Live updates: The Hottest 100 of Australian songs is topped by INXS’s Never Tear Us Apart

What a song! What a sax solo! What a countdown!!

It took band mates MC Pressure and DJ Debris to convince Hilltop Hoods’s member Suffa that they had something special with their biggest song The Nosebleed Section.

“I was thinking it didn’t fit in with the other songs,” Suffa told triple j back in 2012.

“We try to make really cohesive records where every track feels like it comes from the same place and maybe that one stuck out a bit, but it stuck out in a good way.”

The song has appeared in three Hottest 100s before. This is its highest ever placing, beating the #4 placement it got in 2013’s Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years.

Wondering how and why The Veronicas’s 2007 song Untouched made it so high? Our pal Courtney Fry from triple j has you covered.

YES, MY BEAUTIFUL BRISBANE GIRLIES!!

Legitimately, the biggest sing-along all day at triple j HQ goes to  Missy Higgins’ breakout song . People are even doing the piano part!

Plus, as Zan Rowe and Lucy Smith pointed out on air,  Missy herself was singing along, cat in her lap.

The recent ARIA Hall of Fame inductee wrote it when she was just 19, regarding the pressures of others trying to push towards a different musical sound and identity. Like ‘a triangle trying to squeeze through a circle’ as she sings.

“It’s a post-it note in my heart to always trust myself,” she says on-air of her 2004 single.

It still resonates all these years later, all across Australia, the perfect introduction to a gifted melodist and eloquent lyricist, who excelled at penning songs that sound familiar, and always hit close to home.

Here ya go, Jane! One of our finest!

It was voted in at #76 in the 1998 and #50 in the 2009 Hottest 100 of All Time countdowns, now Crowded House land at #5 in today’s Hottest 100 of Australian Songs.

“After six months of the first Crowded House record coming out there was still nothing really happening with it, it was kind of a slow bloomer,” Neil Finn told Double J’s Henry Wagons in 2014.

“But Don’t Dream It’s Over kind of developed a momentum of its own. You had a sense of events unfolding rapidly that you could just hopefully enjoy – and I mostly did – but there’s suddenly an intense focus of attention on you and a busyness that you have to adapt to.

“You have to be smart enough to enjoy those moments when they happen. A lot of people recoil in horror at the sudden amount of attention and focus on one particular song, which is kind of like having one of your children picked out and feeling a little upset for your others.”

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Another previous Hottest 100 winner, Powderfinger’s 2000 hit My Happiness is beloved by everyone.

We asked a bunch of Australian musicians what it is about this song that makes it such a force.

Some people say it’s the guitar line, some say it’s the sentiment, and some just really love the slinky in the film clip.

Brb, crying my little eyes out.

Flame Trees is the best song about going back to your old hometown. If you’ve ever done that then this just hits.

Shoutout to anyone in Grafton listening to this. Especially if you ever knew Don Walker.

This is the only back-to-back of the countdown and if you didn’t hear Jimmy Barnes’s reaction on air then we highly recommend you go back and have a listen. Beautiful stuff. We love ya, Barnsey.

Khe Sanh has become something of a totem for the Aussie pub rock tradition. Initially banned by just about every radio station, except Double Jay, it is now practically considered an Australian anthem.

The song is classic Don Walker. Told from the perspective of a freshly returned Vietnam veteran, it hints at the ill-effects of war – PTSD, returning home to broken promises, the unshaking restlessness and malaise – but is delivered with the same steely resolve expected from men of the era.

I asked Walker about the song’s legacy and whether he feels like he owns it.

“If I hear Khe Sanh on the radio, or if I hear a bunch of people singing it – which I can quite often do anonymously – it never crosses my mind that they’re singing my song,” he said.

“I don’t think about that at all. It’s like another entity out there.”

With apologies to Bucko and Champs, How To Make Gravy is the Australian Christmas song.

It is compulsory to have it on your Christmas playlist, it inspired a film of the same name, and every time the 21st of December rolls around, it just seems to get bigger and bigger.

There’s plenty you can read about this song, but I’ll never tire of Max Quinn’s investigation into who really made the gravy that fateful Christmas.

Don’t forget the tomato sauce!

Gotye is the most unlikely pop star you’ll ever come across.

A genius songwriter and crafter of sounds and moods, he has never taken kindly to the trappings of fame. Just another reason we love him so much.

A big welcome to anyone who only knows this as the backing track for a recent Doechii song.

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