Modern Qualifier 9 – KNOW CARD MIRACLES DRESS

Single from the Irish musician’s debut LP, See Sew, from 2008. Nominated by Tamara B.
The TikTok star and songwriter included this on 2022’s Poetic License EP. Nominated by Mic W.
Single from the lo-fi musician’s 9th album, God Save The Animals, also from 2022. Nominated by Neal D.
One-off single collaboration between artist KAYE and Glee star Darren Criss, from 2011. Nominated by grapefruitzzz. (YOUTUBE ONLY)

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Qualifier M9: KNOW/CARD/MIRACLES/DRESS

LISA HANNIGAN – “I Don’t Know” (YouTube)

J MAYA – “Library Card” (YouTube)

ALEX G – “Miracles” (YouTube)

CHARLENE KAYE – “Dress And Tie” (YouTube)

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Tom

11 May 2023 15:48

No real comments on the songs this round – could have voted for any of 3, and I’ll see how the survivors hit me in Round 1. That Lisa Hannigan LP sleeve is just lovely though.

heather

11 May 2023 20:29

Breezy and charming set of songs. I used this ppoll as a chance to air out the obscure-but-ordinary corners of the Things I Like.

j_e_l

11 May 2023 22:29

I liked the J Maya song, this is really good – and lots of book/library cliches in the lyrics. I hope it gets through. I liked the country-ish music on the Alex G track, but the vocal is not that great. Charlene and Lisa just a bit too grown-up or entirely pleasant for my liking

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup ?

12 May 2023 09:48

What a relief to hear four songs that were allowed to *breathe*, after some densely produced rounds. Lisa Hannigan the best of a good bunch.

vinnycrackers

12 May 2023 17:16

That Lisa Hannigan song was lovely and I have GB’ed it.
Sorry, J Maya I hate my job too much today to vote for anything about libraries (this feels like a safe space!)

Heckler_Spray

12 May 2023 22:45

Liked all of these light pop tunes. Probably Lisa (“She’s Irish?!? That changes everything”) or J. Maya. Though now that we have “Driver’s License” and “Library Card”, maybe we should just go all the way back and write a song called “Birth Certificate”. “Now I can prove that I was born/Why am I so forlorn?”, I dunno, you guys work on it.

sclv

13 May 2023 04:27

The singing in Miracles is really lovely. Harmonics reminded me of “Ship of Fools” from Cale, which I mean as a high complement.

Mic Waters

13 May 2023 13:30

I discovered “Library Card” during Aaron’s #CluedoPop game earlier this year, and it really grabbed me. J Maya’s story spoke to me, the metaphors are puntastic, and it sounds just like a library, proper banging. But by then we were already halfway through the 2022 poll, so I thought I should take my chance to nominate it now.
But who buys a library card!?

Mic Waters

13 May 2023 15:03

Reply to Mic Waters

Gah. That should of course say Arron. Sorry!

jonathanb

14 May 2023 11:24

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 encounter one of my nominations, which I picked because it was another notable 2022 polling omission.)

komodomymanor

15 May 2023 14:37

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 he’s done it and gets my vote.

Last edited 1 year ago by komodomymanor