2009 AAA Year-End Rankdown! (SUBMISSIONS CLOSED)

[wheatsquares33]

90 Preview

Top halves: 3
Bottom halves: 18

Top 10s: 0
Bottom 10s: 1

Highest placement: 39
Lowest placement: 92

SD: 15.858 (16th lowest)

Perfect Rankings: 3

Me + Mayman 87
@trilogy 88
singingrulebritannia 85
Red 88
Troy 86
razorshark 89
khan 92
rowellfarm490 92
Doc Indie Party Rock 92
DadJokes 85
BlurryKyle 86
BB🌕 86
aerodynamite 86
maine 90
American Idiot 89
Leo ✔ 89
Daryl the Beryl 89
recordyear 89
Leaf 90
Az Paynter 90

[wheatsquares33]

Kind of a fun, weird song title. “Fun” and “weird” are not words I would use to describe the song itself though. (also Elevator Boots deserved better)

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#90


When I Dream of Michelangelo
Counting Crows

Year-End Position: 18
Peak: #7
Weeks: 26
Chart Points: 595

Points: 550
SD: 15.858 (16th lowest)

Doc Indie Party Rock – 39
recordyear – 46
DadJokes – 46

Troy – 56
aerodynamite – 69
wheatsquares33 – 69
Az Paynter – 70
American Idiot – 73
singingrulebritannia – 73
Leaf – 80
BlurryKyle – 82
khan – 82
@trilogy – 82
Leo ✔ – 84
BB🌕 – 85
razorshark – 85
rowellfarm490 – 88
maine – 90
Mayman – 90
Red – 90

Daryl the Beryl – 92

Performance history
#31 1994 Active (Round Here), #32 1994 Alternative (Mr. Jones), #33 1994 Active (Mr. Jones), #40 1996 Active (Angels of the Silences), #41 Alternative (Round Here), #42 1997 Active (Daylight Fading), #46 1994 Active (Rain King), #46 1995 Active (A Murder of One), #46 1997 Active (A Long December), #49 1996 Alternative (Angels of the Silences), #53 2000 Alternative (Hanginaround), #59 1997 Alternative (A Long December), #69 1994 Alternative (Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)), #83 2014 AAA (Scarecrow), #87 2012 AAA (Untitled (Love Song)), #90 2021 AAA (Elevator Boots)

Spectators
FlashingLight Gonza'90

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Adele - Right as Rain
Amy MacDonald - This Is the Life
Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells
Augustana - I Still Ain't Over You
Bell X1 - The Great Defector
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Fly One Time
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Shimmer & Shine
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sugarfoot
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Bruce Springsteen - My Lucky Day
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
Butch Walker - The Weight of Her
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
Carbon Leaf - Miss Hollywood
Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For
Chris Isaak - We Let Her Down
Colbie Caillat - Fallin' for You
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor II
Coldplay - Lovers in Japan
Collective Soul - Staring Down
Dave Matthews Band - Funny the Way It Is
Dave Matthews Band - Why I Am
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
David Gray - Fugitive
Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes
Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight
Depeche Mode - Wrong
Diane Birch - Nothing But a Miracle
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows
Eric Hutchinson - OK, It's Alright With Me
Eric Hutchinson - Rock & Roll
Erin McCarley - Love, Save the Empty
Erin McCarley - Pitter-Pat
Five for Fighting - Chances
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
Gavin Rossdale - Can't Stop the World
Gomez - Airstream Driver
Green Day - 21 Guns
Green Day - Know Your Enemy
Green River Ordinance - Come On
Howie Day - Be There
Indigo Girls - What Are You Like
Ingrid Michaelson - Maybe
Jack Johnson - Go On
Jack's Mannequin - The Resolution
James Morrison - Nothing Ever Hurt Like You
Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers
Keane - The Lovers Are Losing
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
Lily Allen - The Fear
Mat Kearney - Closer to Love
Meiko - Boys With Girlfriends
Monsters of Folk - Say Please
Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
O.A.R. - This Town
Paolo Nutini - Candy
Pearl Jam - The Fixer
Pete Yorn - Don't Wanna Cry
Phish - Backwards Down the Number Line
Pretenders - Love's a Mystery
Ray LaMontagne - Let It Be Me
Ray LaMontagne - You Are the Best Thing
Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Buster Voodoo
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Fix It
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Magick
Sam Roberts - Them Kids
Serena Ryder - All for Love
Serena Ryder - Little Bit of Red
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters
Susan Tedeschi - True
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
The Derek Trucks Band - Down in the Flood
The Fireman - Sing the Changes
The Fray - Never Say Never
The Fray - You Found Me
The Killers - Human
The Killers - Spaceman
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Tori Amos - Welcome to England
Tracy Chapman - Sing for You
Tyrone Wells - More
U2 - I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
U2 - Magnificent
Wilco - You Never Know

[Red]

Good job, Adam, you found a way to make a title as insane and as weird as "When I Dream of Michelangelo" mind-numbingly boring.

