To celebrate 20 years of the annual Hottest 100, Triple J are asking people to vote for their favourite 20 tunes from the last 20 years. You have 20 days to do it in, starting from last tuesday! The website can be found here!
I trawled back through the last twenty years of hottest 100's to eventually pick about 60 plus tracks, I then whittled it down to the required twenty. I didn't pick anything outside the previous lists such as Bonnie Prince Billy or even some of my fav's that were in the list ( Massive Attack, Bjork, Faith No More, You am I, Beastie Boys etc), but that doesn't mean that you can't! I tried to throw in a good balance of local acts and some tunes that were great at the time, but if that artist was played on the J's now, listeners may complain (i.e Kylie). So go on and vote, especially if you are over 35! don't let the young un's do all the voting, besides they might not know half the great stuff that was out there 15-20 years ago, we oldies need to REPRESENT!!
Here is my list:
- Dave Graney 'n' The Coral Snakes - Night of the Wolverine, Part 1 (#48 in 1993's hottest 100- Aussie artist, sexy sounding, stylish and brilliant!)
- Underground lovers - Losin' It (#19 in 1994's hottest 100- Aussie Act!)
-Kylie Minogue - Confide in Me (#30 in 1994's hottest 100- Aussie artist, Kylie Minogue say no more! (well, you can say 'singing budgie')
-Garbage - Vow (#15 in 1995's hottest 100)
-Regurgitator - I Sucked a Lot of C*ck to Get Where I Am (#23 in 1996's hottest 100- Aussie Group!)
-The Whitlams - I Make Hamburgers (#79 in 1996's hottest 100- Aussie Group!)
-Ben Folds Five - Army (#51 in 1999's hottest 100)
-The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (#6 in 2000's hottest 100- Aussie group!)
- The Strokes - Last Nite (#12 in 2001's hottest 100)
-Gerling - Dust Me Selecta (#24 in 2001's hottest 100- Aussie group!)
-Groove Armada - Superstylin' (#48 in 2001's hottest 100)
-OutKast - Hey Ya! (#2 in 2003's hottest 100)
-Blur - Out of Time (#98 in 2003's hottest 100)
-Kings of Leon - The Bucket (#31 in 2004's hottest 100)
-Babyshambles - F*ck Forever (#79 in 2005's hottest 100)
Warning, this clip has the F word in it!
-Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down (#30 in 2006's hottest 100)
-TV on the Radio - Wolf Like
Me (#63 in 2006's hottest 100)
-The Wombats - Let's Dance to Joy Division (#12 in 2007's hottest 100)
-Bon Iver - Skinny Love (#21 in 2008's hottest 100)
This clip is of Bon Iver performing the track live at Glastonbury in 2009
-Hermitude - Speak of the Devil (#44 in 2011's hottest 100)
What are you voting for?
Friday, May 17, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
Modern day artists
The past few weeks as I have been walking down lanes and back alleys, I have stumbled across some really cool art. Here are of few of the pieces, starting with this very cool statement:
Fitzroy: ah, the good old days of playing my neighbor's Atari.
Westgarth:
Tetris:
Cool door in an alley way:
I love this wall, hidden down a lane:
Don't forget that this is Strath's porridge spot!, but you can still sit there:
North Fitzroy: I love Kaff-eine, not only is her art lovely, but I met her once (yep, I am a name dropper) and she was soooo nice. You can read more about these images at her blog:
Just remember:
So get out there, make art, view art, encourage art and love every minute of it!
All photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2013
Art is copyright the individual artists.
Fitzroy: ah, the good old days of playing my neighbor's Atari.
Westgarth:
Tetris:
Cool door in an alley way:
I love this wall, hidden down a lane:
Don't forget that this is Strath's porridge spot!, but you can still sit there:
North Fitzroy: I love Kaff-eine, not only is her art lovely, but I met her once (yep, I am a name dropper) and she was soooo nice. You can read more about these images at her blog:
Just remember:
So get out there, make art, view art, encourage art and love every minute of it!
All photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2013
Art is copyright the individual artists.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue - May 2012
Something old:
Otis is always amazing. He could sing the telephone book and still be captivating. This live clip was recorded about 6 months before he died in a plane accident.
