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

[Red]

Classic 80's instrumentation, and I will always be appreciative of it when it shows up, but I wish I liked everything else about the song more.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#76

Multiple Song Artist? N
Highest Ranking: 19
Lowest Ranking: 92
Top 25s: 2
Top 50s: 7
Bottom 25: 10
Bottom 10s: 2

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{movements}
singingrulebritannia + Pyjamarama 75
gonecountry 55
razorshark 66
jamesflame 72
Red 71
American Idiot 69
rowellfarm490 69
DadJokes 66
Doc Indie Party Rock 72
willapted33 70
aerodynamite 72
wheatsquares33 74
lyhom 71
trilogy 70
Geometrical 74
alexcuse 74
Sambalada 76
Daryl the Beryl 77
chanman 77
campbellssoup 76
Juanca 77
Mirago 76
peacebone 76
craziaskowboi 76
tanooki 76

[singingrulebritannia]

Considering this could've only received a maximum of 6 weeks of prime spins, I'm surprised it was played enough to sneak into this list.

---

76

2000 Miles
Pretenders

Year-End Position: #99

1011 Points
Standard Deviation: 21.05

DadJokes - 19
gonecountry - 23
trilogy - 30
campbellssoup - 34
lyhom - 41
willapted33 - 45
peacebone - 47
craziaskowboi - 53
Mirago - 53
chanman - 57
tanooki - 58
Red - 62
singingrulebritannia - 63
rowellfarm490 - 64
American Idiot - 67
Pyjamarama - 72
Sambalada - 76
Geometrical - 78
aerodynamite - 78
alexcuse - 79
Daryl the Beryl - 79
razorshark - 82
jamesflame - 82
Doc Indie Party Rock - 90
wheatsquares33 - 91
Juanca - 92

Performance History:
#9 Active 1986 (Don't Get Me Wrong) | #14 Active 1984 (Middle of the Road) | #22 Alt 1986 (Don't Get Me Wrong) | #23 Active 1990 (Never Do That) | #30 Active 1987 (My Baby) | #35 Alt 1984 (Middle of the Road) | #35 Active 1984 (Show Me) | #37 Active 1994 (Night in My Veins) | #40 Active 1984 (Time the Avenger) | #42 Alt 1987 (Room Full of Mirrors) | #48 AAA 2020 (The Buzz) | #53 Alt 1990 (Never Do That) | #64 Alt 1994 (Night in My Veins) | #64 AAA 2020 (Didn't Want to Be This Lonely) | #68 AAA 2016 (Holy Commotion) | #78 Alt 1987 (Where Has Everybody Gone?)

Movements:
75 55 66 72 71 69 69 66 72 70 72 74 71 70 74 74 76 77 77 76 77 76 76 76 76

Spectators:
wrip
MoD

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{Remaining songs}
The Lovecats
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
Karma Chameleon
One Thing Leads To Another
Union Of The Snake
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
Save It For Later
Modern Love
Let's Go To Bed
Dear Prudence
Power And The Passion
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Our House
The New World
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
China Girl
Get The Balance Right!
Fields Of Fire
She Blinded Me With Science
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Too Shy
Save A Prayer
Is There Something I Should Know?
She's In Parties
The Walk
Der Kommissar
Long Hot Summer
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
The Politics Of Dancing
Saved By Zero
Rainy Season
Blister In The Sun
Living On The Ceiling
Nobody's Diary
Confusion
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
(Keep Feeling) Fascination
Stand Or Fall
Red Skies
Let Me Go
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[rom]

why do these guys and the proclaimers have such similar names i thought this was a rehash of 500 miles when i saw the name

[Red]

This is really good, but there's really only one time of the year where I would even think to listen to this song.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#75

Multiple Song Artist? Y
Highest Ranking: 18
Lowest Ranking: 92
Top 25s: 2
Top 50s: 6
Bottom 25: 6
Bottom 10s: 1

10th Lowest SD

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{movements}
singingrulebritannia + Pyjamarama 66
gonecountry 49
razorshark 33
jamesflame 41
Red 43
American Idiot 53
rowellfarm490 51
DadJokes 56
Doc Indie Party Rock 62
willapted33 60
aerodynamite 57
wheatsquares33 62
lyhom 62
trilogy 61
Geometrical 63
alexcuse 67
Sambalada 66
Daryl the Beryl 65
chanman 68
campbellssoup 72
Juanca 69
Mirago 69
peacebone 72
craziaskowboi 75
tanooki 75

[singingrulebritannia]

