Pulse Rankdown: 1991 Year-End Alternative Chart (complete)

[House Lannister]

I would have given Easy Street a thumbs up. Nice sound from Soul Asylum.

Thumbs down to Children. Too busy by half and the sirens were annoying.

Thumbs up to Real Real Real, even though this feels more like a second/third single than their debut. I think I remember this one from '91?

Speaking of remembering songs from 1991, anybody remember Can't Cry Hard Enough by the Williams Brothers? It fit my first college experience to a tee.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

* Gonna tackel a few more extras: By the way what charts are you viewing to see these chart runs and peaks? The reason I ask is because I want to see all the chart runs for the songs on the next Active 91' RD we are doing.

168. Bob's Yer Uncle - Happy Mondays
This really didn't work for me. His vocals sound almost non existent. This sounds like Santana with whispering vocals tones. No thanks.

166. Gone, Gone, Gone - Echo & the Bunnymen
I dare say I like this one better than song we actually charted. Sounds more like 80's Echo & the Bunnymen. Is that a sytar? I love that instrument.

165. Come Inside - Thompson Twins
I didn't know this band was still around in 90's? Didn't they morph into some Babble thing? I didn't care for this one too much at all. That back round noise wasn't for me.

161. The Sunny Side of the Street - The Pogues
This is a bit too "happy go Pubbing" for me.

Caroline - Concrete Blonde
This had a cool driving vibe to it. It's decent, but needs more rev to get me going.

Jerry Was a Race Car Driver - Primus
It sounds like they are playing the guitars backwards? This is surely a song I would tank as soon as this guy opened his mouth. I find little use for this band unless they doing Black Sabbath covers.

Bed of Roses - Screaming Trees
This band is passable. Not really my vibe. I also don't get too much of that uptempo Soul Asylum vibe here either.  

This is How It Feels - Inspiral Carpets
I knew I would like this from the intro. How British can A Band sound? I would have probably been listening to this stuff if I wasn't playing the the "Cherry Pie" CD on repeat all year long.

The Wagon - Dinosaur Jr.
Now this sounds a bit more like Soul Asylum. Nice for a first time listen. I like the backups and guitar solo the best.

[singingrulebritannia]

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[singingrulebritannia]

Time for the final pre-reveal extras post, to address the #21 peaks! Nothing too groundbreaking here, but they can't all be winners 🤷. This set starts with two songs from bands already in the rankdown. "Heart of Soul" was actually previously seen in the 1992 Active extras. Also present in this set is a Philly synth group known for their 5 top 10 hits on the Dance Club charts (among them a 1988 Hot 100 charter inspired by the AIDS epidemic), and yet another extra from Nitzer Ebb which name makes me think of that one Blag Flag album

Overall year-end position	Song title	Artist	Video	Weeks on	Total chart points
169	Heart of Soul	The Cult		3	14
156	Baby Universal	Tin Machine		8	29
155	Alice Everyday	Book of Love		5	31
149	Family Man	Nitzer Ebb		5	37

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

get those lists in!!! ... if you don’t vote submit, then you can’t complain

[House Lannister]

Family Man is not a hot remake of the 1980s Hall and Oates number.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Book Of Love had a big hit with the Hi-Energy crowd with the extended of "Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls" / "Tubular Bells". The melody was either from Halloween or The Exorcist. I forget which one? "Alice Everyday" didn't sounds Hi-NRG at all, but I still dug it cause it sounded like 80's.

[singingrulebritannia]

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[Az Paynter]

Sent; I still think this list overall is kinda meh.

[Alex1901]

Just sent.

To be perfectly honest, this list isn't all that great. There are too much okay-meh songs on here.

