100% agree with Ben.
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Have you listened to the triple j Unearthed digital station? It plays independent Australian music 24/7.
The winner of this Hottest 100 should be representative of the world-shaking, boundary-pushing music that Australian artists have proven capable of. It should be exciting. It should be weird. It should be Frontier Psychiatrist by Melbourne electronic pioneers the Avalanches.
There could be no more perfect winner of the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs than a groundbreakingly experimental, absurdly fun, enduringly influential and utterly bizarre breakout hit, a song so powerful it launched Australian music into the 21st century and set the tone for an era more creatively diverse and internationally renowned than any that came before it.
It also has Hottest 100 pedigree: it finished at No.6 in the 2000 countdown, and No.27 in the Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years in 2013. It was track 13 on the Avalanches’ debut record, Since I Left You, which was voted No.9 in the Greatest Australian Album of All Time Hottest 100 in 2011.
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The Avalanches deserve a spot at the pointy end for sure- because I reckon it’s the last truly innovative bit of music. Everything since then has been a (mostly) inferior version of what has gone before, though I enjoy the 80s revival of Cut Copy etc. that is also mentioned in that article.
Frontier Psychiatrist is great, but I think Since I Left You might be better, and this highlights one of the challenges many bands/artists are going to have: some have several songs that are worthy of a vot,e and that vote will splinter.
One of the things that works against The Avalanches is that it’s a genre of music that not everyone likes or appreciates, which may make it a challenge too.
PS: here is a great short doco about Since I Left You (the album) - it’s made me appreciate these songs even more
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I do wonder… has music changed much in the last 20 years?
I’m now 35. I’m fully aware that I am no longer Triple J’s target demographic.
However when I listen I am feeling the OPPOSITE of what I thought I’d be feeling at this age.
I expected to be thinking “This is all just noise to me, this isn’t real music like from back in my day”
But instead I am thinking “This sounds exactly the same as what we were listening to when I was 18 in 2008”
I don’t think it’s bad music, not at all, but I don’t really hear any innovation to be honest
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Love both tracks and yes, would probably give the nod to the latter. I was referring to their body of work as a whole being innovative and not any particular track. The word for this genre of music is ‘plunderphonics’, relying heavily on sampling (plundering) and audio layering a’la the ‘Wall Of Sound’. Did not make much of an impression on me at the time but have come to appreciate it latterly as the last true bit of innovation in music.
2008 at least had some good new rock music about and was pretty much in the centre of that new wave/dance revival too. There’s not much around in 2025 that is as inspiring; every new rock track I hear on Rebel is highly derivative.
Number 1 song should be revealed around 8pm.
Apparently bookies favourite is Hilltop Hoods, along with Powderfinger *
* Gamble Responsibly
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Good to see that it’ll be live around the country, like the annual Hottest 100 countdowns are.
Yep, very good to see them put in the effort, thought it probably isn’t too hard to get the schedules back on the delay for non-AEST states overnight.
Anyway my money for Number 1 is either You’re The Voice or Down Under.
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No, maybe slightly more difficult for SA/NT given it’s on the half hour… hopefully they can time it so there is a clean cut to/from the countdown so songs are not getting chopped off halfway through at 9.30am SA time for instance.
Not sure how they usually do it for the Hottest 100, but I would imagine they would just bite the bullet and cut from the delayed AEST feed of the Overnight music to the live feed at 6am AEST when Weekend Breakfast starts (to also join in the live build up, etc), then stay with the live feed until 5:30am AEST Sunday morning, where SA/NT/WA get’s extra music to fill the gap.
It’ll be live across the whole triple j network from:
- Double J (Pre party from 7am AEST tomorrow)
- Triple J Unearthed
- Triple J Hottest
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The votes are in! Here’s a first look at
triple j’s Hottest 100 of Australian Songs
Happy Hottest 100 eve! There’s less than 24 hours to go until triple j**’s Hottest 100** of Australian Songs .
This Saturday 26 July , we’re taking over the entire triple j network (cc triple j , Double J , Unearthed and triple j Hottest ) from 10am AEST to count down the Hottest 100 Australian Songs , as voted by all of you.
From the tracks that have shaped the nation’s sound and echoed across generations to the songs that defined our biggest cultural and personal moments, this countdown is all about celebrating the lasting imprint of music made right here in our own backyard.
After counting more than 2.65 million votes , we’re just about ready for kick off, but first, here’s one last look at what’s coming your way:
- One act in the top 20 is making their very first triple j Hottest 100 debut
- Only 30 votes separated #100 and #101
- One act has a back-to-back entry
- 8 entries are separated by less than 10 votes
- 18-29 year olds were the most popular voters
- At last count, 100% of entries are Australian
Listen to the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs on Saturday 26 July wherever you connect with triple j - on the radio, online, or via the triple j app. Plus, follow along via triple j’s TikTok , Instagram and YouTube for all the latest countdown info.
Hottest 100 of Australian Songs - Key Dates:
26 July – 10am AEST: Hottest 100 of Australian Songs on triple j, Double J, Unearthed & triple j Hottest.
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The Hottest 100 of Australian Songs has officially begun. The ABC’s Velvet Winter is doing a live blog for the whole countdown, and she is joined by Double J’s Dan Condon and Al Newstead.
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Listening…this could pass for an episode of The Conga Line, so far! Nothing more recent than the 90s in the first few songs.
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Here’s how the H100 of AUS songs presenters schedule looking like today:
- 100 - 80: Ash McGregor & Dave Woodhead
- 80 - 60: Dylan Lewis & Yumi Stynes
- 60 - 40: Abby & Tyrone
- 40 - 20: Concetta Caristo & Luka Miller
- 20 - 1: Lucy Smith & Zan Rowe
Music is great but the presenters sound like bog standard community radio announcers. If this is the current standard on JJJ then it’s a definite step down from the 90s and 00s. This is the first time I’ve willingly put on JJJ for over a decade.
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Up to number 89 at the moment. I fully back the idea of this countdown, but so far I am finding this quite a jarring listening experience overall with the songs kind of weird out of context. Spending eight minutes on that Flight Facilities song was quite bizarre