Pulse Rankdown: 1998 Year-End Alternative Chart (FINISHED)

[CF15]

My #6? I know I said that many times, but I'm shocked it even made it this far.

[Daryl the Beryl]

Oct 28, 2018 20:29:11 GMT -5 Doc Indie Party Rock said:

Oct 28, 2018 4:02:12 GMT -5 Daryl the Beryl said:

This sounds NOTHING like alternative country.

Well I got a cowboy vibe from this song, but 

just out of curiosity, what would Alternative Country sound like?

Check out Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, The Old 97's, etc. Heck, even artists like Chris Stapleton and Eric Church are more "alternative country" than "Lullaby".

[House Lannister]

This wasn't a bad first listen. Deserved better.

[lyhom]

yeah knew "the oaf" was going out around here with such a stacked list compared to the last few years, this is one of those songs that I heard on the radio all the time as a kid and casually liked but never knew the name of until recently, so a slight nostalgia boost there

("that song" better do well in the active rankdown, though)

[Daryl the Beryl]

Well, Brimful of Asha is the earliest top 10 loss for me in a while since Who Needs You. Disappointed.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

75. The Oaf (My Luck is Wasted) - Big Wreck
Not too familiar with this song or band, but I ended up liking it more than I ever thought I would?

[Red]

Truly, Grant Lee Buffalo are out.

Truly.

74

Truly, Truly
Grant Lee Buffalo

Year-End Placing: #60
Chart Peak: #11
Chart Weeks: 13

1540 points

Standard Deviation: 23.85


MoD: 7
CF15: 14
peacebone: 20
astorknight: 23
singingrulebritannia: 27
rgreen0625: 28
Sambalada: 36
Leaf: 42
janinho: 46
@pjscott11: 49
@crapkuki23: 50
@doinktheclown: 52
Mr. Thonk Eyes: 52
rowellfarm490: 52
American Idiot: 54
Red: 58
Az Paynter: 59
@humanshazam: 59
wheatsquares33: 60
@levitation: 60
@xfer: 63
Cody: 64
Alex1901: 68
alexcuse: 69
somelikeitwhen: 72
Doc Indie Party Rock: 74
Daryl the Beryl: 75
@carseatlegrest: 79
@walker9: 83
Butterflies & Hurricanes: 83
Lordef†ones: 85
lyhom: 86
YotamTS: 87
Beno: 89
Walking Contradiction: 90
House Lannister: 91
craziaskowboi: 95
Albie: 97

Movements
36 52 44 37 43 56 58 63 51 52 46 45 45 46 47 48 52 55 54 59 58 57 58 63 63 68 69 69 71 67 71 65 67 69 71 72 74

Past Artist History
Debut

Tags
trilogy
crazyb

Remaining Songs

SPOILER: Click to show

{Still Alive}Sex and Candy
Inside Out
Closing Time
Shimmer
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Iris
Flagpole Sitta
The Way
I Will Buy You a New Life
One Week
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Clumsy
Given to Fly
Intergalactic
How's It Going to Be
Brick
My Hero
Perfect
Wishlist
Push It
Everything to Everyone
3 am
Father of Mine
Ava Adore
Dammit
I Think I'm Paranoid
Celebrity Skin
Jumper
Save Tonight
Torn
Real World
Saint Joe on the School Bus
Karma Police
Wash It Away
Save Yourself
Heroes
Spark
What I Didn't Know
Fire Escape
Singing in My Sleep
Walking after You
Sweet Surrender
Sunshower
Losing a Whole Year
The Mummers' Dance
The Dope Show
Cut You In
Beautiful Disaster
Deadweight
Redundant
Got the Life
Lucky Man
All the Kids Are Right
In Hiding
Thank U
Once in a While
Brian Wilson
All Around the World
Uninvited
Daysleeper
Mungo City
Song for the Dumped
My Favorite Mistake
Tropicalia
Life in Mono
Time Ago
Rattlesnake
Wishing I Was There
Acquiesce
4 AM
I'm Afraid of Americans
Kind & Generous
No Shelter

[CF15]

This was a really nice discovery. I thought it would do worse, so I'm not complaining.

