The Bawley 100 - New Years Eve 2013/2014

A pair of everyday radio listeners are diagnosed with inoperable, advanced end of year list monotony. On a summer road trip they hear a Hottest 100 promo and devise a scheme to become partners, combine their skills and manufacture their own end of year list. Recruiting a lost but likable foreigner the group start work on a list to act as the antidote to all other lists and provide musical riches for their friends and family. During their time making the finest end of year list the group have a series of run ins with the law and rival list makers. Despite these setbacks, they become addicted to power and continue their list making under the guise 'Bawley'.


The 2013 Bawley 100:

100 Hannah Beasley (feat. Fun Machine) - Ode To Skywhale

99  Peace - Follow Baby

98 Foxygen - San Francisco

97 Toy - Dead & Gone

96 Phoenix - Trying To Be Cool

95 Disclosure - F For You

94 Lily Allen - Hard Out Here

93 The Burley Griffin - Die Alone (live)

92 Neko Case - Night Still Comes

91 Daft Punk - Lose Yourself To Dance

90 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wide Lovely Eyes

89 Savages - Shut Up

88 Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

87 The National - Humiliation

86 Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers

85 David Bowie - Valentine's Day

84 The Bronx - Youth Wasted

83 Neko Case - Ragtime

82 Pyramid - Wolf

81 Pixies - Bagboy

80 Nine Inch Nails - While I'm Still Here

79 A Perfect Circle - By And Down

78 Gesaffelstein - Pursuit

77 Arcade Fire - Here Comes The Night Time

76 Villagers - The Waves

75 TV Colours - Beverley

74 Daft Punk - Instant Crush

73 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away

72 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Despair

71 TV On The Radio - Million Miles

70 Ms Mr - Dance Yrself Clean

69 Fatboy Slim (feat. Riva Starr, Beardyman) - Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat

68 Jagwar Ma - Man I Need

67 Eels - New Alphabet

66 Janelle Monáe - Dance Apocalyptic

65 Lorde - 400 Lux

64 Chet Faker (feat. Kilo Kish) - Melt

63 Foals - Bad Habit

62 The National - Graceless

61 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sacrilege

60 Typhoon - Hunger And Thirst

59 Sky Ferreira - You're Not The One

58 Laura Mvula - Green Garden

57 British Sea Power - Monsters of Sunderland

56 Cut Copy - Free Your Mind

55 Amaya Laucirica - Found Some Secret

54 Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener

53 Clubfeet - Everything You Wanted

52 Major Lazer (feat. Ezra Koenig) - Jessica

51 Frightened Rabbit - The Woodpile

50 The Flaming Lips (feat. Tobacco) - Peace Sword (Open Your Heart)

49 Hot Chip - Dark and Stormy

48 Typhoon - Dreams Of Cannibalism

47 The National - Demons

46 Pulp - After You

45 Brendan Maclean - Winner

44 Arctic Monkeys - R U Mine?

43 Frightened Rabbit - Late March, Death March

42 Nine Inch Nails - Came Back Haunted

41 Foals - My Number

40 Vampire Weekend - Step

39 James Blake - Retrograde

38 Flume (feat. Chet Faker) - Drop the Game

37 The Flaming Lips - Look...The Sun Is Rising

36 Cloud Control - Dojo Rising

35 Frightened Rabbit - Acts Of Man

34 Chvrches - The Mother We Share

33 David Bowie - Love Is Lost

32 Arcade Fire - It’s Never Over (Hey Orpheus)

31 Mazzy Star - California

30 British Sea Power - Machineries of Joy

29 Brendan Maclean - Stupid

28 Haim - The Wire

27 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street

26 TV On The Radio - Mercy

25 The Knife - Full of Fire

24 Disclosure - White Nose

