The Best of 2010

[Q.]

Hastily compiling a shortlist for JJJ's Hottest 100, I realised that being out of the country for half the year meant I missed a lot of album releases and that if I end up listening to the countdown I won't have heard many of the songs.

Nevertheless, I have a small handful of albums that I rate:

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
British India - Avalanche
Children Collide - Theory of Everything
Against Me! - White Crosses
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Rush To Relax


So what were your fave albums and songs for 2010 and did I miss out on anything good?

[Pidge]

I voted for mainly Australian Acts in the Hottest 100 this time..

Birds of Tokyo - The Gap
Boy in a Box - Moon Comes Up
The Chemist - End of July
The Holidays - Golden Sky
Hungry Kids of Hungary - Wristwatch
Little Red - Rock It
Sparkadia - Talking Like i'm falling downstairs
The Salvadors - Atacama Disco
Children Collide - Jellylegs
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

IMO the best album of 2010 was Birds of Tokyo's self titled album..

[Freo HeaveHo]

I went with

Birds Of Tokyo - Plans
Birds Of Tokyo - Wild At Heart
British India - Avalanche
Children Collide - My Eagle
Dead Letter Circus - One Step
Gyroscope - Baby, I'm Getting Better
Gyroscope - What Do I Know About Pain?
Shihad - Lead Or Follow
Trial Kennedy - Strange Behaviour
Dead Letter Circus - Big


Support the Aussie acts .....

[blink]

So many good songs this year, I had to vote twice (under my old man's name, spewing if he wins the Golden Ticket):

BIRDS OF TOKYO - Wild At Heart
ART VS. SCIENCE - Magic Fountain
BLACK KEYS, THE - Tighten Up
BRANDON FLOWERS - Crossfire
DARWIN DEEZ - Radar Detector
DRAPHT - Rapunzel
JOHN BUTLER TRIO - Revolution
KINGS OF LEON - Pyro
WOMBATS, THE - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)
BLISS N ESO - Addicted
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FOSTER THE PEOPLE - Pumped up Kicks
EVIL EDDIE - Queensland
LITTLE RED - Rock It
THE NAKED & FAMOUS - Punching In A Dream
CUSTOM KINGS - Sunday
BRITISH INDIA - Avalance
LAURA MARLING - Rambling Man
OZI BATTLA - Put It On Wax
THE NATIONAL - Bloodbuzz Ohio
THE JEZABELS - Easy to Love

[Leaping Lindner]

Spencer P Jones - Sobering Thoughts. Album of the year by a mile for me.

[Pseudo]

Excellent:
The National - High Violet
Daft Punk - TRON: Legacy soundtrack

Consistently Good:
The The - Tony: A Soundtrack By The The
Geneva Jacuzzi - Lamaze

Some high points, some low points:
The Golden Filter - Voluspa
LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

[Baron Greenback]

Dunno the name of the song, might be Barricade, by Interpol.
Always in my head and will be right up there I reckon.

[zipzap]

My top 5


The Besnard Lakes – ...Are the Roaring Night

Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! – Sea Priest

Arcade Fire – The Suburbs

LCD Soundsystem – This is Happening

Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest

Honourable mentions:
Radio Dept – Clinging to a Scheme (was hoping for Pet Grief pt 2 but it’s still pretty cool)
New Young Pony Club – The Optimist (a much better album than their first)
GB3 – Damaged/Controlled (Underground Lovers + Steve Kilbey – how could you go wrong?)
Grinderman – Grinderman 2 (rock solid and p*ss funny)
Band of Horses – Infinite Arms (like Fleet Foxes a while back this is also a favourite of my dad’s – hmmm... brain still interpreting that...)
Cloud Control – Bliss Release ( a little twee but a nice one for the kids to jump around to on a lazy Sunday morning)

[saintal]

My fav handful of albums from 2010:

Anathema- We’re here because we’re here.
Oceansize- Self preserved while the bodies float up.
Agalloch- Spirit of the marrow
Alcest– Ecailles De Lune
God Is An Astronaut– Age Of The Fifth Sun

