The Canberra Times has gone out of its way to whore itself to the little loved 1053 2CA to run a particularly sad “Best Songs of All Time”.
The final countdown of songs will be published in The Canberra Times on Thursday June 7, and the songs will be counted down from Friday June 8 until Monday June 11.
If you are listening when selected songs are played, you could win tickets to “Elvis meets the Beatles”! The selected songs will be published only in The Canberra Times.
Amazingly for an advertorial tie in the CT has finally managed a hyperlink.
I hereby propose that everyone who thinks there is more to music than Elvis and The Beatles votes for “Bobby Lee’s Song, by the Ocean Moses” as their sole vote.
Yes there are many other songs you could vote for but this one is a) good and will b) upset the fogeys.
(if you need to hear the song before voting you can download it here pass on the word via all your blogs and emails!)
UPDATED: Canberra talk-back’s number one fan is outraged that a drunken blogger in Canberra for the weekend would dare to marr the sanctity of the elderly picking out their favourite song from the vinyl.
I can’t think of a better way to spend the long weekend. Until I saw this ad, I was in despair, running out of of long weekend ideas.
I am going to vote for “What am I gonna do” by Emile Ford.
Don’t mess with my stack man,
Canberra Times sank to anew low today in another way.
They managed to put one of their ‘call sherry for massage XXX’ ads actually under the ‘In Memory’ heading.
I dunno who will be more upset – Sherry, or various bereaved families.
21st Century Schizoid Man would get my vote.
sepi: Have you seen media watch?
Putting an ad for an escort next to a death notice is minor compared to the normal “relevant” ads displayed over at Fairfax Online.
Take a look at this story from the ABC’s Media Watch (Episode 9 – 2007)
Aw Crap…Sherry’s dead?
Sorry, can’t embed the video from YouTube.
Here’s the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieoh_8St0xo
Voted in the classics -
Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell
Iron Maiden – Powerslave
Judas Priest – Painkiller
Elvis and The Beatles will still be loved and remembered long after Ocean Moses and the other fly by night pretenders have gone to the great iPod in the sky.
Having trouble accessing Bobby Lee’s Song off your site Johnboy.
Bugger it, I’m voting for it anyway. If it makes it in there that would be a laff.
Meconium: as always right cluck and save to disk if streaming isn’t working for you.
Scumdorg: the tedious mediocrity of boomer conformity will, it is true, afflict humanity for generations to come.
But here and now we can make a stand.
I do wish you’d consult me before using my stuff for a stack, but.. what the hell, may as well vote for meseln.
The Beatles will always be up there in the greatest songs of all time, simply because they wrote and recorded a lot of the greatest songs of all time.
I’d like to see the Beau Brummells ‘Laugh Laugh’ on the list.
How could you not vote for the immortal “I’ve never been to me?”
Besides, with the CT’s readership and 2CA’s listenership, the votes you get from here will easily stack it. They’ll probably get all excited because they didn’t realise 15 people listened/read.
Ralph will be voting for:
Echo Beach – Martha and the Muffins
The Final Countdown – Europe
God I hate that song ‘Final Countdown’
Wank rock at it’s very worst…
Europe are a great band, that song does kind of suck though.
I personally only like the final countdown because of Arrested Development. Damn I loved that show. Vote has be done JB. I’m too lazy to figure out my own one to cote for, so yours will do.
A great show is Arrested Development. I found that movie little miss sunshine to be in the same genre, dysfunctional family, dark American humour etc.
I voted for revolver, ‘Dig a Hole’….
hehe
And Ocean Moses as well…
I think this poll will say more about the people voting than the music.
ahh samuel’s interesting comments
Can someone please make sure the final list is published here? I can’t be bothered getting the Canberra Times on Thursday when I’ll be looking at RiotACT anyway.
So they are going to count the songs down over the long weekend, should be hoot listening to the golden oldies in AM mono.
This reminds me of a govt dept I used to work in where people were winning 2CA stuff all the time, eg lunches, all sorts of crap. It was fairly obvious that the 6 or so people who did this must have represented about 50% of the station’s listeners.
Anyway, I put my votes in. Too Drunk to **** by the Dead Kennedies. Dead Joe – The Birthday Party, and Mongoloid, by Devo. Can’t wait to hear them on 2CA next weekend.
(I thought of voting for the TISM song ” I’m might be a cunt but I’m not a fucking cunt”, but thought that was going just a bit far for 2CA.
PS: I’m really surprised a few words in that last post didn’t get ***’d out.
just voted.
tism – i might be a cant, but at least im not a forking cant.
tism – defecate on my face
sex pistols – bodies.
id urge everyone to vote these. im sure we can skew the results.
Well that’s *at least* 2 votes for defaecate on my face Bonfire…
Samuel Gordon-Stewart said :
For no good reason I feel like responding. 2CA is one of the few AM stations in the country still broadcasting in AM stereo…so you could go and buy an AM stereo receiver. It might be a bit hard to find one though.
Can I get a Lazy Sunday afternoon(aaah) by small faces ?
Ralph, you bastard, I’ve had that bloody Echo Beach refrain running through my head constantly since yesterday.
Danman, yeah….
Great song, great band…
prison sex – tool
Slam – Pendulum
Forever autumn – war of the worlds/moody blues
Thumper –
a-rootie-dootie-doo, a-rootie-dootie-die-day
ah i heard prison sex on jjj yesterday.
amber will be hearing it frequently.
hearing?
Or having?
just read sgs blog.
that kid cracks me up.
seriously – have you read any of his ’song of the week’ stuff ?
i reckon his parents banned him from ever listening to music they didnt have in their lp collection.
he has probably never seen a compact disc.
and his three votes were all for air supply songs.
i might have made that last bit up… but its an even chance to be true.
Prison sex is one of tools shittest song anyway……… Gimmie sober anyday….
each to their own.. I love it.. love that bass, but my fave is prob opiate – I nominated prison sex because I thought it would be mildly offensive
You people have the whole FM band to yourself. Hopefully 2CA will ignore this crap and will compile a sensible list reflecting the truth. Shame on the people trying to skew the results with moronic smackhead crap.
My blood duster listings got moderatet out – obviously blood duster is too offensive…
latest album info available here
Bonfire, that is pure gold…
By the way JB, did you feel the wrath of Canberras self appointed guardian of AM talkback radio?
I wonder if Mr Laws has recieved an email recently telling how nasty you are.
he only writes to them because he has no friends in real life.
if he in fact exists at all.
im convinced SGS is really just an elaborate practical joke pulled by communications/media students.