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Hottest 100, 2004 Volume 12

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#	Title	Artist	Time	Country
1	Take Me Out	Franz Ferdinand	3:57	Scotland
2	Scar	Missy Higgins	3:34	Australia
3	From The Sea	Eskimo Joe	3:23	Australia
4	Somebody Told Me	The Killers	3:17	USA
5	Black Betty	Spiderbait	3:28	Australia
6	Ten Days	Missy Higgins	3:48	Australia
7	Something's Gotta Give	The John Butler Trio	3:09	Australia
8	Beautiful To Me	Little Birdy	3:30	Australia
9	Bless My Soul	Powderfinger	4:06	Australia
10	Jolene (Live Under Blackpool Lights)	The White Stripes	3:19	USA
11	Float On	Modest Mouse	3:29	USA
12	Coin-Operated Boy	The Dresden Dolls	4:46	USA
13	Mr. Brightside	The Killers	3:43	USA
14	It's Too Late	Evermore	3:56	New Zealand
15	Gamble Everything For Love	Ben Lee	3:22	Australia
16	Hard Act To Follow	Grinspoon	3:28	Australia
17	Yo Mama	Butterfingers	3:20	Australia
18	Fit But You Know It	The Streets	4:12	England
19	Dry Your Eyes	The Streets	4:29	England
20	Fucken' Awesome	Spiderbait	2:24	Australia
21	Common People	William Shatner	3:46	USA
22	American Idiot	Green Day	2:54	USA
23	Take Your Mama	Scissor Sisters	4:32	USA
24	Look What You've Done	Jet	3:51	Australia
25	Treat Yo Mama	The John Butler Trio	4:47	Australia
26	Better Off Alone	Grinspoon	3:53	Australia
27	Don't U Eva	Sarah Blasko	4:18	Australia
28	Ch-Check It Out	Beastie Boys	3:13	USA
29	This Fire	Franz Ferdinand	4:15	Scotland
30	Girl Anachronism	The Dresden Dolls	3:01	USA
31	The Bucket	Kings Of Leon	2:56	USA
32	Older Than You	Eskimo Joe	2:31	Australia
33	Chicken Payback	The Bees	3:13	England
34	What The Fuck?	Machine Gun Fellatio	4:12	Australia
35	Not Many - The Remix! (feat. Savage & Con Psy)	Scribe	3:44	New Zealand
36	Forget Her	Jeff Buckley	5:12	USA
37	Adelaide	Ben Folds	3:14	USA
38	Vertigo	U2	3:13	Ireland
39	Smile Like You Mean It	The Killers	3:55	USA
40	This Is A Love Song	Little Birdy	2:32	Australia
41	Mass Destruction	Faithless	3:32	England
42	This Old Love	Lior	3:01	Australia
43	Godhopping	Dogs Die In Hot Cars	2:43	Scotland
44	Take Me Out	Scissor Sisters	4:29	USA
45	Woman	Wolfmother	2:44	Australia
46	Amerika	Rammstein	3:47	Germany
47	I Can't Give You What I Haven't Got	The Living End	2:19	Australia
48	Memory Lane	Elliott Smith	2:31	USA
49	Casualty	Missy Higgins	4:12	Australia
50	The Dark Of The Matinée	Franz Ferdinand	4:03	Scotland
51	What You Want	The John Butler Trio	5:21	Australia
52	My Friend Robot	Regurgitator	2:58	Australia
53	English Summer Rain	Placebo	4:02	England
54	Bridal Train	The Waifs	4:19	Australia
55	Walk Idiot Walk	The Hives	3:31	Sweden
56	Shelter	Xavier Rudd	3:49	Australia
57	For One Day	Evermore	4:11	New Zealand
58	Laura	Scissor Sisters	3:37	USA
59	Solace	Xavier Rudd	5:02	Australia
60	L-A-C-H-L-A-N	Your Wedding Night	3:23	Australia
61	Flashdance	Deep Dish	3:14	USA
62	Smoke	Eskimo Joe	3:39	Australia
63	She Wants To Move	NER*D	3:33	USA
64	Process This	Powderfinger	3:22	Australia
65	Self Destruct In Five	Epicure	4:03	Australia
66	Galvanize (feat. Q-Tip)	The Chemical Brothers	6:34	England
67	Little Yellow Spider	Devendra Banhart	3:38	USA
68	10 A.M. Automatic	The Black Keys	2:59	USA
69	Push Up	Freestylers	3:55	England
70	Four To The Floor (Thin White Duke Mix)	Starsailor	4:41	England
71	C'mon C'mon	The Von Bondies	2:14	USA
72	Section 12 (Hold Me Now)	The Polyphonic Spree	4:31	USA
73	Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town	The Panda Band	3:08	Australia
74	Slow Hands	Interpol	3:04	USA
75	Paco Doesn't Love Me	The Spazzys	2:31	Australia
76	Evil	Interpol	3:36	USA
77	Run	Snow Patrol	5:56	Ireland
78	Tonight's The Night	Little Birdy	3:44	Australia
79	Dirty Hearts	Dallas Crane	2:29	Australia
80	Young Man, Old Man (You Ain't Better Than The Rest)	The Dissociatives	4:32	Australia
81	Rough Diamonds	End Of Fashion	4:29	Australia
82	Drop The Pressure	Mylo	4:14	Scotland
83	Numb All Over	Dallas Crane	3:07	Australia
84	I Love You 'Cause I Have To	Dogs Die In Hot Cars	2:47	Scotland
85	The Drop	Regurgitator	3:06	Australia
86	I Was Born (A Unicorn)	The Unicorns	2:46	Canada
87	Breathe Me	Sia	4:35	Australia
88	Imagine	A Perfect Circle	4:48	USA
89	Get What You Need	Jet	4:08	Australia
90	Lotion	Greenskeepers	3:46	USA
91	Somersault	Decoder Ring	2:37	Australia
92	Comfortably Numb	Scissor Sisters	4:26	USA
93	Hello	The John Butler Trio	4:26	Australia
94	Ride	The Vines	2:36	Australia
95	Twenty Years	Placebo	4:19	England
96	Mirror, Mirror	After The Fall	2:19	Australia
97	Safe Forever	Gyroscope	3:42	Australia
98	Catch Me Up	Gomez	3:48	England
99	Always	The Butterfly Effect	3:58	Australia
100	I'm Gonna Haunt You	Fabienne Delsol	2:43	France