[Red]

#73 came pretty close to having a top 20 highest SD. This song spent multiple rankings in the top half fairly early, but it spent most of the rankdown in the sixties and seventies. It spent multiple rankings at its lowest point, including very late. It did escape the fate of spending its last ranking at its lowest point, though.

Fifteen top half rankings are moving on with the reveal of #73, and though merely five are top 25 rankings, two are top ten losses. One is the first top ten loss for someone. Meanwhile, ten posters will be removing a bottom twenty ranking from their lives, and four posters will inch one step closer to clearing their bottom ten with a bottom ten reveal. All but one are bottom fives.

[singingrulebritannia]

Oct 28, 2018 20:45:14 GMT -5 Red said:

@walker9 : 83
Butterflies & Hurricanes : 83
Lordef†ones : 85
lyhom : 86
YotamTS : 87
Beno : 89
Walking Contradiction : 90
House Lannister : 91
craziaskowboi : 95
Albie : 97

Truly truly truly I hate you

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

74. Truly, Truly - Grant Lee Buffalo
Aside from the good vocals, this one didn't do much to raise my heartbeat.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

"intergalactic" please

[Deleted]

I seriously can't believe so many of my top songs are out already! Dave Matthews Band songs, Bush and God Lives Underwater are all brilliant ♥

A little question, what is Standard Deviation? Sorry for not knowing lol

[lyhom]

Oct 28, 2018 20:51:14 GMT -5 Doc Indie Party Rock said:

"intergalactic" please

[House Lannister]

311?

[Red]

I may have three songs ranked lower than this one, but this may be the song in this rankdown I genuinely hate the most. The only reason it's not my #100 is because I can at least understand why someone would like it...but every single time I listen to it, it just makes me angry.

And yet, somehow, someone ranked it lower than me.

73

Thank U
Alanis Morissette

Year-End Placing: #73
Chart Peak: #12
Chart Weeks: 9

1544 points

Standard Deviation: 26.19


Leaf: 9
Az Paynter: 9
Sambalada: 13
janinho: 23
Cody: 25
alexcuse: 31
@levitation: 39
@pjscott11: 40
peacebone: 41
Daryl the Beryl: 41
astorknight: 42
@crapkuki23: 43
rgreen0625: 45
Albie: 46
Lordef†ones: 47
Butterflies & Hurricanes: 51
Doc Indie Party Rock: 52
@xfer: 55
singingrulebritannia: 65
lyhom: 65
MoD: 73
rowellfarm490: 73
somelikeitwhen: 75
CF15: 76
Beno: 76
American Idiot: 78
Alex1901: 78
Walking Contradiction: 79
@humanshazam: 84
YotamTS: 84
@doinktheclown: 85
craziaskowboi: 87
Mr. Thonk Eyes: 89
wheatsquares33: 89
@carseatlegrest: 94
@walker9: 96
Red: 97
House Lannister: 99

Movements
36 52 44 37 43 56 58 63 51 52 46 45 45 46 47 48 52 55 54 59 58 57 58 63 63 68 69 69 71 67 71 65 67 69 71 72 74

Past Artist History
#15 Alt 1999 (Joining You)

Tags
trilogy
crazyb

Remaining Songs

SPOILER: Click to show

{Still Alive}Sex and Candy
Inside Out
Closing Time
Shimmer
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Iris
Flagpole Sitta
The Way
I Will Buy You a New Life
One Week
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Clumsy
Given to Fly
Intergalactic
How's It Going to Be
Brick
My Hero
Perfect
Wishlist
Push It
Everything to Everyone
3 am
Father of Mine
Ava Adore
Dammit
I Think I'm Paranoid
Celebrity Skin
Jumper
Save Tonight
Torn
Real World
Saint Joe on the School Bus
Karma Police
Wash It Away
Save Yourself
Heroes
Spark
What I Didn't Know
Fire Escape
Singing in My Sleep
Walking after You
Sweet Surrender
Sunshower
Losing a Whole Year
The Mummers' Dance
The Dope Show
Cut You In
Beautiful Disaster
Deadweight
Redundant
Got the Life
Lucky Man
All the Kids Are Right
In Hiding
Once in a While
Brian Wilson
All Around the World
Uninvited
Daysleeper
Mungo City
Song for the Dumped
My Favorite Mistake
Tropicalia
Life in Mono
Time Ago
Rattlesnake
Wishing I Was There
Acquiesce
4 AM
I'm Afraid of Americans
Kind & Generous
No Shelter

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

73. Thank U - Alanis Morissette
Oh brother. Just like PULSE to exile the wrong one out first.

[CF15]

This is shockingly low, but I'm not complaining.

