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!
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https://soundcloud.com/rain… . I made a song with garageband just for a laugh and to prove that it’s really not that hard
the eagle has landed with talons of fire …haaaaaa
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.
Bush I don’t think there’s a commenter here that’s under 30.
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.
Holy shit. That song is worse than Turpel and Pottz calling some meaningless round 2 heat.
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 ?
Might’ve been more relevant getting Warren Buffet to play.
Buffet accompanied on the spoons by the waterman of the year ……
Fins to the left…
The first time I ever smoked weed was at a Jimmy show when I was 14
Still feeling it ?
that is like getting second in the special olympics
He could do well to listen to Skinny Puppy’s “The Choke” (1985). His music needs more of an edge.
Is “music” “live” when the “artist” plays a recording?
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.
I always think of Hendrix rolling over in his grave when I hear this “music.”
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
Fisher is a survivor, gotta admit that much.
His mum is losing it.
i read beach grit with sound off. can you strum this?
Any poll that asks Australians to define good music is, by its very nature, worthless.
That’s it. In fact, you’re good music!
Tone Def cunts eh?
Never mind the bollocks!
well played Paul.
I really wanted him to win just to perfectly show how absolutely fucked the music industry is.
That was one of the worst hottest 100s I can ever remember – highlighted by that song at no 2????
It was fucken hot but, one of the hottest. Sweating like a Rapist.
Didn’t start listening until I relished he was in with a shot. It’s been very average for a long time.
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 …….
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.
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 .
Change is permanent.
Trump, Brexit, Paul Fisher. Fuck! I’ve always said giving people a vote is a terrible idea. Wiggs for autocrat!
I think I ate his fiancés pussy a few years ago.
Had they run out of dogs, in Kuta?
Something smells Fishy
A ring on her finger or
Finger in her ring
She can take the lost signs down now at least.
You Dirty Saint!
I’m still not convinced.
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.
Almost nailed it. Actually a shit song.
Dude is an obnoxious hack in and out of the water, so of course he’d become an EDM “artist”.
Hate the game
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.
Perhaps…. But he’ll be another one hit wonder with mentsl health issues in 2-4 years
That’s mentsl talk