Impressive, really.

[wheatsquares33]

89 Preview

Top halves: 2
Bottom halves: 20

Top 10s: 0
Bottom 10s: 5

Highest placement: 24
Lowest placement: 99

SD: 18.803

Perfect Rankings: 0

Me + Mayman 80
@trilogy 81
singingrulebritannia 88
Red 85
Troy 92
razorshark 88
khan 86
rowellfarm490 88
Doc Indie Party Rock 85
DadJokes 91
BlurryKyle 93
BB🌕 94
aerodynamite 93
maine 94
American Idiot 93
Leo ✔ 93
Daryl the Beryl 92
recordyear 92
Leaf 91
Az Paynter 89

[maine]

I like James Morrison's voice. I don't know if we're ranking it in AAA, but I've always really liked "Broken Strings" from him.

[wheatsquares33]

I guess Love Remains the Same was a pretty big hit, but it is kinda surprising to see something so post-grunge-y only charting on AAA.

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#89


Can’t Stop the World
Gavin Rossdale

Year-End Position: 89
Peak: #31
Weeks: 9
Chart Points: 60

Points: 575
SD: 18.803

Az Paynter – 24
Doc Indie Party Rock – 34

razorshark – 59
American Idiot – 66
recordyear – 67
Leaf – 68
Daryl the Beryl – 69
khan – 69
Leo ✔ – 71
wheatsquares33 – 73
aerodynamite – 74
Red – 74
@trilogy – 75
maine – 80
Mayman – 80
rowellfarm490 – 87

Troy – 91
singingrulebritannia – 92
DadJokes – 96
BB🌕 – 98
BlurryKyle – 99

Performance history
#39 2002 Active (Adrenaline), #51 2002 Alternative (Adrenaline)

Spectators
FlashingLight Gonza'90

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Adele - Right as Rain
Amy MacDonald - This Is the Life
Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells
Augustana - I Still Ain't Over You
Bell X1 - The Great Defector
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Fly One Time
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Shimmer & Shine
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sugarfoot
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Bruce Springsteen - My Lucky Day
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
Butch Walker - The Weight of Her
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
Carbon Leaf - Miss Hollywood
Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For
Chris Isaak - We Let Her Down
Colbie Caillat - Fallin' for You
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor II
Coldplay - Lovers in Japan
Collective Soul - Staring Down
Dave Matthews Band - Funny the Way It Is
Dave Matthews Band - Why I Am
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
David Gray - Fugitive
Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes
Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight
Depeche Mode - Wrong
Diane Birch - Nothing But a Miracle
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows
Eric Hutchinson - OK, It's Alright With Me
Eric Hutchinson - Rock & Roll
Erin McCarley - Love, Save the Empty
Erin McCarley - Pitter-Pat
Five for Fighting - Chances
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
Gomez - Airstream Driver
Green Day - 21 Guns
Green Day - Know Your Enemy
Green River Ordinance - Come On
Howie Day - Be There
Indigo Girls - What Are You Like
Ingrid Michaelson - Maybe
Jack Johnson - Go On
Jack's Mannequin - The Resolution
James Morrison - Nothing Ever Hurt Like You
Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers
Keane - The Lovers Are Losing
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
Lily Allen - The Fear
Mat Kearney - Closer to Love
Meiko - Boys With Girlfriends
Monsters of Folk - Say Please
Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
O.A.R. - This Town
Paolo Nutini - Candy
Pearl Jam - The Fixer
Pete Yorn - Don't Wanna Cry
Phish - Backwards Down the Number Line
Pretenders - Love's a Mystery
Ray LaMontagne - Let It Be Me
Ray LaMontagne - You Are the Best Thing
Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Buster Voodoo
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Fix It
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Magick
Sam Roberts - Them Kids
Serena Ryder - All for Love
Serena Ryder - Little Bit of Red
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters
Susan Tedeschi - True
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
The Derek Trucks Band - Down in the Flood
The Fireman - Sing the Changes
The Fray - Never Say Never
The Fray - You Found Me
The Killers - Human
The Killers - Spaceman
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Tori Amos - Welcome to England
Tracy Chapman - Sing for You
Tyrone Wells - More
U2 - I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
U2 - Magnificent
Wilco - You Never Know

[Leo ✔]

Apr 11, 2023 20:06:17 GMT -5 maine said:

I like James Morrison's voice. I don't know if we're ranking it in AAA, but I've always really liked "Broken Strings" from him.

