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Triple J Hottest 100 '07
gardenhead_:
Also is it just me or do almost all the people that call into Triple J have some form of mental deficiency/illness? Or are they just really really stoned?
TrialAndTerror:
That's who calls radio stations. I heard someone ring up Five Live, have a chat with the presenter for about a minute, then admit he didn't have a point about the debate and just wanted to talk.
I haven't heard most of this list but I like the Daft Punk, Feist and Modest Mouse songs quite a bit I suppose.
--- Quote from: gardenhead_ on 27 Jan 2008, 22:00 ---It probably has a lot to do with the length of LCD Soundsystem songs. Triple J's general audience doesn't really have the longest attention spans.
They also don't venture much outside of what Triple J feeds to them, so stuff that doesn't get played on there will not get on the list. I'm not making assumptions or trying to make out that I'm so much better than them, as I used to be exactly like this. I pretty much listened exclusively to music played on Triple J.
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I miss thinking diverse was liking everything mtv2 played in the daytime, and even some of that weird late night stuff on 120 minutes. I miss being able to own all the cds I wanted to.
gardenhead_:
--- Quote from: TrialAndTerror on 28 Jan 2008, 03:28 ---That's who calls radio stations. I heard someone ring up Five Live, have a chat with the presenter for about a minute, then admit he didn't have a point about the debate and just wanted to talk.
I haven't heard most of this list but I like the Daft Punk, Feist and Modest Mouse songs quite a bit I suppose.
--- Quote from: gardenhead_ on 27 Jan 2008, 22:00 ---It probably has a lot to do with the length of LCD Soundsystem songs. Triple J's general audience doesn't really have the longest attention spans.
They also don't venture much outside of what Triple J feeds to them, so stuff that doesn't get played on there will not get on the list. I'm not making assumptions or trying to make out that I'm so much better than them, as I used to be exactly like this. I pretty much listened exclusively to music played on Triple J.
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I miss thinking diverse was liking everything mtv2 played in the daytime, and even some of that weird late night stuff on 120 minutes. I miss being able to own all the cds I wanted to.
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Haha, me too. I used to think Triple J was so damn cool and alternative.
Inlander:
Emilio, population size has a fair bit to do with this, I think. You have to remember two things:
1) The majority of any given population will listen to crappy mainstream music;
2) Australia has a relatively small population (20 million people).
Take those two things together and you realise that the "indie" community in Australia is much smaller than in somewhere such as the U.S. or the U.K. And while Triple-J markets itself as an "alternative" radio station, and while it certainly plays a hell of a lot more new music than the other major pop stations in Australia, it's still very much a mainstream station in a lot of ways: by and large it's no longer interested in playing stuff that might weird people out, or which listeners might have difficulty fitting into preconceived notions of music, or which in general will be outside their realm of musical experience. Which is why on a list such as this you get a preponderance of crappy music: because (A) most of the music that Triple-J plays is crappy anyway, and (B) even when Triple-J plays non-crappy music, the fairly mainstream tastes of the audience will dictate that it's the crappy that wins out. Were an independent (and much smaller) radio station such as Triple-R in Melbourne to do a similar end-of-year list, the result would be quite different.
dukkha:
4zzz in Brisbane does this every year and it does indeed produce a very different style of list. As a local radio station it ends up pretty solidly weighted towards local music, but I'd still say it kicked the hell out of the JJJ one.
http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/events/hot100/ has the list for this year.
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