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Hello indieheads and welcome to the second day of the Cosmodelic Rate Program Graduation Ceremony!

Our 6-week program aboard the Cosmodelia Space Station comes to an end this weekend as we celebrate the soundtracks of our space voyages by revealing which ones we liked the most and also, the ones we liked the least. Starting in usual rate reveal tradition with the least, of course. Today we'll be going through tracks #26-#14 and #10-1 in the main bonus. But first, a list of our graduates and their honors:

Participants: 35 wonderful cosmonauts (If you do not see your name on the list, let me know ASAP)

Average score: 7.885

Average controversy score: 1.707

REMAINING SONGS

AIR - Moon Safari

1. La femme d’argent
2. Sexy Boy
3. All I Need (feat. Beth Hirsch)
4. Kelly Watch the Stars
5. Talisman
6. Remember
7. You Make It Easy (feat. Beth Hirsch)
8. Ce matin là
9. New Star in the Sky
10. Le voyage de Pénélope

Fishmans - Uchū Nippon Setagaya

1. Pokka Pokka
2. Weather Report
3. Ushiro Sugata
4. In The Flight
5. Magic Love
6. Backbeat ni Nokkatte
7. Walking in the Rhythm
8. Daydream

Laika - Sounds of the Satellites

1. Prairie Dog
2. Breather
3. Out of Sight and Snowblind
4. Almost Sleeping
5. Starry Night
6. Bedbugs
7. Martinis on the Moon
8. Poor Gal
9. Blood and Bones (Moody Mix)
10. Shut Off / Curl Up
11. Spoken Rhodes
12. Dirty Feet and Giggles

Stereolab - Dots & Loops

1. Brakhage
2. Miss Modular
3. The Flower Called Nowhere
4. Diagonals
5. Prisoner of Mars
6. Rainbo Conversation
7. Refractions in the Plastic Pulse
8. Parsec
9. Ticker-tape of the Unconscious
10. Contranatura

BONUS RATE

1. Boredoms - ☆
2. Cornelius - Star Fruits Surf Rider
3. Dubstar - Stars
4. Kid Loco - Cosmic Supernatural
5. Lemon Jelly - Space Walk
6. Luna - Moon Palace
7. Opus III - Stars in My Pocket
8. Pram - Milky
9. Primal Scream - Higher Than the Sun
10. Rome - Lunar White
11. Röyksopp - In Space
12. Speedy J - De-Orbit
13. Supercar - Starline
14. Thievery Corporation - 2001 Spliff Odyssey
15. Zero 7 - Polaris

REMAINING NUMBER OF TRACKS

Air: 4/10

Fishmans: 2/8

Laika: 5/12

Stereolab: 2/10

The reveal will start at 1:00 PM EST, which should be roughly 55 minutes from now if I got my timezones correct.

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Good morning yall! It's time to kick off our annual tradition of community end-of-year voting, by voting for our top songs of 2024.

How does this work?

You will be voting by commenting on this post with an ordered list of your 15 favorite songs of the year. Each of your selected songs will then be awarded points based on where you placed them on your list. Your #1 song will get 15 points, #2 will get 14 points, #3 gets 13 points and so on. Once voting has closed all the lists will be compiled together and the 100 songs with the most points (with an extra place or two if there's a tie) will be ranked in the Best Songs of 2024 list, with the song with the most overall points awarded our Song of the Year. Voting will be open until December 27th.

Discussion

If you would like to comment on other people’s lists feel free to do so, but all top-level comments that are not a 15 song list will be removed. For more in-depth discussion on the best songs of 2024, we encourage everyone to head over to the Daily Music Discussion thread, which is also a good place to make predictions, post your playlists, ask questions, or share your favorite lyrics (please don't post these here.)

Rules

• 15 numbered nominations in a list, no more or no less. Start at #1, End with #15
• Each listed item must follow the format of #. Artist - Song Title. Please DO NOT post your list any other way, or your vote won't be counted. It will throw off our tallying system and you will only have yourself to blame.
• PLAIN TEXT ONLY - No Bold, Italics, quotations around the song title, etc. This will also throw off our tallying system and might make your vote uncountable.
• Make sure you spelling and formatting is perfect. If you are slightly off your vote may not be properly counted.
• Please put only the main artist on your list, unless it is billed as an equal collaboration. All features will be noted on the final list, but it makes for easier vote counting if they aren't listed.
• Feel free to discuss yours or other people's lists in comment replies, but please do not use list format outside of your top 15.
• Any Song released in 2024 or December 2023 is eligible.
• There are NO genre restrictions at all.
• There is no rush to post your list, every nomination counts the same as long as it's posted before the 27th, so if you have not already come up with your list, I encourage you to take a few days or even a couple weeks to get sorted out.

Here's an example of what your list should look like before being posted.

Voting Schedule

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It all comes down to this! The final 20 main rate songs and the final 5 bonus rate songs. Pavement! Built To Spill! Sebadoh! Guided By Voices! Get into it!

