Geo's Alternative & Synthpop 20/20 Rankdown (Finished!)

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After hosting my first personal rankdown last fall, I was pretty sure I'd be done with personals, at least for quite a long time, considering the sheer amount of material we've gone through and considering I do my best to avoid any repeats, if possible (which, despite my best attempts, failed last time, as there were a few repeats... not the end of the world, I guess, lol). Well... here's a second iteration, just about 8 months later.

In general, some of my favourite genres of music fall somewhere between Alternative and Synthpop, if I may use these terms loosely. So I curated a list of 40 songs - which is basically 2 lists of 20 songs for each of these genres. Again, I did my best to avoid any potential repeats (mainly with any retro rankdowns and personal rankdowns, but not with tournaments) to keep things fresh. Of course, if there's any oversights, I'm sure you'll let me know. Familiarity-wise, this list is possibly a little more obscure than my first personal rankdown, despite some pretty obvious classic songs on this list that I believe we've never ranked.

Alternative-wise, this will cover a pretty wide spectrum of genres (Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Shoegaze, Pop-Punk, Jangle Pop, and whatnot)
Synthpop-wise, similar case (Indietronica, Dream Pop, Art Pop, Alt-Dance and whatnot).

Alternative	Synthpop
Airiel - In Your Room	The Black Queen - Thrown Into the Dark
Boy - Up in This Town	Childish Gambino - Sober
Doves - Black and White Town	Clan of Xymox - A Day
The Faint - I Disappear	Cold Cave - Confetti
Linkin Park - Powerless	Crystal Castles - Vanished
Minus the Bear - Knights	Grimes & i_o - Violence
No Vacation - Draem Girl	The Horrors - Something To Remember Me By
Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes	The Killers - Just Another Girl
Psychic TV - Godstar	Kraftwerk - The Robots/Die Roboter
Rammstein - Deutschland	Ladytron - The Island
Red Vox - In the Garden	Let's Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me
Ride - Lannoy Point	Lower Dens - To Die in L.A.
Ringo Deathstarr - Stare at the Sun	Midnight Juggernauts - Shadows
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Talking Straight	Neon Indian - Slumlord
Skeletal Family - Promised Land	Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity
Taking Back Sunday - What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?	Ratatat - Shempi
Sloan - The Other Man	Shiny Toy Guns - Major Tom
The Twilight Sad - VTr	Still Corners - Black Lagoon
The Vaccines - Nightclub	Talk Talk - Talk Talk
White Lies - There Goes Our Love Again	Tears for Fears - Mad World

Full List
Airiel - In Your Room
The Black Queen - Thrown Into the Dark
Boy - Up in This Town
Childish Gambino - Sober
Clan of Xymox - A Day
Cold Cave - Confetti
Crystal Castles - Vanished
Doves - Black and White Town
The Faint - I Disappear
Grimes & i_o - Violence
The Horrors - Something To Remember Me By
The Killers - Just Another Girl
Kraftwerk - The Robots/Die Roboter
Ladytron - The Island
Let's Eat Grandma - Falling Into Me
Linkin Park - Powerless
Lower Dens - To Die in L.A.
Midnight Juggernauts - Shadows
Minus the Bear - Knights
Neon Indian - Slumlord
No Vacation - Draem Girl
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity
Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes
Psychic TV - Godstar
Rammstein - Deutschland
Ratatat - Shempi
Red Vox - In the Garden
Ride - Lannoy Point
Ringo Deathstarr - Stare at the Sun
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Talking Straight
Shiny Toy Guns - Major Tom
Skeletal Family - Promised Land
Sloan - The Other Man
Still Corners - Black Lagoon
Taking Back Sunday - What's It Feel Like to Be a Ghost?
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
Tears for Fears - Mad World
The Twilight Sad - VTr
The Vaccines - Nightclub
White Lies - There Goes Our Love Again



Apparently, "Up in This Town" is geoblocked in the US, so here's a video for it.



Note: most of the Synthpop songs tend to be alphabetically bunched together in the middle, and the Alternative songs bunched near the end... so I suggest you listen to the playlist in Shuffle.

PM me, Geometrical , your ranking of these 40 songs. I'd prefer if you'd send me a list without numbers, but anything will do; I'll even accept lists with messed up formatting and typos (though don't go out of your way to do so).

I'm in no hurry to close this, and there's quite a rankdown queue at the moment... so current deadline is July 31. That means 7 weeks from the opening date. We'll see how things go; probably open to extensions if there's a big backlog of RDs at that point, but don't overly count on it. Happy ranking!

Participants
Geometrical
@humanshazam
singingrulebritannia
@trilogy
American Idiot
wrip
aerodynamite
Butterflies & Hurricanes
Juan Carlos
Beno
janinho
Daryl the Beryl
rowellfarm490
peacebone
Doc Indie Party Rock
Lordef†ones
samo🦕
Red
MoD
nickd

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[wheatsquares33]

Oh I see Black Queen, I'm in

[Lordef†ones]

STILL FUCKING CORNERS I'm very much in

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in

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

This looks like it could be fun so count me in. Trivia Question? One of these songs hit #1 on my personal weekly charts. You get one hint. It's not "Electricity"

[Deleted]

Hi! I didn't send out a tag last week since we were so far away from the expected deadline. There's still several rankdowns due in the coming few weeks, so I'm not expecting a huge influx of lists coming in soon, but this is just a quick reminder that there's (just over) 5 weeks left to send.

