I’m loving the songs so much, not so much the weather (oh and working), there’s not a song i dislike so far!
Currently listening online and I didn’t get any dropouts.
Hmm must have just been my area and my JJJ then
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There goes Frontier Psychiatrist at #58. The bias toward older stuff remains though and for that I’m happy, considering most votes are likely from the yoof.
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None of my list have popped up yet - still hoping for some more Savage Garden
Agree. I’d listen to triple J or Double J if they were more like this - mixing more mainstream into the playlist.
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My first and second votes have appeared:
Jimmy Barnes’ Working Class Man at No.56.
I Touch Myself by The Divinyls at No.54.
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Surprised they made it at all tbh; they did mention it’s their first appearance in a JJJ countdown.
It will be interesting to see if Sneaky Sound System make the countdown- a band JJJ famously shunned despite playing Primary in the 90s.
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According to ABC’s blog. In the top 50 - oldest is 1974 but nothing newer than 2021.
- So far, only six artists have appeared in the countdown with more than one song: The Avalanches, Gang of Youths, Hilltop Hoods, Midnight Oil, Spiderbait, and Bernard Fanning – charting with Powderfinger and his solo song, ‘Wish You Well’.
- The shortest song in the countdown so far? Spiderbait’s ‘Calypso’ running at a peppy 111 seconds.
- The oldest song so far is Stevie Wright’s three-parter ‘Evie’, from 1974. The newest is Amyl & The Sniffers’ 2021 single ‘Hertz’.
- Speaking of, those are the only songs representing those decades. The 2000s is the most popular decade so far (with 16 songs), followed by the 2010s (14), 1990s (13), and 1980s (6).
- Between ‘Electric Blue’, ‘Red Right Hand’, and ‘Black Betty’, it’s already been a colourful countdown. And let’s not forget ‘Blue Sky Mine’, ‘Black Fingernails, Red Wine’ and ‘Better In Blak’.
- Zero entries have contained the letter Q. (But fingers crossed fans of Melbourne group Quivers and ‘Quasimodo’s Dream’ by The Reels).
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Eagle Rock just now so oldest song is 1971 now :-p
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An indictment on the current shite, though the 2010s aren’t that much better.
Gang Of Youths seem to be the most over-represented band in comparison to their rightful place in the Australian canon; that last song was typical insipid JJJ fare (I don’t mind ‘Let Me Down Easy’, though).
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Treaty:
- Should’ve been higher, and
- They should’ve used the full version instead of the edit, especially since they played all three parts of Evie.
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Absolutely, and Natalie Imbruglia shouldn’t be there at all!
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This countdown is a lot more mainstream than I expected… felt a bit more like I was listening to Triple M than Triple J … it kind of makes me wonder about what Triple J listeners EEALLY like or want.
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Kylie on now…nice trolling. I caught them playing this a few Sundays ago.
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The Horses should have been in the top 20.
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