Modern Qualifier 17 – HEY UBU DRUNK CRUSH

Remix of a track from the Nottingham band’s 2013 debut LP, If You Wait. Nominated by Tom H.
Breakout track from the Australian art-rocker’s 2017 LP Everything Is Forgotten. Nominated by Jo.
Single from 2016’s Teens Of Denial, their first all-new studio LP for Matador. Nominated by Neal D.
A single from 2012 and the Brooklyn band’s sole LP Manifest! Nominated by machotrouts.

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Qualifier M17: HEY UBU DRUNK CRUSH

LONDON GRAMMAR – “Hey Now (Arty Remix)” (YouTube)

METHYL ETHEL – “Ubu” (YouTube)

CAR SEAT HEADREST – “Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales” (YouTube)

FRIENDS – “Friend Crush” (YouTube)

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j_e_l

15 May 2023 14:17

Hmm, hard choices here – I know someone got a haircut. My thought on Car Seat Headrest was that there’s probably a sad indie boy recording a similar song on a 4 track on every second of everyday. Think I’ll vote Friends

Dan Bright-Amaya

15 May 2023 15:29

The Grammar benefit hugely from the contrast with the previous group and think it does enough to get my vote. I’m a sucker for that type of mix tbh. Ubu is starts off really well but the last two and a half minutes was too much.

vinnycrackers

15 May 2023 16:39

Reply to Dan Bright-Amaya

Everything you said is what I was thinking. Total sucker for those mixes.

Pop-o-matic

15 May 2023 16:36

Can’t vote for Car Seat Headrest because of their terrible, terrible name, but ended up voting for a band called Methyl Ethyl. Hmmmmm.

Derrick Harder

16 May 2023 06:01

London Grammar kinda sounds like Beth Orton singing. Got my vote. Couldn’t make it through Car Seat Headrest.

SmoothBrain

16 May 2023 09:17

Drunk Drivers / Killer Whales is the kind of song that inspires every single person at the gig to sing every single lyric of – fans crush hard on it. It’s always given me the vibe of two completely different songs smushed together which I like.

qosephine

16 May 2023 12:41

I’m fond of both Methyl Ethel and Car Seat Headrest’s songs for moping about for three minutes and then suddenly exploding into three minutes of chorus. ‘Ubu’ is my nomination because a. the band are sadly underrated, b. repetition in pop music is a good thing and c. I have spent the last five years singing “Why’d you have to go and cut your hair” and now it’s someone else’s turn.

ajjr82

16 May 2023 20:24

The wide love for Car Seat Headrest continues to be a bit baffling to me. I like the snap on the drum track for Friends, though.

I miss the bees

16 May 2023 22:35

I’d argue London Grammar is an even worse name than Car Seat Headrest (“rock’n’roll isn’t about education, let alone selective education FFS” – some angry rock critic somewhere). I ended up voting for the CSH, who I’ve not heard before, I don’t think. It sort of veered into being the kind of thing I hate a few times, but it was more memorable than anything else in the group.

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Baltimore Jacks

17 May 2023 11:48

Friends are good. I think that’s universally understood, vote totals here notwithstanding.

Tom H

17 May 2023 20:40

I didn’t think London Grammar had been polled before. I love Hannah Reid’s voice, and this mix is special, somehow turning the melancholy into something a lot more uplifting!

Tom

20 May 2023 12:34

Also a tie for 2nd! London Grammar takes it over Car Seat Headrest on the “unpolled artist” tie-break clause (harsh on CSH I admit as their sole qualifier appearance in the 2020 poll dooms them here!)

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