You guys hear about that?

Firstly, hey y'all let's celebrate 2.25 years of this shit!!! I love doing this and thanks for coming out to one (if not up to 5) of these excursions. It's kept the fire going and kept us occupied in letting rates go to some different places.

Anyways, Ambient Head 6 is here, its the Plunderphonics One. It's due probably after Thanksgiving sometime around 12/16.

The Album are:

• Negativland - Helter Stupid (2 Side Long Pieces to Ponder To, 47:26)

• DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like? (4 tracks as a 32 minute 1 piece suite, 32:30 of the rapture)

• The Books - Thought for Food (12 aleatoric cuts threading the needle, 38:31)

• The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (10 primo kompakt techno bangerz over a luxuriant 65:41)

• Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica (10 dispatches from the deep recesses of collective memory, 40:54)

A small bonus, that furthers a few threads, is comprised of the following 5 cuts

• Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel:

• Grandmixer D.ST. - Megamix II (Why is it Fresh?):

• Double Dee & Steinski - Lesson 3 (History of Hip Hop):

• John Oswald - Dab:

• sunsetcorp - END OF LIFE ENTERTAINMENT SCENARIO 1:

The Main Spotify Mix is Here

The Bonus...Also Here! (Youtube Recommended though!)

You can grab the PASTEBIN of a ballot here

The old reddit ballot link...if it still works

okay that's that! watch this space...more updates +news + bios, etc to follow

Welcome one and all TO THE ROCK SHOW!

THE 90s WOMEN WHO ROCK SHOW THAT IS!

Today for day 1, we'll be revealing our first 18, going from 53-35 & the first 3 of the bonus, from 10-8. Lotta Numbers, Lotta Backstabs, Lotta Rocking!

Rate Starts at 4 EST (in 2hrs time from this post!)

JOIN STEEL AND COMPANY AT THE STEEL CINEMA! THE BEST NICKELODEON IN ALL OF r/POPHEADS!

STATS

Number of participants: 63 Folks READY to ROCK!

Average score: 7.964

Average controversy score: 1.644

RESULTS

ALBUMS AND TRACKS REMAINING

Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville

1. 6'1"

2. Help Me Mary

3. Glory

4. Dance of the Seven Veils

5. Never Said

6. Soap Star Joe

7. Explain It to Me

8. Canary

9. Mesmerizing

10. Fuck and Run

11. Girls! Girls! Girls!

12. Divorce Song

13. Shatter

14. Flower

15. Johnny Sunshine

16. Gunshy

17. Stratford-On-Guy

18. Strange Loop

Hole - Live Through This

1. Violet

2. Miss World

3. Plump

4. Asking For It

5. Jennifer's Body

6. Doll Parts

7. Credit In The Straight World

8. Softer, Softest

9. She Walks On Me

10. I Think That I Would Die

11. Gutless

12. Rock Star

PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love

1. To Bring You My Love

2. Meet Ze Monsta

3. Working For The Man

4. C'mon Billy

5. Teclo

6. Long Snake Moan

7. Down By The Water

8. I Think I'm A Mother

9. Send His Love To Me:

10. The Dancer:

Garbage - Garbage

1. Supervixen

2. Queer

3. Only Happy When It Rains

4. As Heaven Is Wide

5. Not My Idea

6. A Stroke of Luck

7. Vow

8. Stupid Girl

9. Dog New Tricks

10. My Lover's Box

11. Fix Me Now

12. Milk

13. No. 1 Crush

BONUS TRACKS

1. Belly - Feed the Tree

2. Cibo Matto Birthday Cake

3. Chinese Burn

4. Connection

5. Naked Eye

6. Angry Johnny

7. Ready to Go

8. Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good)

9. Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

10. Veruca Salt - Seether

Once again, another friendly queup link to the Steel Cinema!

Welcome to the 2 day event of the SPRING! Ambient Head 5! A long time coming, and easily one that's had the biggest shake-ups within the past 3 days!

