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post #1 of 13
7/12/09 at 2:04pm
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So in Australia we have a taxpayer funded youth radio station called Triple J.

For the last 20 years they've run yearly polls regarding the best song of the year, and every 10 years they do the best song of all time. They pulled hald a million votes this time. I'm not sure how big that is in the scheme of things, but it seems like a lot.

Here's the list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_...All_Time,_2009
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post #2 of 13
7/12/09 at 2:07pm
If "Under the Bridge" is better than "Imagine" and "Stairway to Heaven," I will poop a shoe.
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post #3 of 13
7/12/09 at 2:09pm
I saw Rage Against the Machine at #2 and stopped reading.
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post #4 of 13
7/12/09 at 2:10pm
Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley as the third choice? Wow.

Some cool songs on there though, gotta love a list with Wolf Like Me and How Soon Is Now on it.
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post #5 of 13
7/12/09 at 2:10pm
Australia still thinks Silverchair mattered. How cute.
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post #6 of 13
7/12/09 at 2:11pm
Well, they are Australian.
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post #7 of 13
7/12/09 at 2:12pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
Well, they are Australian.
Tiny Tim is American. You don't see him on any American Top 100 lists.
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post #8 of 13
7/12/09 at 2:17pm
I can't say anything negative about that list, if for no other reason than I cannot imagine how unfathomably bad an American version would be. The fact that the youth of Australia are aware of the existence of Zeppelin, Buckley, etc is reason enough for me to not knock it.
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post #9 of 13
7/12/09 at 4:01pm
You think the youth of today don't know who Led Zeppelin are?
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post #10 of 13
7/12/09 at 4:24pm
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
You think the youth of today don't know who Led Zeppelin are?
I didn't look closely on the list past the top ten when I wrote the initial post. Joy Division, etc. would have been a better example, though I highly doubt they'd have landed so high on a US list.

Poor choice for an example aside, I stand by the notion that an American version of that list would be significantly shittier.
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post #11 of 13
7/12/09 at 6:37pm
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To clarify, if anyone missed it, it's a popular poll not a critic's list. RatM at #2 means more people submitted it on their personal top 10's than Stairway to Heaven. Personally, I didn't vote for anything prior to 1994 because I picked songs that were important to me.

Also, when we say the "youth of Australia" we have to remember that the poll has been running for 20 years. So people who were 18 in 1989 listening to this station and voting in the first poll are now 38. Fom the abundance of older bands in the results, it seems they are still voting.

Actually the really worrying fact is there are very few examples of female artists. There's the female singer on the Massive Attack song, and I suppose Jill White at #20, but it's basically pretty empty in that respect.
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post #12 of 13
7/13/09 at 4:39am
It's not a list of the best, it's a list of Australias favourite songs and I for one have no problem with it.

It was a lot of fun listening to the countdown yesterday.
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post #13 of 13
7/13/09 at 12:17pm
Yeah, American radio stations do this sort of thing, typically on summer holiday weekends (or they used to, back when they were locally owned and managed, instead of all being owned by the same handful of corporations).

And, as someone pointed out, the lists weren't significantly better.
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