Props to Casa for pointing this out...

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100_alltime/voting/

To celebrate 20 years of the Hottest 100, we're throwing our collective arms up in the air in a bid for enlightenment and asking you: What is your hottest song of all time?

In 1989 you crowned Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart with the top spot. What will your favourite song of all time be two decades on? It's time for YOU to decide.

Voting opens on Monday 1st June 2009 and will close Sunday 28th June 2009 - midnight AEST.

The countdown will start on Tuesday 7th July and we'll slowly reveal the list across the week and countdown the entire 100 across Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th July with a big finale.

Post your all time top 10 here, I should really lead off, but it's 1am here and I want to put some effort into it, so many awesome songs and you can only select 10 :/

In 1989 you crowned Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart with the top spot.

correct, ill be voting for it again

1. love will tear us appart - joy division
2. blue monday - new order
3. insomnia - faithless
4. da funk - daft punk (rollin and scratchin is a better tune, but the js never played it)
5. brown paper bag - roni size/reprazent
6. right here right now - fatboy slim
7. superstylin - groove ammada
8. witness the fitness - roots manuva
9. lets push things forward - the streets
10.galvernise - chem bros
bonus track star guitar - chem bros

fark that hurt to come up with;

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I find it realy hard to pick top individual songs, it should be top albums.

Yeah, this is going to be really tough. Only song I know for sure off-the-cuff is Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Love will tear us apart? As the BEST song of all time? Really?

It's hard to choose a top 100 and I don't care about these things but that choice.. that choice is wrong.

Love will tear us apart? As the BEST song of all time? Really?

It's hard to choose a top 100 and I don't care about these things but that choice.. that choice is wrong.

apparently me and the rest of australia agree that you are wrong

i think its already been no1 hottest 100 a few years in a row

I've never heard that song before, so I youtubed it.

Is someone taking the piss?

That song sucks, in every single way it's possible to suck.

wtf

Why don't they just put together the #1 song from each year's hottest 100?

Yeah I dont get the Joy division song, I mean its not a terrible song, but best all time song, Realy??

YAY.. I have been waiting to do this.

and urgh, this is going to be way too hard to pick... :\

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haha love will tear us apart, what a joke

haha love will tear us apart, what a joke

i like how they had to change the rules to stop it winning all the time:

Hottest 100 top fives and summaries

Year Top five Highlights 

1989 Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" 

Hunters And Collectors - "Throw Your Arms Around Me" 

The The - "Uncertain Smile" 

The Jam - "That's Entertainment" 

New Order - "Blue Monday" 

 The first of the original series of Hottest 100s, in which songs could be selected from any year. 

The list included two versions of the song "Kiss" the original by Prince at #34 and Tom Jones cover at #24. 

 

1990 Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" 

Hunters And Collectors - "Throw Your Arms Around Me" 

The Smiths - "How Soon Is Now?" 

The The - "Uncertain Smile" 

New Order - "Blue Monday" 

 The second of the original series of Hottest 100s which allowed choices from any year. 

The Cure had seven songs in the list, ranging from positions #11 ("A Forest") to #72 ("Inbetween Days"). 

 

1991 Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" 

Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart" 

Nirvana - "Lithium" 

Hunters And Collectors - "Throw Your Arms Around Me" 

Andy Prieboy - "Tomorrow Wendy" 

 The third of the original series of Hottest 100s which allowed choices from any year. 

The Cure had nine songs in the 1991 list, ranging from "A Forest" at #8 to "Love Cats" at #74 beating their own record for most songs in a hottest 100 list; this record remains unbroken. 

By today's rules, songs that appear on the list must be from that year. In 1991, they didn't have to be, so Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" appeared. Had the list gone by today's rules, Nirvana would have been the only artist to score the top two spots. 

 

Yeah, but I think the new rules are better. Promotes circulation of music and growth for new artists.

As for Love will tear us apart - great song, but wouldn't get my No. 1 vote.

Hmm, think I might put Leonhard Cohen in somewhere. Still working on mine.

smells like teen spirit - hell yeah.

novelty is a better joy division track anyways ;]

is there really any point to these hottest 100s other than to vindicate spook in his choice of joy division tracks?

haha :)

My list!

