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#	Title	Artist	Time	Year	Country
1	Smells Like Teen Spirit	Nirvana	5:02	1991	USA
2	Love Will Tear Us Apart	Joy Division	3:28	1980	England
3	Lithium	Nirvana	4:17	1991	USA
4	Throw Your Arms Around Me	Hunters & Collectors	3:53	1986	Australia
5	Tomorrow, Wendy	Andy Prieboy	4:42	1990	USA
6	How Soon Is Now?	The Smiths	6:49	1985	England
7	Fools Gold	The Stone Roses	9:55	1989	England
8	A Forest	The Cure	5:55	1980	England
9	Blister In The Sun	Violent Femmes	2:24	1983	USA
10	Blue Monday	New Order	7:28	1983	England
11	Just Like Heaven	The Cure	3:33	1987	England
12	It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)	R.E.M.	4:07	1987	USA
13	Uncertain Smile	The The	6:52	1982	England
14	The Ship Song	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	5:14	1990	Australia
15	Been Caught Stealing	Jane's Addiction	3:34	1990	USA
16	She Sells Sanctuary	The Cult	4:23	1985	England
17	Jane Says	Jane's Addiction	4:53	1988	USA
18	Add It Up	Violent Femmes	4:44	1983	USA
19	Wuthering Heights	Kate Bush	4:30	1978	England
20	Lock It	Falling Joys	4:41	1990	Australia
21	Kiss Off	Violent Femmes	2:57	1983	USA
22	Sexuality	Billy Bragg	3:49	1991	England
23	That's Entertainment	The Jam	3:37	1980	England
24	Bizarre Love Triangle	New Order	3:45	1986	England
25	Anarchy In The U.K.	Sex Pistols	3:31	1976	England
26	Holiday In Cambodia	Dead Kennedys	3:44	1980	USA
27	Sweet Child O' Mine	Guns N' Roses	5:56	1987	USA
28	Debaser	Pixies	2:53	1989	USA
29	This Charming Man	The Smiths	2:45	1983	England
30	Stairway To Heaven	Led Zeppelin	8:03	1971	England
31	Under The Milky Way	The Church	4:59	1988	Australia
32	Losing My Religion	R.E.M.	4:29	1991	USA
33	Hieronymus	Clouds	3:47	1991	Australia
34	D.C.	Died Pretty	4:33	1991	Australia
35	Primary	The Cure	3:40	1981	England
36	There Is A Light That Never Goes Out	The Smiths	4:05	1986	England
37	Close To Me	The Cure	3:41	1985	England
38	Shivers	The Boys Next Door	4:34	1979	Australia
39	Give It Away	Red Hot Chili Peppers	4:43	1991	USA
40	The One I Love	R.E.M.	3:18	1987	USA
41	That Ain't Bad	Ratcat	4:07	1990	Australia
42	Troy	Sinéad O'Connor	6:35	1987	Ireland
43	Boys Don't Cry	The Cure	2:35	1979	England
44	Lullaby	The Cure	4:13	1989	England
45	Talking To A Stranger	Hunters & Collectors	7:31	1982	Australia
46	Birdhouse In Your Soul	They Might Be Giants	3:21	1990	USA
47	Aloha Steve And Danno	Radio Birdman	3:58	1978	Australia
48	In Between Days	The Cure	2:57	1985	England
49	Bohemian Rhapsody	Queen	5:54	1975	England
50	Song To The Siren	This Mortal Coil	3:31	1983	England
51	Trust	Tall Tales And True	3:32	1989	Australia
52	Wide Open Road	The Triffids	4:09	1986	Australia
53	Betty's Worry Or The Slab	Hunters & Collectors	3:59	1984	Australia
54	Tainted Love	Soft Cell	2:42	1981	England
55	True Faith	New Order	4:13	1987	England
56	Kool Thing	Sonic Youth	4:06	1990	USA
57	Waiting For The Great Leap Forwards	Billy Bragg	4:37	1988	England
58	Wish You Were Here	Pink Floyd	5:35	1975	England
59	The End	The Doors	11:39	1967	USA
60	Enter Sandman	Metallica	5:32	1991	USA
61	All Along The Watchtower	The Jimi Hendrix Experience	4:01	1968	England
62	Orange Crush	R.E.M.	3:54	1988	USA
63	The Unforgiven	Metallica	6:28	1991	USA
64	Unfinished Sympathy	Massive Attack	5:08	1991	England
65	Fall On Me	R.E.M.	2:50	1986	USA
66	Down In Splendour	Straitjacket Fits	3:39	1990	New Zealand
67	4PM	Clouds	2:31	1991	Australia
68	Pictures Of You	The Cure	7:29	1989	England
69	Labour Of Love	Frente!	3:09	1991	Australia
70	The Unguarded Moment	The Church	4:14	1981	Australia
71	Grey Cell Green	Ned's Atomic Dustbin	3:46	1991	England
72	Bigmouth Strikes Again	The Smiths	3:13	1986	England
73	Comfortably Numb	Pink Floyd	6:22	1979	England
74	The Lovecats	The Cure	3:40	1983	England
75	Levi Stubbs' Tears	Billy Bragg	3:32	1986	England
76	Come As You Are	Nirvana	3:39	1991	USA
77	Rock Lobster	The B-52's	4:54	1978	USA
78	L.A. Woman	The Doors	8:00	1971	USA
79	Freak Scene	Dinosaur Jr.	3:37	1988	USA
80	Surfers Of The Mind	Def FX	3:40	1991	Australia
81	She Bangs The Drums	The Stone Roses	3:52	1989	England
82	Vapour Trail	Ride	4:19	1990	England
83	Treaty	Yothu Yindi	3:38	1991	Australia
84	Another Girl, Another Planet	The Only Ones	3:03	1978	England
85	Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)	Dramarama	3:21	1985	USA
86	The Size Of A Cow	The Wonder Stuff	3:13	1991	England
87	Sympathy For The Devil	The Rolling Stones	6:18	1968	England
88	The Mercy Seat	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	7:18	1988	Australia
89	One	Metallica	7:28	1988	USA
90	Soon	My Bloody Valentine	7:01	1991	Ireland
91	Monkey Gone To Heaven	Pixies	2:58	1989	USA
92	Bring The Noise	Public Enemy	3:46	1987	USA
93	Dear God	XTC	3:34	1986	England
94	Wave Of Mutilation	Pixies	2:05	1989	USA
95	Info Freako	Jesus Jones	2:50	1989	England
96	Cattle And Cane	The Go-Betweens	4:23	1983	Australia
97	London Calling	The Clash	3:20	1979	England
98	Bad	U2	6:09	1984	Ireland
99	Deanna	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	3:46	1988	Australia
100	Cream	Prince & The New Power Generation	4:15	1991	USA

