Hottest 100 of the '10s

[samFFC]

Time to start thinking about the Hottest 100 of the 2010s. I've started making my short list i'm at 300 songs and haven't looked at 2018 or 2019 yet.

I put together a list of 100 in December, might need to adjust a little after further listening to songs of 2019. My top 20 was:

1	Kanye West	Runaway	2010
2	Robyn	Dancing On My Own	2010
3	Arcade Fire	Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)	2010
4	M83	Midnight City	2011
5	Fleet Foxes	Helplessness Blues	2011
6	Grimes	Oblivion	2012
7	Lana del Rey	Video Games	2011
8	Julie Byrne	Melting Grid	2017
9	Deep Sea Arcade	Granite City	2012
10	FKA Twigs	Two Weeks	2014
11	Lily Allen	Hard Out Here	2013
12	Miguel	waves	2015
13	Future Islands	Seasons (Waiting on You)	2014
14	Florence and the Machine	Shake it Out	2011
15	Black Keys	Lonely Boy	2011
16	Lorde	Green Light	2017
17	Vampire Weekend	Step	2013
18	Bon Iver	Holocene	2011
19	Robyn	missing u	2018
20	Frank Ocean	Pyramids	2012

 

[thewitness]

I put together a list of 100 in December, might need to adjust a little after further listening to songs of 2019. My top 20 was:

1	Kanye West	Runaway	2010
2	Robyn	Dancing On My Own	2010
3	Arcade Fire	Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)	2010
4	M83	Midnight City	2011
5	Fleet Foxes	Helplessness Blues	2011
6	Grimes	Oblivion	2012
7	Lana del Rey	Video Games	2011
8	Julie Byrne	Melting Grid	2017
9	Deep Sea Arcade	Granite City	2012
10	FKA Twigs	Two Weeks	2014
11	Lily Allen	Hard Out Here	2013
12	Miguel	waves	2015
13	Future Islands	Seasons (Waiting on You)	2014
14	Florence and the Machine	Shake it Out	2011
15	Black Keys	Lonely Boy	2011
16	Lorde	Green Light	2017
17	Vampire Weekend	Step	2013
18	Bon Iver	Holocene	2011
19	Robyn	missing u	2018
20	Frank Ocean	Pyramids	2012

Will you just vote for your top 10, or alter your votes depending on what has a realistic chance of making it.

 

[Loonerty]

Any chance they give 20 votes?

 

[nobbyiscool]

Will you just vote for your top 10, or alter your votes depending on what has a realistic chance of making it.

It's one of the interesting things about a song of the decade list. Do you vote for the song, or do you vote for the singer/band?

I think of someone like Gang of Youths - if you go back to that excellent "Go farther in lightness" album and vote for the song, then maybe "The deepest sighs..." and "Let me down easy" make it in the 70-90 range. But if everyone who loves GOY just votes for "Magnolia", it's probably a song that got better with age and is a low-key top 5 chance.

I use that GOY example because I loved that album, but I didn't think the best songs were the ones that got airplay - I really loved "Keep me in the open" and "Do not let your spirit wane."

Bon Iver is probably another example - do you vote for the best songs (000000 million and maybe ___45___), or do you just vote for Holycene to get them in?

And the more stark example is going to be Kendrick. I think everyone is going to forego King Kunta and DNA to vote for Humble.

A publicly voted list like this can't really have legitimacy because people will vote according to really random criteria.

At least I don't imagine there being a lot of recency bias, cos the 2019 and 2018 lists were objectively crap.

 

[BuddysBiggestFan]

Innerbloom Rufus (What’s So Not Remix) will overtake many it was up against in 2016.

Would have got close to number 1 if released last year.....I mean Flume ended up number 2...Jesus.

 

[samFFC]

Any chance they give 20 votes?

Hope so!

Will you just vote for your top 10, or alter your votes depending on what has a realistic chance of making it.

Good question. I think I would stick with that 10. I think those that make the list will likely all be deserving so don't need to push for a borderline song to sneak in.

 

[JackOutback]

Will be very difficult to think of just 10, then there’s songs that might make my top 10 but probably won’t make the 100 so do I bother?

I’m quite interested to see what number ones fall a long way. It’s a sign of a local track being pushed that never had any long term appeal. I’m predicting Hoops and Confidence don’t even make the 100 (and that’s last year’s ‘best’ song).

 

[Richard Cranium]

Falls Festival?
laneway?

Laneway was the festival I most had in mind. Depressing how bland it's become the past couple of years.

 

[samFFC]

Will be very difficult to think of just 10, then there’s songs that might make my top 10 but probably won’t make the 100 so do I bother?

I’m quite interested to see what number ones fall a long way. It’s a sign of a local track being pushed that never had any long term appeal. I’m predicting Hoops and Confidence don’t even make the 100 (and that’s last year’s ‘best’ song).

Yup, though not just local songs. Same for Thrift Shop and the subsequent Hottest 100 of past 20 years list only a few months later.

 

[samFFC]

Laneway was the festival I most had in mind. Depressing how bland it's become the past couple of years.

