The 2004 Triple J Hottest 100 was announced on January 26, 2005. It was the twelfth such countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J.

Voters were limited to 20 votes each: 10 via SMS (charged at 30c each) and 10 via the Internet (no charge).

From early in the voting process, it became very obvious that Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out would be the clear winner of this Hottest 100. Throughout the countdown, numerous references were made to this well-established fact, including announcers sarcastically claiming "Ha-ha! You thought they'd be #1" when the Dark of the Matinee was played at #50 as well a mock promotional piece heard in between in which votes for other bands such as Placebo were ignored in favour of Franz Ferdinand. When Take Me Out was officially announced as #1, it was reported that it had received more than double the votes of any other song. As with receiving more than double the votes, the presenters felt it sensible to also play a live version of Take Me Out directly after the studio version played at #1.

The poll also featured:

• William Shatner's first track to be in a Hottest 100, with his version of Pulp's Common People. He was 73 in 2004 and is the oldest person to have a song selected in a Hottest 100 line up.
• Three separate tracks about yo mama at positions #17, #23 and #25.
• Take Me Out - by Franz Ferdinand reached #1
• Take Your Mama by Scissor Sisters from their début album reached #23.
• U2's track Vertigo, which was not played on Triple J that year, at position #38.
• Announcer Chris Taylor had agreed to streak across the grounds of the Sydney Big Day Out if the theme song from Media Watch polled in the countdown. At the number 7 position, it was announced that in terms of votes counted, the Media Watch theme had in fact come in at number 7, and Taylor proceeded to do his nude run. When he returned, it was revealed that because the song was not recorded in the year of 2004, it was not eligible to poll in the countdown.

Contents 1 Full list 2 Artists with multiple entries 3 See also 4 Notes

[edit] Full list

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

47 of the 100 songs are by Australian artists

[edit] Artists with multiple entries

The following individuals or groups had more than one entry in the Hottest 100:

• John Butler Trio - 4 tracks (7, 25, 51, 93)
• Scissor Sisters - 4 tracks (23, 44, 58, 92)
• Franz Ferdinand - 3 tracks (1, 29, 50)
• Missy Higgins - 3 tracks (2, 6, 49)
• Eskimo Joe - 3 tracks (3, 32, 62)
• The Killers - 3 tracks (4, 13, 39)
• Little Birdy - 3 tracks (8, 40, 78)
• Spiderbait - 2 tracks (5, 20)
• Powderfinger - 2 tracks (9, 68)
• The Dresden Dolls - 2 tracks (12, 30)
• Evermore - 2 tracks (14, 57)
• Grinspoon - 2 tracks (16, 26)
• The Streets - 2 tracks (18, 19)
• Jet - 2 tracks (24, 89)
• Dogs Die in Hot Cars - 2 tracks (43, 84)
• Regurgitator - 2 tracks (52, 85)
• Placebo - 2 tracks (53, 95)
• Xavier Rudd - 2 tracks (56, 59)
• Interpol - 2 tracks (74, 76)
• Dallas Crane - 2 tracks (79, 83)

[edit] See also

• 2004 in music

[edit] Notes

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