JJJ Hottest 100

[somethingforkaty]

For all those who missed it something for kate managed to score:

2. Monsters
13. Three Dimensions
37. Twenty Years

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ammaeli]

how good is that!!

alex lloyd got the number one spot...

didnt see that one coming   hehe

[Jess]

I've been at work for most of the day so I've missed everything... Did they talk to the band before playing #2, and if yes can anyone tell me what they said?

[indecision]

Yes, they talked to Paul before playing three dimensions and again before monsters. Can't really remember what was said but something was asked about them being a serious band and then they asked if a whoopee cushion was put on someone's chair, who would it most likely to have been put there by, and Paul said Clint - whoopee cushions, Paul - fake vomit and Steph - can of shaving cream. Charming. And sad that that's all I remember. Oh, Paul seemed really happy that they'd done so well.

I suppose number 1 would've been nice but at least an aussie got it and the main thing is SFK beat System of a Down and Alien Ant Farm! Yay!

[MD]

woohoo!! too good!!

if you don't remember i predicted alex lloyd at 1 and monsters at 2
sfkforthenovice.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=1&action=display&num=1009322065

BTW, Alien Ant Farm came 6th for all those aaf haters (self included)

[The Anarchitect]

ayeah thats pretty cool .. i thought AAF was gona get the no.1 spot, though im not personally a fan of Alex Lloyd, my hat goes off to him for reaching the spot. . . .

Thankfully there were no powederfinger songs in this year. .

But also a big congrats to Blueline Medic, with their track "Making the nouveau riche" in at no.68 .. . pretty good considering they dont have pepsi sponsorships or have endless funds from their record companies (Being Redline and Fueled By Ramen, prestigious but not the richest of indie record labels). . .good work dude!!!

The Hottest 100, 2001 - the final list

1. alex lloyd - amazing
* 2. something for kate - monsters *
3. system of a down - chop suey
4. basement jaxx - where's your head at
5. john butler trio - betterman
6. alien ant farm - smooth criminal
7. weezer - island in the sun
8. avalanches - since i left you
9. gorillaz - clint eastwood
10. cake - short skirt long jacket
11. garbage - cherry lips (go baby go)
12. the strokes - last nite
* 13. something for kate - three dimensions *
14. tool - schism
15. gorillaz - 19-2000
16. 28 days/apollo 440 - say what?
17. ben folds - rockin' the suburbs
18. rage against the machine - renegades of funk
19. george - special ones
20. weezer - hash pipe
21. fatboy slim - weapon of choice
22. ben harper - drugs don't work
23. pj harvey/thom yorke - this mess we're in
24. gerling - dust me selecta
25. eskimo joe - wake up
26. jamiroquai - little l
27. regurgitator - fat cop
28. jebediah - fall down
29. john butler trio - take
30. machine gun fellatio - the girl of my dreams (is giving menightmares)
31.eskimo joe - planet earth
32. placebo - special k
33. james - getting away with it {all messed up}
34. eskimo joe - who sold her out
35. dido - thank you
36. radiohead - pyramid song
* 37. something for kate - twenty years *
38. new order - crystal
39. cruel sea - cocaine
40. u2 - elevation (tombraider remix)
41. regurgitator - superstraight
42. whitlams - duffy's song {i will not go quietly}
43. eels - souljacker
44. garbage - androgyny
45. tori amos - strange little girl
46. smashing pumpkins - untitled
47. augie march - there is no such place
48. groove armada - superstylin'
49. tool - parabola
50. paul mac - just the thing
51. nick cave/bad seeds - fifteen feet of pure white snow
52. they might be giants - man it's so loud in here
53. motor ace - hey driver
54. blink-182 - the rock show
55. linkin park - one step closer
56. you am i - kick a hole in the sky
57. you am i - get up
58. jimmy eat world - bleed american
59. the strokes - hard to explain
60. at the drive in - pattern against user
61. daft punk - one more time
62. jamiroquai - you give me something
63 alex lloyd - downtown
64. white stripes - hotel yorba
65. ash - burn baby burn
66. the strokes - new york city cops
67. ben folds - not the same
**68. blueline medic - making the nouveau riche **
69. unwritten law - up all night
70. rammstein - left 2-3-4 (links...)
71. spiderbait - outta my head
72. living end - roll on
73. muse - plug in baby
74. radiohead - knives out
75. groove armada - my friend
76. avalanches - radio
77. big heavy stuff - hibernate
78. cruel sea - a simple goodbye
79. rem - imitation of life
80. muse - bliss
81. crazy town - butterfly
82. lazaro's dog - home entertainment system
83. ash - shining light
84. the supermen lovers - starlight
85. at the drive in - invalid litter dept.
86. rhubarb - light on your shoulder
87. michael franti/spearhead - rock the nation
88: spiderbait - four on the floor
89. muse - new born
90. new order - 60 miles an hour
91. sum 41 - fat lip
92. george - run
93. butthole surfers - the shame of life
94. Depeche Mode – I feel Loved
95. good charlotte - little things
96. pennywise - authority
97. Superheist – Step Back
98. Faithless – We come 1
99. chemical Brothers – it began in Afrika
100. endorphin – sex and violence

[dirtgirl]

good to see the aussies do so well ('specially our fav sfk as well as honourable mentions George (I luv that girl  ;D) and my favourite WA tree huggers, the John Butler trio...

