Geo's 2000s Alt, Indie & Synthpop favourites [Finished!]

[Deleted]

Geo's Personal Rankdown
Mixed 2000's and 2010's Alternative, Indie & Synthpop Favourites

I've been pondering over the option of doing a personal rankdown for a while, but I could never come up with a list I was fully satisfied with, so I spent some time doing little tweaks here and there to a hypothetical playlist. Having finally found something I was satisfied with, welcome to my first ever rankdown (and possibly the only one I'll ever do)! It contains several of my all-time favourites from the 2000's, but also several discoveries that I’ve made over the recent years that I've grown to like more and more, which have in their turn become staples for me.

I made an effort to only include, to the best of my ability, songs that we have not ranked as part of retro Alt rankdowns, while maintaining a reasonable amount of familiarity in order to keep things fresh but accessible. The only partial exception is "The Feel Good Drag", because I would like this specific version (i.e. the original one) to be ranked, which was not the one ranked on the retro rankdown. I also think the vast majority of these songs have not been ranked in personal rankdowns either (though some have been used in other tournaments). Should there be an oversight, however, I’m sure you’ll let me know.

PM me (Geometrical ) your ranking of these 35 songs. Include artists or not, whatever. As for a deadline... I'll probably be a bit busy in the coming weeks, so how about 5-6 weeks for this, for a deadline of Monday, November 25? It's not the biggest playlist ever, clocking just under 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Song - Artist
Antibodies – Poni Hoax
Born to Lie – DREAMCAR
Brother Down – Sam Roberts Band
Carnival of Rust – Poets of the Fall
Crystal - New Order
Dark and Stormy – Hot Chip
Empty with You – The Used
Ever (Foreign Flag) – Team Sleep
Farewell to the Fairground – White Lies
Fast to the End - Thursday
First to Love – Blaqk Audio
Ghost Ship of Cannibal Rats – Billy Talent
Gimme Sympathy – Metric
Going Inside – John Frusciante
Growing Old is Getting Old – Silversun Pickups
Hunting for Witches – Bloc Party
Ice to Never – The Black Queen
In Too Far – Acceptance
Lights & Music – Cut Copy
Loud Pipes – Ratatat
Make It Wit Chu – Queens of the Stone Age
Man I Used To Be - K-OS
Night of the Hunter – Thirty Seconds to Mars
Noticed – Mutemath
Obstacle 1 – Interpol
Rebellion (Lies) – Arcade Fire
Sea Within a Sea – The Horrors
Somewhere to Hide – Shiny Toy Guns
Synesthesia – AFI
Telepathy - ††† (Crosses)
The Feel Good Drag – Anberlin
Waiting… - City and Colour
Wet Sand – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Weapon of Choice – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
What a Waster – The Libertines

The playlist can be found below. I've tagged most Alt regulars (actually just stole a taglist from an old thread, and doing so almost tagged myself)... let me know if you want to be tagged/untagged, of course

no mo playlist


Seems like Synesthesia is not available on Spotify US (though it is available in Canada, it seems), so here's a YouTube video below to help

SPOILER: Click to show

Red Daryl the Beryl peacebone lyhom Walking Contradiction Web Troy dm2081 Pipa wheatsquares33 maine Lordef†ones Doc Indie Party Rock American Idiot Leaf craziaskowboi @xfer janinho Sambalada YotamTS rowellfarm490 Beno alexcuse Albie Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast @humanshazam Beno @carseatlegrest Alex1901 @doinktheclown singingrulebritannia MoD somelikeitwhen Mr. Thonk Eyes Zach @trilogy Az Paynter commerce196 newpower

Participants
Geometrical
singingrulebritannia
@humanshazam
wheatsquares33
@trilogy
Troy
American Idiot
Doc Indie Party Rock
Daryl the Beryl
Juan Carlos
alexcuse
Lordef†ones
Leaf
rowellfarm490
Beno
Red
maine
@carseatlegrest
nickd
Zach
peacebone

[Albie]

/in

[Lordef†ones]

Not only Chino once, but TWICE. I'm in.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

You have three songs featuring Davey Havok, so I have no choice but to join in.  ;)

[Deleted]

Allo! Just dropping a casual 4 week notice for this.

Also casually made one subtle change to the playlist, because one of my original songs had actually been ranked already despite my detective search of previous Alt rankdowns.

