My bad for the understanding.
#101: Playlunch, Aunty Donna - “Real Estate Apps”
I like how Double J is becoming a bit more, shall we say, ‘mainstream’.
They’re still playing a lot of great lesser-known indie tracks and new releases, but just in the past hour I’ve also heard:
Lenny Kravitz - “Are You Gonna Go My Way”
Kate Bush - “Running Up That Hill”
Kylie Minogue - “Confide In Me”
INXS - “Mystify”
The Weeknd & Daft Punk - “I Feel It Coming”
I reckon if they keep this combo of underground music mixed with older / more well-known tracks, they’re onto a winner.
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Previously music director of Unearthed. Seems like a good idea.
Also the first female in the role.
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Must admit, I enjoyed ‘Keith’ by Playlunch when I heard it for the first time the other week. Nothing new under the sun of course (Chris Franklin’s ‘Bloke’, Area 7 ‘Nobody Likes A Bogan’, The Vaughans ‘Who Farted’ and The Chats ‘Smoko’) but nevertheless made me chuckle.
Playlunch seem to be an all novelty act, a TISM for the new generation, though more like The Vaughans in terms of crudeness.
This year, I am forcing myself to listen to JJJ for half an hour a week to sample the new stuff. Might give JJ a go today to see if they are indeed mixing in the older stuff a bit more. I have also noticed even JJJ playing older stuff at times, perhaps as a response to the results of the Hottest 100 of all time last year?
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Yep, there has been a definite shift to add some old ‘bangers’ back into the regular playlist as far as I can tell. Even just some high-rating tracks from Hottest 100s of 10 or so years ago now just semi-regularly appear in between the new stuff. Makes it a better listen for mine - still fulfills the charter of playing new music but draws upon the huge back catalogue of tracks they’ve made big over the years.
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That’s the thing that has bugged me the most about JJJ over the years. I get that the remit is new and alternative music, but to totally discard mainstream and older stuff is a bit of a middle finger to the audience imo. That’s the one reason I’ve never been a huge JJJ listener, even when I was squarely in the target age bracket.
The complete shunning of certain acts like Sneaky Sound System is also baffling, particularly when the lead singer had plenty of JJJ cred through her original band Primary.
Yeah the what constitutes mainstream pop and what fits triple j is always a debate, perhaps less so now where the overlap between the two seems greater.
But yep, no reason you can’t sneak 1-2 songs in each hour that were hottest 100 makers back in the day. Just the surprise element if anything makes it interesting