Democracy is for Suckers

Hottest 100 time, the perfect opportunity every year to measure exactly how far I have drifted away from public opinion. And this year was real tough. Maybe I spent too much time listening to Jon Faine on 774, cos I really struggled to even find 10 songs to vote for this year.
So here is, in no particular order, my votes for 2010.

! - The Decemberists - The Rake Song
The album The Hazards of Love was disappointing, and this song didn't even really fit into the concept structure Colin and the rest tried to create. However, on it's own, it's creepier than finding Alan Jones naked in your pantry lathering himself in olive oil. Those "All Right" parts send shivers down my spine. If there has ever been a better song dedicated to infanticide, I'm yet to hear it.

@ - Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings
Cos it's funny, and the world needs laughter. There always has to be a 'novelty' song that rates well every year, so this will do I suppose.

# - Jordie Lane - Fell into me
OK, I have got to be honest, I haven't even heard this song. But the other Jordie Lane songs I've heard are damn good, and considering they weren't on the list figured I'd vote for this one. That's pretty much how Democracy in Politics works anyway.

$ - Kram - Silk Suits
Well, this song is pretty good, pretty fun. It's essentially Spiderbait without Whit playing around with his Gizmo's. And I spent Christmas last year with Kram and his family back in Finley, and it was a lovely time. So I figured I may as well vote for him out of extended family loyalty.

% - Matt and Kim - Daylight
I'm voting for this just to flip the bird at Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero's. Cos this is essentially the same kind of thing, but it came out beforehand and is nowhere near as cheesy.

^ - Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man
Duh.

& - Paul Dempsey - Ramona was a Waitress
I love tall sexy men. And Tex Perkins or Nick Cave doesn't have a song this year to pinch this vote.

* - Paul Dempsey - Out the Airlock
See Above

( - Sugar Army - No need for lovers
Any band that can write a song based on the real life case of lesbian teenage vampire goths who murder a friend and then dismember the body and have sex in all the blood and guts over the course of several days before attempting to hide the corpse, without resorting to Doom/Death Metal cliche deserves a big tick in the box I reckon.

) - Whitley - Head, First, Down
Pop song of the year. Makes you wonder what the fuck is going on when dudes like Whitley can make great music and remain relatively anonymous, and yet dudes like Lady Fuckin Gaga can make tripe filled with excrement and make gazillions of $$$.

So there it is. Yay, my contribution to 12 more months of loathing and resentment when practically none of the songs that I tolerated are appreciated by anybody. But then, how else am I supposed to measure my decent into becoming a bitter old man?