I like small people

Simon the New Chap has been very much exercised at work recently by Triple J's Hottest 100 Of All Time countdown. Triple J is a branch of the ABC, a radio station devoted to music for the young folk; alternative, independent, Australian stuff that doesn't get played on the commercial stations. It does the job, I suppose, given that I listened to it avidly as a teen and rarely do now. Anyway, every January, it has a poll of listeners' favourite songs of the year, and once every ten or so years it has a poll of listeners' favourite songs of all time. The All Time poll has been running for the last month or so; Simon agonised over his five-song vote for three weeks.

The results were released yesterday and the top song of all time, as per Triple J listeners is... ( Drumroll! )

. Shocker. It's like the Citizen Kane of Generation X music: I could have told them that result weeks ago and saved them the bother of running the poll.

Here's the rest of the Top Ten Songs of all time:

2. Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name
3. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
4. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
5. Radiohead - Paranoid Android
6. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
7. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
8. Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge
9. Foo Fighters - Everlong
10. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven

You'll notice that, despite taking ALL OF TIME into consideration, the songs are all surprisingly modern. Sumer is icumen in didn't get a look in, not even in the other ninety songs.

I'm also amazed this didn't get in:

It would have got my vote! (Not really. It's been stuck in my head for weeks... but it's only now, reading the lyrics, that I realise he's saying he likes small speakers. I always thought he liked small people.)