Pulse Rankdown: 1983 Year-End Modern Rock Chart (complete)

[Red]

This isn't one of my favorites of theirs at all, but man, something about this song just makes me happy whenever I hear it. It's so 80's that it puts a grin on my face.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#53

Multiple Song Artist? Y
Highest Ranking: 10
Top 10s: 1
Top 25s: 6
Top 50s: 10
Bottom 25: 3

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{movements}singingrulebritannia + Butterflies & Hurricanes 7
gonecountry 9
razorshark 18
jamesflame 34
Red 41
American Idiot 44
rowellfarm490 42
DadJokes 50
Doc Indie Party Rock 45
willapted33 47
aerodynamite 49
wheatsquares33 51
lyhom 53
trilogy 55
Geometrical 50
alexcuse 54
Sambalada 57
Daryl the Beryl 59
chanman 57
campbellssoup 55
Juanca 58
Mirago 55
peacebone 56
craziaskowboi 52
tanooki 53

[singingrulebritannia]

Clearly only an elite few of us experienced the joy of the Toyota Fall Savings commercial >:(

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53

Saved By Zero
The Fixx

Year-End Position: #73

1311 Points
Standard Deviation: 23.09

Butterflies & Hurricanes - 10
singingrulebritannia - 13
craziaskowboi - 16
Mirago - 20
campbellssoup - 23
rowellfarm490 - 25
chanman - 27
Doc Indie Party Rock - 31
Geometrical - 35
gonecountry - 43
aerodynamite - 56
wheatsquares33 - 57
American Idiot - 60
Red - 60
peacebone - 60
razorshark - 60
willapted33 - 60
Juanca - 62
tanooki - 68
jamesflame - 70
trilogy - 71
Sambalada - 72
Daryl the Beryl - 75
alexcuse - 76
lyhom - 81
DadJokes - 84

Performance History:
#17 Active 1989 (Driven Out) | #18 Active 1986 (Secret Separation) | #32 Active 1984 (Deeper and Deeper) | #33 Alt 1986 (Secret Separation) | #36 Active 1984 (Are We Ourselves?) | #43 Alt 1989 (Driven Out) | #50 Alt 1987 (Don't Be Scared) | #59 Alt 1983 (Red Skies) | #64 Alt 1983 (Stand or Fall) | #68 Alt 1984 (Are We Ourselves?) | #73 Alt 1984 (Less Cities, More Moving People) | #75 Alt 1991 (How Much Is Enough?)

Movements:
7 9 18 34 41 44 42 50 45 47 49 51 53 55 50 54 57 59 57 55 58 55 56 52 53

Spectators:
wrip
MoD

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{Remaining songs}
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
One Thing Leads To Another
King Of Pain
Synchronicity II
The Safety Dance
Rebel Yell
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
New Year's Day
Send Me An Angel
Let's Dance
Every Breath You Take
Mad World
Talking In Your Sleep
Modern Love
Dear Prudence
Power And The Passion
Our House
Pale Shelter
Blue Monday
The Cutter
Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
Change
Love My Way
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Institutionalized
Wrapped Around Your Finger
The One Thing
Get The Balance Right!
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Save A Prayer
She's In Parties
The Walk
Der Kommissar
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
Blister In The Sun
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[Red]

The highest Fixx song is probably what everyone expected, but I thought this would still be a little higher.

This is absolutely a good song, just my least favorite of a strong group of Fixx songs.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#52

Multiple Song Artist? Y
Highest Ranking: 18
Top 25s: 2
Top 50s: 14
Bottom 25: 3

11th Lowest SD

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{movements}singingrulebritannia + Butterflies & Hurricanes 68
gonecountry 70
razorshark 65
jamesflame 58
Red 60
American Idiot 58
rowellfarm490 60
DadJokes 59
Doc Indie Party Rock 56
willapted33 49
aerodynamite 53
wheatsquares33 53
lyhom 49
trilogy 48
Geometrical 47
alexcuse 44
Sambalada 45
Daryl the Beryl 45
chanman 48
campbellssoup 50
Juanca 53
Mirago 54
peacebone 55
craziaskowboi 53
tanooki 52

[singingrulebritannia]

I used to like this even less, probably because of how overly punchy the synths are

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52

The Walk
The Cure

Year-End Position: #62

1324 Points
Standard Deviation: 17.98 (11TH LOWEST)

alexcuse - 18
jamesflame - 25
craziaskowboi - 30
wheatsquares33 - 31
Doc Indie Party Rock - 32
Geometrical - 32
willapted33 - 33
razorshark - 38
American Idiot - 41
lyhom - 42
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 47
Mirago - 48
Daryl the Beryl - 48
tanooki - 50
DadJokes - 52
trilogy - 53
Sambalada - 55
peacebone - 56
aerodynamite - 59
Red - 63
rowellfarm490 - 65
Juanca - 65
gonecountry - 73
singingrulebritannia - 77
chanman - 82
campbellssoup - 87

