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.