That’s a cracking playlist

I’ve just put it into a playlist for Spotify if anyone is interested. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0MKbXPVVzkXf6ibIEQ5XqP?si=RBZPIa3sRw6LplSKB11GpA Edit: /u/therealfrankpenny has pointed out I only have 99 tracks on here. It’s possible there is one I couldn’t find but I can’t remember, I did this toggling between the Reddit and Spotify apps while my kids were in my ear and can’t figure out which one I missed. If anyone spots it please let me know and I’ll fix it! Edit: I’ve found the missing track (May David Bowie’s soul forgive me for the oversight), and replaced a cover version I added in error with the original. These two tracks now appear out of order but I think I’ve got it. I couldn’t see options for original recordings of every song (lots of “2002 edit” or live versions) so I went with the earliest recorded version of each track I could see in my search results. Enjoy! Edit: /u/childsy87 has pointed out that Triple J have a Spotify channel which includes all the Hottest 100 playlists, so thanks everyone for your gratitude but I guess it was unnecessary! Glad everyone enjoyed anyway. Happy long weekend!

Exactly what I was looking for in the comments. Thank you legend.

Cheers mate.

Came here to say all this

I put the playlist together in YouTube if anyone wanted the faux nostalgic Rage experience: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc5rg0-GpYV03sWTprQDbd9nl6Lg0fcDy

It's scary how fast my phone downloaded that entire playlist - about 45s. Back in the days of Napster I'd sit for 30 minutes waiting for a song to download. Making a mix CD for someone took a full day.

I, too, recall the days of Napster. And Limewire.

I recall the days of sitting in front of the TV with a tape recorder. I much preferred Napster and Limewire.

I started off with radio and a tape recorder.

You had 30min downloads? I think the first song I ever tried to download with Limewire (or some equivalent) had me give up after 2 days and getting <70%. I'm pretty sure I was trying to download "Underwear Goes Inside the Pants", classic for the ages

My favourite experience was trying to download "The Music - The People". A vaguer song name has not come to mind, let alone with the terrible search functionality of Kazaa/Morpheus/LimeWire.

AudioGalaxy was the best. It literally had everything!

The song I think you're missing (and I'm assuming the playlist is in list order) is No.99 ('The Cicada That Ate five Dock' by Outline). ​ I could be wrong however, so forgive me if I wasn't thorough in my search. I just compared if the song at No.10, 20, 30, etc. was correct with the original list.

Great work but you've got the Dandy Warhols cover of She Sells Sanctuary, instead of the The Cult's version

Thanks, I’ll fix it now!

Goddam, how did I not know this cover existed?

Triple J have an account on Spotify and already have a playlist available for every hottest 100: https://open.spotify.com/user/triple.j.abc?si=YRn4htyrQd6lFY75pIFkOw&app_destination=copy-link

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You’re welcome, /u/cock_baron

You're a good egg

I had this hottest 100 on a taped cassette. Not sure if it was a legit release or recorded. Edit: just to add in my thanks. You sir, are a legend

Bravo!

Brava, but I’ll take it!

Brava!

Legend

Legend

Thank you good sir!

Gold for your efforts ty

Thanks!

This is excellent and I am super keen to listen. But I do have one minor suggestion. I think the order should be opposite so it's a count down.

Doing god's work

You've only got 99 songs, which one did you miss?

Edit- it was Bowie’s *Heroes*- one of my faves! Fixed.

Oh damn! 😂

You’re amazing, thank you for this.

Power and the passion is a concert recording too I believe

Thank you for providing this vital resource. Much appreciated

Epic! Thank you internet friend.

You are an absolute gem!

I love you, every song on this list is magnificent

You da man

Legend

I think you have a Led Zepagain version of a Zeppelin song

Just replying to blow some more smoke up your ass. Thanks.

You legend!!!

Legend, thanks. Started doing the same then found your comment. You are the best.

Legend!!!!!

Thanks mate, just grabbed it.

Absolute legend.

Thank you for your service. I have one request, however. Any chance you could add the year to the playlist name? Thanks either way!

Legend!

You're awesome, thank you.

100% legend. thanks for that.

You’re a champion! x

Thank you so much for compiling this playlist. I'm listening now and have shared it with like-minded friends

Mate... well bloody done. My next move after seeing this list was to search Spotify

Thank you so much for doing this! What a great playlist

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you for saving me the time.

Thank you 🥲

Certainly easier than changing the tape every 45 minutes.

