So if you're taking a break from reading how the courts made Erin Patterson seem like she's only about mushrooms when her poisoning oeuvre was so much broader than that, or live coverage of the eighth straight week of Anthony Albanese deciding if he should go slightly less mild in his concerned mutterings about Gaza, thank you.
Anyhow, if you found this post despite being worn the fuck out by Hottest 100 takes before even you got here, and scrolled all the way to the end, and have an opinion on it you'd like to share, and are so motivated by said opinion you're willing to leave a comment on a website not even linked to your social media accounts, though this really isn't an actual independent website it's owned by Google, even though Google hasn't provided any meaningful support or updates to Blogger since the Obama administration...even I've forgotten where I was going with this, but if you want to share your views on this or any other countdown or just the ones in your line of sight right now, please do so in the comments and I'll leave a warm and comforting reply.
Anyway, unranked, here is my personal top 100 Australian songs:
1 And where exactly on this list is "Shivers", you may ask? Umm...to own my truth, I kind of prefer The Screaming Jets cover. Dave Gleeson's vocals add more to the song than Cave's deadpan delivery (might be the only time anyone ever called Nick Cave deadpan). But I can imagine the uproar (if anyone saw this list and thought it meant anything). Leaving the song out altogether is my one act of chickening out compiling it.
2 I said I wasn't shying away from the brave decisions. But have a listen, appreciate the song on its own merits.
3 This is not a musically brilliant song, but it's here ahead of songs that are. I like it.
4 Perhaps that all my Regurgitator songs are from UNIT best illustrates the problems with my weird musical chronology.
5 I can't believe that this song's that old either. Imagine that this was once a fresh new song when raves and eccies wouldn't even be a thing for another ten years.
6 This one is shaky. I've never been a huge fan of Silverchair, possibly for unfair reasons. They're from my hometown, graduated from high school the same year I did, friends of mine had them as classmates, and look. If tall poppy syndrome is a blight on Australia generally, turn that up to about 367 for Newcastle and Silverchair. It was the done thing in the 1990s to hate them, along with queing up at Centrelink and getting into fights at King St Maccas. I wasn't trying to fit in; just assumed a band my age, from my town, who were getting lots of media attention whilst being referred to derivatively as Nirvana wannabes must be awful (and Kurt Cobain had only just died, so that one hurt). I've tried giving a fresh and unbiased listen in later years, but the warmest feelings I can summon are "this song's okay, I guess". So Silverchair get the lone entry in recognition of their musical legacy in spite of the fact that I'm not that fussed about their music, only for the hometown mea culpa bit. I selected "Freak" simply because it's the song of theirs' I like most.
My methodology was fairly simple. I limited myself to three songs per artist. In dilemmas over songs which I like but aren't necessarily examples of musical brilliance, and representing songs and artists who made great impact on music in Australia and worldwide, I went with vibes and feels; dilemmas were solved with rigorous process of "eh" and given a month to think this over, I might shuffle a few things, but for now, can you imagine if the jury voted to acquit then heard all the evidence about previous poisonings which was kept from them ahead of trial- sorry, subject at hand.
I don't have any shareable links for this playlist on the off chance someone would want such a thing. I was already iffy on streaming services before 2020 when I started spending time in the only place I regularly listen to music - the car. For my first couple of years of regular daily driving I was still on my P plates. In NSW, if you're on your Ps it's illegal to use your phone whilst driving for anything, streaming music included. So I could listen to music in the car, I rustled up my library of MP3s, collected over two decades of CD rips and downloads from sources legitimate and nefarious, loaded a couple thousand songs onto a USB stick, and was on my way, shouting along to Reptillia by the Strokes as I went. This is why I was iffy - spending many hours and handing over data if not regular payment to listen to the songs I already owned.
I eventually got my full licence (and a perfect driving record since, thank you - I shout along to Reptillia whilst assiduously adhering to the speed limit).But I've had no urge to get back to streaming. My music collection is mine, and costs nothing, and is always there even if there's no signal, my account is locked, I'm hacked, my card is locked, or any other reason why one could lose access to the music they'd paid thousands of dollars for the right to listen to on individual occassions but not the right to own.
It's not exactly something to be smug about or even to bring up, so I don't. But you really, really should ditch Spotify, per this First Dog on the Moon:
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