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Curatorfest Qualifier 10! CURATED by groovypanda
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— 8 May 2023 Tom

Twitter’s own Groovypanda presents us with a lovely group which feels linked less by theme and more by… vibe. Golden Beat miners get ready – tracks here from Fragile, Love And Money, Marti Caine and the Quintus Project.

I’m actually sure that this should have been in the ANCIENT poll anyway – I was misled by the reissue date on the Quintus Project. In any case RESULTS: Marti Caine and her tiger progress, and so do the Quintus folks.

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Son of Mecha Mummy   19 months ago

Extremely good group. I've pretty much exclusively voted for songs in fourth place and that continued with Fragile, who are the first addition to my Golden Beat longlist. Marti Caine was my second, […]

Cumbrian   19 months ago

This is an excellent group that hasn't yet cracked 100 votes. Hopefully, people will get around to it, as there's lots to like here I think. Marti Caine was a real surprise - I vaguely remember her […]

healingandy   19 months ago

With Strange Kind Of Love, more is more, so in a Balearic spirit I can recommend this extended mix: https://open.spotify.com/track/6kvyePudesC51MFJRcbz7j?si […]

stabilimentum   19 months ago

Each track better than the one before! Had to vote for Marti Caine because I saw Quintus was winning. (Unsure if the ranked option order is intended or not, but its great!)

Curatorfest Qualifier 9! CURATED by Andy R
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— 8 May 2023 Tom

This group is from Andy R and it’s one where either there’s no theme or – just as possible – I don’t know the theme. But who needs a theme when you have bangers from Mission Of Burma, REM, Aimee Mann and the Real McCoy slugging it out?

RESULTS: Mission of Burma and the Real McCoy dodge the hives to land in the ANCIENT poll.

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komodomymanor   19 months ago

Real McCoy is a straight GB nomination, great track in a good group.

mitya   19 months ago

Academy Fight Song is one of those songs I'm generally going to vote for regardless of the competition, but all the comments about Real McCoy prompted me to listen (since I didn't recognise the name […]

David Belbin   19 months ago

I love REM's cover of Academy Fight Song and they do a good job on Crazy too, but for me this is an easy vote for one of my favourite singer/songwriters over my favourite group. 'Lost in Space', […]

Ben Wainless   19 months ago

I remain unconvinced that the two (current) leaders in Q1 would have been the same on Twitter. I remain thankful too :)

Curatorfest Qualifier 8! CURATED by Simon T
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— 6 May 2023 Tom

This group is curated by Simon T and as I understand it it’s a selection of Australian classics little known in the Northern Hemisphere – Models, Screamfeeder, Rocket Science and Thelma Plum, your time is now!

RESULTS: Thelma Plum enters the MODERN poll Round 1, while Screamfeeder make their way into ANCIENT Round 1.

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Simon Topper   19 months ago

Well that’s bloody lovely of you, thanks! Glad people seem to be enjoying & discovering. It’s always driven me bananas that it tends to be only the most obvious Aust artists to get out of the […]

di qualcosa di sinistra   19 months ago

Didn't know about any of these acts before - now I got 4 GBs. Total group of death for me, kudos to the curator

Cumbrian   19 months ago

Better in Blak a new one on me and probably on my GB list. An easy vote for me here.

healingandy   19 months ago

Trent Reznor was listening to Models, eh?

Curatorfest Qualifier 7! CURATED by Sarah C
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— 6 May 2023 Tom

Curated Group #7 in this tournament is on the theme of WORK, and comes from Sarah C. Heaven 17 are slaves to the grind; Tetsuya Kimoro gives a more optimistic spin; the Ramones embrace flexible working and Sparks quiet quit. Two will find themselves unemployed next round…

RESULTS: It’s one into the ANCIENT poll (Heaven 17!) and one into the MODERN poll (Sparks!)

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Cumbrian   19 months ago

Knowing there's a Sparks hive I had to go for Heaven 17 in case they weren't going to get out of this group. Otherwise I'd have voted for Tetsuya Komuro who is languishing sadly.

TheHarderLine   19 months ago

Ahh I bailed on Sparks and Ramones but enjoyed the other two a lot!

ajjr82   19 months ago

I feel like Owen Pallet listened to a lot of Sparks (I voted Ramones).

j_e_l   19 months ago

I have a hot take. Sparks are kinda like They Might Be Giants for grown-ups. I quite like this song. All around, a good group! I’m voting for the Ramones for expressing one of my fundamental feelings.

Curatorfest Qualifier 6! CURATED by Spimtobley
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— 6 May 2023 Tom

Here’s our 6th curated group, from Twitter’s own @spimtobley, and the theme is SISTER ACTS – four groups made up of sisters. Not only is there a wild genre mix here, it’s a pretty globe-spanning bunch too – the Lijadu Sisters from Nigeria, Ireland’s Nolans, and from America there’s 702 (Nevada) and P.S.Eliot (Alabama).

RESULTS: The sisters who progress are The Nolans and 702 – both into the ANCIENT Poll Round 1.

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Matt   19 months ago

New site, same old being charmed by a song, voting for it and seeing that it's miles behind the others.

Tom   19 months ago

This one has turned into a real nail biter (except for poor PS Eliot)

Pop-o-matic   19 months ago

These are all great and normally I'd have voted for Lijadu Sisters, but thought P.S. Eliot probably needed it more. Another good group! […]

bartlebooth45   19 months ago

Four very nice tunes. I was never much of a PS Eliot fan despite being very much into that scene at the time when they were around but this song hits in a way it didn't 15 odd years ago for some […]

Curatorfest Qualifier 5! CURATED by Andy H
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— 5 May 2023 Tom

Our fifth group comes from Andy R and it’s a broadly refugee-themed group for a poll raising money for refugee and international aid charities. 2016’s “Running (Refugee Song)” was written specially to bring awareness to the issue – it’s joined here by thematically linked tracks from Depeche Mode, R.E.M. and Tears For Fears, all of whom we last saw in our 1985 tournament!

RESULTS: A pretty clear win for Tears For Fears and REM sees both bands into the ANCIENT poll Round 1.

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j_e_l   19 months ago

Yes, went with TFF’s Duran impression. Wherever you go, you can’t hide from the dominance of Tears for Fears

Tom   19 months ago

I've played about 20 minutes of GTA games in my life, but in those 20 minutes my character did pull onto a freeway just as the intro to "Pale Shelter" segued into the beats and I thought "OK, now I […]

healingandy   19 months ago

Ah, here we are! No-theme poll? No, I'm institutionalised now. Themes are mandatory, so this one I thought was appropriate. Interesting test of whether name recognition was still a thing in the […]

ajjr82   19 months ago

I like this TFF song more than their later stuff, much more in that early New Romantic style, a bit softer take on early Duran Duran.

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