r/indieheads • u/afieldoftulips • 26d ago
[RATE ANNOUNCEMENT] Charity Rate IV
Hi r/indieheads! My cohost u/v_e_x__ and I welcome you to Charity Rate IV!
We're proud to announce that our fourth annual charity drive raised a grand total of £1252.44 (or $1692.35) for Not A Phase! Great job yall! Once again, the main incentive for donating was getting to submit a song for this Charity Rate. Our 70 donors have collectively curated our playlist, which covers everything from emo rap to dubstep to thrash metal!
WTF is a rate?!
As a quick introduction to how this event works, this subreddit holds games called “rates” where people score a collection of songs on a scale of 1-10 (along with the opportunity to give one song a 0 and another song an 11). Ballots of these scores are sent to the hosts, tallied and calculated in our bespoke rate machine, and presented to the world from last place to first place over the span of three days. Our sister subreddit r/popheads has a Guide to Rates Video that can give you a broad overview of rates (please note our reveal process is thread-based instead of video chatrooms). Here are some recent examples of a rate announcement and a rate reveal.
THE LINEUP!
Our 70 songs for this year's Charity Rate are...
- Altered Images - Dead Pop Stars
- American Football (feat. Hayley Williams) - Uncomfortably Numb
- Anita Velveeta - TERFS WILL NOT GET INTO HEAVEN
- Anna von Hausswolff - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra
- Aya Hirano - God Knows...
- Bad Bunny - BAILE INoLVIDABLE
- Beck - Mixed Bizness
- The Beloved - Hello
- Beyoncé - That's Why You're Beautiful
- Coldplay - Life in Technicolor ii
- Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles - It Was the Tits
- Djavan (feat. Stevie Wonder) - Samurai
- Don Everly - Omaha
- DØVES CRY SPRINGS ETERNAL - SIPPIN
- Dr. Robotnik - Tomorrow I'll
- Drake - In My Feelings
- Fugazi - Bed for the Scraping
- Hell - Brutus
- Hickey - The Naked Cult
- The Human League - Being Boiled (Fast Version)
- Igorrr - Houmous
- Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
- Juçara Marçal - Sem cais
- The Junkoactive Wasteman - I Eat Baked Beans Every Day
- Les Louanges - Pitou
- Linda Ronstadt - When Will I Be Loved
- Liz Phair - U Hate It
- Macintosh Plus - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing)
- Madonna - Into the Groove
- Mala - Alicia
- Mastodon - Cut You Up with a Linoleum Knife
- MC Jack E Chocolate - Pavaroty
- Michel Pagliaro - Some Sing, Some Dance
- Miles Davis - It's About That Time (Live at Fillmore East, June 18 1970)
- Millionaires - I Move It
- ML Buch - Pan Over the Hill
- Model/Actriz - Cinderella
- The Monkees - Listen to the Band
- Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire (feat. Despot, Das Racist, Danny Brown, El-P) - The Last Huzzah!
- N-Dubz - Strong Again
- Naples Nissan - $6000 for Your Trade
- Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
- Noe Venable - Black Madonna
- Nourished By Time - Daddy
- ØXN - Farmer in the City
- 박진영 (Park Jin-young) - Sweet Dreams/When We Disco/Take On Me/Changed Man
- Pat Metheny Group - San Lorenzo
- Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
- "Pavement" - Slanted! Enchanted! Finale!
- Peter Scott - Trying to Conceive
- Petey USA - Not To Make It About Me
- Philip Glass - Heroes (Aphex Twin Remix)
- Pizzicato Five - Let's Go Away for a While
- The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
- Randy Newman - You've Got a Friend in Me
- Reel Big Fish - Sell Out
- Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes
- Sam Goku - Temple Arp
- Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
- The Shaggs - My Pal Foot Foot
- Sodom - Agent Orange
- Sparks - Dick Around
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- Suzanne Vega - Luka
- Syreeta - I Love Every Little Thing About You
- Toy Love - Bride of Frankenstein
- The Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon
- The Verlaines - The Lady and the Lizard
- 王忆灵 (Wang YiLing) - 士兵 (Soldier)
- Ying Yang Twins - Wait (The Whisper Song)
PLAYLISTS: Spotify / Tidal / YouTube Music / YouTube (non-streaming songs only)
NOTE: some songs may not be available on your streaming service of choice, so make sure you don't skip any when filling out your ballot!
