Triple J
“We love Australian Music” is Triple J’s tag line, but do they? Really?? Or do they love it in the way that drunk guys tell random girls at clubs in the wee hours of Sunday morning?
Take Triple J’s “all Australian” music program “Home & Hosed” for example. The show features up and coming and known Australian bands who perhaps wouldn’t get any airtime on any other station..
At first blush this sounds like a badge of pride. But when it’s put into perspective, it’s less impressive.
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Australian youth radio station Triple J (then known as 2JJ) made its first broadcast today in 1975.
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Les says:
Am I too late or too old to render an opinion…who cares, here it is. 1981(ish) tune to JJ and the DJ who was obviously ripped played S1T1 of led Zep’s fourth album then promptly wanders away to top up the buzz or raid the fridge, side one plays all… Read more »
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bec says:
Old schmold. He is a gem. I’d rather someone older who had personality and intelligence than youth and dickheadery. On that note, why did they give the drive timeslot to the Doctor and not to Steph Hughes, who is piss-your-pants funny and fantastic? Not that McDougall is a bad presenter… Read more »
One of the least fascinating things to come out of Triple J’s Hottest 100 Of All Time is that Nirvana’s grunge anthem Smells Like Teen Spirit is still considered to be THE cornerstone for Gen X & Ys musical landscape, and that “alternative” music has jumped so far over the shark that it should win an Olympic medal for both high and long jumping.
And while taking pot shots at the uninspired and predictable musical tastes of the new bogan elite who have taken over the Triple J airwaves is just as predictable as the contents of the Hottest 100 in the first place, the more intriguing aspect of this gigantic rock census comes down to a question of chromosomes.
Soon after the list was finalised, the penny dropped over the Twitterverse that apart from a guest female vocal on Massive Attack’s trip-hop ballad Teardrop and Jeff Buckley singing like a whiny bitch, not one artist in the list for the ages was forced to sit down to pee.
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Ally says:
Well, Maybe guys just produce better music?!? Read more »
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Manco says:
It would improve viewing for everyone. I am from Venezuela and bad know English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: “Dig the all-new part the information can n’t enjoy the percent at before it makes to wrap.It would be enough to sap a bumper with this behalf.” Thank… Read more »
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