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Modern Playlists Day 6 + Covers Crowdsourcing
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— 18 May 2023 Tom

Welcome back! This post is doing DOUBLE DUTY as a standard playlist post but also as a crowdsourcing exercise for one of the Day 11 groups next week, a themed group on “21st Century Covers of 20th Century Songs”.

There are two criteria here. One is that it’s a genuinely transformative cover, not just an ‘interpolation’ or some John Lewis piano shit. So like “Comfortably Numb” by Scissor Sisters. The other is that it’s something we haven’t polled before. So NOT like “Comfortably Numb” by Scissor Sisters.

Suggestions in comments please! Now onto the playlists:

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stabilimentum   16 months ago

Paul Banks - I'm a Fool to Want You Molotov - Amateur (cover of Rock Me Amadeus)

Steve Mannion   16 months ago

The Residents - Paint It, Black (2000) Tiga - Burning Down The House (2004) Gonzales, Feist & Dani - (Like A) Boomerang (2005) Gnarls Barkley - Gone Daddy Gone (2006) Feist - Sealion ) […]

somejerkoff   16 months ago

The first one that comes to mind is Hot Chip’s “Dancing in the Dark.” Other ones I’m a big fan of: Titus Andronicus, “A Pair of Brown Eyes” Spoon, “Held” (or keeping with Britt Daniel in a band […]

I miss the bees   16 months ago

(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction - Cat Power Miss You - The Concretes Space Oddity - We are KING Baby’s on Fire - Superpitcher I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish - Bow Wow Wow Panic - Tiffany […]

Modern Poll Day 4 Playlists
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— 15 May 2023 Tom

A harder-edged day with our most rocking headline group and some uncompromising material in our undercard matches as well. All this and ADMIN in the comments too.

Hit it, Kelly

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Tom   16 months ago

Despite my promise of some admin there's only really one bit, which is that I am selling out and doing a poll on Twitter again - NOT the Charity Crusher or any of our other planned tournaments, […]

Modern Poll Day 3 Playlists
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— 12 May 2023 Tom

The third day of the Modern poll – 5 more groups, only one of which (the fourth) is curated. If I were a betting pollrunner I would say today’s headline group includes the poll favourite… but we’ll see.

I’m not planning to run polls at the weekend, so after this you get a chance to catch up on the Modern groups so far and we’ll be back on Monday. Check the comments for a note on how we’re resolving ties this poll too.

YouTube Day 3
Spotify Day 3

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Tom   16 months ago

So - ties! It's trickier to set up polls on the new site so I want to avoid tie-breaks if possible. In this poll ties will be resolved as follows. If it's a CURATED GROUP, the Curator gets to pick […]

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   16 months ago

what's that then?

admin   16 months ago

Oh yeah?

Alvin Stardust's Fuchsia Shark   16 months ago

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

j_e_l   16 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

MODERN Poll Day 1
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— 10 May 2023 Tom

The CURATORFEST polls are still running but we’re going to put those aside now as we get into the Qualifiers for the MODERN half of the two Charity Crusher polls.

I’ll be running 5 qualifiers a day, and at the top of the page you’ll always see the daily Spotify and YouTube playlists. Here’s Day 1, which proves its modern credentials by having two songs about loving robots – and that’s just the ones which can declare their mechanical passion.

Curatorfest Qualifier 11! CURATED by Jamie R
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— 8 May 2023 Tom

Jamie R gives us a selection which he wasn’t going to make curated until he realised the tracks tell a story. Happy or sad? You be the judge. Owen Pallett, Me’shell NdegeoCello, Bobby Short and Umberto Tozzi are your narrators.

RESULTS: Another two tracks heading for ANCIENT Round 1 here. Me’Shell NdegeoCello dominated the group, but Umberto Tozzi managed to reel in his rivals to take second by a single vote.

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Qualifier C11! Curated by Jamie R

OWEN PALLETT - "Lewis Takes Off His Shirt" (YouTube)

ME'SHELL NDEGEOCELLO - "If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night)" (YouTube)

BOBBY SHORT - "You Are Not My First Love" (YouTube)

UMBERTO TOZZI - "Gloria" (YouTube)

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The poll has expired!

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ajjr82   16 months ago

The backing vocals on the Me'Shell song are delightfully petty and mean.

koganbot   16 months ago

We have not polled Me'Shell (unless as playing bass where a band or another performer is the name on the marquee). Tom has provided an extraordinary spreadsheet of what we've polled, which is up-to […]

j_e_l   16 months ago

Gloria is a great song, and even on a new site, even with a new beginning, even with the Twitter-refuseniks, outrage continues

RobertK   16 months ago

Surely we've polled Me'Shell before, no?

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