Well, the Australia day weekend means the same thing to countless people all ove the world....that they Triple J Hottest 100 will be on...and the results for 2003 are as follows...

In 2003, the hottest 100 songs voted for were:

1. Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
2. Outkast - Hey Ya!
3. White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
4. Powderfinger - (Baby I’ve Got You) On My Mind
5. Coldplay - Clocks (Royksopp Remix)
6. The Cat Empire - Hello
7. Powderfinger - Sunsets
8. John Butler Trio - Zebra
9. Hilltop Hoods - The Nosebleed Section
10. Powderfinger - Love Your Way
11. Something For Kate - Déjà Vu
12. The Waifs - Lighthouse
13. Dandy Warhols - We Used To Be Friends
14. White Stripes - The Hardest Button To Button
15. Butterfingers - I Love Work
16. Little Birdy - Relapse
17. Jack Johnson - Taylor
18. Ben Harper - Diamonds On The Inside
19. Jet - Roll Over D.J.
20. Pete Murray - Feeler
21. Epicure - Armies Against Me
22. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fortune Faded
23. Living End - Who's Gonna Save Us?
24. Jack Johnson - The Horizon Has Been Defeated
25. Little Birdy - Baby Blue
26. Frenzal Rhomb - Russell Crowe's Band
27. Ben Folds - There's Always Someone Cooler Than You
28. Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage
29. Ben Harper - With My Own Two Hands
30. Placebo - The Bitter End
31. Muse - Time Is Running Out
32. Dandy Warhols - You Were The Last High
33. Electric Six - Gay Bar
34. Michael Franti/Spearhead - Everyone Deserves Music
35. Magic Dirt - Plastic Loveless Letter
36. Jane's Addiction - Just Because
37. The Cat Empire - Days Like These
38. Butterfingers - Everytime
39. Alex Lloyd - Coming Home
40. Jack Johnson - Times Like These
41. The Beautiful Girls - Black Bird
42. Muse - Stockholm Syndrome
43. The Strokes - 12:51
44. Hilltop Hoods - Dumb Enough
45. A Perfect Circle - Weak And Powerless
46. The Herd - 77%
47. Michael Franti/Spearhead - Bomb The World
48. Radiohead - There There
49. Radiohead - 2+2=5
50. The Waifs - Fisherman's Daughter
51. John Butler Trio - Sista (Live)
52. The Bens - Just Pretend
53. Blink-182 - Feeling This
54. Xavier Rudd - Let Me Be
55. Missy Higgins - Greed For Your Love
56. NOFX - Franco Un-American
57. Missy Elliott - Work It
58. AFI - The Leaving Song Pt.II
59. Gus & Frank - So Entertaining
60. Magic Dirt - Watch Out Boys
61. Metallica - St. Anger
62. The Beautiful Girls - Music
63. Something For Kate - Song For A Sleepwalker
64. Belle & Sebastian - Step Into My Office, Baby
65. Andromeda - Something White And Sigmund
66. Living End - Tabloid Magazine
67. Amiel - Love Song
68. Butterfly Effect - 1 Second Of Insanity
69. Muse - Hysteria
70. A Perfect Circle - The Outsider
71. AFI - Girls Not Grey
72. Placebo - Running Up That Hill
73. Epicure - Life Sentence
74. Cody Chesnutt - Look Good In Leather
75. Roots/Feat. Cody Chesnutt - The Seed (2.0)
76. Powderfinger - Rockin’ Rocks
77. Powderfinger - Stumblin’
78. Gerling - Who's Ya Daddy?
79. Kelis - Milkshake
80. Benny Benassi Presents The Biz - Satisfaction
81. The Chemical Brothers Featuring The Flaming Lips - The Golden Path
82. Basement Jaxx - Good Luck
83. The Strokes - Reptilia
84. Chicks On Speed - We Don't Play Guitars
85. Missy Elliott - Pass The Dutch
86. Pete Murray - Lines
87. Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
88. Machine Gun Fellatio - Voices In My Head
89. White Stripes - Girl U Have No Faith In Medicine
90. Offcutts - Break It (Down James Brown)
91. Sleepy Jackson - Vampire Racecourse
92. Gyroscope - Doctor, Doctor
93. White Stripes - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
94. White Stripes - In The Cold, Cold Night
95. Placebo - Special Needs
96. Soggy Bottom Boys - Man Of Constant Sorrow (Skeewiff Remix)
97. The Darkness - Growing On Me
98. Blur - Out Of Time
99. The Mars Volta - Inertiatic Esp
100. The Cat Empire - The Chariot

Why didn't Thinktank's "Braving The Day" make it? This was #1 for me and spent at least 6 weeks in the Net50 top 5.

I must be living under a rock! I can't think of one of those songs I know and only a handful of the bands.

Asja1, maybe it couldn't beat out the songs that have acquired a following over the last few months...

(I wanted "Black Math" to win, and it didn't even make it in!)

Copago, don't worry... there were a lot of them that I hadn't heard to much of either...a lot of it was "Aussie hip hop" type-stuff which very rarley "does it" for me...

...but it's a good way to find new stuff...I'd never even heard the Placebo version of "Running up that hill" (the Kate Bush song) and I was prettyb impressed!

The toher thing is that it is Triple J - different music from what is normally played on our local radio stations.

Yeah, triple j doesn't really play "mainstream" music...

That's just great Tanzen. A thousand thanks.

While I knew a lot of the bands, three, that's THREE songs from the 100 best songs of the year that I knew with any half-arsed authority.. gawd.. am I perhaps... can't say it... gettin' ermm, *coughs for effect* past it?

2004 will see the triumphant return of Jim Croce Greatest Hits Volume 3, a new collaboration between Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffet and.... Billy Joel will be back, mark my word on that!

Where's Bowie when I need saving?

There's only about 20 songs on the list that I would say I really liked...I've never been cool and I've never pretended to be cool...it's just not me...

...and if Billy Joel makes it into the Hottest 100 next year I will send you up a slab !