January 26 is Australia Day where we celebrate being how much better we are at cricket, swimming and electro than the rest of the world. Every year the largest national youth radio station, Triple J, also broadcast their hottest 100 tracks of the past year as voted by listeners in the largest listener poll in the world with 700,000 votes cast.
This year the top ten spots went to the following:
1. Muse – Knights of Cydonia
2. Silverchair – Straight Lines
3. Kings Of Leon – On Call
4. John Butler Trio – Better Than
5. Faker – This Heart Attack
6. Foo Fighters – The Pretender
7. Daft Punk – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (live)
8. Cold War Kids – Hang Me Up To Dry
9. Soko – I’ll Kill Her
10. The Panics – Don’t Fight It
Interesting piece of trivia is that the Silverchair track in the number 2 spot was co-written by Julian Hamilton of the Presets who used to act as touring support for Paul Mac and Daniel Johns’ The Dissociatives.
And here is the rest of the top 100. Well the ones you probably know and/or care about:
12 Wombats, The Let’s Dance To Joy Division
14 Muscles Ice Cream
17 M.I.A Paper Planes
18 Presets, The My People
19 Architecture In Helsinki Heart It Races
20 Kanye West Stronger
24 Bloc Party Hunting For Witches
27 Operator Please Just A Song About Ping Pong
34 Feist 1234
35 Justice D.A.N.C.E
36 Architecture In Helsinki Hold Music
37 Cold War Kids Hospital Beds
39 Cut Copy Hearts On Fire
40 Bloc Party I Still Remember
54 Klaxons Golden Skans
57 Midnight Juggernauts Into The Galaxy
69 Digitalism Pogo
76 Muscles Sweaty
86 Midnight Juggernauts Tombstone
93 Bumblebeez Dr Love
98 Interpol The Heinrich Maneuver
99 Hives, The Tick Tick Boom
100 Pnau Wild Strawberries
You can listen to the Triple J Hottest 100 here as well as checking out who made the entire list. And that’s all I have to say on the matter
xox
nek
5 Comments
I’m quite genuinely disappointed that only four of my ten picks made it onto the Top 100 – is there something wrong with the listeners of Triple J that they’d give Hearts On Fire as bad a ranking as 39?
Digitalism’s Pogo (#69) seems conspicuously absent from your best of the rest.
Not sure how I missed that one out of the best of the rest – my bad!
I have moved away from Triple J as a source of new and interesting music. It has it’s place but it will never be cutting edge, it’s all about the current singles.
I’m continually confused by the Australian public. Case in point, Knights Of Cydonia. Jesus Christ.
Me too. I guess we had our say via the a-reminder.org list – need to get that played on Triple J
For all the Triple J fans, you might find this site handy: Hottest 100 Tunes. It lists every Hottest 100 song from the past 19 years with links to iTunes tracks. Check it out.