Pulse Rankdown: 2003 Year-End Alternative Chart (WINNER!)

[Deleted]

could this be St. Anger...?

[Red]

Pulse will not love "Will You" tomorrow...or today, for that matter.

98

Will You
P.O.D.

Year-End Placing: #65
Chart Peak: #12
Chart Weeks: 16

655 points

Standard Deviation: 9.97 (lowest)


hydraflare: 60
Az Paynter: 60
@carseatlegrest: 71
rgreen0625: 71
somelikeitwhen : 71
Doc Indie Party Rock: 72
lyhom: 72
Pale Shelter: 73
alexcuse: 74
Albie: 75
janinho: 76
MoD: 77
American Idiot: 77
The Bode Blend (Moose): 78
aerodynamite: 78
Blurry: 82
Daryl the Beryl: 82
Lordef†ones: 83
@humanshazam: 83
@doinktheclown: 84
Geometrical: 85
Leaf: 85
YotamTS: 85
singingrulebritannia: 85
Sambalada: 86
peacebone: 90
astorknight: 90
Red: 90
Pipa: 93
dm2081: 93
rowellfarm490: 98
Cody: 99
Web: 100

Movements
91 90 89 97 97 98 97 97 97 97 97 97 97 97 97 96 97 97 97 97 96 96 97 98 98 98 98 98 99 99 98 98

Past Artist History
#51 Lost in Forever (Active 2012) | #60 Beautiful (Active 2013) | #72 Higher (Active 2013) | #79 Goodbye for Now (Active 2006) | #83 This Goes Out to You (Active 2015) | #86 Addicted (Active 2008) | #89 Will You (Active 2004) | #91 Goodbye for Now (Alt 2006) | #92 Lost in Forever (Alt 2012) | #98 Lights Out (Active 2006)

Tags
N/A (for now)

Remaining Songs

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Headstrong
Seven Nation Army
Like a Stone
Send the Pain Below
Faint
Somewhere I Belong
No One Knows
Bring Me to Life
Times Like These
Can't Stop
So Far Away
All My Life
When I'm Gone
Always
The Red
Fine Again
Show Me How to Live
Bottom of a Bottle
Stupid Girl
The Boys of Summer
Going Under
Weak and Powerless
Go with the Flow
Still Waiting
Just Because
You Know You're Right
Clocks
Girl's Not Grey
Swing, Swing
Straight Out of Line
Someday
Creatures (For a While)
Poem
Honestly
Price to Play
Still Frame
(I Hate) Everything About You
Driven Under
The Anthem
Think Twice
Serenity
Hands Down
The Hardest Button to Button
Minerva
Down
Falls on Me
The Leaving Song Pt. II
In This Diary
Innervision
There, There
Cochise
Remember
The Hell Song
Shatterday
Liberate
Dosed
What It is to Burn
Buried Myself Alive
Bandages
Did My Time
A Praise Chorus
Fall Back Down
Diamonds and Guns
Lose Yourself
Rest in Pieces
Take It Off
Caught in the Rain
Rest of My Life
12:51
Low
Sleeping Awake
The Scientist
The Road I'm On
Outtathaway
Here Without You
Blue and Yellow
Suffocate
The Taste of Ink
Running from Me
My Goddess
St. Anger
Crazy Beat
All That's Left
Try Honesty
Way Away
Not Falling
mOBSCENE
Mine
Head on Collision
Enemy
Everyone
All in the Suit That You Wear
Weathered
The Last Song
The Horizon Has Been Defeated
Save You
Signals Over the Air

[Blurry]

"Will You (video) Album Version audio" by: P.O.D.

[lyhom]

this isn't good at all but it isn't awful, there's some songs that should've outlasted this

(granted this would be slightly better if john pod didn't perpetually sound like that one christian summer camp counselor who's trying too hard to be cool lmao)

[Red]

#97 also did not start out in the bottom ten, just as "Will You" started outside of the bottom ten. Like "Will You", though, it would also quickly find its way into the bottom five. In fact, this song spent a significant amount of time at #99, pretty much this rankdown's last place that doesn't factor in "Eat You Alive". It would spend the last eight rankings at #97.