"Broken Strings" is great, he also has another decent song called "You Make It Real", so I had a lot of expectations and ended disappointed.

[Red]

This is just not Gavin's strong suit.

[wheatsquares33]

88 Preview

Top halves: 1
Bottom halves: 20

Top 10s: 0
Bottom 10s: 3

Highest placement: 31
Lowest placement: 98

SD: 14.139 (8th lowest)

Perfect Rankings: 1

Me + Mayman 84
@trilogy 84
singingrulebritannia 79
Red 83
Troy 84
razorshark 78
khan 82
rowellfarm490 84
Doc Indie Party Rock 88
DadJokes 87
BlurryKyle 84
BB🌕 84
aerodynamite 82
maine 85
American Idiot 85
Leo ✔ 87
Daryl the Beryl 87
recordyear 86
Leaf 89
Az Paynter 88

[wheatsquares33]

Heard this at the bookstore the other day. Think that’s the most interesting thing I can say about “OK, It’s Alright with Me” by Eric Hutchinson.

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#88


OK, It’s Alright with Me
Eric Hutchinson

Year-End Position: 27
Peak: #5
Weeks: 24
Chart Points: 524

Points: 582
SD: 14.139 (8th lowest)

Az Paynter – 40
razorshark – 41

DadJokes – 58
BlurryKyle – 65
singingrulebritannia – 66
recordyear – 66
aerodynamite – 67
American Idiot – 72
Doc Indie Party Rock – 73
Troy – 73
BB🌕 – 76
Mayman – 77
wheatsquares33 – 77
@trilogy – 80
khan – 84
maine – 85
Leo ✔ – 86
Red – 86
Leaf – 88
rowellfarm490 – 89
Daryl the Beryl – 90

Performance history
#89 2012 AAA (Watching You Watch Him)

Spectators
FlashingLight Gonza'90

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Adele - Right as Rain
Amy MacDonald - This Is the Life
Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells
Augustana - I Still Ain't Over You
Bell X1 - The Great Defector
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Fly One Time
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Shimmer & Shine
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sugarfoot
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Bruce Springsteen - My Lucky Day
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
Butch Walker - The Weight of Her
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
Carbon Leaf - Miss Hollywood
Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For
Chris Isaak - We Let Her Down
Colbie Caillat - Fallin' for You
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor II
Coldplay - Lovers in Japan
Collective Soul - Staring Down
Dave Matthews Band - Funny the Way It Is
Dave Matthews Band - Why I Am
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
David Gray - Fugitive
Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes
Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight
Depeche Mode - Wrong
Diane Birch - Nothing But a Miracle
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows
Eric Hutchinson - Rock & Roll
Erin McCarley - Love, Save the Empty
Erin McCarley - Pitter-Pat
Five for Fighting - Chances
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
Gomez - Airstream Driver
Green Day - 21 Guns
Green Day - Know Your Enemy
Green River Ordinance - Come On
Howie Day - Be There
Indigo Girls - What Are You Like
Ingrid Michaelson - Maybe
Jack Johnson - Go On
Jack's Mannequin - The Resolution
James Morrison - Nothing Ever Hurt Like You
Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers
Keane - The Lovers Are Losing
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
Lily Allen - The Fear
Mat Kearney - Closer to Love
Meiko - Boys With Girlfriends
Monsters of Folk - Say Please
Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
O.A.R. - This Town
Paolo Nutini - Candy
Pearl Jam - The Fixer
Pete Yorn - Don't Wanna Cry
Phish - Backwards Down the Number Line
Pretenders - Love's a Mystery
Ray LaMontagne - Let It Be Me
Ray LaMontagne - You Are the Best Thing
Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Buster Voodoo
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Fix It
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Magick
Sam Roberts - Them Kids
Serena Ryder - All for Love
Serena Ryder - Little Bit of Red
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters
Susan Tedeschi - True
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
The Derek Trucks Band - Down in the Flood
The Fireman - Sing the Changes
The Fray - Never Say Never
The Fray - You Found Me
The Killers - Human
The Killers - Spaceman
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Tori Amos - Welcome to England
Tracy Chapman - Sing for You
Tyrone Wells - More
U2 - I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
U2 - Magnificent
Wilco - You Never Know

[Red]

I think that's the most interesting thing anyone can say about this song, really. A proper snoozefest.

