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Modern Qualifier 36 – Solange, Peaches, Mitski, Broadcast
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— 22 May 2023 Tom

These are all Bracket Balancers – to be specific, the Top 4 BBs you voted for! All from years we’re not likely to poll in the near future.

  1. Standout track from 2016’s A Seat At The Table.
  2. Breakthrough single from 2000’s The Teaches Of Peaches.
  3. Lead single from 2016’s Puberty 2.
  4. Lead single from 2000’s The Noise Made By People.
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Latest comments (of 20)

Tom   18 months ago

Oh wow I never realised this either!

machotrouts   18 months ago

This must have been obvious to people less dumb than me, but I racked up an embarrassing number of plays of 'Fuck the Pain Away' before I first learned that it's a live recording. Like, there isn't […]

TheHarderLine   18 months ago

I remember consciously not listening to this Broadcast album over and over 20 years ago so as to not wear it out and it worked, I still love it so much. But this Solange song is wonderful too. […]

bartlebooth45   18 months ago

hunktears on twitter said it perfectly: "electroclash was such an important cultural force of the 2000s. some coked out lady in sunglasses saying "I eat pussy" over and over again in a dumb neon […]

Modern Qualifier 37 – CURATED by Dan C!
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— 22 May 2023 Tom

A Curated Group by Dan C aka @dc_goblue on Twitter. Can you guess its theme?

  1. From the late Memphis rapper’s 2011 mixtape, High Class Street Music.
  2. The Atlanta MC’s breakthrough single from 2006’s Best Thang Smokin’.
  3. Commercial debut and breakthrough single for another Atlanta star, from 2014.
  4. The Nashville rapper included this on his 2007 Buck The World LP.
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katstevens   18 months ago

Buck's sousaphone parp gets my vote

dc_goblue   18 months ago

Not from the South, not from the 21st century

Cumbrian   18 months ago

One for the curator obviously but I'd imagine it would have had to be something other than Bust-A-Move since it got a go in the 2nd Chances poll (where it sadly bombed out early for unaccountable […]

Hocktavian (@BloodyHell@theblower.au)   18 months ago

Why no Young MC?

Modern Qualifier 38 – CURATED by Patrick Van D!
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— 22 May 2023 Tom

Our second Curated Group today comes from Patrick Van D and I don’t think it’s themed, just a collection of faves!

  1. The final release from the Scottish indie legends (well, before they reformed). A website-only track from 2003, I believe!
  2. Track from the Portland band’s 2004 second album, Fuckin’ A.
  3. The Canadian rockers’ lead single from 2012’s Celebration Rock LP.
  4. From the score for Wayne MacGregor’s AutoBIOgraphy dance performance, released in 2018.
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sclv   18 months ago

Sorry that Jlin got demolished in the voting. Standout Golden Beat for me, hope it makes it there!

vinnycrackers   18 months ago

3 really nice songs (I was leaning towards Bis) but Jlin is one of those things that grabs my ear and doesn't let go - especially with the choreography.

wmterhaar   18 months ago

Between The Thermals track and Japandroids lies an invisible border for me where 'nice & catchy garage sound' becomes 'annoying punkpop earworm'.

RobertK   18 months ago

Jlin is one of the singular great artists of our time in a way that is quite rare. Voted for her, although I enjoyed Japandroids too.

Modern Qualifier 39 – LP, Eleanor Friedberger, Jason Isbell, Pearl Charles
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— 22 May 2023 Tom
  1. Title track from the singer-songwriter’s first major label EP, in 2012. Nominated by Julia H.
  2. From the former Fiery Furnace’s 2011 solo debut, Last Summer. Nominated by Robert K.
  3. From the Metallica Blacklist box set of cover versions. Nominated by Matt L.
  4. Opening track from the LA singer-songwriter’s 2021 LP Magic Mirror. Nominated by Dan PM.
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Pop-o-matic   18 months ago

It's the best song on the album by some distance (IMO obvs). Worth a go though!

Edward Still   18 months ago

I mean the album cover alone suggests she's fully invested in the bit. More power to her!

Jeff Worrell   18 months ago

Voted for Pearl partly for the sheer cheek of the ABBA steal, but there’s a strong song in there too, and I’ve saved the album on Spotify.

bartlebooth45   18 months ago

Not familiar with any of these artists (well, apart from Metallica) but I liked all these tunes. I plumped for Into the Wild. Not usually my cup of tea but its clattering build drew me in. The […]

Modern Qualifier 40 – BLK JKS, MC Loma, Machinedrum, Most Chill Slackmob
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— 22 May 2023 Tom
  1. From the South African rock band’s 2009 full-length debut After Robots. Nominated by stabilimentum.
  2. A 2019 single by the teenage Pernambuco MC. Nominated by Frank K.
  3. From the 2015 compilation Movin’ Forward, in tribute to the late footwork producer MC Rashad. Nominated by James E.
  4. From the LA hip-hop crew’s 2004 LP Urban Mind Expansion. Nominated by hellonfriscobay.
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rabbitfun   18 months ago

Great group, with three GBs. I like both the original "SeeSea" and this remix of it a lot. And I loooove me some brega funk (it's even better with (simulated) horn/brass stabs, I find). But I went […]

Jeff Worrell   18 months ago

Group of the day (if ‘day’ means anything anymore in the new format). No weak links at all here. Voted Machinedrum, who I have followed quite closely in the past tho I didn’t know this track - on […]

wmterhaar   18 months ago

Sorry Most Chill Slackmob and Loma E As Gemeas Lacracao, you're tracks are fine, but they don't have the Molalatladi guitar solo and I'm a guitar guy.

TheHarderLine   18 months ago

Most Chill Slackmob really sounds like Portishead “Mysterons” to me. Got my vote

Modern Day 8 Playlists
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— 22 May 2023 Tom

It’s the final week of Modern Qualifiers! Today we’ve got a particularly gruesome Bracket Balancer headline group, a couple of cracking Curated Groups and a further venture into the Low Shazam Zone. Best get on with it eh?

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