(Doing the Sums 2009) Are You Joe Average?

The Bawley crew love the triple j Hottest 100, the only thing we love more than the Hottest 100 is our own (Doing the Sums) Are You Joe Average quiz. (2007, 2008, Hottest 100 of all time)

Here is how it works

1. Write out a list of the songs you voted for in the triplej Hottest 100.
2. Write down the position each of these came in the triplej Hottest 100
3. If a song did not make the list put down 101.
4. Add up the scores, and divide by the number of songs you voted for.
5. Post your results as a comment to this blog entry.

Here is how to interpret your score

1-13: Either you are the lovechild of Bernard Fanning and La Roux or you are actually Mumford’s Son.

14-27: Parlez Vous Austereo?

28-40: Very vanilla

41-52: "Meet Me on the Equinox" is your signature song in more ways than one.

53-65: Pretty pedestrian, but you probably have one weirdo friend who is rubbing off on you more than you realise.

66-77: Kinda quirky in a cute way.

78-89: Kinda quirky in a "slowly back away..." way.

90-100: You're a f***ing freak, man

101: Did you vote for songs, or flavours of ice cream????

The Bawley 100 scored

Fleet Foxes – Mykonos - 101
Super Furry Animals - Inaugural Trams - 101
The Xx - Heart Skipped a Beat - 101
Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More - 101
Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart - 101
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Hysteric - 101
Camera Obscura - Away With Murder - 101
Phoenix – Lisztomania – 4
Danger Mouse and Sparkle Horse - Revenge (ft The Flaming Lips) - 101
The Xx – Crystallised – 101

91.3 You're a f***ing freak, man (our worst performance ever!!)

How did you score?

Triple J Hottest 100: The People Have Spoken

I Despite the leaks the 2009 Hottest 100 managed to pull out a few surprises (Foo Fighters still relevant in 2009?!), is this further proof (2007, 2008) that musical democracy does not work? I am not sure?

Full list below (Bawley rankings in brackets)

100 ( - ) Foo Fighters - Wheels
99 ( - ) Tegan and Sara - Hell
98 ( - ) Them Crooked Vultures - New Fang
97 ( - ) Regina Spektor - Laughing With
96 ( - ) Deadmau5 - Ghosts N Stuff
95 ( - ) Silversun Pickups - Panic Switch
94 ( - ) Regina Spektor - Blue Lips
93 ( - ) Bertie Blackman - Thump
92 ( 26 ) Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
91 ( - ) Manchester Orchestra - I've Got Friends
90 ( - ) Florence and the Machine - Kiss With A Fist
89 ( - ) Jay-Z - D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)
88 ( - ) NOFX - Creeping Out Sara
87 ( 23 ) The Middle East - The Darkest Side
86 ( - ) Flight Of The Conchords - Too Many Dicks (On The Dance Floor)
85 ( 87 ) Kasabian - Underdog
84 ( - ) Muse - United States of Eurasia
83 ( - ) Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
82 ( - ) Miami Horror - Sometimes
81 ( 84 ) Mumford & Sons - The Cave
80 ( - ) Dizzee Rascal - Holiday
79 ( - ) Yves Klein Blue - Getting Wise
78 ( - ) Tame Impala - Remember Me
77 ( - ) Jet - She's a Genius
76 ( - ) Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
75 ( - ) Wolfmother - New Moon Rising
74 ( - ) Art vs. Science - Friend In The Field