[Gingernuts]

My votes went to:

ANGUS AND JULIA STONE - Big Jet Plane
BIRDS OF TOKYO - The Gap
BOY and BEAR - Fall At Your Feet
CHILDREN COLLIDE - My Eagle
CLOUD CONTROL - There's Nothing In The Water We Can't Fight
DEAD LETTER CIRCUS - One Step
JEZABELS, THE - Mace Spray
JEZABELS, THE - Easy To Love
GOTYE - Eyes Wide Open
WOMBATS, THE - Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)

The Jezabels were the band that have really stuck with me in 2010. They've only released a couple of EP's at this stage, not sure if they've got an album in the pipeline.

[Dogwatcher]

Has anyone put their hand up for Angus and Julia Stone? That's embarassing.
It's like women have taken over the music industry and said yes, I want all people to listen to boring, slow music.
It's everywhere now.
What happened to rock being liked by the masses?????

I only typed that rant so I could put the following in here (received it on email). It's the thoughts of various people on youtube about A&J S and there was no Hottest 100 thread (maybe cos we knew how bad this thing had become):

What a lame excuse for music. F++k this band, f**k Triple J for turning into a watery, softcore pussy fest. **** you for reading my message and f**k me for being such a jaded a**ehat.

Why do they deserve to win?

Well out of 1.5million votes they were voted most popular song for 2010.

That's saying something.

Secondly, When music is perceived as lifeless , dull or boring it is most likely because you do not have the ability to tune in with such a genre of music.

Do you think you can determine music for genres better than millions of other people?

And as for saying EVERYONE can play this type of music!! that's a huge call.

Can you guys? I'd love to hear one of yours.<3



The world of music, film and art is quickly going to the shit. For Christ sake how have we become such a controlled, bland and subdued society. Look at the progression of children's programmings from the early nineties to now. People are infecting children with mediocre dreams, creating machines built on physiological domain. The blander the food the easier it is to inject. That is what this shit represents.



Triple J kick started this pseudo-hippie trend just like that started all that shitty underground electronic music a few years ago. Anyway, regardless of who started playing what, this song blows and you can kiss my hairy white arse.




What the f**k has happened to Triple J? It used to showcase angsty, edgy music for disaffected youth. Now it has droll music like this on the top of its rotation. I'm an old fart (nearing 50) and I'm concerned if this is what teenagers and those in their twenties find musically relevant to them. Another musical revolution (as occured with punk) is needed desperately.

I wonder if Triple J will subtitle the Hottest 100 album "Music For Softcocks"?



Australians have turned into weird hippie lovin fags... Few years ago it was all about dance/electro/trance music and now everybody's saying "dance music is so mainstream mann, we never liked that shit"... This hippie music is just another trend and will die shortly.



This is genuinely the biggest pile of shite in modern music history. An inexcusable oversight from the sh***est radio station in the southern hemisphere. 12 meters of total toss



It saddens me to see that the musical tastes of the majority have dimished to four chords with little to no original melody... Oh well, at least it's easy to tune out.



This is probably the most boring song I've heard in a long time. It's nearly as boring as Jack Johnson, which is FU****NG BORING. Look, it's not really offensive or anything, but it's just so boring and pedestrian. It's elevator music really.



Deserved winners, all you a*sewipes butt hurt about the hottest 100 can suck on my oversized d**k. Seriously, just give it a nibble.



What a boring, disappointing song to get number 1. I wanted the number one song to be at least something cheery that I could celebrate the end to an epic countdown to - not some depressing, anti-climatic song that could be played at a friends funeral.


PS: Sorry for beating the swear filter but these are actual quotes.

[OnSong]

This is genuinely the biggest pile of shite in modern music history. An inexcusable oversight from the sh***est radio station in the southern hemisphere. 12 meters of total toss

Who wrote this and how can I shake his hand?

[Drop Bear]

I wonder if Triple J will subtitle the Hottest 100 album "Music For Softcocks"?

Or "Music to slit your wrists with".