[Captain BJ]

Well my post mortem:

As expected, no write-ins made it, which proves the responsibility of triple j to not fuck up the voting list like last year. Renegades of Funk is the latest to make it two years straight. Thankfully Limp Bizkit - Faith didn't make it, I was surprised to see no Rollin' though.

THE GOOD:
Me tipping the quinella and winning $36 in the process.
SFK doing so well.
An Australian #1 again.
Jay from 28 days dedicating Say What to Scott Murray.
Adam and Wil closing the show. Piss funny stuff.

THE BAD:
The stuffed up voting.
That the tape ran out on #3. Lucky I was listening.
The lack of Outkast, with the exception of Sorry Matt Hayden, a classic!

THE SURPRISING:
John Butler Trio at #5. Great stuff. (I thought Take would be higher than Betterman too)
Machine Gun Fellatio at 30. Didn't see that coming.
The low placings of Linkin Park, Michael Franti, Good Charlotte and Sum 41.
Nobody reading out the songs that got 1 vote. I voted for John Williamson "This is Australia calling" from the Telstra ads.

Early 2002 predictions:
Say Something to get shafted due to being too early in the year.
JJJ to screw up the voting list.
Silverchair to have a top 10 song.
Foo Fighters to come out firing.
An amusing pisstake of cover songs (possibly by Frenzal Rhomb) to be top 20 material. We're talking either a bad Michael Jackson cover, or a Nikki Webster cover.

[Catfish]

Some figures for you: SFK made up 3% of this years Hottest 100! Did any others get more than that?
John Butler Trio did great to get up there, and my non-existant hat is also off to Mr. Lloyd, love his song but don't even have it in MP3!!

[MD]

Muse had 3 songs as well

73. muse - plug in baby
80. muse - bliss
89. muse - new born

the renegades song making it in 2 years in a row is pretty dumb
it was released near the end of 2000 wasn't it?

i was suprised Fourth Floor Collapse didn't make it

[scheibes]

yeah a fair few acts missed out
one dollar short didn't even get one in
pollyanna , blue bottle kiss, superjesus, superheist (well they had one in at 97)
Nathan

[Rendered Pointless]

I got 36 out of 100 songs as Australian... pretty good in an industry dominated by American marketing. Echoing The Anarchitect, big congrats to Blueline Medic, whose severely underrated release of a few years back, Plight 217, was sorely neglected.

What songs do y'all think were neglected? What songs shouldn't have made it? Personally, I think Eskimo Joe should have been lower... their EP was so much better than the Girl album. And Unwritten Law, what were they thinking? I would have liked to see R.E.M.'s All The Way To Reno and Steven Malkmus' Discretion Grove get in, both great songs.

[spongeboy]

can't disagree more with you - eskimo joe should of been higher and had more songs.....i can't believe sydney song didn't make it, jjj play it more than any of their other songs (singles).

i was dissappointed that turin brakes "underdog" and charlatans "you're so pretty" both missed out, and that bleed american wasn't higher. But overall, a strong list. I just hope they make the compilation a good one (ie without AAF).

when they were interviewing paul for no.2, he said, quite seriously, "thats amazing"....i couldn't stop laughing, and then he said it again.

all in though, amazing is a pretty crap song. would have much preferred chop suey or that weird monsters song to have won.....

"sorry matt hayden.....you are for real"

they said that even the lowest songs in the list still got thousands of votes....so its going to be pretty hard for any song that isn't a single to get onto the list i suppose....maybe one year we'll get a bside onto the list...

.....wait a minute...the list is a bit fishy, theres something not quite right about....can't quite put my finger on it....didn't the cure release a new song this year? and its not on the Hottest 100? what is the world coming to?

[MD]

Rendered said:

I got 36 out of 100 songs as Australian...

TripleJ has a policy to play at least 35% Australian music
36 out of 100 is awfully close to that figure if you ask me.
pretty interesting...

[Captain BJ]

I've gone off Eskimo Joe... I liked the old Ruby Wednesday and Sweater and all that stuff. I even liked Who Sold Her Out but after hearing Planet Earth I was singing Who Sold Us Out. Looking at it cynically, I just thought it was a bit too easy "Hmmm let's make an album. What can we sing about? I know, girls. Yay that will get us some airplay".

People might call me a hypocrite because of my confessed love of Britney and admiration of Robbie Williams, but they were always doing that and are unashamadely pop. Eskimo Joe seemed to change into the pop industry, and disguise it as "maturity".

Same goes for Blink 182. Dude Ranch was good. Enema of the State was passable. Pants and Jacket blows.