My 2008 Hottest 100 votes
The Hottest 100 is an annual poll conducted by Australian radio station Triple J. It’s the largest music poll in the world, and while I’m not disillusioned enough to believe that my input will affect the results (how’s it feel to be on top, Kings Of Leon, Presets and MGMT?), there’s still a tiny sense of self-satisfaction to be gained by voting for ten songs that enlightened my year.
Video links included where possible, else MySpace.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
The John Steel Singers – Evolution
The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
Note that these are tracks were released in 2008 and appeared in the voting list. And unlike previous years, Triple J didn’t output a list of my votes in the auto-generated confirmation email, so I had to re-compile the above list from memory.
More accurately, the songs I listened to most in 2008 are as follows:
