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Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1998)

The all-time countdown (1998) from Triple J in Australia (national) ranks 100 songs, with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana at number one. The list features 63 different artists; The Cure has the most entries with five songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana 231 #1
2 Throw Your Arms Around Me Hunters And Collectors 9 #2
3 Alive Pearl Jam 202 #1
4 Last Goodbye Jeff Buckley 50 #3
5 Creep Radiohead 158 #1
6 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 169 #1
7 One Metallica 107 #2
8 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 169 #1
9 Enter Sandman Metallica 164 #2
10 Black Pearl Jam 179 #1
11 One U2 172 #1
12 The Beautiful People Marilyn Manson 41 #1
13 Paranoid Android Radiohead 82 #5
14 Closer Nine Inch Nails 109 #1
15 Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes 102 #1
16 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 138 #1
17 Killing in the Name Rage Against the Machine 135 #2
18 Prisoner of Society The Living End 25 #15
19 Epic Faith No More 109 #6
20 Dammit blink-182 80 #1
21 Lightning Crashes Live 110 #1
22 Better Man Pearl Jam 148 #2
23 With or Without You U2 213 #3
24 Stinkfist Tool 73 #2
25 Tainted Love Soft Cell 76 #1
26 The Ship Song Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 30 #7
27 Cornflake Girl Tori Amos 65 #16
28 How Soon is Now? The Smiths 106 #1
29 Grace Jeff Buckley 19 #29
30 Blue Monday New Order 96 #1
31 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 204 #1
32 Brick Ben Folds Five 65 #6
33 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 104 #1
34 Unfinished Sympathy Massive Attack 28 #29
35 Ashes To Ashes Faith No More 2 #31
36 No Aphrodisiac The Whitlams 4 #1
37 Love Shack The B-52's 79 #1
38 You Gotta Fight For Your Right (To Party) Beastie Boys 86 #1
39 Fools Gold The Stone Roses 44 #1
40 Today The Smashing Pumpkins 108 #2
41 Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd 148 #2
42 Tomorrow Wendy Andy Prieboy 2 #5
43 You Sound Like Louis Burdette The Whitlams 2 #43
44 Sabotage Beastie Boys 111 #3
45 Lithium Nirvana 150 #3
46 Song 2 Blur 124 #1
47 Lover, You Should've Come Over Jeff Buckley 16 #47
48 Sober Tool 75 #14
49 A Day in the Life The Beatles 88 #1
50 Leaving Home Jebediah 3 #10
51 Everybody Hurts R.E.M. 75 #1
52 Underground Ben Folds Five 14 #3
53 Groove Is In The Heart Dee-Lite 21 #3
54 Karma Police Radiohead 125 #2
55 Come Out and Play The Offspring 97 #2
56 Rearviewmirror Pearl Jam 37 #8
57 Forty Six And 2 Tool 19 #30
58 Black Hole Sun Soundgarden 154 #1
59 Tomorrow Silverchair 65 #1
60 Bizarre Love Triangle New Order 92 #1
61 Berlin Chair You Am I 5 #23
62 Come As You Are Nirvana 175 #1
63 Kashmir Led Zeppelin 128 #1
64 I Will Survive Cake 30 #9
65 Hotel California The Eagles 160 #1
66 The Lovecats The Cure 60 #2
67 Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols 96 #1
68 Holy Grail Hunters And Collectors 4 #30
69 Been Caught Stealing Jane's Addiction 112 #1
70 All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix 148 #2
71 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins 115 #2
72 The Perfect Drug Nine Inch Nails 50 #12
73 Losing My Religion R.E.M. 173 #1
74 A Forest The Cure 63 #4
75 Glorybox Portishead 24 #15
76 Don't Dream It's Over Crowded House 61 #5
77 Sweet Child o' Mine Guns N Roses 136 #1
78 Birdhouse In Your Soul They Might Be Giants 63 #4
79 Video Killed The Radio Star The Buggles 50 #42
80 Self-Esteem The Offspring 110 #1
81 No Rain Blind Melon 109 #2
82 Jerks of Attention Jebediah 1 #82
83 Abuse Me Silverchair 16 #21
84 Into My Arms Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 28 #18
85 Just Like Heaven The Cure 104 #1
86 Buy Me A Pony Spiderbait 3 #1
87 Aneurysm Nirvana 29 #12
88 Just Ace Grinspoon 2 #18
89 Close to Me The Cure 83 #11
90 Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd 141 #1
91 The Unforgiven Metallica 96 #5
92 Back Door Man Pauline Pantsdown 2 #5
93 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 140 #9
94 Khe Sanh Cold Chisel 4 #1
95 Breathe The Prodigy 40 #2
96 Red Right Hand Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 12 #96
97 Loser Beck 125 #2
98 Boys Don't Cry The Cure 86 #1
99 Bittersweet Sympthony The Verve 20 #2
100 Heroes David Bowie 125 #1

About this countdown

Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1998) was broadcast by Triple J (Australia (national)) in 1998. Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Contributed by Keith Murphy. Thank you!

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