Triple J's Hottest 100 - 2012
This is a bit belated, but I figured I'd post it for posterity anyway.
In the 2012 Triple J Hottest 100, I voted for the following songs:
Looking at the songs I voted for, I'd say my tastes are "guitar-driven pop or folk rock, with a slight leaning towards more electronic pop". Hah, that sounds awfully vague. This time around, seven of the songs I voted for placed in the Hottest 100, which is better than previous years, where only two or three songs that I voted would make the Hottest 100. I guess the last few times I've been voting for songs that I've heard specifically on Triple J, rather than all manner of songs that I'd heard elsewhere or deeper, less heard album songs. That probably helps.
The unlucky #11 song that missed the cut for was Children Collide's Sword to a Gunfight (didn't place in the Top 200). Though, when writing this up, I thought said song was by Gyroscope and called Knife to a Gunfight. Heh. The #11 spot could also have gone to Lisa Mitchell's Spiritus (#92), or Bat for Lashes' Laura (#30). Or any other number of songs that I forgot about / missed when I went to place my votes. At one point, I considered voting for two Art of Sleeping songs, and almost also voted for Above the Water, which placed at #161. In the end, I decided to only vote for one song by the band... the one that placed lower.
The song that topped the Hottest 100 was Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' ode to buying cheap stuff and lookin' good, Thrift Shop. I certainly didn't expect that, what with my tendency to mentally block out / ignore hip-hop. But after seeing the song's ridiculously funny video clip and discovering the hilarious lyrics, I'll admit that I really like the song. I'm also surprised at how high Of Monsters and Men's Little Talks placed, with it coming in at #2. I guess people still enjoy cute pop music... Hell, I voted for it myself.
Before the countdown, my pick for #1 was Mumford and Sons' I Will Wait. I figured that their Triple J and mainstream appeal would help, and usually Hottest 100 winners tend to be songs that get played on Triple J and mainstream radio. In the end, the song landed at #5. Interestingly, Jarrad's original pick for #1 was Major Lazer's Amber Coffman-assisted Get Free. I honestly didn't think Get Free stood any chance to make it close to the top (too ballad-y), so I was quite surprised that it placed as high as it did at #6. Still, my pick for #1 was one place better than his, and that's the important thing.
From all of the surprises with the results I had, I think we can conclude that I'm a bit out of touch. For those who like statistics, the Warmest 100 was interesting: taking people's publically announced Hottest 100 picks, and using that data to figure out what would appear in the countdown. The Warmest 100 picked 92 of the 100 songs that would appear, with all of the songs in the Top 10 selected and the Top 3 in the correct order. However, of all of the songs that were predicted, only eight appeared in the predicted position: lots of the songs were out of position. A damn impressive effort, though. A comparison of the Hottest and Warmest 100s can be found here
Oh, and one day I'll get around to writing my thesis on the Hottest 100s over the years... Yes, really. Anyway, enough rambling from me...
In the 2012 Triple J Hottest 100, I voted for the following songs:
- Art of Sleeping - Empty Hands - #180
- Ball Park Music - Surrender - #27
- Battleships - Your Words
- The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines - #79
- British India - I Can Make You Love Me - #41
- Calvin Harris (with Florence Welch) - Sweet Nothing - #11
- Chairlift - I Belong in Your Arms
- Mumford and Sons - I Will Wait - #5
- Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks - #2
- The Shins - Simple Song - #74
Looking at the songs I voted for, I'd say my tastes are "guitar-driven pop or folk rock, with a slight leaning towards more electronic pop". Hah, that sounds awfully vague. This time around, seven of the songs I voted for placed in the Hottest 100, which is better than previous years, where only two or three songs that I voted would make the Hottest 100. I guess the last few times I've been voting for songs that I've heard specifically on Triple J, rather than all manner of songs that I'd heard elsewhere or deeper, less heard album songs. That probably helps.
The unlucky #11 song that missed the cut for was Children Collide's Sword to a Gunfight (didn't place in the Top 200). Though, when writing this up, I thought said song was by Gyroscope and called Knife to a Gunfight. Heh. The #11 spot could also have gone to Lisa Mitchell's Spiritus (#92), or Bat for Lashes' Laura (#30). Or any other number of songs that I forgot about / missed when I went to place my votes. At one point, I considered voting for two Art of Sleeping songs, and almost also voted for Above the Water, which placed at #161. In the end, I decided to only vote for one song by the band... the one that placed lower.
The song that topped the Hottest 100 was Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' ode to buying cheap stuff and lookin' good, Thrift Shop. I certainly didn't expect that, what with my tendency to mentally block out / ignore hip-hop. But after seeing the song's ridiculously funny video clip and discovering the hilarious lyrics, I'll admit that I really like the song. I'm also surprised at how high Of Monsters and Men's Little Talks placed, with it coming in at #2. I guess people still enjoy cute pop music... Hell, I voted for it myself.
Before the countdown, my pick for #1 was Mumford and Sons' I Will Wait. I figured that their Triple J and mainstream appeal would help, and usually Hottest 100 winners tend to be songs that get played on Triple J and mainstream radio. In the end, the song landed at #5. Interestingly, Jarrad's original pick for #1 was Major Lazer's Amber Coffman-assisted Get Free. I honestly didn't think Get Free stood any chance to make it close to the top (too ballad-y), so I was quite surprised that it placed as high as it did at #6. Still, my pick for #1 was one place better than his, and that's the important thing.
From all of the surprises with the results I had, I think we can conclude that I'm a bit out of touch. For those who like statistics, the Warmest 100 was interesting: taking people's publically announced Hottest 100 picks, and using that data to figure out what would appear in the countdown. The Warmest 100 picked 92 of the 100 songs that would appear, with all of the songs in the Top 10 selected and the Top 3 in the correct order. However, of all of the songs that were predicted, only eight appeared in the predicted position: lots of the songs were out of position. A damn impressive effort, though. A comparison of the Hottest and Warmest 100s can be found here
Oh, and one day I'll get around to writing my thesis on the Hottest 100s over the years... Yes, really. Anyway, enough rambling from me...