Performance History:
#1 Alt 1989 (Lovesong) | #2 Alt 1989 (Fascination Street) | #7 Alt 1985 (In Between Days) | #8 Alt 1987 (Just Like Heaven) | #9 Alt 1992 (A Letter to Elise) | #11 Alt 1992 (High) | #16 Alt 1992 (Friday I'm in Love) | #23 Alt 1987 (Why Can't I Be You?) | #25 Alt 2000 (Maybe Someday) | #30 Active 1992 (Friday I'm in Love) | #50 Alt 1990 (Never Enough) | #50 Alt 1997 (Wrong Number) | #55 Alt 1983 (Let's Go to Bed) | #56 Alt 2004 (The End of the World) | #62 Alt 1984 (The Caterpillar) | #67 Alt 1996 (Mint Car) | #68 Alt 1983 (The Lovecats) | #72 Alt 1984 (Shake Dog Shake) | #73 Alt 1990 (Hello I Love You) | #83 Alt 1994 (Purple Haze)

Movements:
68 70 65 58 60 58 60 59 56 49 53 53 49 48 47 44 45 45 48 50 53 54 55 53 52

Spectators:
wrip
MoD

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{Remaining songs}
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
One Thing Leads To Another
King Of Pain
Synchronicity II
The Safety Dance
Rebel Yell
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
New Year's Day
Send Me An Angel
Let's Dance
Every Breath You Take
Mad World
Talking In Your Sleep
Modern Love
Dear Prudence
Power And The Passion
Our House
Pale Shelter
Blue Monday
The Cutter
Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
Change
Love My Way
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Institutionalized
Wrapped Around Your Finger
The One Thing
Get The Balance Right!
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Save A Prayer
She's In Parties
Der Kommissar
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
Blister In The Sun
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[Red]

Probably the closest any Cure song came to remotely being as good as prime Cure, but it still feels like something's missing.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#51

Highest Ranking: 5
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 2
Top 25s: 8
Top 50s: 13
Bottom 25: 6
Bottom 10s: 1
Bottom 5s: 1

9th Highest SD

High point: 49
Low point: 74

[singingrulebritannia]

We can dance, we can dance
Everybody take off your pants

-22 from the Hot 100 rankdown

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51

The Safety Dance
Men Without Hats

Year-End Position: #15

1354 Points
Standard Deviation: 28.44 (9TH HIGHEST)

jamesflame - 5
craziaskowboi - 8
Mirago - 11
Juanca - 14
alexcuse - 17
chanman - 19
American Idiot - 23
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 23
DadJokes - 33
Daryl the Beryl - 36
Doc Indie Party Rock - 43
trilogy - 43
razorshark - 46
tanooki - 54
Red - 55
willapted33 - 56
Sambalada - 60
wheatsquares33 - 65
lyhom - 70
campbellssoup - 70
rowellfarm490 - 82
singingrulebritannia - 82
Geometrical - 84
peacebone - 87
aerodynamite - 87
gonecountry - 99

Performance History:
Debut

Movements:
54 74 70 55 56 51 57 52 49 50 59 59 60 57 59 56 58 56 53 57 50 49 52 50 51

Spectators:
wrip
MoD

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{Remaining songs}
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
One Thing Leads To Another
King Of Pain
Synchronicity II
Rebel Yell
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
New Year's Day
Send Me An Angel
Let's Dance
Every Breath You Take
Mad World
Talking In Your Sleep
Modern Love
Dear Prudence
Power And The Passion
Our House
Pale Shelter
Blue Monday
The Cutter
Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
Change
Love My Way
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Institutionalized
Wrapped Around Your Finger
The One Thing
Get The Balance Right!
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Save A Prayer
She's In Parties
Der Kommissar
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
Blister In The Sun
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[Deleted]

[Red]

I should dislike this more, but, I don't know, this is another one that I can't bring myself to hate.

[razorshark]

This is a good place for it. Just outside the top half.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#50

Multiple Song Artist? N
Highest Ranking: 9
Top 10s: 1
Top 25s: 7
Top 50s: 13
Bottom 25: 4
Bottom 10s: 1

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{movements}singingrulebritannia + Butterflies & Hurricanes 57
gonecountry 39
razorshark 32
jamesflame 25
Red 35
American Idiot 30
rowellfarm490 31
DadJokes 39
Doc Indie Party Rock 46
willapted33 46
aerodynamite 47
wheatsquares33 54
lyhom 54
trilogy 53
Geometrical 56
alexcuse 49
Sambalada 48
Daryl the Beryl 49
chanman 51
campbellssoup 53
Juanca 51
Mirago 50
peacebone 48
craziaskowboi 47
tanooki 50

[singingrulebritannia]

I did not expect this song to be in this rankdown. Moreover, I didn't expect it to perform well in the rankdown once it was here, at least with the Pulse crowd. Liquid Liquid is vindicated!

