The Best of 2010

[Q.]

Hey hey, some of us like that bland electronic crap

Interesting know what songs you all would have liked to see in the top ten (for those that haven't posted it already)?

[Baron Greenback]

Sadly this isn't the only time a song like this has topped the 100:

1995 - Wonderwall
1997 - No Aphrodisiac
1999 - These Days
2000 - My Happiness
2001 - Amazing
2005 - Wish You Well
2006 - One Crowded Hour
2009 - Little Lion Man

Thankfully we've had some rippers in between:

1996 - Buy Me a Pony
2002 - No One Knows
2003 - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
2004 - Take Me Out
2007 - Knights of Cydonia

[Q.]

Typo there BG, that 2003 entry should be in the top list

[Gingernuts]

I don't care what anyone says, JJJ still shits all over any commercial station.

Commercial radio is just a steady stream of teenage chicks singing about how slutty they are, and americans rapping about how awesome their drugs and hoes are. Then a shit load of commercials in between.

JJJ might not be the 'radio god' that it used to be, but it beats the hell out of that crap any day of the week.

They still know how to unearth serious Australian talent in all genre's too, and ultimately that is what they're all about.

As for the 100, I think the very nature of the voting system means that the song that ultimately wins is the one that has wide appeal across all musical tastes.

[Baron Greenback]

Typo there BG, that 2003 entry should be in the top list

Haha. Na I'm a fan. At least it's a rock song.

[OnSong]

Typo there BG, that 2003 entry should be in the top list

Haha. Na I'm a fan. At least it's a rock song.

I too rate Jet.
Saw em live with Powderfinger and they were both great.
Not bands to sing songs about being hungover on a bus, hey Q-man? Lol. Classic vid. Says it all.

[Q.]

Typo there BG, that 2003 entry should be in the top list

Haha. Na I'm a fan. At least it's a rock song.

I too rate Jet.
Saw em live with Powderfinger and they were both great.
Not bands to sing songs about being hungover on a bus, hey Q-man? Lol. Classic vid. Says it all.

That song is a pisstake of bands like Jet

[Booney]

Not only does "Big Jet plane" sound like absolute drivel, take a moment to read the "lyrics":

Just for one moment consider how quickly they came up with this rubbish and what it has done for their genre...like we need more of it.



She said, hello mister
Pleased to meet ya
I wanna hold her
I wanna kiss her
She smelled of daisies
She smelled of daisies
She drive me crazy
She drive me crazy

Chorus:

Gonna take her for a ride on a big jet plane (X2)
Hey, hey

Be my lover
My lady river
Can I take ya
Take ya higher

Chorus:

Gonna take her for a ride on a big jet plane (X4)
Hey hey

Gonna hold ya,
Gonna kiss ya in my arms
Gonna take ya,
Away from harm
(X2)

Repeat Chorus:
Gonna take her for a ride on a big jet plane(X4)
Hey hey

[Dogwatcher]

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!

Hmmmmm....this isn't quite the dream I had in mind. But, at least you think it is

As for JJJ's commercialisation. I agree with what you're writing. For me, JJJ changed with Nirvana. Once Nirvana went commercial and the impact of that was realised, JJJ started to see itself as a transit lounge for music on its way into the charts. That's the way it's stayed.
I'm a big Public Enemy fan, and I'll never forget the time I was at someone else's house with SAFM on and they played this hot, new track by PE. It was Bring Tha Noise featuring Anthrax (an all time PE classic) and it was over a year old!

However, of late I've noticed that a lot of the songs that top the Hottest 100 are the sort of tunes being played on local ABC because it is safe, new music. I'm wondering if the play list is partially being worked to get the kids into the ABC young and then for them to transfer across to ABC Adults once they grow out of 'youth' music.

[Leaping Lindner]

Triple J turned the aquarium that was Australian alternative music into fish soup. Mind you after the past 15 years of conservative government in this country you could say that about most of the arts.

[Leaping Lindner]

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!

Hmmmmm....this isn't quite the dream I had in mind. But, at least you think it is

As for JJJ's commercialisation. I agree with what you're writing. For me, JJJ changed with Nirvana. Once Nirvana went commercial and the impact of that was realised, JJJ started to see itself as a transit lounge for music on its way into the charts. That's the way it's stayed.
I'm a big Public Enemy fan, and I'll never forget the time I was at someone else's house with SAFM on and they played this hot, new track by PE. It was Bring Tha Noise featuring Anthrax (an all time PE classic) and it was over a year old!

