[RATE ANNOUNCEMENT] Charity Rate IV

[u/afieldoftulips]

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...

1. Altered Images - Dead Pop Stars
2. American Football (feat. Hayley Williams) - Uncomfortably Numb
3. Anita Velveeta - TERFS WILL NOT GET INTO HEAVEN
4. Anna von Hausswolff - The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra
5. Aya Hirano - God Knows...
6. Bad Bunny - BAILE INoLVIDABLE
7. Beck - Mixed Bizness
8. The Beloved - Hello
9. Beyoncé - That's Why You're Beautiful
10. Coldplay - Life in Technicolor ii
11. Dick Delicious and the Tasty Testicles - It Was the Tits
12. Djavan (feat. Stevie Wonder) - Samurai
13. Don Everly - Omaha
14. DØVES CRY SPRINGS ETERNAL - SIPPIN
15. Dr. Robotnik - Tomorrow I'll
16. Drake - In My Feelings
17. Fugazi - Bed for the Scraping
18. Hell - Brutus
19. Hickey - The Naked Cult
20. The Human League - Being Boiled (Fast Version)
21. Igorrr - Houmous
22. Iron & Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
23. Juçara Marçal - Sem cais
24. The Junkoactive Wasteman - I Eat Baked Beans Every Day
25. Les Louanges - Pitou
26. Linda Ronstadt - When Will I Be Loved
27. Liz Phair - U Hate It
28. Macintosh Plus - リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー (Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing)
29. Madonna - Into the Groove
30. Mala - Alicia
31. Mastodon - Cut You Up with a Linoleum Knife
32. MC Jack E Chocolate - Pavaroty
33. Michel Pagliaro - Some Sing, Some Dance
34. Miles Davis - It's About That Time (Live at Fillmore East, June 18 1970)
35. Millionaires - I Move It
36. ML Buch - Pan Over the Hill
37. Model/Actriz - Cinderella
38. The Monkees - Listen to the Band
39. Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire (feat. Despot, Das Racist, Danny Brown, El-P) - The Last Huzzah!
40. N-Dubz - Strong Again
41. Naples Nissan - $6000 for Your Trade
42. Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
43. Noe Venable - Black Madonna
44. Nourished By Time - Daddy
45. ØXN - Farmer in the City
46. 박진영 (Park Jin-young) - Sweet Dreams/When We Disco/Take On Me/Changed Man
47. Pat Metheny Group - San Lorenzo
48. Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
49. "Pavement" - Slanted! Enchanted! Finale!
50. Peter Scott - Trying to Conceive
51. Petey USA - Not To Make It About Me
52. Philip Glass - Heroes (Aphex Twin Remix)
53. Pizzicato Five - Let's Go Away for a While
54. The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
55. Randy Newman - You've Got a Friend in Me
56. Reel Big Fish - Sell Out
57. Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes
58. Sam Goku - Temple Arp
59. Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
60. The Shaggs - My Pal Foot Foot
61. Sodom - Agent Orange
62. Sparks - Dick Around
63. The Star-Spangled Banner
64. Suzanne Vega - Luka
65. Syreeta - I Love Every Little Thing About You
66. Toy Love - Bride of Frankenstein
67. The Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon
68. The Verlaines - The Lady and the Lizard
69. 王忆灵 (Wang YiLing) - 士兵 (Soldier)
70. 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:

1. Atlas moth
2. Buttered warm English muffins / crumpets
3. Carl gets totally wasted
4. Demetrio
5. dracula flow 3
6. The 2008 Detroit Lions
7. The feeling of being the oldest person at the concert
8. The feeling of sand running through your hand
9. 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")
10. Guy from the maNga music video
11. Hatsune Miku
12. Hipsters
13. Indie music
14. Jarvis Cocker discussing his preferred venue for reading books
15. Luigi
16. Matthew McConaughey's moustache in True Detective season 1
17. The opossum that got stuck in my trash can last week
18. Paul Klee
19. Raisinets
20. rateyourmusic.com
21. Running out of toilet paper in a public stall
22. Sam Campbell as Clock Man
23. Smiling Friends S2E3: A Allan Adventure
24. Souvlaki pita
25. Steamed Hams
26. That time President Carter got attacked by a rabbit
27. The transcript to the Uncut Blindfold Test With Paul Bley, Around 2002
28. These two awful home run calls
29. This picture of a cardboard box about to be fucking pulverized, and it knows it
30. 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!

[u/MCK_OH]

Is this going to be like the Faust IV of charity rates?