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Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Triple J's Hottest 100
The Triple J Hottest 100 is, for me at least, a big deal. I have been a big fan of it and have looked forward to it every year since I started regularly listening to Triple J a number of years ago (with the slight exception of last year when I was preoccupied with spending all my available time flying down cold mountains on 2 bits of wood/metal/plastic/fibreglass). I think the reason I love it so much is because there are songs I hear throughout the year that I really do like, but never get around to obtaining and the Hottest 100 tends to put most of those songs into a big collection. It also is a representation, albeit a skewed one, of what Triple J listeners believe to be the best songs of the year.
I take the voting fairly seriously, I try to go through and remember all the songs I liked during the year and put them in the list. This is generally done by looking through the A to Z of artists and seeing which artist and song names jump out at me and then finding them on youtube and reminding myself what they sound like. This year, after carrying out this procedure I had a list of the following songs.
Drapht – Falling
Josh Pyke – New Year's Song
Josh Pyke – The Lighthouse Song
Lily Allen – Everyone's At It
Lily Allen – The Fear
The Rapture – No Sex For Ben
The Killer – Human
Weezer – Pork and Beans
Kate Nash – Foundations
The Herd – The King Is Dead
The Herd – Zug Zug
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! - War Coward
Pez – The Festival Song
Blue King Brown – Moment of Truth
Emiliana Torrini – Jungle Drum
Cut Copy – Lights and Music
Flight of the Conchords – Inner City Pressure
Flight of the Conchords – Business Time
Flight of the Conchords – Hiphopopotamus Vs Rhymenocerus
Glasvegas – Geraldine
Ida Maria – I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
Ladyhawke – My Delirium
The Presets – This Boy's Love
The Presets – Talk Like That
Something With Numbers – Stay With Me Brighteyes
Sparkadia – Too Much To Do
Ben Folds – You Dont Know Me (Ft. Regina Spektor)
Ben Folds – Bitch Went Nuts
Ben Folds – Dr Yang
The above list is by no means all the songs I liked from 2008, it is not even just all the songs I liked that Triple J played in 2008. I am sure beyond any doubt that there are some awesome ones that I have left off, I am willing to bet that in the days after I have voted I will be listening to the radio, hear a song and think: “Oh cock.” I am also sure that while looking through the song list, I skipped something because I didn't make the connection between artist/title and the song itself.
After a bit of thought I cut the above list of 30 tracks to the one below of just 14 before getting thoroughly stuck.
Shorter List
Drapht – Falling
Josh Pyke – New Year's Song
Lily Allen – The Fear
The Rapture – No Sex For Ben
Kate Nash – Foundations
The Herd – The King Is Dead
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! - War Coward
Pez – The Festival Song
Emiliana Torrini – Jungle Drum
Glasvegas – Geraldine
Ida Maria – I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
Ladyhawke – My Delirium
Ben Folds – You Dont Know Me (Ft. Regina Spektor)
After a lot of agonising I got to the final cut below and the reason I cut the final two; No Sex For Ben by The Rapture and I Like You So Much Better by Ida Maria is because I feel they'll do fine without my having to vote for them. It was the only way I could think of to get down to 10.
Final Cut
Josh Pyke – New Year's Song
Lily Allen – The Fear
Kate Nash – Foundations
The Herd – The King Is Dead
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! - War Coward
Pez – The Festival Song
Emiliana Torrini – Jungle Drum
Glasvegas – Geraldine
Ladyhawke – My Delirium
Ben Folds – You Dont Know Me (Ft. Regina Spektor)
So there they are, my top ten songs of 2008. What are yours? Don't forget to vote!
On a small side note; this has been my first post in a long time and while I created it to try and publish a few of the thoughts that bounce around my head I'm continually finding that I don't have time to write up such deep and meaningful discussions on human existence etc etc as I would like. So from here forth I'm going to attempt to chuck up smaller things more often.
I imagine the whole process will be easier now that i have a laptop and can work on thing like this on the bus as well as at home.
I take the voting fairly seriously, I try to go through and remember all the songs I liked during the year and put them in the list. This is generally done by looking through the A to Z of artists and seeing which artist and song names jump out at me and then finding them on youtube and reminding myself what they sound like. This year, after carrying out this procedure I had a list of the following songs.
