zippy's electronic/dance variety rankdown (complete)

[zippy]

I have overlooked Squarepusher in the past and it wasn't until 2021 that I listened to him and various other electronic artists (many of them from the UK). I wouldn't consider this to be my top favorite on Feed Me Weird Things (that would be "Theme From Ernest Borgnine") but it's definitely a classic Drill and Bass track.

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#6



Squarepusher Theme
Squarepusher

Year of Release: 1996

285 Points
Standard Deviation: 6.089887905

@trilogy 3
aerodynamite 3
American Idiot 4
willapted33 4
wheatsquares33 6
singingrulebritannia 8
Geometrical 9
zippy 12
BB🌕 13
recordyear 14
decadevia 15
Red 16
reputainbow 20
Mirago 22


Movements:
14 9 9 5 5 4 3 4 4 6 5 6 6

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{Remaining Songs}Demons Theme
Livin' Loose
Plasticworld (Ft. Fats & TC)
Strawberry Skies
Summer Daze

[zippy]

#5 Preview

Points behind #4: 9

Bottom 10s: 0

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{Movements}zippy + decadevia 2
singingrulebritannia 7
@trilogy 7
aerodynamite 3
wheatsquares33 3
recordyear 5
American Idiot 5
BB🌕 6
Geometrical 5
reputainbow 4
willapted33 6
Mirago 4
Red 5

[zippy]

Like Nujabes, I found this song on YouTube in 2008 and it has been one of my most listened to deep house tracks over the years. The Pat Metheny sample never gets old. More recently, I found out that this song is popular in South Africa's house scene which is great to know.

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#5



Summer Daze
Nick Holder

Year of Release: 1999

296 Points
Standard Deviation: 5.343315488

decadevia 1
Geometrical 2
aerodynamite 4
wheatsquares33 4
Mirago 8
@trilogy 9
zippy 10
willapted33 10
BB🌕 12
reputainbow 14
Red 14
American Idiot 15
singingrulebritannia 16
recordyear 19


Movements:
2 7 7 3 3 5 5 6 5 4 6 4 5

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{Remaining Songs}Demons Theme
Livin' Loose
Plasticworld (Ft. Fats & TC)
Strawberry Skies

[aerodynamite]

a festive party vibe that's also warm and cozy, with its hypnotic atmosphere that envelops you and feels amazing

[zippy]

#4 Preview

Points behind #3: 7

Bottom 10s: 1

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{Movements}zippy + decadevia 6
singingrulebritannia 5
@trilogy 8
aerodynamite 10
wheatsquares33 11
recordyear 8
American Idiot 7
BB🌕 7
Geometrical 7
reputainbow 5
willapted33 4
Mirago 5
Red 4

[zippy]

I was interested in vaporwave music during the 2010s and reading about its most prominent artists led me to George Clanton's music. This track was on my psychedelic playlist and was removed when making the psychedelic rankdown playlist (yes again that rankdown I co-hosted with aero). Man, I really dig the sunny psychedelia vibes on this.

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#4



Livin' Loose
George Clanton

Year of Release: 2018

305 Points
Standard Deviation: 7.052644605

reputainbow 1
recordyear 2
BB🌕 3
willapted33 3
Red 4
zippy 5
singingrulebritannia 5
wheatsquares33 10
American Idiot 11
decadevia 13
@trilogy 14
Geometrical 15
Mirago 16
aerodynamite 27


Movements:
6 5 8 10 11 8 7 7 7 5 4 5 4

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{Remaining Songs}Demons Theme
Plasticworld (Ft. Fats & TC)
Strawberry Skies

[zippy]

#3 Preview

Points behind #2: 28

Bottom 10s: 2

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{Movements}zippy + decadevia 11
singingrulebritannia 10
@trilogy 6
aerodynamite 4
wheatsquares33 4
recordyear 6
American Idiot 4
BB🌕 3
Geometrical 3
reputainbow 3
willapted33 3
Mirago 3
Red 3

[zippy]

In 2008-2009, Hold Your Colour was my first drum and bass album and is still a great album to come back to. "Plasticworld" is my most played Pendulum track and I am pleased with how well it did here, especially compared to how the titular track performed in Aero's Dynamite rd.

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#3



Plasticworld (Ft. Fats & TC)
Pendulum

Year of Release: 2005

312 Points
Standard Deviation: 6.452337023

@trilogy 1
American Idiot 2
Geometrical 3
BB🌕 4
aerodynamite 5
wheatsquares33 5
Mirago 6
reputainbow 7
Red 10
zippy 11
decadevia 11
singingrulebritannia 13
recordyear 21
willapted33 23


Movements:
11 10 6 4 4 6 4 3 3 3 3 3 3

[decadevia]

sorry i haven't been too active during these reveals, i've been busy whenever they've happened previously.

anyways, summer daze being so high was such a pleasant shock to me. i listened to that song while at work and it was such a good song for concentrating for that!!