1. Underworld - Born Slippy
2. New Order - Blue Monday
3. Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
4. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
5. Faithless - Insomnia
6. muse - knights of cydonia
7. The Prodigy - Breathe
8. Massive Attack - Angel
9. Beastie Boys - Sabotage
10. The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun

respect redhat, respect

f*** this is impossible

my list would include

fleetwood mac
aussie crawl
inxs
ratm
daft punk
metallica
oasis

something like that

i dont see how u can pick a band that has even been created in the last 10 years because all the other older bands that still receive so much praise for songs would surely rape them - they have another whole generation or 2 voting for them

nwa - straight outta compton

^ werd

The Beatles - Hey Jude
Simon & Garfunkel - America
Muse - Knights of Cydonia
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Elliott Smith - Miss Misery
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Silverchair - Tomorrow


Had to basically pick some landmark songs in the various genres, otherwise there would just be 5 Beatles songs, 3 Simon and Garfunkel and 2 Muse songs. Didn't have room for Chuck Berry, Crowded House, The Shins, Rush, RATM, the list goes on...

cake - the distance :]

Disney - He Lives in You (Reprise)

Love Will Tear Us Apart was huge not just because of the song itself, but the background story. If you want to get a grasp of the whole thing, go see 'Control' or even '24 Hour Party People'. Basically the lead singer - Ian Curtis - killed himself on the eve of the band doing their first US tour, and maybe the album release (not sure). He was seen as a bit of a poet figure in the 80s, and I guess this was all still relatively fresh when Love Will Tear Us Apart came out, and was subsequently voted as number 1.

havent seen control, did see 24 hour party people

was pretty painful watching unfortunatley

1. Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
2. Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
3. Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
4. Underworld - Born Slippy
5. New Order - Blue Monday
6. Faithless - Tarantula
7. Muse - time is running out
8. The Prodigy - Smack my Bitch up
9. The Beatles - Hey Jude
10. Oasis - Champagne Supernova

Honerable Mentions:
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Silverchair - Tomorrow
RATM - Killing in the name of

How the hell have you people already picked 10?

It was hard. I tried to find a spot for killing in the name of, but I couldn't justify moving any of my 10.

How the hell have you people already picked 10?

i did mention in the other musak thread that im very good at music;

You are pretty incredible, Spook.

He's something alright.

havent seen control, did see 24 hour party people

was pretty painful watching unfortunatley

so was control. bleak dismal uk whingefest :P
i was a fan of joy division & later, new order back in the day but i still found control to be pretentious n tedious :(

peter hook is the master of the bass line

1 - Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
2 - Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
3 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
4 - Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
5 - The Eagles - Hotel California
6 - Disturbed - Prayer
7 - Cold Chisel - Khe Sahn
8 - The Doors - Riders on the Storm
9 - Live - Lightning Crashes
10 - Pearl Jam - Alive

I still have the 1998 (or maybe 97) hottest 100 of all time on vhs, when it was simulcast on rage over two nights. Damned good and introduced me to a bunch of awesome songs I'd never heard of. I think Smells like Teen spirit won it that year. Metallica had two songs in the top 20, one and enter sandman. Pearl Jam had Black and alive in the top 20.

I don't recall of the top 10 from their last Hottest 100 of All Time, but I remember that Smells Like Teen Spirit was #1, there was a Hunters&Collector's song at #2, Pearl Jam's Alive was #3, #5 and #7 (I forget the order) was I think Bohemian Rhapsody and Stairway to Heaven and #10 was Pearl Jam's Black.

7 - Cold Chisel - Khe Sahn

fyi, this is the worst song ever written

New Order - True Faith
The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
David Bowie - Major Tom
The Cure - Close to me
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Run DMC - It's like that
Radiohead - Creep
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Nirvana - In Bloom

same one I'm thinking of Ruhk. Pretty sure it was Throw your arms around me by H&C.

Spook is teh gay.

I just tried to make my shortlist and ended up with like 200 songs :( Picking 10 from that is going to be f***ing impossible!@#

All I know is #1 is Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

1. Internationale - Any trades hall choir or Mechanics institute
2. Born to run - Bruce Springsteen
3. hard rain - Bob Dylan
4. Helter Skelter - Beatles
5. Gone away - Offspring
6. Sex is not the enemy - Garbage
7. Evolution baby - Pearl Jam
8. My Pal - God
9. Ice - Magic Dirt
10. Come as you are - Nirvana

Honourable Mentions -

Galaxy Song - Monty Python
Pyramid song - RadioHead
Ring of the Neibelung - Wagner
Reuben James - Conway Twitty
I'm in love with my car - Queen

All I know is #1 is Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

I was gonna say exactly the same thing, I though the elite QGL people would rubbish the song though, but I reckon its an epic song, its got everything, its got one of the best guitar riffs ever in it.

