List of Songs I would have voted for…

I didn’t vote in JJJ’s hottest 100 of all time (here’s the list). I love the Js, but I haven’t listened to anything other than local ABC radio for months (except to listen to a little bit of the Hottest 100 of All Time).

It looks like the vote was crashed by a bunch of old time rockers with a penchant for Michael Jackson. There are hardly any songs from the last few years, which is pretty awesome.

If I had voted (and you get to vote for ten songs):

  1. I would have voted for one song per band
  2. I would have given greater weighting to songs from great albums or from bands producing consistently good music rather than one hit wonders.
  3. I would have rewarded bands who I appreciated in their halcyon days but don’t like so much any more (hence the inclusion of The Living End and Powderfinger – they really were my introduction to JJJ – even though they went on to be darlings of the mainstream).

These are the songs I think I would have voted for:

  1. Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees.
  2. Muse – Plug In Baby
  3. Paul Simon – Call Me Al
  4. Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm
  5. Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye
  6. Dandy Warhols – Get Off
  7. Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
  8. Powderfinger – Day You Come
  9. The Living End – Prisoner of Society
  10. Gomez – Shot Shot

Some of these songs were chosen arbitrarily as representatives of a band’s body of work – I really can’t decide what Radiohead, Muse, Smashing Pumpkins or Gomez song I like the best. Placebo and The Whitlams were unlucky not to make the list on the basis of criteria 3. 

Comments

i struggle with your tastes, but I must have patience for my weaker brethren.

Nathan says:

Which of those do you find offensive?

At least there’s no Linkin Park on the list… or Creed… or any crap pseudo Christian music.

Nathan says:

Which three?

Nathan says:

Bear in mind I have included songs that would not currently be in my top ten but were once in my top one.

Nathan says:

I don’t really anymore. I haven’t bought the last three Powderfinger CDs – but Internationalist is the first album I bought that I’m proud of owning. So it gets to stay.

and at least Hitler liked kittens.

I’m stirring mostly. You have 3 good songs in there. That’s not bad.

ps- how good is the call me al clip with chevy chase..

disarm, call me al and last goodbye are all good songs.

My main issues are with you liking Powderfinger and The Whitlams, but, hey- horses for courses.