4 albums & 3 bonus cuts enter...perhaps one, maybe TWO will be leaving

IS Tortoise primed to take us to an explosive climax? Or are we blissing off into space with Nala!?

CAN the zopf suite unite the five boroughs and camp classic it's way into our heart?! Or is the Penguin Cafe too much of a fake?!

AND JUST HOW DOES COLIN PLAY THAT SAX Y'ALL!??!

Well let's find out:

SCHEDULE: ONE POST HERE FOR THE ENTIRE RATE!

3/31 - 39-20 no chaff, no frills, just classic

4/1 19-1 (+ Bonuses)

Albums

• Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music From the Penguin Cafe: 3/5 (go ZOPF GO!)

• Tortoise - TNT: 6/12

• Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol 2: Judges: 0/14 (FLOPPED BIGLY)

• Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8: 5/8

Bonus (revealing on 4/1)

• Pat Metheny - As Wichita Falls So Falls Wichita Falls
• Cole Pulice - If I Don't See You in the Future, I'll See You in the Pasture
• Mattie Barbier - This Is What People Think Mountains Look Like

Results

• #1: TNT | 9.242 | 305.0
• #2: Space 8 | 9.136 | 301.5
• #3: Space 6 | 9.024 | 297.8
• #4: I Set My Face to the Hillside | 8.924 | 294.5
• #5: The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and It Doesn't Matter | 8.818 | 291.0
• #6: Jetty | 8.803 | 290.5
• #7: Ten-Day Interval | 8.797 | 290.3
• #8: Swung From the Gutters | 8.748 | 288.7
• #9: Space 4 | 8.688 | 286.7
• #10: Judges | 8.561 | 282.5
• #11: The Suspension Bridge At Iguazú Falls | 8.552 | 282.2
• #12: In Sarah, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Women And Men | 8.506 | 280.7
• #12: Chartered Flight | 8.506 | 280.7
• #14: Space 2 | 8.458 | 279.1
• #15: Everglade | 8.448 | 278.8
• #16: Lord I just can't keep from crying sometimes | 8.364 | 276.0
• #17: Space 3 | 8.294 | 273.7
• #18: Space 5 | 8.233 | 271.7
• #19: The stars in his head (Dark Lights Remix) | 8.182 | 270.0
• #20: Red Horse (Judges II) | 8.133 | 268.4
• #21: From no part of me could I summon a voice | 8.085 | 266.8
• #22: Space 1 | 8.055 | 265.8
• #23: Penguin Cafe Single | 8.024 | 264.8
• #24: The righteous wrath of an honorable man | 8.009 | 264.3
• #25: The Equator | 7.967 | 262.9
• #26: A dream of water | 7.915 | 261.2
• #27: Fear of the unknown and The Blazing Sun | 7.839 | 258.7
• #28: All the days I've missed you (ILAIJ I) | 7.645 | 252.3
• #29: Space 7 | 7.518 | 248.1
• #30: Hugebaby | 7.418 | 244.8
• #31: In love and in justice | 7.391 | 243.9
• #32: A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work | 7.282 | 240.3
• #33: Clothed in the skin of the skin of the dead | 7.258 | 239.5
• #33: Home | 7.258 | 239.5
• #35: Four-Day Interval | 7.188 | 237.2
• #36: Awake on foreign shores | 7.170 | 236.6
• #37: Almost Always Is Nearly Enough | 7.124 | 235.1
• #38: All the colors bleached to white (ILAIJ II) | 6.800 | 224.4
• #39: Zopf (From the Colonies -> Pigtail [the rest of side a]) | 6.679 | 220.4

Bonus Results

• Bonus #1: Pat Metheny - As Wichita Falls So Falls Wichita Falls | 9.000 | 216.0
• Bonus #2: Cole Pulice - If I Don't See You in the Future, I'll See You in the Pasture | 8.536 | 187.8
• Bonus #3: Mattie Barbier - This Is What People Think Mountains Look Like | 7.829 | 164.4

Secret Secret Results!