Also pearl jam - Black, definatly top 10, along with radiohead - paranoid android.

NUMBER 1 - CAKE - The Distance

The Offspring - Gone Away
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name
Radiohead - Karma Police
Depeche Mode - It's No Good
Roy Orbison - You Got It
R.E.M. - Drive
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son

DIDNT really stress too hard about these votes, i figure some nerd group or forum like 4chan is going to use its numbers to vote something like rick astley to no.1

Albums would have been a lot more interesting I think. The only song I'd have in my top 10 that would also have been on an album in my top 10 would be Radiohead - Paranoid Android.

wow, never heard of Love will tear us apart.. wish I never did. Terrible.

It is terrible, and any of you f*****s that voted for love will tear us apart should die a slow painful death....

Aight, here it is. This was so so hard to narrow down to ten. I tried to span some time with my votes - otherwise you get too tempted to put only new tracks in, what you love at the moment kinda thing.

Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Robert Miles - Children
Beck - Debra
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Ben Folds Five - Underground
Tool - Sober
Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Machine Gun Fellatio - Unsent Letter

One song I forgot and should have included, also a band I haven't seen mentioned once so far in top 10s.

Guns and Roses - November Rain

NUMBER 1 - CAKE - The Distance

haha... wait..r ealyl? :(

Guns and Roses - November Rain

you are the worst person at music evar

01. janis joplin - summertime
02. butterfly effect - the cell
03. coheed and cambria - in keeping secrets of silent earth
04. disposable heroes of hyprocrisy - television
05. the doors - peace frog
06. faith no more - epic
07. david bowie - life on mars
08. flight of the conchords - bowie
09. mary hopkins - those were the days
10. bob dylan - times are a changin'

no hip cool joy division as very overhyped.
love will tear us apart has a haunting quality to it, but isnt that great a song imho.
its nearly as bad as someone saying there good at music...
are ya ????

OK
I think I got this...

simply red - fairground
presets - my peolpe
fleetwood mac - everywhere
nirvana - smells like teen spirit
metallica - one
tool - stinkfist
dream theatre - the glass prison
led zeppelin - achilles last stand
jimi hendrix - voodoo child
underworld - born slippy

s***, yes. Very sceptical re: presets but that song was hueg

no way a band that has become famous in thelast 5 years will crack the top 10

1. New Kids On The Block - Hangin Tough
2. Collette - Ring My Bell
3. Mel & Kim - Respectable
4. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
5. Aqua - Barbie Girl
6. Haddaway - What is Love?
7. Nikki Webster - Strawberry Kisses
8. Paula Abdul & MC Skat Kat - Opposites Attract
9. Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up
10. Tool - Stinkfist

^obviously stinkfist gets your real vote.....
great choice !!!!!

Aight, here it is. This was so so hard to narrow down to ten. I tried to span some time with my votes - otherwise you get too tempted to put only new tracks in, what you love at the moment kinda thing.

Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Robert Miles - Children
Beck - Debra
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Ben Folds Five - Underground
Tool - Sober
Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Machine Gun Fellatio - Unsent Letter

this is a great list imho............

in a perfect world but, wouldnt the lonely island take out the entire top 10?
and T-pain would be all over this hottest 100!!!

bets are on in regards to how many songs are in the chart that Dave Grohl has had something to do with.........im guessing 15 to 20......

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Mooby - that sig is breaking my page.

haha... wait..r ealyl? :(

Like Queen is any better?

I reckon spooks nailed a few of them... no way I could be f***ed dedicating the amount of time neccesary to do this.

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Is it only bands that are in a database or any songs at all?

Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations
Snow - Informer
Kriss Kross - Jump
Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl
Tag Team - Whoomp! There It Is
House Of pain - Jump Around
DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince - Boom Shake The Room
Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It
Salt-N-Pepa - Push It
SNAP! - Rhythm is a Dancer

Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations
Snow - Informer
Kriss Kross - Jump
Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl
Tag Team - Whoomp! There It Is
House Of pain - Jump Around
DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince - Boom Shake The Room
Reel 2 Real - I Like To Move It
Salt-N-Pepa - Push It
SNAP! - Rhythm is a Dancer

If you wake up alive tomorrow, you are going to be f***ing lucky

Guvna you have created some sort of youtube camp god playlist.