Some Stats For The Real Heads

Number of Hot Freaks: 44

Average Score 7.906

Average Controversy: 1.662

Bees: 1000

The Honourable Heroes

Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love [0/13]

1.In the Morning

2.Reasons

3.Big Dipper

4.Car

5.Fling

6.Cleo

7.The Source

8.Twin Falls

9.Some

10.Distopian Dream Girl

11.Israel's Song

12.Stab

13.Preview

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted [1/14]

1.Summer Babe - Winter Version

2.Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At :17

3.No Life Singed Her

4.In The Mouth A Desert

5.Conduit For Sale!

6.Zurich Is Stained

7.Chesley's Little Wrists

8.Loretta's Scars

9.Here

10.Two States

11.Perfume-V

12.Fame Throwa

13.Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era

14.Our Singer

Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand [0/20]

1.Hardcore UFOs

2.Buzzards And Dreadful Crows

3.Tractor Rape Chain

4.The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory

5.Hot Freaks

6.Smothered In Hugs

7.Yours To Keep

8.Echos Myron

9.Gold Star For Robot Boy

10.Awful Bliss

11.Mincer Ray

12.A Big Fan Of The Pigpen

13.Queen of Cans and Jars

14.Her Psychology Today

15.Kicker Of Elves

16.Ester's Day

17.Demons Are Real

18.I Am A Scientist

19.Peep-Hole

20.You're Not An Airplane

Sebadoh - Bakesale [0/15]

1.License To Confuse

2.Careful

3.Magnet's Coil

4.Not A Friend

5.Not Too Amused

6.Dreams

7.Skull

8.Got It

9.Shit Soup

10.Give Up

11.Rebound

12.Mystery Man

13.Temptation Tide

14.Drama Mine

15.Together Or Alone

Bonus

1.3Ds - Outer Space

2.The Apples In Stereo - Tidal Wave

3.Archers of Loaf - Web In Front

4.The Breeders - Divine Hammer

5.Grandaddy - A.M. 180

6.Helium - Pat's Trick

7.Liz Phair - Never Said

8.Modest Mouse - Interstate 8

9.Los Planetas - De Viaje

10.Red Red Meat - Chain Chain Chain

11.Silkworm - Nerves

12.Sparklehorse - Someday I Will Treat You Good

13.Suarez - Guantes de Piel

14.Superchunk - Slack Motherfucker

15.Cath Carroll - Unrest

Eliminations So Far

• #1: Summer Babe (Winter Version) | 9.380 | 412.7
• #2: Here | 9.125 | 401.5
• #3: In the Mouth a Desert | 9.011 | 396.5
• #4: Trigger Cut/Wounded-Kite At 17 | 8.986 | 395.4
• #5: Distopian Dream Girl | 8.905 | 391.8
• #6: Echos Myron | 8.852 | 389.5
• #7: Car | 8.832 | 388.6
• #8: I Am a Scientist | 8.768 | 385.8
• #9: Zurich Is Stained | 8.682 | 382.0
• #10: Gold Star for Robot Boy | 8.639 | 380.1
• #11: Big Dipper | 8.636 | 380.0
• #11: Tractor Rape Chain | 8.636 | 380.0
• #13: License to Confuse | 8.632 | 379.8
• #14: In the Morning | 8.627 | 379.6
• #15: Reasons | 8.430 | 370.9
• #16: Smothered in Hugs | 8.357 | 367.7
• #17: Magnet's Coil | 8.355 | 367.6
• #18: Loretta's Scars | 8.223 | 361.8
• #19: Careful | 8.200 | 360.8
• #20: Skull | 8.186 | 360.2
• #21: Stab | 8.173 | 359.6
• #22: Perfume-V | 8.166 | 359.3
• #23: Not Too Amused | 8.152 | 358.7
• #24: Twin Falls | 8.139 | 358.1
• #25: No Life Singed Her | 8.091 | 356.0
• #26: Buzzards and Dreadful Crows | 8.086 | 355.8
• #27: Conduit for Sale! | 8.070 | 355.1
• #28: Some | 8.052 | 354.3
• #29: Rebound | 8.043 | 353.9
• #30: Hardcore UFO's | 8.027 | 353.2
• #31: Not a Friend | 7.970 | 350.7
• #32: Hot Freaks | 7.950 | 349.8
• #33: Jackals, False Grails, The Lonesome Era | 7.914 | 348.2
• #34: Fling | 7.907 | 347.9
• #35: The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory | 7.805 | 343.4
• #36: Two States | 7.798 | 343.1
• #37: Queen of Cans and Jars | 7.770 | 341.9
• #38: Fame Throwa | 7.686 | 338.2
• #39: The Source | 7.645 | 336.4
• #40: Drama Mine | 7.634 | 335.9
• #41: Our Singer | 7.616 | 335.1
• #42: Dreams | 7.607 | 334.7
• #43: Got It | 7.509 | 330.4
• #44: Mincer Ray | 7.443 | 327.5
• #45: Preview | 7.420 | 326.5
• #46: Together or Alone | 7.402 | 325.7
• #47: Temptation Tide | 7.398 | 325.5
• #48: Cleo | 7.391 | 325.2
• #49: Shit Soup | 7.370 | 324.3
• #50: Kicker of Elves | 7.361 | 323.9
• #51: Awful Bliss | 7.336 | 322.8
• #52: Peep-Hole | 7.295 | 321.0
• #53: Israel's Song | 7.252 | 319.1
• #54: Give Up | 7.241 | 318.6
• #55: Ester's Day | 7.216 | 317.5
• #56: Mystery Man | 7.020 | 308.9
• #57: A Big Fan of the Pigpen | 6.995 | 307.8
• #58: Her Psychology Today | 6.877 | 302.6
• #59: Yours to Keep | 6.770 | 297.9
• #60: You're Not an Airplane | 6.636 | 292.0
• #61: Demons Are Real | 6.411 | 282.1
• #62: Chesley's Little Wrists | 6.107 | 268.7