• #1: Glorb - EUGENE | 8.647 | 147.0

• #2: The History of The Giant Steps Any% Speedrun | 8.582 | 145.9

• #3: RXK Nephew - Tory Lanez Should’ve Shot His Barbershop Up | 7.018 | 119.3

• #4: Shadowfax - Oriental Eyes | 7.000 | 119.0

• Bonus #1: tadevos' essential idea and execution of tad's essential dmd post, 'is bcnr jazz?' | 9.857 | 138.0

• Bonus #2: Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came | 8.867 | 133.0

• Bonus #3: Keith Jarrett, articulating stank face, 70s edition | 8.800 | 132.0

• Bonus #4: Steve Tibbetts holding an acoustic guitar like he holds a sack of potatoes | 8.625 | 138.0

• Bonus #5: Arvo Pärt, holy minimalist looking dapper | 8.000 | 128.0

• Bonus #6: Steve Reich, telling you the worst dad joke you've heard | 7.862 | 125.8

• Bonus #7: Meredith Monk, with dreads, in Volcano Song | 7.856 | 125.7

• Bonus #8: That image of pat metheny that looks like he's gon bust a nut/transcend | 7.806 | 124.9

• Bonus #9: David Torn, giving stock music photo guy vibe | 7.667 | 115.0

• Bonus #10: Eberhard Weber with a quote i can't verify | 7.563 | 121.0

• Bonus #11: Terje Rypdal, looking despondent | 7.325 | 117.2

• Bonus #12: Mark Isham, in a tux, not ready for primetime | 6.667 | 100.0

Number of participants: 33 (Old Faces Return! New Faces Hello!)

Average score: 8.078 (this is down 0.049 points! y'all!!!!)

Average controversy score: 1.730 (this is 0.074 LESS than last time, we're plateau'ing!)~~

thanks 2 my mainstream rock besties

THE RATE WILL BEGIN AT 10:30 PST

"Lets get it started. Let's get it started in here."

• Will I.Am

Welcome to the Long Awaited and Delayed Sampler Oriented Debut RATE Reveal!

Perhaps you're one of over 18 lucky individuals (or myself, no. 19) who seceded valuable summer and fall time over to a handful of golden age hip hop classics.

Well, it's time to see just what transpired and exactly how golden that sample-laden age was