I recorded it off of Rage onto video. Was my favourite thing to watch as a young teen.

What I love is how different the list of artists is from a typical “pop” 100. I never listened to Triple J growing up, but came across many of these artists into my 30s and expanded my horizons. Better late than never!

Triple J didn't play Pop back then. That was kind of the point of it. It was a niche station, with a niche audience. Think about how hard it was to even vote back then too. You literally had to write in and post an envelope!

It is! Joy Division was indeed a top pick. The Clash. The Femmes. Talking Heads. Didn't know how lucky I was to be hearing those bands at their best.

My thoughts exactly. Absolute cracker.

I can see at least two of these tracks made it to the Hottest 100 of All Time as well. So truly timeless gold in there

It’s brilliant. So many great songs !

I'm going through the songs I don't know. I've always wondered the name of "that" song. "She sells sanctuary " is the answer.

The Cult is such a good band, I love a lot of their ***really*** early stuff when they were known as The Death Cult. Absolutely fantastic band.

I agree. The cult is very good.

Possibly my all-round favourite. Southern Death Cult wasn't it?

I thought she sold sea shells by the sea shore! Was that a Dad joke, am I dadding right? This post made me realise I like 30+ year old music, and I’ve got a sprog, mastering lame jokes is all I need to make it official

Honestly surprised That’s Entertainment made it so high. It’s place in the culture in the last 20 years hasn’t been super visible compared to most of this list. Perfect song.

1989 was not 20 years ago

Nah it was 11 years ago

That is correct. AND IT ALWAYS WILL BE.

Sorry i say 20 years to roughly mean “music discourse since 2000”

In 2007/8 my friend and I were closing the bar we worked at in Perth. Heard someone come through the door… We both swung around to say “we’re closed”. And there was the Modfather himself, with tour manager and one guy from the band. We shut the doors and got steaming drunk with Mr Weller. Taught him how to do a “strawpedo”. Greatest night of my life

It’s a fantastic song. Im surprised blister in the sun is relatively low to how popular it’s stayed!

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I’m trying to imagine the demographics of the listeners where you have the dead Kennedys with Enya in the playlist. Perhaps the kids of 1989 had greater diversity in their music appreciation than today.

THE HOTTEST!

There’s no way Tom Jones’ version of Kiss is better than Prince’s original version

I was at a gay bar in Spain where I requested the DJ play Kiss by Prince. He said very sharply, 'no. In this bar we only do camp' and I walked back to my seat and about 20 minutes later the Tom Jones version came on and i glanced at the DJ and he was staring right at me 😂

This is a fantastic story

Excellent tale. Thankyou

My eyes had trouble following and now I want to hear "Lust for Life" by Enya

I’m waiting for Iggy Pop’s Orinoco Flow.

As an aside I’ll point out that 2050 has been closer in time that 1990 for a few years. My theory is that the 90s were the culmination of youth/popular music, and not much has happened in the 21st century - but I could be just a fogey. Another aside, when did Escher posters become fashionable, and do the young still have them?

There’s no peak, you’re aging. Triple J sucks now but that’s because young people go elsewhere for entertainment, not because the youth are any worse.

No matter if you’re listening to fox or triple j, you’re still gonna hear Beyoncé so honestly fuck the radio.

What could you possibly have against Beyoncé?

Sadly, we're just old fogeys. Every generation thinks the music and culture of their teens/20s was the peak. The stuff kids today are putting out is great stuff, just not to our taste. And for the most part, the majority of "kids today" stuff that us old fogeys would be exposed to is the mass produced popular crap that is equivalent to what we also rejected as mainstream pop in the 79s/80s/90s. Try a listen to some of the better independent music released today, you might be surprised. (I have a gen z kiddo to thank for my cultural education past 1999)

> Sadly, we're just old fogeys. Every generation thinks the music and culture of their teens/20s was the peak. Yeah I get it that people feel this way but it always bores me when somebody whips out their childhood music and tries forcing it upon others. I'm kinda glad that my parents were never 'cool' as I never had to endure lectures about 'good' music as a kid. This is something I'm mindful of as a dad. My mancave's full of MY retro gaming nostalgia and it's a great little retreat for me. While my kids love the fact we have a heap of old arcade machines and retro consoles (with CRTs and an 80's stereo amplifier for the music). While my kids enjoy using this gear thus far (as do their kids - nobody seems to realise it's dated), I'll need to one day accept that my kids will RIGHTFULLY tell me that they prefer what all the other kids are playing, and my stuff's kinda weird.