[Red]

Hey, a low standard deviation! #72 is the source of the eighteenth-lowest standard deviation. Its highest point was very early on. It spent almost every ranking in the bottom 40, though it also never spent any time in the bottom 20.

Thirteen top half rankings will sail away, but only two reside in the top 25. One is a top 20 ranking, though. Most of this song's lowest rankings are somewhere in the seventies or eighties, but two posters will also be losing a bottom ten. One poster will be pushing away a low bottom five.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

but how about them transparent dangeling carrots? 

[Red]

Good news, people waiting for "One Week" to go out: This did not go out first. An error in the ranking meant that the two BNL rankings for MoD got switched. What does that mean? It means that the two songs have switched places, too!

71

Brian Wilson
Barenaked Ladies

Year-End Placing: #75
Chart Peak: #23
Chart Weeks: 14

1568 points

Standard Deviation: 20.02


Beno: 16
CF15: 21
Alex1901: 30
Red: 31
Cody: 36
Az Paynter: 38
@crapkuki23: 39
@doinktheclown: 39
House Lannister: 39
@xfer: 42
craziaskowboi: 48
Sambalada: 49
@walker9: 50
rgreen0625: 51
Leaf: 53
wheatsquares33: 56
singingrulebritannia: 57
American Idiot: 62
@pjscott11: 63
@humanshazam: 63
janinho: 64
YotamTS: 64
rowellfarm490: 66
Walking Contradiction: 69
Mr. Thonk Eyes: 70
Albie: 72
astorknight: 76
@carseatlegrest: 76
Doc Indie Party Rock: 77
@levitation: 78
MoD: 79
somelikeitwhen: 80
lyhom: 81
Daryl the Beryl: 85
Butterflies & Hurricanes: 85
peacebone: 86
alexcuse: 88
Lordef†ones: 91

Movements
50 74 67 77 79 71 68 68 64 66 61 63 64 61 62 65 61 69 67 70 73 73 74 74 77 78 78 77 75 75 74 76 76 75 72 70 71

Past Artist History
#42 Alt 1999 (It's All Been Done) | #72 Alt 1998 (One Week)

Tags
trilogy
crazyb

Remaining Songs

SPOILER: Click to show

{Still Alive}Sex and Candy
Inside Out
Closing Time
Shimmer
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Iris
Flagpole Sitta
The Way
I Will Buy You a New Life
One Week
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Clumsy
Given to Fly
Intergalactic
How's It Going to Be
Brick
My Hero
Perfect
Wishlist
Push It
Everything to Everyone
3 am
Father of Mine
Ava Adore
Dammit
I Think I'm Paranoid
Celebrity Skin
Jumper
Save Tonight
Torn
Real World
Saint Joe on the School Bus
Karma Police
Wash It Away
Save Yourself
Heroes
Spark
What I Didn't Know
Fire Escape
Singing in My Sleep
Walking after You
Sweet Surrender
Sunshower
Losing a Whole Year
The Mummers' Dance
The Dope Show
Cut You In
Beautiful Disaster
Deadweight
Redundant
Got the Life
Lucky Man
All the Kids Are Right
In Hiding
Once in a While
All Around the World
Uninvited
Daysleeper
Mungo City
Song for the Dumped
My Favorite Mistake
Tropicalia
Life in Mono
Time Ago
Rattlesnake
Wishing I Was There
Acquiesce
4 AM
I'm Afraid of Americans
Kind & Generous
No Shelter

[CF15]

I do like "One Week", but this should have been the higher Barenaked Ladies song.
EDIT: Oh, it did. Still disappointing that they were both in the bottom 30, though. I hoped that at least "Brian Wilson" could make it to the 50's, or something.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

72. Brian Wilson - Barenaked Ladies
I'm cool with this one going out first. I prefer the one with the epic intro.

[Deleted]

I'm clearing most of my middle ranks but none of my top 20s or bottom 10s are showing up...lol

[CF15]

Oct 28, 2018 21:06:39 GMT -5 @pjscott11 said:

I'm clearing most of my middle ranks but none of my top 20s or bottom 10s are showing up...lol

Same. I still have 6 of my bottom 10 left, but only lost one of my top 20 (though I also lost my 21 and 22).

