Response These Days (Powderfinger song)

powderfinger performing these days on across great divide tour, 8 september 2007.

these days topped triple j hottest 100 chart in 1999, result of nationwide listener poll. song awarded song of year @ 2000 music critic s awards. in response award wins, powderfinger said excited voted #1 in listener poll. fanning jokingly said worked out being number 1 on hottest 100 makes biggest band in world because s biggest music poll in world , before going on make mockery of band s long time antagonist, ben lee, saying remembered can t biggest band in world because ben lee biggest in world! fanning continued publicly insult lee, calling him precocious little cunt in 2005.

fanning alone performed sombre acoustic guitar version of song @ live benefit concert in days following 2002 bali bombings.

these days rostered briefly on english curriculum in australian high schools, fanning took amazement rather discomfort, stating emotional part of song development process writing, rather performing of song. song featured on hidden toll road trauma campaign, produced victorian transport accident commission, first aired on victorian television on 19 october 2005. powderfinger performed these days @ commemoration service heath ledger, breakthrough film 2 hands. these days ranked seventh in 2008 weekend australian poll best australian songs of past 20 years.

the song voted @ #21 in triple j hottest 100 of time, 2009, second-highest placed australian single in countdown. australian song place higher hip-hop song nosebleed section hilltop hoods, contains line these days sung in hip-hop style in lyrics.