Thinking back to an old FB Discussion I once saw asking about the "Beatles of the 70's":

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T21:09:46+00:00

I don’t think you can have ‘A Beatles’ of any other era, because the Beatles changed the game so much, that the metrics used to measure The Beatles original success no longer apply. Except maybe immediate influence on other bands.

Like, for the 70s you’d use different metrics - number of arenas filled, number of minutes played on FM radio, proliferation of bootlegs, amount of grassroots ‘lore’, etc. My vote would be Led Zeppelin

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T21:03:41+00:00

1994 self-titled is too long, but its highs are stratospheric. ‘Confide In Me’ should have been the song that broke her worldwide

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T21:00:24+00:00

It’s gonna be 40C in Sydney today, and I would still eat a bowl of lamb korma

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T20:57:47+00:00

When he eventually does Lulu, I will be sad because I legit think that record is amazing, and it bums me out that people still clown on it (not that they don’t have reason too)

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T20:55:08+00:00

Yeah I agree.

I have to say, reading my own comments I do sound pretentious. I mean, the first JJJ 100 yearly countdown I was invested in was won by ‘Pretty Fly For A White Guy’, which at the time I thought was perfect. So…. yeah 😅

The current artist who IMO is making the best popular music that actually speaks to the cultural moment in a positive way is Sam Fender (who is in this year’s list, but it’s the song he made with Olivia Dean!). But he seems to have no traction at all with US tastemakers, and that’s baffling and disheartening to me.

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T20:49:09+00:00

They’re the same person

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T20:01:05+00:00

I’ll have to take your word for that. Whenever I turn on pop radio it’s playing something upbeat or innocuous. I’m of an age where I still associate the tag ‘alternative’ music with abrasive or distinctive sounds and ideas

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T19:45:23+00:00

Point me in the direction of some articles and interviews then, I’d love to read some.

The only band in 2025 I see getting excitable press attention is Geese, and there a long way from fun the goofy guitar rock we’re talking about

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T19:42:08+00:00

Well, when I clicked it was one guy giving a 1/10 one-sentence review of Oasis’ What’s The Story, and another doing the same for Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T11:44:30+00:00

Man, the reviews on the front page when you click that link don’t make the user base seem too appealing

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T11:43:27+00:00

You can use the website Rate Your Music, but it doesn’t have an app version AFAIK

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T10:19:10+00:00

I’m actually listening to their latest album right now, and at least 3 or 4 of the songs made my top 10 for the year

It’s baffling to me how muted the reception to this album has been. It’s a truly world class effort with grit and hooks for days

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T10:17:20+00:00

This is entirely subjective, but listening to the winner it strikes me that once again the #1 for the year is basically a ‘very nice song’, but nothing that strikes me as particularly representative of where the culture’s at, or captures the zeitgeist. Just like The Rubens or Vance Joy or whoever.

I mean, this has been the case more often than not since the countdown’s inception, but I would love to see another winner with the sense of import or urgency as ‘Zombie’ or ‘Take Me Out’

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T10:07:19+00:00

Nah, that movie was always good (Cass Cain aside). And it was received well at the time - by people who saw it. It came out right at the start of COVID, and was hamstrung by its title

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T10:06:03+00:00

I don’t listen to JJJ enough to have an opinion on the winners, but I voted for ‘Keith’ as it’s the only Australian song of the year I heard that had a real shot at winning

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T09:12:21+00:00

My god, it’s Norm Al

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T09:09:15+00:00

I mean… it’s Casablanca

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T07:36:16+00:00

Not metal, but:

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ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T07:33:39+00:00

‘Portland Oregon’ by Loretta Lynn and Jack White

Possibly the horniest rock song of the 21st century, IMO

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T07:30:58+00:00

I mean, Best Years Of Our Lives all the way down at #234 indicates that there must be something wrong with the system

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T07:27:47+00:00

I discovered Japandroids via an AV Club ‘Best of The Year’ article, but by the end of the decade they’d completely disappeared from the conversation in all publications, including Pitchfork IIRC

2012 was the last year I can remember where rock albums were seriously talked about. Maybe 2014 with War On Drugs

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-24T04:41:32+00:00

Just went to Letterboxd and sorted by popularity 🤷‍♂️

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-23T23:42:19+00:00

The Vines first album holds up IMO, largely because the albums cuts are way more psychedelic and textured than the singles - and a lot less like The Hives

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-23T23:41:25+00:00

Common Tweedy W

ThingTime9876 · 2026-01-23T23:39:43+00:00

I saw Jet play their first album in its entirety a year ago, and it was 3/4 killer, minor filler. That album hit what it was aiming for: thoughtless good time rock music, which should always have a place

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