Do you think "Jet Plane" should have won it?

Some of if pretty boring

May be if the winning song has a bit more... umph... e.g. Buy me a pony... Then you can go nuts, rather than go to ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzz

Tom and Alex

Tom and Alex = Dumb and dumber Unfunny and unfunnier

getfunky said...

Tom and Alex = Dumb and dumber Unfunny and unfunnier

+1 Worst crew they have had for ages I recon

JJJ = Junk, Junk and more Junk!

Gestalt said...

yep, jjj has lost the plot. i barely listen to it and it's been that way for years now.

i've said it before and i'll say it again.

4zzz!

and

4zzz hotest 100 is the best!

ROFL...

May be as we get, well, older (OLD), we just can't handle the kiddie crap anymore...


Are there people out there that are 17-22 that like Tom and Alex

Pugwash said...

Gestalt said...

yep, jjj has lost the plot. i barely listen to it and it's been that way for years now.

i've said it before and i'll say it again.

4zzz!

and

4zzz hotest 100 is the best!

ROFL...

May be as we get, well, older (OLD), we just can't handle the kiddie crap anymore...


Are there people out there that are 17-22 that like Tom and Alex

i dunno, could be, but i think there was a concieved change in the programing about 7 years back.

my local radio zzz is a "youth" station and it is truely alternative which is what JJJ was supposed to be. there is lots of excellent music out there in my opinion.

I think JJJ had its zenith in the 90s with Helen Razer and Mikey Robbins on breakie, the Morning Show with Angela Katerns and good music shows in the arvo. The drive show had a few interesting hosts like Judith Lucy and Paul McDermott. Plus we had Flacco and Sandie.

Always entertaining and interesting.

When in Mandura a few years ago I bought Sandie's book at a second hand bookstore. Observations from a moving vehicle. Not a bad read.

Yeah I'm old but to be honest I don't care and the current listeners of JJJ are missing out.

Mobydisc said...

I think JJJ had its zenith in the 90s with Helen Razer and Mikey Robbins on breakie, the Morning Show with Angela Katerns and good music shows in the arvo. The drive show had a few interesting hosts like Judith Lucy and Paul McDermott. Plus we had Flacco and Sandie.

Always entertaining and interesting.

When in Mandura a few years ago I bought Sandie's book at a second hand bookstore. Observations from a moving vehicle. Not a bad read.

Yeah I'm old but to be honest I don't care and the current listeners of JJJ are missing out.

Yeah I agree, although i'd include up until after Adam Spencer and Will Anderson hosted the morning show (must have been early 2000's?), they were pretty awesome I reckon. Since then, around 2003 I reckon JJJ has been a on downward spiral of epic proportions. Maybe it's me getting old (30) but these days I can't bear to listen to JJJ :( It would be interesting to see some figures on their audience share variation over the years.

nick0 said...

big jet plale mabey top 5 but not num 1 ... #1 should of been knocks danceing with the dj or .. kele tenderoinie

Na it should have been Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros "Home" such a classic I recon

Hep, boring top 20...mostly, but BDO on Sunday

Where was the Satanic Norwegien Black Metal? Not a single track in the 100. That will be the next big thing in 10 years, and the voters of today will be complaining with "what is this crap?".

AKSonline said...

Hi Peeps,

Triple J hasn't been good for many years. Anyone old enough to remember the days of 2JJ in Sydney, will know what I'm talking about.

JJJ used to be truly aternative, always challenging your notions of "norm" by throwing some crazy stuf at you, some was good, some not so good. Nowadays, they have become so main stream and the top 20 songs are on high rotation everyday. I listen to it in the shop most of the day but can't stand the repetition after a while and so switch over to ipod or nothing at all.

Tom and Alex are tools, as was "the doctor". Uninspiring hottest 100 this year.

I wish JJJ would go back to a more underground alternative station, if they did, most of todays youth would tune out but we'd be faced with some truly great and interesting music.

DM

+1 the doctor really needs to brush up on his interveiwing skills bloody hopeless imo!! I heard an interveiw with MIA yesterday on JJJ, Rosie Beaton would ask a question and she would just give a one word answer or not say anything at all!! I thought thats typical MIAs music is crap along with here comunication skill rant over!!

I think music has changed and JJJ has changed to accommodate it.

Music today is manufactured to a market and disposable.

Gone are the collectors of that rare piece of vinyl signed by Syd Barret and discovered in a dusty box in an old second hand record shop.

There were days when music meant something, it was a voice of a generation. Now its all about ass tits hoes and niggahs

doggie said...

AKSonline said...

Hi Peeps,

Triple J hasn't been good for many years. Anyone old enough to remember the days of 2JJ in Sydney, will know what I'm talking about.

JJJ used to be truly aternative, always challenging your notions of "norm" by throwing some crazy stuf at you, some was good, some not so good. Nowadays, they have become so main stream and the top 20 songs are on high rotation everyday. I listen to it in the shop most of the day but can't stand the repetition after a while and so switch over to ipod or nothing at all.

Tom and Alex are tools, as was "the doctor". Uninspiring hottest 100 this year.

I wish JJJ would go back to a more underground alternative station, if they did, most of todays youth would tune out but we'd be faced with some truly great and interesting music.

DM

+1 the doctor really needs to brush up on his interveiwing skills bloody hopeless imo!! I heard an interveiw with MIA yesterday on JJJ, Rosie Beaton would ask a question and she would just give a one word answer or not say anything at all!! I thought thats typical MIAs music is crap along with here comunication skill rant over!!

+ 1,000,000!!!

it's not just the jockeys though, it's the music. there is plenty of excelent alternative stuff out there. unfortunatley it's gone way underground so the internet is the only real source.

for decent music check out.

www.3wk.com/
somafm.com/
www.4zzzfm.org.au/
rantmedia.ca/punk/
http://www.aussievox.com/
www.backstageradio.ch/#cat=6

i'm still working throuhg this list.
www.radiorow.com/stations/alternative.htm

Yep - remember JJ days and also the arrival in the West too.

It's not just about getting stuck in old ways/toons

The OLD JJJJ used to mix it up far more than the conservative charting high rotation bollocks they rotate non-stop today.

Nuttin on JJJ these days makes anyone wanna smash **** up and disobey authority like it used to.[}:)]

Beige at it's most exciting.

Also there is a complete lack of knowledge and/or respect for that which came before and forms the influence (if not 80% of the samples) for what is squeezed out of the production tube today.

the doors were wellll before my time, yet I love em coz they were smokin hot and original. Same for many many other bands.

I'm not sayin JJJ need to play greatest hits all the time but one classic an hour (and less mindless jibber jabber from Tom & Alex etc) that introduces a great act (rather than re-introduces) to a new audience is not too much to ask.

A wisened music afficianado told me recently that JJJ had a comp where the answer was the Pixies (Q was a very well known track) and it took eons to get an answer.

Funny thing is most of the acts played by JJJ know their chops and referances but the audience remain ignorant and JJJ ain't helping.

Music should be good enough to be timeless, not myeehhh, whatevs after 2 weeks.

Don't be a fraid to play a track over 12mths old. If it's really good it'll always be good.


Old timer ranta rant rant - over


Anyway I'm goin back to listening to RTR.