Results

• #1: Can I Kick It? | 10.015 | 200.3 (THE ULTIMATE DITTY OF ALL TIME)
• #2: Eye Know | 9.820 | 196.4
• #3: Me Myself and I | 9.725 | 194.5
• #4: I Ain't No Joke | 9.475 | 189.5
• #5: Paid in Full | 9.360 | 187.2
• #6: Bonita Applebum | 9.325 | 186.5
• #7: Say No Go | 9.320 | 186.4
• #8: Footprints | 9.210 | 184.2
• #9: I Left My Wallet in El Segundo | 9.095 | 181.9
• #10: Travelling at the Speed of Thought (Remix) | 9.075 | 181.5
• #11: I Know You Got Soul | 9.060 | 181.2
• #12: Description of a Fool | 9.025 | 180.5
• #13: This Is a Recording 4 Living in a Fulltime Era (L.I.F.E.)/I Can Do Anything (Delacratic) | 8.910 | 178.2
• #14: Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge) | 8.855 | 177.1
• #15: Paid in Full (The Coldcut Seven Minutes of Madness Mix) | 8.850 | 177.0
• #16: Give the Drummer Some | 8.795 | 175.9
• #17: Intro/The Magic Number | 8.765 | 175.3
• #18: After Hours | 8.755 | 175.1
• #19: Ghetto Thang/Transmitting Live from Mars | 8.750 | 175.0
• #20: Tread Water | 8.735 | 174.7
• #21: Luck of Lucien | 8.730 | 174.6
• #22: Kool Keith Housing Things | 8.725 | 174.5
• #23: Go Ahead in the Rain | 8.715 | 174.3
• #24: Ham n' Eggs | 8.710 | 174.2
• #25: Rhythm (Devoted to the Art of Moving Butts) | 8.690 | 173.8
• #25: Move the Crowd | 8.690 | 173.8
• #27: Buddy (featuring Jungle Brothers and Q-Tip) | 8.680 | 173.6
• #28: Push it Along | 8.630 | 172.6
• #29: Eric B. Is President | 8.510 | 170.2
• #30: Watch Me Now | 8.480 | 169.6
• #31: Ease Back | 8.475 | 169.5
• #32: Change in Speak | 8.460 | 169.2
• #33: Pubic Enemy | 8.440 | 168.8
• #34: Moe Luv's Theme | 8.395 | 167.9
• #35: As the Rhyme Goes On | 8.325 | 166.5
• #36: Mr. Muhammad | 8.300 | 166.0
• #36: Potholes on My Lawn | 8.300 | 166.0
• #36: Critical Beatdown | 8.300 | 166.0
• #39: Youthful Expression | 8.245 | 164.9
• #40: Plug Tunin' (Last Chance to Comprehend) | 8.230 | 164.6
• #41: Feelin' It | 8.120 | 162.4
• #42: Ain't It Good to You | 8.110 | 162.2
• #43: Break North | 8.055 | 161.1
• #44: When I Burn | 7.975 | 159.5
• #45: Ego Trippin (MCs Ultra Remix) | 7.965 | 159.3
• #46: Ced-Gee (Delta Force One) | 7.940 | 158.8
• #47: D.A.I.S.Y. Age | 7.920 | 158.4
• #48: My Melody | 7.900 | 158.0
• #49: Take it Off/A Little Bit of Soap | 7.675 | 153.5
• #50: Do as De La Does | 7.635 | 152.7
• #51: Funky (Remix) | 7.425 | 148.5
• #52: Cool Breeze on the Rocks/Can You Keep a Secret | 7.345 | 146.9
• #53: Eric. B. Is on the Cut | 7.300 | 146.0
• #54: One Minute Less | 7.070 | 141.4
• #55: Description | 6.960 | 139.2
• #56: Chinese Arithmetic | 5.845 | 116.9

# Paid in Full (0/10)

1) I Ain't No Joke

2) Eric. B. Is on the Cut

3) My Melody

4) I Know You Got Soul

5) Move the Crowd

6) Paid in Full

7) As the Rhyme Goes On

8) Chinese Arithmetic

9) Eric B. Is President

10) Paid in Full (The Coldcut Seven Minutes of Madness Mix)

# Critical Beatdown (0/15)

1) Watch Me Now

2) Ease Back

3) Ego Trippin (MCs Ultra Remix)

4) Moe Luv's Theme

5) Kool Keith Housing Things

6) Travelling at the Speed of Thought (Remix)

7) Feelin' It

8) One Minute Less

9) Ain't It Good to You

10) Funky (Remix)

11) Give the Drummer Some

12) Break North

13) Critical Beatdown

14) When I Burn

~15) Ced-Gee (Delta Force One)~~

# 3 Feet High and Rising (0/17)

1) Intro/The Magic Number

2) Change in Speak

3) Cool Breeze on the Rocks/Can You Keep a Secret

4) Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge)

5) Ghetto Thang/Transmitting Live from Mars

6) Eye Know

7) Take it Off/A Little Bit of Soap

8) Tread Water

9) Potholes on My Lawn

10) Say No Go

11) Do as De La Does

12) Plug Tunin' (Last Chance to Comprehend)

13) Buddy (featuring Jungle Brothers and Q-Tip)

14) Description

15) Me Myself and I

16) This Is a Recording 4 Living in a Fulltime Era (L.I.F.E.)/I Can Do Anything (Delacratic)

17) D.A.I.S.Y. Age

People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1/14)

1) Push it Along

2) Luck of Lucien

3) After Hours

4) Footprints

) I Left My Wallet in El Segundo

6) Pubic Enemy

7) Bonita Applebum

8) Can I Kick It? (SUPREME VICTORY)

9) Youthful Expression

10) Rhythm (Devoted to the Art of Moving Butts)

11) Mr. Muhammad

12) Ham n' Eggs

13) Go Ahead in the Rain

14) Description of a Fool

The classic stats:

Number of quiz show contestants who submitted their De La Soul proof of purchase to Tommy Boy Records: 20

Average score: 8.422

Average controversy score: 1.318

Months delayed: 3

Weclome to the 2 day event of the SUMMER! Ambient Head 4!