We will see two posters lose a top half ranking with the reveal of #97, and one is a low top 25 ranking. Twelve posters will also lose a bottom ten ranking, eight of those being a lowly bottom five. However, for the first time all rankdown, we will not see a #100 ranking here.

[Deleted]

is this Poem?

[Red]

Jun 17, 2018 18:59:48 GMT -5 @humanshazam said:

is this Poem?

Right band, wrong song.

The last time we saw Taproot in an Alt rankdown, they escaped the bottom 30. Oh, how times have changed...

97

Mine
Taproot

Year-End Placing: #91
Chart Peak: #26
Chart Weeks: 10

663 points

Standard Deviation: 18.10


Albie: 24
Lordef†ones: 40
American Idiot: 52
Az Paynter: 55
The Bode Blend (Moose): 57
hydraflare: 67
@carseatlegrest: 70
peacebone: 73
somelikeitwhen : 73
Web: 75
Daryl the Beryl: 78
astorknight: 80
Leaf: 81
aerodynamite: 82
Red: 85
Geometrical: 86
singingrulebritannia: 88
Pale Shelter: 89
alexcuse: 89
Pipa: 89
@humanshazam: 90
Doc Indie Party Rock: 91
YotamTS: 92
rgreen0625: 94
lyhom: 95
MoD: 96
Blurry: 96
@doinktheclown: 96
janinho: 97
Sambalada: 97
rowellfarm490: 97
Cody: 97
dm2081: 99

Movements
81 84 81 86 93 96 96 98 98 98 98 99 99 99 99 99 98 99 99 98 99 98 98 97 97 97 97 97 97 97 97 97

Past Artist History
#46 Calling (Active 2005) | #55 Fractured (Everything I Said Was True) (Active 2010) | #67 Calling (Alt 2005)

Tags
N/A (for now)

Remaining Songs

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Headstrong
Seven Nation Army
Like a Stone
Send the Pain Below
Faint
Somewhere I Belong
No One Knows
Bring Me to Life
Times Like These
Can't Stop
So Far Away
All My Life
When I'm Gone
Always
The Red
Fine Again
Show Me How to Live
Bottom of a Bottle
Stupid Girl
The Boys of Summer
Going Under
Weak and Powerless
Go with the Flow
Still Waiting
Just Because
You Know You're Right
Clocks
Girl's Not Grey
Swing, Swing
Straight Out of Line
Someday
Creatures (For a While)
Poem
Honestly
Price to Play
Still Frame
(I Hate) Everything About You
Driven Under
The Anthem
Think Twice
Serenity
Hands Down
The Hardest Button to Button
Minerva
Down
Falls on Me
The Leaving Song Pt. II
In This Diary
Innervision
There, There
Cochise
Remember
The Hell Song
Shatterday
Liberate
Dosed
What It is to Burn
Buried Myself Alive
Bandages
Did My Time
A Praise Chorus
Fall Back Down
Diamonds and Guns
Lose Yourself
Rest in Pieces
Take It Off
Caught in the Rain
Rest of My Life
12:51
Low
Sleeping Awake
The Scientist
The Road I'm On
Outtathaway
Here Without You
Blue and Yellow
Suffocate
The Taste of Ink
Running from Me
My Goddess
St. Anger
Crazy Beat
All That's Left
Try Honesty
Way Away
Not Falling
mOBSCENE
Head on Collision
Enemy
Everyone
All in the Suit That You Wear
Weathered
The Last Song
The Horizon Has Been Defeated
Save You
Signals Over the Air

[Deleted]

i didn't even rank C-C-C-CALLING that high, but that was leagues better than this

[Az Paynter]

Jun 17, 2018 18:46:59 GMT -5 peacebone said:

Jun 17, 2018 18:46:38 GMT -5 @walker9 said:

Hopefully Butterfly gets out this early in 2001 Alt.

fixed

Far as I'm concerned, it wasn't broken.

EDIT: I wanted to like 'Mine' 'cause it did have some cool harmonies in parts, but the song as a whole was kinda creepy 'cause the lyrics read as problematically possessive.