[southee]

This is genuinely the biggest pile of shite in modern music history. An inexcusable oversight from the sh***est radio station in the southern hemisphere. 12 meters of total toss

Who wrote this and how can I shake his hand?

Its sensational......says it all really!!!

[Q.]

I don't remember a year I ever got that excited about the resulting top ten. I find I dig a lot more of the tunes that land in the bottom half of the hundred.

[Q.]

Is this tongue-in-cheek song actually an accurate representation of the count

[LMA]

Who in their right mind can actually think that is in the top 100 songs of the year They have to revert back to voting for just one song only to eradicate the crapola and bring it back to it's former glory

[McGovern]

This is genuinely the biggest pile of shite in modern music history. An inexcusable oversight from the sh***est radio station in the southern hemisphere. 12 meters of total toss

Who wrote this and how can I shake his hand?

Its sensational......says it all really!!!

Perhaps the same people have been at JJJ for too long and the music is getting old with them? Poor year for music in general IMO.

[zipzap]

Bah, Angus and Julia Stone indeed. I remember thinking the same thing when Powderfinger and Bernard Fanning kept topping the Hottest 100 - bland, safe, corporate indie.

Triple j has been pooh for years. In a former life in Brissy when I had vague journalistic ambitions (you're living the dream DW!) I did a story on the selling out of JJJ. This was not long after the mass sackings of anyone interesting from the early days of the national network and for some reason they had Crowded House's Woodface on heavy rotation, like some sick joke from Flight of the Conchords.

Anyway, I interviewed Ed Breslin then the head of B105 (equivalent of SAFM) about his perception of JJJs growing commmercialism from the point of view of a commercial network. He said he thought it was fantastic. In a year or so later he was appointed station manager of JJJ and all hope was lost.


EDIT: I had this flashback that I had told that story before and after a quick check found that I had - in a thread where we were all bagging the hell out of the 2005 Hottest 100. Good to see nothing changes!

[RustyCage]

At the end of the count yesterday the people I was with were coming up with alternative plans next year for music for Australia Day. When a remix of the ABC news theme can get so high up, why bother. The music was just bland electronic crap. When it wasnt bland electronic crap it was slow accoustic ballads. Half didnt have a noticable chorus or bridge or anything recognisable from the usual song structure.

Will have to see what Three D Radio's Top 101 looks a lot better and is full of local Adelaide bands.