An hour of solid entertainment.

Heh, I tried to get the guys from my forum motivated to pick some Aussie metal to all vote for but it didn't pan out :(

I can't believe nobody has gone for

Prince - Batdance ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLlQpc8D2Kc )

or Dio - Holy Diver ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7UBgVVew8 )

or Dio - Holy Diver ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7UBgVVew8 )

Oh mannnn, why didn't you post before I was reminded of voting in this thread :(

If you wake up alive tomorrow, you are going to be f***ing lucky

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me. No more...

Most of the songs r_Mazing listed are better than 80% of the crap that makes the coutdown each year, and about 95% of the crap played during the day.

And so it begins!!!! It's starting today!!!! Woohoo

I also hope that MJ doesn't end up winning out of Sympathy!

When did voting close? It may have been early enough to avoid the MJ influence..

like 2 days after he died, IIRC

List so far: 91-100
List so far: 81-90

Discuss.

Glad 'Common People' made it in.

There are some really strange ones in that lot for me though. Unfinished Sympathy by Massive Attack?? - wouldn't have made it into my list. It's a good song, but not 100 of all time.

None of my songs in 81-100.

None of my songs in the 81-100. I did forget how awesome Unfinished Sympathy is tho. Good to see Common People and Bulls on parade in there tho.

Very random list so far. One more time ftw.

STOP! It's Hammer Time!

no way a band that has become famous in the last 5 years will crack the top 10

You underestimate the power of the voting demographics!

Anyway,

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody: Better be close to the top 10 or 20.
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart: That will be in there somewhere.
Massive Attack - Teardrop I expect this around the 50ish mark.

I wonder if any songs by The Cure or The Doors will get in?

List so far: 61-70
List so far: 71-80

Still none of my songs to be seen!

Bahahahah Rick Astley!!!!

Just got my first entry in the 100, Comfortably Numb at #53. Disappointingly low considering a lot of people regard it as having the best guitar solo ever.

I thought it'd rate higher as well... oh well it happens mate.

Disappointingly low considering a lot of people regard it as having the best guitar solo ever.

Bet you Sweet Child o' Mine gets in ahead of that, for that very reason...

Still nothing in my list!!! God damnit.

I'm waiting for United Breaks Guitars to enter the chart...hehe

So who is listening.. top 20 got off to a pretty s***ty start.. top 11 is going good so far..but don't know that fooies should be infront of led zep or lennon..

down to #5. been good listening so far.

how much does radiohead wanna appear.. ugh.. good band ugh..

OH SNAP.

Love will tear us apart - #4.

f*** yes, love will tear us apart didn't make #1. thank f***, terrible song.

gah

someone tell me how love will tear us apart is popular.. that was f***in boring as..


HALLELUJAH!!!

Definately deserves top 3 spot.. beautiful song and an amazing voice.

yuo are extremely bad at music damo

I suppose you have to be an old man from spooks epoch to like that song.

umm no... i was bored during that song..

thinking nirvana - smells like teen spirit for #1

Smells like teen spirit.

nice.

no surprise at all..

Now they just need to do GREATEST 100 of all time..

I'm not entirely unhappy with that.

lol @ nirvana as no.1. how predictable

Awful list!

Glad Paranoid Android and Hallelujah were up there. I'm with Damo on the Joy Division song. It's a good song, but not worthy of all the credit it seems to get.

Well, my list didn't do too well all in all.

Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Robert Miles - Children
Beck - Debra
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Ben Folds Five - Underground
Tool - Sober
Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Machine Gun Fellatio - Unsent Letter

Three songs, one at number 35 and two in the top 5.

I was hoping to see Pyramid Song in the top 100 as well, but sadly, my hopes were dashed.

(Also would have loved to have seen Tub Thumping in the top 100 as well, but I guess it's an acquired taste heh).

Overall I thought the top 100 was f***ing woeful.

oh noes people have different tastes in music

Can anyone post the full list, I can't get access to the page, they must limit international traffic - it just keeps timing out :/

Delivered.

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

That joy division s*** sort of renders the whole exercise somewhat futile, really

Was not a fan of having Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah & Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart in those spots.

That list is a joke, even for some of those artists high up on the list, those are not their best songs.