[Red]

None of the songs tonight have a top ten highest standard deviation, but #96 is the reveal that comes closest. This song had a rocky road, starting out in the bottom ten and staying there early. It did escape the bottom ten for a couple of rankings, but it found itself back in the bottom ten before too long, spending twelve of the last fourteen rankings at this very spot.

Six posters will feel the sting of an early top half loss at #96. Only one poster loses a top 25 ranking, but it's a high one, just missing out on losing a top ten ranking this early. There are a lot of bottom tens, though...seventeen, to be exact. Almost all of those bottom tens are bottom fives, and we'll see multiple #100 rankings fall, as well.

[hydraflare]

s**t, this is probably my 11.

[peacebone]

Ya flush it out! Ya flush it out!

[Daryl the Beryl]

Jun 17, 2018 18:36:02 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

Jun 17, 2018 18:12:41 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

FUCK IT ALL AN FUCKIN' REGRETS

[Red]

Jun 17, 2018 18:36:27 GMT -5 @humanshazam said:

SAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIINT AYYYNGUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH

What I love about this song is that the song sounds like a poor-quality rip of the song throughout its entirety. But that's not the case. It's just a byproduct of very, very poor production.

YOU FLUSH IT OUT, YOU FLUSH IT OUT

96

St. Anger
Metallica

Year-End Placing: #82
Chart Peak: #17
Chart Weeks: 8

710 points

Standard Deviation: 26.05


hydraflare: 11
Albie: 31
alexcuse: 36
janinho: 36
Pale Shelter: 40
Sambalada: 43
rgreen0625: 54
aerodynamite: 59
dm2081: 64
MoD: 68
@doinktheclown: 73
Web: 81
Doc Indie Party Rock: 86
American Idiot: 87
peacebone: 88
Cody: 93
@carseatlegrest: 94
Geometrical: 94
astorknight: 96
Az Paynter: 97
Lordef†ones: 98
Red: 98
Daryl the Beryl: 99
@humanshazam: 99
lyhom: 99
rowellfarm490: 99
The Bode Blend (Moose): 100
Leaf: 100
singingrulebritannia: 100
Pipa: 100
YotamTS: 100
Blurry: 100
somelikeitwhen: 100

Movements
94 98 99 99 98 97 98 93 95 96 93 89 87 88 89 91 94 96 96 96 97 97 96 96 96 96 96 96 96 96 96 96

Past Artist History
#6 The Day That Never Comes (Active 2008) | #7 All Nightmare Long (Active 2009) | #14 Moth Into Flame (Active 2016) | #17 Cyanide (Active 2009) | #25 Atlas, Rise! (Active 2017) | #27 Broken, Beat & Scarred (Active 2010) | #29 Hardwired (Active 2016) | #31 The Day That Never Comes (Alt 2008) | #38 Now That We're Dead (Active 2008) | #43 The Ecstacy of Gold (Active 2007) | #69 Cyanide (Alt 2009) | #81 The Unnamed Feeling (Active 2004) | #86 Some Kind of Monster (Active 2004)

Tags
N/A (for now)

Remaining Songs

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Headstrong
Seven Nation Army
Like a Stone
Send the Pain Below
Faint
Somewhere I Belong
No One Knows
Bring Me to Life
Times Like These
Can't Stop
So Far Away
All My Life
When I'm Gone
Always
The Red
Fine Again
Show Me How to Live
Bottom of a Bottle
Stupid Girl
The Boys of Summer
Going Under
Weak and Powerless
Go with the Flow
Still Waiting
Just Because
You Know You're Right
Clocks
Girl's Not Grey
Swing, Swing
Straight Out of Line
Someday
Creatures (For a While)
Poem
Honestly
Price to Play
Still Frame
(I Hate) Everything About You
Driven Under
The Anthem
Think Twice
Serenity
Hands Down
The Hardest Button to Button
Minerva
Down
Falls on Me
The Leaving Song Pt. II
In This Diary
Innervision
There, There
Cochise
Remember
The Hell Song
Shatterday
Liberate
Dosed
What It is to Burn
Buried Myself Alive
Bandages
Did My Time
A Praise Chorus
Fall Back Down
Diamonds and Guns
Lose Yourself
Rest in Pieces
Take It Off
Caught in the Rain
Rest of My Life
12:51
Low
Sleeping Awake
The Scientist
The Road I'm On
Outtathaway
Here Without You
Blue and Yellow
Suffocate
The Taste of Ink
Running from Me
My Goddess
Crazy Beat
All That's Left
Try Honesty
Way Away
Not Falling
mOBSCENE
Head on Collision
Enemy
Everyone
All in the Suit That You Wear
Weathered
The Last Song
The Horizon Has Been Defeated
Save You
Signals Over the Air

