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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 24, 2021 20:24:07 GMT -5
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Post by gonecountry on Mar 24, 2021 20:25:38 GMT -5
i never heard anything from Nena again until this duet came out about 20 years ago: love this song.
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Post by Football on Mar 24, 2021 20:27:11 GMT -5
Not my favorite DD song, but this would be the song I would point to if someone asked me what the big deal about Duran Duran is. Duran Duran were not a joke.
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Post by razorshark on Mar 24, 2021 20:27:14 GMT -5
I didn't know this was by Duran Duran before my listen through tbh, but really great song. Only two songs left that I hope miss the top 10. Hope is running out..
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Post by gonecountry on Mar 24, 2021 20:28:14 GMT -5
I didn't know this was by Duran Duran tbh. Only two songs left that I hope miss the top 10. Hope is running out.. Burning Down the House can flame out anytime now... Way overrated song from the Talking Heads.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 24, 2021 20:29:14 GMT -5
--#15
Top 5s: 4 Top 10s: 8 Top 25s: 14 Top 50s: 20 Bottom 25: 2
High point: 3 Low point: 15
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Post by razorshark on Mar 24, 2021 20:30:29 GMT -5
I didn't know this was by Duran Duran tbh. Only two songs left that I hope miss the top 10. Hope is running out.. Burning Down the House can flame out anytime now...  Way overrated song from the Talking Heads. Good point, make that 3
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 24, 2021 20:33:19 GMT -5
I have...things to say. But I don't want to taint this post with them. 15
Radio Free Europe REM Year-End Position: #67 1848 Points Standard Deviation: 26.13 singingrulebritannia - 2 aerodynamite - 2 peacebone - 3 jamesflame - 4 willapted33 - 6 American Idiot - 7 rowellfarm490 - 10 @trilogy - 10 Football - 12 lyhom - 16 campbellssoup - 16 Daryl the Beryl - 17 craziaskowboi - 19 gonecountry - 21 razorshark - 28 Sambalada - 32 Butterflies & Hurricanes - 33 Mirago - 35 Geometrical - 41 DadJokes - 49 chanman - 55 tanooki - 55 Juanca - 60 wheatsquares33 - 67 alexcuse - 82 Doc Indie Party Rock - 96 Performance History: #1 Alt 1991 (Losing My Religion) | #2 Active 1987 (The One I Love) | #3 Active 1989 (Orange Crush) | #4 Alt 1989 (Orange Crush) | #5 Alt 1987 (The One I Love) | #7 Active 1991 (Losing My Religion) | #8 Alt 1986 (Fall on Me) | #9 Alt 1991 (Texarkana) | #10 Alt 2000 (The Great Beyond) | #11 Alt 1993 (Man on the Moon) | #11 Active 1993 (Man on the Moon) | #12 Active 1986 (Fall on Me) | #12 Alt 2001 (Imitation of Life) | #13 Alt 1985 (Driver 8) | #13 Active 1991 (Texarkana) | #14 Alt 1987 (It's the End of the World as We Know It) | #17 Alt 1992 (Drive) | #19 Active 1993 (Ignoreland) | #21 Alt 1984 (So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)) | #26 Active 1985 (Can't Get There from Here) | #27 Active 1992 (Drive) | #28 Alt 1987 (Ages of You) | #30 Active 1989 (Turn You Inside-Out) | #31 Alt 1994 (What's the Frequency, Kenneth?) | #32 Active 1994 (What's the Frequency, Kenneth?) | #32 Alt 1998 (Daysleeper) | #33 Active 1995 (Strange Currencies) | #34 Alt 1985 (Can't Get There From Here) | #34 Alt 1986 (Superman) | #36 Alt 1984 (Pretty Persuasion) | #37 Alt 1995 (Stranger Currencies) | #37 Active 1995 (Bang and Blame) | #39 Active 1996 (Bittersweet Me) | #40 Alt 1996 (Bittersweet Me) | #42 Alt 1993 (Ignoreland) | #44 Alt 1984 ([Don't Go Back to] Rockville) | #44 Active 1995 (Crush with Eyeliner) | #50 Alt 1995 (Bang and Blame) | #51 Alt 1989 (Turn You Inside-Out) | #54 Active 1989 (Stand) | #56 Alt 1989 (Stand) | #57 Alt 1996 (E-Bow the Letter) | #59 Active 1996 (E-Bow the Letter) | #59 Alt 2008 (Supernatural, Superserious) | #60 Active 1991 (Shiny Happy People) | #61 Alt 1994 (Photograph w/ Natalie Merchant) | #68 Alt 1991 (Shiny Happy People) | #71 Alt 1995 (Star 69) | #72 Active 1995 (Star 69) Movements: 9 7 6 4 4 3 3 5 9 7 5 8 7 7 10 14 14 14 15 14 15 15 15 14 15 Spectators: wrip MoD BB🌕 {Remaining songs} Burning Down The House Major Tom Rebel Yell Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) New Year's Day Mad World Pale Shelter Blue Monday Love My Way Sunday Bloody Sunday I Melt With You Don't Change Age Of Consent This Charming Man
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 24, 2021 20:34:34 GMT -5
5. Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.Funny thing is I remember hearing this I just never knew who sang it before. I would say one of their best songs. my plead for the night. Can I please get amateur REM to show up tonight. I always thought that song was from the 90's anyway. Dude, these cannot possibly both be your thoughts about the same song less than a year apart. It's so absurd that I have to think you listened to the correct song for one of these rankdowns and the wrong song for the other (and that's not a farfetched theory, because I recall you've ranked the wrong song in at least one rankdown--1987 Mainstream Rock with "In God's Country"). The context of the lists cannot account for this much difference in opinion; they're such polar opposite viewpoints. Whatever explanation for this is true, I'm tired of this routine, that every time you send for my personal rankdowns you eventually do something like this when the songs appear elsewhere. If you hate the experience of listening to my song selections that much, don't send for those rankdowns. And while we're here, can I discuss your obsessive hatred of "amateur" songs, "regular people making music", "actual natives", etc.? Let's put aside that your perception of what sounds "amateur" and what doesn't is so strange (what exactly makes R.E.M. on Out Of Time or Automatic For The People sound so much more "professional" than on Murmur or Reckoning, outside of a mild difference in audio fidelity). How is it your place to say which persons' perspectives are more or less valid in art based on how trained they are, how high their budget is, the culture they grew up in, or how physically attractive they are?
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Post by Football on Mar 24, 2021 20:34:54 GMT -5
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Post by razorshark on Mar 24, 2021 20:36:00 GMT -5
I'm fine with this being out. Early example of R.E.M.s potential but they'd keep getting better imo.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 24, 2021 20:37:17 GMT -5
--#14
Top 5s: 3 Top 10s: 10 Top 25s: 13 Top 50s: 22 Bottom 25: 3
15th Highest SD
High point: 6 Low point: 34
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 24, 2021 20:38:02 GMT -5
i wish i didn't have to rank such an amazing song as low as i did, but at least it's in my top third
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 24, 2021 20:42:03 GMT -5
Oh, and another thing, Doc. One of the New Order songs you claimed to be so "unmemorable" is their third most played song on Spotify. The only two songs in their whole discography with higher play counts are Blue Monday and Bizarre Love Triangle. 14
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Post by Football on Mar 24, 2021 20:43:06 GMT -5
Alright, Doc, it's time for Billy to go as a means of repayment.
How the living hell did this miss the top ten?
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Post by willapted33 on Mar 24, 2021 20:43:21 GMT -5
what the fuck
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Post by razorshark on Mar 24, 2021 20:44:12 GMT -5
Jeez, not this being out. I have 3 more chances for those 3 I want out to get out
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 24, 2021 20:45:03 GMT -5
--#13
Top 5s: 1 Top 10s: 5 Top 25s: 14 Top 50s: 22
12th Lowest SD
High point: 9 Low point: 40
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Post by campbellssoup on Mar 24, 2021 20:46:43 GMT -5
Well the New Order songs did not go out in the order I had hoped they would. I wonder if Blue Monday will win the rankdown and be their 4th winning song. It wouldn't be the first time a New Order song I wasn't fond of won. Not sure why the group is so hit and miss for me.
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 24, 2021 20:48:15 GMT -5
this has to be U2, right?
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 24, 2021 20:49:01 GMT -5
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Post by Football on Mar 24, 2021 20:50:03 GMT -5
I'm shocked this is so high, but I'm not complaining at all.
For the record, I like the English version about as much as I do the German version.
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Post by razorshark on Mar 24, 2021 20:50:42 GMT -5
Only one top 10 for me remaining :(
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 24, 2021 20:52:18 GMT -5
--#12
#1 Loss Alert!
Top 5s: 4 Top 10s: 8 Top 25s: 13 Top 50s: 21
High point: 11 Low point: 46
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Mar 24, 2021 20:52:31 GMT -5
I'm shocked this is so high, but I'm not complaining at all. For the record, I like the English version about as much as I do the German version.i never heard the German version of this song until this rankdown...i guess i lean toward the English version due to familiarity but that could change going forward
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Post by campbellssoup on Mar 24, 2021 20:53:44 GMT -5
I've got a feeling this is gonna be my #1
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Post by gonecountry on Mar 24, 2021 20:55:10 GMT -5
Thrilled to see two songs make it this high. Can't jinx it by saying their names because they will fall out in order next...
I will say that while I do love the Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams is overrated IMO.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Mar 24, 2021 20:57:35 GMT -5
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