Australian radio network Triple-J has been seen as the voice of the youth of the country for the last few decades now. There are claims otherwise, but the network plays less mainstream, more independent music, and has broken a lot of young bands into popularity.
Every year they have a Hottest 100 countdown, where the most popular songs of the past year, as voted by the station's listeners, are counted down on Australia Day. This year, there's an extra countdown: the Hottest 100 of All Time.
Somehow I think some non-JJJ listeners have been voting on this one.
The voting system works so that you can vote for a song from a list on the website. If your song of choice isn't there, you can type it in, and it will be added to the list. Which is why we have the following:
She is an inspiration, after all. Okay, so commercial music is going to make this list; that's to be accepted. Madonna and Kylie Minogue are sure to have spots, even if they aren't what the station usually plays. That's fine; they're important enough figures to warrant being placed. But...
Celine? Really, Australia? Surely that's as bad as it gets.
...oh.
To be fair, the live version of Animals is so much better than the studio recording. But can someone reassure me that I'd Come for You is using the g-rated meaning of the word "come"? Please?
To be fair, the live version of Animals is so much better than the studio recording. But can someone reassure me that I'd Come for You is using the g-rated meaning of the word "come"? Please?
The Twilight motherfucker? He's not pale, creepy and unemotive enough for one medium, he has to branch out into music?
Hahahaha. Someone thinks Sigur Ros have more than one song.
"Fuck you," says one Crowded House fan. "I want to vote for all of their songs.
There is, however, one thing we can all agree one. What song should be number one. It's a song that has changed a lot of lives, and made the world of music - nay, the world at large - a better place. Not just a great song - and it is, no question - but a fucking important one. This shouldn't just be top ten, it should get the first spot. No, they should invent a new numeral, because "number one" isn't even good enough for this song, this music of heavens. For this must be what it sounds like when angels hum a song, just for you.
Bands, singers, composers: bow down before Numeriklab, for the NCIS Theme has made all other music meaningless.
Hah. That's amazing.
ReplyDeleteI voted for pop - Madonna's "Vogue", Prince's "Purple Rain", Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" - but they're classic pop and even people who generally disapprove of pop music will admit they're great songs. The ten i voted for are pretty much my actual top ten tracks of all time. Curve's "Horror Head", Cocteau Twins' "Heaven or Las Vegas", Hole's "Miss World", Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy", Nirvana's "Come as You Are". One song I included that isn't in my personal ten (although close) was INXS's "Don't Change". it felt unaustayn to not including one Aussie rock band.
However, when I was doing it there was so much garbage in there that obviously had no hope of getting into the countdown unless it really is truly taken over by teenage girls. And i was absolutely shocked to discover people like Cocteau Twins had only one person include them so far. Scary.
My votes weren't great. They were songs I love (by Arcade Fire, Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens), but they're also largely from the last decade. I put Ben Folds Five's Underground, Nina Simone's Feelin' Good and Led Zepplin's Rain Song there too, so it's not entirely recent, but still... my votes don't reflect, for the most part, the actual greatest songs of all time. It's too late for me to become a proper music geek, I'm afraid... but I can live with that. That's while you won't see an end-of-year music list from me.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I can still be snobby and recognise Nickelback as fucking godawful. Although the dig at Sigur Ros was pretty cheap.