[Blurry]

This sounded like a bunch of kids hearing Metallica for the first time, then getting in their parents' garage and jamming out with used instruments they bought off of Craigslist, but they didn't have any musical talent.

This was bad.

[alexcuse]

Damn no bottom tens out yet for me

[Deleted]

Jun 17, 2018 19:18:06 GMT -5 hydraflare said:

I think I only put this one high because I was getting sick of listening through the playlist and just saw that it was by Metallica without listening to it.

So I guess that this is how you always do Rankdowns.....

[lyhom]

an absolute mess.

the trashcan drums. the "SAYYYNT ANGUUUUH" sung slightly late with the tune, "YOU FLUSH IT OUT, FLUSH IT OUT", "f**k IT ALL f**kin NO REGRETS", the fact that it goes on for seven minutes despite only being made up of like 10 lines and basic instrumentals, just lmao.

[peacebone]

Jun 17, 2018 19:18:06 GMT -5 hydraflare said:

I think I only put this one high because I was getting sick of listening through the playlist and just saw that it was by Metallica without listening to it.

Why the fuck did you even bother submitting for this, then?

[Red]

#95 is decidedly less controversial than #96. It's also a band that we have ranked before. This particular song did not stay in any set area for long, bouncing in and out of the bottom ten multiple times. It did finally settle into the bottom ten late, however, eventually returning to its lowest spot.

Five posters lose a top half ranking at #95, but none are top 25 rankings...though at least one ranking gets too close for comfort. Ten more posters will also lose a bottom ten ranking, and while six of those rankings are bottom fives, none are #100 rankings. At least one person who ranked "St. Anger" high will be happier with this reveal, while at least one person who ranked "St. Anger" low will not be as happy.

[Leaf]

Jun 17, 2018 19:18:06 GMT -5 hydraflare said:

I think I only put this one high because I was getting sick of listening through the playlist and just saw that it was by Metallica without listening to it.

[singingrulebritannia]

Jun 17, 2018 19:18:06 GMT -5 hydraflare said:

I think I only put this one high because I was getting sick of listening through the playlist and just saw that it was by Metallica without listening to it.

[Az Paynter]

Jun 17, 2018 19:18:58 GMT -5 @walker9 said:

Jun 17, 2018 19:18:06 GMT -5 hydraflare said:

I think I only put this one high because I was getting sick of listening through the playlist and just saw that it was by Metallica without listening to it.

So I guess that this is how you always do Rankdowns.....

I've heard a couple of things about people doing things they shouldn't in the rock rankdowns.

Even I listen to songs I know I'm gonna hate from artists I reaaaaaally don't like 'cause jeez, heaven forbid I actually play the game properly...

[hydraflare]

Well, damn, looks like I'm getting some backlash for my comment, which was a joke. In reality, I did listen to the song in full, and I did legitimately like it at the time, even though I have since changed my mind. I'm sorry if it sounded like I didn't care about the rankdown.

[Red]

They will be going back to the drugs shortly...

