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Post by Red on Sept 28, 2023 21:05:01 GMT -5
God, I love songs like this one that have you expecting one thing and then sweep off your feet with another thing entirely. The tempo increases here are just chef's kiss.
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Post by Red on Sept 28, 2023 21:09:30 GMT -5
#12 PREVIEW
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High: 4
Low: 29
Highest Point: 4
Lowest Point: 27
#1s: 0
Top Fives: 2
Top Tens: 5
Top Halves: 13
Bottom Tens: 0
Bottom Fives: 0
#40s: 0
3rd Lowest SD
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Post by Red on Sept 28, 2023 21:13:59 GMT -5
The subtle progression of this song toward its big conclusion is just something else, especially for a song that seems so innocuous at first glance.
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Post by Red on Sept 28, 2023 21:18:12 GMT -5
#11 PREVIEW
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High: 2
Low: 40
Highest Point: 3
Lowest Point: 17
#1s: 0
Top Fives: 5
Top Tens: 9
Top Halves: 12
Bottom Tens: 4
Bottom Fives: 2
#40s: 1
6th Highest SD
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Post by Red on Sept 28, 2023 21:23:43 GMT -5
AOUUUUUUUUUUU
Congrats on clearing your bottom tens, samo🦕 and Beno.
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Post by Red on Sept 28, 2023 21:25:25 GMT -5
TIME TO RELEASE THE RANKS
THE TOP TEN
Brian Eno - Third Uncle
Chairlift - Amanaemonesia
Cheryl Glasgow - Glued to the Spot
The Go Team! - Junior Kickstart
Heatwave - The Groove Line
Makthaverskan - Asleep
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
Perfume - Spinning World
Phoebe Bridgers - Funeral
Taeko Onuki - 4:00 AM
Any surprises or disappointments with the songs in this top ten or just outside of the top ten? Have any predictions on what the top ten will hold? Discuss all of this (and more) below!
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Sept 28, 2023 21:26:53 GMT -5
Shoot me again but punk is good
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Post by zippy on Sept 28, 2023 21:43:55 GMT -5
I had doubts about 50//50 and spectres de mouse making the top half in this rankdown. Future Funk is a fun genre to explore and if I did another personal RD I'd include my favorite Future Funk song. Also, mouse on the keys might have something I'd add to one of my instrumental playlists.
aerodynamite who submitted Spinning Girl for Wintertime Madness also submitted YUKIKA - Scent as one his extras. This is the kind of K-Pop I want to hear more of.
I'm pleasantly surprised The Go Team! made the top ten (despite also making the top 10 in my personal rd) and I'm not at all surprised about my bottom 10s remaining.
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Post by maine on Sept 29, 2023 8:26:22 GMT -5
alright let's get my #40 out of here please and thank you
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 18:34:57 GMT -5
We do have a couple of new faces to my rankdowns here, so they may not know how top ten previews work. Even if they do, screw it, I'm gonna explain how my top ten previews work, anyway.  For the first eight reveals of the top ten, I will offer up three stats for the reveal in question, as well as a factoid that may or may not only interest me. Alright, better late than never with this...
#10 PREVIEW
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Highest Point: 5
Movements Spent in Top Ten: 10
Top Tens: 9
#10 is just four points ahead of the two songs tied below it.
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 18:40:00 GMT -5
Well, this is quite the improvement from Chairlift's Cutting Room Floor performance. I also can't say I'm too surprised in the performance difference. This seemed like the kind of song that would get more vocal support.
Congrats on clearing your bottom ten, lyhom...and sorry, Steel Sponge.
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 18:45:08 GMT -5
#9 PREVIEW
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Standard Deviation: One of the Five Highest
Movements Spent in Top Ten: All
Top Fives: 7
There was a very real point where I thought this song was indestructible...and then, it wasn't. |
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 18:50:25 GMT -5
I was first introduced to this song while watching Kill Bill for the first time. It has stuck with me ever since, a song that sells the heartbreak of being dumped and left behind to deal with the pieces about as well as any breakup song ever has.
Congrats on clearing your bottom ten, wheatsquares33.
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 18:54:38 GMT -5
#8 PREVIEW
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Movements Spent Outside of the Top Ten: 3
Top Half Rankings: 14
Bottom Tens: 1
This was one of the songs that I knew would end up top ten the moment I included it here. The only question was where it would end up. |
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 18:59:06 GMT -5
These guys made one of the biggest disco bangers there's ever been, and then they went and did it again. Why are they not talked about more?!
Congrats on clearing your bottom ten, Gonza'90.
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 19:03:16 GMT -5
#7 PREVIEW
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#1s: 1
Top Five Rankings: 4
Bottom Ten Clearances: 1
I would have predicted this to be even higher than where it ended up. For a little while, it looked like it would get to around where I would have predicted it to land, too. |
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 19:08:56 GMT -5
I am just going to keep including Perfume in rankdowns. They'll probably finish top ten every time, too, and I don't mind that one bit, not when practically every song they make is varying degrees of great.
Congrats on clearing your bottom ten, Willow Rinadoobee Breakfast...and sorry, zippy.