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[nickd]

Tag me for this, I really liked your first RD.

[ampitup98]

Same here, I'd like to be on the tag list

[singingrulebritannia]

#1 & 2: 4.5/5
#3-8: 4/5
#9-23: 3.5/5
#24-35: 3/5
#36-40: 2.5/5

[Deleted]

Hiya. Today we're exactly 4 weeks away from the deadline. Thanks to gates and shazam for sending early bird lists - good start. Added a few extra names from a stolen taglist, but feel free to let me know if you'd rather be untagged.

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[wrip]

I’ll definitely put this on my to-do list!

[Deleted]

that's one rd set for the day

[Deleted]

Hi! There are now 3 weeks left to submit. Thanks to Trilogy for submitting this week.

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[Deleted]

Hi, it's me again. Been away most of the week. Just another reminder that there's now (just over) 2 weeks left to submit. No new lists came in since last time (though one person mentioned to me they were almost done with theirs).

At this rate I might end up extending, without stepping on anyone else's toes in terms of their own rankdowns. I don't expect to reach the tally of 21 participants from my first RD (due to more obscure songs and/or rankdown fatigue), but I'll be happy with 12-15 lists or something like that.

Anyway, let me know if you're interested, have begun working on a list, need accommodations (i.e. extensions), or whatever else. I'm flexible.

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[Deleted]

One week left! 2 more lists came in this week, thanks to AI and wrip. I know at least two more people are working on their lists at the moment so the turnover is projecting to be good once again after all.

I'll probably be tagging more frequently with only one week left right now, but do let me know if you want to be untagged (or added to the tags, for that matter). I might also check up directly with some of you who expressed interest initially to gauge if the deadline still works.

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[Beno]

After I finish with James’ current rankdown this is next on my list, I should have it in by the current deadline

[aerodynamite]

#1-14: 4.5/5
#15-31: 4/5
#32-39: 3.5/5
#40: 3/5

An insanely stacked list

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Geometrical - how dare you!!! picking a song to be last from this list is impossible!

[Deleted]

4 days left! Since my last tag, 4 new lists came in - Sincere thanks to aero, Tom, Juan Carlos and Beno!

At this pace I'm very much considering closing submissions on the originally planned date of July 31st, but if you need special accommodations, please do let me know.

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[Deleted]

3 days left! Thanks to janinho for sending a list since my tagging session of yesterday. Now up to 11 lists.

If you want to be tagged/untagged, think you'll need an extension or whatever, just let me know.

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[rowellfarm490]

I have a rough draft done but I want to give everything one more listen to fine tune my ranking. I should make it before the deadline.

[Deleted]

Yo, there's now 2 days left to submit! Many thanks to Daryl for sending a list since yesterday. Now up to 12 lists.

We're drawing close to the deadline and with RMD beginning reveals on Saturday I'm hoping not to have to extend, but if you think about submitting and need the extra time, please let me know ASAP, I can probably push the deadline back a few days if needed.

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[Deleted]

1 day left. If you think you still want to submit and could use a little bit of extra time, I'm ready to extend the deadline to this Sunday, but no further extensions would be given after that.

For now, deadline remains as initially set though. There's a few people who mentioned they'd try submitting but haven't heard from in a few days, so if you think you can use the extra time, please let me know.

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[Doc Indie Party Rock]

give me til Sunday. I'll get it in.

[Deleted]

Alright, after a bit of consulting, there's at least three people who mentioned they'd send a list in. Since I won't be able to reveal tonight or Saturday, and to help optimize the number of submissions, I'll give a brief 2-day extension as mentioned before.

So, this is now due in 2 days again, aka on Sunday, August 2nd. I don't expect to extend further, so please make good use of that time if you were still planning on sending!

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[Deleted]

1 day left again!

If you're not sending but want to be added to the tags for reveals, let me know.

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[Doc Indie Party Rock]

just sent it. great set of songs. I have three first time listens in my top 10.

[Deleted]

Alright, submissions are technically closed. I'm still waiting for MoD to send me his list shortly, after which I'll officially close shop, unless there are some other stragglers out there.

I'll finish preparing reveals Monday, so late lists will be accepted overnight - and I'll hopefully be able to begin revealing either Monday or Tuesday night.

Thanks to everyone who sent a list - 19 participants is definitely an excellent turnover and I'm very grateful for it!

[nickd]

Sent from this straggler!

Are Geo and I the only ones that knew Up In This Town before this?

[Deleted]

Alright, reveals are officially starting tomorrow night. Still waiting on a potential last minute list, but regardless of whether it actually comes in or not, we're beginning Wednesday night.

Final roll call:

Geometrical
@humanshazam
singingrulebritannia
@trilogy
American Idiot
wrip
aerodynamite
Butterflies & Hurricanes
Juan Carlos
Beno
janinho
Daryl the Beryl
rowellfarm490
peacebone
Doc Indie Party Rock
Lordef†ones
samo🦕
Red
MoD
nickd

I'd post a survey, but they seem to be fairly unpopular these days among RDs, so if you're ever so interested to do so, feel free to discuss anything about:

• Top 10 predictions
• Bottom 10 predictions
• High SDs