[wheatsquares33]

87 Preview

Top halves: 1
Bottom halves: 20

Top 10s: 0
Bottom 10s: 3

Highest placement: 31
Lowest placement: 98

SD: 16.515 (20th lowest)

Perfect Rankings: 0

Me + Mayman 91
@trilogy 87
singingrulebritannia 80
Red 79
Troy 77
razorshark 84
khan 93
rowellfarm490 87
Doc Indie Party Rock 90
DadJokes 88
BlurryKyle 85
BB🌕 82
aerodynamite 81
maine 82
American Idiot 83
Leo ✔ 86
Daryl the Beryl 86
recordyear 87
Leaf 86
Az Paynter 87

[wheatsquares33]

Bye Eric. This is the last time we’ll see him in retro AAA (and it would surprise me if we ranked him anywhere else honestly). Pretty clean 87-88-89 rankdown history though.

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#87


Rock & Roll
Eric Hutchinson

Year-End Position: 19
Peak: #1
Weeks: 17
Chart Points: 591

Points: 608
SD: 16.515 (20th lowest)

Az Paynter – 31

Doc Indie Party Rock – 54
Troy – 57
DadJokes – 57
aerodynamite – 62
BlurryKyle – 63
singingrulebritannia – 63
@trilogy – 63
BB🌕 – 67
maine – 69
rowellfarm490 – 69
Leaf – 70
Red – 78
wheatsquares33 – 78
American Idiot – 85
Daryl the Beryl – 85
Leo ✔ – 85
recordyear – 89

razorshark – 93
Mayman – 97
khan – 98

Performance history
#88 2010 AAA (OK, It’s Alright with Me), #89 2012 AAA (Watching You Watch Him)

Spectators
FlashingLight Gonza'90

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Adele - Right as Rain
Amy MacDonald - This Is the Life
Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells
Augustana - I Still Ain't Over You
Bell X1 - The Great Defector
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Fly One Time
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Shimmer & Shine
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sugarfoot
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Bruce Springsteen - My Lucky Day
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
Butch Walker - The Weight of Her
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
Carbon Leaf - Miss Hollywood
Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For
Chris Isaak - We Let Her Down
Colbie Caillat - Fallin' for You
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor II
Coldplay - Lovers in Japan
Collective Soul - Staring Down
Dave Matthews Band - Funny the Way It Is
Dave Matthews Band - Why I Am
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
David Gray - Fugitive
Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes
Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight
Depeche Mode - Wrong
Diane Birch - Nothing But a Miracle
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows
Erin McCarley - Love, Save the Empty
Erin McCarley - Pitter-Pat
Five for Fighting - Chances
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
Gomez - Airstream Driver
Green Day - 21 Guns
Green Day - Know Your Enemy
Green River Ordinance - Come On
Howie Day - Be There
Indigo Girls - What Are You Like
Ingrid Michaelson - Maybe
Jack Johnson - Go On
Jack's Mannequin - The Resolution
James Morrison - Nothing Ever Hurt Like You
Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers
Keane - The Lovers Are Losing
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
Lily Allen - The Fear
Mat Kearney - Closer to Love
Meiko - Boys With Girlfriends
Monsters of Folk - Say Please
Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
O.A.R. - This Town
Paolo Nutini - Candy
Pearl Jam - The Fixer
Pete Yorn - Don't Wanna Cry
Phish - Backwards Down the Number Line
Pretenders - Love's a Mystery
Ray LaMontagne - Let It Be Me
Ray LaMontagne - You Are the Best Thing
Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Buster Voodoo
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Fix It
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Magick
Sam Roberts - Them Kids
Serena Ryder - All for Love
Serena Ryder - Little Bit of Red
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters
Susan Tedeschi - True
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
The Derek Trucks Band - Down in the Flood
The Fireman - Sing the Changes
The Fray - Never Say Never
The Fray - You Found Me
The Killers - Human
The Killers - Spaceman
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Tori Amos - Welcome to England
Tracy Chapman - Sing for You
Tyrone Wells - More
U2 - I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
U2 - Magnificent
Wilco - You Never Know

[Red]

Bye, Eric. You were certainly a musician who made songs.