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50

White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Grandmaster & Melle Mel

Year-End Position: #55

1356 Points
Standard Deviation: 25.16

gonecountry - 9
alexcuse - 11
Mirago - 16
Sambalada - 19
American Idiot - 21
singingrulebritannia - 22
jamesflame - 23
peacebone - 32
razorshark - 39
craziaskowboi - 40
trilogy - 42
rowellfarm490 - 43
Juanca - 49
willapted33 - 51
aerodynamite - 51
campbellssoup - 55
Red - 57
lyhom - 61
chanman - 66
tanooki - 66
Doc Indie Party Rock - 72
Daryl the Beryl - 74
Geometrical - 83
DadJokes - 85
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 90
wheatsquares33 - 93

Performance History:
Debut

Movements:
57 39 32 25 35 30 31 39 46 46 47 54 54 53 56 49 48 49 51 53 51 50 48 47 50

Spectators:
wrip
MoD

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{Remaining songs}
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
One Thing Leads To Another
King Of Pain
Synchronicity II
Rebel Yell
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
New Year's Day
Send Me An Angel
Let's Dance
Every Breath You Take
Mad World
Talking In Your Sleep
Modern Love
Dear Prudence
Power And The Passion
Our House
Pale Shelter
Blue Monday
The Cutter
Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
Change
Love My Way
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Institutionalized
Wrapped Around Your Finger
The One Thing
Get The Balance Right!
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
Save A Prayer
She's In Parties
Der Kommissar
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
Blister In The Sun
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[razorshark]

I don't know if this "Belongs on alt" but I do know it slaps so hard. Great song.

[BB🌕]

Tag me in the reveals please!

[Red]

This is such an out of place song compared to the rest of the list, but I'll be damned if it's not a jam, anyway.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#49

Multiple Song Artist? N
Highest Ranking: 4
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 2
Top 25s: 8
Top 50s: 12
Bottom 25: 4
Bottom 10s: 1

14th Highest SD

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{movements}singingrulebritannia + Butterflies & Hurricanes 26
gonecountry 47
razorshark 28
jamesflame 28
Red 40
American Idiot 33
rowellfarm490 40
DadJokes 42
Doc Indie Party Rock 39
willapted33 37
aerodynamite 44
wheatsquares33 40
lyhom 38
trilogy 36
Geometrical 39
alexcuse 40
Sambalada 43
Daryl the Beryl 46
chanman 43
campbellssoup 43
Juanca 47
Mirago 43
peacebone 47
craziaskowboi 43
tanooki 49

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

all these Cure songs out already?!? even mediocre Cure deserves top half & id argue these are slightly better than mediocre

I’m a big fan of “White Lines” so don’t hate me for my 90...there were only about 3 songs on the list I thought were meh or worse

[campbellssoup]

Saved By Zero being out before the top 50 is tragic. In any other year I'm sure it would've surpassed Secret Separation to be their highest Alt performer.

[singingrulebritannia]

Now the question is, are we ranking Falco's original next year too? lmao
Falls 11 from the Hot 100 rankdown

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49

Der Kommissar
After The Fire

Year-End Position: #63

1358 Points
Standard Deviation: 27.46 (14TH HIGHEST)

Butterflies & Hurricanes - 4
razorshark - 9
chanman - 12
wheatsquares33 - 13
craziaskowboi - 15
American Idiot - 17
lyhom - 18
Doc Indie Party Rock - 22
Mirago - 31
jamesflame - 40
willapted33 - 42
trilogy - 45
alexcuse - 62
DadJokes - 63
Sambalada - 64
singingrulebritannia - 64
Geometrical - 64
rowellfarm490 - 67
gonecountry - 68
campbellssoup - 68
Red - 69
Juanca - 71
peacebone - 79
Daryl the Beryl - 84
aerodynamite - 86
tanooki - 91

Performance History:
Debut

Movements:
26 47 28 28 40 33 40 42 39 37 44 40 38 36 39 40 43 46 43 43 47 43 47 43 49

Spectators:
wrip
MoD
BB🌕

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining songs}
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
One Thing Leads To Another
King Of Pain
Synchronicity II
Rebel Yell
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
New Year's Day
Send Me An Angel
Let's Dance
Every Breath You Take
Mad World
Talking In Your Sleep
Modern Love
Dear Prudence
Power And The Passion
Our House
Pale Shelter
Blue Monday
The Cutter
Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
Change
Love My Way
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Institutionalized
Wrapped Around Your Finger
The One Thing
Get The Balance Right!
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
Save A Prayer
She's In Parties
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
Blister In The Sun
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[razorshark]

Awww that's my first top 10. What a banger

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Mar 22, 2021 19:58:13 GMT -5 campbellssoup said:

Saved By Zero being out before the top 50 is tragic. In any other year I'm sure it would've surpassed Secret Separation to be their highest Alt performer.

we better save this song in the Mainstream rankdown! below Don’t Be Scared? nfw!

