Off Topic With Ashley

Triple J’s having the Hottest 100 of all time, and if you haven’t already, you should go and vote.

It works like a regular hottest 100, except instead of just opertaining to the last year of releases, it includes every song that you can even remember. Ever. Of all time. It’s an awesome idea, but you only get ten tracks you’re allowed to vote for, and it’s just impossible to narrow it down and still be happy with the result.

My shortlist had twenty-three tracks on it. I deliberately didn’t go with anything too modern because it’s difficult to tell if a track is a keeper or not, and the majority of my music library is from the last five years, so it would be hell to try and go through it all.

Here’s my shortlist, I’m not going to tell you which tracks I actually voted for, because there’s no fun in that. I attached Youtube results to each track, so you can get a feel for any you’re not familiar with.

• Garbage – Only Happy When It Rains
• The Dandy Warhols – Horse Pills
• They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse
• Ween – Voodoo Lady
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – Down On The Corner
• Faith No More – Evidence
• The Prodigy – Voodoo People
• No Doubt – Just A Girl
• Blur – Song 2
• Sneaker Pimps – Spin Spin Sugar
• CAKE – I Will Survive
• Reel Big Fish – Sell Out
• Belle and Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
• The Living End – Prisoner Of Society
• Everclear – Father Of Mine
• Something for Kate – Déjà Vu
• The Superjesus – Down Again
• The Avalanches – Since I Left You
• Regurgitator – Freshmint!
• george – Release
• The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
• The Dresden Dolls – Girl Anachronism
• Gomez – Cry On Demand