Curatorfest Qualifier 8! CURATED by Simon T

This group is curated by Simon T and as I understand it it’s a selection of Australian classics little known in the Northern Hemisphere – Models, Screamfeeder, Rocket Science and Thelma Plum, your time is now!

RESULTS: Thelma Plum enters the MODERN poll Round 1, while Screamfeeder make their way into ANCIENT Round 1.

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mondosalvo

6 May 2023 19:39

I’ve liked this Models song for a long time, but the other three are all breaking news to me. I’ve heard OF Screamfeeder before, Rocket Science is borderline my kind of thing but I didn’t get much out of their attempt, and those chorused-up guitars in Thelma’s song sealed the deal.
Voted Thelma, crossing my fingers Models can coast thru.

wmterhaar

6 May 2023 20:43

I owned a Contact High shirt, which I bought when Rocket Science was tour Europe with The Dirtbombs on Eternal Holiday, an album I really like. Still I never got around to listening to the actual album, so this is my first exposure to Being Followed. Which fortunately turns out to be good, so I didn’t walk around in a shirt from a shitty album.

Simon Topper

8 May 2023 23:53

Reply to wmterhaar

I don’t reckon Rocket Science have made a dud record, but live is where they always broke out, and a gig with the Dirtbombs would have been a sweaty chaotic thing to see.

NEIL

6 May 2023 21:19

Tempted by Screamfeeder for the relentlessly looping lyrics; tempted by Rocket Science because the video’s shadowdancing similarity to Rik’n’Ade in the end credits to (UK sitcom) Bottom made me hoot; but Better in Blak was the one I’d have been saddest to miss in the next round, so I plumped for Plum 😀

koganbot

7 May 2023 11:28

Triple GB here. Finally voted Screamfeeder for how the cascading vocals emerge from the guitar roar.

10 for the GB longlist in 8 matches, avg. 1.25/match. One of ’em has only 1 vote so far (not mine); another has 2 (neither of ’em mine, either), another has 35.

Ramesh P

7 May 2023 12:10

Likely the first Models song I heard owing to its inclusion on the “Young Einstein” soundtrack. Thelma deserves to go far and I’ve always enjoyed the Rocket Science song (very much Napster/burn to mp3 CD era for me). Can’t go past Screamfeeder here though.

Simon Topper

8 May 2023 23:57

Reply to Ramesh P

Can’t imagine the movie stands up too well now I’m no longer 12, but that soundtrack was a thousand times better than it had any right to be, still incredibly strong.

jonathanb

7 May 2023 16:44

Gosh this is a brutal match-up. I have to vote Screamfeeder because Rocks on the Soul is a sorely underrated album and also for the time I saw them finish a mid-afternoon side-stage festival set by setting a guitar on fire, as if they could will themselves out of Brisbane and into Hendrix status through pyrotechnics alone. But Rocket Science was iconic early ’00s minor indie — I think the local street press had a story about them every second issue — and Thelma Plum deserves to stick around as an example of contemporary excellence. I run into “Better in Blak” all the time and it never gets old.

j_e_l

8 May 2023 10:30

Oh, I like Screamfeeder, they sound a bit like Therapy?/ Ned’s Atomic Dustbin. Then they turn a bit twee-pop…

j_e_l

8 May 2023 10:33

Reply to j_e_l

I also enjoyed Thelma Plum’s song

Edward Still

8 May 2023 15:15

Brilliant group this one, went for Rocket Science but left wanting to investigate Thelma more the most.

ajjr82

8 May 2023 21:14

Love the harmonies on the Thelma Plum song.

Garry

8 May 2023 23:16

I’ve seen Screamfeeder and Rocket Science, and that Models songs was one I grew up with. Thelma is always great but won’t need any help. Almost went Models but thought I would throw some Queensland solidarity with Screamfeeder.

TheHarderLine

9 May 2023 05:03

Screamfeeder is my favourite here, it’s fantastic. But I like Thelma Plum too! So these results are good.

Pop-o-matic

9 May 2023 14:24

Totally forgot about this Rocket Science song. What a banger!

Loved the others as well though. Didn’t think a band called Screamfeeder would be that melodic.

Dan Bright-Amaya

9 May 2023 14:27

All new to me and the best group so far. Had to listen through a couple of times but Thelma Plum’s polished indie pop got the vote in the end. Very refreshing after a month in the 80s timewarp.
(Though it strike me that strategically I shouldn’t be pushing more good songs into the Modern Poll!)

healingandy

9 May 2023 19:48

Trent Reznor was listening to Models, eh?

Cumbrian

10 May 2023 14:29

Better in Blak a new one on me and probably on my GB list. An easy vote for me here.

di qualcosa di sinistra

10 May 2023 23:41

Didn’t know about any of these acts before – now I got 4 GBs. Total group of death for me, kudos to the curator

Simon Topper

11 May 2023 02:24

Reply to di qualcosa di sinistra

Well that’s bloody lovely of you, thanks! Glad people seem to be enjoying & discovering.
It’s always driven me bananas that it tends to be only the most obvious Aust artists to get out of the qualifiers (Cave, Kylie, INXS), so I wanted to use this curated round to guarantee a couple of quality, local faves some further listeners. Everyone’s come to the party! Proper enjoying seeing the reactions, thanks all.

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