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Post by singingrulebritannia on Oct 26, 2019 20:28:26 GMT -5
Here's your third batch of pre-reveal extras! This time I'll be showing off cast-aside second singles from The Heart Throbs, The Mission, and The Smithereens (though the last one can be ranked in 1990 Active right now), and failed third singles from Iggy Pop and Michael Penn. As well, guitar legend John Hiatt charts for the second and last time on Alt, a former drummer for Stiff Little Fingers manages to chart as a member of Raindogs, an Irish band popular in their homeland makes their lone appearance on a Billboard chart (this song also reached #77 on the Hot 100), and Ultra Vivid Scene is shafted once again. But stick around, because after the jump I have another highlight extra post. year-end position | song title | artist | video | peak | weeks | chart points | 161 | She's in a Trance | The Heart Throbs | {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
| #21 | 4 | 22 | 160 | Child of the Wild Blue Yonder | John Hiatt | {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
| #24 | 5 | 23 | 159 | Butterfly on a Wheel | The Mission U.K. | {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
| #23 | 5 | 23 | 158 | Brave New World | Michael Penn | {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
| #20 | 5 | 24 | 157 | Livin on the Edge of the Night | Iggy Pop | {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
| #16 | 4 | 26 | 155 | I'm Not Scared | Raindogs | {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
| #23 | 5 | 28 | 154 | Drag My Bad Name Down | The 4 of Us | {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
| #22 | 4 | 28 | 153 | It Happens Every Time | Ultra Vivid Scene | {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
| #19 | 3 | 29 | 152 | Blues Before and After | The Smithereens | {Spoiler}{Spoiler}
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Oct 26, 2019 20:38:52 GMT -5
"Loaded" is considered the lead single from Screamadelica (which holds last year's top 10 finisher "Movin' On Up"). Lead is an understatement--this single was released 19 months before the album came out. It also should be noted that the song is actually a remix of a song from Primal Scream's self-titled second album, "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have".
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Overall Year-End Position: #156 Chart Peak: #19 Chart Weeks: 4 Total Chart Points: 27 Feel free to share your thoughts on this song below!
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Post by Albie on Oct 29, 2019 14:33:06 GMT -5
Just over a week before deadline. Could you even bear to miss it? If you aren't on the tag list and want to be, please let me know!
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Oct 31, 2019 18:06:52 GMT -5
I present, the last batch of extras that will be posted before reveals begin. 7 are in this table, 2 will come in separate posts. Today, we'll hear more from rankdown presences Concrete Blonde and (former King Crimson member) Adrian Belew. Also in attendance is The Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof, Edie Brickell who will finally debut next year, and Redd Kross who are a bit more popular than the sole charter might have you believe. The title of the Sidewinders song describe their relationship to music now, and Mojo Nixon must have known they wouldn't be remembered for their actual music so they decided to give their songs memorably edgy titles! year-end position | song title | artist | video | peak | weeks | chart points | 151 | Don Henley Must Die | Mojo Nixon | | #20 | 4 | 30 | 150 | Everybody Knows | Concrete Blonde | | #20 | 4 | 30 | 149 | Men in Helicopters | Adrian Belew | | #17 | 4 | 30 | 148 | Love or Something | Bob Geldof | | #24 | 6 | 32 | 147 | We Don't Do That Anymore | Sidewinders | | #23 | 6 | 33 | 146 | A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall | Edie Brickell | | #21 | 4 | 34 | 143 | Annie's Gone | Redd Kross | | #16 | 6 | 37 |
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Oct 31, 2019 18:19:56 GMT -5
In the process of trying to find trivia about each extra, I landed on the TMBG wiki, called "This Might Be A Wiki". This community has their own RateYourMusic-esque aggregate user chart of every song the band has made. It's not a tiny sample size; a lot of the songs have over 100 ratings, and the most rated song has over 500. Apparently, out of 910 recordings, They Might Be Giants fans consider "Birdhouse In Your Soul" (the song in the rankdown) their best ever, while "Twisting", this extra, ranks 210th.
