Best Hottest 100

[Jason Maher]

Couldn't care less. Triple J has always been 95% utter shite. It's as much about promoting a certain limited range of music as being "cool" as the commercial top 40 stations. Alternative conformists are still conformists.

 

[Pete Cash]

I like to think I've managed to keep up relatively well due to having younger siblings (youngest is 13), but there are definitely ones I don't 'get'. Skrillex and dubstep, for example.

It was a fun little trend. You had to be really off your face to enjoy it. Not sure who is popping some dubstep on while driving or whatever.

I do listen to burial sober but the "bro step" stuff like skrillex is completely different.

 

[Silent Knight]

I've never really been that interested in Triple J tbh. My younger brother, sadly enough, did get into the whole indie thing. When he was in his early teens he asked me what were some good punk bands to get into. I introduced him to Pennywise, Millencolin, NOFX and Social Distortion. He loved them and I'd usually just buy him a punk album for Christmas and birthdays.

Then he went to uni. And fell in with the far left wing arts crowd (he was doing a degree in government policy).After some time he packed away all the punk albums he had stowed in his car into a cupboard. Then he filled his car with Bertie Blackman, Florence and the Machine, Arcade Fire and Birds of Tokyo.

It broke my heart really. But you can't really dictate what your siblings want to listen to. But in my eyes my brother went from a fiery punk rock rebel to a save the planet, watered down hippy.

 

[Pete Cash]

I like punk music and music for watered down hippies.

 

[Flapper]

Couldn't care less. Triple J has always been 95% utter shite. It's as much about promoting a certain limited range of music as being "cool" as the commercial top 40 stations. Alternative conformists are still conformists.

What I don't like is how quickly they drop some artists from the clique when they court mainstream success. I know Amy Meredith might not be everyone's favourites but they were played on JJJ early on bit when they dropped their first album (a damn good mainstream pop rock album) they were shunned. For certain bands, in Triple J's eyes, success is a dirty word.

 

[gUt]

JJJ lost it for me around the early 2000's when they decided that Aussie hip-hop was a legitimate thing to be listening to and not the huge steaming pile of shit it is.

 

[Red Bear]

98 had alot of stuff I liked, incl. Frenzal, The Living End, Mighty MIghty Bosstones, TISM

94-96 also had alot I liked.

I've lost contact with modern muric the last two or three years though, not really into it. I like what I like

 

[Pete Cash]

JJJ lost it for me around the early 2000's when they decided that Aussie hip-hop was a legitimate thing to be listening to and not the huge steaming pile of shit it is.

Is this a jjj thing or is there just a f**kload of Australian hip-hop being made and they have to play a significant percentage of Australian music ?

 

[veggiepatch1959]

A little off topic as far the Hottest 100 goes but here's a personal observation from the mid 90s.

When the big recording companies (Sony, Warners, BMG, etc.) cut their budgets for new acts, they issued "remastered/unplugged" CDs from major acts from the 70s and 80s. The likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones to name a few.

Many teenagers I knew listened to these when they first came out (obviously influenced by the parents' taste). Their knowledge of the then current music was sadly zilch.

It's funny how some people keep up to date buying new cars, iPods, androids and other gadgets, but when it comes to music, they are stuck in a time warp.

 

[Tweek]

A little off topic as far the Hottest 100 goes but here's a personal observation from the mid 90s.

When the big recording companies (Sony, Warners, BMG, etc.) cut their budgets for new acts, they issued "remastered/unplugged" CDs from major acts from the 70s and 80s. The likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones to name a few.

Many teenagers I knew listened to these when they first came out (obviously influenced by the parents' taste). Their knowledge of the then current music was sadly zilch.

It's funny how some people keep up to date buying new cars, iPods, androids and other gadgets, but when it comes to music, they are stuck in a time warp.

Cars / technology gets better. Music Doesn't.

 

[gronkathon]

The year Dennis Leary beat out Radioheads Creep for nuber one was the year I stopped listening to everything but The J Files, that was always a great listen and I picked up a prize in the quiz once.

Apart from that I just started buying a lot of second hand CD's at Pitt Books, Lawsons & Red Eye when at Uni and that was all I needed

 

[veggiepatch1959]

Cars / technology gets better. Music Doesn't.

The technology behind the music gets better in most cases. Whether the "quality" of music gets better is debatable.

I haven't bought a new car since 2003....so what! I have bought a new aircon, fridge, microwave, several LCD TVs, computers, media devices and other appliances and furnishings during the past 12 months.

But I still listen to today's music rather than Bing Crosby and Frank Sinartra.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Years 1994-1997 were very good.

So many bands in those lists.

Green Day
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Smashing Pumpkins
Oasis
Foo Fighters

Then you had Aussie bands who were first played on JJJ become very popular elsewhere later on:

You Am I
Silverchair
Spiderbait
Living End
Grinspoon
Regurgitator

 

[natheel]

How shit is this years hot 100!!! Macklemore number 1? f**k off!!

 

[Red Bear]

Yeah was crap. No japandroids in top 100 is most disappointing

 

[Dragon_Taylor6]

I thought it was good this year.

 

[Big Pete]

Aw man, I mixed up the Warmest 100 for the Hottest 100 - I thought Japandroids were in.

Guess that means only one of my picks made it. Too hipster for JJJ :lol:

 

[Storm13]

Years 1994-1997 were very good.

So many bands in those lists.

Green Day
Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Smashing Pumpkins
Oasis
Foo Fighters

Then you had Aussie bands who were first played on JJJ become very popular elsewhere later on:

You Am I
Silverchair
Spiderbait
Living End
Grinspoon
Regurgitator

96 was the year for me

Tool (should of won)
Spiderbait
Rage against the machine
311
Smashing Pumpkins
Nirvana
Powderfinger
Weezer
Regurgitator
Foo Fighters
Bush
Ash
The Prodigy
Everclear
No Doubt
Beck
The Eel
Garbage
Pearl Jam
Metallica
Cranberries
Frenzal Rhomb
Soundgarden
You Am I
Tori Amos
Ben Harper
and many more.

 

[BLKOUT!]

I'm so behind on this hipster/trendy stuff these days. I'd heard of like three bands from this year's hottest 100, and the only song I really liked (finished #2) I missed the name of so I went online to find out what it was and all the discussion was about how overplayed the song/band was. I'd never heard it before in my life.

Re: Aussie hip hop

I think what happened is that as the quality of mainstream American hip-hop fell off a cliff there was no longer a barometer or an ever-present comparison of how awful Australian hip-hop really is. While in the early 00's you were comparing these bogans rapping about spray-painting trains to some really good (albeit mainstream) US hip-hop acts, these days all the American stuff we get is terrible so there's no real way to look at Lil Wayne saying he moves silence like the G in lasagne or whatever that garbage was and find it any higher in quality than MC Darren rapping about the South Morang line.

 

[Red Bear]

Aw man, I mixed up the Warmest 100 for the Hottest 100 - I thought Japandroids were in.

Guess that means only one of my picks made it. Too hipster for JJJ :lol:

same
my top ten was
Bad Religion - f**k You
Gaslight Anthem, The - 45
Gossling - Wild Love
Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - We No Who U R
Pennywise - All Or Nothing
Regular John - Slume
Band Of Skulls - Sweet Sour
Gallows - Last June
Smith Street Band, The - Sunshine & Technology

Gaslight Anthem at 94 my only entry.

Judging by the list, especially top 20, guitars are no longer a worthwhile persuit. Get your macbook out