Australia Day & Triple J's Hottest 100.

So today marks 217 years since Captain Arthur Phillip RN founded the settlement of Sydney and the colony of New South Wales. Some consider this day as the birth of the nation of Australia, others see it as the day of invasion. Regardless, kick your feet up, have a beer and eat some lamb.

Triple J's annual Hottest 100 takes over the airwaves today too, charting the hottest hundred songs of the past year. The hot favourite for number one is Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out. We'll see.


A few years back (back in the day), when Mel Bampton and Charlie Pickering used to host Triple J's afternoon drive show, they also charted the hottest 100 things about summer:

Mel and Charlie's Hottest 100 things about summer

100 - Open and accepted slagging of your fellow man all in the name of cricket.

99 - The development of the beach yogi.

98 - The development of the thong callous and the thong tan.

97 - Getting to burn your brother or sister with the belt buckles in the car.

96 - Losing your virginity and counting down the next 3 weeks til you get to go back to school and tell all your friends.

95 - The feeling of sweat running down your bum crack.

94 - Riding your bmx in nothing but your budgie smugglers despite all the injuries you sustained last summer.

93 - Judging the various shades of british backpackers that have passed out on the beach.

92 - Watching a barefoot idiot doing the lizard run across the roasting bitumen.

91 - Sound of Greensleeves.

90 - Mango juice dripping off your elbows.

89 - Laughing at the kids who's mums have clearly picked out their beach attire and never got over their love of fluoro from the eighties.

88 - Fill-in newsreaders.

87 - The suspense that comes with discovering which Neighbours personality will be trying their hand at singing this year.

86 - Inventing a new language for dealing with the hot car based on the phrase 'hoochee hochee wowow'

85 - Laying in a river drinking beer.

84 - Performing the first pubic backburn after winter hibernation.

83 - Watching your siblings burn their arses on the local slippery slide.

82 - Hammock.

81 - Writing 'I suck dead dogs balls' in sunscreen on your mates back.

80 - Opening all the windows and doors to cop the cool change.

79 - Classic re-runs such as Brady Bunch, Golden Girls and Head of the class.

78 - Waiting for the neighbours to go out so you can jump the fence and into their pool.

77 - Funniest home videos.

76 - Looking for a job everyday at Centrelink because they have air conditioning.

75 - 32 hours straight playing the video game you got for Christmas.

74 - Harry’s Practice on five nights a week.

73 - Buying $300 worth of cd’s using nothing but vouchers.

72 - Filling the little kiddies pool with ice beer and bodies.

71 - Out on the patio we sit, and the humidity we breath, we watch the lightening crack over cane fields.

70 - French cricket.

69 - Breaking out in hives from eating your body weight in prawns.

68 - Getting a Christmas beetle stuck in your hair.

67 - Pool fingering.

66 - Perving.

65 - Putting ice in the bong.

64 - Eating sandy fish and chips.

63 - The smell of a freshly mowed backyard lawn combined with a diced piece of dog shit sweating in the sun that someone was too bloody lazy to dodge.

62 - Dads who continue to wear the holey scrap of material, which was once a pair of stubbies insisting that the holes provide air-conditioning.

61 - Wearing bum grooves into your new banana lounge.

60 - Watching your mate get stuck barefoot in the middle of a Bindi infested paddock.

59 - Going for a drink from the garden hose and burning your face off.

58 - Hanging your feet out the car window and losing your thongs.

57 - Summer sunsets.

56 - the injuries sustained by poor placement of the slip and slide.

55 - Laying in a pool of sweat when you go to bed at night and waking up 4 hours laying freezing your bits off.

54 - The nauseating aroma of mozzie coil.

53 - Getting out of the shower and laying in front of the fan.

52 - No watch...EVER

51 - Classic catches in the pool.

50 - Ham sandwiches ‘til march.

49 - Frangipanis.

48 - Cruising in your car in the blistering heat, windows down, Triple J playing cruisy tunes, no deadlines or anywhere to be.

47 - Ice magic.

46 - Getting a ‘secret sandcastle’ in the crotch of your swimmers.

45 - Dreaming of cockjocks, dick pointers and slug huggers waking to find out they have been replaced by boardshorts.

44 - Sock tan.

43 - Cane toad cricket/golf.

42 - Freeze brain from eating your icy pole to fast.

41 - Telling tourists at Taronga zoo not to get too close to the koalas as they are highly flammable in summer due to all the eucalyptus oil.

40 - Hugging or horse slapping someone with really bad sunburn

39 - Having all the electronic items such as computers overheat so you dont have to work and can just laze away the working hours.

38 - Freeballin'

37 - Spitting watermelon seeds at your siblings/mates.

36 - The Cherry Spew ingredients..

2 litres of beer & red wine
something to smoke (optional)
1.5 kg cherrys
hey presto
Cherry spew

35 - Sunshowers

34 - The sunny tan

33 - Yelling at the cicada’s out your bedroom window to keep it down, only to realise that they have attitude and get louder.

32 - Cyclone swells and surfing the 8ft shorebreak ( with stolen mcdonalds trays as body boards)

31 - Leatherback spotting.

30 - Steam off the bitumen after rain.

29 - While swimming at a beach miles from anywhere you strategically burying your car keys in sand with a thong to mark the spot in order to keep them safe. You then realise when you have packed up and gotten back to your car that your keys are buried somewhere on the beach!!

28 - Marco Polo.

27 - 2 games, shoe hire, hot dog, fries and a drink.

26 - Met a boy cute as can be, met a girl crazy for me summer days drifting away but ah those summer nights ah well ah well ah ooh!.

25 - Southerly busters after the scorching westerlies.

24 - The unashamed display of hairy backs.

23 - Grasshopper stomping.

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21 - Thinking you’ve been bitten on the foot whilst at the beach, then realising it’s the durry you tried unsuccessfully to put out in the sand.

20 - Searching through the fm radio bandwidth once at your summer holiday destination, in search for the local Triple J frequency!

19 - Bubble-O-Bill.

18 - Watching the neighbour mow his lawn in the middle of the day with a steamer on and overalls over the top, cause he thinks he will loose weight.

17 - Beergardens.

16 - Nectarines, peaches, plums and apricots.

15 - Voting in Triple J Hottest 100.

14 - Organising your triple j hottest 100 party.

13 - The illegal gambling that takes place at your hottest 100 party on who will be no 1.

12 - The illegal gambling that takes place at your hottest 100 party on who will be first to vomy.

11 - Collecting your wins on either of the aforementioned gambles.

10 - Waking up on a sunny day and deciding to have a barbie that afternoon

9 - Ringing your mates to invite them over for the barbie and they’re all up for it.

8 - Successfully constructing the barbie out of bricks and an oven rack.

7 - Arguing with your mates about a) who can build the best fire and b) is it possible to have too much beer batter and c) shall we put some chops on for the girls?

6 - 4 hours later taking the first bite of overcooked carcass seasoned with the summer flavours of charcoal and sunscreen.

5 - Getting sunburnt, then dropping the skin from your peeling nose into the burgers your forced to cook at your local family restaurant.

4 - Golden gaytimes.

3 - Recreating 'It’s a Knockout' in the pool.

2 - Being 14 and perving at your 17 yr old sister’s mates

1 - Scoring at pash whilst watching the final act at the Big Day Out.

Listening to:
Title: This Song Is A Love Song
Artist: Little Birdy
Album/station: Hottest 100 on Triple J 105.7FM
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