Pulse Rankdown: 1980 Year-End Mainstream Rock (complete)

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

32. Play the Game - Queen
Love this song. Dverything about it sounds Epic.

[singingrulebritannia]

both verbs in the title are football WR routes...I think

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31

Touch and Go
The Cars

Year-End Position: #30
Peak: #1
Weeks: 11

1194 Points
Standard Deviation: 17.85

Doc Indie Party Rock - 2
aerodynamite - 8
DJDaveMick69 - 21
rowellfarm490 - 23
peacebone - 24
House Lannister - 29
thethirdcurry - 33
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 34
gonecountry - 35
singingrulebritannia - 39
Juanca - 44
Gonza'90 - 44
Daryl the Beryl - 44
Mirago - 47
wheatsquares33 - 55
Red - 55
Clode - 58
DadJokes - 59
razorshark - 71

Movements:
25 22 20 29 28 20 22 24 21 22 25 25 28 31 31 31 31 31

Performance history:
#1 Active 1984 (Drive) | #2 Alt 1984 (Drive) | #6 Active 1984 (Magic) | #8 Active 1984 (You Might Think) | #12 Active 1987 (You Are the Girl) | #13 Active 1986 (Tonight She Comes) | #14 Active 1982 (Shake It Up) | #14 Active 1987 (Strap Me In) | #18 Active 1985 (Why Can’t I Have You) | #24 Alt 1982 (Shake It Up) | #24 Alt 1987 (You Are the Girl) | #32 Alt 1982 (Since You're Gone) | ##77 Alt 1980 (Up and Down) | #81 Alt 1980 (Misfit Kid)

Spectators:
tanooki
Optical Apex

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2
And the Cradle Will Rock...
Brass in Pocket
Refugee
Misunderstanding
The Spirit of Radio
Train in Vain
Sara
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Fool In the Rain
Another One Bites the Dust
Ashes to Ashes
Games Without Frontiers
Cars
How Do I Make You
Heartbreaker
You Better Run
Ride Like the Wind
I Got You
Living After Midnight
Turn It On Again
Run Like Hell
Against the Wind
Comfortably Numb
Hungry Heart
I Don't Like Mondays
Don't Do Me Like That
Whip It
Heaven and Hell

[Red]

I am 99.999999999% sure that this will be the last time I rank The Cars bottom half in a Mainstream RD.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#30

Highest Ranking: 4
Top 5s: 1
Top 10s: 2
Top 25s: 6
Top 50s: 15
Bottom 25: 1

SPOILER: Click to show

{Movements}
singingrulebritannia + DJDaveMick69: 21
gonecountry: 17
peacebone: 22
razorshark: 24
Butterflies & Hurricanes: 32
Doc Indie Party Rock: 26
rowellfarm490: 31
Gonza'90: 35
aerodynamite: 36
Clode: 33
Red: 31
Daryl the Beryl: 31
DadJokes: 33
wheatsquares33: 33
Mirago: 33
House Lannister: 33
Juanca: 32
thethirdcurry: 30

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

31. Touch and Go - The Cars
How perfect is it that I log on just in time to see one of my favorite cars songs show up. You guys crack me up with Modern Rock songs cruising over to the Mainstream, but whatever I'm not complaining and ot finally gets a fairly decent rank. Not my #1 song. Not this time. What could it be?

[singingrulebritannia]

when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall
and down will come baby, cradle and all

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30

And the Cradle Will Rock...
Van Halen

Year-End Position: #3
Peak: #2
Weeks: 17

1223 Points
Standard Deviation: 20.40

thethirdcurry - 4
Doc Indie Party Rock - 6
Juanca - 15
DJDaveMick69 - 16
Clode - 19
House Lannister - 22
Red - 31
gonecountry - 32
Daryl the Beryl - 35
wheatsquares33 - 37
singingrulebritannia - 38
peacebone - 40
razorshark - 41
DadJokes - 48
Gonza'90 - 50
aerodynamite - 54
Mirago - 60
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 70
rowellfarm490 - 78

