Triple J Hottest 100, 1997
The 1997 Triple J Hottest 100, was a countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J, and was broadcast on Australia Day 1998. A CD featuring 31 of the songs was released. A countdown of the videos of most of the songs was also shown on the ABC music series Rage. The most popular song was announced by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the namesake of the winning group.
Full list
Note: Australian artists
| # | Song[1] | Artist | Country of Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Aphrodisiac | The Whitlams | Australia |
| 2 | Song 2 | Blur | England |
| 3 | Tubthumping | Chumbawamba | England |
| 4 | Bitter Sweet Symphony | The Verve | England |
| 5 | Paranoid Android | Radiohead | England |
| 6 | Dammit | Blink-182 | United States |
| 7 | Backdoor Man | Pauline Pantsdown | Australia |
| 8 | The Beautiful People | Marilyn Manson | United States |
| 9 | Karma Police | Radiohead | England |
| 10 | Leaving Home | Jebediah | Australia |
| 11 | Walkin' on the Sun | Smash Mouth | United States |
| 12 | One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces | Ben Folds Five | United States |
| 13 | Freak | Silverchair | Australia |
| 14 | Down Again | The Superjesus | Australia |
| 15 | Prisoner Of Society | The Living End | Australia |
| 16 | Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) | Quindon Tarver/Lee Perry | United States |
| 17 | Crazy | Cordrazine | Australia |
| 18 | Into My Arms | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Australia |
| 19 | Every Day Formula | Regurgitator | Australia |
| 20 | I Will Survive | Cake | United States |
| 21 | Monkey Wrench | Foo Fighters | United States |
| 22 | The Drugs Don't Work | The Verve | England |
| 23 | Calypso | Spiderbait | Australia |
| 24 | A.D.I.D.A.S. | Korn | United States |
| 25 | Hitchin' a Ride | Green Day | United States |
| 26 | The Perfect Drug | Nine Inch Nails | United States |
| 27 | The Door | Silverchair | Australia |
| 28 | Cows With Guns | Dana Lyons | United States |
| 29 | Semi-Charmed Life | Third Eye Blind | United States |
| 30 | Forty-Six & 2 | Tool | United States |
| 31 | Ashes To Ashes | Faith No More | United States |
| 32 | Coma | Pendulum | Australia |
| 33 | Military Strongmen | Jebediah | Australia |
| 34 | Dcx3 | Grinspoon | Australia |
| 35 | Summertime | The Sundays | England |
| 36 | Mutilated Lips | Ween | United States |
| 37 | Naughty Boy | The Mavis's | Australia |
| 38 | The Memory Remains | Metallica | United States |
| 39 | Captain (Million Miles) | Something for Kate | Australia |
| 40 | Why's Everybody Always Pickin' On Me? | The Bloodhound Gang | United States |
| 41 | Deadweight | Beck | United States |
| 42 | Brimful of Asha | Cornershop | England |
| 43 | You're Not The Only One | Ammonia | Australia |
| 44 | Temptation | The Tea Party | Canada |
| 45 | Wrong Number | The Cure | England |
| 46 | Fire Water Burn | The Bloodhound Gang | United States |
| 47 | (Can't You) Trip Like I Do | Filter And The Crystal Method | United States |
| 48 | Anatomically Correct | Custard | Australia |
| 49 | From Here On In | The Living End | Australia |
| 50 | Eat Me | Arkarna | England |
| 51 | So Much For The Afterglow | Everclear | United States |
| 52 | #1 Crush | Garbage | United States |
| 53 | You Sound Like Louis Burdett | The Whitlams | Australia |
| 54 | Everything To Everyone | Everclear | United States |
| 55 | Love Rollercoaster | Red Hot Chili Peppers | United States |
| 56 | Funky Shit | The Prodigy | England |
| 57 | Girl At The Bus Stop | My Drug Hell | England |
| 58 | I Go Off | Diana Ah Naid | Australia |
| 59 | Your Woman | White Town | England |
| 60 | New York City | They Might Be Giants | United States |
| 61 | Block Rockin' Beats | Chemical Brothers | England |
| 62 | The End Is the Beginning Is the End | The Smashing Pumpkins | United States |
| 63 | Repeat | Grinspoon | Australia |
| 64 | Stripsearch | Faith No More | United States |
| 65 | Outdoor Type | The Lemonheads | United States |
| 66 | JC | Powderfinger | Australia |
| 67 | I Choose | The Offspring | United States |
| 68 | Cosmic Girl | Jamiroquai | England |
| 69 | Waving My Dick In The Wind | Ween | United States |
| 70 | Place Your Hands | Reef | England |
| 71 | Sick With Love | Robyn Loau | Australia |
| 72 | Pulse | Front End Loader | Australia |
| 73 | Lakini's Juice | Live | United States |
| 74 | The Ghost of Tom Joad | Rage Against the Machine | United States |
| 75 | Female of the Species | Space | England |
| 76 | Legend Of A Cowgirl | Imani Coppola | United States |
| 77 | Lovefool | The Cardigans | Sweden |
| 78 | Degenerate Boy | The Mark of Cain | Australia |
| 79 | All Mine | Portishead | England |
| 80 | Faded | Ben Harper | United States |
| 81 | Did It Again | Kylie Minogue | Australia |
| 82 | Shake Hands with Beef | Primus | United States |
| 83 | I Wanna Be A Drug-Sniffing Dog | Lard | United States |
| 84 | Feelin' Kinda Sporty | Dave Graney | Australia |
| 85 | Nightmare | Brainbug | England |
| 86 | Smokin' Johnny Cash | Blackeyed Susans | Australia |
| 87 | 6 Underground | Sneaker Pimps | England |
| 88 | Nothing | Beaverloop | Australia |
| 89 | Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth | The Dandy Warhols | United States |
| 90 | Society | Pennywise | United States |
| 91 | Remember Me | Blue Boy | Scotland |
| 92 | Titanic Days | Sidewinder | Australia |
| 93 | Weightlessness | Skunkhour | Australia |
| 94 | Way Of All Things | Rebecca's Empire | Australia |
| 95 | Don't Leave | Faithless | England |
| 96 | Bound for the Floor | Local H | United States |
| 97 | Future's Overrated | Arkarna | England |
| 98 | Da Funk | Daft Punk | France |
| 99 | Naked Eye | Luscious Jackson | United States |
| 100 | I Give In | Effigy | Australia |
34 of the 100 songs were by Australian artists (marked with a green background).
Artists with multiple entries
Two entries
- The Whitlams (1, 53)
- The Verve (4, 22)
- Radiohead (5, 9)
- Jebediah (10, 33)
- Silverchair (13, 27)
- The Living End (15, 49)
- Faith No More (31,64)
- Grinspoon (34, 63)
- Ween (36, 69)
- The Bloodhound Gang (40, 46)
- Arkarna (50, 97)
- Everclear (51, 54)
CD release
Disc 1
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Disc 2
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The CD also has an interactive component[2] that could be accessed on a PC.
A later version, released under the Warner label, omitted Beautiful People and One Angry Dwarf, but included Cows With Guns on the first disc.
See also
Notes
- ^ "Hottest 100 1997". Triple J. Retrieved 11 June 2007.
- ^ Created by Missing Link Entertainment and Arty Computer Productions (now Arty Labs)