tommo | Hottest 100 winners throughout the years

So, in my last post I said "Sex on Fire" was the least interesting #1 since "My Happiness". After posting, I wondered if it deserved to rate lower than Alex Lloyd's "Amazing", Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" or Bernard Fanning's "Wish You Well", three more truly snore-worthy tracks. That got me to thinking "Jeez, is the number one ever particularly good?" Well, lets have a look:

2008: Kings of Leon - "Sex on Fire"
2007: Muse - "Knights of Cydonia"
2006: Augie March - "One Crowded Hour"
2005: Bernard Fanning - "Wish You Well"
2004: Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out"
2003: Jet - "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?"
2002: Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows"
2001: Alex Lloyd - "Amazing"
2000: Powderfinger - "My Happiness"
1999: Powderfinger - "These Days"
1998: The Offspring - "Pretty Fly for a White Guy"
1997: The Whitlams - "No Aphrodisiac"
1996: Spiderbait - "Buy Me a Pony"
1995: Oasis - "Wonderwall"
1994: The Cranberries - "Zombie"
1993: Dennis Leary - "Asshole"

Hmm... really not too crash hot, is it? Personally I think the Muse and QotSA tracks are pretty awesome, and Franz Ferdinand and Augie March are decent. There's some nostalgia-value in Dennis Leary, The Cranberries and Spiderbait, but that's about it. I'd say out of those 16 songs, at least 6 just plain suck.

What do other people think of these choices?

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Knights of Cydonia was arguably a 2006 song anyway. Did you see the 101-200 list? http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/kingsmill/playlist/s2475563.htm

I'm willing to say that a 2007 single from a 2006 album is allowed to count as a 2007 song, provided it didn't make the 2006 list as well (which has happened at least a couple of times).

Man, that list doesn't look much better, although it's nice to know that Beck and TV on the Radio got reasonably close to the main list.

Hottest 100 winners throughout the years

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