Movements:
21 17 22 24 32 26 31 35 36 33 31 31 33 33 33 33 32 30

Performance history:
#19 Active 1988 (Finish What Ya Started) | #19 Active 1984 (Panama) | #19 Active 1992 (Right Now) | #23 Active 1988 (When It's Love) | #31 Active 1984 (Jump) | #32 Active 1982 (Unchained) | #34 Active 1981 (Mean Street) | #39 Active 1991 (Top of the World) | #42 Active 1984 (I'll Wait) | #46 Active 1986 (Why Can't This Be Love) | #49 Active 1982 ((Oh) Pretty Woman) | #52 Active 1986 (Dreams) | #55 Active 1991 (Runaround) | #58 Active 1988 (Feels So Good) | #60 Active 1992 (The Dream Is Over) | #66 Active 1982 (Where Have All the Good Times Gone!) | #70 Active 1988 (Black and Blue) | #71 Alt 1980 (...And the Cradle Will Rock) | #74 Active 1982 (Dancing in the Street) | #77 Active 2004 (It's About Time) | #79 Active 1995 (Can't Stop Lovin' You) | #80 Active 1991 (Poundcake) | #85 Active 2012 (She's the Woman) | #87 Active 2012 (Tattoo) | #88 Active 1986 (Love Walks In) | #89 Active 1986 (Best of Both Worlds) | #90 Active 1995 (Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)) | #92 Active 1997 (Me Wise Magic) | #93 Active 1993 (Won't Get Fooled Again) | #94 Active 1997 (Can't Get This Stuff No More) | #94 Active 1998 (Without You) | #96 Active 1996 (Humans Being) | #97 Active 1998 (Fire in the Hole) | #98 Active 1998 (Amsterdam)

Spectators:
tanooki
Optical Apex

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2
Brass in Pocket
Refugee
Misunderstanding
The Spirit of Radio
Train in Vain
Sara
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Fool In the Rain
Another One Bites the Dust
Ashes to Ashes
Games Without Frontiers
Cars
How Do I Make You
Heartbreaker
You Better Run
Ride Like the Wind
I Got You
Living After Midnight
Turn It On Again
Run Like Hell
Against the Wind
Comfortably Numb
Hungry Heart
I Don't Like Mondays
Don't Do Me Like That
Whip It
Heaven and Hell

[Red]

"#32 Active 1982 (Unchained) | #34 Active 1981 (Mean Street)"

okay, I get it, I screwed up not doing 1981, I'm sorry

[singingrulebritannia]

--#29

Highest Ranking: 9
Top 10s: 2
Top 25s: 7
Top 50s: 15
Bottom 25: 1

SPOILER: Click to show

{Movements}
singingrulebritannia + DJDaveMick69: 41
gonecountry: 25
peacebone: 30
razorshark: 32
Butterflies & Hurricanes: 34
Doc Indie Party Rock: 42
rowellfarm490: 37
Gonza'90: 34
aerodynamite: 34
Clode: 29
Red: 32
Daryl the Beryl: 32
DadJokes: 30
wheatsquares33: 28
Mirago: 27
House Lannister: 30
Juanca: 30
thethirdcurry: 29

[singingrulebritannia]

improves on the Hot 100 rankdown by 4

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29

Against the Wind
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band

Year-End Position: #75
Peak: #1
Weeks: 6

1240 Points
Standard Deviation: 20.17

DadJokes - 9
thethirdcurry - 10
Mirago - 16
Gonza'90 - 17
rowellfarm490 - 22
singingrulebritannia - 23
wheatsquares33 - 24
Clode - 27
gonecountry - 28
Daryl the Beryl - 33
peacebone - 34
aerodynamite - 37
Juanca - 39
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 44
Red - 49
razorshark - 55
DJDaveMick69 - 61
House Lannister - 67
Doc Indie Party Rock - 84

