The question, “Who was the first Australian artist to top the Hottest 100?” should be a pub trivia staple. The answer, for future reference, is Spiderbait. And the song in question was ‘Buy Me A Pony’, the lead single from the band’s 1996 opus, Ivy and the Big Apples.
Ivy was the album that cemented Spiderbait’s place in the ‘90s Australian alt-rock mythos.…
