JJJ Hottest 100

[Nate]

#3: Angus and Julia Stone - Chateau
#7: PNAU - Go Bang
#88 Paul Dempsey - Edge of Town (cover)
#126: Gang of Youths - The Heart is a Muscle
#159: The xx - I Dare You
#179: Tired Lion - Fresh
DNP: Martin Solveig - All Stars
DNP: Duke Dumont - Real Life
DNP: British India - Take Me With You
DNP: The Amazons - Black Magic

3 in the 100, 6 in the 200. Acceptable.

I'm too white for most of what's popular.

 

[ripper868]

I didn't listen to the countdown but have a strong opinion that the music of this year was trash compared to the music of 10-15-20 years ago.

it may be that I'm beyond the 30 threshold and can no longer keep up with whats what. I used to know what it was, but then they changed what it is, and I'm scared. I'm Abe Simpson.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I'm too white for most of what's popular.

This may be the dumbest thing I've read on CW.

 

[ripper868]

I'm on Smoko. Leave me alone.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Camp Cope - Opener, The (58)
Cloud Control - Rainbow City (173)
City Calm Down - Blood
Cut Copy - Black Rainbows
Grizzly Bear - Mourning Sound
Kim Churchill - Second Hand Car (94)
Press Club - Headwreck
Waax - Same Same
Holy Holy - True Lovers (40)
Japandroids - True Love and Free Life of Free Wills

 

[Nate]

This may be the dumbest thing I've read on CW.

Haha, fair.

Basically I just mean I don't get Kendrick. But I want to.

 

[MW1304]

I love Kendrick but the response to Damn is kind of bewildering to me. Find it his least interesting album, yet the whole world immediately heralded it as some sort of masterpiece.

DNA is a cracker but Humble isn't in his 20 best songs.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Haha, fair.

Basically I just mean I don't get Kendrick. But I want to.

Love you Patteh

 

[Uppercut]

I didn't listen to the countdown but have a strong opinion that the music of this year was trash compared to the music of 10-15-20 years ago.

it may be that I'm beyond the 30 threshold and can no longer keep up with whats what. I used to know what it was, but then they changed what it is, and I'm scared. I'm Abe Simpson.

Out of interest I checked the list from 10, 15, 20 years ago. IMO 1997>2007>2017>2002. The quality really, really varies from year to year. On first impressions I like this year's a lot better than last year's.

 

[Daemon]

I think 2014 was my favorite from the past 5 years.

 

[vic_orthdox]

I didn't listen to JJJ much at all this year, just looked at stuff I knew from my spotify listening. Had no idea where they'd end up - obviously not all that high.

 

[Uppercut]

I backed Flume and Vera Blue at 16/1 for this, thinking Tones & I had been overplayed by the time the voting happened. So ****ing close.

Bad Guy is a fair choice imo but the list is usually (used to be?) a decent place to find music that hasn't made it outside Australia yet, so it's kinda disappointing when the winner already got huge.

 

[Daemon]

I backed Flume and Vera Blue at 16/1 for this, thinking Tones & I had been overplayed by the time the voting happened. So ****ing close.

Bad Guy is a fair choice imo but the list is usually (used to be?) a decent place to find music that hasn't made it outside Australia yet, so it's kinda disappointing when the winner already got huge.

Yeah that was disappointing. Still, mallrat, Lime Cordial and BENEE all featured prominently and they're all gun.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Bad Guy is just a truly horrid cacophony of garbage. That stupid "duh" sound is about the most cringe inducing sound ever to be put over the airwaves in the history of humanity.

Get in the bin

 

[Daemon]

nah

I don't like it personally but to each their own. It's certainly not that bad.

 

[Burgey]

Just a reminder no one GAF because music is so subjective it doesn’t matter who likes what, and anyone purporting to provide definitive analysis to the contrary is an up themselves ****head

 

[GoodAreasShane]

nah

I don't like it personally but to each their own. It's certainly not that bad.

99% of the song isn't unbearable, just kinda meh. But then they had to whack in the single most excruciating sound effect I have ever been subjected to in my life.

Admittedly it's heavy use in advertising doesn't help

 

[Kraken]

Bad Guy is just a truly horrid cacophony of garbage. That stupid "duh" sound is about the most cringe inducing sound ever to be put over the airwaves in the history of humanity.

Get in the bin

Still better than Dance Monkey

 

[morgieb]

Would take Bad Guy over Confidence, tbh.

 

[Kraken]

The worst #1 in recent memory is Hoops by the Rubens imo