While triple j counts down the songs you voted as the best of 2025, we’re cranking the time machine back two decades.
Yep, Double J is bringing you the Hottest 100 of 2005 – wall-to-wall nostalgia, Aussie classics, and the tunes that defined an era.
You can hear the countdown from 10am on Sunday 25 January on Double J.
It was a monster year for Australian music – half the list is homegrown, including the top two tracks.
These songs have been in your life for 20 years, but nothing beats hearing these countdowns in full, all songs back-to-back, the way it’s meant to be heard.
So, ready to relive the riffs, the anthems, and the bangers that soundtracked your youth.
Here’s the Hottest 100 of 2005 (maybe voted by you!).
100 — 91:
100: The Cat Empire — ‘Party Started’
99: The Wrights — ‘Evie Pt. 1’
98: Garbage — ‘Why Do You Love Me’
97: Karnivool — ‘Themata’
96: Little Birdy — ‘Six Months in a Leaky Boat’
95: Kisschasy — ‘Face Without a Name’
94: Clare Bowditch — ‘On This Side’
93: Franz Ferdinand — ‘The Fallen’
92: Xavier Rudd — ‘Messages’
91: Emiliana Torrini — ‘Heartstopper’
90 — 81:
90: Franz Ferdinand — ‘Walk Away’
89: Ben Folds — ‘Bastard’
88: Bloc Party — ‘Like Eating Glass’
87: The Herd — ‘We Can’t Hear You’
86: Ben Lee — ‘Into the Dark’
85: Epicure — ‘Tightrope Walker’
84: Wolfmother — ‘White Unicorn’
83: Scissor Sisters — ‘Filthy/Gorgeous’
82: The Dandy Warhols — ‘Smoke It’
81: The Beautiful Girls — ‘Let’s Take the Long Way Home’
80 — 71:
80: The Chemical Brothers — ‘Believe’
79: Babyshambles — ‘Fuck Forever’
78: After The Fall — ‘The Fighter’
77: Bright Eyes — ‘First Day of My Life’
76: System of a Down — ‘Hypnotize’
75: Beck — ‘Que Onda Guero’
74: Missy Higgins — ‘The Sound Of White’
73: Jack Johnson — ‘Better Together’
72: The Bedroom Philosopher — ‘I’m So Postmodern’
71: Cog — ‘Run’
70 — 61:
70: The Mountain Goats — ‘This Year’
69: Butterfingers — ‘Jesus I Was Evil’
68: The Beautiful Girls — ‘Ashes’
67: The White Stripes — ‘The Denial Twist’
66: Ween — ‘Gabrielle’
65: Sarah Blasko — ‘Always Worth It’
64: Jack Johnson — ‘Sitting, Waiting, Wishing’
63: Clare Bowditch — ‘Divorcee By 23’
62: Gyroscope — ‘Beware Wolf’
61: Green Day — ‘Jesus of Suburbia’
60 — 51:
60: The Dandy Warhols — ‘All the Money or the Simple Life Honey’
59: Martha Wainwright — ‘Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole’
58: Queens of the Stone Age — ‘Little Sister’
57: System of a Down — ‘Radio/Video’
56: Architecture in Helsinki — ‘It’5!’
55: Ben Folds — ‘Landed’
54: The Cat Empire — ‘Two Shoes’
53: Ben Lee — ‘We’re All In This Together’
52: DVDA (from Team America: World Police) — ‘America, Fuck Yeah’
51: Audioslave — ‘Be Yourself’
50 — 41:
50: Arctic Monkeys — ‘I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor’
49: The Living End — ‘What’s on Your Radio’
48: The Bravery — ‘An Honest Mistake’
47: Missy Higgins — ‘Stuff and Nonsense’
46: The Strokes — ‘Juicebox’
45: Bloc Party — ‘Positive Tension’
44: Emiliana Torrini — ‘Sunny Road’
43: Lior — ‘Autumn Flow’
42: Grinspoon — ‘Sweet as Sugar’
41: Gorillaz — ‘Dirty Harry’
40 — 31:
40: Bloc Party — ‘Helicopter’
39: Wolfmother — ‘Colossal’
38: The Cat Empire — ‘Sly’
37: Wolfmother — ‘Dimension’
36: Coldplay — ‘Speed of Sound’
35: Beck — ‘Girl’
34: Kaiser Chiefs — ‘I Predict a Riot’
33: The Butterfly Effect — ‘Phoenix’
32: Cog — ‘My Enemy’
31: Missy Higgins — ‘The Special Two’
30 — 21:
30: After The Fall — ‘Concrete Boots’
29: Gyroscope — ‘Fast Girl’
28: Kaiser Chiefs — ‘Everyday I Love You Less And Less’
27: System of a Down — ‘B.Y.O.B.’
26: Coldplay — ‘Fix You’
25: The Cat Empire — ‘The Car Song’
24: The Bloodhound Gang — ‘Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo’
23: Bloc Party — ‘Two More Years’
22: Kisschasy — ‘Do-Do’s & Whoa-Oh’s’
21: Faker — ‘Hurricane’
20 — 11:
20: Foo Fighters — ‘DOA’
19: Josh Pyke — ‘Middle Of The Hill’
18: The Herd — ‘I Was Only 19’
17: The White Stripes — ‘Blue Orchid’
16: Wolfmother — ‘Apple Tree’
15: Sarah Blasko — ‘Flame Trees’
14: Bernard Fanning — ‘Songbird’
13: Kanye West — ‘Gold Digger’
12: Datarock — ‘Computer Camp Love’
11: Butterfingers — ‘Figjam (Fuck I’m Good, Just Ask Me)’
10 — 1:
10: Franz Ferdinand — ‘Do You Want To’
9: Wolfmother — ‘Joker and the Thief’
8: End of Fashion — ‘O Yeah’
7: The White Stripes — ‘My Doorbell’
6: Wolfmother — ‘Mind’s Eye’
5: Gorillaz — ‘DARE’
4: Foo Fighters — ‘Best of You’
3: Gorillaz — ‘Feel Good Inc.’
2: Ben Lee — ‘Catch My Disease’
1: Bernard Fanning — ‘Wish You Well’
That’s the full list – 100 songs that defined 2005 and still hit hard today.
Whether you were blasting these tracks on your iPod, burning mix CDs, or discovering them on triple j for the first time, this countdown will take you back there.
Tune in to Double J from midday on Sunday 25 January to relive it the way it was meant to be heard, as we play the entire Hottest 100 of 2005, back-to-back.
Crank it up, sing along, and celebrate the music that shaped a generation.