer, Dionne Warwick
13 God only knows, The Beach Boys
14 Something, Frank Sinatra
15 Every time we say goodbye, Ella Fitzgerald
16 Fire and rain, The Isley Brothers
17 Moon River, Andy Williams
18 Stand by me, Ben E King
19 Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles
20 Ain't no sunshine, Bill Withers
21 I heard it through the grapevine, Marvin Gaye
22 Be my baby, The Ronettes
23 Many rivers to cross, Jimmy Cliff
24 Without you, Harry Nilsson
25 There is a light that never goes out, The Smiths
26 Somewhere, Barbra Streisand
27 Jersey girl, Tom Waits
28 I go to sleep, The Pretenders
29 Hey Jude, The Beatles
30 I think it's going to rain today, Randy Newman
31 Mack the knife, Bobby Darin
32 It's too late, Carole King
33 Tired of being alone, Al Green
34 There she goes, The La's
35 I'm stone in love with you, The Stylistics
36 Just like a woman, Bob Dylan
37 Feel like going home, Charlie Rich
38 Song to the siren, Tim Buckley
39 Live forever, Oasis
40 In the ghetto, Elvis Presley
41 Love letters, Ketty Lester
42 River man, Nick Drake
43 The long & winding road, The Beatles
44 Dark end of the street, James Carr
45 America, Simon and Garfunkel
46 Tower of song, Leonard Cohen
47 First time ever I saw your face, Roberta Flack
48 Sweet Jane, Lou Reed
49 It's all in the game, Tommy Edwards
50 Everybody's talkin', Fred Neill
51 Johnny B Goode, Chuck Berry
52 A case of you, Joni Mitchell
53 Suspicious minds, Elvis Presley
54 Who knows where the time goes, Fairport Convention
55 The weight, The Band
56 Walk away Renee, The Left Banke
57 Someone to watch over me, Frank Sinatra
58 Only love can break your heart, St Etienne
59 If you don't know me by now, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
60 Let it be, The Beatles
61 Waterloo sunset, The Kinks
62 Windmills of your mind, Noel Harrison
63 White Christmas, Bing Crosby
64 God bless the child, Billie Holiday
65 Bridge over troubled water, Simon and Garfunkel
66 Baby I need your loving, The Four Tops
67 Killing me softly with his song, Roberta Flack
68 If you go away (ne me quitte pas), Jacques Brel
69 Jealous guy, John Lennon
70 One for my baby, Frank Sinatra
71 To love somebody, The Bee Gees
72 Walking in Memphis, Marc Cohn
73 Blue moon, Elvis Presley
74 Just my imagination, The Temptations
75 What becomes of the brokenhearted, Jimmy Ruffin
76 Superstition, Stevie Wonder
77 Maybe I'm amazed, Paul McCartney
78 Guantanamera, Perez Prado
79 My funny valentine, Chet Baker
80 Different drum, Linda Ronstadt
81 Make it easy on yourself, The Walker Brothers
82 Summertime, Janis Joplin
83 Makin' whoopee, Ray Charles
84 By the time I get to Phoenix, Glen Campbell
85 September song, Walter Huston
86 Proud Mary, Creedence Clearwater Revival
87 What a wonderful world, Louis Armstrong
88 Always on my mind, Willie Nelson
89 Reason to believe, Tim Hardin
90 This land is your land, Woody Guthrie
91 Ode to Billie Joe, Bobby Gentry
92 Losing my mind, Julia McKenzie
93 As time goes by, Dick Haymes
94 Smells like teen spirit, Nirvana
95 Goodnight Irene, Leadbelly
96 The moon's a harsh mistress, Glen Campbell
97 Baby one more time, Britney Spears
98 Ever fallen in love (with someone you shouldn't've), Buzzcocks
99 We shall overcome, Joan Baez 100 Desperado, The Eagles

 

[Paullyboy]

Here, there and everywhere at 4?

Deadset, really disagree with the order htey have beatles songs

 

[DB]

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