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I'm thinking that votes for Chet Fakers 1998 are inflated, and it's more likely to be around 9 rather than 4 or 5 (by inflated I mean the amount of votes recorded on social media may not correlate to the end result)
 

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I'm thinking that votes for Chet Fakers 1998 are inflated, and it's more likely to be around 9 rather than 4 or 5 (by inflated I mean the amount of votes recorded on social media may not correlate to the end result)
Completely agree when I use my own opinion and historical bias info I have 1998 finishing 9th.
 
I'm calling it now, Taylor Swift to poll enough votes for a position between 70-80 but ruled ineligible by Kingsmil because nothing can ruin the credibility of his precious countdown.
 
I don't get Peking Duk at all. I didn't like it but Riptide had a pretty obvious melody and a chill brah with-my-girls-at-Laney vibe to it that was obviously always going to attract votes. But Peking Duk? There's nothing original about it. There's no big hook, no huge chorus, and sounds like it could be written by a hundred other bands and be the kind of thing you'd release as a third single.

I guess it's a bit like those bands who nobody has as their favourites, but lots of people like.

I'm seeing JT that night so I'm really just looking forward to Zombie and potentially Rabbit Hole. If he had a beard and a pseudonym and came from privileged Melbourne I reckon Don't You Find could've gone top 15 – has all the makings...
 
I'm seeing JT that night so I'm really just looking forward to Zombie and potentially Rabbit Hole. If he had a beard and a pseudonym and came from privileged Melbourne I reckon Don't You Find could've gone top 15 – has all the makings...

I really want Rabbit Hole to make the count, I reckon it might sneak into the 90–100 section. Otherwise it won't at all. Zombie will probably be top 30
 
I don't get Peking Duk at all. I didn't like it but Riptide had a pretty obvious melody and a chill brah with-my-girls-at-Laney vibe to it that was obviously always going to attract votes. But Peking Duk? There's nothing original about it. There's no big hook, no huge chorus, and sounds like it could be written by a hundred other bands and be the kind of thing you'd release as a third single.

I guess it's a bit like those bands who nobody has as their favourites, but lots of people like.

I'm seeing JT that night so I'm really just looking forward to Zombie and potentially Rabbit Hole. If he had a beard and a pseudonym and came from privileged Melbourne I reckon Don't You Find could've gone top 15 – has all the makings...

Yeah I really don't get it either, I think a lot of people are voting for it because it was on a lot of lists before the hottest 100 voting started. But even then I don't get why other musicians like it, it's generic and they're just a nothing band. The song High sounds like something you'd hear on Nova, like that stupid Albatross song that is possibly the worst song I've ever heard.
 
Personally High is an okay song. I wouldnt have it in my top 25 Triple J songs of the year but it would be around that mark.

I am quite surprised that so many people have it in their Top 10

It would be very interesting to see how many of the people who voted for High had it as their No.1 song of the year.

I reckon it could have been a lot of peoples 9th or 10th song so it got a lot of votes but not many people really loved it
 

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To be honest it just sounds a lot like Lorde; if her synth pads didn't sound like the industrial suburbs of Manchester. I mean it's not offensively bad or anything but it seems like the kind of thing you just add in because like, you've heard it a lot and it's not bad. I guess all polls are flawed by encouraging narrowness or broadness but it still seems a weird choice...

On one hand, it seems really fit for the melancholy (probably more a biting anxiety and loneliness) I always feel for these days – like everyone else is having a better time. I fail to believe someone could feel really joyous with that song at 3pm when you've been drinking half-warm Emus for four hours. And on the other hand, it sounds like the kind of song you hear on the worst night out of your life; when everyone else is pulling at 1:50 and you start thinking that anti-child organisation might have a point.
 