[House Lannister]

Oct 28, 2018 21:06:39 GMT -5 @pjscott11 said:

I'm clearing most of my middle ranks but none of my top 20s or bottom 10s are showing up...lol

Just take solace in knowing that your top 20 is pretty solid.  Maybe the bottom will start to clear out tomorrow.

[Red]

The battle for highest standard deviation was fierce. This and another song still to come battled it out for much of the rankdown for that title. In fact, this song had the highest standard deviation ever at multiple points throughout the rankdown. Sadly, that did not last, but it DID wind up with the highest SD after all. An error in the ranking meant that the two BNL rankings for MoD got switched. What does that mean? It means that the two songs have switched places, too!

Oh, by the way...congrats on clearing your bottom tens, singingrulebritannia, YotamTS, rowellfarm490, and Daryl the Beryl.

IT'S BEEN

72

One Week
Barenaked Ladies

Year-End Placing: #10
Chart Peak: #1
Chart Weeks: 26

1552 points

Standard Deviation: 36.47 (HIGHEST)


@doinktheclown: 3
Beno: 4
janinho: 4
House Lannister: 7
alexcuse: 7
@crapkuki23: 13
Alex1901: 16
Cody: 17
Doc Indie Party Rock: 23
American Idiot: 24
Az Paynter: 26
Butterflies & Hurricanes: 31
Sambalada: 39
Albie: 39
CF15: 43
Walking Contradiction: 44
somelikeitwhen: 44
Lordef†ones: 60
Leaf: 75
@levitation: 77
@carseatlegrest: 81
@xfer: 85
craziaskowboi: 85
rgreen0625: 89
singingrulebritannia: 93
@humanshazam: 93
YotamTS: 93
rowellfarm490: 93
Red: 94
lyhom: 96
Daryl the Beryl: 96
@walker9: 98
@pjscott11: 98
MoD: 98
wheatsquares33: 99
Mr. Thonk Eyes: 99
astorknight: 100
peacebone: 100

Movements
97 84 89 92 81 69 59 71 78 68 64 74 78 76 79 73 76 82 77 81 81 82 82 81 81 80 79 76 72 77 72 73 75 68 69 71 72

Past Artist History
#42 Alt 1999 (It's All Been Done)

Tags
trilogy
crazyb

Remaining Songs

SPOILER: Click to show

{Still Alive}Sex and Candy
Inside Out
Closing Time
Shimmer
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
Iris
Flagpole Sitta
The Way
I Will Buy You a New Life
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Clumsy
Given to Fly
Intergalactic
How's It Going to Be
Brick
My Hero
Perfect
Wishlist
Push It
Everything to Everyone
3 am
Father of Mine
Ava Adore
Dammit
I Think I'm Paranoid
Celebrity Skin
Jumper
Save Tonight
Torn
Real World
Saint Joe on the School Bus
Karma Police
Wash It Away
Save Yourself
Heroes
Spark
What I Didn't Know
Fire Escape
Singing in My Sleep
Walking after You
Sweet Surrender
Sunshower
Losing a Whole Year
The Mummers' Dance
The Dope Show
Cut You In
Beautiful Disaster
Deadweight
Redundant
Got the Life
Lucky Man
All the Kids Are Right
In Hiding
Once in a While
All Around the World
Uninvited
Daysleeper
Mungo City
Song for the Dumped
My Favorite Mistake
Tropicalia
Life in Mono
Time Ago
Rattlesnake
Wishing I Was There
Acquiesce
4 AM
I'm Afraid of Americans
Kind & Generous
No Shelter

[somelikeitwhen]

Studio version is better, but we won't get to rank that unless someone makes a BNL rankdown, Canadian alternative rankdown or early 90s college radio rankdown.

[lyhom]

yeah this overstayed for a fucking while

[singingrulebritannia]