Hottest 100 winners throughout the years

[tommo]

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?

Comments

[trs80.ucc.asn.au (from livejournal.com)]

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

[tommmo.livejournal.com]

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.