Been looking at my Numbers and have made a few adjustments for my prediction.
Final Tip Song Vote Count Position
1 Peking Duk - High {Ft. Nicole Millar} 1
2 Chet Faker - Talk Is Cheap 2
3 Milky Chance - Stolen Dance 4
4 Hilltop Hoods - Cosby Sweater 7
5 Peking Duk - Take Me Over {Ft. SAFIA} 5
6 Kite String Tangle, The - Arcadia 9
7 Glass Animals - Gooey 11
8 ZHU - Faded 8
9 Chet Faker - 1998 3
10 Asgeir - King And Cross 10
11 alt-J - Every Other Freckle 12
12 Illy - Tightrope {Ft. Scarlett Stevens} 17
13 Griswolds, The - Beware The Dog 6
14 Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk {Ft. Bruno Mars} 15
15 Sticky Fingers - Gold Snafu 13
16 Vance Joy - Mess Is Mine 23
17 Ball Park Music - She Only Loves Me When I'm There 18
18 Flight Facilities - Two Bodies {Ft. Emma Louise} 22
19 Alison Wonderland - I Want U 16
20 Thundamentals - Something I Said {Ft. Thom Crawford} 20
21 Chet Faker - Gold 14
22 alt-J - Left Hand Free 27
23 Bluejuice - I'll Go Crazy 31
24 Amity Affliction, The - Pittsburgh 19
25 Sia - Chandelier 36
26 Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting On You) 21
27 Meg Mac - Roll Up Your Sleeves 24
28 Jamie T - Zombie 33
29 Banks - Beggin For Thread 25
30 SBTRKT - NEW DORP. NEW YORK {Ft. Ezra Koenig} 28
31 Carmada - Maybe 29
32 alt-J - Hunger Of The Pine 41
33 Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat 32
34 FKA twigs - Two Weeks 26
35 Chet Faker - (Lover) You Don't Treat Me No Good {Like A Version 2014} 30
36 San Cisco - RUN 39
37 DMA's - Delete 37
38 clipping. - Work Work {Ft. Cocc Pistol Cree} 34
39 Broods - Mother & Father 45
40 Kim Churchill - Window To The Sky 40
41 Flight Facilities - Sunshine {Ft. Reggie Watts} 67
42 Lana Del Rey - West Coast 42
43 Hilltop Hoods - Won't Let You Down {Ft. Maverick Sabre} 77
44 Hopium - Dreamers {Ft. Phoebe Lou} 52
45 Run The Jewels - Close Your Eyes (And Count To ****) {Ft. Zack De La Rocha} 46
46 Preatures, The - Somebody's Talking 35
47 Bring Me The Horizon - Drown 58
48 DZ Deathrays - Gina Works At Hearts 47
49 War On Drugs, The - Red Eyes 43
50 RL Grime & What So Not - Tell Me 54
51 Childish Gambino - Sober 48
52 Vance Joy - First Time 88
53 Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix) 63
54 Childish Gambino - Sweatpants 44
55 Modern Baseball - Your Graduation 64
56 Kingswood - I Can Feel That You Don't Love Me 69
57 Ball Park Music - Everything Is Shit Except My Friendship With You 68
58 Thundamentals - Got Love {Ft. Solo} 70
59 Duke Dumont - I Got U {Ft. Jax Jones} 60
60 Milky Chance - Flashed Junk Mind 66
61 Andy Bull - Talk Too Much 72
62 British India - Wrong Direction 74
63 Golden Features - Tell Me {Ft. Nicole Millar} 75
64 One Day - Love Me Less 55
65 Kendrick Lamar - i 57
66 Courtney Barnett - Pickles From The Jar 50
67 Highasakite - Since Last Wednesday 62
68 Catfish And The Bottlemen - Cocoon 76
69 Sticky Fingers - Just For You 61
70 Allday - You Always Know The DJ 59
71 Bombay Bicycle Club - Luna 78
72 Meg Mac - Grandma's Hands 99
73 Thundamentals - Quit Your Job 96
74 First Aid Kit - My Silver Lining 84
75 Tkay Maidza - Switch Lanes {Prod. Paces} 83
76 SAFIA - Paranoia, Ghosts & Other Sounds 65
77 Kingswood - Micro Wars 87
78 Rise Against - I Don't Want To Be Here Anymore 79
79 Allday - Right Now 56
80 Jungle - Busy Earnin' 71
81 Avener, The - Fade Out Lines 81
82 #1 Dads - So Soldier {Ft. Ainslie Wills} 82
83 Cold War Kids - First 106
84 Chvrches - Do I Wanna Know? {Like A Version 2014} 51
85 Meg Mac - Bridges {Like A Version 2014} 104
86 Cold War Kids - All This Could Be Yours 98
87 George Maple - Talk Talk 89
88 TV On The Radio - Happy Idiot 49
89 Royal Blood - Little Monster 80
90 Hilltop Hoods - Walking Under Stars 143
91 Ball Park Music - Cocaine Lion 116
92 Jack White - Lazaretto 73
93 Smith Street Band, The - Surrender 38
94 Thelma Plum - How Much Does Your Love Cost? 105
95 Interpol - All The Rage Back Home 97
96 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off 93
97 Ball Park Music - Trippin' The Light Fantastic 113
98 Sticky Fingers - Liquorlip Loaded Gun 85
99 Amity Affliction, The - Don't Lean On Me 114
100 Rustie - Attak {Ft. Danny Brown} 86