[wheatsquares33]

86 Preview

Top halves: 4
Bottom halves: 17

Top 10s: 0
Bottom 10s: 5

Highest placement: 17
Lowest placement: 99

SD: 23.231

Perfect Rankings: 0

Me + Mayman 70
@trilogy 74
singingrulebritannia 75
Red 76
Troy 79
razorshark 86
khan 94
rowellfarm490 91
Doc Indie Party Rock 93
DadJokes 86
BlurryKyle 89
BB🌕 92
aerodynamite 92
maine 89
American Idiot 91
Leo ✔ 91
Daryl the Beryl 90
recordyear 88
Leaf 87
Az Paynter 86

[wheatsquares33]

If there is another more "musician who made songs" than Eric Hutchinson, it may just be Tyrone Wells. Kinda giving CCM vibes, but I don't hate it.

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#86


More
Tyrone Wells

Year-End Position: 42
Peak: #13
Weeks: 22
Chart Points: 373

Points: 621
SD: 23.231

Az Paynter – 17
maine – 32
recordyear – 38
DadJokes – 41

Doc Indie Party Rock – 57
wheatsquares33 – 65
Leaf – 66
Troy – 68
@trilogy – 69
Mayman – 72
rowellfarm490 – 75
singingrulebritannia – 78
Daryl the Beryl – 80
Leo ✔ – 87
American Idiot – 88
Red – 89

razorshark – 91
BlurryKyle – 92
khan – 97
aerodynamite – 99
BB🌕 – 99

Performance history
Debut

Spectators
FlashingLight Gonza'90

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Adele - Right as Rain
Amy MacDonald - This Is the Life
Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells
Augustana - I Still Ain't Over You
Bell X1 - The Great Defector
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Fly One Time
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Shimmer & Shine
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sugarfoot
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Bruce Springsteen - My Lucky Day
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
Butch Walker - The Weight of Her
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
Carbon Leaf - Miss Hollywood
Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For
Chris Isaak - We Let Her Down
Colbie Caillat - Fallin' for You
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor II
Coldplay - Lovers in Japan
Collective Soul - Staring Down
Dave Matthews Band - Funny the Way It Is
Dave Matthews Band - Why I Am
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
David Gray - Fugitive
Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes
Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight
Depeche Mode - Wrong
Diane Birch - Nothing But a Miracle
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows
Erin McCarley - Love, Save the Empty
Erin McCarley - Pitter-Pat
Five for Fighting - Chances
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
Gomez - Airstream Driver
Green Day - 21 Guns
Green Day - Know Your Enemy
Green River Ordinance - Come On
Howie Day - Be There
Indigo Girls - What Are You Like
Ingrid Michaelson - Maybe
Jack Johnson - Go On
Jack's Mannequin - The Resolution
James Morrison - Nothing Ever Hurt Like You
Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers
Keane - The Lovers Are Losing
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
Lily Allen - The Fear
Mat Kearney - Closer to Love
Meiko - Boys With Girlfriends
Monsters of Folk - Say Please
Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
O.A.R. - This Town
Paolo Nutini - Candy
Pearl Jam - The Fixer
Pete Yorn - Don't Wanna Cry
Phish - Backwards Down the Number Line
Pretenders - Love's a Mystery
Ray LaMontagne - Let It Be Me
Ray LaMontagne - You Are the Best Thing
Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Buster Voodoo
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Fix It
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Magick
Sam Roberts - Them Kids
Serena Ryder - All for Love
Serena Ryder - Little Bit of Red
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters
Susan Tedeschi - True
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
The Derek Trucks Band - Down in the Flood
The Fireman - Sing the Changes
The Fray - Never Say Never
The Fray - You Found Me
The Killers - Human
The Killers - Spaceman
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Tori Amos - Welcome to England
Tracy Chapman - Sing for You
U2 - I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
U2 - Magnificent
Wilco - You Never Know

[Red]

Yeah, I feel like we're going to be hearing a lot more of this type of song in the future.

And I cannot wait to rank all of it low.

[wheatsquares33]

85 Preview

Top halves: 3
Bottom halves: 18

Top 10s: 0
Bottom 10s: 3

Highest placement: 11
Lowest placement: 98

SD: 22.311

Perfect Rankings: 1

Me + Mayman 90
@trilogy 91
singingrulebritannia 86
Red 89
Troy 89
razorshark 91
khan 80
rowellfarm490 79
Doc Indie Party Rock 87
DadJokes 89
BlurryKyle 90
BB🌕 88
aerodynamite 90
maine 83
American Idiot 86
Leo ✔ 85
Daryl the Beryl 83
recordyear 84
Leaf 85
Az Paynter 85

[wheatsquares33]

I like Pete Yorn enough, but this song is right up there with All We Are for “most boring song of the 2009 AAA rankdown award”.

