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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 134 #1
2 Throw Your Arms Around Me Hunters And Collectors 9 #2
3 Alive Pearl Jam 119 #1
4 Last Goodbye Jeff Buckley 41 #3
5 Creep Radiohead 111 #1
6 Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin 73 #1
7 One Metallica 68 #2
8 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 69 #2
9 Enter Sandman Metallica 73 #5
10 Black Pearl Jam 101 #1
11 One U2 114 #1
12 Beautiful People Marilyn Manson 4 #8
13 Paranoid Android Radiohead 68 #5
14 Closer Nine Inch Nails 67 #1
15 Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes 78 #1
16 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division 120 #1
17 Killing in the Name of Rage Against the Machine 15 #8
18 Prisoner of Society The Living End 22 #15
19 Epic (What Is It) Faith No More 15 #6
20 Dammit blink-182 46 #1
21 Lightning Crashes Live 58 #1
22 Better Man Pearl Jam 71 #3
23 With or Without You U2 123 #3
24 Stinkfist Tool 52 #2
25 Tainted Love Soft Cell 64 #1
26 The Ship Song Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 5 #14
27 Cornflake Girl Tori Amos 51 #16
28 How Soon is Now? The Smiths 85 #1
29 Grace Jeff Buckley 16 #29
30 Blue Monday New Order 82 #1
31 Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers 117 #1
32 Brick Ben Folds Five 44 #12
33 Bullet With Butterfly Wings The Smashing Pumpkins 63 #1
34 Unfinished Sympathy Massive Attack 24 #29
35 Ashes To Ashes Faith No More 2 #31
36 No Aphrodisiac The Whitlams 4 #1
37 Love Shack The B-52's 61 #1
38 Fight For Your Right Beastie Boys 19 #1
39 Fools Gold The Stone Roses 41 #1
40 Today The Smashing Pumpkins 67 #2
41 Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd 56 #3
42 Tomorrow Wendy Andy Prieboy 2 #5
43 You Sound Like Louis Burdette The Whitlams 2 #43
44 Sabotage Beastie Boys 73 #3
45 Lithium Nirvana 90 #3
46 Song 2 Blur 82 #2
47 Lover, You Should've Come Over Jeff Buckley 9 #47
48 Sober Tool 40 #22
49 A Day in the Life The Beatles 44 #4
50 Leaving Home Jebediah 3 #10
51 Everybody Hurts R.E.M. 64 #1
52 Underground Ben Folds Five 11 #3
53 Groove Is In The Heart Dee-Lite 13 #4
54 Karma Police Radiohead 92 #2
55 Come Out and Play The Offspring 43 #2
56 Rearviewmirror Pearl Jam 25 #8
57 Forty Six And 2 Tool 4 #30
58 Black Hole Sun Soundgarden 75 #2
59 Tomorrow Silverchair 43 #1
60 Bizarre Love Triangle New Order 76 #1
61 Berlin Chair You Am I 5 #23
62 Come As You Are Nirvana 97 #1
63 Kashmir Led Zeppelin 38 #2
64 I Will Survive Cake 20 #20
65 Hotel California The Eagles 65 #3
66 The Lovecats The Cure 52 #2
67 Anarchy in the U.K. The Sex Pistols 85 #1
68 Holy Grail Hunters And Collectors 4 #30
69 Been Caught Stealing Jane's Addiction 73 #1
70 All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix 59 #5
71 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins 70 #2
72 The Perfect Drug Nine Inch Nails 35 #12
73 Losing My Religion R.E.M. 115 #1
74 A Forest The Cure 58 #4
75 Glorybox Portishead 17 #45
76 Don't Dream It's Over Crowded House 47 #5
77 Sweet Child o' Mine Guns N Roses 44 #3
78 Birdhouse In Your Soul They Might Be Giants 49 #4
79 Video Killed The Radio Star The Buggles 45 #42
80 Self-Esteem The Offspring 62 #1
81 No Rain Blind Melon 65 #2
82 Jerks of Attention Jebediah 1 #82
83 Abuse Me Silverchair 14 #32
84 Into My Arms Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 6 #18
85 Just Like Heaven The Cure 82 #1
86 Buy Me A Pony Spiderbait 3 #1
87 Aneurysm Nirvana 27 #12
88 Just Ace Grinspoon 2 #18
89 Close to Me The Cure 72 #11
90 Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd 48 #2
91 The Unforgiven Metallica 21 #32
92 Back Door Man Pauline Pantsdown 2 #5
93 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2 69 #16
94 Khe Sahn Cold Chisel 2 #94
95 Breathe The Prodigy 27 #7
96 Red Right Hand Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 7 #96
97 Loser Beck 77 #2
98 Boys Don't Cry The Cure 73 #1
99 Bittersweet Sympthony The Verve 20 #2
100 Heroes David Bowie 93 #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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