23 Queens Of The Stone Age - I Appear Missing

22 The Drones - How To See Through Fog

21 Arcade Fire - Afterlife

20 Neko Case - Man

19 Janelle Monáe (feat. Erykah Badu) - Q.U.E.E.N.

18 Chvrches - Recover

17 My Bloody Valentine - Only Tomorrow

16 Okkervil River - Down Down The Deep River

15 Vampire Weekend - Diane Young

14 Lorde - Royals

13 Pluto Jonze - Eject

12 Daft Punk - Get Lucky

11 Bloc Party - Ratchet

10 Typhoon - Young Fathers

9 The National - I Should Live In Salt

8 David Bowie - Where Are We Now?

7 Frightened Rabbit - Backyard Skulls

6 Phoenix - Entertainment

5 Cloud Control - Scar

4 The Drones - I See Seaweed

3 The National - Don't Swallow the Cap

2 Nine Inch Nails - Copy Of A

1 Arcade Fire - Reflektor

Sample for yourself on Spotify: Bawley 100 2013

Bawley (Hearts) 2013: Top 5 Covers of the Year

5. Dirty Projectors - Climax (Usher)

Sugary sweet harmonies and sexual tension turned up to 10. Hot (link)

4. Spiritualized - Free Your Mind (Cut Copy)

Beyond the title I can't recognise any of the original in this. Pretty much a J Spaceman original. (link)

3. Dinosaur Jr. - Entertainment (Phoenix)

Dinosaur Jr. kept the originals lyrics but in every other way this could be a J Mascis original. (link)

2. Ms Mr - Dance Yrself Clean(LCD Soundsystem)

This nostalgia hit started life as a 'like a version' cover, the band liked it so decided it was good they recoded and released a studio version. (link)

1. Stephen Colbert, San Cisco, Fall Out Boy, Daughter, Postmen, Noy Alooshe, George Barnett, Igor Presnyakov, The Stepkids, Sam Sparro, Skylar Grey, Peter Serafinowicz, Peace and Mystery Jets, Jessie J, Will.I.Am, Black Simon & Garfunkel, Wilco, Florence Welch, Halestorm, You, Me, Your Mum, Pretty Much Everyone - Get Lucky (Daft Punk)

Like the legend of the phoenix. In 2013 Get Lucky has been covered and covered again. Pretty much everyone has had a shot. The Get Lucky Supercut mashes the highlights and lowlights into one megamix

She's up all night 'til the sun
I'm up all night to get some
She's up all night for good fun
I'm up all night to get lucky

We're up all night 'til the sun
We're up all night to get some
We're up all night for good fun
We're up all night to get lucky

Silent Night, Holy Night: 5 Christmas Songs

Tis the season to rock. \m/

1. ManOwar - Stille Nacht




2. Alice Cooper - Santa Claus is Coming to Town




3. Lemmy, Billy F. Gibbons, Dave Grohl - Run, Rudolph, Run




4. Spinal Tap - Christmas with the Devil




5. The Darkness - Christmas time (Don't Let The Bells End)

A bonus Christmas bedtime story

1. Henry Rollins - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Sk8r Girl discovers secret to eternal youth

It appears that the secret to Never Growing Up is: panda eye make up, Radiohead t-shirts and singing at the top of your lungs.

2 out of 3 aint band.

Find yourself in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the last 20 years

Hottest 100 of the last 20 years chart - Click for full size

Find yourself in the Hottest 100 of the last 20 years.

1. To find your Hottest 100 year:  Calculate the average year of release for each song you voted for in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the last 20 years
2. To find your score: Write down the position of each song you voted for in the Triple J Hottest 100 of the last 20 years. Songs that did not make the list get a score of 101. Add up all the numbers and divide by the number of songs you voted for (20).
3. Your position is where the year and score meet.
4. Share your position and this chart.

