WOWOWOWOW!!!!

The Big Day Out line-up has just been released. I was going to go see Ladyhawke play a solo show, but now I've seen she's been included in the BDO along side Muse, Calvin Harris, Dizzee Rascal, Groove Armada, The Mars Volta.... BLAAURRUHGHGHGISODO I ROI:LKF OSDIFU_@#( R:OSDJFPS)D (FU #OJ:OIS HEADASPLODE

Browsing. The post that wasn't.

I just wrote pages of stuff, noting that I'd recently decided to finally switch to Opera 10, despite it still not having a few features that Firefox has that I enjoy, but I'd just like to say that I'll most likely be changing back, seeing as I accidentally hit a link that took me to another page, and when I hit back it had all gone :) Die, Opera, Die. No, come back, I still love you. A bit.

Top 10 Songs!!

OK because no-one chose to help me I had to come up with the top 10 myself, so don't blame me if I forgot any that should be there. You also now get to enjoy my self indulgent analysis of why these were such worthy choices.

1. Sun Hits The Sky - Supergrass

Funnest song ever written. Most fun song ever written? Also the ultimate driving song on a summer's day by the beach. The only let down is the ending that drags on.

2. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys

The harmonies, the chord progressions, the song structure, the theramin..... could go on and on about what makes this song amazing. Also the great quiet middle bit that just ebbs and flows until... aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh *silence* GOOOOOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD VIBRATIONS. Genius.

3. All You Need Is Love - The Beatles

A triumphant fanfare heralds the beginning of a Beatles song that is just perfect. I love the descending horn line after each "All you need is love", and the little self referential "She loves you yeah yeah yeah" in the background at the end.

4. Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi

Pure awesome distilled and presented in song form.

5. Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

The haunting intro leads into a foot tappingly great rock song. In particular the female solo near the end is mindblowing.

6. Even Flow - Pearl Jam

The driving, unchanging chord underlying the confident then frantic vocals of each line of the verse then the explosive progression on the line E-ven-flo-oww just blows my mind every time.

7. Living Type - Powderfinger

From the only good Powderfinger album in my opinion (Double Allergic), this is another perfect slow rock song or whatever category this would be in. Inspired chord progressions make it, along with the intense lyrics.

8. Space Oddity - David Bowie

I remember reading some essay that some student had written around the time of the moon landing about how man landing on the moon had killed any future imaginaion, romanticism or creativity involving it and space in general. Well, I think this song is the rebuttle.

9. Reckless - Australian Crawl

Time goes into slow motion every time I hear this song.

10. Rainbow Connection - Kermit the Frog

A simple, melancholy yet uplifting song that worked so well as the intro to the Muppet Movie.

Hottest 100 of all time shortlist

I'm trying to come up with my top 10 songs of all time for the Triple J Hottest 100 Of All Time.
Voting closes in 4 days so I'm trying to wrack my brains for any songs I may have forgotten!

It's such a hard task, because there are so many criteria upon which you could judge a song. In the end, I've decided that it shouldn't be an intellectual decision, because music isn't about that, it's about feeling. So, I've chosen songs that have the most impact on the way they make me feel. The only problem then is that the feelings older songs produce may have diminished in time due to hearing them so often and hearing them now in a different musical era..

Anyway, here is my shortlist so far, in no particular order.

Rolling Stones, The - Gimme Shelter

Depeche Mode - Barrel of a Gun

Michael Jackson - Beat It

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Kermit the Frog - Rainbow Connection

Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure

David Bowie - Space Oddity

David Bowie - Dead Man Walking

Australian Crawl - Reckless

Ben Folds Five - Magic

Ben Folds Five - Battle Of Who Could Care Less

Ben Folds Five - One Angry Dwarf And 200 Solemn Faces

Ben Folds Five - Steven's Last Night In Town

Ben Folds Five - Underground

Foo Fighters - Everlong

Powderfinger - D.A.F.

Powderfinger - Living Type

Powderfinger - Pick You Up

Oasis - Champagne Supernova

Oasis - Don’t Look Back In Anger

Oasis - Wonderwall

Pearl Jam - Alive

Pearl Jam - Corduroy

Pearl Jam - Evenflow

Pearl Jam - Given To Fly

Pearl Jam - I Am Mine

Pearl Jam - Not For You

Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror

Faith No More - Easy Like Sunday Morning

Faith No More - Epic

Faith No More - I Started A Joke

Faith No More - Last Cup Of Sorrow

Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Prodigy, The - Breathe

Prodigy, The - Firestarter

Silverchair - Israel's Son

Silverchair - Pure Massacre

silverchair - tomorrow

Beach Boys, The - Good Vibrations

Limahl - Never ending story

Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer

R.E.M. - Losing My Religion

Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mine

Midnight Oil - Dreamworld

Midnight Oil - Forgotten Years

Midnight Oil - King Of The Mountain

Midnight Oil - Power And The Passion

Midnight Oil - Us Forces

Billy Joel - The Longest Time

Beatles, The - Hey Jude

Beatles, The - All You Need Is Love

Beatles, The - Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End

Beatles, I Want You (She's So Heavy)

Beatles, The - I am the walrus

Beatles, The - Octopus's Garden

Madness - It Must Be Love

Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

Metallica - The Unforgiven

Harry Nillson - Without You

Radiohead - India Rubber

Radiohead - Anyone Can Play Guitar

Radiohead - Creep

Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely

Radiohead - Karma Police

Radiohead - Paranoid Android

Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky

Supergrass - Richard III

Zero G Water Bubbles!

Featuring the most annoying voice over guy ever. Good if you're blind, I guess.

When I was your age...

My favourite Weird Al song. It really deserves a good film clip but this is the best I could find. Enjoy.

Language update

Just a note to the world that the acronym "Podcast" is no longer derived from the words iPOD broadCAST, but Play On Demand broadCAST, a highly superior and non-brand-specific description.

This decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.