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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:09:14 GMT -5
Even back when I held my nose up at Karen and Richard Carpenter and acted like I was "above" listening to their music, this was the song I would listen to and say, "Okay, they made *one* good song." Of course, that has definitely changed over the years, given their multiple inclusions in past personals that I hosted, but this is definitely still my favorite of theirs.
Congrats on clearing your bottom ten, @trilogy.
#7 Carpenters Superstar
Points: 398 Standard Deviation: 9.56 Where I'd Rank It: #31 Where It Would Have Finished: w/ My Rank: #11
Rankings Gonza'90 - 4 samo🦕 - 5 rowellfarm490 - 7 reputainbow - 8 American Idiot - 9 wheatsquares33 - 10 willapted33 - 11 singingrulebritannia - 12 zippy - 12 YotamTS - 13 BlurryKyle - 16 BB🌕 - 19 Lordef†ones - 22 aerodynamite - 31 @trilogy - 38
Movements 23 20 23 23 20 14 13 9 11 12 9 10 8 7
{Songs Remaining}Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding Stylo Babooshka Dream Fighter Everything In Its Right Place LES Artistes
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Jul 5, 2023 20:12:36 GMT -5
70s Pop Extravaganza represent! Big improvement from the #29/50 there
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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:12:47 GMT -5
#6 PREVIEW
Stats Movements Spent in Top Ten: All But 2 Bottom Tens: 1 Highest Ranking Lost: #1
I expected this song to be in the top ten whereabouts, and I expected something else that wound up happening with this song...
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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:17:31 GMT -5
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Post by zippy on Jul 5, 2023 20:20:33 GMT -5
I can say that I like this song but I don’t love the style.
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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:21:44 GMT -5
#5 PREVIEW
Stats Top Tens: 7 Lowest Point: 14 #1s: More Than 1
Going into the rankdown, this was my pick to win the whole thing.
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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:26:55 GMT -5
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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:30:15 GMT -5
#4 PREVIEW
Stats Top Tens: 9 Highest Point: #1 Movements Spent In Top Ten: All
This next song is 20 points behind #3.
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Post by zippy on Jul 5, 2023 20:30:37 GMT -5
This song takes me back to when I considered Gorillaz to be one of my favorite bands ever.
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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:34:25 GMT -5
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Jul 5, 2023 20:37:11 GMT -5
One of those songs that's so easy for me to put on when I need an emotional cleansing
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Post by zippy on Jul 5, 2023 20:37:30 GMT -5
It’s not one of my top 3 songs from Kid A but very great nonetheless also…
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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:39:15 GMT -5
#3 PREVIEW
Stats Bottom Tens: 1 Bottom Fives: 0 Highest Point: #2
The gap between the lowest ranking and the next lowest ranking here is actually somewhat wide...
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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:43:13 GMT -5
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Jul 5, 2023 20:44:36 GMT -5
Girls-Only top 2 baby 4 vs 8
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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:46:48 GMT -5
THE TOP TWO Kate Bush - Babooshka vs. Perfume - Dream Fighter
25 Top Halves 20 Top Tens 11 Top Fives 9 Movements Spent At #1 Between The Two Songs 3 Posters With No Top Tens 2 #1s 2 Songs That Spent Every Movement In The Top Ten 1 Bottom Ten (Lordef†ones's 33) No Posters With A Perfect Top Two Chance 1 Winner
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Post by zippy on Jul 5, 2023 20:47:21 GMT -5
That Elton John song has the elements of classic rock that I really love.
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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:54:47 GMT -5
I figured that this song would be in the top ten at the end, but I can't say I was expecting it to win, especially when it didn't make the top ten in Alt 1980. Yeah, that rankdown was notoriously difficult to rank, but I wasn't expecting this song to steadily move its way up to the top spot and entrench itself there.
I thought about going with "Wuthering Heights" here instead, but I wanted to go with a song that hadn't been in a personal before. If this song won by over 20 points, I can't imagine just how much that song would have dominated the competition here.
Congrats on your favorite song winning the rankdown, checks notes...samo🦕. can't say I was expecting that
#1 Kate Bush Babooshka
Points: 469 Standard Deviation: 9.51 Where I'd Rank It: #21 Where It Would Have Finished: w/ My Rank: #1
Rankings samo🦕 - 1 Gonza'90 - 3 willapted33 - 3 singingrulebritannia - 4 BB🌕 - 4 @trilogy - 5 rowellfarm490 - 5 BlurryKyle - 6 YotamTS - 6 reputainbow - 6 zippy - 8 wheatsquares33 - 17 aerodynamite - 19 American Idiot - 26 Lordef†ones - 33
Movements 10 7 4 3 6 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
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Post by reputainbow on Jul 5, 2023 20:56:41 GMT -5
such a great top 2. and yeah, i definitely thought "dream fighter" was going to end up in the bottom half of the top 10, so this is a very welcome surprise. it's become my own personal all-timer for me.
thanks for hosting!!
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Jul 5, 2023 20:57:57 GMT -5
just like his wife before she freezed on him
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Post by Red on Jul 5, 2023 20:59:37 GMT -5
FUNERAL FOR STATS
And that is that! As always, I'd like to thank everyone who submitted, posted in-thread, followed along, and generally helped to make this personal rankdown yet another successful one. I host these rankdowns partly because I enjoy doing them, but also partly because I enjoy seeing all of the reactions and responses to the rankdown, both the listening experience and the reveals.
So, what's next? Well, I'm not gonna be jumping straight into the third All-Timers, as tempting as that is, because I want to give this rankdown a bit of breathing room from the next one. I have a couple of ideas for rankdowns to do in the meantime. There's one that will have to wait until at least the rankdown after the next one, because I don't have enough songs for it yet (though I will shortly). There's an idea I've been sitting on for a little while that explores the idea of liking songs by bands and artists that have made a song that I despise...but I'm going to hold off on that one for now, too.
Instead, I wanted to give some shine to some songs from the Journey/Extended series that I was unable to visit because that series officially ended with Book IV of the main series. This excludes songs that were set for the RFS series, given that the All-Timers series is basically a look at songs that would have been in that series, had I continued it. Other than that, however, every potential rankdown under the Extended umbrella that I was looking at hosting is fair game. This includes rankdown lists that I didn't even complete.
We're going to see what has been left on...
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Post by zippy on Jul 5, 2023 21:07:07 GMT -5
“Dream Fighter” is more well suited for my tastes while Kate Bush’s singing on “Babooshka” is adorable.
This has been an interesting rankdown and I look forward to see what songs you’ll include in your next one.
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