Monday, January 29, 2007

Hottest Parochial 100

A beautiful day on Friday, and even though we barely listen to the Js any more, we have a soft spot for the station that started us listening to real music. (Fun fact: I used to listen to TTFM. True dat.) So we sat around and burned sausages and opened cans and talked shit to celebrate Hottest 100 Day.

From an Oz perspective, the list was pretty decent. Here's the Australian sublist:

1 VIC Augie March One Crowded Hour
2 WA Eskimo Joe Black Fingernails, Red Wine
3 SA Hilltop Hoods The Hard Road
8 VIC Gotye Hearts A Mess
10 QLD Grates 19-20-20
11 WA Little Birdy Come On Come On
12 WA John Butler Trio Funky Tonight
17 QLD Grates Science Is Golden
21 NSW Youth Group Forever Young
23 SA Hilltop Hoods Clown Prince
32 QLD Butterfly Effect Gone
33 NSW Cops Call Me Anytime
36 WA Bob Evans Nowhere Without You
37 WA Bob Evans Don't You Think It's Time
38 NSW Josh Pyke Memories & Dust
39 QLD Butterfly Effect A Slow Descent
41 SA Hilltop Hoods What A Great Night!
42 QLD Grates Inside Outside
43 NSW Angus & Julia Stone Paper Aeroplane
45 WA Karnivool Roquefort
51 VIC Something For Kate Cigarettes And Suitcases
52 NSW Herd Unpredictable
53 VIC Living End Wake Up
55 NSW Wolfmother Woman (MSTRKRFT Remix)
56 SA Hilltop Hoods Stopping All Stations
57 NSW Josh Pyke Private Education
58 NSW Sarah Blasko Always On This Line
64 NSW Something With Numbers Apple Of The Eye
68 NSW Darren Hanlon Happiness Is A Chemical
71 QLD Grates Lies Are Much More Fun
72 VIC Jet Put Your Money Where Mouth Is
76 VIC Jet Rip It Up
77 SA Hilltop Hoods Recapturing The Vibe
79 NSW Sarah Blasko Explain
80 NSW Wolfmother Love Train
82 WA Freestylers/Pendulum Painkiller
83 QLD Butterfingers Get Up Outta The Dirt
88 WA Pendulum Tarantula
94 VIC Gotye Learnalilgivnanlovin
95 WA Eskimo Joe New York
96 NSW Red Riders Slide In Next To Me
100 VIC Blue King Brown Come And Check Your Head

So 42 of the 100 are Australian; looks like the Js are well doing their bit to promote homegrown stuff, as we'd hope. Good to see some lowish profile groups in there: Gotye, Cops, Something With Numbers, Red Riders, Butterfingers. The state breakdown is interesting:

NSW: 10 groups, 13 entries, avg place 57
QLD: 3 groups, 7 entries, avg place 42
SA: 1 group, 5 entries, avg place 40
VIC: 6 groups, 8 entries, avg place 57
WA: 6 groups, 9 entries, avg place 45

TOTAL: 26 groups, 42 entries, avg place 50

What does that tell us?

That there's a New South Welsh bias. Look at Something With Numbers, Cops and Red Riders. Three low-profile semi-indie acts who each get a song in the list thanks to a fair bit of JJJ airplay. Take nothing away from the bands, especially Red Riders who I reckon are quite good, but there are plenty of bands as good as them in other cities. OK, they have to be in the right place at the right time, but it appears that the right place is the Annandale... And this is not surprising, because most JJJ programming comes out of Sydney.

Cause they're pretty much the only bolters on the list. Well, apart from the continuing saga of Gotye's amazing success. All the other Melbourne bands (Augie, Jet, Living End, SFK!) are pretty established.

Anyway, it's not that bad, I suppose. Just disappointing. At least we've got RRR and PBS.

4 Comments:

Blogger Pat said:

I don't think it was good to hear Butterfingers on that list. Have you heard those guys?

6:50 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said:

you guys seem too obsessed with the melbourne vs. sydney thing!

12:21 pm  
Blogger Dave said:

Nah Sean, that's just me. It's not fair! ;-)

Haven't really heard any Butterfingers but if they are lower profile (are they?) then my point stands. Despite the merits or otherwise of the act in question. And they are a bit shit.

3:40 pm  
Blogger Dave said:

...though on Melb vs Syd, I note that Ben Butler has echoed my stance in his weekly column:

"...Victorian artists are under-represented, despite Melbourne's status as the live music capital of Australia."

11:54 am  

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