Chariots Of Fire 👊 Field of Dreams

---

75

Fields Of Fire
Big Country

Year-End Position: #49

1017 Points
Standard Deviation: 17.74 (10TH LOWEST)

gonecountry - 18
razorshark - 22
aerodynamite - 36
Juanca - 44
Red - 50
rowellfarm490 - 50
jamesflame - 51
trilogy - 58
singingrulebritannia - 58
Sambalada - 61
Doc Indie Party Rock - 61
Pyjamarama - 63
willapted33 - 65
Daryl the Beryl - 65
peacebone - 66
lyhom - 67
Geometrical - 69
chanman - 71
campbellssoup - 72
Mirago - 72
tanooki - 76
DadJokes - 77
American Idiot - 80
alexcuse - 80
wheatsquares33 - 85
craziaskowboi - 92

Performance History:
#36 Active 1986 (Look Away) | #57 Alt 1986 (Look Away) | #78 Alt 1988 (King of Emotion)

Movements:
66 49 33 41 43 53 51 56 62 60 57 62 62 61 63 67 66 65 68 72 69 69 72 75 75

Spectators:
wrip
MoD

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{Remaining songs}
The Lovecats
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
Karma Chameleon
One Thing Leads To Another
Union Of The Snake
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
Save It For Later
Modern Love
Let's Go To Bed
Dear Prudence
Power And The Passion
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Our House
The New World
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
China Girl
Get The Balance Right!
She Blinded Me With Science
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Too Shy
Save A Prayer
Is There Something I Should Know?
She's In Parties
The Walk
Der Kommissar
Long Hot Summer
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
The Politics Of Dancing
Saved By Zero
Rainy Season
Blister In The Sun
Living On The Ceiling
Nobody's Diary
Confusion
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
(Keep Feeling) Fascination
Stand Or Fall
Red Skies
Let Me Go
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[Red]

I figured that I'd taking a lot of small hits somewhat early, but geez, it's happening quicker than I expected.

I guess I just have a soft spot for Big Country, really.

[singingrulebritannia]

Mar 20, 2021 20:55:53 GMT -5 Red said:

I guess I just have a soft spot for Big Country, really.

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--#74

Multiple Song Artist? Y
Highest Ranking: 19
Lowest Ranking: 96
Top 25s: 2
Top 50s: 8
Bottom 25: 10
Bottom 10s: 5
Bottom 5s: 1

1 bottom 10 cleared

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{movements}
singingrulebritannia + Pyjamarama 63
gonecountry 71
razorshark 60
jamesflame 68
Red 66
American Idiot 61
rowellfarm490 61
DadJokes 62
Doc Indie Party Rock 69
willapted33 69
aerodynamite 70
wheatsquares33 70
lyhom 69
trilogy 68
Geometrical 64
alexcuse 65
Sambalada 64
Daryl the Beryl 63
chanman 67
campbellssoup 68
Juanca 67
Mirago 71
peacebone 67
craziaskowboi 71
tanooki 74

[singingrulebritannia]

Can we just rank one song that'll give X a surefire top 50 spot, please??

---

74

The New World
X

Year-End Position: #32

1028 Points
Standard Deviation: 24.76

razorshark - 19
Geometrical - 20
peacebone - 30
American Idiot - 30
singingrulebritannia - 32
Red - 36
trilogy - 36
Daryl the Beryl - 46
Juanca - 54
lyhom - 55
rowellfarm490 - 56
alexcuse - 56
campbellssoup - 60
willapted33 - 62
wheatsquares33 - 62
Sambalada - 68
aerodynamite - 76
gonecountry - 80
DadJokes - 81
tanooki - 87
Pyjamarama - 88
jamesflame - 91
Doc Indie Party Rock - 91
chanman - 92
craziaskowboi - 94
Mirago - 96

Performance History:
#59 Alt 1987 (4th of July) | #69 Alt 1985 (Burning House of Love) | #78 Alt 1983 (True Love Pt #2) | #78 Alt 1993 (Country at War)

Movements:
63 71 60 68 66 61 61 62 69 69 70 70 69 68 64 65 64 63 67 68 67 71 67 71 74

Spectators:
wrip
MoD

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{Remaining songs}
The Lovecats
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
Karma Chameleon
One Thing Leads To Another
Union Of The Snake
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
Save It For Later
Modern Love
Let's Go To Bed
Dear Prudence
Power And The Passion
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
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
China Girl
Get The Balance Right!
She Blinded Me With Science
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Too Shy
Save A Prayer
Is There Something I Should Know?
She's In Parties
The Walk
Der Kommissar
Long Hot Summer
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
The Politics Of Dancing
Saved By Zero
Rainy Season
Blister In The Sun
Living On The Ceiling
Nobody's Diary
Confusion
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
(Keep Feeling) Fascination
Stand Or Fall
Red Skies
Let Me Go
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[Red]

Even in a list as insanely stacked as this one, this shouldn't be going out in the bottom 30.