However, of late I've noticed that a lot of the songs that top the Hottest 100 are the sort of tunes being played on local ABC because it is safe, new music. I'm wondering if the play list is partially being worked to get the kids into the ABC young and then for them to transfer across to ABC Adults once they grow out of 'youth' music.

Nirvana didn't go commercial. The commercial side of the rock industry "discovered" it. When I was at Triple M (3d) we played Bleach on high rotation, as did Triple J before in the days before it went national.

DW and Zip Zap have you ever guys ever read a book called The Sell in? If you haven't get one as soon as you can. It covers this era of australian music really well, and what went horribly...horribly wrong.(JJJ gets a fair share of the blame too).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sell-In

[Pidge]

I don't care what anyone says, JJJ still shits all over any commercial station.

Commercial radio is just a steady stream of teenage chicks singing about how slutty they are, and americans rapping about how awesome their drugs and hoes are. Then a **** load of commercials in between.

JJJ might not be the 'radio god' that it used to be, but it beats the hell out of that crap any day of the week.

They still know how to unearth serious Australian talent in all genre's too, and ultimately that is what they're all about.

As for the 100, I think the very nature of the voting system means that the song that ultimately wins is the one that has wide appeal across all musical tastes.

You're about the only one on this topic that talks any sense.

The Hottest 100 the other day was probably the best countdown i'll hear for a long, long time.
Sure, i wasn't a huge fan of a couple of the songs in the top 10, but still it was great to hear all the best songs of the past year. There were some ripper songs that didn't even make the top 100 too..

[scoob]

Play a banjo and sing softly like the doctor is checking you tonsils and you will be a hit on JJJ... How times have changed... Maybe Im just getting old and not cutting edge?

[zipzap]

I don't care what anyone says, JJJ still shits all over any commercial station.

Of course you're completely right. But under the ABC Charter it's meant to be providing an alternative service to that provided by the commercials (and not chasing ratings), and for whatever reason, over recent years it has been getting closer and closer...

[zipzap]

DW and Zip Zap have you ever guys ever read a book called The Sell in? If you haven't get one as soon as you can. It covers this era of australian music really well, and what went horribly...horribly wrong.(JJJ gets a fair share of the blame too).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sell-In

Yep, a great book about 90s Oz music as the 'alternative' became mainstream. Forget Nirvana DW, it's all bloody Ratcat's fault!

With the Hummingbirds apparently playing a blinder yesterday at the Sydney BDO it does make you wonder what could have been...

[brod]

Its no late 90s..but Ill take JJJ over the rest, but Ill take my CD collection over them all

[Pidge]

I don't care what anyone says, JJJ still shits all over any commercial station.

Of course you're completely right. But under the ABC Charter it's meant to be providing an alternative service to that provided by the commercials (and not chasing ratings), and for whatever reason, over recent years it has been getting closer and closer...

JJJ is still the first place that these songs get played. Once they start to become popular the commercial stations get a hold of them and flog these songs.

[Leaping Lindner]

I don't care what anyone says, JJJ still shits all over any commercial station.

Of course you're completely right. But under the ABC Charter it's meant to be providing an alternative service to that provided by the commercials (and not chasing ratings), and for whatever reason, over recent years it has been getting closer and closer...

JJJ is still the first place that these songs get played. Once they start to become popular the commercial stations get a hold of them and flog these songs.

Not the first place. Usually the fifth. AFTER RRR,PBS,ZZZ, and 3d.

[Leaping Lindner]

DW and Zip Zap have you ever guys ever read a book called The Sell in? If you haven't get one as soon as you can. It covers this era of australian music really well, and what went horribly...horribly wrong.(JJJ gets a fair share of the blame too).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sell-In

Yep, a great book about 90s Oz music as the 'alternative' became mainstream. Forget Nirvana DW, it's all bloody Ratcat's fault!

With the Hummingbirds apparently playing a blinder yesterday at the Sydney BDO it does make you wonder what could have been...

Yeah but they were on a hiding to nothing folliwng up their first two albums.

[Pidge]

I don't care what anyone says, JJJ still shits all over any commercial station.

Of course you're completely right. But under the ABC Charter it's meant to be providing an alternative service to that provided by the commercials (and not chasing ratings), and for whatever reason, over recent years it has been getting closer and closer...

JJJ is still the first place that these songs get played. Once they start to become popular the commercial stations get a hold of them and flog these songs.

Not the first place. Usually the fifth. AFTER RRR,PBS,ZZZ, and 3d.

I've never heard of them...
Well, I think i might have heard of 3D before.. maybe?