Triple J, an Australian music station, has recently hosted a countdown "Hottest 100 of all Time". Listeners call up and vote for their favourite songs (you can pick a maximum of ten) and these votes were tallied and played through the week.
As the list was slwoly revealed, a disturbing trend began to appear. There were no women. None.
In the entire top 100, there were two female vocalists, both guest vocalists for Massive Attack, and five bands with female members. But no female artists, and no female fronted bands.
No Garbage, no Bjork, no Janis Joplin, no Joan Jett... the list goes on.
A lot of people have been asking: why? Honestly, I don't have any good answers, aside from a societal absense of women in the media when it comes to rock. One thing that JJJ is brushing off is Triple J's History of Music, best summed up here. Females were grossly underrepresented in this list, and it was this list that a lot of people took their cues from when voting.
Check out this site for a thourough breakdown of the entire debacle, and check out the links she posts at the end for different thoughts.
For Triple J's response, sorely lacking in my opinion, check out the Hack podcast.
In response, GirlieJones has launched Female Appreciation Month on livejournal, and is currently asking for submissions for favourite female artists. Even if you don't wish to make a submission, there is now a huge collection of brilliant female artists on the site which should be checked out.
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