4 albums (well really, 3 albums and 2 EPs stitched together without a remix) enter. Only 1 will leave.

WILL the orb conquer the towers of dub and rule us all?! Is Pan Am making a collect call straight into our hearts this Friday!?

CAN Burial groove his way out of the South London Boroughs and straight into the hall of fame?!

DOES ANYONE HAVE A LINE OR TWO THE SEEFEEL BASSIST CAN BUM OFF YOU?! HE'S VERY FRANTIC RN!

Well let's find out:

(7/9 We'll run 32-17 of the main & 16-9 of the bonus today)

(7/10 We'' run 16-1 of the main & 8-1 of the bonus, maybe something else)

ONE POST HERE FOR THE ENTIRE RATE!

Albums

~~* The Orb - U.F.Orb: 4/7 ~~

• Seefeel - Quique: 2/9

* Pan American - Pan•American (Red Album): 0/9

• Burial - South London Boroughs EP + Distant Lights EP: 1/7

Bonus

Public Image Ltd - Socialist

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Inglan is a Bitch

Material - Mantra (Praying Mantis Mix Edit)

Unwound - Sensible

Massive Attack v Mad Professor - Bumper Ball Dub (Karmacoma)

Far-Out Son Of Lung - Cow

Techno Animal - Flight of the Hermaphrodite (ft. Jon Hassell)

Witchman - Offworld (Fire Mix)

Pole - Überfahrt

Pan American - Code (ft. Mimi Parker)

Jan Jelinek - They, Them

Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, The Congos - Happy Song

log(m) & Laraaji - Oregano in Dub Minor

MJ Guider - Viñales

Joe Rainey - No Chants

Strategy - Fountain of Youth

Results

• #7: Blue Room | 8.738 | 253.4
• #8: Filter Dub | 8.676 | 251.6
• #9: Close Encounters | 8.621 | 250.0
• #10: Starts Friday | 8.593 | 249.2
• #11: Southern Comfort | 8.493 | 246.3
• #12: Lent | 8.445 | 244.9
• #13: Climatic Phase #3 | 8.403 | 243.7
• #14: O.O.B.E. | 8.366 | 242.6
• #15: The Dark Nest | 8.317 | 241.2
• #16: Lake Supplies | 8.293 | 240.5
• #17: Polyfusion | 8.179 | 237.2
• #18: Remapping | 8.103 | 235.0
• #19: Distant Lights | 8.000 | 232.0
• #20: Through You | 7.907 | 229.3
• #21: Charlotte's Mouth | 7.841 | 227.4
• #22: Noun | 7.807 | 226.4
• #23: Tract | 7.783 | 225.7
• #24: Broken Home | 7.628 | 221.2
• #25: First Position | 7.617 | 220.9
• #26: Pirates | 7.552 | 219.0
• #26: Night Train | 7.552 | 219.0
• #28: Gutted | 7.400 | 214.6
• #29: Imperial | 7.393 | 214.4
• #30: Signals | 7.207 | 209.0
• #31: Part One | 6.676 | 193.6
• #32: Sticky End | 5.810 | 168.5

