Curatorfest Qualifier 2! CURATED by Katie G

The theme of this qualifier is of course BOATS, put together by Twitter’s Katie G.

Stan Rogers is from 1976 and will enter Round 1 of our ANCIENT poll if he makes it – the rest are all MODERN. “Wolves Of The Sea” is not on the Spotify playlist and is also Latvia’s 2008 entry for Eurovision!

RESULTS: Stan Rogers does indeed enter ANCIENT Round 1. Little Big Town sneaks into MODERN Round 1 by a single vote!

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Cumbrian

4 May 2023 17:56

Pontoon’s alright I guess. Wolves of the Sea inspired me to look up the 2008 Eurovision results. Latvia did well to come 12th with this I reckon.

Tom

4 May 2023 18:50

This was a lot of nautical fun in genres we haven’t seen much of – especially the folk-adjacent stuff. Folk a capella isn’t generally my bag but I voted for Stan Rogers here, the guy has flow.

katiebeluga

4 May 2023 19:11

It’s a running joke between me & my friends that I really like boats (to the point where most of my reading is about historical boats and I actually used to work at a maritime museum). So naturally, when coming up with songs to pick for the poll, I picked the four most different vaguely related to boats songs I could find from the depths of my mp3 storage, knowing full well that whoever wins is going to get absolutely crushed in the next round.

j_e_l

4 May 2023 20:18

I enjoyed this nautical group, and wish now I had a curated group of pirate metal.
I liked Pontoon, as Little Big Town are a good band. I voted for the Eurovision song, and regret it a little now.

Just Rewarding

4 May 2023 20:35

yar! I told my friends that May the 4th is now probably beating Talk Like a Pirate Day for most popular “pretend” holiday so apt it’s all shanties today. Oh, they corrected me that they both pale compared to 4/20. 🙂

Pop-o-matic

4 May 2023 21:20

Had “Barrett’s Privateers” stuck in my head since I heard it. Easy vote.

katstevens

4 May 2023 21:44

Love a bit of pirate metal. My genre highlight is Scurrrvy’s delicate and not-at-all shonky classic “The Bloodsoaked Shores Of Insanity Island”

Edward Still

4 May 2023 21:57

Nice to see a nautical themed group without big hitters Sloop John B, Irish Rover or LazyTown’s You Are a Pirate.
Going for Heather Dale’s simple but sweet piece of Celticana.

ajjr82

4 May 2023 22:40

Reply to Edward Still

As a Canadian, “Barrett’s Privateers” is absolutely the big hitter for songs about ships.

TheHarderLine

6 May 2023 01:35

Reply to ajjr82

ah, yep. As another Canadian, I can see why folks are voting for it having not heard it before but I would be ok to never hear it again. Voted for the Prydwen to sail again.

ismathers

5 May 2023 06:42

Reply to ajjr82

Yeah, “Barrett’s Privateers” absolutely felt like the ringer (in a good way!)

koganbot

5 May 2023 00:45

Liked “Barrett’s Privateers” following on “Biology” for how they both, in different ways, mess with us sonically. Each got my vote.
And Wikip points to this lovely duet.

jonathanb

6 May 2023 10:36

Celtic romantic mysticism is so steeped in naffness that it’s kinda fun to peer past the Clannad-Riverdance baggage and take “Prydwen” on its own terms as a kind de-metalled Evanescence tune? Not sure I was entirely successful in peering past that baggage, mind; I voted Little Big Town.

wmterhaar

6 May 2023 11:05

Is Little Big Country yacht country?
This poll made me wonder if Latvian pirates actually were a thing (that’s how my mind works) and yes, they were!
Barett’s Privateers is how a non-yacht boat song in my opinion should sound, so that got my vote.

bartlebooth45

6 May 2023 20:10

Wolves of the Sea is such a fun song it retained its charm even when it was covered by otherwise entirely tedious gimmick metal band Alestorm.

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