Otis Redding - 'I've been loving you too long (live in Montreux 1967)'
Something else that is 'old' and very cool (and I can't recall if I have posted this before, but it is worth a second look), is Bright Eye's - 'First day of my life'. I really like this simple clip.
Bright Eye's - 'First day of my life'
Something new:
My mate Dean turned me onto the group called 'Chvrches'. I kept hearing the track 'Recover' on the J's and really, really like it. This is what electronic pop music should sound like!
Chvrches- 'Recover'
Another (and very different) band that my mate Dean turned me onto many years ago, is Yo La Tengo. I have been playing their new (and thirteenth) Lp 'Fade', a lot on sunday mornings. It is one of those beautiful, rich albums that gently make their way to you and grow on you with each listen.
Yo La Tengo' 'Cornelia and Jane'
Something borrowed:
Our own Angus Stone, does a version of Alabama Shakes track 'Hold on' on Triple J's 'like a version'.
I love this song, so this is really just another excuse to watch and listen to it again. The track starts at the 1.21 minute mark, so feel free to fast forward.
Angus Stone- 'Hold on'
Something blue:
I recently stumbled across this man Jackson C Frank and wow, his voice has life in it. Unfortunately, his story is a really sad one. Trusty wikipedia says that he was hospitalised at age 11 with burns over half of his body due to the school furnace exploding and killing 15 of his fellow students. Later on he moved from NYC to London, played music, met Paul Simon who recorded his 1965 LP 'Jackson C Frank'... A year later his mental health is said to have begun to unravel... in the seventies his son died of cystic fibrosis which reportedly lead to him plunging into depression and being institutionalized. In the 1980's he was homeless in NYC and was blinded by being accidentally shot in the eye. He died aged 56 in 1999 due to pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
Jackson C Frank - 'Blues run the game'
Otis is always amazing. He could sing the telephone book and still be captivating. This live clip was recorded about 6 months before he died in a plane accident.
Otis Redding - 'I've been loving you too long (live in Montreux 1967)'
Something else that is 'old' and very cool (and I can't recall if I have posted this before, but it is worth a second look), is Bright Eye's - 'First day of my life'. I really like this simple clip.
Bright Eye's - 'First day of my life'
Something new:
My mate Dean turned me onto the group called 'Chvrches'. I kept hearing the track 'Recover' on the J's and really, really like it. This is what electronic pop music should sound like!
Chvrches- 'Recover'
Another (and very different) band that my mate Dean turned me onto many years ago, is Yo La Tengo. I have been playing their new (and thirteenth) Lp 'Fade', a lot on sunday mornings. It is one of those beautiful, rich albums that gently make their way to you and grow on you with each listen.
Yo La Tengo' 'Cornelia and Jane'
Something borrowed:
Our own Angus Stone, does a version of Alabama Shakes track 'Hold on' on Triple J's 'like a version'.
I love this song, so this is really just another excuse to watch and listen to it again. The track starts at the 1.21 minute mark, so feel free to fast forward.
Angus Stone- 'Hold on'
Something blue:
I recently stumbled across this man Jackson C Frank and wow, his voice has life in it. Unfortunately, his story is a really sad one. Trusty wikipedia says that he was hospitalised at age 11 with burns over half of his body due to the school furnace exploding and killing 15 of his fellow students. Later on he moved from NYC to London, played music, met Paul Simon who recorded his 1965 LP 'Jackson C Frank'... A year later his mental health is said to have begun to unravel... in the seventies his son died of cystic fibrosis which reportedly lead to him plunging into depression and being institutionalized. In the 1980's he was homeless in NYC and was blinded by being accidentally shot in the eye. He died aged 56 in 1999 due to pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
Jackson C Frank - 'Blues run the game'
Friday, April 26, 2013
The good , the bad and the ugly- April 2013
The Good: Life.
There seems to be so much bad stuff happening at the moment. So much hurt, suffering, sadness and death. From the Boston bombings, Earthquakes in China, ongoing starvation, ongoing war and on and on......through it all and perhaps because of it all, I am reminded of the fragility and the preciousness of life...
I am reminded to enjoy what we have while we have it.... and where we can and for those who need it, to help them so that they too can enjoy what life we have, what life they have.