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#85


Don’t Wanna Cry
Pete Yorn

Year-End Position: 22
Peak: #9
Weeks: 24
Chart Points: 582

Points: 625
SD: 22.311

khan – 11
maine – 24
Daryl the Beryl – 49

Leo ✔ – 56
Troy – 59
Leaf – 61
DadJokes – 64
singingrulebritannia – 69
Az Paynter – 75
BB🌕 – 75
recordyear – 76
@trilogy – 79
rowellfarm490 – 82
wheatsquares33 – 83
Mayman – 85
BlurryKyle – 87
aerodynamite – 88
razorshark – 90

Doc Indie Party Rock – 92
Red – 93
American Idiot – 98

Performance history
#28 2019 AAA (Calm Down), #43 2016 AAA (Lost Weekend), #45 2020 AAA (I Wanna Be the One)

Spectators
FlashingLight Gonza'90

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Adele - Right as Rain
Amy MacDonald - This Is the Life
Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells
Augustana - I Still Ain't Over You
Bell X1 - The Great Defector
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Fly One Time
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Shimmer & Shine
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sugarfoot
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Bruce Springsteen - My Lucky Day
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
Butch Walker - The Weight of Her
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
Carbon Leaf - Miss Hollywood
Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For
Chris Isaak - We Let Her Down
Colbie Caillat - Fallin' for You
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor II
Coldplay - Lovers in Japan
Collective Soul - Staring Down
Dave Matthews Band - Funny the Way It Is
Dave Matthews Band - Why I Am
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
David Gray - Fugitive
Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes
Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight
Depeche Mode - Wrong
Diane Birch - Nothing But a Miracle
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows
Erin McCarley - Love, Save the Empty
Erin McCarley - Pitter-Pat
Five for Fighting - Chances
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
Gomez - Airstream Driver
Green Day - 21 Guns
Green Day - Know Your Enemy
Green River Ordinance - Come On
Howie Day - Be There
Indigo Girls - What Are You Like
Ingrid Michaelson - Maybe
Jack Johnson - Go On
Jack's Mannequin - The Resolution
James Morrison - Nothing Ever Hurt Like You
Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers
Keane - The Lovers Are Losing
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
Lily Allen - The Fear
Mat Kearney - Closer to Love
Meiko - Boys With Girlfriends
Monsters of Folk - Say Please
Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
O.A.R. - This Town
Paolo Nutini - Candy
Pearl Jam - The Fixer
Phish - Backwards Down the Number Line
Pretenders - Love's a Mystery
Ray LaMontagne - Let It Be Me
Ray LaMontagne - You Are the Best Thing
Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Buster Voodoo
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Fix It
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Magick
Sam Roberts - Them Kids
Serena Ryder - All for Love
Serena Ryder - Little Bit of Red
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters
Susan Tedeschi - True
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
The Derek Trucks Band - Down in the Flood
The Fireman - Sing the Changes
The Fray - Never Say Never
The Fray - You Found Me
The Killers - Human
The Killers - Spaceman
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Tori Amos - Welcome to England
Tracy Chapman - Sing for You
U2 - I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
U2 - Magnificent
Wilco - You Never Know

[Red]

Oh, Pete, I know you're capable of better than this. You're certainly capable of less boring than this, my god.

[wheatsquares33]

84 Preview

Top halves: 3
Bottom halves: 18

Top 10s: 0
Bottom 10s: 2

Highest placement: 36
Lowest placement: 97

SD: 17.394

Perfect Rankings: 2

Me + Mayman 67
@trilogy 78
singingrulebritannia 77
Red 80
Troy 90
razorshark 83
khan 85
rowellfarm490 83
Doc Indie Party Rock 89
DadJokes 92
BlurryKyle 88
BB🌕 87
aerodynamite 87
maine 91
American Idiot 87
Leo ✔ 84
Daryl the Beryl 85
recordyear 85
Leaf 84
Az Paynter 84

[wheatsquares33]

Apr 11, 2023 20:35:08 GMT -5 Red said:

Oh, Pete, I know you're capable of better than this. You're certainly capable of less boring than this, my god.

Lol I go by Pete half the time irl, this comment really threw me off when I started reading it.

[wheatsquares33]

Don’t worry, we’ll have plenty more opportunities to rank Five for Fighting in retro AAA rankdowns.