73 ( - ) MSTRKRFT (ft. John Legend) - Heartbreaker
72 ( - ) Sia - You've Changed
71 ( - ) Bertie Blackman - Byrds of Prey
70 ( 33 ) Animal Collective - My Girls
69 ( - ) Death Cab for Cutie - Meet Me on the Equinox
68 ( - ) The Prodigy - Omen
67 ( - ) Washington - Cement
66 ( - ) Illy - Pictures
65 ( - ) Eskimo Joe - Foreign Land
64 ( - ) The Middle East - Blood
63 ( - ) Karnivool - All I Know
62 ( 64 ) Bloc Party - One More Chance
61 ( - ) Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
60 ( - ) Lily Allen - 22
59 ( - ) Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone
58 ( 65 ) The Temper Trap - Love Lost
57 ( - ) Philadelphia Grand Jury - The Good News
56 ( - ) The xx - Islands
55 ( - ) Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
54 ( - ) Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
53 ( - ) Miike Snow - Animal
52 ( - ) Vampire Weekend - Horchata
51 ( 22 ) Kasabian - Where Did All The Love Go?
50 ( - ) Sia - Buttons (CSS Remix)
49 ( - ) Powderfinger - All of the Dreamers
48 ( - ) The Temper Trap - Science of Fear
47 ( - ) Karnivool - Set Fire to the Hive
46 ( 62 ) Bon Iver - Blood Bank
45 ( - ) Florence and the Machine - Drumming Song
44 ( - ) Florence and the Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
43 ( - ) The Bloody Beetroots (ft. The Cool Kids) - Awesome
42 ( - ) British India - Vanilla
41 ( - ) Simian Mobile Disco (ft. Chris Keating) - Audacity of Huge
40 ( - ) Angus & Julia Stone - And the Boys
39 ( - ) The John Butler Trio - One Way Road
38 ( - ) Passion Pit - Little Secrets
37 ( - ) Hilltop Hoods - Still Standing
36 ( - ) Weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
35 ( - ) Muse - Resistance
34 ( - ) Little Birdy - Brother
33 ( - ) Kid Cudi (ft. MGMT & Ratatat) - Pursuit of Happiness
32 ( - ) Paul Dempsey - Ramona Was A Waitress
31 ( - ) Seth Sentry - The Waitress Song
30 ( - ) Flight Of The Conchords - Hurt Feelings
29 ( - ) Sarah Blasko - All I Want
28 ( - ) Sarah Blasko - We Won't Run
27 ( 35 ) La Roux - In for the Kill
26 ( - ) Metric - Help I'm Alive
25 ( 21 ) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
24 ( - ) Flight Of The Conchords - Carol Brown
23 ( - ) The Bloody Beetroots (ft. Steve Aoki) - Warp 1.9
22 ( - ) Vampire Weekend - Cousins
21 ( - ) The Temper Trap - Fader
20 ( - ) Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
19 ( 81 ) Muse - Undisclosed Desires
18 ( - ) Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars
17 ( - ) Kasabian - Fire
16 ( - ) Gossip - Heavy Cross
15 ( - ) Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home
14 ( - ) Jamie T - Sticks 'n' Stones
13 ( 40 ) Phoenix - 1901
12 ( 98 ) Dizzee Rascal and Armand van Helden - Bonkers
11 ( 25 ) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
10 ( 17 ) Florence and the Machine - Dog Days Are Over
9 ( - ) Muse - Uprising
8 ( - ) Lily Allen - Not Fair
7 ( - ) Lisa Mitchell - Coin Laundry
6 ( 63 ) La Roux - Bulletproof
5 ( 51 ) Bluejuice - Broken Leg
4 ( 3 ) Phoenix - Lisztomania
3 ( 38 ) Hilltop Hoods - Chase That Feeling
2 ( 31 ) Art vs. Science - Parlez Vous Francais?
1 ( 56 ) Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man

