Triple J Hottest 100, 1997
# Triple J Hottest 100, 1997

The 1997 Triple J Hottest 100, was a countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J, and was broadcast on Australia Day 1998. A CD featuring 31 of the songs was released. A countdown of the videos of most of the songs was also shown on the ABC music series Rage. The most popular song was announced by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the namesake of the winning group.

## Full list

* Note: Australian artists

| # | Song | Artist | Country of origin |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | No Aphrodisiac | The Whitlams | Australia |
| 2 | Song 2 | Blur | United Kingdom |
| 3 | Tubthumping | Chumbawamba | United Kingdom |
| 4 | Bitter Sweet Symphony | The Verve | United Kingdom |
| 5 | Back Door Man | Pauline Pantsdown | Australia |
| 6 | Dammit | Blink-182 | United States |
| 7 | Paranoid Android | Radiohead | United Kingdom |
| 8 | The Beautiful People | Marilyn Manson | United States |
| 9 | Karma Police | Radiohead | United Kingdom |
| 10 | Leaving Home | Jebediah | Australia |
| 11 | Walkin' on the Sun | Smash Mouth | United States |
| 12 | One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces | Ben Folds Five | United States |
| 13 | Freak | Silverchair | Australia |
| 14 | Down Again | The Superjesus | Australia |
| 15 | Prisoner of Society | The Living End | Australia |
| 16 | Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) | Quindon Tarver | United States |
| 17 | Crazy | Cordrazine | Australia |
| 18 | Into My Arms | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Australia |
| 19 | Everyday Formula | Regurgitator | Australia |
| 20 | I Will Survive | Cake | United States |
| 21 | Monkey Wrench | Foo Fighters | United States |
| 22 | The Drugs Don't Work | The Verve | United Kingdom |
| 23 | Calypso | Spiderbait | Australia |
| 24 | A.D.I.D.A.S. | Korn | United States |
| 25 | Hitchin' a Ride | Green Day | United States |
| 26 | The Perfect Drug | Nine Inch Nails | United States |
| 27 | The Door | Silverchair | Australia |
| 28 | Cows with Guns | Dana Lyons | United States |
| 29 | Semi-Charmed Life | Third Eye Blind | United States |
| 30 | Forty Six & 2 | Tool | United States |
| 31 | Ashes to Ashes | Faith No More | United States |
| 32 | Coma | Pendulum | Australia |
| 33 | Military Strongmen | Jebediah | Australia |
| 34 | DC×3 | Grinspoon | Australia |
| 35 | Summertime | The Sundays | United Kingdom |
| 36 | Mutilated Lips | Ween | United States |
| 37 | Naughty Boy | The Mavis's | Australia |
| 38 | The Memory Remains | Metallica | United States |
| 39 | Captain (Million Miles an Hour) | Something for Kate | Australia |
| 40 | Why's Everybody Always Pickin' on Me? | Bloodhound Gang | United States |
| 41 | Deadweight | Beck | United States |
| 42 | Brimful of Asha | Cornershop | United Kingdom |
| 43 | You're Not the Only One Who Feels This Way | Ammonia | Australia |
| 44 | Temptation | The Tea Party | Canada |
| 45 | Wrong Number | The Cure | United Kingdom |
| 46 | Fire Water Burn | Bloodhound Gang | United States |
| 47 | (Can't You) Trip Like I Do | Filter and The Crystal Method | United States |
| 48 | Anatomically Correct | Custard | Australia |
| 49 | From Here on In | The Living End | Australia |
| 50 | Eat Me | Arkarna | United Kingdom |
| 51 | So Much for the Afterglow | Everclear | United States |
| 52 | #1 Crush | Garbage | United States |
| 53 | You Sound Like Louis Burdett | The Whitlams | Australia |
| 54 | Everything to Everyone | Everclear | United States |
| 55 | Love Rollercoaster | Red Hot Chili Peppers | United States |
| 56 | Funky Shit | The Prodigy | United Kingdom |
| 57 | Girl at the Bus Stop | My Drug Hell | United Kingdom |
| 58 | I Go Off | Diana Ah Naid | Australia |
| 59 | Your Woman | White Town | United Kingdom |
| 60 | New York City | They Might Be Giants | United States |
| 61 | Block Rockin' Beats | The Chemical Brothers | United Kingdom |
| 62 | The End Is the Beginning Is the End | The Smashing Pumpkins | United States |
| 63 | Repeat | Grinspoon | Australia |
| 64 | Stripsearch | Faith No More | United States |
| 65 | Outdoor Type | The Lemonheads | United States |
| 66 | JC | Powderfinger | Australia |
| 67 | I Choose | The Offspring | United States |
| 68 | Cosmic Girl | Jamiroquai | United Kingdom |
| 69 | Waving My Dick in the Wind | Ween | United States |
| 70 | Place Your Hands | Reef | United Kingdom |
| 71 | Sick with Love | Robyn Loau | Australia |
| 72 | Pulse | Front End Loader | Australia |
| 73 | Lakini's Juice | Live | United States |
| 74 | The Ghost of Tom Joad | Rage Against the Machine | United States |
| 75 | Female of the Species | Space | United Kingdom |
| 76 | Legend of a Cowgirl | Imani Coppola | United States |
| 77 | Lovefool | The Cardigans | Sweden |
| 78 | Degenerate Boy | The Mark of Cain | Australia |
| 79 | All Mine | Portishead | United Kingdom |
| 80 | Faded | Ben Harper | United States |
| 81 | Did It Again | Kylie Minogue | Australia |
| 82 | Shake Hands with Beef | Primus | United States |
| 83 | I Wanna Be a Drug-Sniffing Dog | Lard | United States |
| 84 | Feelin' Kinda Sporty | Dave Graney | Australia |
| 85 | Nightmare | Brainbug | United Kingdom |
| 86 | Smokin' Johnny Cash | The Blackeyed Susans | Australia |
| 87 | 6 Underground | Sneaker Pimps | United Kingdom |
| 88 | Nothing | Beaverloop | Australia |
| 89 | Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth | The Dandy Warhols | United States |
| 90 | Society | Pennywise | United States |
| 91 | Remember Me | Blue Boy | United Kingdom |
| 92 | Titanic Days | Sidewinder | Australia |
| 93 | Weightlessness | Skunkhour | Australia |
| 94 | Way of All Things | Rebecca's Empire | Australia |
| 95 | Don't Leave | Faithless | United Kingdom |
| 96 | Bound for the Floor | Local H | United States |
| 97 | The Futures Overrated | Arkarna | United Kingdom |
| 98 | Da Funk | Daft Punk | France |
| 99 | Naked Eye | Luscious Jackson | United States |
| 100 | I Give In | Effigy | Australia |