[Deleted]

I was reading up a bit about X's legacy on the punk scene in southern California and was pretty fascinated with what I was reading. Not sure if that influenced my perception of both their entries here, but I loved both songs, especially The New World. Disappointed to see it this low.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#73

Multiple Song Artist? N
Highest Ranking: 16
Lowest Ranking: 99
Top 25s: 1
Top 50s: 9
Bottom 25: 7
Bottom 10s: 3
Bottom 5s: 1

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{movements}
singingrulebritannia + Pyjamarama 79
gonecountry 88
razorshark 91
jamesflame 82
Red 77
American Idiot 70
rowellfarm490 67
DadJokes 75
Doc Indie Party Rock 76
willapted33 76
aerodynamite 75
wheatsquares33 73
lyhom 72
trilogy 71
Geometrical 65
alexcuse 68
Sambalada 69
Daryl the Beryl 72
chanman 69
campbellssoup 71
Juanca 71
Mirago 73
peacebone 73
craziaskowboi 73
tanooki 73

[singingrulebritannia]

This title would've fit so perfectly if I was revealing 12 days later

---

73

Rainy Season
Howard Devoto

Year-End Position: #75

1033 Points
Standard Deviation: 22.15

Geometrical - 16
trilogy - 32
chanman - 32
American Idiot - 39
aerodynamite - 39
willapted33 - 40
Red - 46
rowellfarm490 - 46
lyhom - 48
singingrulebritannia - 51
jamesflame - 53
peacebone - 55
Juanca - 55
campbellssoup - 62
alexcuse - 67
wheatsquares33 - 69
craziaskowboi - 70
tanooki - 73
Sambalada - 75
razorshark - 83
Doc Indie Party Rock - 84
Mirago - 88
Daryl the Beryl - 89
gonecountry - 91
Pyjamarama - 91
DadJokes - 99

Performance History:
Debut

Movements:
79 88 91 82 77 70 67 75 76 76 75 73 72 71 65 68 69 72 69 71 71 73 73 73 73

Spectators:
wrip
MoD

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{Remaining songs}
The Lovecats
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
Karma Chameleon
One Thing Leads To Another
Union Of The Snake
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
Save It For Later
Modern Love
Let's Go To Bed
Dear Prudence
Power And The Passion
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
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
China Girl
Get The Balance Right!
She Blinded Me With Science
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Too Shy
Save A Prayer
Is There Something I Should Know?
She's In Parties
The Walk
Der Kommissar
Long Hot Summer
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
The Politics Of Dancing
Saved By Zero
Blister In The Sun
Living On The Ceiling
Nobody's Diary
Confusion
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
(Keep Feeling) Fascination
Stand Or Fall
Red Skies
Let Me Go
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[Red]

Honestly, out of all of these reveals in my top half, this is probably the one that I get the most.

That chorus is a world-beater.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#72

Multiple Song Artist? N
Highest Ranking: 25
Lowest Ranking: 93
Top 25s: 1
Top 50s: 7
Bottom 25: 10
Bottom 10s: 2

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{movements}
singingrulebritannia + Pyjamarama 74
gonecountry 58
razorshark 74
jamesflame 70
Red 70
American Idiot 74
rowellfarm490 70
DadJokes 73
Doc Indie Party Rock 71
willapted33 74
aerodynamite 67
wheatsquares33 71
lyhom 77
trilogy 75
Geometrical 71
alexcuse 72
Sambalada 67
Daryl the Beryl 68
chanman 75
campbellssoup 75
Juanca 76
Mirago 75
peacebone 75
craziaskowboi 74
tanooki 72

[singingrulebritannia]

This band went 0 for 2 on truly impressing me

---

72

Living On The Ceiling
Blancmange

Year-End Position: #77

1037 Points
Standard Deviation: 21.29

peacebone - 25
Sambalada - 28
Geometrical - 29
aerodynamite - 30
gonecountry - 32
trilogy - 41
Doc Indie Party Rock - 44
craziaskowboi - 52
DadJokes - 54
alexcuse - 57
Pyjamarama - 57
rowellfarm490 - 60
jamesflame - 60
Red - 61
tanooki - 62
Mirago - 63
singingrulebritannia - 78
campbellssoup - 78
Daryl the Beryl - 80
chanman - 81
American Idiot - 81
wheatsquares33 - 81
willapted33 - 84
Juanca - 87
lyhom - 91
razorshark - 93

Performance History:
#46 Alt 1984 (Don’t Tell Me)

Movements:
74 58 74 70 70 74 70 73 71 74 67 71 77 75 71 72 67 68 75 75 76 75 75 74 72

Spectators:
wrip
MoD

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining songs}
The Lovecats
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
Karma Chameleon
One Thing Leads To Another
Union Of The Snake
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
Save It For Later
Modern Love
Let's Go To Bed
Dear Prudence
Power And The Passion
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
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
China Girl
Get The Balance Right!
She Blinded Me With Science
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Too Shy
Save A Prayer
Is There Something I Should Know?
She's In Parties
The Walk
Der Kommissar
Long Hot Summer
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
The Politics Of Dancing
Saved By Zero
Blister In The Sun
Nobody's Diary
Confusion
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
(Keep Feeling) Fascination
Stand Or Fall
Red Skies
Let Me Go
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[Red]

This should be right up my alley, and it kind of is, but this song seemed to keep me ever so slightly at a distance.