[aerodynamite]

Plasticworld somehow reaching top 3 when the rest of the top 4 were by far the biggest top 10 locks <3

[singingrulebritannia]

oop I started eating lunch and forgot this was going on

1 v 3 we WON

[zippy]

The top 2

Games - Strawberry Skies
vs
LTJ Bukem - Demons Theme

These songs are separated by only 2 points and were tied in the 11th movement.
Both have multiple 1 ranks and neither received a bottom 10 rank.
Two users ranked these songs as their top 2 and two users ranked both outside of their top 10.
4th lowest SD vs 5th lowest SD

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{Spoiler}zippy
decadevia
singingrulebritannia
@trilogy
aerodynamite
wheatsquares33
recordyear
American Idiot
BB🌕
Geometrical
reputainbow
willapted33
Mirago
Red

[decadevia]

2 vs 3 for me oh damn this is gonna be good

[zippy]

This is another song I remember listening to on my iPod during a summer vacation in 2011. I had forgotten the artist name and song name over the years until I rediscovered it thanks to Spotify's recommendations. Around the same time, I was looking into Ford and Lopatin and Oneohtrix Point Never and soon realized they were also this artist. Not one of my highest ranks, but still a really cool song to finish in the top 2.
_{I haven't been saying this when revealing previous songs with #1s but... my condolences singingrulebritannia , wheatsquares33 , and American Idiot}

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#2



Strawberry Skies
Games (aka Ford & Lopatin)

Year of Release: 2010

340 Points
Standard Deviation: 5.297284634 (5th lowest)

singingrulebritannia 1
wheatsquares33 1
American Idiot 1
BB🌕 2
decadevia 3
Red 3
Geometrical 4
willapted33 5
recordyear 8
aerodynamite 10
reputainbow 12
@trilogy 13
Mirago 15
zippy 16


Movements:
7 4 4 6 2 2 2 2 2 2 TIE 2 2

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Also thanks to Spotify's recommendations, I looked into LTJ Bukem's catalogue and other artists from his label Good Looking Records. I have added many songs of this atmospheric drum and bass style to my playlists since 2021, and for this rd, it felt necessary to include "Demons Theme" to represent DnB of the early 90s. This is an absolute classic that has only gotten better on repeated listens.
Congratulations to recordyear and BB🌕 for your #1 winning.

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#1



Demons Theme
LTJ Bukem

Year of Release: 1992

342 Points
Standard Deviation: 5.246962192 (4th lowest)

recordyear 1
BB🌕 1
decadevia 2
aerodynamite 2
wheatsquares33 2
singingrulebritannia 3
zippy 4
American Idiot 6
Red 6
Mirago 10
reputainbow 11
@trilogy 12
willapted33 15
Geometrical 17

Movements:
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 TIE 1 1

[decadevia]

awesome top 2!!! absolutely adore both of these.

thanks so much for hosting this rankdown, it was so much fun to do!!

[aerodynamite]

all-time great winner

[zippy]

I want to again thank everyone who submitted a list for my first personal rankdown. It was a personal challenge for me to stick to a schedule, manage all the statistics, and reveal everything on time but I also had a lot of fun doing this. I am unsure of when I will be hosting another personal rd, but there is something else that I will be hosting along with aerodynamite starting tomorrow: 2023 Summertime Madness!

Here are some final stats:

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{Rankdown Closeness}BB🌕 - 3.4
Geometrical - 3.666666667
Red - 4.266666667
singingrulebritannia - 4.333333333
@trilogy - 5.533333333
willapted33 - 5.533333333
wheatsquares33 - 5.8
recordyear - 6
zippy - 6.466666667
aerodynamite - 6.8
decadevia - 7
American Idiot - 7.933333333
Mirago - 8.4
reputainbow - 8.6

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{Perfect Rankings}Geometrical - 9
BB🌕 - 5
decadevia - 4
recordyear - 4
wheatsquares33 - 3
singingrulebritannia - 2
@trilogy - 2
aerodynamite - 2
reputainbow - 2
willapted33 - 2
Mirago - 2
zippy - 1
Red - 1
American Idiot - 0

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{#1-#30 Song Standings}

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{All Standard Deviations}

[recordyear]

I Love to Move In Here feels like a song that won't age well with subsequent listens, but the first two experience while listening to the playlist is great.

The vocal chops in Apollo Throwdown (Star Slinger Remix) sound like hiccup to me, which is very annoying to listen to.

Going mostly blind in this (in terms of artists) and my favorite discovery actually won the rankdown? Excellent. Also that futuristic album cover looks really cool.

Interesting experience for rankdown listening. Thanks zippy for hosting.

[singingrulebritannia]

As much as I would have liked to see the masterpiece that is "Strawberry Skies" win, it's very cool that, since it didn't, an artist with not a huge amount of crossover appeal was able to win