Drapht – Falling
Josh Pyke – New Year's Song
Josh Pyke – The Lighthouse Song
Lily Allen – Everyone's At It
Lily Allen – The Fear
The Rapture – No Sex For Ben
The Killer – Human
Weezer – Pork and Beans
Kate Nash – Foundations
The Herd – The King Is Dead
The Herd – Zug Zug
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! - War Coward
Pez – The Festival Song
Blue King Brown – Moment of Truth
Emiliana Torrini – Jungle Drum
Cut Copy – Lights and Music
Flight of the Conchords – Inner City Pressure
Flight of the Conchords – Business Time
Flight of the Conchords – Hiphopopotamus Vs Rhymenocerus
Glasvegas – Geraldine
Ida Maria – I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
Ladyhawke – My Delirium
The Presets – This Boy's Love
The Presets – Talk Like That
Something With Numbers – Stay With Me Brighteyes
Sparkadia – Too Much To Do
Ben Folds – You Dont Know Me (Ft. Regina Spektor)
Ben Folds – Bitch Went Nuts
Ben Folds – Dr Yang
The above list is by no means all the songs I liked from 2008, it is not even just all the songs I liked that Triple J played in 2008. I am sure beyond any doubt that there are some awesome ones that I have left off, I am willing to bet that in the days after I have voted I will be listening to the radio, hear a song and think: “Oh cock.” I am also sure that while looking through the song list, I skipped something because I didn't make the connection between artist/title and the song itself.
After a bit of thought I cut the above list of 30 tracks to the one below of just 14 before getting thoroughly stuck.
Shorter List
Drapht – Falling
Josh Pyke – New Year's Song
Lily Allen – The Fear
The Rapture – No Sex For Ben
Kate Nash – Foundations
The Herd – The King Is Dead
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! - War Coward
Pez – The Festival Song
Emiliana Torrini – Jungle Drum
Glasvegas – Geraldine
Ida Maria – I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
Ladyhawke – My Delirium
Ben Folds – You Dont Know Me (Ft. Regina Spektor)
After a lot of agonising I got to the final cut below and the reason I cut the final two; No Sex For Ben by The Rapture and I Like You So Much Better by Ida Maria is because I feel they'll do fine without my having to vote for them. It was the only way I could think of to get down to 10.
Final Cut
Josh Pyke – New Year's Song
Lily Allen – The Fear
Kate Nash – Foundations
The Herd – The King Is Dead
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! - War Coward
Pez – The Festival Song
Emiliana Torrini – Jungle Drum
Glasvegas – Geraldine
Ladyhawke – My Delirium
Ben Folds – You Dont Know Me (Ft. Regina Spektor)
So there they are, my top ten songs of 2008. What are yours? Don't forget to vote!
On a small side note; this has been my first post in a long time and while I created it to try and publish a few of the thoughts that bounce around my head I'm continually finding that I don't have time to write up such deep and meaningful discussions on human existence etc etc as I would like. So from here forth I'm going to attempt to chuck up smaller things more often.
I imagine the whole process will be easier now that i have a laptop and can work on thing like this on the bus as well as at home.
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Beginning Anew
Ive been meaning to start a new blog ever since I returned from my travels. Since it has taken me this long to actually create it, I have my doubts that it'll get updated too often but Ill try my hardest.
A few weeks ago, I told a friend I wanted to start another blog and he asked me the simple question of why. Now on one hand you dont really need a reason to start a blog, anyone can do it and its not exactly hard but on the other, I think its good to have some justification. Some purpose behind why you're publishing your words in the largest information source of all time. So, this is mine:
I enjoy thinking. Most people have a bit of time on their own, when they're not doing anything, at least once a week (if not more frequently). Whether it be when they're on the bus or train, driving their car, walking between places or even when they're in bed, waiting for sleep.
Most people try and fill this void (especially on public transport) with a book, laptop, phone, DS or other distraction to try and ward of boredom as much as possible and while I too read a book or play games on my phone I also like to spend some time just sitting and thinking.
It could be anything; something serious like politics, the environment or a possible fix for a bug I found at work to the not so serious like just plain day dreaming. Sometimes, during these periods I come up with an idea about something or a view on a particular subject that Id like to share. That is the purpose for which I have created this blog, an outlet for my thoughts, both refined and crude borne from meaningless contemplation.
A few weeks ago, I told a friend I wanted to start another blog and he asked me the simple question of why. Now on one hand you dont really need a reason to start a blog, anyone can do it and its not exactly hard but on the other, I think its good to have some justification. Some purpose behind why you're publishing your words in the largest information source of all time. So, this is mine:
I enjoy thinking. Most people have a bit of time on their own, when they're not doing anything, at least once a week (if not more frequently). Whether it be when they're on the bus or train, driving their car, walking between places or even when they're in bed, waiting for sleep.
Most people try and fill this void (especially on public transport) with a book, laptop, phone, DS or other distraction to try and ward of boredom as much as possible and while I too read a book or play games on my phone I also like to spend some time just sitting and thinking.
It could be anything; something serious like politics, the environment or a possible fix for a bug I found at work to the not so serious like just plain day dreaming. Sometimes, during these periods I come up with an idea about something or a view on a particular subject that Id like to share. That is the purpose for which I have created this blog, an outlet for my thoughts, both refined and crude borne from meaningless contemplation.
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