SA: Glockenpop

Original video located here. Accessed 8th August 2024

Song title: Glockenpop

Artist: Spiderbait

Year: 1999

Why I like this song:

It's a cute song with some surprisingly biting lyrics about the vapidity of pop music. 

Recently Triple J put an online survey, no doubt to engage the audience and try to garner some market research. What it involved was presenting the participant with samples of songs and asking for a rating.

I did the survey last night and it was quite the challenge: here were seven sections, each having 105 song samples. So that's 735 songs to get through!
Granted I have long ceased being a teenager so that places me well outside Triple J's demographic and granted I have subsequently not heard Triple J in years but I still did it because I will not refuse an opportunity to say what I think. 

Listening to the songs I found the following of note:

• There's a lot of pop
• There's a lot of electro stuff that I couldn't tell the difference between The Weeknd and his soundalikes
• I realised there's a lot of production heavy songs coming out the last coupla years
• Surprisingly, there were a handful of 1990s songs, the oldest being Radiohead's Creep and Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name of (like the latter will ever get old)

I lament the day that Triple J went pop, thereby making it indistinguishable from the other radio stations and it abandoned the alternative roots that made it interesting, Yes it is futile to complain about such a change since one can't stop the march of time, but I would welcome the day that a change comes around that alters the trajectory and the current model is looking old news.

It's well documented that Nirvana's simplicity destroyed a lot of careers of production heavy acts. You wouldn't think that now seeing the pendulum has swung back but there's nothing keeping the pendulum there....