Votes have opened. What is everyone's top ten? I'll do mine tomorrow once I go through the list thoroughly. I think Gotye will probably take out the number 1 but the other top ten might be interesting. I feel that Act Yr Age will likely make the list.
Can't remember if I voted last year, but I'm definitely not this year. Hasn't been a great music year for me.
Not an Aussie but if I was to vote Gotye would get mine. Somebody that I used to know is such an awesome song. The chick that sings in that song is a kiwi too.
Somebody I Used to Know is a good song and all but really hope a song with such banal subject matter doesn't win it.
JJJ is a radio station in Australia. They hold an annual poll to determine the most popular songs, and play the top 100 on Australia Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_J_Hottest_100
I honestly have NFI who or what would even be in contention. The only time I hear Triple J or any other mainstream, popular music station is when I'm in a mate's car or in a shopping centre. Honestly never even heard of Gotye, but I just listened to the song "Somebody that I used to know". It's okay. It's not a bad song but jeez if that's where popular music is today...
Shortlist, just because I had to put it somewhere. Papa vs Pretty - Honey Noah And The Whale - Lifegoeson The Drums - Money Digitalism - 2 Hearts Calling All Cars - Reptile Cage The Elephant The Black Keys - Lonely Boy The Beards - You Should Consider Having Sex With A Bearded Man Arctic Monkeys - Black Treacle Children Collide - Loveless City And Colour The Grates - Turn Me On Howling Bells - Into The Sky Jebediah - Control Kaiser Chiefs - Little Shocks Kasabian - Days Are Forgotten The Kooks - Junk Of The Heart (Happy) Last Dinosaurs - Time And Place New Navy - Zimbabwe The Panics - Majesty Patrick Wolf - The City Redcoats - Dreamshaker The Wombats Also looked up the odds of Gotye winning. Sportingbet had it at $1.15 and any other song at $5.00. No value there.
Just listened to that Gotye song (who I'd never heard of before) and it really doesn't seem that good to me. At all.
I've listened to it about 20 times since this morning. It grows on you. With all music, you really need to listen and re-listen to get the meaning and prose and feel of a song. The real problem with the piece is, as Bannerman precisely stated, the banal quality of the subject matter. It's like he's taken half of a regular pop song by some tenth rate, whiny songwriter like Beyonce, and adapted it to an original arrangement. That's not to say there aren't some well-crafted lines. On the contrary. There certainly are, it's just that they're mingled in with cliche and novelty. These are good lines...(They convey genuine lamentation, anger and/or contempt.) *But you didn't have to cut me off Now you're just somebody that I used to know. *Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing. *Like resignation to the end, always the end. These are time-worn, aging novelties and cliché's, or just poorly written ones. *So when we found that we could not make sense Well you said that we would still be friends *And I don't even need your love But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough No you didn't have to stoop so low Have your friends collect your records and then change your number I guess that I don't need that though The vocals are very solid. And the strong point is the music itself. Just my two cents. Put the fuckers on rail-road tracks for all I care.
1. Digitalism - Circles 2. The Strokes - Machu Picchu 3. Foo Fighters - Rope 4. Foster The People - Call It What You Want 5. Jebediah - She's Like A Comet 6. Alex Metric & Steve Angello - Open Your Eyes 7. Architecture In Helsinki - Escapee 8. Deadmau5 - Sofi Needs A Ladder 9. TV On The Radio - Will Do 10. Eskimo Joe - Love Is A Drug My top 10, ftr.
