Former pro surfer-turned-DJ’s smash hit voted second most popular song of 2018!

Dirty ol Paul Fisher more popular than Travis Scott, Childish Gambino etc.

A few moments ago, the former-pro-surfer-and-comic-turned-DJ Paul Fisher’s song Losing It was voted the second-best song of 2018 in an Australia-wide poll.

Every January, the youth radio network, Triple J, runs an online poll to find the 100 most popular songs of the previous year.

And Paul Fisher, who trades under the stage name FISHER and who was formerly part of a duo called Cut Snake with another former pro Leigh Sedley, finished second ahead of Travis Scott’s Sicko, Childish Gambino’s This is America and behind the seventies yacht-rock ballad Confidence by Ocean Alley.

My favourite memory of Paul Fisher was when he called me was five or six years ago. It was eight pm and I was about to sit down to a delicious dinner with my (then) wife and (still) two sons. It was a Skype call from America, three in the morning or thereabouts in LA, which gave it some importance.

I removed my bib, drained my pitcher of department store red wine. (Family man.)

Was Fisher in trouble? Did my little pal require serious counsel?

As the pixels settled down to a clear picture, Fisher appeared and ordered a girl to “Show Derek ya tits! Ha ha ha ha ha!”

And now look at him!

Listen to Losing It again (and again) here!

FISHER - Losing It (Live at Listen Out Melbourne 2018)
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erroll
erroll
7 years ago

https://soundcloud.com/rain… . I made a song with garageband just for a laugh and to prove that it’s really not that hard

erroll
erroll
7 years ago
Reply to  erroll

the eagle has landed with talons of fire …haaaaaa

Bush
Bush
7 years ago

All musical experts here. Triple j is a youth broadcast station. This shit is a banger which the youth love. If your over 30 and commenting on how the hottest 100 used to better you have no skin in the game.

Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
7 years ago
Reply to  Bush

Bush I don’t think there’s a commenter here that’s under 30.

SDRW
SDRW
7 years ago

it’s nice that he can turn a very distressing time in a man’s life into a hit song. Most blokes choose to put their head in the sand rather than draw attention to their receding follicles.

Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
7 years ago

Holy shit. That song is worse than Turpel and Pottz calling some meaningless round 2 heat.

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago

But probably not as bad as when the New WSL thought it was a good idea to get Jimmy Buffet to play at the 2014 Quik Pro on the Gold Coast ? Fair enough at a contest in the USA but he was totally irrelevant to local surf culture and local surf music culture in Australia at the time ?

channelbottom
channelbottom
7 years ago

Might’ve been more relevant getting Warren Buffet to play.

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

Buffet accompanied on the spoons by the waterman of the year ……

Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
7 years ago

Fins to the left…

MyGFsChinese
MyGFsChinese
7 years ago

The first time I ever smoked weed was at a Jimmy show when I was 14

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago
Reply to  MyGFsChinese

Still feeling it ?

f u
f u
7 years ago

that is like getting second in the special olympics

Mapski
Mapski
7 years ago

He could do well to listen to Skinny Puppy’s “The Choke” (1985). His music needs more of an edge.

RS
RS
7 years ago

Is “music” “live” when the “artist” plays a recording?

Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
Derek Hynd's Missing Fins
7 years ago
Reply to  RS

Or if there’s a power outage and no more “music” can be heard, it’s probably not music and probably not anyone performing on real instruments.

RS
RS
7 years ago

I always think of Hendrix rolling over in his grave when I hear this “music.”

erroll
erroll
7 years ago

In reality all a dj needs to do is press play then fuck with the bass. Fisher has exposed all these phoney fuckers that want us to think they’re redirecting secret government satellite’s in space with all their fancy button work. Hit play … laugh like a crazy man and hump a table leg … simple! GO THE FUCKING FISH

Toin coss
Toin coss
7 years ago

Fisher is a survivor, gotta admit that much.

Hot stuff
Hot stuff
7 years ago

His mum is losing it.

joeys nosegard
joeys nosegard
7 years ago

i read beach grit with sound off. can you strum this?

