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Modern Qualifier 6 – HIGH SKY BOOM LOVER
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— 11 May 2023 Tom
  1. The Hippie Sabotage remix of “Habits (Stay High)”, which charted in 2014, a year after the original. This is a Bracket Balancer.
  2. Chart hit from 2020’s Plastic Hearts. This is also a Bracket Balancer!
  3. Charli’s biggest solo hit (I believe!) from The Fault In Our Stars soundtrack in 2014. Nominated by The Arn.
  4. Title track of the superstar’s 7th album, from 2019. Nominated by Natalie G.
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Cuntballs McFuckface   19 months ago

The results of this are so dumb, "Boom Clap" is so bad

SmoothBrain   19 months ago

Boom Clap is just a bit bland to be honest - I don't understand the appeal

jonathanb   19 months ago

I'm aware that Charli fans don't think highly of "Boom Clap"; perhaps it's fitting that as someone who is only occasionally interested in her work (and is often actively irritated by her apparent […]

Edward Still   19 months ago

In my headcanon Stay High remix a sequel to Just Dance, and by sequel I mean it's happening about 2 hours later as the club is kicking out.

Modern Qualifier 7 – CURATED by Mitchell S
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— 11 May 2023 Tom

This curated group comes from Mitchell S who writes The Run Out Grooves, a newsletter about the closing tracks of LPs. That is not the theme of this group, which is an all-2010s transmission from a parallel poll universe where we did the 5 Letter Words Wordle Cup.

  1. Single from 2012’s The Haunted Man LP, the English singer-songwriter-producer’s third.
  2. Quasi-title track from the modern post-punkers’ 2nd album, 2016’s Adore Life.
  3. From St Vincent’s 3rd LP, 2011’s highly-acclaimed Strange Mercy.
  4. Opening track to the dream-poppers’ 2010 LP Teen Dream
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Tom H   19 months ago

Daniel > Laura as far as the Bat for Lashes name titled songs go, but it's still one of her highlights!

Mitchell Stirling   19 months ago

I was torn between Zebra and Cruel myself. I don't quite enjoy Adore as much as the first album. Strange Mercy seems to be where St. Vincent found her stride and voice. So happy to see that go […]

wmterhaar   19 months ago

Bat for Lashes and Savages both with the type of ballad I love, but I adore the latter a bit more. I really dislike Beach House's music and to make things worse I always mix them up with the […]

sclv   19 months ago

Don't be taken in by Beach House, just a dreamed-up version of orbison's "you got it".

Modern Qualifier 8 – CURATED by Jel
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— 11 May 2023 Tom

A curated group from Jel – I believe there’s no specific theme here!

  1. Culture-clash collaboration from 2011’s Disney/Pixar movie Cars 2.
  2. A deep cut (or as deep as cuts from multi-platinum LPs get) from 2002’s Let Go.
  3. Our first 2023 track, from the symphonic power metallers’ latest LP, At The Heart Of Wintervale.
  4. Closing track from the glam metal legends’ 2002 opus Hollyweird (YOUTUBE ONLY)
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Cumbrian   19 months ago

Just on general principle, I was always likely to vote for the metal. After listening, I dutifully have ticked the relevant box.

j_e_l   19 months ago

In defence of Brad and Robbie - they were sort of bound by the awesome plot of Cars 2, which ends with Lightning and Matar visiting London in a convoluted James Bond pastiche

jonathanb   19 months ago

From "American Boy" to "London Boy" to this Paislliams thing, we really need a moratorium on songs where Americans and Englishes discover the existence of one another. (Voted Avril, but that Poison […]

Kit   19 months ago

whom knew that Paisley Bradley had taken a first draft at Accidental Racist two years earlier

Modern Qualifier 9 – KNOW CARD MIRACLES DRESS
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— 11 May 2023 Tom
  1. Single from the Irish musician’s debut LP, See Sew, from 2008. Nominated by Tamara B.
  2. The TikTok star and songwriter included this on 2022’s Poetic License EP. Nominated by Mic W.
  3. Single from the lo-fi musician’s 9th album, God Save The Animals, also from 2022. Nominated by Neal D.
  4. One-off single collaboration between artist KAYE and Glee star Darren Criss, from 2011. Nominated by grapefruitzzz. (YOUTUBE ONLY)
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ajjr82   19 months ago

Alex G really working that Neil Young sound.

komodomymanor   19 months ago

Does J Maya think kryptonite is good? Cos otherwise that line doesn't make sense. That is actually going to bother me now. Oh, Alex G is good, it is hard to do this music in a way that I like but' […]

jonathanb   19 months ago

In the way of all polls, we reached the end of the 2022 contest and a few songs felt notably absent. Alex G's " Runner" was one of these; I'll be curious to see how "Miracles" goes. (Soon, we'll […]

Mic Waters   19 months ago

Gah. That should of course say Arron. Sorry!

Modern Qualifier 10 – CURATED by Tom E
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— 11 May 2023 Tom

A curated group by Tom E (hey that’s me!) mixing late UK garage, early grime and grime novelties.

  1. Ragga-garage 2002 single produced by Sticky. The only one to get any sort of official release.
  2. JME extemporises on the theme of Pokemon, from 2015. (YOUTUBE ONLY)
  3. White Label 12″ from 2003 from members of N.A.S.T.Y. Crew, much circulated on MP3 in the “blog era”. (YOUTUBE ONLY)
  4. Viral paean to Southern Fried Chicken’s meal deal. (YOUTUBE ONLY)
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j_e_l   19 months ago

I’m thinking that Red Hot Entertainment are the most influential song in the poll, just found myself asking my son if he wants a Junior Spesh from the fish and chip shop

Bob Burgoyne   19 months ago

'Gimmee some tissue in case of mess' surely?

Tom   19 months ago

The group has finally ended! Thanks to all voters :) All I was hoping when I went in was that one of the "novelty" tracks and one of the "serious" tracks would progress, and that's the result we've […]

Tom   19 months ago

Thank you kindly! And that was actually my pick too - partly cos I thought it would need more votes as it doesn't have the novelty appeal of the other two YT only ones. Of all of them it's the one […]

Modern Poll Day 2 Playlists
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— 11 May 2023 Tom

Playlist time for today’s matches, with more titans clashing in the headline group and no less than 3 Curated Groups too. One quirk of today is that a lot of tracks – 5 out of 20! – are only in the YT playlist.

In the comments to this post there’s an update on some current site issues/glitches…

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admin   19 months ago

what's that then?

admin   19 months ago

Oh yeah?

Alvin Stardust's Fuchsia Shark   19 months ago

gonna try a thing… the thing worked - email notifications (of replies and follow ups) are working

j_e_l   19 months ago

Not sure how I got lucky with the picture thing - iPhone 12, Latest update, Safari - Chrome isn’t so good for this site

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