8/10- 1-8
7/10- 9-35
6/10- 36-79
5/10- 80-96
4/10- 97-99
3/10- 100

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Sept 6, 2019 20:46:59 GMT -5 House Lannister said:

Family Man is not a hot remake of the 1980s Hall and Oates number.

but I’d be curious to hear Nitzer Ebb’s take on a H&O song

[Deleted]

Sept 7, 2019 16:18:32 GMT -5 Butterflies & Hurricanes said:

Sept 6, 2019 20:46:59 GMT -5 House Lannister said:

Family Man is not a hot remake of the 1980s Hall and Oates number.

but I’d be curious to hear Nitzer Ebb’s take on a H&O song

now I’m imagining Out of Touch sung to the tune of Join in the Chant

[singingrulebritannia]

SUBMISSIONS CLOSED. No lists will be accepted past the time of this posting. I will begin working on sending the necessary materials to my co-host Butterflies & Hurricanes, and hopefully #100-86 reveals will begin in short order.

Your final participant list:
singingrulebritannia
wheatsquares33
Butterflies & Hurricanes
@xfer
Red
Doc Indie Party Rock
House Lannister
newpower
commerce196
American Idiot
rowellfarm490
Sambalada
Daryl the Beryl
campbellssoup
peacebone
@doinktheclown
Az Paynter
Alex1901
Lordef†ones
somelikeitwhen

[singingrulebritannia]

Nevermind, looks like it's going to be me tonight

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{The Pestilence Outside My Window}singingrulebritannia
wheatsquares33
Butterflies & Hurricanes
@xfer
Red
Doc Indie Party Rock
House Lannister
newpower
commerce196
American Idiot
rowellfarm490
Sambalada
Daryl the Beryl (+ singingrulebritannia edits)
campbellssoup
peacebone
@doinktheclown
Az Paynter
Alex1901
Lordef†ones
somelikeitwhen

#100 never left the bottom 2, even though it has 2 top 40s. No one gets a perfect ranking to start off. The artist is making their rock chart rankdown debut

[singingrulebritannia]

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100

Kozmik
Ziggy Marley

Year-End Placing: #80
Chart Peak: #6
Weeks on Chart: 7
318 points
Standard Deviation: 18.64 (13th lowest)

Lordef†ones - 33
Sambalada - 36
Doc Indie Party Rock - 77
Az Paynter - 78
@xfer - 80
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 84
American Idiot - 85
campbellssoup - 88
somelikeitwhen - 88
@doinktheclown - 91
commerce196 - 92
Red - 93
wheatsquares33 - 95
peacebone - 95
Daryl the Beryl - 97
Alex1901 - 97
singingrulebritannia - 98
House Lannister - 98
rowellfarm490 - 98
newpower - 99

Performance history:
Debut




Movements:
99 99 100 100 99 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

Spectators:
alexcuse
janinho
Geometrical

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{Remaining songs}Rush
Kiss Them for Me
Get the Message
Until She Comes
Right Here, Right Now
More
See the Lights
This Love
Losing My Religion
There She Goes
So You Think You're in Love
Kinky Afro
American Music
I Touch Myself
Then
Satisfied
Night and Day
All This Time
Unbelievable
Walking Down Madison
The Other Side of Summer
Chorus
Chocolate Cake
Give It Away
Wicked Game
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Sexuality
Crazy
Piccadilly Palare
Valerie Loves Me
There's No Other Way
When It Began
Obvious Song
Shiny Happy People
Miss Freelove 69
Our Frank
Reach the Rock
Marble
The Globe
She's a Girl and I'm a Man
One Shot
Movin' on Up
Tighten Up
Sweetness and Light
Stone Cold Yesterday
It's Only Natural
Only Tongue Can Tell
Top of the Pops
Disappear
Beautiful Love
Enlighten Me
Sadeness Part 1
Tomorrow Never Knows
Sunless Saturday
Take Five
Don't Ask Me
Diane
Monsters and Angels
Native Son
Bitter Tears
International Bright Young Thing
Wild Hearted Son
Caught in My Shadow
The Fly
All Together Now
Submarine Song
X Y & Zee
Sing Your Life
Celebrate
Unreal World
Love Rears Its Ugly Head
I Believe
Texarkana
Always on the Run
Pearl
Happy
Heaven or Las Vegas
Hands Across the Ocean
3 Strange Days
Backlash
How Much is Enough
Flowers in the Rain
Drive That Fast
Letter to Memphis
Sit Down
Love to Hate You
Like a Drug
Counting Backwards
Timeless Melody
That is Why
The Road
Alive and Living Now
Rocking Chair
The Person You Are
Sam
I Want More
Human Nature
Naked Rain
The Soul Cages