For all we know it could be over in an instant.
The bad: Inappropriate in-talk/code between friends
I was reminded of this recently when talking to a friend about how we refer to each others dates by code name instead of by the date's actual name. I casually said 'I might blog about this', to which my friend screeched, No!!! Don't blog about it, it will make us all look like arseholes!!!!!! And when I thought it, this friend was right. I mean, how unfair that a man who wore tracksuit pants on the second date, was forever referred to by myself and my friends as 'tracksuit pants man'... When I have referred to him by his actual name, my friends quizzically ask 'who?'
So now, all of our conversations about him go a little bit like:
'How are things going with tracksuit pants man?'
'When are you seeing tracksuit pants man again?'
Poor, poor, poor man, his only crime was a crime of fashion and a tiny little dating faux pas. I wonder if his gravestone will remember him as tracksuit pants man as well.
Would it be heartless of me to mention 'heart attack man', who had a heart attack early on in the dating game and has since passed away, bless him....or my friend whom a clairvoyant once foretold would next date a woman who was (and I am quoting the clairvoyant here) 'mutton dressed as lamb'... which meant that subsequently, every woman this friend showed any interest at all in, the rest of us would look over and consider if she was in fact 'mutton dressed as lamb'. Terrible of us I know... but I personally blame the clairvoyant.
There is also (and let me finish on a more harmless note), my friend who dated a man who had 500 cd's and was forever referred to as '500cd'. To this day I have no idea what his actual name was......
The Ugly: Work colleagues and inappropriate disclosures.
Speaking of inappropriateness, a while back an ex manager of mine bragged to the whole team that they regularly stole fruit and veg from the supermarket. What makes this worse is that this person was in a role where we were meant to be modeling appropriate behavior and enforcing rights and laws.
This manager bragged that they would use the self service at the supermarket checkout and scan more expensive items through as cheaper ones. For example, broccolini was put through as broccoli. Truss and hydroponic tomatoes put through as standard tomatoes.This manager then disclosed that their partner would take hydroponic and truss tomatoes off the stems and pretend that they are standard el-cheapo tomatoes... once a supermarket staff member overseeing the self-serv machines pointed out that the tomatoes were in fact the more expensive hydroponic tomatoes, but my old mangers partner ARGUED this was not true and kept arguing until they got away with it... the manger then said, "what we learned from that was to go the supermarket during peak times so that there is less chance of being monitored and caught"....
Yep... My face must have given away my disgust, as my then manager said in front of the team 'oh Matthew doesn't approve'... Hell no! I don't, but in this instance I was more subtle and responded with a simple 'I didn't say anything'. No I didn't say anything, but my expression did.
Of course after this my friends and I referred to this manger in conversation as 'light fingers', 'the thief' or 'the self serve check out thief'. Can you blame us?
There seems to be so much bad stuff happening at the moment. So much hurt, suffering, sadness and death. From the Boston bombings, Earthquakes in China, ongoing starvation, ongoing war and on and on......through it all and perhaps because of it all, I am reminded of the fragility and the preciousness of life...
I am reminded to enjoy what we have while we have it.... and where we can and for those who need it, to help them so that they too can enjoy what life we have, what life they have.
For all we know it could be over in an instant.
The bad: Inappropriate in-talk/code between friends
I was reminded of this recently when talking to a friend about how we refer to each others dates by code name instead of by the date's actual name. I casually said 'I might blog about this', to which my friend screeched, No!!! Don't blog about it, it will make us all look like arseholes!!!!!! And when I thought it, this friend was right. I mean, how unfair that a man who wore tracksuit pants on the second date, was forever referred to by myself and my friends as 'tracksuit pants man'... When I have referred to him by his actual name, my friends quizzically ask 'who?'
So now, all of our conversations about him go a little bit like:
'How are things going with tracksuit pants man?'
'When are you seeing tracksuit pants man again?'
Poor, poor, poor man, his only crime was a crime of fashion and a tiny little dating faux pas. I wonder if his gravestone will remember him as tracksuit pants man as well.