Movements:
41 25 30 32 34 42 37 34 34 29 32 32 30 28 27 30 30 29

Performance history:
#60 Active 2006 (Landing In London w/ 3 Doors Down) | #65 Active 1980 (Fire Lake) | #72 Active 1991 (The Fire Inside) | #73 Active 1983 (Even Now) | #76 Active 1992 (Take a Chance) | #78 Active 1980 (Her Strut) | #78 Active 1986 (American Storm) | #78 Active 1987 (Shakedown) | #78 Active 1991 (The Real Love) | #87 Active 1981 (Tryin' to Live My Life Without You) | #87 Active 1986 (Like a Rock)

Spectators:
tanooki
Optical Apex

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2
Brass in Pocket
Refugee
Misunderstanding
The Spirit of Radio
Train in Vain
Sara
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Fool In the Rain
Another One Bites the Dust
Ashes to Ashes
Games Without Frontiers
Cars
How Do I Make You
Heartbreaker
You Better Run
Ride Like the Wind
I Got You
Living After Midnight
Turn It On Again
Run Like Hell
Comfortably Numb
Hungry Heart
I Don't Like Mondays
Don't Do Me Like That
Whip It
Heaven and Hell

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

30. And the Cradle Will Rock... - Van Halen
This is way too low for this song on this format. I was waiting to compile this list to put it in my top 10. The rest of you must've fallen out of the cradel one too many times. BTW this playback vid is my favorite. David Lee Roth: Posterboy for future Glam Metal warriors all over the world.

[Red]

Finally, we have been relieved of the 3 Doors Down-featuring top performer burden.

(Oh, the song's fine, too.)

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

29. Against the Wind - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
I always felt like this sounded like commercial music for Ranch purchasings. Not my rock style at all.

[singingrulebritannia]

Sept 6, 2021 20:39:32 GMT -5 Doc Indie Party Rock said:

BTW this playback vid is my favorite. David Lee Roth: Posterboy for future Glam Metal warriors all over the world.
(embed)

Am I missing something? That's the video I linked, why did you post it again? lol

--#28

Highest Ranking: 11
Top 25s: 6
Top 50s: 17
Bottom 25: 1
Bottom 10s: 1
Bottom 5s: 1

1 bottom 10 cleared

SPOILER: Click to show

{Movements}
singingrulebritannia + DJDaveMick69: 15
gonecountry: 50
peacebone: 39
razorshark: 51
Butterflies & Hurricanes: 46
Doc Indie Party Rock: 34
rowellfarm490: 33
Gonza'90: 31
aerodynamite: 32
Clode: 31
Red: 30
Daryl the Beryl: 28
DadJokes: 29
wheatsquares33: 30
Mirago: 28
House Lannister: 28
Juanca: 27
thethirdcurry: 28

[singingrulebritannia]

Red — 02/03/2018
Big Ron Stad
(oh also this rose 12 from the Hot 100 rankdown)

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28

How Do I Make You
Linda Ronstadt

Year-End Position: #42
Peak: #2
Weeks: 10

1256 Points
Standard Deviation: 19.87

Juanca - 11
Mirago - 14
Doc Indie Party Rock - 18
DJDaveMick69 - 19
Daryl the Beryl - 21
Gonza'90 - 22
singingrulebritannia - 28
rowellfarm490 - 31
wheatsquares33 - 31
DadJokes - 32
Red - 32
aerodynamite - 33
peacebone - 35
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 39
thethirdcurry - 42
House Lannister - 46
Clode - 47
razorshark - 65


gonecountry - 97

Movements:
15 50 39 51 46 34 33 31 32 31 30 28 29 30 28 28 27 28

Performance history:
#67 Active 1980 (Mad Love)

Spectators:
tanooki
Optical Apex

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2
Brass in Pocket
Refugee
Misunderstanding
The Spirit of Radio
Train in Vain
Sara
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Fool In the Rain
Another One Bites the Dust
Ashes to Ashes
Games Without Frontiers
Cars
Heartbreaker
You Better Run
Ride Like the Wind
I Got You
Living After Midnight
Turn It On Again
Run Like Hell
Comfortably Numb
Hungry Heart
I Don't Like Mondays
Don't Do Me Like That
Whip It
Heaven and Hell

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Sept 6, 2021 20:44:32 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

Sept 6, 2021 20:39:32 GMT -5 Doc Indie Party Rock said:

