Haakon
has an accommodating arse
I get that, just an example to demonstrate that formulaic dross is not a by product of being yoof. Grace Cummings is Australian though.
What are you listening to NOW?
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beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Huh? I thought multiple personality disorder was just a myth?
droenn
Fat Man's XC President
Isn’t hating on JJJ that thing you do to prove what an interesting 28 year old you are, and that you can’t bear to resign to the fact that popularity contests are never going to capture the exquisite musical taste you curated to suppress your unfilled desire for social inclusion?
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
I mean… It’s at least consistent throughout that 8 minutes.
In Bloom is more my speed…
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Dunno. Don't know enough about triple j these days to hate it or not… But pretty sure I wasn’t particularly interesting when I was 28, although it was a while ago so my memory is a bit spotty…
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Urrgh… autotune… sounds like something that might car mods guy would make.
Which is not to say I’m anti electric music.
Hmm perhaps I needed to add the /s
Soz
Back on topic, I still listen to the Js as I detest every other station out there and I hate ads. It has definitely declined since they fired Kingsmill, it's way more poppy than before, I guess they're trying to make it more like Radio 1 in pommieland. Anyway, it's still a half decent way to hear new Aussie stuff that they just don't play anywhere else.
pink poodle
私はイナゴです
The formatting is a bit different, but it is still youth focussed abc.
I haven't changed nor grown or progressed. I am exactly as I was when I was 16.
Truly sad is how far from the minds of the young the Simpsons are.
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Was in my late teens, not so much these days.
Quite like Grace Cummings as a contemporary Australian artist.
silentbutdeadly
has some good things to say
I second this.
Unlike @Haakon we enjoyed the countdown though I will admit to a Principal Skinner moment when The Veronicas tapped the #3 position.
I was actually surprised at the amount of music on it that was deep (if not well past) into its second decade.
Which suggests that the sheer volume and diversity of Oz music and our improved access to it in the last decade has actually been a good thing for all music lovers who all now like some really different stuff...
pink poodle
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I know their name and faces, but not their music. However I can attest to the veronicas having a strong fan base. I worked one of their gigs a little while back (google says 2021...feels more recent). It was sold out, large amount of VIP meet n greet tickets sold, loud, diverse crowd, and nearly a riot at the end of fans trying to score autographs and photos.
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
Countdown was just odd. Don’t mind the number one, that’s a brilliant album all round. Not surprised to see cold chisel - not my bag (too many bogan associations…) but I get it and Barnsy turned a decent bloke. Paul Kelly I really don’t get - objectively fucking awful, I think hipsters pretend to like him.
Veronica I’ve heard of but wouldn’t know her music if it ran me over… Didn’t know it was that popular, jsut remembered it as one hit wonder stuff from back whenever it was?
My main takeaway from the whole list was the Avalanches were robbed and I had no idea Empirenof the Sun were Australian.
bit of self-flattery going on here, hmm?I don’t think anyone would ever class me as a hipster and I’ve liked Paul Kelly ever since I first heard him in the early 90s.
There are few songs in this world that grab me like this one does:
Another all-time fav:
Jpez
Washed up zwifter
Double J was revived because of all the whining from the GenXers that couldn’t deal with the fact that music had moved on.
FFS a 90’s Australian music FB page has the members losing their shit over the H100 results. Dozens of posts sooking about why regurgitator didn’t make the cut!
Double J occasionally gets a play in my car but it’s mostly 3rrr or 3pbs. That’s where the real musics at.
I thought the 100 list was a pretty good listen. I had the time at home to have it playing and certainly reminisced on the tons of bands in the countdown that I've seen live or am a fan of. The inclusion of some of the more modern stuff that has never even been played on Triple J was pretty lame, I kind of think the entry requirement should be at least that it's been played on the station at some point. That Veronica's thing I had never heard and did have to ask questions of what in the fuck this song was, a quick search showed they are super popular in some circles that voted. I predicted Hilltop Hoods to be number one but was happy to see INXS clean up.
I was always under the impression that Crowded House are from New Zealand, I launched a tirade at my stereo when that stuff came on. I did some research and they're sorta kinda from here & there. And the more I gracefully age, the more annoying their songs are
Back when they did the Hottest 100 of all time, I predicted the top three would be Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine then Queen. I was close! I agree with most of the top ten albeit the Chilli Peppers, you can snap that CD and bin it.
I was always under the impression that Crowded House are from New Zealand, I launched a tirade at my stereo when that stuff came on. I did some research and they're sorta kinda from here & there. And the more I gracefully age, the more annoying their songs are
Back when they did the Hottest 100 of all time, I predicted the top three would be Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine then Queen. I was close! I agree with most of the top ten albeit the Chilli Peppers, you can snap that CD and bin it.
Asininedrivel
caviar connoisseur
Heh, can admit it wasn't just Gen Xers, plenty of Gen Ys also squealling like stuck pigs after Triple J's Hottest 100 seemingly nosedived into 30 different variations of Kings of Leon, Snow Patrol or Fisher Price My First Led Zeppelin (Wolfmother) by the late 2000s (at least the latter is Australian though I guess).
Double J is a good time, although RRR is my go to, always get sad on regional drives when it cuts out and I have to listen to something else.
It's not meant to be some empirical survey of the best quality, most original music ever made.
It's just a popular vote among whoever happens to be listening to JJJ at the moment, plus a bit of social media-fuelled vote harvesting from fans of particular bands.
If they did it again in a couple of years it would probably look quite different.
I saw a survey that said the Mazda 3 is the most popular car with people 25 and under.
Well I've had the pleasure of driving a bunch of rental cars in recent months, and the Mazdas were hands down the shittest of all of them.
But that's just, like, my opinion man.
Music hasn’t moved on. If it had DoubleJ would be devoid of new music.
Time has moved on, new generations are today’s youth and they, unsurprisingly have different tastes to previous generations. As per their charter TripleJ has moved on too.
I rarely listen to any radio other than Radio National. I’d rather curate playlists or make my own music to listen to these days.
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
Sigh, don't worry fellow middle aged folks. It is a sadness we all must shoulder together. 
They called it earlier and we can feel humbly but totally disenfranchised every since. It is like you have left the house for few hours and your parents changed the door locks before you returned. Sometimes you need a big hint.
At least we still have Steely Dan and Toto on high rotation on commercial radio. Get off my lawn and stop wearing Nirvana T Shirts from Kmart.
They called it earlier and we can feel humbly but totally disenfranchised every since. It is like you have left the house for few hours and your parents changed the door locks before you returned. Sometimes you need a big hint.
At least we still have Steely Dan and Toto on high rotation on commercial radio. Get off my lawn and stop wearing Nirvana T Shirts from Kmart.