Bonus Results

• #1: Linton Kwesi Johnson - Inglan is a Bitch | 9.432 | 179.2 (DUB ON LINTON!)
• #2: Sun Araw, M. Geddes Gengras, The Congos - Happy Song | 8.768 | 166.6
• #3: Pan American - Code (ft. Mimi Parker) | 8.589 | 163.2
• #4: Strategy - Fountain of Youth | 8.532 | 162.1
• #5: Witchman - Offworld (Fire Mix) | 8.374 | 159.1
• #6: Far-Out Son Of Lung - Cow | 8.289 | 157.5
• #7: MJ Guider - Viñales | 8.279 | 157.3
• #8: Public Image Ltd - Socialist | 8.242 | 156.6
• #9: Techno Animal - Flight of the Hermaphrodite (ft. Jon Hassell) | 8.153 | 154.9
• #10: Jan Jelinek - They, Them | 8.105 | 154.0
• #11: Joe Rainey - No Chants | 8.074 | 153.4
• #12: log(m) & Laraaji - Oregano in Dub Minor | 8.037 | 152.7
• #13: Massive Attack v Mad Professor - Bumper Ball Dub (Karmacoma) | 7.979 | 151.6
• #14: Pole - Überfahrt | 7.874 | 149.6
• #15: Unwound - Sensible | 7.768 | 147.6
• #16: Material - Mantra (Praying Mantis Mix Edit) | 7.753 | 147.3

Number of participants: 29 (Old & New Faces Return)

Average score: 8.127 (this is .007 more than last time...baby steps)

Average controversy score: 1.804 (this is .068 more than last time, we're continuing to get more irate)

thanks 2 my mainstream rock besties

THE RATE WILL BEGIN AT 9:03-07AM PST

Weclome to the 1 day event of the LATE WINTER START OF SPRING! The Ambi3nt Head 3 Rate Reveal

5 albums (well really, 2 albums, a self made comp, a curiosity, and an EP) enter. Only 1 will leave.

Are the Cure GOTH enough to push their way to a populist victory? Do we all love guitar lessons and Dissonance?!

Can slippy Jimmy escape the allegations?! Will da Fez glitch us straight to summer?! Also who the fuck is Flying Saucer Attack!?

Well let's find out:

Albums

• The Cure - Carnage Visors: 0/1 (FLOPS DIED AT FIFTEENTH PLACE IN A TIE. RIP U SOLID LADS)

• Fennesz - Endless Summer: 0/8 (glorious 3rd place HoF finish with multiple top 10s. a true ambient head favorite.)

• Flying Saucer Attack - Phase One Ambient Melody: 0/9 DONE IN BY ANTI-STARGAZE COALITION FORCE, DIED IN TENTH PLACE VERY SOLID IF I SAY SO MYSELF

• Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 for the Electric Guitar: 0/2 Dissonant results of a most humorous and unruly nature

• Jim O'Rourke - Bad Timing: >!1/4!< VICTORIOUS WINNER OF THE RATE SETTING BASED AMBIENT HEAD RECORD

Bonus

• Pat Metheny - Electric Counterpoint (Fast/Slow/Fast): **GLORIOUS BONUS WINNER

• My Bloody Valentine - Glider (Extended):

• Gastr del Sol - The Wrong Soundings:

• Fennesz - Paint It Black:

• Fennesz - Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder):

• Sonic Youth - Fire Engine Dream:

Results

• #1: 94 The Long Way | 9.492 | 360.7
• #2: Lesson No. 1 For the Electric Guitar | 9.482 | 360.3
• #3: Endless Summer | 9.095 | 345.6
• #4: Happy Trails | 8.792 | 334.1
• #5: Caeccilia | 8.624 | 327.7
• #6: Shisheido | 8.608 | 327.1
• #7: There's Hell in Hello But More In Goodbye | 8.526 | 324.0
• #8: Bad Timing | 8.489 | 322.6
• #8: A Year In A Minute | 8.489 | 322.6
• #10: Feedback Song (Chorus) | 8.384 | 318.6
• #11: Before I Leave | 8.163 | 310.2
• #12: For Silence (Further) | 8.153 | 309.8
• #13: Happy Audio | 8.147 | 309.6
• #14: Distance (Distance) | 7.987 | 303.5
• #15: To The Shore (Further) | 7.976 | 303.1
• #15: Carnage Visors | 7.976 | 303.1
• #17: Oceans (Distance) | 7.958 | 302.4
• #18: There But Not There (Chorus) | 7.829 | 297.5
• #19: Dissonance | 7.555 | 287.1
• #20: Got To Move On | 7.358 | 279.6
• #21: Oceans 2 (Distance) | 7.279 | 276.6
• #22: In The Light Of Time (Further) | 7.258 | 275.8
• #23: Made in Hong Kong | 7.239 | 275.1
• #24: Popol Vuh III (Chorus) | 6.595 | 250.6