And yeah, naturally, if you wanna be untagged/tagged, just let me know.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Tags!}Red Daryl the Beryl peacebone lyhom Walking Contradiction Web Troy dm2081 Pipa wheatsquares33 maine Lordef†ones Doc Indie Party Rock American Idiot Leaf craziaskowboi @xfer janinho Sambalada YotamTS rowellfarm490 Beno alexcuse Albie Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast @humanshazam Beno @carseatlegrest Alex1901 @doinktheclown singingrulebritannia MoD somelikeitwhen Mr. Thonk Eyes Zach @trilogy Az Paynter commerce196 newpower

[Troy]

I will do my best to find the time to do this

[Deleted]

Hi! This is a friendly weekly reminder that this is due in 3 weeks. Thanks to resident early bird singingrulebritannia for submitting a second list.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Tags!}Red Daryl the Beryl peacebone lyhom Walking Contradiction Web Troy dm2081 Pipa wheatsquares33 maine Lordef†ones Doc Indie Party Rock American Idiot Leaf craziaskowboi @xfer janinho Sambalada YotamTS rowellfarm490 Beno alexcuse Albie Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast @humanshazam Beno @carseatlegrest Alex1901 @doinktheclown MoD somelikeitwhen Mr. Thonk Eyes Zach @trilogy Az Paynter commerce196 newpower

[nickd]

Count me in.

[singingrulebritannia]

you asked me what my rating distribution was via PM but I might as well answer out in the open

#1: 4.5/5
#2-4: 4
#5-21: 3.5
#22-33: 3
#34 & 35: 2.5

[craziaskowboi]

This is a maybe for me.

[Deleted]

I almost stopped myself from checking this one, but then I saw Cut Copy and Hot Chip... I'll try to get to something soon.

[Deleted]

Yo. This is another tagging session, just short of the 2 week notice. Thanks to shazam for submitting another list!

SPOILER: Click to show

{Tags}Red Daryl the Beryl peacebone lyhom Walking Contradiction Web Troy dm2081 Pipa wheatsquares33 maine Lordef†ones Doc Indie Party Rock American Idiot Leaf craziaskowboi @xfer janinho Sambalada YotamTS rowellfarm490 Beno alexcuse Albie Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast Beno @carseatlegrest Alex1901 @doinktheclown MoD somelikeitwhen Mr. Thonk Eyes Zach @trilogy Az Paynter commerce196 newpower nickd

[Troy]

i'm about halfway done w/ this rankdown

[Deleted]

Hey! We're getting closer to the deadline now. With this due on the 25th, we're almost 1 week away from the deadline. Thanks to wheatsquares and Trilogy for sending lists during the past week.

I know there's at least 3 of you who've begun work on the list. With 90 Alt over, I'll start tagging people slightly more frequently during this theoretical final week before the deadline. Ideally, I'd like to close the rankdown on its current due date, but it's not outside the realm of possibility that I might extend by few days, if need be. However, don't necessarily count on that happening. Once submissions are closed, reveals should begin on the same day, or on the day after.

As usual, if you want to be removed from the taglist, or tagged for only the results, just let me know.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Clever pun-less taglist}Red Daryl the Beryl peacebone lyhom Walking Contradiction Web Troy dm2081 Pipa maine Lordef†ones Doc Indie Party Rock American Idiot Leaf craziaskowboi @xfer janinho Sambalada YotamTS rowellfarm490 Beno alexcuse Albie Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast Beno @carseatlegrest Alex1901 @doinktheclown MoD somelikeitwhen Mr. Thonk Eyes Zach Az Paynter commerce196 newpower nickd

[American Idiot]

Ok... I'm not lying when I say that this one of the best personal rankdowns that I've ever done. I rated 30 of 35 songs a 3.5/5 or higher. Nothing below a 3/5. That's just insane! Looking forward to the reveals to come...

[Deleted]

5 days left! Lists have been coming in at a pleasant rate; thanks to Tom and American Idiot for their respective lists since my last tagging session.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Tags!}Red Daryl the Beryl peacebone lyhom Walking Contradiction Web dm2081 Pipa maine Lordef†ones Doc Indie Party Rock Leaf craziaskowboi @xfer janinho Sambalada YotamTS rowellfarm490 Beno alexcuse Albie Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast Beno @carseatlegrest Alex1901 @doinktheclown MoD somelikeitwhen Mr. Thonk Eyes Zach Az Paynter commerce196 newpower nickd

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

just sent. I knew about ten of these songs, but enjoyed 25 of them. Great list of songs

[Deleted]

Hey! So here's the scoop: I'm going to be very busy on Monday and Tuesday, and probably won't have much time to dedicate to reveals. Given my situation and the fact that Active 90 got pushed back to the following week, I've briefly extended the deadline for this by 2 days, making this now due on November 27. However, I don't plan on extending it more after this, so make good use of those extra 2 days if you were planning on submitting! :) Thanks to Doc for sending a list since my last tagging session.