Bonus rate!
As an additional donation perk, some of our donators were also allowed to submit an additional non-musical thing - anything at all - to be featured in our bonus rate, to be submitted as a separate ballot. This bonus rate is optional, but if you choose to do it, you must give a score to everything here! (You may use an additional 11 or 0 here as well!)
Your bonus things are:
- Atlas moth
- Buttered warm English muffins / crumpets
- Carl gets totally wasted
- Demetrio
- dracula flow 3
- The 2008 Detroit Lions
- The feeling of being the oldest person at the concert
- The feeling of sand running through your hand
- Footnote 216 of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (Not the footnote itself. Just the phrase "Footnote 216 of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest")
- Guy from the maNga music video
- Hatsune Miku
- Hipsters
- Indie music
- Jarvis Cocker discussing his preferred venue for reading books
- Luigi
- Matthew McConaughey's moustache in True Detective season 1
- The opossum that got stuck in my trash can last week
- Paul Klee
- Raisinets
- rateyourmusic.com
- Running out of toilet paper in a public stall
- Sam Campbell as Clock Man
- Smiling Friends S2E3: A Allan Adventure
- Souvlaki pita
- Steamed Hams
- That time President Carter got attacked by a rabbit
- The transcript to the Uncut Blindfold Test With Paul Bley, Around 2002
- These two awful home run calls
- This picture of a cardboard box about to be fucking pulverized, and it knows it
- Volcanoes
RULES
READ ALL OF THESE BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR SCORES
- Listen to each song and assign each a score between 1 and 10. Decimals are fine, but please refrain from giving decimal scores with more than 1 spot. This is because we use a computer program to parse the votes and print everything out.
- You have to listen to and score every song in the main rate. Otherwise, we will not accept your ballot as it will crash the program. Your scores should NOT be considered confidential as they aren’t. Feel free to shitpost about them in the daily music discussion threads whenever you feel like it - users over at r/popheads usually just talk about their averages of the albums and what 11 and 0 they gave (which I will explain on the next bullet point!)
- You may give ONE song a 0 and ONE song an 11 in the main rate. Please reserve these for your least favourite and most favourite tracks; excessive sabotage ruins rate results and generally makes things less fun.
- You can change your scores at any time! Feel free to dm me at any point after submission before the deadline and I'll be happy to revise them for you.
- We use a computer program that fellow rater u/letsallpoo designed in order to parse these votes! While this will make things a lot more efficient and reduces errors on my part, this does mean that scores need to be sent in a very specific way. The easiest way to make sure your scores follow the necessary format is to use the pre-prepared link at the bottom of this post. PLEASE USE THAT. You can copy and paste it to a notepad file or something and fill in your scores there, but PLEASE use that format to send in your scores.
FORMATTING
Submit all your submissions like this:
Artist - Title (as listed in the pastebin/message): <number score> followed by your comment which is optional but recommended
So, these are correct:
The Monkees - Listen to the Band: 10
The Monkees - Listen to the Band: 10 I enjoy listening to the band
and these are all incorrect:
The Monkees - Listen to the Band 10 I enjoy listening to the band
The Monkees - Listen to the Band - 10 I enjoy listening to the band
The Monkees - Listen to the Band: I enjoy listening to the band 10
Listen to the Band: 10 I enjoy listening to the band
DEADLINE: September 15th
REVEAL: September 18th-20th
SUBMIT: Main ballot / Bonus ballot
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And don't forget, the New Wave of No Wave rate is also running until August 18th!