95

Bottom of a Bottle
Smile Empty Soul

Year-End Placing: #18
Chart Peak: #7
Chart Weeks: 26

770 points

Standard Deviation: 20.45


Lordef†ones: 27
@doinktheclown: 33
Cody: 36
Albie: 49
Geometrical: 50
rgreen0625: 52
Sambalada: 61
alexcuse: 63
American Idiot: 69
Pipa: 71
Doc Indie Party Rock: 73
Blurry: 79
aerodynamite: 80
astorknight: 82
singingrulebritannia: 82
janinho: 83
rowellfarm490: 83
Pale Shelter: 86
YotamTS: 86
@carseatlegrest: 88
Az Paynter: 89
MoD: 90
Red: 91
The Bode Blend (Moose): 92
hydraflare: 94
peacebone: 94
somelikeitwhen: 95
lyhom: 96
Daryl the Beryl: 97
dm2081: 98
Web: 98
@humanshazam: 98
Leaf: 98

Movements
93 92 95 85 91 87 91 91 92 92 90 91 90 90 90 90 91 93 94 91 91 91 91 91 93 90 90 94 95 94 95 95

Past Artist History
#72 False Alarm (Active 2014) | #80 Silhouettes (Active 2004) | #81 Silhouettes (Alt 2004) | #88 Nowhere KIds (Active 2004) | #92 Nowhere Kids (Alt 2004)

Tags
Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast

Remaining Songs

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Headstrong
Seven Nation Army
Like a Stone
Send the Pain Below
Faint
Somewhere I Belong
No One Knows
Bring Me to Life
Times Like These
Can't Stop
So Far Away
All My Life
When I'm Gone
Always
The Red
Fine Again
Show Me How to Live
Stupid Girl
The Boys of Summer
Going Under
Weak and Powerless
Go with the Flow
Still Waiting
Just Because
You Know You're Right
Clocks
Girl's Not Grey
Swing, Swing
Straight Out of Line
Someday
Creatures (For a While)
Poem
Honestly
Price to Play
Still Frame
(I Hate) Everything About You
Driven Under
The Anthem
Think Twice
Serenity
Hands Down
The Hardest Button to Button
Minerva
Down
Falls on Me
The Leaving Song Pt. II
In This Diary
Innervision
There, There
Cochise
Remember
The Hell Song
Shatterday
Liberate
Dosed
What It is to Burn
Buried Myself Alive
Bandages
Did My Time
A Praise Chorus
Fall Back Down
Diamonds and Guns
Lose Yourself
Rest in Pieces
Take It Off
Caught in the Rain
Rest of My Life
12:51
Low
Sleeping Awake
The Scientist
The Road I'm On
Outtathaway
Here Without You
Blue and Yellow
Suffocate
The Taste of Ink
Running from Me
My Goddess
Crazy Beat
All That's Left
Try Honesty
Way Away
Not Falling
mOBSCENE
Head on Collision
Enemy
Everyone
All in the Suit That You Wear
Weathered
The Last Song
The Horizon Has Been Defeated
Save You
Signals Over the Air

[Blurry]

Jun 17, 2018 19:25:20 GMT -5 hydraflare said:

Well, damn, looks like I'm getting some backlash for my comment, which was a joke. In reality, I did listen to the song in full, and I did legitimately like it at the time, even though I have since changed my mind. I'm sorry if it sounded like I didn't care about the rankdown.

[Blurry]

lol I hate that I found this sort of catchy.

[dm2081]

Didn’t the St. Anger album actually get good music reviews too? It’s funny because it’s easily the bands lowest moment. Even still though, I couldn’t put them in bottom 25 territory. Maybe I went easy on them.

[peacebone]

I do it for the DRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGS

[Blurry]

Jun 17, 2018 19:27:38 GMT -5 dm2081 said:

Didn’t the St. Anger album actually get good music reviews too? It’s funny because it’s easily the bands lowest moment. Even still though, I couldn’t put them in bottom 25 territory. Maybe I went easy on them.

From critics: 

"While it's an ungodly mess at times, what you hear on this album is a band playing with passion for the first time in years."

"It may be too late to rehabilitate Metallica's image, but once again, their music is all about bringing the carnage."

"...punishing, unflinching document of internal struggle—taking listeners inside the bruised yet vital body of Metallica, but ultimately revealing the alternately torturous and defiant demons that wrestle inside Hetfield's brain. St. Anger is an immediate record."

"No wonder there's an authenticity to St. Anger's fury that none of the band's rap-metal followers can touch."

From me: "this (and the rest of the singles) was shit."