The 1996 Triple J Hottest 100, counted down on 26 January 1997, was a countdown of the most popular songs of the year, according to listeners of the Australian radio station Triple J. A CD featuring 31 of the songs was released. A countdown of the videos of most of the songs was also shown on the ABC music series Rage. The 1996 chart marked the first time an Australian band had topped the chart, with Spiderbait taking out top honours.

Full list Note: Australian artists # Song Artist Country of origin 1 Buy Me a Pony Spiderbait Australia 2 Stinkfist Tool United States 3 Underground Ben Folds Five United States 4 Pepper Butthole Surfers United States 5 Glycerine Bush United Kingdom 6 Pick You Up Powderfinger Australia 7 Breathe The Prodigy United Kingdom 8 The Ballad of the Skeletons Allen Ginsberg United States 9 El Scorcho Weezer United States 10 You're Gorgeous Babybird United Kingdom 11 Down 311 United States 12 Born Slippy .NUXX Underworld United Kingdom 13 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins United States 14 Scooby Snacks Fun Lovin' Criminals United States 15 Kong Foo Sing Regurgitator Australia 16 Spaceman Babylon Zoo United Kingdom 17 Firestarter The Prodigy United Kingdom 18 D.A.F. Powderfinger Australia 19 Swallowed Bush United Kingdom 20 Dogs Are the Best People The Fauves Australia 21 Down in the Park Foo Fighters United States 22 Oh Yeah Ash United Kingdom 23 I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am Regurgitator Australia 24 Santa Monica Everclear United States 25 Just a Girl No Doubt United States 26 Setting Sun The Chemical Brothers United Kingdom 27 The Distance Cake United States 28 Zero The Smashing Pumpkins United States 29 Devils Haircut Beck United States 30 Self Abuser The Fauves Australia 31 The Muppet Song (Mah Na Mah Na) Skin United Kingdom 32 Living Type Powderfinger Australia 33 California Love 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre United States 34 Mother Mother Tracy Bonham United States 35 Killing Me Softly Fugees United States 36 Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand Primitive Radio Gods United States 37 Virtual Insanity Jamiroquai United Kingdom 38 Comedown Bush United Kingdom 39 Novocaine for the Soul Eels United States 40 Milk (The Wicked Mix) Garbage featuring Tricky United States/United Kingdom 41 Whoever You Are Geggy Tah United States 42 Coppertone Fini Scad Australia 43 Where It's At Beck United States 44 Salvation The Cranberries Ireland 45 Aneurysm Nirvana United States 46 Bulls on Parade Rage Against the Machine United States 47 Hail, Hail Pearl Jam United States 48 Popular Nada Surf United States 49 Pass the Vibes Definition of Sound United Kingdom 50 Mach 5 The Presidents of the United States of America United States 51 Only Happy When It Rains Garbage United States 52 Until It Sleeps Metallica United States 53 Hyperballad Björk Iceland 54 If I Could Talk I'd Tell You The Lemonheads United States 55 Tonight, Tonight The Smashing Pumpkins United States 56 Susan's House Eels United States 57 So Rude Rebecca's Empire Australia 58 Heartspark Dollarsign Everclear United States 59 Silver Lizard Tumbleweed Australia 60 Hey Dude Kula Shaker United Kingdom 61 I'll Be Your Majick Def FX Australia 62 Hero of the Day Metallica United States 63 Punk Rock Song Bad Religion United States 64 Wombo Lombo Angélique Kidjo Benin 65 Here in Your Bedroom Goldfinger United States 66 What's Come Over Me Frente! Australia 67 Everything Is Good for You Crowded House Australia 68 Theme from Mission: Impossible Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. Ireland 69 Speculator Insurge Australia 70 Don't It Get You Down Deadstar Australia 71 Disco 2000 Pulp United Kingdom 72 Punch in the Face Frenzal Rhomb Australia 73 Gold Dust Woman Hole United States 74 Lay Lady Lay Ministry United States 75 Surf's Up Tonight Midnight Oil Australia 76 In the Meantime Spacehog United Kingdom 77 Burden in My Hand Soundgarden United States 78 How Bizarre OMC New Zealand 79 I Make Hamburgers The Whitlams Australia 80 Soldiers You Am I Australia 81 Shut My Eyes The Superjesus Australia 82 Naked Eye Luscious Jackson United States 83 Waking Up Tired Hoodoo Gurus Australia 84 Good Mornin' You Am I Australia 85 Goldfinger Ash United Kingdom 86 Woman Neneh Cherry Sweden 87 E-Bow the Letter R.E.M. United States 88 Grooving The Hunting Party Australia 89 Cromagnonman Snout Australia 90 Leaving Here Pearl Jam United States 91 Set the Controls For the Heart of the Pelvis Barry Adamson United Kingdom 92 Thunder The Mavis's Australia 93 All I Want Skunk Anansie United Kingdom 94 Mankind Pearl Jam United States 95 Creep Frank Bennett Australia 96 Ella's Uncle Matt Trapnell & Trapazoid Australia 97 Hail Caesar AC/DC Australia 98 Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunk Funkin' Mix) Tori Amos United States 99 Ready to Go Republica United Kingdom 100 Gold to Me Ben Harper United States