Bonus Results

• Bonus #1: Pat Metheny - Electric Counterpoint (Fast/Slow/Fast) | 8.855 | 256.8
• Bonus #2: Fennesz - Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) | 8.052 | 233.5
• Bonus #3: Gastr del Sol - The Wrong Soundings | 7.532 | 210.9
• Bonus #4: Fennesz - Paint It Black | 7.124 | 206.6
• Bonus #5: Sonic Youth - Fire Engine Dream | 6.996 | 195.9
• Bonus #6: My Bloody Valentine - Glider (Extended) | 6.264 | 175.4

!Secret Rate!!<

• !#1: Glenn Branca Live 1979 | 7.981 | 127.7!<

• !#2: My Bloody Valentine Does a Supreme Collab | 7.569 | 121.1!<

• !#3: The Best of Ed O' Brien (Radiohead) | 7.044 | 112.7!<

• !#4: Bark At The Moon 100% FC Guitar Hero Smash Hits (GuitarHeroFailure) | 7.031 | 112.5!<

Number of participants: 38 (WOW WE WENT BIG! THANK YOU TO 37 INTERNET STRANGERS)

Average score: 8.120 (WE BROKE THE 8.0 RATE GAP FINALLY! NOW TO GET AN 8.3)

Average controversy score: 1.736 (this is .25 more than last time!)

thanks 2 my mainstream rock besties

THE RATE WILL BEGIN AT 11AM PST

due to the reddit outage we are resuming at 9 AM PST. apologies for the delay

we have finished the rate! see you in spring for ambient head 4 <3

Weclome to the 1 day event of the post Thanksgiving weekend! The Ambient Head 2: the Plateaux of Posting Rate Reveal!

4 albums (comprised of 18 tracks) enter. Only 1 will leave.

WILL Pauline sing like a horse from a cloud?! Can Beverly take us all the way to Sunset village?

Are David Behrman and Kim-1 equipped to direct me to the other ocean?! And just what's the deal with Jon Hassell's thing for bees?!

Well let's find out:

Albums

• Accordion & Voice: >!0/2!< COULD ONLY GET TO 15TH PLACE #ITALIANO DISCRIMINATION?!

• Dream Theory in Malaya: >!0/8!< VICIOUSLY BULLIED UNTIL IT TAPPED OUT IN 9TH PLACE! HASSELL WHEEPS

• Keyboard Fantasies: >!0/6!< shot down in a vicious 3 way tie

• On the Other Ocean: >!1/2!< grasping and clawing its way to the pearly gates of a fake hall of fame in another ocean

Results

• #1: On the Other Ocean | 9.008 | 234.2

• #2: Sunset Village | 8.954 | 232.8

• #3: Old Melody | 8.608 | 223.8

• #3: Slow Dance | 8.608 | 223.8

• #3: Ever New | 8.608 | 223.8

• #6: Winter Astral | 8.427 | 219.1

• #7: Let Us Dance | 8.362 | 217.4

• #8: Figure in a Clearing | 8.177 | 212.6

• #9: Gift of Fire | 8.135 | 211.5

• #10: Dream Theory | 8.019 | 208.5

• #11: Courage | 7.688 | 199.9

• #12: Ordinary Mind (Bonus Ditty) | 7.385 | 192.0

• #13: Malay | 7.300 | 189.8

• #14: Datu Bintug at Jelong | 7.269 | 189.0

• #15: Rattlesnake Mountain | 7.185 | 186.8

• #16: These Times... | 7.004 | 182.1

• #17: Horse Sings From Cloud | 6.862 | 178.4

• #18: Chor Moiré | 6.746 | 175.4

Bonus Claire v. Kali Showdown

• #1: Living Torch II | 9.325 | 223.8

• #2: it feels foolish to care | 8.688 | 208.5

• #3: everything perfect is already here | 8.050 | 193.2

• #4: Living Torch I | 7.971 | 191.3

shh secret deep listening exercise!