[Red]

This song is good, until you realize that the Falco version exists and is this song's superior in every way.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#48

Multiple Song Artist? N
Highest Ranking: 1
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 2
Top 25s: 5
Top 50s: 15
Bottom 25: 4
Bottom 10s: 2
Bottom 5s: 1

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{movements}
singingrulebritannia + Butterflies & Hurricanes 17
gonecountry 43
razorshark 21
jamesflame 20
Red 13
American Idiot 26
rowellfarm490 28
DadJokes 27
Doc Indie Party Rock 38
willapted33 33
aerodynamite 34
wheatsquares33 34
lyhom 37
trilogy 35
Geometrical 34
alexcuse 34
Sambalada 36
Daryl the Beryl 38
chanman 36
campbellssoup 40
Juanca 42
Mirago 47
peacebone 44
craziaskowboi 45
tanooki 48

[razorshark]

Crap.... This looks like my #1

[singingrulebritannia]

Nick Launay: "So how many drum tracks do you want to lay on this song"
Rob Hirst: "Yes"
My condolences, razorshark

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48

Power And The Passion
Midnight Oil

Year-End Position: #29

1368 Points
Standard Deviation: 25.48

razorshark - 1
Red - 3
peacebone - 20
willapted33 - 22
singingrulebritannia - 25
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 29
Geometrical - 33
aerodynamite - 35
jamesflame - 36
rowellfarm490 - 36
alexcuse - 37
lyhom - 44
trilogy - 44
chanman - 46
DadJokes - 48
wheatsquares33 - 54
craziaskowboi - 57
Juanca - 58
Sambalada - 67
Daryl the Beryl - 67
tanooki - 70
gonecountry - 75
American Idiot - 76
Mirago - 82
Doc Indie Party Rock - 94
campbellssoup - 99

Performance History:
#2 Active 1988 (Beds Are Burning) | #2 Alt 1988 (Beds Are Burning) | #5 Active 1990 (Blue Sky Mine) | #6 Active 1990 (Forgotten Years) | #12 Active 1988 (The Dead Heart) | #23 Alt 1990 (Forgotten Years) | #24 Alt 1990 (Blue Sky Mine) | #32 Active 1993 (Truganini) | #48 Alt 1990 (King of the Mountain) | #51 Alt 1993 (Truganini) | #65 Alt 1985 (Best of Both Worlds) | #70 Alt 1993 (Outbreak of Love)

Movements:
17 43 21 20 13 26 28 27 38 33 34 34 37 35 34 34 36 38 36 40 42 47 44 45 48

Spectators:
wrip
MoD
BB🌕

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining songs}
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
One Thing Leads To Another
King Of Pain
Synchronicity II
Rebel Yell
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
New Year's Day
Send Me An Angel
Let's Dance
Every Breath You Take
Mad World
Talking In Your Sleep
Modern Love
Dear Prudence
Our House
Pale Shelter
Blue Monday
The Cutter
Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
Change
Love My Way
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Institutionalized
Wrapped Around Your Finger
The One Thing
Get The Balance Right!
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
Save A Prayer
She's In Parties
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
Blister In The Sun
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[Red]

I'm okay, this is only my second favorite Oil song and one of my favorite songs of the 80's, I'm okay, I can handle this.

...

No, I really can't, Rob Hirst's drumming is unbelievable, the ending climax is one of the most joyous and pulse-pounding moments of the entire decade, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[singingrulebritannia]

--#47

Multiple Song Artist? Y
Highest Ranking: 13
Top 25s: 3
Top 50s: 15
Bottom 25: 1

19th Lowest SD

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{movements}singingrulebritannia + Butterflies & Hurricanes 71
gonecountry 67
razorshark 71
jamesflame 64
Red 51
American Idiot 59
rowellfarm490 56
DadJokes 54
Doc Indie Party Rock 61
willapted33 51
aerodynamite 51
wheatsquares33 52
lyhom 51
trilogy 51
Geometrical 52
alexcuse 51
Sambalada 52
Daryl the Beryl 51
chanman 55
campbellssoup 51
Juanca 55
Mirago 52
peacebone 50
craziaskowboi 51
tanooki 47

[razorshark]

This hurts man.... To rediscover this song after a few years of not hearing it just for it to blast me with intensity and everything that Midnight Oil did best. Makes you think but you can sing along as well. Also that drum solo is pure art and one of my favorite music moments ever. The horns at the end too, I adore everything about this song.