Here in Australia we have a radio station called Tripple J and this weekend they had a hottest 100 of all time. So i thought seen as people love there music here that it would be fun to post it here and get everyones opinions on the list.

Hottest 100 Of All Time 2009
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 7.Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye 8.Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge 9.Foo Fighters - Everlong 10.Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven 11.John Lennon - Imagine 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 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 24.The Beatles - A Day in the Life 25.Pearl Jam - Alive 26.Michael Jackson - Thriller 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 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 48.Beastie Boys - Sabotage 49.Guns 'N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine 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 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 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 98.Led Zeppelin - Kashmir 99.TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me 100.Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out Quote

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Not what I'd put on my top 100 list. I try to veer away from such lists as they usually make me bark or foam at the mouth, but I can't resist a little bit of foaming for this one..

Jeff Buckley has four spots in the top 100 of all time (nos. 3, 7, 56 and 69), but they deemed Bob Dylan worthy of just the one spot at no. 55? I think somebody doesn't own any Dylan albums to know better (and in which case, what the hell is he doing making this list???).

I was no fan of Nirvana but can see where they could earn a place on the list, but no. 1 of all time?? AND nos. 40 and 74??

Radiohead - THREE times in the top 15? PLUS a fourth song on this god-awful list at no. 28?? Would someone PLEASE tell this asshole to put his iPod on shuffle? You can't make a top 100 list of any sort that includes such a broad spectrum and wiggle a mediocre band into the top 30 four times, yet alone making up 20 percent of the top 15, and expect people to give this any legitimacy...

WHERE is Aerosmith? Or the Police? The Doors? The Eagles? No hip-hop or rap allowed on the hottest of all-time? But it makes your booty shake, really.. watch the videos :P Clearly this station leans a bit more alt-rock which is fine, but if you're going to put in the Beach Boys, you have to give Elvis or Buddy Holly their due with at least a mention (get over the Jeffrey Buckley man-crush and replace one of those with an ode to the King - they clearly went out of their way to mention the Prince of Pop with three slots).. Obviously there was a half-assed (a fifth-assed, let's be honest) effort to pay some respects to pioneers like the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Led Z epplin (though how each could only score twice on this list while lesser men of lesser talents could find themselves higher on the chart just goes to show the musical density of the horse's arse who put this list together. If they're going to put in art-rock acts like Franz Ferdinand and Modest Mouse, what about Talking Heads? If Johnny Cash can make the list, why not Buddy Holly? Where's Motown on this? No Commodores or James Brown? No Four Tops? Again maybe a bit too far from the station's playlist library, although Stevie Wonder gets a nod, and at least Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix made the list, as does TV on the Radio, otherwise Michael Jackson accounts for nearly one-half of the non-white acts listed from a stream of music so indebted to its roots in African American Soul and the Blues.

How the hell does Tiny Dancer, of all Elton John songs, make it on this list when more likely candidates for a crossover like Benny & the Jets or Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting remain reserved for the nos. 101-1000 list? Billy Joel should receive honourable mention if we're going to laud a pianist and showcase Tiny Dancer on the same list as "Stinkfist", Metallica and Rage Against the Machine.

Tool and Powderfinger get two slots but Queen, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and the Clash only get one? I demand a recount, or I'm taking to the streets. Tehran is burning! Well, figuratively anyway

I like a number of these songs, more than half, but whoever came up with this list ought to be sacked. If your musical roots were a heavy dose of the 90s and 2000s alt-rock and grunge scene, so be it, but don't throw in a few dozen pop and classic rock songs and claim to have a hottest of all-time list. Stick to what it is and go with a Best Alt-Rock, or Best Grunge, or Best Metal or Britpop or whatever categories a number of these fall into... this list shows an incredible amount of pretty good or mediocre alt-rock songs written into a list that was simply put, outside of their class. Quote

Maybe I'm just getting old, but alot of the bands listed on this supposed top 100 list are the reason I no longer listen to the radio and went exclusively to CD. This way I can listen to what I consider "good" music, and I don't consider myself biased against any genre of music, considering I have everything from classical to heavy metal, thrash to country, R&B to Jazz in my collection. I think this maybe a very limited area voting on a top 100 list, many of the bands I've never heard of and doubt I'm missing much. I got tired of what is termed as american heavy metal and started listening to some coming out of Europe, (Sonata Artica and Nightwish) to name a few. VH1 has done the top 100s in Hard rock, and other genres and over half of the bands listed in this top 100 don't appear on them. Then again neither do alot of the bands I do listen to, so I guess it is subject to where you live or just your own likes and dislikes. Just my Quote

Terrible top 100 list lol.Depends on what you like in music too however.Since my tastes run towards progressive rock ie: RUSH,Dream Theater,Pink Floyd and the like, my own list would be drastically different looking than this one.