# Artist (L=Local, A=Aust, or country) Title
1 Squid Jag (L) Demolition
2 Ride Into The Sun (L) Ride Into The Sun
3 The Aves (L) Arblaster
4 The Witch (L) ...From The Sea To The Swamp
5 Roadside Slasher (L) Friend of the Moon
6 Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! (L) Sea Priest
7 The Aves (L) Reaction
8 The Yearlings (L) Sweet Runaway
9 Brillig (L) The Red Coats
10 Abbie Cardwell And Her Leading Men (L) The Bare Bones Session
11 G G Alan Bindig (L) The Curse
12 The Toss (L) Members Only
13 Fluffy (L) Demo
14 The Systemaddicts (L) Tasman Strachan Vs The Wacky Lemon Surprise
15 Dead Man Ink (L) Demo
16 Ride Into The Sun (L) Demo
17 Slingshot Dragster (L) Dilmohammed
18 The Saucermen (L) Dead Man's Hand
19 Dead Popes Of The Vatican (L) Dead Popes of the Vatican
20 Fiendish Cavendish (L) Night of the Bloody Vackas
21 Glamville (L) Delusions Of Ganja
22 Ricochet Pete (L) Live @ The Sound Lounge
23 Turkey Ranchero (L) Turkey Ranchero
24 The Mynd Gardeners (L) Tales from the Caramel Hourglass
25 The Amcats (L) Truckstop
26 Jay Walker And The Pedestrians (L) The Rise And Decline Of The Sun
27 The Timbers (L) Live @ The Sound Lounge
28 Various (L) Big Beat Cellar Scene: The Lost Sounds Of Adelaide 1965-70
29 The Audreys (L) Sometimes The Stars
30 Grong Grong (L) To Hell 'N' Back
31 Belle And Sebastian (UK) Write About Love
32 Les Goolies (L) Blood & Custard
33 Van Cleef (L) Where The River Meets The Rock
34 The Confusement Park (L/US) Welcome To The Confusement Park
35 Fiendish Cavendish (L) Meet The Fritzels
36 The Battery Kids (L) We're Just Hanging While The Rats All Gather And The Vultures Circle Overhead
37 Eddy Current Suppression Ring (A) Push To Relax
38 Viva Vas Deferens (L) 2
39 Matt Banham (L) Self Destruct
40 Kirk Special (L) The Fewer The Facts The Stronger The Opinion
41 The Molting Vultures (L) Demo
42 The Irresponsibles (L) Let It Out
43 Diesel Witch (L) Demo
44 Phat Panda (L) Paws For Reflection
45 The Honey Pies (L) Think Of England
46 Peter Brat & The Molting Vultures (L) Life On The Dole/Drop In & Go
47 Cock (L) I'm Just Sayin' What Everyone's Thinkin'
48 The Black Keys (US) Brothers
49 Dave Graney & The Lurid Yellow Mist (L) Supermodified
50 Kelshy (L) Too Many People
51 Kelshy (L) I've Been Done Over By Telstra
52 Holly Golightly And The Brokeoffs (UK) Medicine County
53 Hoodoo Voodoo Dolls (L) Live @ The Sound Lounge
54 Jesse Dean Freeman Trio (L) Introducing
55 Thee Oh Sees (US) Help
56 Radio Spectacular (L) Sugar Baby, Honey Child
57 Squeaker (L) Fly Baby Fly
58 Stomp The Dog (L) Stomp The Dog
59 Angelik (L) Angelik
60 Little Lindsay (L) Little Lindsay
61 Cosmic Bikini (L) Still Smokin'
62 Standard Union (L) Standard Union
63 Huckleberry Swedes (L) Live @ The Sound Lounge
64 Pimpin' Horus (L) House Of Horus
65 The Honey Pies (L) Oh Hi We Didn't See You There We're...
66 Stirling North & The Serious Lack Of Rainfall (L) Demo
67 Bird Is The Word (L) Demo
68 The Brian Jonestown Massacre (US) Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?
69 The Frowning Clouds (A) Listen Closelier
70 Automatic Skivvy (L) 6 Of The Best
71 Super Raelene Bros vs Little Sisters Collective (L) Wiya! Angela Pamela
72 Electric Shitstorm (L) Live @ The Sound Lounge
73 Dollsquad (A) Lethal In Leather
74 The Baker Suite (L) A Quartet For Car Horns And Brakes
75 Dimi Dero Inc (FR) Cremation Day In The Court Of Miracles
76 The Bedroom Philosopher (A) Songs From The 86 Tram
77 The Honey Pies (L) Half A Demo
78 Streamliners (L) Live @ The Sound Lounge
79 Depression (A) Why Do People Hate Us
80 Grenadiers (L) Songs The Devil Taught Us
81 Grinderman (A) Grinderman 2
82 Loren Kate (L) Brand New Shoes
83 Taught By Animals (L) Taught By Animals
84 The Swoop (L) The Swoop
85 The Mops (JP) Psychedelic Sound In Japan
86 Various (L) These Are My Blues: A Tribute To Big Joe Williams
87 Don Morrison (L) Random Notes
88 Fiendish Cavendish (L) Lost Cause
89 The Dagoes (L) Oh No
90 Friends (L) Friends
91 Phat Panda (L) Live @ The Sound Lounge
92 Readymades (L) Live @ The Sound Lounge
93 Booster (L) Cracktopia
94 Bamboos (A) 4
95 Scoundrel (L) Introducing
96 Swimsuit (L) Car Sick
97 Wooden Shjips (US) Vol. 2
98 The Shiny Brights (L) Too Many Chiefs
99 Courtney Robb (L) Amid The Noise & Haste
100 Happy Ghosts (L) Carrie Sings
101 Lipsmack (L) Demo