Best 100 songs of all time...

Zat wrote:I can't see how it could be called a 'best songs' list. It was a popular vote by a very small minority of the population.

No argument - but that is what makes it strange. That small minority should not be the sort that listen to Queen, LZ etc. When I was a yuf, a JJJ top 100 would have been more likely to include the Dead Kennedys than those 2.

At least they showed the grouse sense to not vote in any U2.

Blackadder wrote:No Elvis in the top 10 (or 100 for that matter)
No Beatles
No John Lennon (ie Imagine)
No Beach Boys

etc

Imagine is at number 11, and there are a few Beatles numbers in there.

Zat wrote:I can't see how it could be called a 'best songs' list. It was a popular vote by a very small minority of the population.

p.s. and Space Ghost got it wrong. It is named "the Hottest 100" not the best 100 songs. Sementics I know, but a less wankish title

Actually looking at the top 100 they seem to have gotten far more of my favourite songs than most polls like this seem to get.

Shame we don't get this radio station over here.

vilkrang wrote:Actually looking at the top 100 they seem to have gotten far more of my favourite songs than most polls like this seem to get.

Shame we don't get this radio station over here.

Move.

As an added bonus, you won't have to keep your Ricky Ponting love in the closet.

G.Wood wrote:

Zat wrote:I can't see how it could be called a 'best songs' list. It was a popular vote by a very small minority of the population.

No argument - but that is what makes it strange. That small minority should not be the sort that listen to Queen, LZ etc. When I was a yuf, a JJJ top 100 would have been more likely to include the Dead Kennedys than those 2.

At least they showed the grouse sense to not vote in any U2.

You have to admit the Queen and LZ songs chosen were all-time classics. But I think jjj has lost its edge compared to 10 or 15 years ago.

G.Wood wrote:p.s. and Space Ghost got it wrong. It is named "the Hottest 100" not the best 100 songs. Sementics I know, but a less wankish title

Zimi messed up. Again? Surprise...

Zat wrote:

G.Wood wrote:

Zat wrote:I can't see how it could be called a 'best songs' list. It was a popular vote by a very small minority of the population.

No argument - but that is what makes it strange. That small minority should not be the sort that listen to Queen, LZ etc. When I was a yuf, a JJJ top 100 would have been more likely to include the Dead Kennedys than those 2.

At least they showed the grouse sense to not vote in any U2.

You have to admit the Queen and LZ songs chosen were all-time classics. But I think jjj has lost its edge compared to 10 or 15 years ago.

Displaying my innate spiv smugness - JJJ lost it's edge when it went national and they decided they needed a set play list.
Fair enough deciding that we should share something that good with the rest of the nation but dumbing it down so the billies could understand was going too far.

G.Wood wrote:Displaying my innate spiv smugness - JJJ lost it's edge when it went national and they decided they needed a set play list.
Fair enough deciding that we should share something that good with the rest of the nation but dumbing it down so the billies could understand was going too far.

They should've set up state by state versions. Maybe a couple of national programs. Then there could've been statiosn in NSW and Victoria playing quality local music, and in Qld and WA people banging rocks together.

Zat wrote:

G.Wood wrote:Displaying my innate spiv smugness - JJJ lost it's edge when it went national and they decided they needed a set play list.
Fair enough deciding that we should share something that good with the rest of the nation but dumbing it down so the billies could understand was going too far.

They should've set up state by state versions. Maybe a couple of national programs. Then there could've been statiosn in NSW and Victoria playing quality local music, and in Qld and WA people banging rocks together.

Would have saved us all from Powderfinger

Would have saved us all from Powderfinger

But at the cost of the Saints and the Go Betweens. Whadya rooly want?

Mick Sawyer wrote:

Would have saved us all from Powderfinger

But at the cost of the Saints and the Go Betweens. Whadya rooly want?

Haven't you been lectured about NSRing.

Apart from Savage Garden, the music out of Brissie has been pretty grouse. Same for Perth for that matter

Pretty good list actually. Plenty of quality tunes in there.

G.Wood wrote:

vilkrang wrote:Actually looking at the top 100 they seem to have gotten far more of my favourite songs than most polls like this seem to get.

Shame we don't get this radio station over here.

Move.

As an added bonus, you won't have to keep your Ricky Ponting love in the closet.

doctorspin wrote:

G.Wood wrote:

vilkrang wrote:Actually looking at the top 100 they seem to have gotten far more of my favourite songs than most polls like this seem to get.

Shame we don't get this radio station over here.

Move.

As an added bonus, you won't have to keep your Ricky Ponting love in the closet.

2 problems though.

1 It seems that after all the Antipodean "Yeh mate, get yourself down here for a great life and we really value your skills..." seduction; global recession hits and the Brit expats are unceromoniously kicked out after being made redundant....noice...

2. It seems pretty much ALL Aussies either a) think RickkkyyyyAAAAAa is a farkin idiot plonker who gives idiots (and plonkers) a bad name or b) have to hide their Ricky-love in the closet because of a)

Any comments....Mr. Woody?

1. Any Englishperson who believes an Australian telling them "we really value your skills" deserves what they get. They should also be thankful that they, as non-subis, just get unceromoniously kicked out rather than unceromoniously kicked.

2. Fair point. He'll have to go to Tasmania - which afterall is one big closet.

G.Wood wrote:1. Any Englishperson who believes an Australian telling them "we really value your skills" deserves what they get. They should also be thankful that they, as non-subis, just get unceromoniously kicked out rather than unceromoniously kicked.

2. Fair point. He'll have to go to Tasmania - which afterall is one big closet.

OK Den

G.Wood wrote:1. Any Englishperson who believes an Australian telling them "we really value your skills" deserves what they get. They should also be thankful that they, as non-subis, just get unceromoniously kicked out rather than unceromoniously kicked.

2. Fair point. He'll have to go to Tasmania - which afterall is one big closet.

Hehehehe!

LIST

Some horrendous ear-worms in this lot ... #40 Dan Hill, FFS.

I'm not going to suffer that reminder on my own.

horrendous stuff, none of which will ever replace music

#4 is as big a lie as Mediscare.

Some Woody gold from the archives.

No bad song list can be complete without this one

Turn it up.

That was the Headline single on my "Choose 1985" cassette.

Reading thru the list depressed me too much, so I gave up. Did Joe Dolce's Shaddupa ya face make the cut?

skully wrote:Reading thru the list depressed me too much, so I gave up. Did Joe Dolce's Shaddupa ya face make the cut?

as if AOL Radio Blog would have heard of him.

No "Friday" by Rebecca Black. Rubbish list.