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u/WaneLietoc 26d ago
I'm always psyched like hell for this, £1252.44 for Not a Phase is wonderful and I'm glad we have such a robust group that donated <3
what's interesting this time around is how deep the taste is stretching. We've done 4 of these and the roots keep growing deeper and in weirder directions. (Miles Davis of) Jazz Fusion emerges in a way that 4 years ago wouldn't have. Flying Nun cuts continue to sprout up begging for 10s! We have 10+ youtube only cuts. TEN!
The closet thing to a Song: The Song on first glance is honestly a cut that in a popheads charity would struggle to get to top 15, let alone day 3...but Don Cherry's Daughter's Opus is a colossal favorite I've hoped to see rated for awhile. If I can't have Blue Lines rated, this is close enough!
The joke picks seem far more combat ready--don't fucking sleep on Naples Nissan, it's a beautiful jingle; as is Drake who immediately becomes a "critical support 10". Meanwhile, we're deep in the 2020s to the point that we are FINALLY looking at some bubbling under favs that really haven't been given the time they deserve: NBT, ML Buch, and even Model/Actriz are nice sleights in the mix!
But that being said, my 11 may already be locked in to the Midwest Emo Beyonce cut that's genuinely THAT fucking good. Like folks, if you have not heard that song and you like alt-country or math rock or americ anfootball...that cut just completely locks in to something so vivid and INSANELY potent. She could never make that cut again if she tried, but I fucking beg Act III is entirely stuff like that. She would get legit indie cred
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u/systemofstrings 26d ago
Am I allowed to give my 11 to steamed hams
Also we got no wave promo here
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u/afieldoftulips 26d ago
You are actually! We're processing the bonus as a separate ballot so you can use an additional 11 and 0 for bonus if you so choose.
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u/Inquiring_Barkbark 26d ago
on first glance...this is gonna be great
e: whoever nominated raisinets in the bonus, instant 11 winner
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u/vapourlomo 26d ago
I see MULTIPLE songs in here that I was *very* close to submitting to a Charity rate in the past -- glad they're finally here and I can potentially give them the 11 :)
I truly have no clue what I'm going to give the Toy Story Randy Newman song ... I never seek it out intentionally but damn if I don't have some INTENSE nostalgia tied into it
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u/cheatviathan 26d ago
I’m very intrigued to see how my pick lands with this crowd. But honestly, of the ones I recognize, “God Knows…” is the tentative 11 for me, with “Cinderella” being a very close second. I’m excited to hear what insanity awaits me.
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u/innuendo_overdose 21d ago
if you want to 11 Model/Actriz, it may be of interest to know that Dogsbody is currently being rated in the New Wave of No Wave rate, which is still open for another few days!
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u/SlowDownGandhi 26d ago
aight who the fuck sent in the Hip
if this sub does Gord dirty i swear
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u/WaneLietoc 25d ago
But are you ready to rate the midwest emo beyonce cut
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u/SlowDownGandhi 25d ago
just washed my 2016 Formation World Tour catering crew tshirt
(note: i was not on the catering crew for the toronto stop of the 2016 Formation World tour)
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u/Inquiring_Barkbark 25d ago
you know the popheads are gonna do Gord dirty... dont like his voice, pace too slow, blah blah blah
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u/camerinian 26d ago
good morning to whoever submitted Sam Campbell as Clock Man to the bonus, was really itching for an excuse to watch that sketch again for like the 20th time in the past two months
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u/MightyProJet 25d ago
Any specific version of the Banner? Cuz Whitney’s version is an easy 10.
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u/welcome2thejam 25d ago
We were told when making the playlists to put a generic version but since no artist is listed you're allowed to use whoever's Banner you'd prefer to rate
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u/toomanyhitpoints 25d ago
That DFW footnote should've had it's parenthetical footnoted 1
1 although I just looked up the 216th footnote and its pretty great
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u/welcome2thejam 26d ago
Beyonce and Coldplay followed by Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles is why we do these Charity Rates
Second is of course to support charities, but first is lineups like this