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BONUS PLAYLIST! 21st Covers 20th
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— 22 May 2023 Tom

I made a playlist of all your excellent suggestions (that I could find) for a group on the theme “21st Century covers of 20th Century songs”. I’ll pick 4 of these with a headline group in mind – and avoiding stuff we’ve already had. But I thought all of them deserved collection really. Thank you!

Modern Day 7 Playlists
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— 19 May 2023 Tom

We’ve got playlists for today – the most rap-heavy day of the current poll! – but also another crowdsourcing opportunity. I’m still looking for big name 21st century covers of 20th century hits but today I’m after tracks for the second extra group – songs about the Internet! They have to be from the year 2000 or after, though (sorry “E-Mail My Heart”). Suggest some in the comments!

Now those playlists:

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Tom   14 months ago

Cut Copy Me is a great shout but also pretty much a lock for Late Work (I'd assume!)

SmoothBrain   14 months ago

+1 for Bo Burnham and The Chats suggestions above . Alex Cameron has a few songs about seedy internet types, maybe True Lies is the most directly about the internet. Slightly more abstract but […]

machotrouts   14 months ago

The following songs aren't necessarily all good, but they did force their way into my head when I saw this post, so it'd be rude of me not to mention them: 'Boten Anna' by Basshunter, 'Too Many […]

Steve Mannion   14 months ago

Friendly Fires - Offline (delightful but may not count as it's really about disconnecting from the cyberdome maaan)

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   14 months ago

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

Steve Mannion   14 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   14 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   14 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 5 Playlists
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— 16 May 2023 Tom

It’s playlist time as we approach the halfway point of the qualifiers. Before the poll started I got people to vote on what tracks should be Bracket Balancers. And then put some of the top scoring ones in the same group, obviously. That’s our headliner but there’s plenty more happening too…

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   14 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   14 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 […]

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