We have lifted the voices and the hottest 100 of Australian songs have been pronounced in the latest episode of the coveted musical democracy of Australia.
Tension of decades and genres, emotions and memories, this stunning collective of tracks includes the Australian sound as we know it; A marker from where we have been as a country, and what we still have to become.
Explore the top 10 tracks, as voted by you, in this special countdown in honor of the Sonic Excellence in our country.
#10 Gotye – Someone I used to know [Ft. Kimbra]
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If you have opened apps for social media over the past six months, you would have heard this indispensable melody over and over thanks to the serious sampling of Doechii about ‘fear’.
Released in 2011 and tROn the most popular 100 -graph of that year, Gotye’s Duet with NZ artist Kimbra also hit the pointed end of the hottest 100 of the last 20 years in 2013 and again in the hottest 100 of the 2010 list in 2020.
It is no surprise that it returns to this countdown of all time.
#9 Paul Kelly – How to make Jus
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An unofficial Christmas song (we will fight you about this), Paul Kelly’s letter from prison is a perfect takeover of Australian stories at his best.
Inspiring a stars-lined film and countless covers in many Country Pub, including a loved one such as a version of Luca Brasi, makes the 1996 song his hottest 100 debut after reaching a real cult-favorite status.
#8 Cold Chisel – Khe Sanh
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Chuck ‘Khe Sanh’ at every party and you have people poor in arm to spread the choruses (and muttering through the verses).
This year, cold chisel from the train will find on the other side of the countdown after the trail of 1978 lived in the deep 90s in the all time of 1989 and 1998.
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#7 Cold chisel – flambuish
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A rare back-to-back placement in the top of the hottest 100, cold chisel gives us a two-two punch with the light and the shadow of their extensive catalog. Released in 1984, this heartbreaking ballad gives the chisel another song in the rich archives of the Hottest 100.
#6 Powderfinger – My Happiness
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It would not be a countdown of the best Australian songs without Powderfinger, right?
Potential self-sabotaged by split voices for an extensive and excellent catalog, the groundbreaking Brisbane band clocks in the top of the ‘My Happiness’ list.
After entering the annual countdown in 2000 at #1, this is the third time that the course has made it a special most popular 100 of it after the 20 -year polls of 2009 and 2013.
#5 Pressure house – Don’t dream, it’s over
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Comes a sweet technical technical technique to have 50 percent or more Australian members, busy house meets us halfway through the crown with their Belter from 1986, does not dream that it is over.
It is the third time that the Sing-Along moment has been mapped, which appeared earlier in the countdown of 1996 and 2009 on #76 and #50 respectively.
#4 Missy Higgins – Scar
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Missy Higgins, one of the best songs of the 2000s, leads us to the pointed end with her most successful song so far, ‘Scar’.
As one of the winners of the earliest iterations of triple J Unearthed competitions, Missy had a long history with the station.
Although ‘Scar’ barely came in second place in the annual countdown of 2004, this marks its 13th performance in a most popular 100 (10 one -year -olds, two specials).
#3 De Veronicas – untouched
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Please stand for your unofficial national anthem, thanks to the Veronicas.
Released in 2007 and finding a new fandom in the LGBTQIA+ community in 2019, the Brisbane Duo makes their own hottest 100 debut with the second fastest number in this special countdown.
#2 Hilltop Hoods – The nose blood part
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Long on the hottest 100 stage is the Adelaide trio, Hilltop Hoods, with their party starter from 2003, ‘The Nosebeded Section’. The Hip Hop stablewarts are the ‘people in the first row’ of the Late Melanie Safka’s ‘People on the Front Row’ and sampling in the upper end of the countdown.
This is for the squeaking noises and the freaks in the front row.
#1 Inxs – Never tear us apart
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Your number one voted Track in the hottest 100 of Australian songs is this iconic ballad of Sydney’s own Inxs.
‘Never Tear Us Apart’ presented the tender romantics of the deceased frontman Michael Hutchence in his lyrics, has passed the test of time since the release in 1988.
From soundtracking personal moments and film and TV to the reving of fans at football matches, the lasting legacy of the song has cemented it as the highest polling station in this memorable musical democracy.
Who could deny the pure power of that sax solo?
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