Calling all voters... of fine music

[Harry Potter]

Did YOU forget to vote in the last elections?
Are you hungry for MORE voting?
Need to start debates over pointless things and insist that YOUR opinion is the one that matters no matter how much evidence to the contrary (Anyone here like that?)

OK, it's nothing that dramatic but it IS music related 

Every year on the Aussie station Triple J, people vote in what is known as the hottest 100. You vote for nominated songs (Or nominate your own songs. They don't accept most top 40 crap) and the top 100 songs get played back on Australia Day (That's January 26th for all you ignorant Belgians) from 10am.

What do I get out of this you say? Not much, except for a warm and fuzzy feeling that you've actually voted for something that you can later enjoy.
Anyone from around the globe can vote and maybe win some stuff.

Here is link.
GO!-------->>>>>>http://abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/vote/default.htm

Yes you lazy sod, you have to register before voting but them's the breaks.

6 days to go!

The Cover for the CD is really weird this year.
LOOK!------------>>>>>http://abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/h100bum.htm

[Samstag]

Maybe this is a silly question, but how exactly do they get a "hottest 100 for 2004" without any top 40 songs?  Is it more like "hottest stuff you won't ever hear on the radio or pay money for?"  Or "hottest 100 songs you will claim to have heard in 2004 when they hit the top 40 stations in 2006?"

Not to put down the list, though.  Just the name.  Top 40 is the "Number one hot reason I didn't listen to the radio in 2004!"  Clearchannel Productions and "MP3 player in the car" round out the rest of the top 3.  Since I don't recognize a single song from the list I have to disqualify myself.  If someone organizes a vote on the "hottest 100 songs on Samstag's MP3 player" I'll be all up onz!

[Harry Potter]

Maybe this is a silly question, but how exactly do they get a "hottest 100 for 2004" without any top 40 songs?

Simple. Songs released in 2004 can be nominated. Even top 40 crapola but doesn't mean it will get any votes.

The whole point of this is to give up-and-comers a chance. Look up 'Jet'.

They won last year and before that, they were almost indigenous to Triple J.

Now they even get airplay in America. And that's goooood. 

[Samstag]

Ah ok it sounded like you were saying nominations for top-40 stuff would be ignored by the organizers.

I will see if I can find some samples of Jet to check out.

[Harry Potter]

Ah ok it sounded like you were saying nominations for top-40 stuff would be ignored by the organizers.

I will see if I can find some samples of Jet to check out.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeel, lets just say Britney Spears would have to radically alter her style to get accepted. So they ARE biased in some ways. Unfortunately they have to be otherwise songs/artists which already get massive worldwide promotion (Chrisitna Aguillera, 50 Cent etc etc) getting into top positions and getting even more advertising, only this time it would be for free.

[danny_galaga]

i'm pretty sure you can vote for ANY song that was released for that year. at least once they have had a song in the 100 that no one had heard of until triple j played it for novelty value. and if you can't find it on their list, theirs a 'write-in' sort of function. you can even vote for britney spears if she had a song in 2004. the guys on the afternoon show say that if the theme tune from a show called 'media watch' gets in the top 20, one of them will run naked at a big music festival...

one of my favourites for the year was dresden dolls- girl anachronism. dunno if it gets airplay in the US but triple j does. another that probably doesnt get much airtime in the US is cody chessnut. and yet both those acts are american!

edit: i ended up voting. hey, i could do with 90 cd's of the latest artists! this was my 'short list':

*i'm so post modern - bedroom philosopher, the
 chicken payback - bees, the
 *get your hands off my woman - ben folds
* favourite jeans - bertie blackman
 chicken - binder & krieglstein
 10am automatic - black keys, the
 banquet - bloc party
 *yo mama - butterfingers
 city lights - casinos, the
 galvanize - chemical brothers
 get ready - concord dawn
 *a town called sadness - dan kelly & the alpha males
* a to z - darren hanlon
*i'm going to execute your ex-boyfriend - david mccormack & the polaroids
 godhopping - dogs die in hot cars
 girl anachronism - dresden dolls, the
 memory lane - elliott smith
 mass destruction - faithless
 beginning of the ened, the - gentle ben & his sensitive side
 power is on, the - go! team, the
 guns don't kill people, rappers do - goldie lookin chain
 *radio stereo - good buddha
 playing in the distance - grand national
 lotion - greenskeepers
 i'm on you - izabo
 never far away - jack white
 ballad of hank mccain, the - john zorn & mike patton
 school spirit - kanye west
* adrenalin - koolism
 sing song sung - la rocca
* tonights the night - little birdy
 portland oregon - loretta lynn & jack white
* gonna try to be a girl - love outside andromeda
 drum 'n boogaloo - mo'horizons
 letter from belgium - mountain goats, the
 too drunk to f**k - nouvelle vague
 you lot - orbital
 ghetto musick - outkast
 hold me now - polyphonic spree
 shake your blood - probot
 amerika - rammstein
 manilla {remix} - seelenluft
* f***kin awesome - spiderbait
 fit but you know it - streets, the
 whatever happened to corey haim? - thrills, the
 make it rain - tom waits
 staring at the sun - tv on the radio
* summer days - tzu
* no rider - urthboy
 all you people - vanlustbader
 c'mon c'mon - von bondies, the
 troubled mind - wild billy childish & the buff medways
 common people - william shatner
* dimension - wolfmother
 misty rowe - young heart attack
* lachlan - your wedding night

ones with asterisks i know are aussie.

and my final ten were:

favourite jeans - bertie blackman
10am automatic - black keys, the
get ready - concord dawn
girl anachronism - dresden dolls, the
memory lane - elliott smith
mass destruction - faithless
radio stereo - good buddha
ballad of hank mccain, the - john zorn & mike patton
ghetto musick - outkast
common people - william shatner

yeah, yeah i know. william shatner . but it's a cool song, honest!

[Harry Potter]

The William Shatner song is actually quite good. It may be the only recording he's done which may not suck. 

[danny_galaga]

The William Shatner song is actually quite good. It may be the only recording he's done which may not suck.

[Harry Potter]

 

[danny_galaga]

The William Shatner song is actually quite good. It may be the only recording he's done which may not suck.

[danny_galaga]

and since no one appreciates my 'wang clamps' avatar, i'm packing it up and taking it home...

[Grasshopper]

The William Shatner song is actually quite good. It may be the only recording he's done which may not suck. 

I love his version of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. So bad it's good. At least it shows he's got a sense of humour.

[Zakk]

Man, I didn't recognize ONE artist in that list.

[danny_galaga]

Man, I didn't recognize ONE artist in that list.

[Zakk]

Okay, now THOSE I have heard of.....waaaait a second.... Lemmy is in a song that might make a top ten in this day and age AND it features his vocals?? Times have changed

(I still like to picture that Rammstein is singing about bunnies and butterflies in his songs )