Given how much I love some songs that sound like this, I'm sure this will grow on me more with time.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#71

Multiple Song Artist? N
Highest Ranking: 25
Lowest Ranking: 95
Top 25s: 1
Top 50s: 7
Bottom 25: 5
Bottom 10s: 2

18th Lowest SD

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{movements}
singingrulebritannia + Pyjamarama 60
gonecountry 79
razorshark 88
jamesflame 89
Red 84
American Idiot 81
rowellfarm490 74
DadJokes 74
Doc Indie Party Rock 75
willapted33 72
aerodynamite 74
wheatsquares33 68
lyhom 68
trilogy 66
Geometrical 62
alexcuse 62
Sambalada 61
Daryl the Beryl 62
chanman 63
campbellssoup 66
Juanca 72
Mirago 72
peacebone 74
craziaskowboi 72
tanooki 71

[peacebone]

Some of you need to go up the bloody tree and stay there for eternity

[Pyjamarama]

was X’s “True Love part 2” intentionally interpolating Doobie Bros “Long Train Running”?

[singingrulebritannia]

YAZZ YAZZ (Yé-yé jazz)

---

71

Nobody's Diary
Yaz

Year-End Position: #79

1073 Points
Standard Deviation: 18.70 (18TH LOWEST)

wheatsquares33 - 25
Geometrical - 28
tanooki - 34
trilogy - 35
willapted33 - 41
American Idiot - 47
rowellfarm490 - 48
DadJokes - 51
Daryl the Beryl - 55
singingrulebritannia - 56
aerodynamite - 58
Doc Indie Party Rock - 58
Sambalada - 59
Red - 59
craziaskowboi - 61
Pyjamarama - 61
lyhom - 63
alexcuse - 65
peacebone - 68
Mirago - 69
campbellssoup - 75
chanman - 79
jamesflame - 80
Juanca - 89
razorshark - 94
gonecountry - 95

Performance History:
Debut

Movements:
60 79 88 89 84 81 74 74 75 72 74 68 68 66 62 62 61 62 63 66 72 72 74 72 71

Spectators:
wrip
MoD

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining songs}
The Lovecats
In A Big Country
99 Luftballoons
Burning Down The House
Oblivious
Major Tom
Karma Chameleon
One Thing Leads To Another
Union Of The Snake
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
Save It For Later
Modern Love
Let's Go To Bed
Dear Prudence
Power And The Passion
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
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
China Girl
Get The Balance Right!
She Blinded Me With Science
Love Is A Stranger
Numbers With Wings
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
Too Shy
Save A Prayer
Is There Something I Should Know?
She's In Parties
The Walk
Der Kommissar
Long Hot Summer
I Melt With You
This Is The Day
Radio Free Europe
Don't Change
Age Of Consent
The Politics Of Dancing
Saved By Zero
Blister In The Sun
Confusion
Nowhere Girl
The Metro
(Keep Feeling) Fascination
Stand Or Fall
Red Skies
Let Me Go
Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Your Silent Face
Reap The Wild Wind
Add It Up
This Charming Man

[razorshark]

Omg only one of my bottom 10 is left. Probably only one of my 10-20 too but we aren't going to talk about that.

[Deleted]

I like this a lot more than "Situation". I loved the minimal synth bits on this.

[gonecountry]

I like quite a few Yaz songs, but this one bored me to tears.

[Red]

Eh, this is good, but they have better.

[singingrulebritannia]

Since Daft Punk broke up, now's the perfect time to rediscover their ancestors!
EXTRA

Pack Jam
Jonzun Crew

Estimated chart points: n/a

Feel free to share your thoughts on this song below!

[Pyjamarama]

Vince had hair!!! & f’n cool as f hair at that! he puts Seagull Mike Card to shame! Vince rules!!!

[singingrulebritannia]

Apparently this was featured in an Olsen Twins movie lol
EXTRA

Get Out Of London
Intaferon

Estimated chart points: n/a

Feel free to share your thoughts on this song below!

[singingrulebritannia]

Before you go thinking this is a 'cover', the singer Terry Hall was actually the song's co-writer
EXTRA

Our Lips Are Sealed
Fun Boy Three

Estimated chart points: n/a

Feel free to share your thoughts on this song below!