Facts for 1991

The 1991 Hottest 100 of All Time was the third annual Hottest 100 of All Time countdown.

The Countdown

The countdown took place on January 25th, 1992 and featured a mixture of 63 different artists.

The winning track was semi-announced by Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, who were in the country at the time to perform at the inaugural Big Day Out festival. The announcer of the countdown handed an envelope to Novoselic, from which he read the winning track as 'Black Or White' by Michael Jackson. The announcer mentioned that Jackson's song came in at #113 (it was actually #112), and then correctly read out the winning song.
Audio of this incident can be heard here.

The most recent track to appear in the countdown was My Bloody Valentine's 'Soon' at #90, which was released on November 11th, 1991

If the countdown had followed the rules of later, yearly countdowns, and allowed only songs released in that year, the top 10 songs from the countdown would have been as follows.

#	Name	Artist	Original Position
1	Smells Like Teen Spirit	Nirvana	#1
2	Lithium	Nirvana	#3
3	Sexuality	Billy Bragg	#22
4	Losing My Religion	R.E.M.	#32
5	Hieronymus	Clouds	#33
6	D.C.	Died Pretty	#34
7	Give It Away	Red Hot Chili Peppers	#39
8	Enter Sandman	Metallica	#60
9	The Unforgiven	Metallica	#63
10	Unfinished Sympathy	Massive Attack	#64

As alluded to before, the tracks that made up positions #101 to #200 were also released. For a long time (up until at 2005 at least), this list was accessible through the Triple J website under the title of '1992 Hottest 100'. Various sources have confirmed the countdown was indeed counted down in 1992, althought it was only considered a countdown of the tracks that almost made it instead of an actual countdown. For more information on those tracks, click here.

Artists Featured

Again, The Cure were undoubtedly the best performing band, with a record 9 tracks, their highest reaching #8. 9 Tracks is currently the highest record in any countdown, All Time or yearly, for a band, although Dave Grohl appeared in 10 tracks in 2002.
R.E.M., and Johnny Marr appeared 5 times, and The Smiths appeared 4 times. Billy Bragg, Hunters & Collectors, Metallica, New Order, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nirvana, the Pixies and the Violent Femmes achieved 3 tracks, while only 6 other artists scored 2 tracks each.

Artists With Multiple Entries

9 Tracks

The Cure (8, 11, 35, 37, 43, 44, 48, 68, 74)

5 Tracks

R.E.M. (12, 32, 40, 62, 65)
Johnny Marr (6, 22, 29, 36, 72)
(Four times with The Smiths and once with Billy Bragg)

4 Tracks

The Smiths (6, 29, 36, 72)
Peter Hook (2, 10, 24, 55)
(Once with Joy Division and three times with New Order)
Stephen Morris (2, 10, 24, 55)
(Once with Joy Division and three times with New Order)
Bernard Sumner (2, 10, 24, 55)
(Once with Joy Division and three times with New Order)

3 Tracks

Billy Bragg (22, 57, 75)
Hunters & Collectors (4, 45, 53)
Metallica (60, 63, 89)
New Order (10, 24, 55)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (14, 88, 99)
Nirvana (1, 3, 76)
Pixies (28, 91, 94)
Violent Femmes (9, 18, 21)

2 Tracks

The Church (31, 70)
Clouds (33, 67)
The Doors (59, 78)
Jane's Addiction (15, 17)
Pink Floyd (58, 73)
The Stone Roses (7, 81)

Countries Featured

The 1991 Hottest 100 of All Time featured artists from 5 countries, including 43 from England, 32 from the USA and 21 from Australia.

A Note

It should be noted that The Jimi Hendrix Experience, who appear at #61 are listed as an English band. While many people would cite them as American band due to Hendrix's nationality, they are listed as English due to forming in London, and the fact that the other two-thirds of the band were English citizens.