Here is how some of the Bawley crew scored

• Nick (votes): Hottest 100 year: 2001.4, Hottest 100 Score: 90.75, Position: Choon
• Hummer (votes): 2001.45, 84.35, In the Nu-Metal Graveyard
• Karen: 2000.7, 93.7, In the Nu-Metal Graveyard but that is Y2K OK

And some Triple J presenters:

• Zan Rowe (votes), Hottest 100 year:  2001.5, Hottest 100 score: 95.45, Choon
• Alex Dyson (votes), 2003.35, 72.6, Must be a 21st Century Child
• Tom Ballard (votes), 2001.55, 91,05, A tripod-Choon, Y2K OK, Nu-Metal Graveyard
• The Doctor (votes), 2000.75, Failed to score :(

Bawley and Triple J Hottext 100 of the last 20 years chart positions

Be sure to share your scores with us and the chart with your friends.

Hottest 100 of the last 20 years: And here's how I voted.

The last 20 years basically covers my entire experience of discovering music for myself, so picking my 20 favourites from the last 20 years is pretty difficult.  In fact, it's basically impossible.  Hummer's shared his submission to Triple J's commemoration of 20 years of Hottest 100 list, so I thought I'd have a go as well.

Triple J provided one rule: the songs had to be released between January 1 2003 and December 31 2012.  To make it slightly easier for myself, I added two additional rules: I limited myself to singles only (no album tracks), and one song per artist only.  And then I spent about ten minutes writing songs down and crossing some of them out until I had a list of 20 I was reasonably happy with.  It's obviously far from 'definitive' - I submitted my list last week, and looking back, I'm already surprised by some of my conclusions.  But here it is, with some random thoughts attached:

Blur – The Universal (1995)

One of about five Blur songs I could have picked (and to be honest, today I’m wondering why I didn’t pick Beetlebum).  Blur soundtracked my adolescence and this is Blur at their most magisterial

Pulp – Common People (1995)

The greatest single of all time.  Fact.

Supergrass – Sun Hits The Sky (1997)

The sound of long, lazy summers.

Radiohead - Paranoid Android (1997)

Wasn’t sure which Radiohead song to pick but I picked this one because it’s kind of an amalgamation of every Radiohead song.  Still thrilling.

Mercury Rev - Opus 40 (1998)

This song kind of formed the basis of my musical taste for the last 15 years, because it introduced me to Mercury Rev, which in turn led me to The Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Sparklehorse, Lambchop and so many others.  

Flaming Lips – Race For The Prize (1999)

The Flaming Lips tend to test my patience these days but ‘The Soft Bulletin’ is by far the best Flaming Lips album and this is the best song on it.  

Hefner – Hymn For The Cigarettes (1999)

“How can she love me if she doesn't even love the cinema that I love?” 

Grandaddy – He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s The Pilot (2000)

If Major Tom from Space Oddity came back down to earth 30 years later, it might sound like this.  A nine minute long existential crisis.

Lambchop – Up With People (2000)

The song Lauren Laverne chose to play just after she announced that BBC 6music had been saved from closure and the closest that Lambchop ever came to a hit (which isn’t very close at all).  A bittersweet anthem to “screwing up our lives” from my favourite band ever.

The Delgados No Danger (2000)

I don’t really understand what this song is about (drugs and stuff??) but it has lodged itself into my subconscious the way few songs ever have.  The single version chops two and a half minutes off the length and adds a children’s choir, but I prefer the album version which begins with a gentle piano and ends six and a half minutes later with a cacophony of noisy guitars.

Doves – There Goes The Fear (2002)

One of several Doves songs I could have picked, but this is the only one with monkey noises in it.

The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army (2003)

That riff. A brilliant reminder of the power of keeping this simple.

Beyonce Crazy In Love [feat. Jay-Z] (2003)

‘Perfect pop song’ is a cliché but this is a perfect pop song.

British Sea Power – Remember Me (2003)

I spend a lot of time shuffling and skipping through songs on my phone, but this is one I *never* skip.  Joyous. 

Art Brut – Formed A Band (2004)

I love the idea of the debut single as a statement of intent – and ‘Formed a band’ celebrates that and sends it up at the same time.  