101 Angus & Julia Stone - Heart Beats Slow 151
102 Broods - L.A.F. 108
103 Northeast Party House - The Haunted 109
104 Caribou - Can't Do Without You 53
105 Jamie T - Rabbit Hole 107
106 Banks - Brain 101
107 Odd Mob - Is It A Banger? 94
108 Dustin Tebbutt - Bones 120
109 Kooks, The - Forgive & Forget 121
110 Royal Blood - Ten Tonne Skeleton 103
111 Royal Blood - Figure It Out 90
112 360 - Live It Up {Ft. Pez} 152
113 Willow Beats - Merewif 117
114 Milky Chance - Stunner 110
115 Foster The People - Best Friend 128
116 Amity Affliction, The - The Weigh Down 129
117 Mansionair - Hold Me Down 111
118 Vance Joy - Georgia 145
119 Calvin Harris - Pray To God {Ft. HAIM} 125
120 Luca Brasi - Borders & Statelines 124
121 Bon Iver - Heavenly Father 100
122 Foster The People - Are You What You Want To Be 138
123 Asgeir - Torrent 126
124 One Day - Leave Your Windows Open 127
125 Porter Robinson - Flicker 134
126 Glass Animals - Pools 133
127 Tiga - Bugatti {Ft. Pusha T} 135
128 Japanese Wallpaper - Between Friends {Ft. Jesse Davidson} 112
129 WatermÌ_t - Bullit 123
130 Peep Tempel, The - Carol 136
131 ZHU - Paradise Awaits 122
132 Art vs Science - Create/Destroy 178
133 Vic Mensa - Down On My Luck 154
134 DZ Deathrays - Less Out Of Sync 137
135 John Butler Trio - Happy {Like A Version 2014} 177
136 Broods - Never Gonna Change 148
137 James Vincent McMorrow - West Coast {Like A Version 2014} 146
138 Foo Fighters - Something From Nothing 130
139 Jezabels, The - Look Of Love 160
140 Bennies, The - Knights Forever 118
141 #1 Dads - Return To {Ft. Tom Snowdon} 131
142 Jamie xx - All Under One Roof Raving 140
143 Chet Faker - Cigarettes & Loneliness 115
144 Delta Riggs, The - The Record's Flawed 141
145 Sticky Fingers - If You Go 153
146 Mr Little Jeans - Good Mistake 139
147 Tkay Maidza - U-Huh 168
148 Todd Terje - Inspector Norse 155
149 Sticky Fingers - Rum Rage 167
150 Black Keys, The - Fever 190
151 Fences - Arrows {Ft. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis} 169
152 ScHoolboy Q - Break The Bank 163
153 Japanese Wallpaper - Breathe In {Ft. Wafia} 164
154 Angus & Julia Stone - Grizzly Bear 211
155 Angus & Julia Stone - Get Home 229
156 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence 166
157 Sky Ferreira - I Blame Myself 149
158 Sticky Fingers - Land Of Pleasure 147
159 Chvrches - Get Away 91
160 Husky - I'm Not Coming Back 161
161 Alex Turner - Feels Like We Only Go Backwards {Like A Version 2014} 179
162 Mark Ronson - Daffodils {Ft. Kevin Parker of Tame Impala} 184
163 Bennies, The - Heavy Disco 173
164 Flying Lotus - Never Catch Me {Ft. Kendrick Lamar} 119
165 DMA's - Laced 165
166 Angus & Julia Stone - A Heartbreak 279
167 Raury - God's Whisper 191
168 Deadmau5 - Seeya {Ft. Colleen D'Agostino} 170
169 Chet Faker - To Me 162
170 SAFIA - You Are The One 157
171 Foster The People - Coming Of Age 183
172 Briggs - Bad Apples 142
173 Asgeir - Going Home 150
174 Bad//Dreems - Dumb Ideas 156
175 ScHoolboy Q - Man Of The Year 180
176 Smith Street Band, The - I Don't Wanna Die Anymore 92
177 ODESZA - Memories That You Call {Ft. Monsoonsiren} 185
178 L-FRESH The LION - Survive {Ft. MK-1} 186
179 Porter Robinson - Lionhearted {Ft. Urban Cone} 159
180 Karnivool - Hey Now {Like A Version 2014} 218
181 Raleigh Ritchie - Cuckoo {Ft. Little Simz} 181
182 Preatures, The - Ordinary 144
183 Delta Riggs, The - Supersonic Casualties 182
184 Kooks, The - Down 204
185 Hilltop Hoods - I'm A Ghost 295
186 Northeast Party House - Covered In Chrome {Like A Version 2014} 195
187 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Cellophane 171
188 Major Lazer - Aerosol Can {Ft. Pharrell Williams} 243
189 360 - Price Of Fame {Ft. Gossling} 278
190 Jamie xx - Girl 187
191 Royal Blood - Come On Over 194
192 Skrillex - Stranger {Ft. KillaGraham/Sam Dew} 203
193 In Hearts Wake - Divine 192
194 Kilter - They Say {Ft. Tkay Maidza} 172
195 RUFUS - My Number/Charlotte {Like A Version 2014} 242
196 Matt Corby - What The Devil Has Made 282
197 Lurch & Chief - Mother/Father 214
198 ZHU - Gun 197
199 Banks - Waiting Game 188
200 Skrillex - Recess {Ft. Kill The Noise/Fatman Scoop/Michael Angelakos} 196
 