[Red]

Not the most ideal start, but I'll take it.

[House Lannister]

I'm fine with this being here.

[Sambalada]

Wow. I think this song is different, and in a good way.

[Deleted]

Is this the first time a song has hit last place without any last place votes?

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

ok guys, i'm taking the baton from here...making sure my laptop is charged up...

up next at 99 we see:

3 Top Half losses
2 100s
5 PPPPP's

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

sigh, well, your host takes big loss already...i understand the vocals are an acquired taste, but 99? sheesh!

99

The Globe
Big Audio Dynamite II

Year-End Placing: #39
Chart Peak: #3
Weeks on Chart: 10
399 points
Standard Deviation: 27.57 (18th highest)

Butterflies & Hurricanes - 16
newpower - 18
Lordef†ones - 40
Sambalada - 55
campbellssoup - 66
@xfer - 74
House Lannister - 88
peacebone - 89
Az Paynter - 91
Doc Indie Party Rock - 97
@doinktheclown - 97
somelikeitwhen - 97
Daryl the Beryl - 98
singingrulebritannia - 99
wheatsquares33 - 99
commerce196 - 99
American Idiot - 99
Alex1901 - 99
Red - 100
rowellfarm490 - 100

Performance history:
Debut



Movements:
100 82 90 92 97 96 91 93 93 95 94 96 95 95 96 97 99 98 99

Spectators:
alexcuse
janinho
Geometrical

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining songs}Rush
Kiss Them for Me
Get the Message
Until She Comes
Right Here, Right Now
More
See the Lights
This Love
Losing My Religion
There She Goes
So You Think You're in Love
Kinky Afro
American Music
I Touch Myself
Then
Satisfied
Night and Day
All This Time
Unbelievable
Walking Down Madison
The Other Side of Summer
Chorus
Chocolate Cake
Give It Away
Wicked Game
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Sexuality
Crazy
Piccadilly Palare
Valerie Loves Me
There's No Other Way
When It Began
Obvious Song
Shiny Happy People
Miss Freelove 69
Our Frank
Reach the Rock
Marble
She's a Girl and I'm a Man
One Shot
Movin' on Up
Tighten Up
Sweetness and Light
Stone Cold Yesterday
It's Only Natural
Only Tongue Can Tell
Top of the Pops
Disappear
Beautiful Love
Enlighten Me
Sadeness Part 1
Tomorrow Never Knows
Sunless Saturday
Take Five
Don't Ask Me
Diane
Monsters and Angels
Native Son
Bitter Tears
International Bright Young Thing
Wild Hearted Son
Caught in My Shadow
The Fly
All Together Now
Submarine Song
X Y & Zee
Sing Your Life
Celebrate
Unreal World
Love Rears Its Ugly Head
I Believe
Texarkana
Always on the Run
Pearl
Happy
Heaven or Las Vegas
Hands Across the Ocean
3 Strange Days
Backlash
How Much is Enough
Flowers in the Rain
Drive That Fast
Letter to Memphis
Sit Down
Love to Hate You
Like a Drug
Counting Backwards
Timeless Melody
That is Why
The Road
Alive and Living Now
Rocking Chair
The Person You Are
Sam
I Want More
Human Nature
Naked Rain
The Soul Cages

[Red]

This actually made me say "what the ever-living christ is this" out loud.

