Pulse Rankdown: 1985 Modern Rock Chart Rankdown (revealing)
Sept 11, 2020 11:55:54 GMT -5
Post by Troy on Sept 11, 2020 11:55:54 GMT -5
1) PM me (tomsullivanusa) the top 100 Alternative songs of 1985, all ranked to your preference. (e.g. if you like a song the most, rank it the highest and vice versa).
2) The points a song has will be totaled up based on an inverse point system. So if you rank a song #100, it gets 1 point, and if you rank a song #1, it gets 100 points. All the points from the participants will be totaled up.
3) The TENTATIVE due date for submission is Friday, October 16th. The deadline time is 11:59 PM US Eastern.
4) ALL songs must be ranked.
5) To avoid posting with duplicate lines when you PM me, click BBCode below the text box before pasting your list.
6) It would be appreciated if you sent your list in the Artist - Song format and kept the artist and song names as they are here. I'd like to note that I intentionally removed the periods (e.g. R.E.M.), as well as leading 'The's, 'A's & 'An's (e.g. The Cure, A Flock Of Seagulls, An Emotional Fish) - please leave those out to help me keep everything synced alphabetically.
7) All your rankings will be posted when I post a song in this thread.
8) You are allowed to make changes to your list, as long as you do so before the deadline.
9) For reference, here are the top 100 Modern Rock (aka Alternative) songs of 1985, as compiled exclusively from research of Gavin's weekly alternative albums chart (although some extras come from other sources):
1 Cure - In Between Days
2 Eurythmics - Would I Lie To You?
3 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
4 New Order - Love Vigilantes
5 REM - Can't Get There From Here
6 Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
7 Simple Minds - Alive And Kicking
8 Hoodoo Gurus - Bittersweet
9 X - Burning House Of Love
10 Shriekback - Nemesis
11 Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
12 Graham Parker - Break Them Down
13 Husker Du - New Day Rising
14 Blasters - Dark Night
15 Stranglers - Skin Deep
16 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hollywood (Africa)
17 Golden Palominos - Boy (Go)
18 Velvet Underground - I Can't Stand It
19 ABC - Be Near Me
20 Alarm - Strength
21 Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All
22 Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
23 Colourfield - Can't Get Enough Of You Baby
24 3 O'Clock - Her Head's Revolving
25 Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
26 Bryan Ferry - Slave To Love
27 Lloyd Cole - Perfect Skin
28 Jason & The Scorchers - White Lies
29 Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home
30 Big Audio Dynamite - Bottom Line
31 Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better
32 OMD - So In Love
33 Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down
34 Squeeze - Hits Of The Year
35 Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down
36 Bongos - Space Jungle
37 Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
38 Sisters Of Mercy - Walk Away
39 UB40 - I Got You Babe
40 Midnight Oil - Best Of Both Worlds
41 Clash - This Is England
42 Guadalcanal Diary - Trail Of Tears
43 Sting - If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free
44 Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked
45 Waterboys - Whole Of The Moon
46 Nina Hagen - Universal Radio
47 John Fogerty - Old Man Down The Road
48 Joan Armatrading - Temptation
49 Boomtown Rats - Rain
50 Yello - Vicious Games
51 Wire Train - Skills Of Summer
52 Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
53 Alison Moyet - Invisible
54 Time Zone - Word Destruction
55 Lords Of The New Church - Method To My Madness
56 Armoury Show - Castles In Spain
57 Beat Farmers - Bigger Stones
58 Meat Puppets - Swimming Ground
59 Blow Monkeys - Forbidden Fruit
60 Godley & Creme - Cry
61 Paul Young - Bite The Hand That Feeds
62 Everything But The Girl - When All's Well
63 Marshall Crenshaw - Little Wild One (# 5)
64 Richard Thompson - When The Spell Is Broken
65 INXS - This Time
66 U2 - Bad
67 Translator - Come With Me
68 Minutemen - Cheerleaders
69 Prince - Paisley Park
70 Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero
71 Nick Lowe - I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock & Roll)
72 Propaganda - Duel
73 Bluebells - Everybody's Somebody's Fool
74 Bob Dylan - Tight Connection To My Heart
75 Scritti Politti - Perfect Way
76 Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City
77 Malcom McLaren - Madame Butterfly
78 Sade - Smooth Operator
79 What Is This - I'll Be Around
80 Blue Nile - Stay
81 Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
82 10,000 Maniacs - Can't Ignore The Train
83 China Crisis - Highest High
84 Smiths - Boy With A Thorn In His Side
85 Thompson Twins - Lay Your Hands On Me
86 Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
87 Eurythmics - I Love You Like A Ball & Chain
88 New Order - Perfect Kiss
89 REM - Driver 8
90 Tears For Fears - Shout
91 Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
92 Talking Heads - And She Was
93 Talking Heads - Stay Up Late
94 ABC - Tower Of London
95 Howard Jones - Life In One Day
96 OMD - Secret
97 Prefab Sprout - Appetite
98 Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart
99 Prince - Pop Life
100 Fishbone - ? (Modern Industry)
Spotify playlist:
see 5 posts down
The following songs are unavailable on Spotify:
3 O'Clock - Her Head's Revolving
Armoury Show - Castles In Spain
Boomtown Rats - Rain
Lords Of The New Church - Method To My Madness
Nina Hagen - Universal Radio
see 5 posts down
Participants:
singingrulebritannia
gonecountry
American Idiot
wheatsquares33
Doc Indie Party Rock
* me *
rowellfarm490
aerodynamite
Daryl the Beryl
peacebone
@newpower
Tags:
2) The points a song has will be totaled up based on an inverse point system. So if you rank a song #100, it gets 1 point, and if you rank a song #1, it gets 100 points. All the points from the participants will be totaled up.
