Hottest 100 winners throughout the years
Jan. 27th, 2009 02:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tommoSo, 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?
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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Date: 2009-01-27 06:40 am (UTC)"No Aphrodisiac" has always left me completely uninterested, although it's not a song I actively dislike.
Yeah, I have to admit that "Buy Me a Pony" is pretty awesome. Sometimes I think I only like it for the nostalgia, but then I play it and it really does rock.
And novelty songs winning is kinda sucky. I remember the year Offspring won, everyone was already sick of the song by the time it came out. People were actually calling in during the countdown and asking if they could take their vote back.