BTW this playback vid is my favorite. David Lee Roth: Posterboy for future Glam Metal warriors all over the world.
(embed)

Am I missing something? That's the video I linked, why did you post it again? lol

--#28

Highest Ranking: 11
Top 25s: 6
Top 50s: 17
Bottom 25: 1
Bottom 10s: 1
Bottom 5s: 1

1 bottom 10 cleared

SPOILER: Click to show

{Movements}
singingrulebritannia + DJDaveMick69 : 15
gonecountry : 50
peacebone : 39
razorshark : 51
Butterflies & Hurricanes : 46
Doc Indie Party Rock : 34
rowellfarm490 : 33
Gonza'90 : 31
aerodynamite : 32
Clode : 31
Red : 30
Daryl the Beryl : 28
DadJokes : 29
wheatsquares33 : 30
Mirago : 28
House Lannister : 28
Juanca : 27
thethirdcurry : 28

The one you posted showed up blank on my screen, and I really wanted to pimp that MV, and I didn't realize mine was the same until I posted it too. Both blanks. I'm taking mine off as we speak.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

28. How Do I Make You - Linda Ronstadt
Won't take a Rocket scientist to figure this is my all time favorite Song of hers' or why. It is really short, but really rock hard. I love her performance music video of this song too.

[Red]

She didn't do it often, but Linda Ronstadt could make a bit of a banger sometimes.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#27

Highest Ranking: 8
Top 10s: 1
Top 25s: 7
Top 50s: 15

19TH LOWEST SD

SPOILER: Click to show

{Movements}
singingrulebritannia + DJDaveMick69: 43
gonecountry: 34
peacebone: 36
razorshark: 25
Butterflies & Hurricanes: 29
Doc Indie Party Rock: 27
rowellfarm490: 28
Gonza'90: 28
aerodynamite: 29
Clode: 28
Red: 28
Daryl the Beryl: 27
DadJokes: 25
wheatsquares33: 29
Mirago: 29
House Lannister: 27
Juanca: 28
thethirdcurry: 27

[singingrulebritannia]

A salute for the second video broadcast on MTV

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27

You Better Run
Pat Benatar

Year-End Position: #57
Peak: #6
Weeks: 9

1267 Points
Standard Deviation: 16.02 (19TH LOWEST)

razorshark - 8
Doc Indie Party Rock - 16
thethirdcurry - 20
Mirago - 23
Juanca - 24
Clode - 24
Red - 25
singingrulebritannia - 27
rowellfarm490 - 28
DadJokes - 31
aerodynamite - 34
House Lannister - 35
gonecountry - 38
Daryl the Beryl - 39
peacebone - 39
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 55
wheatsquares33 - 56
DJDaveMick69 - 62
Gonza'90 - 68

Movements:
43 34 36 25 29 27 28 28 29 28 28 27 25 29 29 27 28 27

Performance history:
#5 Active 1985 (Invincible) | #16 Active 1981 (Fire And Ice) | #18 Active 1988 (All Fired Up) | #24 Active 1985 (We Belong) | #25 Active 1983 (Love Is a Battlefield) | #29 Active 1981 (Promises in the Dark) | #39 Active 1983 (Shadows of the Night) | #39 Active 1993 (Everybody Lay Down) | #40 Active 1986 (Sex as a Weapon) | #56 Active 1981 (Just Like Me) | #68 Alt 1980 (Hit Me With Your Best Shot) | #82 Active 1983 (Looking for a Stranger)

Spectators:
tanooki
Optical Apex

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2
Brass in Pocket
Refugee
Misunderstanding
The Spirit of Radio
Train in Vain
Sara
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Fool In the Rain
Another One Bites the Dust
Ashes to Ashes
Games Without Frontiers
Cars
Heartbreaker
Ride Like the Wind
I Got You
Living After Midnight
Turn It On Again
Run Like Hell
Comfortably Numb
Hungry Heart
I Don't Like Mondays
Don't Do Me Like That
Whip It
Heaven and Hell

[Red]

Pat was at her best when the songs had swagger, both from her and the band, and this song has loads of it.

