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The 200-101 countdown is on Sunday
Is that confirmed? I would have thought they'd play 200-101 on the Saturday and then replay the 100-1 on the Sunday. I think that's what they did last year.
I'm just going by Zan Rowe's twitter, so it should be.
Right, so it really is about who's authentic enough to make it!
It was always pretty obvious – it wasn't about Taylor Swift not being played ever on Triple J, because Peking Duk evidently got plenty of plays, it's about who is deemed cool enough or The Most Triple J.
Commercial radio goes and ****s anything good up with their banality way more so then whether or not you like Triple Js current music trends or focus. Take my favourite show 'Get This', a true highlight of what it was still possible to do with commercial radio as a medium yet it got the axe even though it was the best rating thing on said station by a huge margin. So **** em, can't be everything to everyone at least we get a station like this without ads, constant sponsored traffic reports and one that does record and rebroadcast live music too.I have nothing against the sound of things on commercial radio. In the US and UK, commercial radio can play bands people in Australia think are indie – Alt J, Bloc Party.
The issue I and most people should have with commercial radio is the sanitisation of it all. The ****face presenters peddling idiotic conversation, their forced guffawing, their ignorant espousing, the economics and money-centric world of it all. It's basically Channel 7 on radio. That's the issue. Take away the ads and idiots and capitalism of it all, I don't have an issue with the songs themselves really.
Sure, some (most) of them are tripe songs but people who love Triple J will concede they too play a lot of shit amongst the songs they do like.
And then sometimes I wonder if the money aspect of commercial radio is that bad... I mean, do people forget that Two Door Cinema Club suck the knob of every corporation who want their songs? I don't get how one set of commodification is neccassary and passable but another is embarrassing and a sign of a lack of creativity.
Commercial radio would be acceptable if they didn't play the same playlist every 2 hours.
When people say Triple J sound do they mean disposible (in a good way) or fun?
Cheers, when I hear Mumford and Sons followed by something like Hilltop Hoods it's hard to find a connecting sound.Here's a couple of articles that talk about the 'sound'
http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/triple-j-under-fire-for-sound-bias/
http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/features/38126/So-whats-the-triple-j-sound-anyway
They're a year old now but it's still relevant
When people say Triple J sound do they mean disposible (in a good way) or fun?
While I agree with the general sentiment of your first paragraph Plugger, it's not fair to basically say that because grunge and Alt-Rock aren't the most popular 'alternative' types of music that all of a sudden everything is shit. Looking through that list, you have some of the most popular of the 90s (and ever) in Radiohead, Oasis, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, and to be honest I'm not overly sure that bands like Spiderbait or Regurgitator are going to help your argument that music was better back then. If you were lamenting the lack of a current day Slint or Pavement or Modest Mouse, or were bemoaning Allday or 360 getting airplay instead 'real' rap, then that's one thing, but your post just comes off as being cranky that no one wants to hear rap-rock anymore.It never used to be like that, there used to be an older Triple J demographic that had a more knowledgeable taste in music voting in the Hottest 100, but now with Triple J becoming more mainstream and the advent of facebook, twitter and iphones it's become more influenced by teenagers that wouldn't know anything other than the latest hipster Aussie artists like Chet Faker and Peking Duk so they vote en masse for them.
The modern day Triple J presenters and music directors are as much to blame for it with the shit they play which seems to be mostly bland generic Aussie hip hop or hipster type music, there's very little variety. Back in the 90s we'd get a diverse range of UK bands like Radiohead, Blur, Oasis, Supergrass, Pulp, Teenage Fanclub and US bands like Tool, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day, Cake, Mercury Rev with a mix of great local Aussie bands like Spiderbait, You Am I, Regurgitator, Silverchair, Tumbleweed and Jebediah, Mikey Robbins even used to play The Church's new stuff in the late 90s on his breakfast program when they were well past being cool. A band like The Church wouldn't get a look in these days on Triple J no matter how good their music was.
Maybe music was just better back then but Triple J's playlist these days certainly doesn't help, if they play shit music the kids will vote for shit music.
# racistI just cannot stand Aussie hip hop. It's not their fault but it just doesn't sound right when an Aussie bloke is doing it.