With the new deadline, you now still have 4 days left to submit.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Tags!}Red Daryl the Beryl peacebone lyhom Walking Contradiction Web dm2081 Pipa maine Lordef†ones Leaf craziaskowboi @xfer janinho Sambalada YotamTS rowellfarm490 Beno alexcuse Albie Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast Beno @carseatlegrest Alex1901 @doinktheclown MoD somelikeitwhen Mr. Thonk Eyes Zach Az Paynter commerce196 newpower nickd

[Red]

When I get done with the 1990 Hot 100, this is next. Gonna try to get this done tomorrow.

[maine]

I still gotta finish this one. I have about 10 songs done so far.

[Beno]

Thank you so much for this, I’ll 100% get it in now

[Deleted]

2 days left! I'm probably going to pull the plug on entries at around 9PM EST on Wednesday.

We're up to 11 lists now, thanks to Daryl, Juan Carlos and alexcuse for sending their lists in!

SPOILER: Click to show

{Tags}Red peacebone lyhom Walking Contradiction Web dm2081 Pipa maine Lordef†ones Leaf craziaskowboi @xfer janinho Sambalada YotamTS rowellfarm490 Beno Albie Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast Beno @carseatlegrest Alex1901 @doinktheclown MoD somelikeitwhen Mr. Thonk Eyes Zach Az Paynter commerce196 newpower nickd

[Deleted]

Hi! We're down to 1 day left! I'm planning on closing submissions at the time I've scheduled in my previous post. If you do somehow think you'll need slightly more time, let me know, but I'm pretty confident submissions will be closing tomorrow evening.

Thanks to the three people who submitted new lists since yesterday - Lord, Leaf and Rowell.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Tags!}Red peacebone lyhom Walking Contradiction Web dm2081 Pipa maine craziaskowboi @xfer janinho Sambalada YotamTS Beno Albie Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast Beno @carseatlegrest Alex1901 @doinktheclown MoD somelikeitwhen Mr. Thonk Eyes Zach Az Paynter commerce196 newpower nickd

[Beno]

I’ve got like 10 songs left now, I’ll have it in pretty soon

[maine]

Just submitted. This might be the best rankdown I've done in a long time.

[Deleted]

We're down to about 5 hours before I'll stop accepting submissions. At this point, I'm not going to tag anymore, but if you somehow see this just now and think you'll need some extra time, let me know.

Given I'm still pretty busy, I'll try to reveal songs 31-35 tonight, and then reveal the other songs in bunches of 10 in the coming days.

In the meantime, for you submitters, here's a pretty minimalist survey.

1. What songs will make the top 5?
2. What songs will be bottom 5?
3. Whats songs are bound to have a high standard deviation?
4. Most important of all - which song did I rank at #1?

SPOILER: Click to show

{Submitters}singingrulebritannia @humanshazam wheatsquares33 @trilogy Troy American Idiot Doc Indie Party Rock Daryl the Beryl Juan Carlos alexcuse Lordef†ones Leaf rowellfarm490 Beno Red maine

[Deleted]

I’m gonna need a few extra hours to finish this. I have about 20 songs to get to.

[nickd]

Top 5: Rebellions, Make It Wit Chu, Obstacle 1, Gimme Sympathy, Telepathy?

Bottom 5: Going Inside, Synthesthesia, Ever, Noticed, Sea Within A Sea?

High SD: Empty With You, In Too Far, Ghost Ship of Cannibal Rats?

Geometrical's #1: Gimme Sympathy?

[Deleted]

Submissions are now closed.

Currently waiting for one last list to come in. Reveals 31-35 should take place shortly thereafter while I finish preparing everything.

[Deleted]

Let the reveals begin!

A whopping 21 participants ended up taking part in this rankdown - I'm very grateful for everyone who submitted, so massive thanks to you all!

Final participants:
1. Geometrical
2. singingrulebritannia
3. @humanshazam
4. wheatsquares33
5. @trilogy
6. Troy
7. American Idiot
8. Doc Indie Party Rock
9. Daryl the Beryl
10. Juan Carlos
11. alexcuse
12. Lordef†ones
13. Leaf
14. rowellfarm490
15. Beno
16. Red
17. maine
18. @carseatlegrest
19. nickd
20. Zach
21. peacebone

---

#35 starts us off with a rather high standard deviation, specifically, the 7th highest. Despite this being the first reveal, 2 unlucky people will already lose top 10s, and to make things worse, both are top 5s. Those high rankings were countered by 13 bottom 10s of which 8 are bottom 5s. This song hung out in the bottom 5 almost the entire time, breaking out of it for a single ranking.