Would it be heartless of me to mention 'heart attack man', who had a heart attack early on in the dating game and has since passed away, bless him....or my friend whom a clairvoyant once foretold would next date a woman who was (and I am quoting the clairvoyant here) 'mutton dressed as lamb'... which meant that subsequently, every woman this friend showed any interest at all in, the rest of us would look over and consider if she was in fact 'mutton dressed as lamb'. Terrible of us I know... but I personally blame the clairvoyant.
There is also (and let me finish on a more harmless note), my friend who dated a man who had 500 cd's and was forever referred to as '500cd'. To this day I have no idea what his actual name was......
The Ugly: Work colleagues and inappropriate disclosures.
Speaking of inappropriateness, a while back an ex manager of mine bragged to the whole team that they regularly stole fruit and veg from the supermarket. What makes this worse is that this person was in a role where we were meant to be modeling appropriate behavior and enforcing rights and laws.
This manager bragged that they would use the self service at the supermarket checkout and scan more expensive items through as cheaper ones. For example, broccolini was put through as broccoli. Truss and hydroponic tomatoes put through as standard tomatoes.This manager then disclosed that their partner would take hydroponic and truss tomatoes off the stems and pretend that they are standard el-cheapo tomatoes... once a supermarket staff member overseeing the self-serv machines pointed out that the tomatoes were in fact the more expensive hydroponic tomatoes, but my old mangers partner ARGUED this was not true and kept arguing until they got away with it... the manger then said, "what we learned from that was to go the supermarket during peak times so that there is less chance of being monitored and caught"....
Yep... My face must have given away my disgust, as my then manager said in front of the team 'oh Matthew doesn't approve'... Hell no! I don't, but in this instance I was more subtle and responded with a simple 'I didn't say anything'. No I didn't say anything, but my expression did.
Of course after this my friends and I referred to this manger in conversation as 'light fingers', 'the thief' or 'the self serve check out thief'. Can you blame us?
Friday, April 19, 2013
People and faces - April 2013
I thought I would share a couple of photographs of the people and faces I have taken so far this year.
Much thanks to everyone (and the respective parents), for allowing me to plast your images (or your childs) on the internet.
Seeing Jan and the world in Black,White and Colour:
Nuria's wedding- Nuria:
Nuria's wedding- her sister Marian:
Who said kids are cute?
My nephew Jacques demonstrates my point- I think I'll take two of these....:
Ok, now speaking of cute..... Spot the cute one below.
Is it...
a) Dean
b) My nephew Jacques (again, but this time cuter! and let's not forget his friend Vincent who is on the right):
c) My second cousin (or is it my cousin once removed?)- Cooper:
or is it
d) me (picture kindly taken by Dean).
Yep, according to my mum and 97% of polled people, the answer is d.
all photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2013 (except where taken by others, then the copyright is owned by the stated photographer).
Much thanks to everyone (and the respective parents), for allowing me to plast your images (or your childs) on the internet.
Seeing Jan and the world in Black,White and Colour:
Nuria's wedding- Nuria:
Nuria's wedding- her sister Marian:
Who said kids are cute?
My nephew Jacques demonstrates my point- I think I'll take two of these....:
Ok, now speaking of cute..... Spot the cute one below.
Is it...
a) Dean
b) My nephew Jacques (again, but this time cuter! and let's not forget his friend Vincent who is on the right):
c) My second cousin (or is it my cousin once removed?)- Cooper:
or is it
d) me (picture kindly taken by Dean).
Yep, according to my mum and 97% of polled people, the answer is d.
all photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2013 (except where taken by others, then the copyright is owned by the stated photographer).
Friday, April 12, 2013
All-Female Bands
How much do all-female bands rock?
Recently I was chatting with a friend and the topic of all-female bands came up. We both started talking excitedly about how much we love ladies with guitars and particularly, all-female bands... before you could say 'can you believe that in this day and age that females are still disgracefully treated like second class citizens?!' we started rattling off a list of all-girl bands that we loved! Upon returning home, I thought 'I have to blog about this and share the love!!'
