Triple J Hottest 100 of ALL TIME
Triple J is running a competition for the top 100 of all time. You can vote for free, and it ends tonight. The link is here. I’ve voted my top 100. They are:
- Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart (as #1)
- Tool – Lateralus
- Nine Inch Nails – We’re In This Together
- Radiohead – Creep
- Massive Attack – Teardrops
- Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
- Rage Against the Machine – Killing In The Name
- Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough
- Ladytron – Evil
- Symphony X – The Odyssey
Those are the tracks that I tend to listen a lot, the lyrics of Love Will Tear Us Apart and the emotion put in by Ian Curtis, on top of the life he had just adds that extra layer of emotion over the already very emotional song. The musical rhythm of Lateralus and the magic lyrics of that song probably places as a second, and I chose this over A Perfect Circle’s 3 Libras (which is my favourite APC song). We’re In This Together, awesome song by Nine Inch Nails, this and The Big Come Down are my favourite NIN songs. Creep is probably the most well known single of Radiohead, but I have a feeling that Karma Police will win this for Radiohead. Teardrops was added in for some electronic ambiance, it’s the House MD theme song. I chose Stardust over Daft Punk, all of Daft Punk songs are catchy and awesome dance songs, but I still song is just catchier than Daft Punk’s Around the World. Rage Against The Machine, great fusion of metal/hip hop I think, and when played in clubs this song definitely gets people bouncing, and how can we forget the political message behind it. Depeche Mode is another band I really enjoy, so much that I’m travelling across the globe to see them 4 times, I chose this as my most favourite single, but I really like Blasphemous Rumours and People are People… but I think Just Can’t Get Enough is much catchier. Ladytron is an electroclash band and I love these guys, as a previous post would prove, and Evil is such a damn catchy song that will get you hooked. And finally, a metal epic… The Odyssey is a 26 minute metal piece with epicness of sounds, riffs, lyrics following the story of Homer’s Odyssey. That’s my wrap up.
The winners, I would say, will be Thiller by MJ, thanks to his recent death. And of course the usual… Beatles, Rolling Stones, Eagle’s Hotel California, Elton John, Metallica, Guns and Roses, ACDC, Queen and possibly additions of those boy/girl bands like Spicegirls and anything that sold a shitload of records even though they are mediocre. Maybe Muse’s Cydonia, White Stripes’ 7 nation army as more contemporary pieces. There’s just so many songs and bands to chose from.
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My Votes:
Radiohead – Exit Music (for A Film)
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under The Bridge
queen – bohemian raphsody
Doors, The – Riders On The Storm
Tool – Forty Six & 2
Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing
Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
Im predicting:
#1 Thriller, #2 Bohemian, #3 The Wall, #4 Sandman, #5 Satisfaction, #6 Thunder Struck, #7 Hotel California, #8 Beat It, #9 Tiny Dancer, #10 Welcome to the Jungle
How very wrong we were haha… So much Radiohead and Jeff Buckley…