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – There She Goes, My Beautiful World  (2004)

Nick Cave takes on the whole world and wins.  Astonishing

Bloc Party – Helicopter (2005)

Lyrics are a bit ‘stream of consciousness’ but it still sounds amazing.

Arcade Fire – Keep The Car Running (2007)

Best song with a mandolin on it.

LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (2007)

Growing old never sounded so good.

Janelle Monae – Tightrope (feat Big Boi) (2010)

The only song from the last five years, because songs tend to grow on me over a long time.  But Janelle Monae performing this live at the Opera House last year was one of the best things I’ve ever seen.

Hottest 100 of the last 20 years: How I voted.

 

Every time I turn on Triple j these days they seem to be doing a Hottest 100 of this or a Hottest 100 of that. Not that I mind. I enjoy lists, reading lists, making lists but mostly I enjoy criticising lists. 

The first of the yearly Hottest 100 polls was held in 1993, so this year it is the Hottest 100 of the last 20 years. Of course we are all being encouraged to take part by voting for our top 20 of the last 20 years.

Vote Here. 

Here is how I voted. The technique was one of speed, I wrote down 20ish songs I like, trying to keep to the types of artists that get played on triple j and then to no more than 1 or 2 songs per artist. From this I did a quick cull and hit submit.

At the Drive-In - One Armed Scissor 

 As raw and powerful today as it was 13 years ago One Armed Scissor is the most powerful moment from At the Drive In's best album. Emotional before Emo had a name.

Bloc Party - Banquet

Spiky guitar tune that moved the early 2000s post punk revival on to the dance floor.

Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)

While Deftones outgrew nu-metal a long time ago this hit from Around the Fur lives on.

Garbage - Vow

The first single from the first CD I ever bought. 

Hot Chip - Over and Over

Repetitive, irritating, brilliant.

Interpol - Obstacle 1

Interpol effortlessly recreated Joy Division, Obstacle 1 was their best song. If only that is where it ended. Of the two groups I am not sure who had the more tragic career progression. Joy Division's lead singer hung himself. Interpol's lead singer released a horrible rap mix tape called 'Everybody on my dick like they supposed to be' 

LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

A song about getting old, making big decisions, moving away and never forgetting the value of your friends. I am a little older, so like it a little more each time I hear it.

Massive Attack - Protection

I forget why I voted for Protection over Teardrop, Angel or Karmacoma. All great songs I only had room to choose one.

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds

Hottest 100 voters like swearing. On Closer Trent Rezor sings 'I wanna fuck you like an animal'. Closer is likely to make the top 100. I voted for something else. Two NIN songs that are full of emotion but are near polar opposites. Hurt is desperate, broken, weak and fragile. The Hand That Feeds powerful, urgent and angry.

A Perfect Circle - Judith

Super group containing members of Tool, QOTSA, NIN, Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson you know I love it.

Portishead - Machine Gun

da-chk, da-chk, de-de-de-de-de, da-chk, a-a-a-a.

Total headache material, totally unexpected, totally brilliant. 

Pulp - Disco 2000

 Modest britpop highlight. 

Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows 

In truth I could have chosen any track from the first three QOTSA albums. 

Radiohead - 15 Step 

Radiohead - Paranoid Android 

15 Step is my favourite song from my favourite Radiohead album. Choosing Paranoid Android is my attempt at picking something that might come in near the top of the list.

TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me 

Swirling feedback, pulsing drums, howling guitars: music to lose your shit to. Wolf Like Me blows my mind every time.

Weezer - El Scorcho

Great sing-a-long track from the greatest sing-a-long band.

The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

Tragic thing is that the riff from Seven Nation Army now best known as a bland corporate sport chant.  FOOTBALL!!!!!!!

Sports, Wooo, SPORTS

The xx - Crystalised

Bawley winner and newest song on my top 20.

That is it. On review I forgot to put in any Nick Cave (Bad Seeds or Grinderman), DJ Shadow, PJ Harvey, Spiritualized, The National, any Hip Hop, anything Australian or any Blur.

Voting closes on June 2nd. Get to it.