---

#84


Chances
Five for Fighting

Year-End Position: 70
Peak: #25
Weeks: 16
Chart Points: 191

Points: 647
SD: 17.394

Leaf – 36
Leo ✔ – 40
American Idiot – 46

razorshark – 52
Az Paynter – 53
rowellfarm490 – 60
BlurryKyle – 62
wheatsquares33 – 64
Mayman – 66
BB🌕 – 74
recordyear – 74
khan – 77
aerodynamite – 79
singingrulebritannia – 79
Daryl the Beryl – 81
Doc Indie Party Rock – 84
DadJokes – 84
Red – 85
@trilogy – 86

Troy – 95
maine – 97

Performance history
Debut

Spectators
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{Remaining Songs}
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Adele - Right as Rain
Amy MacDonald - This Is the Life
Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells
Augustana - I Still Ain't Over You
Bell X1 - The Great Defector
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Fly One Time
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Shimmer & Shine
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sugarfoot
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Bruce Springsteen - My Lucky Day
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
Butch Walker - The Weight of Her
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
Carbon Leaf - Miss Hollywood
Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For
Chris Isaak - We Let Her Down
Colbie Caillat - Fallin' for You
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor II
Coldplay - Lovers in Japan
Collective Soul - Staring Down
Dave Matthews Band - Funny the Way It Is
Dave Matthews Band - Why I Am
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
David Gray - Fugitive
Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes
Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight
Depeche Mode - Wrong
Diane Birch - Nothing But a Miracle
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows
Erin McCarley - Love, Save the Empty
Erin McCarley - Pitter-Pat
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
Gomez - Airstream Driver
Green Day - 21 Guns
Green Day - Know Your Enemy
Green River Ordinance - Come On
Howie Day - Be There
Indigo Girls - What Are You Like
Ingrid Michaelson - Maybe
Jack Johnson - Go On
Jack's Mannequin - The Resolution
James Morrison - Nothing Ever Hurt Like You
Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers
Keane - The Lovers Are Losing
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
Lily Allen - The Fear
Mat Kearney - Closer to Love
Meiko - Boys With Girlfriends
Monsters of Folk - Say Please
Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
O.A.R. - This Town
Paolo Nutini - Candy
Pearl Jam - The Fixer
Phish - Backwards Down the Number Line
Pretenders - Love's a Mystery
Ray LaMontagne - Let It Be Me
Ray LaMontagne - You Are the Best Thing
Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Buster Voodoo
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Fix It
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Magick
Sam Roberts - Them Kids
Serena Ryder - All for Love
Serena Ryder - Little Bit of Red
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters
Susan Tedeschi - True
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
The Derek Trucks Band - Down in the Flood
The Fireman - Sing the Changes
The Fray - Never Say Never
The Fray - You Found Me
The Killers - Human
The Killers - Spaceman
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Tori Amos - Welcome to England
Tracy Chapman - Sing for You
U2 - I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
U2 - Magnificent
Wilco - You Never Know

[wheatsquares33]

83 Preview

Top halves: 4
Bottom halves: 17

Top 10s: 0
Bottom 10s: 6

Highest placement: 16
Lowest placement: 97

SD: 25.416

Perfect Rankings: 1

Me + Mayman 75
@trilogy 83
singingrulebritannia 90
Red 92
Troy 91
razorshark 92
khan 87
rowellfarm490 86
Doc Indie Party Rock 79
DadJokes 82
BlurryKyle 83
BB🌕 85
aerodynamite 88
maine 86
American Idiot 81
Leo ✔ 80
Daryl the Beryl 82
recordyear 82
Leaf 82
Az Paynter 83

[Red]

"Don’t worry, we’ll have plenty more opportunities to rank Five for Fighting in retro AAA rankdowns."

[wheatsquares33]

Honestly, I don’t mind this Collective Soul song, it’s okay enough pop rock.