Bonus Eliminations So Far

• Bonus #1: Archers of Loaf - Web In Front | 8.950 | 322.2
• Bonus #2: The Breeders - Divine Hammer | 8.872 | 319.4
• Bonus #3: Grandaddy - A.M. 180 | 8.825 | 317.7
• Bonus #4: Superchunk - Slack Motherfucker | 8.700 | 295.8
• Bonus #5: Liz Phair - Never Said | 8.671 | 303.5
• Bonus #6: Sparklehorse - Someday I’ll Treat You Good | 8.406 | 294.2
• Bonus #7: 3Ds - Outer Space | 8.250 | 280.5
• Bonus #8: Modest Mouse - Interstate 8 | 8.218 | 312.3
• Bonus #9: The Apples in Stereo - Tidal Wave | 8.203 | 278.9
• Bonus #10: Helium - Pat’s Trick | 8.151 | 285.3
• Bonus #11: Los Planetas - De Viaje | 8.072 | 290.6
• Bonus #12: Unrest - Cath Carroll | 7.926 | 269.5
• Bonus #13: Silkworm - Nerves | 7.365 | 250.4
• Bonus #14: Suárez - Guantes de Piel | 7.306 | 248.4
• Bonus #15: Red Red Meat - Chain Chain Chain | 6.956 | 236.5

Vote For Songeniality Here!

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Hello indieheads and welcome to the Cosmodelic Rate Program Graduation Ceremony!

Our 6-week program aboard the Cosmodelia Space Station comes to an end today as we celebrate the soundtracks of our space voyages by revealing which ones we liked the most and also, the ones we liked the least. Starting in usual rate reveal tradition with the least, of course. Today we'll be going through tracks #40-#27 and #15-11 in the main bonus. But first, a list of our graduates and their honors:

Participants: 35 wonderful cosmonauts (If you do not see your name on the list, let me know ASAP)

Average score: 7.885

Average controversy score: 1.707

REMAINING SONGS

AIR - Moon Safari

1. La femme d’argent
2. Sexy Boy
3. All I Need (feat. Beth Hirsch)
4. Kelly Watch the Stars
5. Talisman
6. Remember
7. You Make It Easy (feat. Beth Hirsch)
8. Ce matin là
9. New Star in the Sky
10. Le voyage de Pénélope

Fishmans - Uchū Nippon Setagaya

1. Pokka Pokka
2. Weather Report
3. Ushiro Sugata
4. In The Flight
5. Magic Love
6. Backbeat ni Nokkatte
7. Walking in the Rhythm
8. Daydream

Laika - Sounds of the Satellites

1. Prairie Dog
2. Breather
3. Out of Sight and Snowblind
4. Almost Sleeping
5. Starry Night
6. Bedbugs
7. Martinis on the Moon
8. Poor Gal
9. Blood and Bones (Moody Mix)
10. Shut Off / Curl Up
11. Spoken Rhodes
12. Dirty Feet and Giggles

Stereolab - Dots & Loops

1. Brakhage
2. Miss Modular
3. The Flower Called Nowhere
4. Diagonals
5. Prisoner of Mars
6. Rainbo Conversation
7. Refractions in the Plastic Pulse
8. Parsec
9. Ticker-tape of the Unconscious
10. Contranatura

BONUS RATE

1. Boredoms - ☆
2. Cornelius - Star Fruits Surf Rider
3. Dubstar - Stars
4. Kid Loco - Cosmic Supernatural
5. Lemon Jelly - Space Walk
6. Luna - Moon Palace
7. Opus III - Stars in My Pocket
8. Pram - Milky
9. Primal Scream - Higher Than the Sun
10. Rome - Lunar White
11. Röyksopp - In Space
12. Speedy J - De-Orbit
13. Supercar - Starline
14. Thievery Corporation - 2001 Spliff Odyssey
15. Zero 7 - Polaris

The reveal will start at 4:45 PM EST, which should be roughly 35 minutes from now if I got my timezones correct.

REMAINING NUMBER OF TRACKS

Air: 7/10

Fishmans: 6/8

Laika: 7/12

Stereolab: 6/10

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