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the reason why kashmir is below those songs is because led zep have loads and loads of big songs. so the votes were spread over all those songs. most people didnt want to vote for one band more than once. you'll find that alot of really hate led zeppelin especially those you loved that punk era that came just after led zeppelin broke through. songs 60 to 51 were awesome for the most part. Tool's 46&2 and Comfortably Numb are my two favourites so far. they also played half of a rick astley song at number 53 which almost gave me a heart attack but they stopped it halfway and said the actual 53 was Like A Rolling Stone by the legendary Bob Dylan.

a significant proportion of the votes come from outside of australia as the poll is open to the whole world. looking at the entries so far it's hard to tell its an aussie poll, hardly any of the songs are home-grown.

70 to 61 is pretty solid. i liked all the songs

has anyone seen or heard any early reviews of the album? assuming that the final product is done. personally i dont always trust these reports simply because the journos only get to listen to the album once or twice, if they are lucky they get to keep it for a day or something so they dont quite get to listen to it properly. but nonetheless i usually cant help myself and read them anyways.

thats quite a good selection for the top 10. i will be very surprised if Queen make it that high simply because the audience doesnt match the band. @ricardo jump onto the stations website and take a look at the response to sex on fire making it. almost went into meltdown when that was announced. it was the biggest song in australia last year (and im sure it was up there in the UK and around europe) so its only natural for it to feature in a countdown of this nature. my theory is that people who dont really listen to alternative music but wanted to vote thought to themselves, hey whats an "alternative" band i know...KoL, whats the only song i know by them....sex on fire. put the two together and you have a song in the hottest 100. sad but true next lot of songs starts in 5 mins for anyone interested.

Cash in anyone ;) just kidding haha

the end of year hottest 100 is the biggest annual poll in the world. in case non-aussies are wondering what the hell triple j is, its basically the australian equivalent of BBC's Radio 1 (well so they say at least, looking at the stuff Radio 1 plays nowadays i would like to think not). like i said before most of the triple j's audience are the type who flick between the commercial stations like nova, triple m and austereo network and triple j, which from what i hear wasnt the case so much 10 years when the poll last took place. what makes it into the poll now is quite trivial. its the top 20 thats really going to get people talking. personally i think that positions 80 to 71 is a massive improvement and i'm really impressed with the amount of songs pre-1991 considering that 85% of the station's audience is between 18 and 25.

the countdown has taken a turn for the worse this afternoon with 90 to 81 being revealed. as much as i love placebo i dont think they are a hottest 100 quality band especially not every you every me. i was scared sex on fire might get top 20 and was praying it wouldnt get in at all. so 90 isnt too bad. yellow deserves to be much higher but i guess i am biased.

i'm saying that the album doesnt give much aside from Sweet Disposition. one song can only take you so far.

i'm expecting Radiohead and Muse to dominate both should have at least 3 entries. ac/dc's return will mean that they will be the best represented aussie band while michael jackson's recent death will most probably result in a couple of entries for him.

Wolf Like Me is an awesome song but yeh i agree with you in saying that Take Me Out should of been higher. this will be a very interesting countdown. the demographic of the radio station has changed dramatically. nowadays you have alot of people surfing between triple j and NOVA. nonetheless the result of this poll will have little or no impact on the music played on the station.

