2018 Hottest 100

[JackOutback]

History tends to judge the Hottest 100s by their top 10s. You can have a great 100-11, but if the top 10 is garbage, people won't rate the countdown, and vice versa.

 

[SSwans2011]

History tends to judge the Hottest 100s by their top 10s. You have a great 100-11, but if the top 10 is garbage, people won't rate the countdown, and vice versa.

Agreed. The 1997 countdown gets praised a lot, but there is some absolute shite on there from 11-100.

 

[GroggSquad]

the real issue here is that garbage Fisher put out somehow managing second place, that is disgraceful. there was a million similar sounding tracks released this year alone that are superior to that.

So true.

For the past 5 years or so, literally 20-30 generic tech house songs are released on Beatport every week that sound similar to Losing It. How and why did everyone suddenly start caring about something that offered nothing new and had been done a thousand times before? Securing 2nd place with that uninspired tech-by-the-numbers crap stands to be one of the biggest oddities in H100 history for mine - especially considering Fisher allegedly didn't even produce it.

It reminds me of when Ratatat was voted into #64 in 2015 with the instrumental, Cream on Chrome. Instrumental songs rarely ever make the H100 (I think there have been 8 total in history and they are often novelty tracks like the Mission Impossible Theme, ABC News Theme Remix etc.) and Cream on Chrome was so unremarkable that it left me feeling like 100s of superior instrumental tracks had been robbed over the years...... Like Inspector Norse for instance, which is one the greatest dance tracks of the decade that sadly missed out on the 2014 Hottest 100 when it was voted into #127...... despite the world shining the spotlight on the track 2 years earlier when it was Mixmag's #1 song of 2012, Resident Advisor's #2 song of 2012, Pitchfork's #36 song of 2012......

Triple J are idiots.

 

[Loonerty]

So true.

For the past 5 years or so, literally 20-30 generic tech house songs are released on Beatport every week that sound similar to Losing It. How and why did everyone suddenly start caring about something that offered nothing new and had been done a thousand times before? Securing 2nd place with that uninspired tech-by-the-numbers crap stands to be one of the biggest oddities in H100 history for mine - especially considering Fisher allegedly didn't even produce it.

It reminds me of when Ratatat was voted into #64 in 2015 with the instrumental, Cream on Chrome. Instrumental songs rarely ever make the H100 (I think there have been 8 total in history and they are often novelty tracks like the Mission Impossible Theme, ABC News Theme Remix etc.) and Cream on Chrome was so unremarkable that it left me feeling like 100s of superior instrumental tracks had been robbed over the years...... Like Inspector Norse for instance, which is one the greatest dance tracks of the decade that sadly missed out on the 2014 Hottest 100 when it was voted into #127...... despite the world shining the spotlight on the track 2 years earlier when it was Mixmag's #1 song of 2012, Resident Advisor's #2 song of 2012, Pitchfork's #36 song of 2012......

Triple J are idiots.

I mean, Triple J doesn't vote for the songs...

 

[Gibbsy]

I mean, Triple J doesn't vote for the songs...

Probably more a reference to the Inspector Norse eligibility date.

That song though, man... put it on at any party and the mood just goes up a notch instantly. Soon as you hear that "chhhhhhhhh" at the opening of the track...

 

[GroggSquad]

I mean, Triple J doesn't vote for the songs...

Yeah I get that, but why are Triple J giving artists like Fisher airplay in the first place? Why aren't the music programmers at Triple J throwing that ghost-produced commercial cash-in into the "No thanks" pile alongside The Chainsmokers and Marshmello? I can assure you Losing It would not have finished 2nd in the Hottest 100 if Triple J didn't give it a platform.

The Inspector Norse debacle perfectly illustrates how pathetic Triple J's knowledge of dance music is. While everyone with half a clue was appreciating the awesomeness of Todd Terje back in 2012, Triple J were infatuated with the likes of Skrillex, Avicii, Martin Garrix, Knife Party, Nero, Afrojack & Steve Aoki instead

Why Triple J would embrace this lowest common denominator commercial EDM/Brostep crap is genuinely beyond me - they simply did not need to. Skrillex, Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki etc. are essentially to dance what Nickelback, Matchbox 20 and Creed are to rock music (bands Triple J wouldn't go near in the late 90s/early 00s). What an embarrassing turn for the J's.

It is a massive shame Richard Kingsmill and the other programmers were (and still are) seemingly oblivious to quality dance music. Triple J missed an opportunity to introduce decent producers that had global success in 2011/2012 like Terje, Tensnake, Julio Bashmore, Miguel Campbell, Storm Queen, Jamie Jones, Ben Pearce, Huxley etc. to kids all over Australia (all producers whose key tracks from that era still hold up today, mind you). Triple J completely cocked up by bombarding us with EDM/Brostep instead, which was already horseshit then and is practically unlistenable today (I challenge anyone who reads this to try and make it all the way through the entire 5 minutes of Knife Party's Internet Friends...)

So yeah, Triple J are idiots.

 

[Gibbsy]

Yeah I get that, but why are Triple J giving artists like Fisher airplay in the first place? Why aren't the music programmers at Triple J throwing that ghost-produced commercial cash-in into the "No thanks" pile alongside The Chainsmokers and Marshmello? I can assure you Losing It would not have finished 2nd in the Hottest 100 if Triple J didn't give it a platform.

The Inspector Norse debacle perfectly illustrates how pathetic Triple J's knowledge of dance music is. While everyone with half a clue was appreciating the awesomeness of Todd Terje back in 2012, Triple J were infatuated with the likes of Skrillex, Avicii, Martin Garrix, Knife Party, Nero, Afrojack & Steve Aoki instead

Why Triple J would embrace this lowest common denominator commercial EDM/Brostep crap is genuinely beyond me - they simply did not need to. Skrillex, Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki etc. are essentially to dance what Nickelback, Matchbox 20 and Creed are to rock music (bands Triple J wouldn't go near in the late 90s/early 00s). What an embarrassing turn for the J's.

It is a massive shame Richard Kingsmill and the other programmers were (and still are) seemingly oblivious to quality dance music. Triple J missed an opportunity to introduce decent producers that had global success in 2011/2012 like Terje, Tensnake, Julio Bashmore, Miguel Campbell, Storm Queen, Jamie Jones, Ben Pearce, Huxley etc. to kids all over Australia (all producers whose key tracks from that era still hold up today, mind you). Triple J completely cocked up by bombarding us with EDM/Brostep instead, which was already horseshit then and is practically unlistenable today (I challenge anyone who reads this to try and make it all the way through the entire 5 minutes of Knife Party's Internet Friends...)

So yeah, Triple J are idiots.

From memory they spun Ben Pearce's "What I Might Do" a fair bit around the time of release, and while I wasn't listening to JJJ in 2010 I'm sure that "Coma Cat" would have copped plenty (surely...?). Definitely not giving them an out though. They missed the boat completely in that department. It's getting worse.