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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 22, 2023 13:45:00 GMT -5
My guess for the winner before opening this rankdown was either "El Lugar Correcto" or "Rydeen". I figured this because of Pulse's general positivity toward Natalia, and specifically this song's solid performance in the last tournament Madness. An early hard tank prevented it from being any more than a fringe contender the rest of the way (and as you'll see, the top 2 is massively separated from the field). With the reveal of this song, a new country is guaranteed to win, and it is also guaranteed to be an Asain country! BTW, if anyone can tell me why this is the most popular song from De Todas Las Flores, I'd love to know. The track is certainly worthy of that status, but it wasn't a single, and the song's Tiktok sound has 5k videos, which I suppose is decent but doesn't even make it the most shared album track ("María la Curandera" has 5.9k, but has 12 million fewer Spotify streams) 4
El lugar correcto Natalia Lafourcade Language/Country of Origin: Spanish/Mexico Romanized/English Title: The Right Place 198 points Standard Deviation: 7.137 wrip - 2 Steel Sponge - 3 singingrulebritannia - 3 Leo ✔ - 4 Mayman - 6 recordyear - 7 willapted33 - 8 MoD - 9 Red - 10 Gonza'90 - 11 raydiolady - 12 reputainbow - 12 BB🌕 - 13 wheatsquares33 - 14 zippy - 16 khan - 18 eidde - 19 Ernesto - 31 Movement 3 9 8 11 10 9 9 8 7 6 5 5 5 6 7 5 4 Spectators: HamedM1 💔
{Remaining Songs} 杀死那个石家庄人 東京は夜の七時 Rydeen
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 22, 2023 13:48:04 GMT -5
--#3
#1s: 2 Top 5s: 7 Top 10s: 10 Top 16s: 13 Bottom 10s: 2
Highest Movement: 2 Lowest Movement: 10
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Post by zippy on Nov 22, 2023 13:49:49 GMT -5
I went by the rating I gave El lugar correcto in March Madness when ranking the song. In other words, I thought all the songs I ranked above it are great.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 22, 2023 13:51:19 GMT -5
Pizzicato Five benefitted from being one of the earlier cases of Japanese music being picked up by US/UK alternative press tastemakers. I knew about them shockingly early in my life from "Baby Portable Rock" being Kaori's theme song in SSX Tricky, and Futurama fans should know them from "Baby Love Child"'s presence in the episode Leela's Homeworld. One of the band's best qualities is that, including the song in this rankdown, all 3 of the songs I mentioned sound completely different from one another. They had a knack for variety. My condolences, wheatsquares33 and zippy 3
東京は夜の七時 Pizzicato Five Language/Country of Origin: Japanese/Japan Romanized/English Title: tōkyō wa yoru no nana ji/It's 7pm in Tokyo [alternate English title: The Night Is Still Young] 197 points Standard Deviation: 8.914 wheatsquares33 - 1 zippy - 1 Red - 2 recordyear - 3 singingrulebritannia - 4 Mayman - 4 Gonza'90 - 5 willapted33 - 6 reputainbow - 7 wrip - 9 eidde - 12 BB🌕 - 15 MoD - 16 Leo ✔ - 17 khan - 19 raydiolady - 21 Steel Sponge - 23 Ernesto - 32 Movement 2 10 4 7 5 4 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 3 4 3 3 Spectators: HamedM1 💔
{Remaining Songs} 杀死那个石家庄人 Rydeen
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Post by zippy on Nov 22, 2023 13:54:33 GMT -5
A last place rank for 東京は夜の七時, seriously? This is a wonderful combination of Shibuya-kei and 90s house music, I can even sing along to it.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 22, 2023 13:55:42 GMT -5
Your final 2.
杀死那个石家庄人 Rydeen
Tale of the Tape: This was the top 2 for 15 movements One of the songs spent 14 movements at #1; the other song spent 3. These songs have a combined 24 top 10s, 18 being top 5s and 6 being #1s. 5 bottom 16s remain, 2 being bottom 10s. 3 players can get perfect top 2s: Mayman, Gonza, and Willapted. Only 1 player has no top 10s left. Neither of these songs have a top 6 low or high SD. The difference between the songs is 1 point.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 22, 2023 14:02:30 GMT -5
Yellow Magic Orchestra was arguably just as important as Kraftwerk for the development of electronic music, and while their level of recognition for these contributions was always high, I've seen them become even more popular internationally since the back half of the 2010s. Unlike "El Lugar Correcto", my other guess for the winner, this song was always very much in the race, and in fact, it would have won if my patience with MoD had run out... My condolences to Red, Gonza'90, willapted33, and BB🌕. 2
Rydeen Yellow Magic Orchestra Language/Country of Origin: Instrumental/Japan 142 points Standard Deviation: 7.34 Red - 1 Gonza'90 - 1 willapted33 - 1 BB🌕 - 1 Mayman - 2 eidde - 2 Ernesto - 2 reputainbow - 3 Steel Sponge - 6 zippy - 7 recordyear - 8 khan - 9 wheatsquares33 - 11 raydiolady - 11 wrip - 15 singingrulebritannia - 16 MoD - 23 Leo ✔ - 23 Movement 7 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 2
Unlike "Rydeen", I didn't set any expectations for "Shijiazhuang". I wouldn't have been surprised by any result from the high 20s to top 5. Even still, seeing it become the victor is truly amazing. While not as groundbreaking as YMO, OYS has been pretty influential themselves on Chinese alternative rock. Their cultural impact is even such that a CCP-related organization released a more optimistic rewrite of this song 11 years later, which was widely mocked by fans of the original. Congrats to Mayman and recordyear! 1
杀死那个石家庄人 Omnipotent Youth Society Language/Country of Origin: Chinese/China Romanized/English Title: Shā sǐ nàgè shíjiāzhuāng rén/Kill That Man from Shijiazhuang 141 points Standard Deviation: 7.131 Mayman - 1 recordyear - 1 Gonza'90 - 2 willapted33 - 2 singingrulebritannia - 2 wheatsquares33 - 3 raydiolady - 3 MoD - 3 khan - 4 Leo ✔ - 5 Red - 6 Steel Sponge - 7 Ernesto - 12 BB🌕 - 14 wrip - 16 reputainbow - 19 zippy - 19 eidde - 22 Movement 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 Spectators: HamedM1 💔
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 22, 2023 14:06:06 GMT -5
Rankdown Closeness: Perfect Rankings: Thanks for following along, everyone! After this, I'll be putting a pause on my personal rankdowns until we're out from the thick of current year-end season. So, don't expect Globetrotting Volume 4 for a couple months at least. However, when the series does continue, I really hope the hype will come back strong, since I feel like I've saved the best two lists for last.