I don't usually criticise music but High is pretty generic and sounds like something you'd hear every ten minutes on Fox or Nova. Which is precisely why it'll win the count – mass appeal
 
I don't usually criticise music but High is pretty generic and sounds like something you'd hear every ten minutes on Fox or Nova. Which is precisely why it'll win the count – mass appeal

Loved high from the first time i heard it. My equal favourite song of the year, not proclaiming it to be musical genius by any stretch of the imagination but it is one of the best songs i have ever heard live.
 
Loved high from the first time i heard it. My equal favourite song of the year, not proclaiming it to be musical genius by any stretch of the imagination but it is one of the best songs i have ever heard live.
Looking forward to GTM this year?
 
I really really hope Hilltop Hoods manage to defy the odds and take out top spot. Not only is it a good song, much better than High or Talk Is Cheap, but they've never been able to reach #1 and it'd be great for their legacy if they could.
 
I know Peking Duk's manager, so given that someone has to win this thing it might as well be them. My Facebook feed would be pretty entertaining for a few hours, at least. I like Chet Faker, but Talk Is Cheap just isn't good enough to top the hottest 100. Slim pickings this year though, I guess.

I didn't really get the hype of Alt J the first time around, but gave a couple of their new songs a listen today, and I think I might have misjudged them. Left Hand Free is a great song, even if it sounds more like the Rolling Stones than Alt J.

The one I don't get, though, is Faded by ZHU. The **** is this shit? It sounds like some filler song from a shitty EDM compilation, how the hell is it being voted in the top 10 of the biggest alternative music poll in the country?
 

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