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Curatorfest Qualifier 2! CURATED by Katie G
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— 3 May 2023 Tom

The theme of this qualifier is of course BOATS, put together by Twitter’s Katie G.

Stan Rogers is from 1976 and will enter Round 1 of our ANCIENT poll if he makes it – the rest are all MODERN. “Wolves Of The Sea” is not on the Spotify playlist and is also Latvia’s 2008 entry for Eurovision!

RESULTS: Stan Rogers does indeed enter ANCIENT Round 1. Little Big Town sneaks into MODERN Round 1 by a single vote!

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bartlebooth45   22 months ago

Wolves of the Sea is such a fun song it retained its charm even when it was covered by otherwise entirely tedious gimmick metal band Alestorm.

wmterhaar   22 months ago

Is Little Big Country yacht country? This poll made me wonder if Latvian pirates actually were a thing (that's how my mind works) and yes, they were! Barett's Privateers is how a non-yacht boat […]

jonathanb   22 months ago

Celtic romantic mysticism is so steeped in naffness that it's kinda fun to peer past the Clannad-Riverdance baggage and take "Prydwen" on its own terms as a kind de-metalled Evanescence tune? Not […]

TheHarderLine   22 months ago

ah, yep. As another Canadian, I can see why folks are voting for it having not heard it before but I would be ok to never hear it again. Voted for the Prydwen to sail again.

Curatorfest Qualifier 1! CURATED by Adrian R
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— 3 May 2023 Tom

A group from Adrian R, themed around (I believe!) Duckie nightclub bangers.

All singles – Frankie Valli is from 1972, Grandmaster Flash from 1982, Pet Shop Boys from 1986 and Girl Aloud from 2005.

RESULTS: Grandmaster Flash qualifies for ANCIENT Round 1. Girls Aloud go through to MODERN Round 1.

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Arron Wright   22 months ago

With the delighted fatalism of a thrice-runner-up, I now confidently predict that Biology goes down to DOMO in the Modern last 16...

thee temple ov platonick youth   22 months ago

seconding World Cup of Substances!!

koganbot   22 months ago

The bass riff is copied from Liquid Liquid's "Cavern." Wikip describes Liquid Liquid as "an American no wave and dance-punk group." I think I saw them live, though I tend to confuse them with Konk, […]

Jeff Worrell   22 months ago

Having managed to log in and vote once, I shall attempt a comment - although I have no insights to share on this occasion. 3 great songs, one average one (PSBs). It felt most true to myself rn to […]

1985 B-Sides SEMI FINALS!
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— 27 April 2023 Tom

Democracy hasn’t had a great run of it in recent years but it can still deliver a result like this – a pair of B-Sides semi finals which give voters a window seat at the birth of Detroit Techno, Chicago House and Dancehall.

These will be the last set of Peoples Pop Polls before we move to the new site – there’s still the Final to come but I’ll run that on Twitter as I don’t want polls to be ongoing when the actual move starts.

There will be an exciting new destination (and URL) for People’s Pop and Freaky Trigger will go back to hosting everything I/we do that isn’t polls or Number 1 song reviews (yes, those will be back again).

Thanks for taking part – I’ve already learned plenty about how the new poll plug-in works and I’m looking forward to seeing you on the new, specially designed for polls, site next week for the opening matches of our charity pop poll.

OK, let’s do some polling…

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healingandy   22 months ago

*headbutts mic* Is this thing on?

mondosalvo   22 months ago

Test comment with twitter login

Stabilimentum   22 months ago

I've voted every time against Model 500. I'm not stopping now!

1985 B-Side QUARTER FINALS
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— 26 April 2023 Tom

We’re down to the last 8 competitors in the A-Sides (on Twitter) and the B-Sides (here!). The winners in these matches enter PollHalla, the pop poll hall of fame, and you have less than a day to make the choices.

I’ve not re-ordered the YT playlist but these tracks are all there, and linked in the matches. And Tenor Saw is starting us off anyway…

…in an all-reggae clash with Sophia George!

Our second Quarter-Final puts our last remaining song from the Global bracket, Youssou N’Dour, up against Detroit’s Model 500.

Chicago house in QF 3 – it’s Mr Fingers vs Lone Justice

And finally back to dancehall as Wayne “Sleng Teng” Smith goes up against Squirrel “Every subsequent post-rock band” Bait!

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koganbot   22 months ago

As was one of the tracks in Quarter-Final 4. So it might (also?) be the absence of vote splitting, or different vote splitting; and it might include people changing their minds, as in the Not In […]

Tom   22 months ago

Match 1 is interesting cos it's some indicator of how the off-Twitter vote might differ from the Twitter vote (the two tracks were in a Qualifier together)

1985 B-Sides – THE FINAL GROUPS
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— 24 April 2023 Tom

We’re down to our last 16 B-Side tracks in the World Cup Of 1985 – a parade of the underground, the influential, and the unjustly forgotten.

They’ve been split into four final groups. The Top 2 in each will advance. But in a bit of EXPERIMENTAL POLLING, you can vote for your preferred two in each group. I’m interested to see what difference (if any!) that makes.

Polls end on Wednesday morning UK time and we’ll have our quarter-finals that afternoon. Here’s the YouTube playlist:

Now for the actual polls:

First group:

Second group:

Third group:

Fourth group:

Vote in them all! Tomorrow it’s the A-Side Octofinals over on Twitter too.

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Latest comments (of 6)

Tom   22 months ago

It feels like we are heading towards some kind of 'clash' of Jamaican 'sounds'.

James BC   23 months ago

This is good - the more of these songs I can vote for, the better. Crossing everything for Girlie Girlie - my nominations hardly ever get anywhere and I couldn't be more pleased and surprised if […]

koganbot   23 months ago

Got the instruction but like Al I didn't think two was enough for the third group.* Finally went w/ Wayne and Sugar, the tie-breaker between Sugar and Schoolly being that "Jammin'" kept its variety […]

TheRealBreadco   23 months ago

I missed that instruction too! Bummer!

1985! B-Sides Round 2 Matches 12-16
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— 21 April 2023 Tom

Here are the final four B-Sides Round 2 matches in THE WORLD CUP OF 1985, which is also continuing over on Twitter at the peoples_pop account (assuming Elon keeps polls intact).

Here’s the YouTube playlist for these:

Matches today include Sophia George, Newcleus, Robert Wyatt (again!), Squirrel Bait, Sugar Minott, Amina, Lone Justice and The Triffids…

Sophia’s reggae-pop bounce and Newcleus’ electro-rap form our first pairing.

That’s followed by a second Robert Wyatt selection – this time it’s “The Age Of Self”, up against uncanny 90s-inventors Squirrel Bait.

Next it’s the full-length dub version of Sugar Minott playing Amina’s French-Tunisian disco-funk

And bringing our B-Sides Round 2 matches to a close it’s Lone Justice head-to-head with this glowering epic from The Triffids.

All these matches except the Minott/Amina one are also on Spotify!

At the weekend Twitter will host the A-Side final groups then come back here on Monday for their B-Side equivalents…

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Cloglover69   23 months ago

Squirrel bait is one of the best things I’ve ever heard in A PPP, crazy what those guys went on to do.

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