So here are a few of the great all-female bands that had come up in our conversation:
The Spazzys
The Shambelles
Electrelane- 'To the east'
Shonen Knife
The Runaways
The Slits- 'Typical girls'
Chicks on speed
The Raincoats
The 5, 6, 7, 8's- 'I'm Blue' (from the film kill Bill Vol 1)
Sleater-Kinney
L7
Ummm, did someone say all-female Chinese punk rock? If so then you will LOVE:
Hang on the box - 'Now I wanna say apology to you'
The Donna's
Stonefield
Luscious Jackson- 'Lady fingers'
Now, this is very cheeky I know, but here are a couple of almost all-female bands (does a male drummer really count?):
that dog- 'never say never'
The Breeders- 'Divine hammer' (as a friend and I were listening to this track on a road trip, my friend said '"I love this song, but what the hell is a 'divine hammer?".. I replied "no idea, but who cares? this song is cool". My friend agreed and we kept singing lines like:
"I'm just looking for one divine hammer
I'd bang it all day
Oh the carpenter goes bang
Bang bang
I'm just looking for one divine hammer
one divine hammer"
The Breeders- 'Divine hammer'
If you have a favourite all-female band that isn't mentioned.. then please comment and mention away!
Recently I was chatting with a friend and the topic of all-female bands came up. We both started talking excitedly about how much we love ladies with guitars and particularly, all-female bands... before you could say 'can you believe that in this day and age that females are still disgracefully treated like second class citizens?!' we started rattling off a list of all-girl bands that we loved! Upon returning home, I thought 'I have to blog about this and share the love!!'
So here are a few of the great all-female bands that had come up in our conversation:
The Spazzys
The Shambelles
Electrelane- 'To the east'
Shonen Knife
The Runaways
The Slits- 'Typical girls'
Chicks on speed
The Raincoats
The 5, 6, 7, 8's- 'I'm Blue' (from the film kill Bill Vol 1)
Sleater-Kinney
L7
Ummm, did someone say all-female Chinese punk rock? If so then you will LOVE:
Hang on the box - 'Now I wanna say apology to you'
The Donna's
Stonefield
Luscious Jackson- 'Lady fingers'
Now, this is very cheeky I know, but here are a couple of almost all-female bands (does a male drummer really count?):
that dog- 'never say never'
The Breeders- 'Divine hammer' (as a friend and I were listening to this track on a road trip, my friend said '"I love this song, but what the hell is a 'divine hammer?".. I replied "no idea, but who cares? this song is cool". My friend agreed and we kept singing lines like:
"I'm just looking for one divine hammer
I'd bang it all day
Oh the carpenter goes bang
Bang bang
I'm just looking for one divine hammer
one divine hammer"
The Breeders- 'Divine hammer'
If you have a favourite all-female band that isn't mentioned.. then please comment and mention away!
Friday, April 5, 2013
"Welcome to my humble home" said Be Free.
There was a notification- tomorrow from 9am come visit."Enter via the back alley", we were told. I knew the place, it was in North Fitzroy and used to be a squat. It had been burnt out a while back. Some speculated the owners doing an insurance job... Right now it had become Be Free's home.
A mate and I went over. Quietly walking through the back alley, we sneaked through the gap in the rear fence and then trampled over sheets of corrugated roofing that were strewn across the ground. Upon entering the house I was mindful that it was an OH & S nightmare, what was left of the roof could collapse at any moment.. but it was all worthwhile to visit Be Free's humble home....
As we enter:
Closer shot of the art work and hand written note to the squat 'rest in peace'.
The Kitchen/Dining area:
What was left of the roof:
All of these images need to be seen in the wider context of the rooms they inhabit....I am just showing you a glimpse.. you need to see it for yourself !
All photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2013
Art is of course copyright of the artist Be Free.
A mate and I went over. Quietly walking through the back alley, we sneaked through the gap in the rear fence and then trampled over sheets of corrugated roofing that were strewn across the ground. Upon entering the house I was mindful that it was an OH & S nightmare, what was left of the roof could collapse at any moment.. but it was all worthwhile to visit Be Free's humble home....
As we enter:
Closer shot of the art work and hand written note to the squat 'rest in peace'.
The Kitchen/Dining area:
What was left of the roof:
All of these images need to be seen in the wider context of the rooms they inhabit....I am just showing you a glimpse.. you need to see it for yourself !
All photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2013
Art is of course copyright of the artist Be Free.
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