Every year Triple J (a radio station in Australia) does its list of
the hottest 100 songs of the year, as voted by its listeners.

However, one year it decided to do get its listeners to vote for the
Hottest 100 Songs of All Time.

What is the list of these 100 songs, in order?

Hi there,

It happened in 1998.

The list is no longer online at Triple J, but I found it via The
Wayback Machine at http://www.webarchive.org

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. Hunters And Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me 
3. Pearl Jam - Alive
4. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
5. Radiohead - Creep
6. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
7. Metallica - One
8. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
9. Metallica - Enter Sandman
10. Pearl Jam - Black
11. U2 - One
12. Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
13. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
14. Nine Inch Nails - Closer
15. Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun
16. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 
17. Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of 
18. Living End - Prisoner Of Society
19. Faith No More - Epic
20. Blink-182 - Dammit
21. Live - Lightning Crashes
22. Pearl Jam - Better Man
23. U2 - With Or Without You
24. Tool - Stinkfist
25. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
26. Nick Cave/Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
27. Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
28. Smiths - How Soon Is Now
29. Jeff Buckley - Grace
30. New Order - Blue Monday
31. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
32. Ben Folds Five - Brick
33. Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings
34. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
35. Faith No More - Ashes To Ashes
36. Whitlams - No Aphrodisiac
37. B-52's - Love Shack
38. Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right
39. Stone Roses - Fools Gold
40. Smashing Pumpkins - Today
41. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
42. Andy Prieboy - Tomorrow Wendy
43. Whitlams - You Sound Like Louis Burdette
44. Beastie Boys - Sabotage
45. Nirvana - Lithium
46. Blur - Song 2
47. Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over
48. Tool - Sober
49. Beatles - A Day In The Life
50. Jebediah - Leaving Home
51. REM - Everybody Hurts
52. Ben Folds Five - Underground
53. Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
54. Radiohead - Karma Police
55. Offspring - Come Out & Play
56. Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror
57. Tool - Forty Six And 2
58. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
59. Silverchair - Tomorrow
60. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
61. You Am I - Berlin Chair
62. Nirvana - Come As You Are
63. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
64. Cake - I Will Survive
65. Eagles - Hotel California
66. Cure - Love Cats
67. Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
68. Hunters And Collectors - Holy Grail
69. Janes Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
70. Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
71. Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
72. Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
73. REM - Losing My Religion
74. Cure - A Forest
75. Portishead - Glory Box
76. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
77. Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O Mine
78. They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul
79. Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
80. Offspring - Self Esteem
81. Blind Melon - No Rain
82. Jebediah - Jerks Of Attention
83. Silverchair - Abuse Me
84. Nick Cave/Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
85. Cure - Just Like Heaven
86. Spiderbait - Buy Me A Pony
87. Nirvana - Aneurysm
88. Grinspoon - Just Ace 
89. Cure - Close To Me
90. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
91. Metallica - The Unforgiven
92. Pauline Pantsdown - Back Door Man
93. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
94. Cold Chisel - Khe Sahn
95. Prodigy - Breathe
96. Nick Cave/Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
97. Beck - Loser
98. Cure - Boys Don't Cry
99. Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
100. David Bowie - Heroes 

http://web.archive.org/web/20000304163155/http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/history/alltime.htm

An archive of each annual Hottest 100 is at:
http://triplej.abc.net.au/hottest100/history/default.htm

Best wishes from a Triple J fan,
robertskelton-ga

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Clarification of Answer by robertskelton-ga on 25 Jul 2002 00:41 PDT

Actually it does currently exist on the Triple J web site, just not linked to...

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/history.htm#1998b

Fast! Look out for my next question, on the top 100 Rage songs...

The first three years (89, 91, 91) of the 'Hottest 100' were slanted
to be the 100 greatest tracks of all time as opposed to the 100
greatest tracks of that year. To be precise, the earlier incarnation
was known as the Hot 100.