I was reading an article by Lawrie Zion in the {Meanjin special rock edition ](http://www.messandnoise.com/discussions/364908), and he was the one who claims to have come up with the Hot 100 concept for JJJ when it was still Sydney only.
His concept was for people to send in their ten favourite songs of all time, not what they thought was the best ten songs, just the ten they liked most. It was a completely subjective list, and was an attempt to gauge the music tastes of the JJJ audience to see if what they played was what people wanted to hear, not being officially rated in any way at the time, but in a more personal way than just checking how many people were listening at any given moment.
I was wondering if anyone could be bothered compiling a list of their personal 100 favourite songs of all time. Not albums, just songs, they don't have to be good by any objective measure, just songs that mean the most to you.
Here is the list that Sydney came up with in 1989
- Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
- Hunters And Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me
- The The - Uncertain Smile
- The Jam - That's Entertainment
- New Order - Blue Monday
- Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
- The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
- Hunters And Collectors - Talking To A Stranger
- Sugarcubes - Birthday
- The Cure - A Forest
- Go Betweens - Cattle And Cane
- Boys Next Door - Shivers
- The Smiths - This Charming Man
- B52s - Rock Lobster
- This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
- Elvis Costello - Alison
- Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
- The Clash - London Calling
- The Cure - Primary
- Billy Bragg - Waiting For The Great Leap Forward
- Aretha Franklin - Respect
- REM - It's The End Of The World
- Radio Birdman - Aloha Steve And Danno
- Art Of Noise And Tom Jones - Kiss
- Machinations - Average Inadequacy
- The Only Ones - Another Girl From Another Planet
- The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
- The Saints - Know Your Product
- The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
- Led Zepplin - Stairway To Heaven
- John Lennon - Imagine
- Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
- Prince - Kiss
- The Cult - She Sells Snctuary
- Simple Minds - Love Song
- Prince - Sign Of The Times
- Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette
- David Bowie - Heroes
- The Doors - L. A. Woman
- Sinead O'connor - Troy
- The Church - Unguarded Moment
- Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
- The Damned - Smash It Up
- REM - The One I Love
- Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun
- Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
- Enya - Orinoco Flow
- Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
- The Doors - The End
- The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
- Womack And Womack - Teardrops
- Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen
- Echo And The Bunnymen - The Cutter
- Television - Marquee Moon
- Sunnyboys - Alone With You
- Midnight Oil - Wedding Cake Island
- Elvis Costello - I Want You
- Art Of Noise - Moments In Love
- Sakamoto And Sylvian - Forbidden Colours
- Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
- Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
- Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
- The Smiths - There Is A Light...
- Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
- The Cure - Close To Me
- New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
- The Triffids - Wide Open Road
- The Beastles - A Day In The Life
- Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Deanna
- Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
- Go Betweens - Bachelor Kisses
- Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives
- Propaganda - Duel
- The Jam - Going Underground
- Derek And The Dominos - Layla
- Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
- The Saints - Ghost Ships
- Warumpi Band - My Island Home
- Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
- XTC - Making Plans For Nigel
- The Stranglers - Golden Brown
- Hunters And Collectors - The Slab
- Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
- Gandmaster Flash - The Message
- The Doors - Riders On The Storm
- The Jam - Down In The Tube Station ...
- Midnight Oil - Power And The Passion
- Go Betweens - Bye Bye Pride
- Daddy Cool - Eagle Rock
- Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
- Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
- Lime Spiders - Slave Girl
- Blondie - Heart Of Glass
- Cold Chisel - Khe Sahn
- Laurie Anderson - Oh Superman
- Hunters And Collectors - Say Goodbye
- Do Re Mi - Man Overboard
- Outline - Cicada That Ate Five Dock
- Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
(I hope the formatting holds up...)
i remember listening to that when it was broadcasted
Oh well, fucked up the discussion link, but anyway.
Here's the first national survey of people's favourite songs of all time:
1990
and getting pretty excited that the dead kennedys came in at number 6, but thinking that they had way better songs
haha - JJJ goes national and rock lobster jumps 6 places!
And the most recent "All time" survey they did, interestingly, Love Will Tear us Apart is replaced by Smells Like Old Hat, but Hunnas retain number two spot.