triple j radio has started their once-a-decade hottest 100 songs of all time countdown. the countdown will gradually unfold over the week with the #1 being revealed at 6pm on sunday. 1.Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit 2.Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name 3.Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah 4.Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 5.Radiohead - Paranoid Android 6.Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 7.Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye 8.Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge 9.Foo Fighters - Everlong 10.Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven 11.John Lennon - Imagine 12.Oasis - Wonderwall 13.Radiohead - Creep 14.The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony 15.Radiohead - Karma Police 16.Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 17.Hilltop Hoods - The Nosebleed Section 18.Muse - Knights Of Cydonia 19.Metallica - One 20.White Stripes - Seven Nation Army 21.Powderfinger - These Days 22.Massive Attack - Teardrop 23.Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me 24.The Beatles - A Day in the Life 25.Pearl Jam - Alive 26.Michael Jackson - Thriller 27.Powderfinger - My Happiness 28.Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees 29.Pixies - Where Is My Mind? 30.Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower 31.Metallica - Enter Sandman 32.New Order - Blue Monday 33.Silverchair - Tomorrow 34.The Living End - Prisoner Of Society 35.Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 36.Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms 37.Tool - Stinkfist 38.The Killers - Mr Brightside 39.Pearl Jam - Better Man 40.Nirvana - Come As You Are 41.Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 42.Bloc Party - Banquet 43.The Beach Boys - God Only Knows 44.The Beatles - Hey Jude 45.Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows 46.Faith No More - Epic 47.John Butler Trio - Betterman 48.Beastie Boys - Sabotage 49.Guns 'N Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine 50.Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over 51.Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings 52.You Am I - Berlin Chair 53.Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 54.The Cure - Close To Me 55.Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone 56.Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should Have Come Over 57.Tool - Forty Six & 2 58.Daft Punk - Around The World 59.Augie March - One Crowded Hour 60.Johnny Cash - Hurt 61.Blur - Song 2 62.Nine Inch Nails - Closer 63.AC/DC - Thunderstruck 64.Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun 65.Underworld - Born Slippy 66.Elton John - Tiny Dancer 67.Ben Folds Five - Brick 68.Blink 182 - Dammit 69.Jeff Buckley - Grace 70.The Prodigy - Breathe 71.The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? 72.The Shins - New Slang 73.The Clash - London Calling 74.Nirvana - Lithium 75.Green Day - Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) 76.The Stone Roses - Fools Gold 77.Gotye - Hearts A Mess 78.Smashing Pumpkins - Today 79.David Bowie - Life on Mars 80.The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black 81.Pulp - Common People 82.System Of A Down - Chop Suey! 83.Placebo - Every You Every Me 84.Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman, No Cry 85.The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You 86.The Beatles - Come Together 87.Coldplay - Yellow 88.The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter 89.Rage Against the Machine - Bulls On Parade 90.Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire 91.AC/DC - Back In Black 92.Bon Iver - Skinny Love 93.Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy 94.Modest Mouse - Float On 95.Stevie Wonder - Superstition 96.Daft Punk - One More Time 97.Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning 98.Led Zeppelin - Kashmir 99.TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me 100.Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

yeah i can relate to that. placebo's music is a world away from coldplay but that doesnt mean its not freken awesome. i cant wait until placebo tour down here they are an amazing band.

i guess the one advantage of being well up in the stands is that you can appreciate the full stage show properly. if you;re in that circle you wont see more than half of it. see it this way back seats at wembley = birds eye view :cool:

but at the end of the day it is inevitable that 21st century bands will earn a large majority of their money from touring instead of cd sales and radio airplay. thats just the reality for bands nowadays no matter what type of contract they sign.

unfortunately it seems to be the consensus that Sweet Disposition is the best track on the album by a long way. so once people realise that, it will turn them off the album and that will hurt sales and radio airplay. Fader is a decent song also.

interesting choice for first single. it took me a while to get into the when i first heard it back in january but i love it now. the musicianship is awesome.

have the band done much in england? their glasto performance received rave reviews.

haha i've been listening to loads of Beatles this week also. Listened to Revolver last night which is my fave album from them. might give Abbey Road a spin tonight. my goal for this winter uni break is to properly listen to all their albums and all of led zep's albums also.

yeah i was pretty surprised at the 15 jacket too. federer constantly goes on about how records arent everything to him and then he dons a jacket with the number 15 embroidered on it. i really hope it was Nike thing and Roger had no say in it. i understand andy's frustration but in that last set roger never looked like he was going to lose the match, i've seen alot of his matches where you look at the final scorecard and it looks like a really tight match but you actually watch it and you'll see that he maintains control over the match the entire time. i feel sorry for andy too, this is the best tennis he has ever played, lets hope he continues to play like this for a couple more years so he can win his second grand slam and get the recognition he deserves. i know the final set was 16-14 but i still think the nadal federer final was superior. hard to explain why.

top album to kick things off im not 100% sure about this but i think it will most probably be Fever To Tell by YYYs. i loved their 2nd and 3rd albums. they're arent too many bands out there who have made 3 albums i have absolutely loved but if the critical acclaim is anything to go by then i think YYYs will surely join that small group of bands.

Jack White is my favourite artist of the last decade and im really struggling to get into them. still no leak of the album.

dont forget to tell us how it goes. im paying $135 to see them :cry:

what an unbelieveble shot of the stage!! its massive

IMO Radiohead have made 4 albums (The Bends, OKC, Kid A, In Rainbows) that are just as good as Veckatimest. They have a long way to go.