I think I like it, what do you think? Was Little Lion Man the Hottest song of 2009?

The Bawley 100 - New Years Eve 2009/2010

When you or someone in your family suddenly begins to experience the symptoms – fever, blandness, aches, chills, tiredness, miley cirrhosis, u2-itis – you have just moments to take action. Trust BAWLEY FLU, the most frequently prescribed antiviral top 100 song list of 2009.

With NYE listening parties spreading from the backyards of Braddon and beaches of Bondi to the baths of Budapest, the 2009 Bawley 100 is everywhere you wanna be.

The 2009 Bawley 100:

111 Radiohead - Harry Patch

99 Karen O And The Kids - Worried Shoes

98 Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers

97 Them Crooked Vultures - Nobody Loves Me & Neither Do I

96 The Maccabees - No Kind Words

95 Datarock - Give It Up

94 Dappled Cities - The Price

93 Jason Lytle - Yours Truly The Commuter

92 Yeasayer - Ambling Alp

91 Idlewild - Readers And Writers

90 Hot Chip - Transmission

89 Ian Brown - Stellify

88 Gomez - Little Pieces

87 Kasabian - Underdog

86 Editors - Papillon

85 Thom Yorke - The Hollow Earth

84 Mumford and Sons - The Cave

83 Bat For Lashes - Daniel

82 Wild Beasts - Still Got The Taste Dancing On Our Tongues

81 Muse - Undisclosed Desires

80 The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea

79 Phoenix - Girlfriend

78 Eels - In My Dreams

77 Jarvis Cocker - Angela

76 Books feat Jose Gonzales - Cello Song

75 Fever Ray - When I Grow Up

74 The Dead Weather - Will There Be Enough Water?

73 Mariachi El Bronx - Slave Labour

72 British Sea Power - No Man Is An Archipelago

71 Young And Restless - Creeps

70 The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Higher Than The Stars

69 Little Boots - Remedy

68 Cornershop - The Roll-Off Characteristics (Of History In the Making)

67 Lily Allen - Fuck You

66 Karen O And The Kids - All Is Love

65 Temper Trap - Love Lost

64 Bloc Party - One More Chance

63 La Roux - Bulletproof

62 Bon Iver - Blood Bank

61 Massive Attack - Pray For Rain

60 The Big Pink - Dominos

59 Doves - Kingdom Of Rust

58 Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone

57 Girls - Lust For Life

56 Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man

55 The Xx - Shelter

54 Dave Sitek - With A Girl Like You

53 Jeffery Lewis + The Junkyard - Roll Bus Roll

52 Brakes - Two Shocks

51 Bluejuice - Broken Leg

50 Health - Die Slow

49 The Horrors - Who Can Say

48 Fever Ray - Triangle Walks

47 Massive Attack - Splitting The Atom

46 Decemberists - The Rake's Song

45 Camera Obscura - James

44 Art Brut - What a Rush

43 Bridezilla - Beaches

42 God Help The Girl - Come Monday Night

41 Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition

40 Phoenix - 1901

39 The National - So Far Around The Bend

38 Hilltop Hoods - Chase That Feeling

37 Hungary Kids of Hungry - Scattered Diamonds

36 The Duckworth Lewis Method - The Age of Revolution

35 La Roux - In For The Kill

34 Thom Yorke - Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses

33 Animal Collective - My Girls

32 Fuck Buttons - Olympians

31 Art vs Science - Parlez Vous Francais

30 The Cribs - We Share The Same Skies

29 Gomez - Airstream Driver

28 Camera Obscura - Honey In The Sun

27 Danger Mouse and Sparkle Horse - Just War (ft Gruff Rhys)

26 Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy

25 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll

24 Doves - Outsiders

23 The Middle East - The Darkest Side

22 Kasabian - Where Did All The Love Go?

21 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero

20 Mariachi El Bronx - Cell Mates

19 The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Contender

18 Washed Out - Feel It All Around

17 Florence and the Machine - Dog Days

16 Art Brut - Am I Normal?

15 Hot Chip - Take It In

14 Radiohead - These Are My Twisted Words

13 Portishead - Chase The Tear

12 The Horrors - I Only Think Of You

11 Danger Mouse and Sparkle Horse - Little Girl (ft Julian Casablancas)

10 Fleet Foxes - Mykonos

9 Super Furry Animals - Inaugural Trams

8 The Xx - Heart Skipped a Beat

7 Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More

6 Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart

5 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric

4 Camera Obscura - Away With Murder

3 Phoenix - Lisztomania

2 Danger Mouse and Sparkle Horse - Revenge (ft The Flaming Lips)

1 The Xx - Crystallised


If symptoms persist please see a doctor.

Bawley (Hearts) 2009: Top 5 Concerts of the Year: Hummer

5. ATP – The Breeders, Minehead, 15-17/5/2009

The combination of The Bronx’s head smashing punk, CSS’s Brazilian carnival, Bon Iver’s emotional retelling of For Emma, Holy Fuck’s free beers, Mariarchi el Bronx’s guitarrón, Deerhunter’s daydream pop, The Breeders’ classic headline set and luxury indoor camping made for a perfect weekend on the Somerset coast. (photos, knitting)

4. Phoenix, O2 Academy, Birmingham, 24/10/2009

Still largely under the radar in the UK, Phoenix brought their delicious pop songs to an ever appreciative crowd. (review)

3. Datarock, Thekla, Bristol, 23/11/2009

The Boat That Rocked: When I think of bands on boats I get images of tired old crooners wobbling away to greys in Hawaiian shirts. Datarock on the Thekla was anything but tired, though they did play a cover of (I’ve Had The) Time Of My Life that would do Jack Jones proud (review).

2. Massive Attack, O2 Academy, Birmingham, 22/09/2009

Debuting new tracks alongside classics, Massive Attack proved they are still as angry and essential as ever. (review)

1. Nine Inch Nails and Janes Addiction, O2 Arena, London, 15/07/2009

These two behemoths of 90s alternative rock came together for a mind blowing stadium rock show.

The freshly reformed Jane’s Addiction pulled off a performance so good you could be forgiven for thinking they had never been away, before Nine Inch Nails played their rawest, rockest set in years with the urgency of a band trying to get noticed, not say goodbye. (review)

Bawley (Hearts) 2009: Top 5 Albums of the Year: Hummer

5. The Horrors – Primary Colours On Primary Colours The Horrors recruited Portishead’s Geoff Burrow and ditched their goth punk in favour of rich moody textured rock. The result is one of the year’s best albums, which helped the band prove themselves to be more than the tidal wave of skinny jeans, haircuts and hype that overshadowed their 2007 debut.

4. Danger Mouse and Sparkle Horse – Dark Night Of The Soul With its high art concept, Hollywood-style promotion, massive list of contributors, legal battles, 50 pages of glossy art work and David Lynch weirdness, Dark Night Of The Soul was going to be brilliant or a kick in the balls. Brilliant it is - the kick in the balls came when it was revealed that the album will never be released.

