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:
I’m a pretty big Sonic Youth fan, and you have listened to ONE SONG by them more than ALL THE SONGS I have listened to by Sonic Youth this year on last.fm!
I didn’t know Mary Trembles were that big…
I’ve consistently found that what I listen to is heavily dependent on what’s touring at the time, and what I’m reviewing. In that sense, it’s not a real guide to my favourite tracks at all. We don’t really overlap much, fwiw, except with Nick Cave.
Gin Club, The – Ten Paces Away
Grates, The – Burn Bridges
An Horse – Warm Hands
Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook
Texas Tea – The Ferry Song
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – We Call Upon The Author To Explain
Violent Soho – Scrape It
Ladytron – Black Cat
The Kills – Black Balloon
Spiritualized – Death Take Your Fiddle
Five of those are Brisbane acts. Six are Australian (if you count NC as an Aussie these days). I really cannot believe Texas Tea is not in the Triple J list — Kingsmill is a cunt and Justin is right about the Js being a Sydney-centric circle jerk.
Spiritualized made it in at the very last moment, I bought that CD last week. None of my picks will make the top 10…