Statistics

Artists with multiple entries #ArtistTracks3Bush 5, 19, 38Powderfinger6, 18, 32The Smashing Pumpkins13, 28, 55Pearl Jam47, 90, 942The Prodigy7, 17Regurgitator15, 23The Fauves20, 30Dave Grohl21, 45Ash22, 85Everclear24, 58Beck29, 43Eels39, 56Garbage 40, 51Metallica52, 62You Am I80, 84

Countries represented CountryTotalUnited States45Australia29United Kingdom21Ireland2Benin1Iceland1New Zealand1Sweden1

CD release Disc 1 Spiderbait – "Buy Me a Pony" (1:41) Tool – "Stinkfist" (5:09) Ben Folds Five – "Underground" (4:11) Butthole Surfers – "Pepper" (4:54) Bush – "Glycerine" (4:24) The Prodigy – "Breathe" (3:59) Allen Ginsberg – "Ballad of the Skeletons" (4:07) Weezer – "El Scorcho" (4:03) Babybird – "You're Gorgeous" (3:44) 311 – "Down" (2:51) Underworld – "Born Slippy" (3:42) Fun Lovin' Criminals – "Scooby Snacks" (3:02) Babylon Zoo – "Spaceman" (4:05) Powderfinger – "D.A.F." (3:30) Regurgitator – "I Sucked a Lot of Cock to Get Where I Am" (2:34) Everclear – "Santa Monica" (3:11) No Doubt – "Just a Girl" (3:28)Disc 2 Cake – "The Distance" (2:58) Beck – "Devils Haircut" (3:13) Skin – "Mah Nà Mah Nà (The Muppet Song)" (1:36) Jamiroquai – "Virtual Insanity" (5:40) Eels – "Novocaine for the Soul" (3:07) Garbage – "Milk" (Single Edit – Shirley) (4:00) Geggy Tah – "Whoever You Are" (4:34) Fini Scad – "Coppertone" (3:38) Björk – "Hyperballad" (5:21) The Lemonheads – "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" (2:50) Rebecca's Empire – "So Rude" (3:37) Def FX – "I'll Be Your Majick" (3:13) Angélique Kidjo – "Wombo Lombo" (4:14) The Whitlams – "I Make Hamburgers" (3:34) Matthew Trapnell and Trapezoid – "Ella's Uncle" (5:52) Tori Amos – "Professional Widow" (3:47) Note: "Milk" is actually the Shirley and Tricky single edit instead of the Shirley single edit listed on the track listing.

A later release omits "Stinkfist", "Down", "Just a Girl", "The Distance", and "Devils Haircut", while including "Disco 2000" by Pulp, "Self Abuser" by The Fauves, and "A Punch in the Face" by Frenzal Rhomb.

Certifications

See also 1996 in music

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