Saskwatch - Born To Break Your Heart I saw Saskwatch live at the carnival of flowers, and despite being cold and raining and not knowing any of their songs, we stayed for the full set. Don’t Want To Try was my favourite song, but since it wasn’t released last year this is my pick. Love the horns.
Bluejuice - I’ll Go Crazy A great band, sad that they are calling it quits.
Yet another year where I was slack with listening to new music. On the other hand, I did get to go to a fair few live gigs throughout the year. The Spotted Cow has been good for that, hopefully they have just as many bands come through this year. Yet again I tied to keep one vote per artist, which meant that a couple of like a versions made it in.
Triple J provided a nice shareable link this time around for your votes. I found this year was continuing the trend of getting harder to pick 10, as I no longer have a clear idea going into voting what my favourite songs were - due to slackness on my part of listening to new music. Luckily the voting website is improved, and lets you listen to all the short-list on the fly.
Once again finding ten songs to vote for has been a challenge. Normally it is because I have too many songs to choose from. This year I have been a bit slack with listening to new music, so the challenge was filling the ten slots with songs I felt deserved it, whilst not voting for the same artist more than once.
I’m sure when I see the final list there will be plenty of songs that may have deserved my vote that I didn’t consider, but in any case I am happy with the following ten for now, so here they are.
My votes:
Cat Empire, The - The Cat Empire Whitlams, The - Eternal Nightcap Living End, The - The Living End Temper Trap, The - Conditions Powderfinger - Vulture Street Living End, The - Modern Artillery Wolfmother - Wolfmother Eskimo Joe - A Song Is a City Gyroscope - Sound Shattering Sound Hilltop Hoods - The Calling Others:
Gotye - Like Drawing Blood JET - Get Born Powderfinger - Odyssey Number Five Powderfinger - Dream Days at the Hotel Existence Pete Murray - Feeler Kisschasy - United Paper People Faker - Addicted Romantic Josh Pyke - Memories & Dust The Dissociatives - The Dissociatives John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea The Grates - Gravity Won’t Get You High Gyroscope - Are You Involved?
Having looked at people’s votes coming in for the Hottest 100, it is really clear to me that I have been away a long time. While I know most of the bands, I have never heard of a lot of the songs people are voting for. Rachael has impressed me this year by voting and has picked some good songs that I had not heard of before. Before we started going out she didn’t even listen to triple J and now she is more up with the music then me.
As it comes once again to Hottest 100 voting time, this year I think I am unqualified to vote. Having been overseas for 6 months, I have not been keeping up with the music released in Australia and popular post-June. On the other hand I am happy that the list this year will provide me with lots of new music to listen to. But before I start to look at what I am going to vote for, I wanted to look back on what I voted for in the past.