---

#83


Staring Down
Collective Soul

Year-End Position: 58
Peak: #16
Weeks: 17
Chart Points: 279

Points: 663
SD: 25.416

American Idiot – 16
Doc Indie Party Rock – 20
Leo ✔ – 31
Az Paynter – 42

wheatsquares33 – 54
maine – 55
khan – 56
Troy – 62
DadJokes – 68
rowellfarm490 – 72
razorshark – 78
recordyear – 81
@trilogy – 83
BB🌕 – 89
BlurryKyle – 89

Leaf – 91
aerodynamite – 93
Mayman – 93
Daryl the Beryl – 94
singingrulebritannia – 94
Red – 97

Performance history
#12 1999 Active (Heavy), #16 1999 Alternative (Heavy), #25 2001 Active (Why Pt. 2), #47 1996 Alternative (The World I Know), #47 1999 Active (No More, No Less), #51 2000 Active (Why Pt. 2), #55 1995 Active (December), #55 1998 Active (She Said), #56 1996 Active (The World I Know), #56 2000 Alternative (Why Pt. 2), #57 1994 Active (Shine), #61 2005 Active (Counting the Days), #66 1995 Active (Gel), #66 1996 Active (Where the River Flows), #67 1994 Alternative (Shine), #67 1997 Active (Precious Declaration), #69 1995 Alternative (December), #69 1997 Active (Blame), #73 1997 Active (Listen), #78 1995 Active (Smashing Young Man), #78 1997 Alternative (Listen), #83 1997 Alternative (Precious Declaration), #89 1994 Active (Breathe), #89 1995 Alternative (Gel)

Spectators
FlashingLight Gonza'90

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Adele - Right as Rain
Amy MacDonald - This Is the Life
Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells
Augustana - I Still Ain't Over You
Bell X1 - The Great Defector
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Fly One Time
Ben Harper and Relentless7 - Shimmer & Shine
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears - Sugarfoot
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothin'
Bruce Springsteen - My Lucky Day
Bruce Springsteen - Working on a Dream
Butch Walker - The Weight of Her
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
Carbon Leaf - Miss Hollywood
Carolina Liar - Show Me What I'm Looking For
Chris Isaak - We Let Her Down
Colbie Caillat - Fallin' for You
Coldplay - Life in Technicolor II
Coldplay - Lovers in Japan
Dave Matthews Band - Funny the Way It Is
Dave Matthews Band - Why I Am
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
David Gray - Fugitive
Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes
Death Cab for Cutie - No Sunlight
Depeche Mode - Wrong
Diane Birch - Nothing But a Miracle
Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows
Erin McCarley - Love, Save the Empty
Erin McCarley - Pitter-Pat
Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
Gomez - Airstream Driver
Green Day - 21 Guns
Green Day - Know Your Enemy
Green River Ordinance - Come On
Howie Day - Be There
Indigo Girls - What Are You Like
Ingrid Michaelson - Maybe
Jack Johnson - Go On
Jack's Mannequin - The Resolution
James Morrison - Nothing Ever Hurt Like You
Jenny Lewis - Carpetbaggers
Keane - The Lovers Are Losing
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
Lily Allen - The Fear
Mat Kearney - Closer to Love
Meiko - Boys With Girlfriends
Monsters of Folk - Say Please
Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve
O.A.R. - This Town
Paolo Nutini - Candy
Pearl Jam - The Fixer
Phish - Backwards Down the Number Line
Pretenders - Love's a Mystery
Ray LaMontagne - Let It Be Me
Ray LaMontagne - You Are the Best Thing
Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Buster Voodoo
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Fix It
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Magick
Sam Roberts - Them Kids
Serena Ryder - All for Love
Serena Ryder - Little Bit of Red
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Snow Patrol - Crack the Shutters
Susan Tedeschi - True
The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
The Derek Trucks Band - Down in the Flood
The Fireman - Sing the Changes
The Fray - Never Say Never
The Fray - You Found Me
The Killers - Human
The Killers - Spaceman
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Tori Amos - Welcome to England
Tracy Chapman - Sing for You
U2 - I'll Go Crazy if I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
U2 - Magnificent
Wilco - You Never Know

[wheatsquares33]

82 Preview

Top halves: 4
Bottom halves: 17

Top 10s: 0
Bottom 10s: 3

Highest placement: 18
Lowest placement: 97

SD: 19.490

Perfect Rankings: 1

Me + Mayman 81
@trilogy 79
singingrulebritannia 82
Red 86
Troy 87
razorshark 85
khan 91
rowellfarm490 89
Doc Indie Party Rock 86
DadJokes 90
BlurryKyle 91
BB🌕 89
aerodynamite 84
maine 84
American Idiot 84
Leo ✔ 83
Daryl the Beryl 84
recordyear 83
Leaf 83
Az Paynter 82

[Red]

This might just be the most generic, bland song of this type that I've ever heard, and that's saying a lot. There is nothing that distinguishes it from anything else in this lane. Nothing.

[Leo ✔]

Chances was decent

[singingrulebritannia]

"Lucky" almost escaping the bottom 5 is concerning