Charity Rate IV

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8485 - hangar: 8 Future soundtrack to the third act downer montage before the climax of a teen coming-of-age movie

Amerie - 1 Thing: 9 Love the bridge and how much the tracks evolves afterwards

Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains): 10 Damn lucky I love Arcade Fire, cause starting off with "they heard me singing and they told me to stop" is asking to get roasted

Aurora - The River: 6 Odd, I can see the version of myself that adores this and its "shout this out its cathartic" potential, but I'm tired at 1am and its just not hitting

Avril Lavigne - What The Hell: 3

Bananarama - Venus: 7 Left my legs feeling silky smooth!

Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You: 10 Pitchfork will get what they deserve one day

Blumchen - Herz a Herz: 5

Christine Baranski - Does Your Mother Know: 7

Citi Zeni - Eat Your Salad: 9 This feels like a parody of a parody of a Lonely Island parody of Eurovision songs

Coil - Things Happen: 7 This song sounds like it will be responsible for my death

Confidence Man - First Class Bitch: 9 Genuinely impossible not to try imitating the "~First Class~" voice on every listen

Crying - There Was A Door: 9 Bubblegrunge 🤝 Charity: Rating Crying

Dane Rumble - Cruel: 5 Hey mf thats a rap verse, I'm calling the RIAA

Dolly Parton - Jolene: 10 Kind of a perfect song tbh

Drake - Passionfruit: 10 When Drake's on, he's on. Maybe the ultimate "vibes 🌊 🌊 🌊" song

Duran Duran - Girls On Film: 7 Hey don't pull Dolly by the hair, awful to see charity pick-on-pick violence

Eri Nobuchika - Voice - Album Mix: 8 What a fantastic first drop

Evanescence - Call Me When You're Sober: 6 Even grew up when this band got big, but doing the k-pop rates rewired my brain so much that my first reaction was "oh hey, proto-Dreamcatcher"

Ex Vivian - Microscopes and Cobwebs: 5 Puts the "lo" in lo-fi

Fefe Dobson - Ghost: 7

Fetty Wap - 679 (feat. Remy Boyz): 8 Missed the meteoric rise & fall of Fetty Wap, but I get the appeal from this

Flossie and the Unicorns - The Halloween Puppet Show: 6 I don't wanna talk about it

Foxes - Sister Ray: 10 Didn't really like the album, but this track stuck in my head for sure. That's a gawddamn catchy chorus

Grateful Dead - I Need a Miracle: 7 Grateful Dead: "Wish I had me a MILF, a big goth gf, and a thicc queen rn" Deadheads: "we will follow this band to the ends of the earth"

Hatchie - Stay With Me: 10 Alright, this is killing on a second listen. Angelic, brought down from the heavens type stuff

Hush Sound - Wine Red: 7 Showing my age by saying I instantly recognized this as one of my classmate's MySpace profile songs

Ivete Sangalo - Abalou: 9 Manages to be super smooth yet joyously bouncy

Izeezus - Trust: 6 So which vibes playlist is this one on?

Jasmine Sandlas, Garry Sandhu - Illegal Weapon 2.0: 10 That thunderous clap effect is the true MVP, just levels you at the exact right times

Jane Remover - movies for guys: 7

Javiera Mena - Luz de Piedra de Luna: 8 Drag dropping into my club playlist rn

Jazmine Sullivan - Bust Your Windows: 9 Jazmine and Carrie smashing cheaters' windows like its a Street Fighter bonus stage

Jetty Bones - Nothing: 10 Alright Carly you can stop the act we know its you, you didn't even change the hair color for gods sake

JoJo - Too Little Too Late: 7

Jon Batiste - Freedom: 8 This is a sparkling water commercial

junglepussy - Trader Joe: 8

Kadhja Bonet - Mother Maybe: 10 Fun discovery, sick jams, and love that held note going into an incredible back third. Soothes my ears.