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Post by khan on Nov 22, 2023 14:15:59 GMT -5
Yknow reading the story of that Omnipotent Youth Society song now, I can’t say I’m surprised. The song definitely gave off those sorts of vibes. Very impressive to do that so effectively across languages.
Thanks Gates for another round of this fun series!
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Post by zippy on Nov 22, 2023 14:21:10 GMT -5
Dang, Yellow Magic Orchestra has made some great instrumental music with a recognizable style but I was not expecting it to come so close to winning. 杀死那个石家庄人 is not a song I saw as a potential winner although I thought it would make it to the top 10. It's a song that sounds fine at the beginning but it gets more interesting as it progresses. Thank you for hosting this series singingrulebritannia
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Post by Leo ✔ on Nov 22, 2023 14:40:57 GMT -5
A #31 for "El Lugar Correcto"???????????????????????????
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Post by wrip on Nov 22, 2023 16:25:03 GMT -5
My top 2 was basically locked here because both songs are just so good. La Vie En Rose is such a classic and despite it being an older song, I am shocked it didn't make top 10? El Lugar Correcto was one of my March Madness picks so obviously it was also going to be there. Happy it did so well because it's so beautiful.
Overall this was a good top 2! I had them right next to each other so the order didn't matter to me. Thanks for hosting gates!
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Post by Mayman on Nov 22, 2023 16:35:44 GMT -5
Made some good discoveries here, especially the top 2. Thanks for hosting!
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Post by CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker on Nov 22, 2023 17:12:18 GMT -5
I'm pissed off at the website because I hit send and saw it in my Outbox, then it wasn't. I take it as a divine intervention though because the robberies of Edith and Santana would've had me hitting the can quickly. Excellent RD skills as usual brother
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 22, 2023 17:20:32 GMT -5
I'm pissed off at the website because I hit send and saw it in my Outbox, then it wasn't. I take it as a divine intervention though because the robberies of Edith and Santana would've had me hitting the can quickly. Excellent RD skills as usual brother If you'd like, you can DM the list over Discord or post it openly in this thread, and I can make unofficial calculations for the hypothetical scenario in which I did receive it on time.
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Post by willapted33 on Nov 22, 2023 18:38:44 GMT -5
pretty surprised my top 2 was the rankdown top 2 but they’re both super deserving. rydeen is a blast to listen to & the winner was an amazing discovery
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Post by wheatsquares33 on Nov 22, 2023 19:03:41 GMT -5
Wow very unexpected winner, but great to see, I loved this song!
Glad that this is a 5 part series, I get very excited for these (in my mind I was thinking it was only 3 parts for some reason lol)
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Post by Leo ✔ on Nov 22, 2023 21:45:13 GMT -5
Last set btw
Omnipotent Youth Society - 杀死那个石家庄人: This had a low start but the instrumental of the last minute was absolutely amazing Yellow Magic Orchestra - Rydeen: This was fun I wish it had lyrics Pizzicato Five - 東京は夜の七時: This was between cute and cringe idk Natalia Lafourcade - El lugar correcto: Stunning song Triana - Abre la puerta: I didn't have much expectations from this but I was greatly surprised Akina Nakamori - スローモーション: Cute and lovely song Matia Bazar - Ti Sento: Ok I loved this enough said Spinvis - Bagagedrager: It was kinda there Ichiko Aoba - いきのこり●ぼくら: Also lovely Yuu Miyake - Katamari on the Rocks: Messy funny
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Post by CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker on Nov 22, 2023 22:03:56 GMT -5
Here was my list for anyone who is curious (Not numbered but it's just a copy/paste right now) Oye Como Va Outra Vez Noude Ma Gnin Fairy of Shampoo Asian Kung Fu Generation La Vie En Rose Omnipotent Youth Society Ichiko Aoba Yeh Jo Halka Saroor Hae Ti Sento Bagagedrager Akina Song Promeses Sobre El Bidet Un Bien Dia Pizzicato 5 Herz an Herz Sao Jorge La Nuit je mens Rydeen Civilise Soul Scream Heaven Tezeta Milonga Del Angel Abre la Puerto Rewind Katamari on the Rocks El Lugar Domingo No Parque Chao De Giz Grazhdanskaya Metamorfose Ambulante
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Post by recordyear on Nov 23, 2023 8:00:25 GMT -5
Great rankdown with perfect winner. My closeness is saved by the perfect rankings in the top 10 lol. Thansk singingrulebritannia for hosting!
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