3. Fever Ray – Fever Ray Droning, monotonous and claustrophobic: not words you would normally associate with great pop albums, but then again Fever Ray’s debut is not a normal pop album, just a great one.

2. The Xx – Xx The self-produced debut album from London upstarts The Xx is gloriously downbeat: delicate guitars weave between trip hop-esque beats while the spoken boy/girl vocals give the feeling that you are eavesdropping on a private conversation.

1. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix finds the band doing what they do better than anyone else – danceable indie-pop with touches of shoegaze, dabs of ambient electro, a splatter of euphoric highs and lashings of Gallic cool.

Bawley (Hearts) 2009: Top 6 Covers of the Year

6. The Big Pink – Sweet Dreams (Beyonce)

The Big Pink’s delicate acoustic take on Sweet Dreams is the polar opposite of Beyonce’s over produced/polished pop, luckily the song is good enough to work for both artists. (link)

5. Gomez - From St Kilda to Kings Cross (Paul Kelly)

Gomez are regular visitors to Australia but it seems they keep coming back for more than the sunshine and beaches, they have also grown to love Paul Kelly. Here they give this distinctly Australian song some international favour. (link – skip to 13:40)

4. Dappled Cities – My Girls (Animal Collective)

Dappled Cities reveal that beneath all the Animal Collective (OMG! Animal Collective) hype My Girls is a really great song. (link – 13:30)

3. Mariachi El Bronx - I Would Die 4 U (Prince)

My third choice from triple j’s Like A Version series and by far the most unexpected. LA punks The Bronx swap their thrashing guitars and screamed vocals to and give this Prince booty shaker some Mariachi sunshine. (link – 12:00)

2. The Dead Weather – Are Friend Electric? (Gary Numan)

Jack White’s other other band apply their dark swampy blues to Gary Numan’s paranoid classic. The result dark, swampy paranoia – superb (link)

1. The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen)

Only The Muppets could pull this off, watch below - and I challenge you not to hit the replay button.

Bawley (Hearts) 2009: Bottom 5 album covers of the year

Yesterday I posted my list of the best album art of 2009, now for some of the worst.

5. Morrissey – Years of Refusal

The cover of Morrissey’s latest album does nothing to dispel rumours that he eats small children for breakfast.

4. MSTRKRFT – Fist of God

A mish-mash of butts and thighs in the shape of a fist: the fist of God. God is angry, fear his wrath.

3. U2 – No Line On the Horizon

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

2. Weezer - Raditude

As lame as it is, the jumping dog on the cover is the rad-est thing about this appalling album.

1. Wolfmother – Cosmic Egg

Apparently the universe is a cosmic egg that cycles between expansion and total collapse. It expanded from a concentrated form —a point called a Bindu. The universe, as a living entity, is bound to the perpetual cycle of birth, death, and rebirth

Wolfmother are an Australian rock band with a bent for 70s rock riffs, fantasy world lyrics and horrible cover art. This is one rotten egg.

Also: What is that skinny naked boy doing in the bushes?

Bawley (Hearts) 2009: Top 5 album covers of the year

Bawley (Hearts) 2009: Top 5 album covers of the year

Album art just about managed to survive the shift from record to CD (from 12 inches of cover space down to 5) but the move to digital downloads and ever shrinking mp3 player screens are proving difficult for many of today’s artists.

Not all hope is lost. Here are five of the best examples of album cover art circa 2009.

5. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone

Neko Case crouched on the bonnet of a muscle car, sword in hard ready to pounce...enjoy the album, just don’t get in her way.

4. The Xx – The Xx

The CD version of this album comes in a black cardboard sleeve with the ‘X’ cut out revealing the white inner booklet. A great idea that translates to a great image when shrunk down to 100x100 pixels.

3. Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers

The cover of Journal for Plague Lovers, an oil painting by Jenny Saville, was judged to be too offensive for public display.

Apparently the heavy red and brown brush strokes can be interpreted a blood on the boy’s face – of course, this is a subjective view.

Commenting on the controversy, singer James Bradfield said:

"You can have lovely shiny buttocks and guns everywhere in the supermarket on covers of magazines and CDs, but you show a piece of art and people just freak out ... We're not going to censor it or anything ... It is what it is."

2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz

This action shot of a lady’s hand, chipped nail polish crushing an egg, perfectly captures the bands dangerous energy and, like many of the great album covers, it works no matter the size.

1. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Soul

The cover art for a blank CD-R. The release of the Danger Mouse/Sparklehorse/David Lynch collaboration was scuppered by legal issues, but rather than bury the project the recordings were leaked to the internet and collaborators released a limited edition 100 page booklet with an accompanying blank CD-R. The packages sold out in near record time, proving that modern music fans will pay for quality album art.

Bawley (Hearts) 2009: Bottom 5 album covers of the year