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Triple J‘s week-long user-programmed
Requestival has been a hell of a thing. Part procession of tunes seldom heard on the Js, part exercise in digging up increasingly forgotten bangers of yore, part arms race to see what kind of absolutely fucked shit Triple J will actually play,
Requestival has seen the best and worst of what people are capable of given an open form and absolutely no parameters.
And while the intent may be earnest, the reality of it is that the whole thing has been a slow descent into ferocious madness, one
Bloody Hell I Can’t Believe They Actually Played That track after another.
Everything from ABBA to Iron Butterfly has made the cut.
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Requestival, an annual event in which triple j listeners choose the songs that the radio station will play, has quietly become one of the biggest musical events of the year for no other reason than it always resulting in total chaos.
Let loose upon the control board, listeners pick the strangest amalgamation of music possible, requesting everything from meme-ified songs to distinctly non-triple j classics. It’s a total mish-mash of styles, genres, and tones and it gets a little bit stranger every single year.
Published May 10, 2021
We’re headed towards the last hours of Day 1 of the second annual Triple J Requestival – a full five days of requests on the national youth broadcaster – and we’ve all really hit the Cooker Mode button hard. It is the very first day and it’s already gone sideways in the best way possible.
Chaos Week 2021 kicked off this morning at 6am, and all you early birds got treated to the theme song for
The Avengers. What else is going to make you feel more superhuman at the butt-crack of dawn on a late autumn morning? Nothing, that’s what.