Obituary: Mission Impossible theme

Original video located here. Accessed 30th June 2016

Song title: Mission Impossible theme

Artist: Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen

Originally Done By: Lalo Schifrin

Year: 1996

Why I like this song:

R.I.P. Lalo Schifrin

To make one of the most recognisable themes ever is an achievement and a half....

SA: Big Deal

Original video located here. Accessed 23rd June 2025

Song title: Big Deal

Artist: Hoodoo Gurus

Year: 1996

Why I like this song:

A declaration of defiance from a veteran act.

Recently Triple J has announced a new Hottest 100: One that will celebrate fifty years of the station's existence and will be built up entirely out of Australian acts.

Some thoughts:

• I suppose this is a new 'All Time' countdown and having it made of Australian acts is JJJ admitting that if they do a new All Time countdown, nothing will dislodge Smells Like Teen Spirit from the no.1 position.
• Didn't Triple M already do this back in 2017?
• No doubt this is a response to the Hottest 100 of 2024 having a low Australian presence.
• It's a bold move disallowing Like a Version covers as they always seem to do well in Hottest 100s but hey, they got their own Hottest 100. Furthermore, as the phrase goes 'Constrictions Inspire Creativity'.  
• That being said however, I predict Silverchair, Powderfinger and Tame Impala will feature strongly.
• I saw the Daryl Braithwaite cover in the voting list so I don't doubt that it will get in (regardless of whether I like it or not)
• I have cast my vote already. Don't know if what I voted for make it but you never know...
• No doubt I will do my own Hottest 100 in response - As I have done so previously - but even as I think about it, it does seem quite the challenge......

Obituary: God Only Knows

Original video located here. Accessed 13th June 2025

Song title: God Only Knows

Artist: Beach Boys

Year: 1966

Why I like this song:

R.I.P. Brian Wilson

Obituary: I Want You Back

Original video located here. Accessed 7th May 2025

Song title: I Want You Back

Artist: Hoodoo Gurus

Year: 1983

Why I like this song:

R.I.P. James Baker

Obituary: Bitter

Original video located here. Accessed 5th May 2025

Song title: Bitter

Artist: Jill Sobule

Year: 1997

Why I like this song:

R.I.P. Jill Sobule

Obituary: Dreaming

Original video located here. Accessed 8th April 2025

Song title: Dreaming

Artist: Blondie

Year: 1979

Why I like this song:

R.I.P. Clem Burke

He may have been regulated to the back but he still managed to stand out

Nineties Revisited: All I Am

Original video located here. Accessed 14th March 2025

Song title: All I Am

Artist: Dada

Year: 1994

Why I like this song:

Sometimes a song sticks with you and you never find out who did it. 
Well I heard this years ago, I heard the title and I had a (vague) idea of who did it and it is only now that I find it on YouTube. 
Pretty much a forgotten song of the nineties - one could easily mistake this for R.E.M. - but that doesn't make it forgettable. After all, it wouldn't have otherwise stuck with me...