Get your reading specs, its another RADDEST METADATA treat! Id say so far, the most common question weve been asked about the poll has been Whats #1? followed closely by Is this song in the list?. Theyre stupid questions and were never going to crack, so shut it chumps. BUT weve also been asked a question by a few people that we CAN answer before the countdown. Its been most commonly phrased as MATE VS MATE, STATE VS STATE!!! followed by Big Jim yelling QUEENSLANDER, but weve taken the primary question to be: Which states and mainland territories of the Commonwealth of Australia have provided the most songs to the Raddest 100 Australian songs of all time, please? *polite bow/curtsey* Working from smallest to largest, the low end breaks down as youd expect. Combining for 1 song of the 100 are the musical backwater colonies - Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the ACT. I wont tell you which one got the single song in between them - except to say its not Tasmania. That place does not have a star-studded list of Whos Who in Australian Music - were talking Monique Brumby, The Paradise Motel, a couple of members of Love Of Diagrams and Striborg. So one of the territories give us one song. South Australia is home to the acts who give us 3 of our tunes. We then leap up to Western Australia, which provides 6 of the 100. Which leaves us with 90 songs from the rest of the country. Thats pretty much what youd expect. Queensland comes in third, with 21 of the 100. Its perhaps slightly more than you might get in a traditional, national poll - but given the majority of our voters are Queenslanders by birth, its a whole lot less parochial than it could have been - and a shitload less than youd get in any 4ZzZ list. Then we come down to The Big Question - does NSW or VIC have the most songs? In a result straight from a feelgood sitcom, ITS A TIE! 34 songs from each state have made the list, thereby providing absolutely no answer to the Which State/Mate Is Better question thats really only genuinely asked by Sunrise producers in desperate need of a rhetorical soapbox issue to milk some pointless conflict from. Those of you with a calculator would have worked out that all of the above adds up to 99 songs. Theres one song in the list for which we cant really decide where the act was formed or based. Sometimes even metadata has to put ????? in some fields, and tbqh its nice to both give you a load of information, as well as maintain an air of mystery, so deal with it, youll see what we mean on the day. The clip Ive chosen is from the most geographically-specific song just outside the Top 100 - Tenterfield Saddler by Peter Allen that finished at #137. No fooling.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 03:17:38 +0000
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