As Tone Deaf reported earlier this month, Melbourne garage crew and mash-up experts Bareback Titty Squad have been hard at work over the past few months creating a squeal to… well, that time they performed the entire 2012 Triple J Hottest 100 in their underwear.
[include_post id=”441705″] This time around, the band went all-out. Taking on the most recent Hottest 100, the trio did more than just perform a mash-up of all 100 songs. This is a fully produced short film, with peaks, valleys, a mind-blowing ending, and even a trip through the Tone Deaf offices.
After assembling on Australia Day, the trio went about painstakingly sampling, transposing, arranging, and learning every song from home before recording the whole composition over two jam-packed weeks with producer Oscar Dawson (HOLY HOLY) at The Aviary Studios in Melbourne.
“The most rigorous work schedule we have ever put ourselves through, with a couple of us losing our ‘real’ jobs in order to squeeze in the massive work load,” BBTS bassist and vocalist Callum Padgham said of the process behind their latest megamix.
Now they’re bringing it to the stage playing this Saturday at Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne (details and tickets at dingdong.com). But before we celebrate it’s worth casting a critical eye over the one of the biggest polls of the Aussie music landscape, so the Bareback Titties have put together a list of the greatest travesties of the Hottest 100 2014.
Intro
Never without a healthy dose of controversy, the Triple J Hottest 100 has forever been the subject of heated backyard debate amongst music fans across the country. From the highly controversial exclusion of Taylor Swift from last year’s countdown, evoking a nationwide uproar questioning the ‘democratic’ part of the world’s largest musical democracy, to Macklemore’s Thrift Shop taking out the top spot in 2012 thereby shaking the foundations of ‘non-novelty’ acts Australia wide – everyone has an opinion.
Three opinions of note are those of Melbourne live mashup gurus Bareback Titty Squad, who have just completed an insane thirty minute medley covering the entire 2014 Hottest 100, and in doing so spent considerable time meticulously breaking apart every song from start to finish. Naturally, after enough time spent with each track individually, various Hottest 100 fallacies and injustices began to present themselves.
Typos
The spelling error: frankly inexcusable and all too prevalent this year! Which work experience kid let these blatant typos slip through the cracks?
CHVRCHES – Whoops! Someone’s getting fired!
PEKING DUK – It’s actually spelt D U C K – How embarrassing!
SBTRKT – Guys we get it, you’re artists, but even after subtracting all vowels you’ve managed to spell subtract with a K…
SAFIA – This isn’t even a real word! How did this slip past?
And don’t get us started on ILLY, truly baffling stuff…
Odd Mobb’s I’ll-Informed Authority On What Is In Fact A ‘Banger’
To directly paraphrase all lyrics from entry #70, Odd Mob’s scathing “Is It A Banger”; “How many beats per minute? How many Drops? How dope is a drop? Were any acoustic instruments used? If so it is not a banger. I once accidentally downloaded a Lumineers song…”
Slow down now Odd Mob, we applied said rules to the seminal Lumineers folk anthem ‘Ho Hey’ to truly ascertain what comprises a banger; We’ve got 163 beats per minute (undeniably banging), the chorus drops three times throughout (that’s one drop more than Odd Mob’s quick-to-judge assessment) and sure, there were in fact only acoustic instruments used, but how does one then explain a higher charting on the hottest 100 (#43) back in 2012 than the very song critiquing it? Check your sources Odd Mob, these allegations don’t add up!
Not Enough Chet
For real, only four entries? By our calculations things are looking a little one sided at this stage, with 59% of all songs this year written by groups, 38% written by other solo artists and only 3% written by Chet Faker. Yes you heard correctly, the poor guy has written a measly 3% of the entire list and we will not stand for it. Restore the balance! 50+ Chet songs for Hottest 100 2015!
Who Voted For All Those Screamo Bands?
With a whopping three entries this year from The Amity Affliction alone, and catchy feel good lyrics like “There’s cancer in my blood / there’s water in my lungs” it’s impossible to deny the sheer appeal of these acts!
But stop and ask yourself, who do you know that actually voted for the screamo bands which charted so dominantly this year?
Statistically they must surely exist; these voters walk amongst us, they frequent our cafes, our restaurants, our playgrounds, they share our public transport. But like a modern day liberal voter, they all share the same dirty and crippling secret… That, or Bring Me The Horizon all have supportive families who signed up to vote a thousand times each, we’ll leave that one up to you.
Bareback Titty Squad are currently touring their latest Hottest 100 across the country, with a special hometown show at Ding Dong Lounge in Melbourne this Saturday April 18th supported by Dumb Punts and Dr Colossus! Tickets are available via Oztix.