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Twisting They Might Be Giants
Overall Year-End Position: #145 Chart Peak: #22 Chart Weeks: 7 Total Chart Points: 35 Feel free to share your thoughts on this song below!
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Oct 31, 2019 18:24:19 GMT -5
Peter Murphy could've had two songs in the rankdown too. For a low-peaking song, it has a very high view count on YouTube (nearly 2 million), so it's close to as well-remembered as "Cuts You Up"
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A Strange Kind of Love Peter Murphy
Overall Year-End Position: #145 Chart Peak: #21 Chart Weeks: 5 Total Chart Points: 37 Feel free to share your thoughts on this song below!
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Post by Red on Oct 31, 2019 19:50:43 GMT -5
The Concrete Blonde version of "Everybody Knows" is the best version of the song that isn't Cohen's. It probably would have been in my top 20 here, at the very least.
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Nov 1, 2019 8:47:23 GMT -5
The Concrete Blonde version of "Everybody Knows" is the best version of the song that isn't Cohen's. It probably would have been in my top 20 here, at the very least. ftfy
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Post by Albie on Nov 2, 2019 18:36:27 GMT -5
Y'all have like 5 days so send in your shit :) If you aren't on the tag list and want to be, please let me know!
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Nov 4, 2019 3:43:35 GMT -5
I was into Hair Metal those years, so don't hate on my list. It's just based on many first time listens I either liked or didn't.
but anyway.....sent...to both of you. ;)
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Post by Albie on Nov 4, 2019 19:20:01 GMT -5
So, uh, 3 days until deadline but like... If you aren't on the tag list and want to be, please let me know!
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Post by Red on Nov 5, 2019 15:54:49 GMT -5
The Concrete Blonde version of "Everybody Knows" is the best version of the song that isn't Cohen's. It probably would have been in my top 20 here, at the very least. ftfy Cohen's version is in my top ten Cohen songs, easily. The music is a little dated, but Cohen just sells it.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 6, 2019 15:44:04 GMT -5
Alrighty, since I know my schedule for the next 7 days now, I can definitively state the official due date and time is November 8th at 8PM ET/5PM PT. And yes, that is a one-day extension from the original deadline. I couldn't move it too far up because of Albie's plans starting next weekend, but I did want to take advantage of the day off I have this Friday (so as a consequence, I will be the revealer for #100-86). And if this helps some of you complete a list on time, all the better; it's not like we have a plethora of them in the game right now anyway.
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Post by janinho on Nov 6, 2019 16:54:21 GMT -5
Please tag me for the results.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 7, 2019 20:19:10 GMT -5
A little less than 24 hours left!
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 8, 2019 16:30:13 GMT -5
There's already been some activity in our inboxes today, but I'll still fire off one last reminder. You have about 3 hours and 30 minutes to submit (though the exact time is flexible because I know a couple people intending to send who might come a little later than 5)
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 8, 2019 20:21:54 GMT -5
Submissions are (mostly) closed. The results will be final once I receive @humanshazam's list. No other last-minute lists will be accepted.
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Post by Lordef†ones on Nov 8, 2019 20:49:18 GMT -5
Sorry but I'm officially done with retro rankdowns. Its just too much I can't even find the time to devote to my own rankdowns. All I ask is that you tag me when Iceblink Luck is revealed (which wouldve been my #1)
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 8, 2019 21:45:59 GMT -5
ok--while i'm setting up for the show, feel free to tell me what your predictions will be for top 10, bottom 10, high and low SDs, winners for multiple song artists, etc.