3) The TENTATIVE due date for submission is Friday, October 16th. The deadline time is 11:59 PM US Eastern.
4) ALL songs must be ranked.
5) To avoid posting with duplicate lines when you PM me, click BBCode below the text box before pasting your list.
6) It would be appreciated if you sent your list in the Artist - Song format and kept the artist and song names as they are here. I'd like to note that I intentionally removed the periods (e.g. R.E.M.), as well as leading 'The's, 'A's & 'An's (e.g. The Cure, A Flock Of Seagulls, An Emotional Fish) - please leave those out to help me keep everything synced alphabetically.
7) All your rankings will be posted when I post a song in this thread.
8) You are allowed to make changes to your list, as long as you do so before the deadline.
9) For reference, here are the top 100 Modern Rock (aka Alternative) songs of 1985, as compiled exclusively from research of Gavin's weekly alternative albums chart (although some extras come from other sources):
1 Cure - In Between Days
2 Eurythmics - Would I Lie To You?
3 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
4 New Order - Love Vigilantes
5 REM - Can't Get There From Here
6 Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
7 Simple Minds - Alive And Kicking
8 Hoodoo Gurus - Bittersweet
9 X - Burning House Of Love
10 Shriekback - Nemesis
11 Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
12 Graham Parker - Break Them Down
13 Husker Du - New Day Rising
14 Blasters - Dark Night
15 Stranglers - Skin Deep
16 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hollywood (Africa)
17 Golden Palominos - Boy (Go)
18 Velvet Underground - I Can't Stand It
19 ABC - Be Near Me
20 Alarm - Strength
21 Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All
22 Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
23 Colourfield - Can't Get Enough Of You Baby
24 3 O'Clock - Her Head's Revolving
25 Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
26 Bryan Ferry - Slave To Love
27 Lloyd Cole - Perfect Skin
28 Jason & The Scorchers - White Lies
29 Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home
30 Big Audio Dynamite - Bottom Line
31 Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better
32 OMD - So In Love
33 Prefab Sprout - When Love Breaks Down
34 Squeeze - Hits Of The Year
35 Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down
36 Bongos - Space Jungle
37 Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
38 Sisters Of Mercy - Walk Away
39 UB40 - I Got You Babe
40 Midnight Oil - Best Of Both Worlds
41 Clash - This Is England
42 Guadalcanal Diary - Trail Of Tears
43 Sting - If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free
44 Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked
45 Waterboys - Whole Of The Moon
46 Nina Hagen - Universal Radio
47 John Fogerty - Old Man Down The Road
48 Joan Armatrading - Temptation
49 Boomtown Rats - Rain
50 Yello - Vicious Games
51 Wire Train - Skills Of Summer
52 Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
53 Alison Moyet - Invisible
54 Time Zone - Word Destruction
55 Lords Of The New Church - Method To My Madness
56 Armoury Show - Castles In Spain
57 Beat Farmers - Bigger Stones
58 Meat Puppets - Swimming Ground
59 Blow Monkeys - Forbidden Fruit
60 Godley & Creme - Cry
61 Paul Young - Bite The Hand That Feeds
62 Everything But The Girl - When All's Well
63 Marshall Crenshaw - Little Wild One (# 5)
64 Richard Thompson - When The Spell Is Broken
65 INXS - This Time
66 U2 - Bad
67 Translator - Come With Me
68 Minutemen - Cheerleaders
69 Prince - Paisley Park
70 Fishbone - Party At Ground Zero
71 Nick Lowe - I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock & Roll)
72 Propaganda - Duel
73 Bluebells - Everybody's Somebody's Fool
74 Bob Dylan - Tight Connection To My Heart
75 Scritti Politti - Perfect Way
76 Artists United Against Apartheid - Sun City
77 Malcom McLaren - Madame Butterfly
78 Sade - Smooth Operator
79 What Is This - I'll Be Around
80 Blue Nile - Stay
81 Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
82 10,000 Maniacs - Can't Ignore The Train
83 China Crisis - Highest High
84 Smiths - Boy With A Thorn In His Side
85 Thompson Twins - Lay Your Hands On Me
86 Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
87 Eurythmics - I Love You Like A Ball & Chain
88 New Order - Perfect Kiss
89 REM - Driver 8
90 Tears For Fears - Shout
91 Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
92 Talking Heads - And She Was
93 Talking Heads - Stay Up Late
94 ABC - Tower Of London
95 Howard Jones - Life In One Day
96 OMD - Secret
97 Prefab Sprout - Appetite
98 Sting - Fortress Around Your Heart
99 Prince - Pop Life
100 Fishbone - ? (Modern Industry)
Spotify playlist:
see 5 posts down
The following songs are unavailable on Spotify:
3 O'Clock - Her Head's Revolving
Armoury Show - Castles In Spain
Boomtown Rats - Rain
Lords Of The New Church - Method To My Madness
Nina Hagen - Universal Radio
see 5 posts down
Participants:
singingrulebritannia
gonecountry
American Idiot
wheatsquares33
Doc Indie Party Rock
* me *
rowellfarm490
aerodynamite
Daryl the Beryl
peacebone
@newpower
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