While triple j counts down the songs you voted as the best of 2025, we\u2019re cranking the time machine back two decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yep, Double J is bringing you the Hottest 100 of 2005 \u2013 wall-to-wall nostalgia, Aussie classics, and the tunes that defined an era.<\/p>\n
You can hear the countdown from 10am on Sunday 25 January on Double J.<\/p>\n
It was a monster year for Australian music \u2013 half the list is homegrown, including the top two tracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
So, ready to relive the riffs, the anthems, and the bangers that soundtracked your youth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the Hottest 100 of 2005 (maybe voted by you!).<\/p>\n
100 \u2014 91:<\/p>\n
100: The Cat Empire \u2014 ‘Party Started’<\/p>\n
99: The Wrights \u2014 ‘Evie Pt. 1’<\/p>\n
98: Garbage \u2014 ‘Why Do You Love Me’<\/p>\n
97: Karnivool \u2014 ‘Themata’<\/p>\n
96: Little Birdy \u2014 ‘Six Months in a Leaky Boat’<\/p>\n
95: Kisschasy \u2014 ‘Face Without a Name’<\/p>\n
94: Clare Bowditch \u2014 ‘On This Side’<\/p>\n
93: Franz Ferdinand \u2014 ‘The Fallen’<\/p>\n
92: Xavier Rudd \u2014 ‘Messages’<\/p>\n
91: Emiliana Torrini \u2014 ‘Heartstopper’<\/p>\n
90 \u2014 81:<\/p>\n
90: Franz Ferdinand \u2014 ‘Walk Away’<\/p>\n
89: Ben Folds \u2014 ‘Bastard’<\/p>\n
88: Bloc Party \u2014 ‘Like Eating Glass’<\/p>\n
87: The Herd \u2014 ‘We Can’t Hear You’<\/p>\n
86: Ben Lee \u2014 ‘Into the Dark’<\/p>\n
85: Epicure \u2014 ‘Tightrope Walker’<\/p>\n
84: Wolfmother \u2014 ‘White Unicorn’<\/p>\n
83: Scissor Sisters \u2014 ‘Filthy\/Gorgeous’<\/p>\n
82: The Dandy Warhols \u2014 ‘Smoke It’<\/p>\n
81: The Beautiful Girls \u2014 ‘Let’s Take the Long Way Home’<\/p>\n
80 \u2014 71:<\/p>\n
80: The Chemical Brothers \u2014 ‘Believe’<\/p>\n
79: Babyshambles \u2014 ‘Fuck Forever’<\/p>\n
78: After The Fall \u2014 ‘The Fighter’<\/p>\n
77: Bright Eyes \u2014 ‘First Day of My Life’<\/p>\n
76: System of a Down \u2014 ‘Hypnotize’<\/p>\n
75: Beck \u2014 ‘Que Onda Guero’<\/p>\n
74: Missy Higgins \u2014 ‘The Sound Of White’<\/p>\n
73: Jack Johnson \u2014 ‘Better Together’<\/p>\n
72: The Bedroom Philosopher \u2014 ‘I’m So Postmodern’<\/p>\n
71: Cog \u2014 ‘Run’<\/p>\n
70 \u2014 61:<\/p>\n
70: The Mountain Goats \u2014 ‘This Year’<\/p>\n
69: Butterfingers \u2014 ‘Jesus I Was Evil’<\/p>\n
68: The Beautiful Girls \u2014 ‘Ashes’<\/p>\n
67: The White Stripes \u2014 ‘The Denial Twist’<\/p>\n
66: Ween \u2014 ‘Gabrielle’<\/p>\n
65: Sarah Blasko \u2014 ‘Always Worth It’<\/p>\n
64: Jack Johnson \u2014 ‘Sitting, Waiting, Wishing’<\/p>\n
63: Clare Bowditch \u2014 ‘Divorcee By 23’<\/p>\n
62: Gyroscope \u2014 ‘Beware Wolf’<\/p>\n
61: Green Day \u2014 ‘Jesus of Suburbia’<\/p>\n
60 \u2014 51:<\/p>\n
60: The Dandy Warhols \u2014 ‘All the Money or the Simple Life Honey’<\/p>\n
59: Martha Wainwright \u2014 ‘Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole’<\/p>\n
58: Queens of the Stone Age \u2014 ‘Little Sister’<\/p>\n
57: System of a Down \u2014 ‘Radio\/Video’<\/p>\n
56: Architecture in Helsinki \u2014 ‘It’5!’<\/p>\n
55: Ben Folds \u2014 ‘Landed’<\/p>\n
54: The Cat Empire \u2014 ‘Two Shoes’<\/p>\n
53: Ben Lee \u2014 ‘We’re All In This Together’<\/p>\n