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Post by lyhom on Nov 8, 2019 21:48:29 GMT -5
to be frank I have no fucking idea lmao
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 8, 2019 21:55:08 GMT -5
to be frank I have no fu cking idea lmao
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2019 21:55:33 GMT -5
Enjoy the Silence is #1, #100, highest SD, and lowest SD
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Nov 8, 2019 22:10:06 GMT -5
I suspect Babydoll will be in the bottom 10, but I personally like the quirkiness of Laurie Anderson
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Post by somelikeitwhen on Nov 8, 2019 22:31:29 GMT -5
I suspect Babydoll will be in the bottom 10, but I personally like the quirkiness of Laurie Anderson There was a music video by her on the MTV2 A to Z thing that wasn't even a music video, it was less than a minute long and was just about her finding a TV channel that showed school lunches and talking about it
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Post by somelikeitwhen on Nov 8, 2019 22:32:32 GMT -5
Also I once had Laurie Anderson and Laurie Berkner confused, saw the video for Language is a Virus and got very confused
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 8, 2019 22:55:18 GMT -5
No one will get a perfect ranking with #100. Amazing, I know--just like check notes last year! Not coincidentally, it's the 2nd lowest SD. There are 7 bottom 10s, merely 2 being bottom 5s. Only 1 poster loses a top 50, and it's not even a top 40. This song never left the bottom 10, but wasn't always #100 or even bottom 5 (that was mostly at the beginning and end of submissions).
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Post by peacebone on Nov 8, 2019 22:58:24 GMT -5
My #43
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Nov 8, 2019 22:59:54 GMT -5
Not a good introduction for the crown Stooge. Imagine if we had ranked tracks from The Weirdness in rock chart RDs though lmao 100
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Year-End Placing: #53 Chart Peak: #2 Weeks on Chart: 10 417 points Standard Deviation: 13.82 (2ND LOWEST)Daryl the Beryl - 46 Sambalada - 55 newpower - 65 @xfer - 67 singingrulebritannia - 74 craziaskowboi - 74 Doc Indie Party Rock - 81 Az Paynter - 81 Alex1901 - 81 Juanca - 84 Geometrical - 86 American Idiot - 88 @doinktheclown - 88 somelikeitwhen - 88 @humanshazam - 89 Butterflies & Hurricanes - 90 rowellfarm490 - 94 lyhom - 94 Albie - 95 Red - 95 campbellssoup - 95 peacebone - 97 wheatsquares33 - 99 Performance history:Debut Movements:100 100 100 100 98 99 100 99 95 94 94 94 94 96 97 97 97 97 97 99 99 100 Spectators: MoDjaninho{Remaining songs} Cuts You Up Policy of Truth Here's Where the Story Ends Metropolis The Emperor's New Clothes Nothing Compares 2 U No Myth Head On Love and Anger Way Down Now Joey I'm Free Standing There Proud to Fall Forgotten Years Jealous I Don't Know Why But I Love You Enjoy the Silence House Blue Sky Mine Deliverance Fools Gold Give It Up Blues from a Gun Roam I'll Be Your Chauffeur Never Enough Birdhouse in Your Soul The Crying Scene Type Merry Go Round Candy Hello Every Beat of the Heart Suicide Blonde The Only One I Know Been Caught Stealing Iceblink Luck When the River Runs Dry Downtown Pretty Pink Rose Getting Away with It Dreamtime Ouija Board, Ouija Board Let Love Rule Never Do That Kool Thing King of the Mountain Stop! Cradle of Love A Girl Like You Velouria Step On The Downtown Lights Pure Tom's Diner Hey Venus Crystal Clear Book of Dreams Put the Message in the Box Babydoll This and That It's Too Late Sweet Smell of Success November Spawned a Monster Where Do We Go from Heaven Onion Skin Post Post-Modern Man Drifting, Falling Here I Am (Come and Take Me) Pineapple Face All I Want Hello I Love You The Sensual World World in Motion One Love Respectfully King of Rain Ball and Chain Contact Jealous of Youth Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning Biting My Nails Secrets Hippychick Don't Let Me Down, Gently Down In It Show Me Your Soul Higher Ground Tears Won't Help Time and Space Faith and Healing Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello... Devolution Workin Man Blues Kiss This Thing Goodbye Razor Blades of Love Let It Be Me Life in Detail God Tonight Dirty Old Town
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Post by somelikeitwhen on Nov 8, 2019 23:02:54 GMT -5
homie?
I didn't hate this but it was just eh. I take it we'll be seeing less and less clear #100s as we go.
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Post by Red on Nov 8, 2019 23:03:21 GMT -5
Love you, Iggy, but what were you even doing here?
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