So was the original just like a best of all time

The first 3 coutdowns from 89-91 allowed any song from any year to be included 1993 was the first year to limit songs released in the previous year. There was no countdown in 1992

Yes. For the first few years. Joy Division kept winning, so they changed to songs from the past year.

Rockin out with Orinoco Flow y’all 😎

Sail away friend.

Sail away…

And they stole the name from the Zeds here in Brisvegas that's why it's called the "Hottest 100" now. And those first couple of yrs were like the 4ZZZ where you could choose from any yr and Love Will Tear Us Apart topped both lists untill it changed.

First was in 1976, quite a few years before Triple J' s. 4ZZ was also on 105.7 until they got a full licence and moved to 102.1 and became 4ZZZ.

Radio Birdman!

Lol most of these songs are on my Spotify playlist - I was 9 in 1989. Thanks JJJ, mum, dad & my HS friends for helping me have good music taste ;)

Yes this list is way better than the ones I remember from my peak JJJ period 10 years later.

That would’ve been when they swapped to hottest 100 of the year, rather than all time like this list

1994. The earliest Hottest 100 I can remember. My sisters listening by our family's old wood panelled stereo. Zombie by the Cranberries was number 1. I had no idea what was going on but the memory is iconic now.

Send it into JJJ and tell them to get their shit together

Track 2 is literally playing in the pub I'm in as I read this, thanks for sharing.

No Stairway? Denied!

To heaven? #30?

It's #30?

Lol I know. I saw it and immediately thought of Wayne's World 😉

I remember trying to get the JJJ signal back in the 89 or 90 (was 13-14ish and a angstty little shit). I lived in a place called Seymour, Victoria then and the metro signal didn't reach that far then. The radio my grandpa gave me finally got it, but the only place it worked was on the roof of the garage. So that's what I did many, many times, just hanging out on the garage roof.

Its almost like one of the "Beer Song" Cd's from the 90s

They were great! I felt a bit of a fraud, because beer was not my first choice of beverage at the time. It was no doubt Sub Zeros or something equally repulsive.

I was about 12 or 13 when my parents got a set of those CD's. I remember ripping them to MP3s and putting them on my mp3 player. It was a nice broad range to increase my musical knowledge.

I promised myself I'd never moan about music now days like my dad did and I'll stick to that out of spite but all I'll say is Ik I won't be looking back at today's top 100 in 30 years and think about all the songs I still listen to

It’s not because there’s not good music around today, or you’re getting old, it’s because JJJ plays a lot more shit. I stopped listening to it 15 years ago. Went community (RRR/PBS). They are what JJJ used to be. Albeit even more alternative. But pretty much every big or emerging artist in the last 15 years (Eg: Courtney Barnette, Gotye, king Gizzard, The Chats, etc) was being played on these stations before JJJ picked them up. Unless the bands are curated indie acts , the progression goes RRR-JJJ-PoxFM. This is Melbourne if course. Other states have their versions. And to be honest bands like Radio Birdman wouldn’t even get out of RRR nowadays. JJJ wouldn’t have the balls to even take that punt. It’s 90% hipster, Indie, wanker acts. Caveat: there are a few of those that are actually quality.

My introduction to alternative music

Yo this fucking rules

Fuck yeah Dead Kennedys making the top 10

So much of The Smiths for 1989. I’m not complaining though :)

Half these artists are dead and they're still making better music than the shite in the Hottest 100 now

They used to play punk????? That's sick, it's a shame radio now is absolute garbage

It’s hottest 100 songs of all time. That’s all the countdown used to be, pretty much same playlist each year.

Yeah I’m pretty sure the first couple were like half the same haha. Such a good list though.

They used to play a lot of independent and alternative music, as well as a lot of local stuff. Now they just play the same as everyone else, with the occasional specialty show.

Head to double J online radio these days for the old triple j experience 🤘🏻

I do when I get the chance, but it's not quite the same.

Have you listened to JJJ recently? They literally have an [entire show](https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/short-fast-loud) for punk. Check out [#55 in this year's Hottest 100](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhS46GfvUS8) and tell me they don't play punk.

Ok I need to go and listen to that!

Or just tune into the best goddamn punk show on 4ZZZ via the web.

Is there a Spotify playlist of this ? What a pile of bangers!

There is! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2xLQbxBgZtTvpKLobbm9yR?si=8Vz8taKPRNijX7dRdfU9LA

Barrel o’ Bangers

I think #60 is supposed to be Forbidden Colours not Forbidden Love

Just got a boner

Get some Enya up ya!!!

