This years hottest 100

[LESStar58]

I used to have JJJ Hottest 100 parties at my place upstayingadito till about 2000. When it didn't clash with the Sydney BDO.

Both have turned into limp wristed pieces of shit.

I totally agree with the bolded Haffa.

This. big day out and hottest 100 used to be staples of "alternative" music and culture.

But now that commercial radio are expanding their playlists to include music they wouldnt usually play (triple m and nova are the biggest perps of this!) And that roles over to the mainstream voting for these songs.

even falls used to be "alternative".... now its just a piss week, hipster fest.

 

[Someone]

chet is ok and alternative yeah but fmd talk is cheap is a weaker number one than thrift shop. weakest top song ever.

 

[Danish]

chet is ok and alternative yeah but fmd talk is cheap is a weaker number one than thrift shop. weakest top song ever.

I'd say asshole by Dennis Leary is the worst no.1 ever, and that was the first annual countdown they did :lol:

There has been some pretty horrendous No.1s throughout the years really. Alex Lloyd, Bernard Fanning, Angus and Julia Stone... I can barely make it through 60 seconds of those tracks before reaching for the skip button.


Don't get me wrong most No.1's tend to be very dated within a couple years and plenty never wind up as classic tracks, but time was that any group that managed to get no.1 you could guarantee would be able to be included on the bill of any rock festival for years to come and draw plenty of people to hear that track. Think Jet, Franz, Kings of Leon for good examples of this. The last 5-6 years though are just ultimate pop crap that is out of fashion by January 27th

 

[Pete Cash]

Seriously there were about 6 or 7 different reverb heavy women singers that sounded almost identical. I know styles come and go but this one is not great IMO.

 

[elyod138]

Seriously there were about 6 or 7 different reverb heavy women singers that sounded almost identical. I know styles come and go but this one is not great IMO.

FKA Twigs is here to stay, if she's one of the ones you're referring to.

 

[Flapper]

This years was flat out funereal, I reckon at least 45 songs were that sort of floaty pseudo electro nonsense that seems to be favoured by listeners these days. It was boring.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Yeah used to love the hottest 100 and would buy a stack of cassettes to tape the full day on in the 90s. Stopped tuning in around 2008. The music is just flat and flavourless now. Just a bunch of talentless hacks that put together random noises on their laptops and call it art.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Don't get me wrong most No.1's tend to be very dated within a couple years and plenty never wind up as classic tracks, but time was that any group that managed to get no.1 you could guarantee would be able to be included on the bill of any rock festival for years to come and draw plenty of people to hear that track. Think Jet, Franz, Kings of Leon for good examples of this. The last 5-6 years though are just ultimate pop crap that is out of fashion by January 27th

I think it's a telling sign when all the major music festivals are headlined by bands that peaked in the 90s.

 

[roofromoz]

I'm also in the "it was much better in the 90s / early 00s" camp too. I tried compiling 10 songs for this countdown and could only come up with about 4-5 from bands I had heard of (Foo Fighters and Kasabian mostly). Admittedly I don't listen to Triple J... I don't really listen to any radio really, it's mostly the channels through Foxtel Tunes actually.

It seems they have turned their back on Shihad, who released one of the better albums in 2014 with some killer tracks... no mention of them in the nominations. Perhaps they should reinvent their sound to "flat and flavourless", and they might get a top 10 next time.

The year that shocked me the most was when Muse got the #1 with Knights of Cydonia in 2008. Massive fan of the band, but it wasn't a song released in 2007. I'm sure that's not the first time that's happened, though.

 

[snoozer]

i listened to it again yesterday.

still cant work out what the hype is with the number 1. bog ordinary song.