Terça-feira 21 Mai 2013, 17h:30
Well if you haven't heard, radio station Triple J is running a poll to find out the best songs of the last twenty years (1993 to 2012). Everyone gets twenty votes and I can tell you, it's tough finding 20 songs from out of my absolute favourites. It's taken me more than a week, so…
Here it is, the final list in no particular order:
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic (2001)
The Presets - My People (2008)
The Whitlams - Melbourne (1997)
Garbage - Only Happy When it Rains (1995)
Korn - Freak on a Leash (1998)
Ladytron - The Lovers (2008)
Ministry - Lay Lady Lay (1996)
Nine Inch Nails - Closer (1994)
Muse - Hysteria (2003)
Pulp - Disco 2000 (1995)
The Distillers - Coral Fang (2003)
The Grates - Burn Bridges (2008)
Kaiser Chiefs - I Can Do it Without You (2007)
The Prodigy - Voodoo People (1994)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings (1995)
Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (1999)
Radiohead - Paranoid Android (1997)
Röyksopp - Happy Up Here (2009)
The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun (1997)
System of a Down - Cigaro (2005)
Here are some songs I would vote for but they were too old!
They Might be Giants - birdhouse in your soul (1990)
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name (1992)
Alice in Chains - rooster (1992)
Nirvana - Lithium (1991)
Hunters & Collectors - Holy Grail (1992)
Metallica - Wherever I May Roam (1991)
Metallica - One (1988)
Faith No More - Epic (1990)
Def Leppard - Rocket (1987)
Here is the rest of my shortlist. So many great songs, I wish I had more votes.
Fatboy Slim - Right Here, Right Now (1999)
Air - Sexy Boy (2006)
Arcade Fire - Rococo (2010)
Birds of Tokyo - The Gap (2010)
Birds of Tokyo - Broken Bones (2008)
Björk - Enjoy (1995)
Björk - New World (2007)
Blur - Song 2 (1997)
Boy & Bear - Feeding Line (2011)
Alice in Chains - Whale & Wasp (1994)
Band of Horses - The Funeral (2006)
Belle & Sebastian - Step Into my Office, Baby (2003)
Cut Copy - Feel the Love (2008)
Coldplay - Clocks (2002)
Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby (1993)
Faith No More - Stripsearch (1997)
Filter - Skinny (1999)
Foster the People - Waste (2011)
Garbage - Happy Home (2009)
Goldfrapp - Utopia (2000)
Gorillaz - Dare (2006)
Grimes - Oblivion (2012)
Groove Armada - At the River (1999)
Grouplove - Love Will Save Your Soul (2011)
Justice - Helix (2011)
Live - Lightning Crashes (1994)
Live - Graze (1997)
Massive Attack - Man Next Door (1998)
Mates of State - Now (2008)
Metric - Clone (2012)
MGMT - Kids (2008)
Mylo - In My Arms (2004)
Nero -Me and You (2011)
Nine Inch Nails - Just Like You Imagined (1999)
Pnau - Embrace (2007)
Pearl Jam - Spin the Black Circle (1994)
Queens of the Stone age - A Song for the Deaf (2002)
Radiohead - Pyramid Song (2001)
R.E.M. - All the Way to Reno (2001)
Sarah Blasko - All Coming Back (2004)
The Shins - New Slang (2001)
Sia - Buttons (2008)
Soundgarden - 4th of July (1994)
Regina Spektor - Better (2006)
Spiderbait - Fucken Awesome (2004)
Spinnerette - Baptized by Fire (2009)
Stone Temple Pilots - Sour Girl (1999)
Superheist - Old Again (Eurotrash) (2007)
System of a Down - Boom! (2002)
The Avalanches - Electricity (2007)
The Dandy Warhols - Heavenly (2003)
The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? (2006)
The Knife - Marble House (2009)
Them Crooked Vultures - Gunman (2009)
The Mountain Goats - This Year (2005)
Orbital - Funny Break (One is Enough) (2001)
The Cranberries - Zombie (1994)
The Basics - With this Ship (2009)
Killing Joke - You'll Never Get to Me (2003)
And now the slightly embarrasing list: Songs I really like, but aren't really cool enough to be on Triple J.
Crowded House - Don't Dream it's Over (2005)
Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone (1998)
Martin Solveig & Dragonette - Hello (2010)
September - Cry For You (2007)
Sharam feat. Daniel Bedingfield - The One (2008)
P.O.D. - Alive (2002)
ATB - You're Not Alone (2002)
Kaskade - Be Still (2009)
The KLF - Last Train to Trancentral (1991)Triple J
For entering the poll, there's a chance of winning the grand prize, which is a ticket to a concert of your choice, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. That's a pretty sweet prize. They make us pick something when we enter, so I picked the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. That would be pretty cool.