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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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Qualifier C9! Curated by Andy R

REM - "Crazy" (YouTube)

AIMEE MANN - "Humpty Dumpty" (YouTube)

MISSION OF BURMA - "Academy Fight Song" (YouTube)

REAL MCCOY - "Another Night" (YouTube)

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komodomymanor   14 months ago

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

mitya   14 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   14 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   14 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 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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Qualifier C5! Curated by Andy H

DEPECHE MODE - "Home" (YouTube)

REM - "Belong" (YouTube)

TEARS FOR FEARS - "Pale Shelter" (YouTube)

VARIOUS ARTISTS* - "Running (Refugee Song)" (YouTube)

*including Common, Gregory Porter, Keyon Harrold and Andrea Pizziconi

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j_e_l   14 months ago

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

Tom   14 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   14 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   14 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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