This was the best version of Pat, even if it's not my favorite song of hers.

[singingrulebritannia]

--#26

Highest Ranking: 3
Top 5s: 2
Top 10s: 2
Top 25s: 9
Top 50s: 15
Bottom 25: 1
Bottom 10s: 1
Bottom 5s: 1

1 bottom 10 cleared

SPOILER: Click to show

{Movements}
singingrulebritannia + DJDaveMick69: 22
gonecountry: 9
peacebone: 23
razorshark: 14
Butterflies & Hurricanes: 12
Doc Indie Party Rock: 16
rowellfarm490: 19
Gonza'90: 27
aerodynamite: 27
Clode: 25
Red: 23
Daryl the Beryl: 26
DadJokes: 26
wheatsquares33: 24
Mirago: 26
House Lannister: 26
Juanca: 25
thethirdcurry: 26

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

27. You Better Run - Pat Benatar
Love seeing Pat Benatar score this high with one of her early hits. This song effortlessly makes my top 20. It's short, but gets right to the cream, and it is such a head banger in every way, and her vocals man. They set the stage on fire.

[singingrulebritannia]

Me when the samba section kicks in

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26

Fool In the Rain
Led Zeppelin

Year-End Position: #24
Peak: #3
Weeks: 20

1294 Points
Standard Deviation: 24.64

gonecountry - 3
razorshark - 4
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 13
wheatsquares33 - 13
DJDaveMick69 - 13
Clode - 14
House Lannister - 16
Red - 20
thethirdcurry - 24
Juanca - 30
aerodynamite - 30
rowellfarm490 - 37
DadJokes - 37
Mirago - 43
singingrulebritannia - 46
Doc Indie Party Rock - 55
Daryl the Beryl - 62
peacebone - 66


Gonza'90 - 99

Movements:
22 9 23 14 12 16 19 27 27 25 23 26 26 24 26 26 25 26

Performance history:
#18 Active 1998 (The Girl I Love) | #43 Active 1993 (Baby Come on Home) | #86 Active 1983 (Darlene)

Spectators:
tanooki
Optical Apex

SPOILER: Click to show

{Remaining Songs}
Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2
Brass in Pocket
Refugee
Misunderstanding
The Spirit of Radio
Train in Vain
Sara
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Another One Bites the Dust
Ashes to Ashes
Games Without Frontiers
Cars
Heartbreaker
Ride Like the Wind
I Got You
Living After Midnight
Turn It On Again
Run Like Hell
Comfortably Numb
Hungry Heart
I Don't Like Mondays
Don't Do Me Like That
Whip It
Heaven and Hell

[Gonza'90]

Fool in the Rain?

Yes!

[wheatsquares33]

FYI

[Red]

Okay, but hear me out: In Through the Out Door isn't the worst thing in the world. I mean, it certainly beats Coda, as easy of an accomplishment as that may be. It has some of their worst moments, but this and "Carouselambra" are both pretty good.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

26. Fool In the Rain - Led Zeppelin
I don't really like this song. It's ok for Robert Plant's vocals, but it doesnt scream rocker. The samba part blows bad. call me back when we rank "Black Dog"

[singingrulebritannia]

if you were wondering why Petty had fewer songs here than in Alt...here's the third song
EXTRA

Here Comes My Girl
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Overall Year-End Position: #195
Chart Peak: #12
Chart Weeks: 6
Streaming Rank: 12

Feel free to share your thoughts on this song below!

[singingrulebritannia]

we've nearly reached the end of Mellencamp's discography, and this #17 Hot 100 hit will not be ranked
EXTRA

Ain't Even Done With the Night
John Cougar

Overall Year-End Position: #285
Chart Peak: #22
Chart Weeks: 1
Streaming Rank: 11

Feel free to share your thoughts on this song below!

[singingrulebritannia]

Yea...I'm fine with not ranking this turd again
EXTRA

Turning Japanese
The Vapors

Overall Year-End Position: #192
Chart Peak: #39
Chart Weeks: 16
Streaming Rank: 10

Feel free to share your thoughts on this song below!