Kinoko Teikoku - Whirepool: 10 Staring at your shoes and slowly shuffling truly transcends the language barrier

Kinoko Teikoku - Sweet Osmanthus Night: 10 Both these songs got me irenenotes-ing like crazy rn

Laura Mvula - Remedy: 10 If you start your song off with "Listen!" you better bring the heat, and fast. Well, it does

Lights - Okay Okay: 8 Eh album, but this was the standout

Lil Texas - Louder: 7 Feels like I'm back at Perry's EDM stage at lollapalooza, watching hundreds of teens in basketball jerseys go absolutely bonkers

LOONA / ODD EYE CIRCLE - LOONATIC: 8 "I am not insane" Rarely a good sign having to clarify that

Luana - Por Ti: 5 Decent pop rock

Lucy Dacus - Night Shift: 10 Hearing this play across the field at Pitchfork Fest while standing in the Jbrekkie waiting room and seeing near everyone around me go apeshit for it made it click

Mashrou Leila - Ashabi: 8 Like his voice & the spacy atmosphere

Mya - My Love Is Like...Wo: 10 My body's like... woe

OSHUN - Crazy 4 You: 8 Starting off with that intro when the song sounds like this is too crazy 4 me. Actually I just got to the ending now I get it and I would like to subscribe to this newsletter

Patti Smith - Gloria (In Excelsis Deo): 8 Kinda grown off me, tbh. Climax still smashes of course

Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away: 8

Powderpaint - Constellation: 8 Pretty great retro bop

Purple Disco Machine - Hypnotized: 5 Pretty okay retro bop

Raffaella Carra - Rumore: 9 Oh wow, lot of fun parts in this

Regina Spektor - Us: 8

Robin S. - Show Me Love: 10 If this was submitted before Break My Soul came out, then I need that user to send me lotto numbers asap

Sara Bareilles - She Used to Be Mine: 9 Used to be one of the rotten ones and I liked you for that / Now you're all gone, got your makeup on and you're not coming back / Can't you come back

Sarah Brand - American Gap Rap: 8 If there were no rate laws against it, I would score this an $æ₩}õ that's how much this song defies numerical valuation

Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin): 7 The 80s: The Song

Selena - Dreaming of You: 8 A lovely ballad

September - Cry for You: 6 It's got one great hook, a decent pounding rhythm, and the singer works well for the track type. Not much else, but what it does have is great.

Sesame Street - Elmo Song: 8 Hot damn Snuffleupagus got bars

Shakespears Sister - Stay: 6

Sobs - Telltale Signs: 10 I'm a simple man. I see an Asian band put out actually fun dream pop that activates the 7/4 Shoreline loving part of my brain that always makes me imagine myself coasting down the highway with the windows down and breathtaking views around every corner, and I submit it to a rate so I can give it a high score. See? Simple. I put this on during a morning flight right when we took off, and maybe it was the two hours of sleep talking, but I def cried a little bit

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor: 10 If I were her wingman, would it make me an accessory to murder?

Tegan & Sara - Closer: 9 Got a weird feeling this is gonna be a big rate villain, but a hook like that deserves a solid spot

The Chainsmokers, breadvelvet - Closer (JPN Version): 10 Needs its own wing in an art museum somewhere where it can be preserved for future generations

The Cure - Just Like Heaven: 11 Eternally blessed to be around for this song to sweep me off my feet

The Kid Laroi - Stay: 7 This is a perfect radio song, in that I've heard this an incredible amount of times and I'm still not angry yet when it comes on, which is definitely a point in its favor.

Tinashe - Superlove: 10 Such a joy that it makes me wanna find someone that makes me feel like this does

Tinashe - The Chase: 8

Vic Mensa - Down on My Luck: 9 Club banger

Virtual Self - Angel Voices: 9 Porter Robinson DDR entry

Vylet Pony - Ursa Major: 7

Xiu Xiu - Girl With Basket Of Fruit: 7 Afraid of being haunted by the FROGHOST if I don't give this a positive score

Yoko Ono - Why: 8 Why is Yoko Ono as hard as it gets

Youha - abittipsy: 9 Potentially might have the best tracklist position in the rate

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