1998
1 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2 Hunters And Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me
3 Pearl Jam - Alive
4 Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
5 Radiohead - Creep
6 Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
7 Metallica - One
8 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
9 Metallica - Enter Sandman
10 Pearl Jam - Black
11 U2 - One
12 Marilyn Manson - Beautiful People
13 Radiohead - Paranoid Android
14 Nine Inch Nails - Closer
15 Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun
16 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
17 Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of
18 Living End - Prisoner Of Society
19 Faith No More - Epic
20 Blink-182 - Dammit
21 Live - Lightning Crashes
22 Pearl Jam - Better Man
23 U2 - With Or Without You
24 Tool - Stinkfist
25 Soft Cell - Tainted Love
26 Nick Cave/Bad Seeds - The Ship Song
27 Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
28 Smiths - How Soon Is Now
29 Jeff Buckley - Grace
30 New Order - Blue Monday
31 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
32 Ben Folds Five - Brick
33 Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings
34 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
35 Faith No More - Ashes To Ashes
36 Whitlams - No Aphrodisiac
37 B-52's - Love Shack
38 Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right
39 Stone Roses - Fools Gold
40 Smashing Pumpkins - Today
41 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
42 Andy Prieboy - Tomorrow Wendy
43 Whitlams - You Sound Like Louis Burdette
44 Beastie Boys - Sabotage
45 Nirvana - Lithium
46 Blur - Song 2
47 Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should've Come Over
48 Tool - Sober
49 Beatles - A Day In The Life
50 Jebediah - Leaving Home
51 REM - Everybody Hurts
52 Ben Folds Five - Underground
53 Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
54 Radiohead - Karma Police
55 Offspring - Come Out & Play
56 Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror
57 Tool - Forty Six And 2
58 Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
59 Silverchair - Tomorrow
60 New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
61 You Am I - Berlin Chair
62 Nirvana - Come As You Are
63 Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
64 Cake - I Will Survive
65 Eagles - Hotel California
66 Cure - Love Cats
67 Sex Pistols - Anarchy In The UK
68 Hunters And Collectors - Holy Grail
69 Janes Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
70 Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
71 Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
72 Nine Inch Nails - The Perfect Drug
73 REM - Losing My Religion
74 Cure - A Forest
75 Portishead - Glory Box
76 Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
77 Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O Mine
78 They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in Your Soul
79 Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
80 Offspring - Self Esteem
81 Blind Melon - No Rain
82 Jebediah - Jerks Of Attention
83 Silverchair - Abuse Me
84 Nick Cave/Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
85 Cure - Just Like Heaven
86 Spiderbait - Buy Me A Pony
87 Nirvana - Aneurysm
88 Grinspoon - Just Ace
89 Cure - Close To Me
90 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
91 Metallica - The Unforgiven
92 Pauline Pantsdown - Back Door Man
93 U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
94 Cold Chisel - Khe Sahn
95 Prodigy - Breathe
96 Nick Cave/Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
97 Beck - Loser
98 Cure - Boys Don't Cry
99 Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
100 David Bowie - Heroes
yeah i remember listening to that too and enjoying it
Fucking archivist. left out the full stops, didn't he. Cunt.
82 Jebediah - Jerks Of Attention
83 Silverchair - Abuse Me
92 Pauline Pantsdown - Back Door Man
Mmm, yes. Three classical songs from ye olde Golden Era. Definitely worthy of "ALL TIME" spots.
pauline pantsdown. hehe
I rememebr rage playing the hot 100 when it was "of all time" must have been the last one before they made it a new songs only thing.
Heaps of songs there were no video for. Not the case now, I imagine.
It is interesting what changes, and what stays the same. Love Will Tear Us Apart is always in the list.
yeah thats true hey
So, anyone game to put together a list of their favourite 100 songs?
It's a big task, I guess.
I was gonna make a DVD of mp3s of my favourite songs, so I can put it on random for a couple of days.
What's number 2? Love Shack?
the fuck. i said 2. !
Oh, if you're going to do it seriously, could you maybe put them a few at a time in a single post? That would be cool.
a guy at work has blister in the sun as his ringtone.
normally something like this wouldn't make me want to hurt people, but he gets a lot of calls.
Can you tell him that it's not good workplace etiquette to have anything but "ring ring" or silent in the workplace, Ken?
So I hear. Unprofessiona, apparently
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are you lot aware of busted?
sounds familiar...refresh my memory...
"Air hostess, i like the way you dress"
"glad i crashed the wedding, it's better than forgetting"
such classic rhyming couplets.
and who can forget the anthemic
"it's what i go to school for, even though it is a real bore!"
poetic genius! How dare we judge? this is ART! ART DAMMIT!
Maybe their genius lies in the simplicity?
I nearly choked on my Kit Kat when I saw this in the first list...
Strangely, it doesn't appear on any of the other lists.
I'd be interested to see some of 4zzz's lists from the early 80s.
hmmm... that should be 48. Not 1. Silly formatting.
Oh god there are so many more! aqua - Barbie Girl, that wasn't even a gimmick song!
what about the German Barbie Girl? Tis tres stoopid....
I preferred "Dr Jones" to "Barbie Girl"
me too! It was always less...offensive.
And catchier in a better way methinks.
Here's the 1998 list from ZZZ. I don't think it's an "all time" list though. It's the earliest they've got.
1998 4ZZZ HOT 100
As broadcast on 1 January 1999
But wait! Here's 1976 from ZZZ
that list is funny
It's very stoner rock, huh?
I had a giggle. How many JJ Cale tracks are in there!!!
I have an MP3 of the Pumpkins covering this live.
shitty formatting, supposed to say 97
Hmmm
why midhisattva modi?
That 1976 list could be the MMM playlist from last week. these days you could send in ten votes for your own song and make the top 50.