Captain Bee Fart
Captain Bee Fart
7 years ago

Any poll that asks Australians to define good music is, by its very nature, worthless.

oceanyeti
oceanyeti
7 years ago

That’s it. In fact, you’re good music!

Hot stuff
Hot stuff
7 years ago

Tone Def cunts eh?

Hot stuff
Hot stuff
7 years ago

Never mind the bollocks!

Phat-wan kerr
Phat-wan kerr
7 years ago

well played Paul.

Dogsnuts
Dogsnuts
7 years ago

I really wanted him to win just to perfectly show how absolutely fucked the music industry is.

Tom
Tom
7 years ago
Reply to  Dogsnuts

That was one of the worst hottest 100s I can ever remember – highlighted by that song at no 2????

Hot stuff
Hot stuff
7 years ago
Reply to  Tom

It was fucken hot but, one of the hottest. Sweating like a Rapist.

Dogsnuts
Dogsnuts
7 years ago
Reply to  Tom

Didn’t start listening until I relished he was in with a shot. It’s been very average for a long time.

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago
Reply to  Tom

I watched it religiously late 80s early 90s when one could vote for the best song of all time not just the year . Though I still guard certain punk ethics about music (Call all hippys boring old farts and set light to them ….) ,it often seems that time is a good judge deciding whether the piece is still relevant a few years down the track and if so did it influence other artists to create new work ? A song can grow on you or you grow with it or like children’s clothing you grow out of it in 6 months …….

Low wide stinkbug stance
Low wide stinkbug stance
7 years ago

I feel sorry for anyone from Sydney who had to listen to JJJ in the 90s and think it was alternative. It was a lame soft cock station that played lame soft cock music. The fact that they ‘discovered’ Silverchair who were just Perl Jam wannbes (and not very good ones) says it all.

James Bickerton
James Bickerton
7 years ago

As soon as it was no longer 2jj and became the National Youth Network JJJ the writing was written on the wall , especially when politicians from WA got involved ,leading to major changes and protesting staff playing NWA’s Fuck the Police on loop for 24hours .

Hot stuff
Hot stuff
7 years ago

Change is permanent.

Jrilla
Jrilla
7 years ago

Trump, Brexit, Paul Fisher. Fuck! I’ve always said giving people a vote is a terrible idea. Wiggs for autocrat!

Wiggolly's Paddling Style
Wiggolly's Paddling Style
7 years ago

I think I ate his fiancés pussy a few years ago.

channelbottom
channelbottom
7 years ago

Had they run out of dogs, in Kuta?

Eddie Haiku
Eddie Haiku
7 years ago

Something smells Fishy
A ring on her finger or
Finger in her ring

Hot stuff
Hot stuff
7 years ago

She can take the lost signs down now at least.

Abscessed Llama
Abscessed Llama
7 years ago

You Dirty Saint!

channelbottom
channelbottom
7 years ago

I’m still not convinced.

Hardly worth it
Hardly worth it
7 years ago
Reply to  channelbottom

You ain’t convinced cause the entire scenario is incredibly unconvincing. Fisher pays people to create music, he walks out on stage and waves hands wildly, humps speakers etc whilst the music is being played. I’m not even convinced that he is the one pressing play on the record. Quite frankly Paul Fisher is everything that is wrong with everything in the world. Good song but.

Dogsnuts
Dogsnuts
7 years ago

Almost nailed it. Actually a shit song.

John Milton
John Milton
7 years ago
Reply to  Dogsnuts

Dude is an obnoxious hack in and out of the water, so of course he’d become an EDM “artist”.

Hot stuff
Hot stuff
7 years ago

Hate the game

slater thenewdonkey
slater thenewdonkey
7 years ago

You again with this shit? Brah, everyone knows that song sucks, even fisher himself. Dude is crushing life right now though, and laughing all the way to the bank while you figure out what website to beat off to next.

grapsta
grapsta
7 years ago

Perhaps…. But he’ll be another one hit wonder with mentsl health issues in 2-4 years

Hot stuff
Hot stuff
7 years ago
Reply to  grapsta

That’s mentsl talk


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