This is one of the worst songs we've ranked this decade. (And no, it's not because of the vocals.)

[House Lannister]

Sadly, this was no Rush.

[somelikeitwhen]

I mean it's not the worst but...I definitely get why people would hate this.

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

next we have

0 Top Halfs
0 100s &
0 PPPPP's

smells like a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW standard deviation

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

of course this can't touch the Beatles' original, but i don't think it's so bad...

98

Tomorrow Never Knows
Danielle Dax

Year-End Placing: #53
Chart Peak: #5
Weeks on Chart: 10
402 points
Standard Deviation: 14.99 (3rd lowest)

Az Paynter - 52
newpower - 54
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 59
Lordef†ones - 63
peacebone - 67
somelikeitwhen - 72
singingrulebritannia - 80
Daryl the Beryl - 80
Alex1901 - 80
Doc Indie Party Rock - 84
@xfer - 85
Red - 86
rowellfarm490 - 88
House Lannister - 91
wheatsquares33 - 94
commerce196 - 94
American Idiot - 95
Sambalada - 95
campbellssoup - 99
@doinktheclown - 100

Performance history:
Debut



Movements:
91 93 95 97 98 98 96 96 98 98 99 99 99 98 98 98 98 99 98

Spectators:
alexcuse
janinho
Geometrical

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining songs}Rush
Kiss Them for Me
Get the Message
Until She Comes
Right Here, Right Now
More
See the Lights
This Love
Losing My Religion
There She Goes
So You Think You're in Love
Kinky Afro
American Music
I Touch Myself
Then
Satisfied
Night and Day
All This Time
Unbelievable
Walking Down Madison
The Other Side of Summer
Chorus
Chocolate Cake
Give It Away
Wicked Game
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Sexuality
Crazy
Piccadilly Palare
Valerie Loves Me
There's No Other Way
When It Began
Obvious Song
Shiny Happy People
Miss Freelove 69
Our Frank
Reach the Rock
Marble
She's a Girl and I'm a Man
One Shot
Movin' on Up
Tighten Up
Sweetness and Light
Stone Cold Yesterday
It's Only Natural
Only Tongue Can Tell
Top of the Pops
Disappear
Beautiful Love
Enlighten Me
Sadeness Part 1
Sunless Saturday
Take Five
Don't Ask Me
Diane
Monsters and Angels
Native Son
Bitter Tears
International Bright Young Thing
Wild Hearted Son
Caught in My Shadow
The Fly
All Together Now
Submarine Song
X Y & Zee
Sing Your Life
Celebrate
Unreal World
Love Rears Its Ugly Head
I Believe
Texarkana
Always on the Run
Pearl
Happy
Heaven or Las Vegas
Hands Across the Ocean
3 Strange Days
Backlash
How Much is Enough
Flowers in the Rain
Drive That Fast
Letter to Memphis
Sit Down
Love to Hate You
Like a Drug
Counting Backwards
Timeless Melody
That is Why
The Road
Alive and Living Now
Rocking Chair
The Person You Are
Sam
I Want More
Human Nature
Naked Rain
The Soul Cages

[somelikeitwhen]

Sept 7, 2019 21:39:06 GMT -5 Red said:

This actually made me say "what the ever-living christ is this" out loud.

This is one of the worst songs we've ranked this decade. (And no, it's not because of the vocals.)

Somehow I found a worse song than my obvious #100, meaning my foreshadowing earlier in this thread no longer applies. Oh well.

[somelikeitwhen]

This song wasn't terrible, and also I had no idea it was a Beatles cover (probably because it was so weird, with the Talking Heads sample and everything).

[Red]

This is just...odd. Not a bad take on the song, but odd.

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

next up...ANOTHER 1st time rankdown appearance & ANOTHER very low standard deviation

but this time we lose 2 top halfs & we clear a 100