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My only comment:

Before you check out of this life, make sure you've heard the majority of what Mozart has written.

And if you plan to die at 25, then at least make sure you get Don Giovanni the 'statue come to dinner scene' and 'tracks' 1 5 7 8 of his Requiem.

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Not what I'd put on my top 100 list. I try to veer away from such lists as they usually make me bark or foam at the mouth, but I can't resist a little bit of foaming for this one..
Jeff Buckley has four spots in the top 100 of all time (nos. 3, 7, 56 and 69), but they deemed Bob Dylan worthy of just the one spot at no. 55? I think somebody doesn't own any Dylan albums to know better (and in which case, what the hell is he doing making this list???).
I was no fan of Nirvana but can see where they could earn a place on the list, but no. 1 of all time?? AND nos. 40 and 74??
Radiohead - THREE times in the top 15? PLUS a fourth song on this god-awful list at no. 28?? Would someone PLEASE tell this asshole to put his iPod on shuffle? You can't make a top 100 list of any sort that includes such a broad spectrum and wiggle a mediocre band into the top 30 four times, yet alone making up 20 percent of the top 15, and expect people to give this any legitimacy...
WHERE is Aerosmith? Or the Police? The Doors? The Eagles? No hip-hop or rap allowed on the hottest of all-time? But it makes your booty shake, really.. watch the videos :P Clearly this station leans a bit more alt-rock which is fine, but if you're going to put in the Beach Boys, you have to give Elvis or Buddy Holly their due with at least a mention (get over the Jeffrey Buckley man-crush and replace one of those with an ode to the King - they clearly went out of their way to mention the Prince of Pop with three slots).. Obviously there was a half-assed (a fifth-assed, let's be honest) effort to pay some respects to pioneers like the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Led Z epplin (though how each could only score twice on this list while lesser men of lesser talents could find themselves higher on the chart just goes to show the musical density of the horse's arse who put this list together. If they're going to put in art-rock acts like Franz Ferdinand and Modest Mouse, what about Talking Heads? If Johnny Cash can make the list, why not Buddy Holly? Where's Motown on this? No Commodores or James Brown? No Four Tops? Again maybe a bit too far from the station's playlist library, although Stevie Wonder gets a nod, and at least Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix made the list, as does TV on the Radio, otherwise Michael Jackson accounts for nearly one-half of the non-white acts listed from a stream of music so indebted to its roots in African American Soul and the Blues.
How the hell does Tiny Dancer, of all Elton John songs, make it on this list when more likely candidates for a crossover like Benny & the Jets or Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting remain reserved for the nos. 101-1000 list? Billy Joel should receive honourable mention if we're going to laud a pianist and showcase Tiny Dancer on the same list as "Stinkfist", Metallica and Rage Against the Machine.
Tool and Powderfinger get two slots but Queen, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie and the Clash only get one? I demand a recount, or I'm taking to the streets. Tehran is burning! Well, figuratively anyway
I like a number of these songs, more than half, but whoever came up with this list ought to be sacked. If your musical roots were a heavy dose of the 90s and 2000s alt-rock and grunge scene, so be it, but don't throw in a few dozen pop and classic rock songs and claim to have a hottest of all-time list. Stick to what it is and go with a Best Alt-Rock, or Best Grunge, or Best Metal or Britpop or whatever categories a number of these fall into... this list shows an incredible amount of pretty good or mediocre alt-rock songs written into a list that was simply put, outside of their class.


amicu it was the Australian public that made the list there wasa vote where every one voted for there hottest 100 of all time. Quote

amicu it was the Australian public that made the list there wasa vote where every one voted for there hottest 100 of all time.


Sooo... you're saying they can't be sacked? Even Saphie?

I still think it's awfully weird that nearly 1 in every 12 songs the people of Australia feel among the greatest ever was sung by either Jeff Buckley or Radiohead, and I'm shocked that if the people voted that not one hip hop song or rap broke the top 100... I know a lot of teens in Slovakia who don't know much English but are more than enthusiastic about quoting every Jay-Z line lyric by lyric. One in every five songs to make everyone's list to get such a result would have to have been either Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Nirvana, Daft Punk, Michael Jackson, Powderfinger, or Rage Against the Machine, as they are 20 of the 100 listings, but not having ever been to Australia, maybe I'm underestimating the allure of Buckley

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Nirvana number one? UMMMMMMMMMM no. NO WAY. Led Zeppelin and Floyd have yet to be overcome. And I love Nirvana. I Quote