I'm surprised how little I identify with the last. I have probably been listening to triplej for about 13-14 years at a guess. I never would have considered voting for Johnny Cash, The Beatles, stuff like that, because I just don't feel that kind of music represents my generation. But I know plenty of 40-50+ year olds that are regular J's listeners. There must be more of them than you think.

wtf is up with 'joy division - love will tear us apart' ? It's one of the worst songs I've ever heard, in all facets, and people go on about it like it's the bees knees?

reckon:

still cant believe joy division wasnt no1

this list is obviously rorted

it's not surprising the list won't fully please anyone due to the wider range available to vote for. yas have gotta realise that other people have different taste in music... kinda my point in asking what's the point of a hot100 of all time :/ so everyone can have a spew about music they don't like being in the same list as music they do like? ;p

still cant believe joy division wasnt no1

so you're saying the no.1 track of all time should be a guitar heavy rock song? ;D

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* 2.
* Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name

s*** yeah

Triple J and I are through professionally.

Hilltop hoods are good and all, but top 100 songs of all time, Im not sure about that. And no soundgarded, what the?

Also no,

The Who
Black Sabbath
U2
Van Halen

Surely they would have at least 1.

Wtf, no ELVIS???!!!

Triple J and I are through professionally.

I don't understand peeps that are blaming Triplej, though. There's a lot of your type. But they just play the list that the people voted for. I don't know why people are saying statements like this.

Okay - but on the Hottest 100 (on aus day) they played sex on fire.. TWICE...

TWICE... in a row... that was BAD.

I knew it would be Smells like teen spirit. f*** yeah!

where were the female artists?

The what?

Ha! At a glance i can only spot massive attack, tear drop, to have female vocals... wow.

Triple J and I are through professionally.

Unfortunately, you don't have other choices

* 6.
* Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

I have always been baffled why people like this song. And I'm a huge Queen/Freddie Mercury fan, but it's long, it drones on, and there are far and better Queen singles, eg Headlong, Breakthrough, Good old fashioned lover boy, Innuendo... I just don't get what people like about Rhapsody over others.

I don't understand peeps that are blaming Triplej, though. There's a lot of your type. But they just play the list that the people voted for. I don't know why people are saying statements like this.

Really? Are you sure about this (the bit where you say they just play what people vote for)?

http://www.theenthusiast.com.au/archives/2009/hottest-100-reveals-chicks-cant-play-music/

I have always been baffled why people like this song. And I'm a huge Queen/Freddie Mercury fan, but it's long, it drones on, and there are far and better Queen singles, eg Headlong, Breakthrough, Good old fashioned lover boy, Innuendo... I just don't get what people like about Rhapsody over others.

my favourite queen song is that catchy ad about getting rid of car tolls!

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* Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

I have always been baffled why people like this song. And I'm a huge Queen/Freddie Mercury fan, but it's long, it drones on, and there are far and better Queen singles, eg Headlong, Breakthrough, Good old fashioned lover boy, Innuendo... I just don't get what people like about Rhapsody over others.

wow, I wouldn't rate any of those Queen songs above Bohemian. I would have said Innuendo is clearly the best from that list by an order of magnitude.

I am a big Queen fan and Bohemian is definitely my favourite song. But I basically love all of the rest of them equally and only a notch below it.

There's not that many influential female singers in the past 20 years....

Only one that i can think of in the last 50 years has been Janis Joplin... that's just my personal opinion though.

Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera, Pink, Britney Spears...

You're hilarious, Billy.

He is isn't he fade?

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He said 'female' singers...

^^ I'd submit that about Pink, too.

Yeah the only chick singer I like is Sarah Blasko. Partly because of her music and partly because I think she's very rootable for an Indy Chick.

Also Bjork, Emiliana Torrini maybe.

Aye, I'm a fan of Sarah Blasko except for her interview character. She has a 'softly softly' voice that makes me want to slap her and say, "SPEAK PROPERLY!"

Nice to look at though.

In the female singers dept I don't mind Ladyhawke for some local [NZ] action.

Amanda Palmer!

Paveway's mum sings out pretty good when I'm around.

Amanda Palmer!

Yes.. I agree... Genius..

Surprisingly, a lot of people HATE her. I don't understand why though.

u and trog should make out and have babies that are equally as bad at music as you guys are!

Nah - trog is too power thirsty for my likings.

I'd much prefer to make you with your deck.. =)

zomg, HAWT HAWT
and in time, over the years, i could teach you about music and how to be better at it!