Most of the headliners have had strong Pitchfork reviews/BNM in recent years though?

 

[thewitness]

Hope so!



Good question. I think I would stick with that 10. I think those that make the list will likely all be deserving so don't need to push for a borderline song to sneak in.

If we get 20 votes I’ll probably vote for my 10 actual favourites and the throw 10 at songs I still like a lot but have some chance (at least made the H100 in their year)

 

[GroggSquad]

My top 10 of the decade...

M83 - Midnight City (2011)
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse (2012)
Frank Ocean - Pyramids (2012)
Kendrick Lamar - Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe (2012)
The War on Drugs - Red Eyes (2013)
Tame Impala - Let It Happen (2015)
Jamie xx - Loud Places {Ft. Romy} (2015)
Thundercat - Them Changes (2015)
Kanye West - Real Friends (2016)
Anderson .Paak - Tints {Ft. Kendrick Lamar} (2018)

Big advocate of just voting for favourites, instead of trying to target popular JJJ tracks

 

[RedmanWasHere]

When will we be able to vote?

Also, when 2023-24 comes around, there should be:

A special Hottest 300.
The 30 No. 1 songs to vote for.

 

[GroggSquad]

I do find it interesting they’ve chosen to do a 2010s decade countdown over an all-time countdown like they did in 1998 & 2009.

It almost seems like they are belittling the music knowledge of their current demographic and/or don’t trust them to pay proper respect to the classics.

Maybe they’re afraid of a situation where their beloved Smells Like Teen Spirit doesn’t finish #1?

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

I do find it interesting they’ve chosen to do a 2010s decade countdown over an all-time countdown like they did in 1998 & 2009.

It almost seems like they are belittling the music knowledge of their current demographic and/or don’t trust them to pay proper respect to the classics.

Maybe they’re afraid of a situation where their beloved Smells Like Teen Spirit doesn’t finish #1?

I think the all-time countdowns in 1998 and 2009 came from the idea of 1998 being the 10th year of Hottest 100, and 2009 being the 20th anniversary, while the 2010s countdown is a case of it just being the end of the decade, so why not?

 

[GroggSquad]

I think the all-time countdowns in 1998 and 2009 came from the idea of 1998 being the 10th year of Hottest 100, and 2009 being the 20th anniversary, while the 2010s countdown is a case of it just being the end of the decade, so why not?

Ok well if true, why didn’t they celebrate the 30th anniversary then?

It would be nice to get some insight into why Triple J make the decisions they do - their transparency is generally terrible.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Ok well if true, why didn’t they celebrate the 30th anniversary then?

It would be nice to get some incite into why Triple J make the decisions they do I reckon, their transparency is generally awful.

They had a hottest 100 of the last 20 years in mid-2013, would a list really change THAT much? I think a 2010s countdown makes perfect sense.

 

[GroggSquad]

They had a hottest 100 of the last 20 years in mid-2013, would a list really change THAT much? I think a 2010s countdown makes perfect sense.

In the 2009 all-time countdown, 45 of the songs that made it were released before 1993. That’s a fairly significant portion that were ineligible for the 20-year countdown.

 

[Loonerty]

Who actually cares though

 

[Roobs321]

The all-time/JJJ-time thing has already been done, it needs a little hiatus. A decade would be a nice change of pace. Even an Australian-only decade 100 would be neat.

 

[GroggSquad]

Yeah I just reckon the popular music landscape has changed enough since even the 20-year countdown in 2013 to warrant another all-time countdown.

For instance, we have seen a huge rise in Poptimism in the past 7 years plus other genres that were previously marginalised on JJJ like American hip hop have finally achieved widespread public acceptance and acclaim. I’m confident the differences between 2009 & now would be much greater than the differences between the 1998 & 2009 all-time polls they did.

Give the millennials a go at voting for their favourite songs of all time I say

 

[JackOutback]

The all-time/JJJ-time thing has already been done, it needs a little hiatus. A decade would be a nice change of pace. Even an Australian-only decade 100 would be neat.

It’s becoming close to an Australian Hottest 100 as it is. I’d almost prefer to see an Aussie 100 and global 100, give people the freedom to leave middling songs off and vote for some of the best music from around the world.

 

[DaRenegade]

the decade countdown is a little different to the all time ones, especially as we've had them in 98, 09 and basically the 2013 one of the last 20 years was almost the same again, only with the two big guns in Smells Like Teen Spirit and Killing in the Name Of missing out

this one will be filled with alot of mediocre Aussie pop music I'm sure, will be interesting to see how some of the tracks from early in the decade (10-14) mainly hold up in this one

hope they give us more than 10 votes, we had 20 for the 2013 one, but if it's only going to be 10, that's going to be a tough list to narrow down

 

[thewitness]

I've stopped adding to my shortlist now. It got up to 415 songs. Time to start culling.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

I've stopped adding to my shortlist now. It got up to 415 songs. Time to start culling.

Would be keen to see you do a top 20 countdown on here once you've settled on a list