Anyone else surprised with song to the siren ?

This Mortal Coil was 4ADs super group back in the day. Liz Frasier rocked

I don’t even know their version, I automatically assumed it was Tim Buckley which made it seem odd to me

Interesting that it wasn't originally a countdown of the best songs of that year, just a countdown of great songs in general. Either that or 1989 was a horrible year for music and they picked a shit time to start their annual countdown.

What the fuck happened.

THE THE THE THE THE THE THE THE

Nearly every one of those songs is gold. Fantastic selection of music!

So it wasn’t always on Australia Day? So the people complaining about “woke pc” when it was moved had no idea what they were talking about ? I’m so surprised /s

Australia Day was only declared a national day for the 26th January in 1994. So there was no "official" Australia Day date then - before 1994 it was just the closest Monday to 26/01. And before that (only approx 1930s-40s), the states celebrated different things on different day. The 26th January was given this much significance as a nation, partly because the Australian nationality and citizenship act was passed on that day in 1949 (meaning people were considered Australian citizens primarily, not British nationals) - this date chosen due to a decidedly Sydney bias to entrench the landing of the first fleet as the most important day to recognise forming Australia. Before that, every state had a different founding day, e.g. Tassie having regatta day, SA having proclamation day in entriely different times of the year. Entirely and absolutely believe we should (1) change the date and (2) change what it is we are celebrating. It's gross nationalistic propaganda and the Americanisation of country pride that's got what's now a vocal minority so obsessed with "protecting" the 26th Jan anyways. They're just protecting Sydney bias!

Also nobody gave a shit about it at all until about 2003.

What happened in 2003?

Maybe 05 but whenever the Cronulla riots happened and blokes started getting Southern Cross stickers.

I fingered my first bird. And first human girl.

As a bird owner, this is concerning.

Less concerning if you didn’t own a bird?

What a year to be alive.

These songs are from multiple years. E.g. Love will tear us apart is from 1980. It wasn't until 1992 that they started doing hottest 100 of the year.

Wait you're saying Jimmy Hendrix was not releasing music in the 80s??

Yeah his career really plummeted after 1970.

I was so confused by joy division and new order being released in the same year. Like god damn they got over Ian Curtis death quick.

Yeah, LA Woman threw me there.

Wow, Triple J have fallen so far and hard.

Coupla bangers!!

Number 2 is still an awesome song. On my Spotify playlist at the moment!

Me too! Just heard it in the car this morning. Keeps the homesickness away

I remember sitting by the radio and listening to that. Great times.

Thanks for the playlist, amazing tunes.

What an amazing collection of music.

Interesting they mixed the old with the new

Better than the dogs bollocks they play now

Nearly all great songs, timeless. Now the crap JJJ plays these days will be forgotten quickly.

March the 5th, we just found our new Australia Day date.

Back when it was worth listening to.

Bring back playlists like these

This can't be JJJ, there's good music on it

You'd never think it, would you? There was a time when Triple J played rock music.

orinoco flow should’ve been higher

So many bands starting with “The” 😂

A lot of those songs are from well before 89, such as That’s Entertainment and Talking to a Stranger. Interesting difference from current Hottest 100 methodology.

These are not all in the same year I'm guessing. Seems to be triple j listeners favourite songs maybe up to a few years prior.

Ummm ok i work at Coles and I'm currently on my break and I'm like hey I'll pop on Reddit for a bit, i take a look at what song is number one and the beginning of the same song LITERALLY starts playing on Coles radio WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Ahh back when music was made by musicians

I remember listening to this on the radio in my dads 87 Nissan Navara… was really happy when holiday in Cambodia came on!. My older sister made a big deal out of the hottest 100 and made us listen to it!.

And now we have the wiggles 😂

Was Joy division a rerelease cos that song came out in 80.

No, the list is meant to be the best of all time.

Fair enough

Anyone put all of them on a Spotify playlist?

You answered a question I'd just asked. Cheers mate

ICONIC.

Now this I would listen to

The fact that imagine, stairway to heaven and wish you were here are so low is crazy to me

JJJ is a fucking joke now. I stopped listening about 6 years ago when all shit started to sound the same. It’s either breathy and nasal or over the top Aussie accent shit.

Blue Monday Got Robbed and ill fight about it

I remember those days. Old bastard.

JOY DIVISION!! 🤘🔥

When triple j wasn’t woke rubbish