Facts for 2004

The 2004 Hottest 100 was the twelfth annual Hottest 100 countdown since the change of the format which allowed only songs from the previous year to be voted for.

The Countdown

The countdown took place in January of 2005 and featured a mixture of 71 different artists which were decided by the 475,000 votes recieved that year. The countdown was broadcast live from the Sydney Big Day Out festival, which was held on the same day.

The 2004 countdown is one of three countdowns to feature two versions of the same song. Franz Ferdinand's 'Take Me Out' was voted into the #1 position, while the cover by Scissor Sisters reached #44. This happened previously in 1998 when Something For Kate charted with their cover of Jebediah's track 'Harpoon' and it occurred again in 2013 when San Cisco also charted with their cover of Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky'. This had also happened in the 1989 All Time countdown when Art Of Noise charted with their cover of Prince's 'Kiss'.

Missy Higgins became the third artist who was Unearthed by Triple J to achieve the #2 position. The then-record high was set in 1999 by Killing Heidi and was again equalled by Grinspoon in 2002, Art vs. Science in 2009 and Little Red in 2010. The record was broken however, when Vance Joy reached #1 with 'Riptide' in 2013.

Spiderbait's cover of 'Black Betty' at #5 is currently the equal-highest position that a cover song has reached. It was first accomplished in 1995 with Björk's cover of 'It's Oh So Quiet', and was matched in 2010 by Boy & Bear with their cover of Crowded House's 'Fall At Your Feet'.

William Shatner's appearance at #21 makes him the second-oldest person to appear in a countdown, only being beaten by John Lee Hooker in 1993. At the time of the countdown, he was 72 years old.
Incidentally, the song Shatner covered, 'Common People', by Pulp, charted in the 1995 countdown and reached position #38.

Despite it not being played by Triple J that year, U2's 'Vertigo' reached #38.

Decoder Ring reached #91 with their theme song 'Somersault' from the film of the same name. This is only one of a few movie themes to be voted in. The others being from the movies 'Mission: Impossible' in 1996, 'Mission: Impossible II' in 2000, 'Team America: World Police' in 2005 and the James Bond film 'Quantam Of Solace' in 2008.

Priot to the countdown, Triple J drive-time host Chris Taylor (who is now more famous for his work with The Chaser), agreed to streak through the grounds of the Sydney Big Day Out festival if the theme song to the ABC program 'Mediawatch' made the countdown. At #7, announcers stated that the theme song had in fact made the countdown, and thus, Taylor proceeded to streak through the grounds.
Announcers soon stated that it was a joke and that the song had not charted as it was not released in 2004.
Ironically, the theme song to the ABC News program made the countdown in a remixed form by Pendulum in 2010 at #11.

Artists Featured

The John Butler Trio and Scissor Sisters each managed to gain 4 tracks each, their best reaching #7 and #23 respectively. Eskimo Joe, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, Little Birdy and Missy Higgins had 3 tracks each, while 13 other artists reached 2 tracks each.

Artists With Multiple Entries

4 Tracks

The John Butler Trio (7, 25, 51, 93)
Scissor Sisters (23, 44, 58, 92)

3 Tracks

Eskimo Joe (3, 32, 62)
Franz Ferdinand (1, 29, 50)
The Killers (4, 13, 39)
Little Birdy (8, 40, 78)
Missy Higgins (2, 6, 49)

2 Tracks

Dallas Crane (79, 83)
Dogs Die in Hot Cars (43, 84)
The Dresden Dolls (12, 30)
Evermore (14, 57)
Grinspoon (16, 26)
Interpol (74, 76)
Jet (24, 89)
Placebo (53, 95)
Powderfinger (9, 68)
Regurgitator (52, 85)
Spiderbait (5, 20)
The Streets (18, 19)
Xavier Rudd (56, 59)

Countries Featured

The 2004 Hottest 100 featured artists from 10 countries, including 47 from Australia, 28 from the USA and 10 from England.
Scotland achieved 6 tracks, which is a current record for the country.

A Note

‘Galvanize', at #65, was a collaboration between The Chemical Brothers and Q-Tip, who are English and American, respectively. However, the track is counted as an English entry for simplicity.