20 years of Hottest 100

(I could have been serious but I decided to have a little fun with today’s topic – Get real. Share something you’re struggling with right now.)

How do you pick your favourite 20 songs from the last 20 years? Narrow it down even further to your favourite 20 songs from the last 20 years of Triple J’s Hottest 100 (yup the hottest 100 has been going for 20 years!). I’m struggling still. Maybe 1 song from each year? Other notable favs from each year in brackets

• 93  Nearly lost you – Screaming Trees (No Rain – Blind Mellon; Would – Alice in Chains; Rooster – Alice in Chains)
• 94 Closer – Nine Inch Nails (Andres – L7; No excuses – Alice in Chains; Gallows pole – Page & Plant; Masses Like Asses DEF FX )
• 95 Queer – Garbage (Vow – Garbage; Time Bomb – Rancid; Better Man – Pearl Jam; More Human Than Human – White Zombie; Baby did a bad bad thing – Chris Issak)
• 96 I’ll be your Magick – Def FX (Ballad Of The Skeletons – Allen Ginsberg; Mother, Mother – Tracy Bonham; Only happy when it rains – Garbage; Lay Lady Lay – Ministry)
• 97 I go off – Diana Ah Naid (ADIDAS – Korn; Prefect Drug – NIN; Cows with Guns – Dana Lyons; Eat Me – Arkana; #1 Crush – Garbage; Strip Search – Faith No More) 
• 98 Throw Your Arms Around Me – Paul McDermott (Sex & Candy – Marcy Playground; Dragula – Rob Zombie)
• 99 You shit me to tears – The Tenants When I grow Up – Garbage; All the small things – Blink 182; Stripped – Rammstein)
• 00 Teenage Dirtbag – Wheatus (Minority – Green Day)
• 01 Cherry Lips – Garbage
• 02 Loose Yourself – Eminem
• 03 Are you gonna be my girl – Jet (Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes; Zebra – John Butler Trio)
• 04 Coin operated Boy – Dresden Dolls (Somebody told me – The Killers; Common People – William Shatner; Girl Anachronism – Dresden Dolls)
• 05 Figjam – Butterfingers (BYOB – System of a Down; Filthy/Gorgeous – Scissor Sisters; Why do you love me – Garbage)
• 06 Smile – Lily Allen
• 07 Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Daft Punk (1234 – Feist; Tick Tick Boom – The Hives)
• 08 Another way to die – Alicia Keys & Jack White
• 09 Love Lost – Temper Trap (Bonkers – Dizzy Rascal; One way road – John Butler Trio)
• 10 Big Jet Plane – Julia & Angus Stone
• 11 Somebody that I used to know – Gotye
• 12 Thrift Shop – Macklemore (Love Interruption– Jack White)
• 13 ???? who knows 😉

Could you pick just 20 songs. Give it a go over at the Triple J page. I struggled in the 2000s, some years more than others.