52: DVDA (from Team America: World Police) \u2014 ‘America, Fuck Yeah’<\/p>\n
51: Audioslave \u2014 ‘Be Yourself’<\/p>\n
50 \u2014 41:<\/p>\n
50: Arctic Monkeys \u2014 ‘I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor’<\/p>\n
49: The Living End \u2014 ‘What’s on Your Radio’<\/p>\n
48: The Bravery \u2014 ‘An Honest Mistake’<\/p>\n
47: Missy Higgins \u2014 ‘Stuff and Nonsense’<\/p>\n
46: The Strokes \u2014 ‘Juicebox’<\/p>\n
45: Bloc Party \u2014 ‘Positive Tension’<\/p>\n
44: Emiliana Torrini \u2014 ‘Sunny Road’<\/p>\n
43: Lior \u2014 ‘Autumn Flow’<\/p>\n
42: Grinspoon \u2014 ‘Sweet as Sugar’<\/p>\n
41: Gorillaz \u2014 ‘Dirty Harry’<\/p>\n
40 \u2014 31:<\/p>\n
40: Bloc Party \u2014 ‘Helicopter’<\/p>\n
39: Wolfmother \u2014 ‘Colossal’<\/p>\n
38: The Cat Empire \u2014 ‘Sly’<\/p>\n
37: Wolfmother \u2014 ‘Dimension’<\/p>\n
36: Coldplay \u2014 ‘Speed of Sound’<\/p>\n
35: Beck \u2014 ‘Girl’<\/p>\n
34: Kaiser Chiefs \u2014 ‘I Predict a Riot’<\/p>\n
33: The Butterfly Effect \u2014 ‘Phoenix’<\/p>\n
32: Cog \u2014 ‘My Enemy’<\/p>\n
31: Missy Higgins \u2014 ‘The Special Two’<\/p>\n
30 \u2014 21:<\/p>\n
30: After The Fall \u2014 ‘Concrete Boots’<\/p>\n
29: Gyroscope \u2014 ‘Fast Girl’<\/p>\n
28: Kaiser Chiefs \u2014 ‘Everyday I Love You Less And Less’<\/p>\n
27: System of a Down \u2014 ‘B.Y.O.B.’<\/p>\n
26: Coldplay \u2014 ‘Fix You’<\/p>\n
25: The Cat Empire \u2014 ‘The Car Song’<\/p>\n
24: The Bloodhound Gang \u2014 ‘Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo’<\/p>\n
23: Bloc Party \u2014 ‘Two More Years’<\/p>\n
22: Kisschasy \u2014 ‘Do-Do’s & Whoa-Oh’s’<\/p>\n
21: Faker \u2014 ‘Hurricane’<\/p>\n
20 \u2014 11:<\/p>\n
20: Foo Fighters \u2014 ‘DOA’<\/p>\n
19: Josh Pyke \u2014 ‘Middle Of The Hill’<\/p>\n
18: The Herd \u2014 ‘I Was Only 19’<\/p>\n
17: The White Stripes \u2014 ‘Blue Orchid’<\/p>\n
16: Wolfmother \u2014 ‘Apple Tree’<\/p>\n
15: Sarah Blasko \u2014 ‘Flame Trees’<\/p>\n
14: Bernard Fanning \u2014 ‘Songbird’<\/p>\n
13: Kanye West \u2014 ‘Gold Digger’<\/p>\n
12: Datarock \u2014 ‘Computer Camp Love’<\/p>\n
11: Butterfingers \u2014 ‘Figjam (Fuck I’m Good, Just Ask Me)’<\/p>\n
10 \u2014 1:<\/p>\n
10: Franz Ferdinand \u2014 ‘Do You Want To’<\/p>\n
9: Wolfmother \u2014 ‘Joker and the Thief’<\/p>\n
8: End of Fashion \u2014 ‘O Yeah’<\/p>\n
7: The White Stripes \u2014 ‘My Doorbell’<\/p>\n
6: Wolfmother \u2014 ‘Mind’s Eye’<\/p>\n
5: Gorillaz \u2014 ‘DARE’<\/p>\n
4: Foo Fighters \u2014 ‘Best of You’<\/p>\n
3: Gorillaz \u2014 ‘Feel Good Inc.’<\/p>\n
2: Ben Lee \u2014 ‘Catch My Disease’<\/p>\n
1: Bernard Fanning \u2014 ‘Wish You Well’<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the full list \u2013 100 songs that defined 2005 and still hit hard today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Crank it up, sing along, and celebrate the music that shaped a generation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While triple j counts down the songs you voted as the best of 2025, we\u2019re cranking the time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[19458,156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-172817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-djfrontpage","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}