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Oct 1, 2023 19:11:53 GMT -5
No top 5s left 🥳
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 19:13:27 GMT -5
#6 PREVIEW
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Bottom Tens: 2
Top Ten Rankings: 7
Perfect Rankings: 1
This was the song that, personally, I was most surprised to see end up in the top ten. |
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 19:18:44 GMT -5
HOOORRRRRNNSSSSSSSSS
(and drums, too)
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 19:22:45 GMT -5
#5 PREVIEW
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Times This Song Moved Into the Top Ten: 3
Highest Point: 4
Lowest Point: 19
To give you an idea how close things were between the last seven reveals and this one, the song at #5 is less than 20 points ahead of the tied songs just outside of the top ten. |
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 19:27:48 GMT -5
The only way this choice could have been more stereotypically me is if the song was sung in Japanese. Don't let the "Where I'd Rank It" fool you, I'm ecstatic this is top five.
Congrats on clearing your bottom ten, American Idiot.
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 19:33:52 GMT -5
#4 PREVIEW
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Standard Deviation: One of the Ten Highest
Top Tens: 10
Highest Point: 19
Seven #1s are still in the hunt going into the top four. Every song remaining has a #1. Someone's losing one here... |
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 19:38:15 GMT -5
Or, more accurately, three people are losing #1s.
The week that this was my most-listened to song is one that I don't really like to dwell on too much, but the context is needed here. Some of you already know why, but to those of you who don't, earlier this year, I lost my beloved Pomeranian dog that was a part of my life for well over a decade. I was inconsolable in the immediate aftermath, and I kept coming back to this song, over and over, as a means of therapy at a time when I desperately needed it. Because of this, this song, as great as it is, is not one that I love revisiting. But it also would have been impossible to not include this here, given how impactful it was on me in the immediate week after his passing.
Congrats on clearing your bottom tens, decadevia, zippy, maine, and MoD...and sorry, willapted33, reputainbow, and BlurryKyle.
Love you forever, Little Man.
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 19:43:39 GMT -5
#3 PREVIEW
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Movements Spent Outside of the Top Five: 5
#1s: 1
Top Fives: 5
The point difference between #2 and #3 is a full ranking. |
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 19:48:16 GMT -5
I was going to make a comment about Brian Eno pioneering an entire genre before it even existed, but, like, seriously? "Third Uncle" finished at #3? This feels fucking rigged.
Congrats on clearing your bottom tens, Steel Sponge, reputainbow, and wrip...and sorry, MoD.
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 19:52:35 GMT -5
THE TOP TWO
Makthaverskan - Asleep vs. Taeko Onuki - 4:00AM
40 Points Ahead of #3
31 Top Half Rankings
30 Movements Spent in the Top Ten
21 Top Ten
18 Points Separating the Two Songs
17 Top Fives
9 Movements Spent at #1
4 Posters with No Top Tens in the Top Two
3 Bottom Tens
3 #1s
1 Poster with Two Bottom Tens
1 Poster with a Top Three and a Bottom Ten
1 Winner |
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 20:02:22 GMT -5
I could have seen this song making the top ten or even the top five before the rankdown began, but for it to be in the top two and very safely in the top two is not what I was expecting at all. The vocal performance here kind of justifies it, though. What a powerhouse of a performance.
Congrats on clearing your bottom ten just in the nick of time, emerald...and sorry, decadevia.
Going into this rankdown, I figured the winner would be one of two songs. "Funeral" definitely looked like it would hold up its end of the bargain, but it only did so later on in the rankdown, and it didn't last. This song, meanwhile, took off at the halfway point and never looked back.
I mean, y'all, it's fucking city pop at its near zenith. Are any of you surprised?
Congrats on your favorite song winning, Gonza'90 and BB🌕!
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Post by singingrulebritannia on Oct 1, 2023 20:04:56 GMT -5
I should have known Japan would have my back
Thanks for hosting Red!
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Post by Red on Oct 1, 2023 20:05:14 GMT -5
GREEN GRASS AND HIGH RANKS FOREVER
And that, as I tend to say way too often, is that! I'd like to thank everyone who submitted, hosted, gave the rankdown at least one look, and generally helped to make this rankdown another successful one for me...even if it did take me a couple of days to recover from work to get this show over with. As always, you guys are the reason I host these in the first place. I'd probably still listen to way too much music, but doing these rankdowns gives me joy every single time.
What's next? Well, actually, I'm not entirely sure. It's not that I don't have a rankdown in mind to do next. The issue is that I'm torn between two rankdowns, and I may or may not have another idea for a rankdown that's in the works, one that doesn't fit under this "Red Presents" umbrella. If I decide to host that first, the next "Red Presents" rankdown will still after that rankdown is completed.
If I do decide to roll with the next RD in this series next, well, a couple of rankdowns have passed...I think it's about time we get to the third one.
COMING SOON
THE ALL-TIMERS, PART III
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For the first eight reveals of the top ten, I will offer up three stats for the reveal in question, as well as a factoid that may or may not only interest me. Alright, better late than never with this...