34 of the 100 songs were by Australian artists (marked with a green background).

## Artists with multiple entries

Two entries

* The Whitlams (1, 53)
* The Verve (4, 22)
* Radiohead (7, 9)
* Jebediah (10, 33)
* Silverchair (13, 27)
* The Living End (15, 49)
* Faith No More (31,64)
* Grinspoon (34, 63)
* Ween (36, 69)
* The Bloodhound Gang (40, 46)
* Arkarna (50, 97)
* Everclear (51, 54)

## CD release

| Disc 1 The Whitlams – "No Aphrodisiac" (4:19) Blur – "Song 2" (2:01) The Verve – "Bitter Sweet Symphony" (5:57) Blink-182 – "Dammit" (2:45) Radiohead – "Paranoid Android" (6:23) Marilyn Manson – "The Beautiful People" (3:39) Jebediah – "Leaving Home" (2:58) Smash Mouth – "Walkin' on the Sun" (3:25) The Superjesus – "Down Again" (5:05) Ben Folds Five – "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces" (3:50) Silverchair – "Freak" (3:45) Quindon Tarver – "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" (7:08) The Living End – "Prisoner of Society" (3:52) Cordrazine – "Crazy" (4:01) Regurgitator – "Everyday Formula" (2:10) Foo Fighters – "Monkey Wrench" (3:51) Diana ah Naid – "I Go Off" (3:09) | Disc 2 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – "Into My Arms" (4:11) Spiderbait – "Calypso" (1:50) Live – "Lakini's Juice" (4:58) Nine Inch Nails – "The Perfect Drug" (5:15) Grinspoon – "DC×3" (2:54) Third Eye Blind – "Semi-Charmed Life" (4:27) The Mavis's – "Naughty Boy" (3:12) Cornershop – "Brimful of Asha" (4:04) The Prodigy – "Funky Shit" (5:16) Bloodhound Gang – "Fire Water Burn" (4:51) Reef – "Place Your Hands" (3:37) Imani Coppola – "Legend of a Cowgirl" (3:47) Front End Loader – "Pulse" (3:06) Kylie Minogue – "Did It Again" (4:14) Sneaker Pimps – "6 Underground" (3:48) Blue Boy – "Remember Me" (3:57) |
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The CD also has an interactive component that could be accessed on a PC.

A later version, released under the Warner label, omitted "The Beautiful People", "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces", "Lakini's Juice, and "The Perfect Drug", but included "Cows with Guns" by Dana Lyons on the first disc and "Cosmic Girl" by Jamiroquai on the second disc.