• #1: Nike | 9.014 | 126.2

• #2: Champagne Supernova (Slowed and Reverb'd) | 8.143 | 114.0

• #3: The Best of Steven Segal Pt. 1 | 6.793 | 95.1

• #4: Machine Gun Kelly Tells You What is Punk Rock 46;50-48;44 | 4.250 | 59.5

Number of participants: 26 (WE HIT THE SAME NUMBER!)

Average score: 7.906 (BUT WE WENT DOWN .084 POINTS!)

Average controversy score: 1.907 (baby ear theory at work?)

Highest controversy: (2.713) (weaksauce)

Lowest controversy: (1.380)

Most 11s: (5) Sunset Village & On the Other Ocean

Most 0s: (2). Horse Sings From a Cloud

Number of participants: 26

Average score: 7.980 (so close to the elusive 8.0 avg. you tried!)

Average controversy score: 1.490

Highest controversy score: 1.976

thanks 2 my mainstream rock besties

THE RATE WILL BEGIN AT 9AM PST; SORT COMMENTS BY NEW UNTIL WE GET A LOCAL MOD IN HERE!

Weclome to the 1 day event of the summer! The Ambient Head Rate Reveal

4 albums (comprised of 15 tracks) enter. Only 1 will leave.

Is Stars of the Lid gonna take us to the stars?! Will Oval integrate us into the matrix?

Can Keith Fullerton Whitman's digital guitar singlehandedly immunize us from the Novel Coronavirus?! Will the KLF let us board the Train for the MuMu express?!

Well let's find out:

Albums

• Chill Out: >!1/1!< UNDEFEATED MAD LADS. JUSTIFIED AND ANCIENT!

• Per Aspera Ad Astra: >!0/2!< COULDN'T EVEN GET INTO THE TOP TEN. HAS NO CHILL. LOSERS!

• 94Diskont: >!0/7!< DIED IN THIRD PLACE. COMMENDABLE

• Playthroughs: >!0/5!< UNDERDOG HERO!

Bonus Do While Remixes

• Bonus #1: Do While (Mouse on Mars) | 7.624 | 129.6
• Bonus #2: Do While (Scanner) | 7.606 | 129.3
• Bonus #3: Do While (Jim O'Rourke) | 7.465 | 126.9
• Bonus #4: Do While (Christian Vogel) | 7.200 | 122.4

Results

• #4: Modena | 8.500 | 221.0
• #5: Shop in Store | 8.200 | 213.2
• #6: SACGTR SVP | 7.969 | 207.2
• #7: Cross Selling | 7.927 | 206.1
• #8: Line Extension | 7.892 | 205.2
• #10: Store Check | 7.754 | 201.6
• #11: Commerce Server | 7.735 | 201.1
• #12: Fib01a | 7.673 | 199.5
• #13: Anchor States | 7.665 | 199.3
• #14: Track3a (2waynice) | 7.442 | 193.5
• #15: Low Level (Listening)+ | 6.950 | 180.7

Number of participants: 26

Average score: 7.980 (so close to the elusive 8.0 avg. you tried!)

Average controversy score: 1.490

Highest controversy score: 1.976

thanks 2 my mainstream rock besties

THE RATE WILL BEGIN AT 10AM PST; SORT COMMENTS BY NEW UNTIL WE GET A LOCAL MOD IN HERE!

upvote if you agree!

Mine is Topeka 81, but i also love Syracuse 79 and Wichita 75!!