Sinfonia Viva Puns

Hello! Welcome to day one of the HCP rate reveal. Unfortunately due to technical difficulties, u/steelstepladder is unable to attend the reveal today, so I am running both the reddit and the beatsense.

I apologise if this is quite short, this only happened five minutes before the reveal was supposed to happen. You may be aware that the reveal was supposed to happen at 5:00pm EST time, it has been moved to 5:30pm EST to accommodate the writing of the post.

We had a very solid 74 participants! Thank you everyone for submitting, and for dealing with all of the technical difficulties that happened over the course of the rate.

Our average score was 7.846, which is an entirely respectable average, I think. Our average controversy score is 1.698, which means that any song with a controversy score above that is controversial.

Join the beatsense!

These are the songs we’ve rated, and will be determining the fates of today:

Plastic Beach

Orchestral Intro

Welcome to the World of Plastic Beach ft. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Snopp Dogg

White flag ft. Bashy and Kano and the National Orchestra for Arabic Music

Rhinestone Eyes

Stylo ft. Bobby Womack and Mos Def

Superfast Jellyfish ft. Gruff Rhys and De La Soul

Empire Ants ft. Little Dragon

Glitter Freeze ft. Mark E Smith

Some Kind of Nature ft. Lou Reed

On Melancholy Hill

Broken

Sweepstakes ft. Mos Def

Plastic Beach ft. Mick Jones and Paul Simonon

To Binge ft. Little Dragon

Cloud of Unknowing ft. Bobby Womack

Pirate Jet

Age of Adz

Futile Devices

Too Much

Age of Adz

I Walked

Now That I’m Older

Get Real, Get Right

Bad Communication

All for Myself

I Want to Be Well

Impossible Soul

The Archandroid

Suite II Overture

Dance or Die ft. Saul Williams

Faster

Locked Inside

Sir Greendown

Cold War

Tightrope ft. Big Boi

Neon Gumbo

Oh, Maker

Come Alive (War of the Roses)

Mushrooms & Roses

Suite III Overture

Neon Valley Street

Make the Bus ft. Of Montreal

Wondaland

57821 ft. Deep Cotton

Say You’ll Go

BaBopByeYa

We will be eliminating the songs that placed #45 - 31 today!

As well as songs #45 - 31, we will be eliminating the two lowest placed songs from the bonus rate.

The bonus rate songs are:

Gorillaz - Do Ya Thing (Radio Edit)

Gorillaz - Doncamatic ft. Daley

Sufjan Stevens - Where Were You? Ft. Rosie Thomas

Sufjan Stevens - You are the Blood

Janelle Monae - Many Moons

Janelle Monae - T

Let’s get schwifty, Sujwifties!

Kia ora, and welcome to the 2010 High Concept Pop rate. u/steelstepladder and I are very excited to be hosting what is sure to be an exciting and highly competitive rate!

The three albums we will be exploring in these rates are all concept albums, that explore themes such as climate change, racism, and mental health through the lenses of characters living in either a dystopic far future world (Age of Adz, the Archandroid) or simply fictional characters in our real world (Plastic Beach). As an English major, I can say that often the best stories are ones that explore real-life themes explored through the lenses of a world that is unfamiliar to us. The disconnect from our real-life society is often enough for us to think of certain themes in a different context, and to reconsider previously held notions, especially in dystopian works where it encourages you to think critically about the circumstances that led to the world the characters are now living in, and how the decisions we make inform the world we will be living in tomorrow. Remember, critical thinking is hot girl shit <3

The fun thing about all three albums is that they all have their high energy, frenetic moments that r/popheads seem to love. All three have their inspiration from pop music, thus the “High Concept Pop”, even Sufjan whose usually remembered as “sad ukelele boy”, but as you can tell from the write-up by the wonderful gucci.

Know the score? Want to jump straight into rating?

Well then, you’re free to listen and submit your scores:

SCORES ARE DUE BY THE FOURTH OF DECEMBER, UNLESS YOU MESSAGE ME OR STEEL FOR AN EXTENSION

Spotify Playlist

Apple Music

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The 13th Floor Elevators Alice Cooper The Amboy Dukes Amon Düül Big Brother and the Holding Company Black Sabbath Blue Cheer Blues Magoos The Charlatans Count Five Country Joe and the Fish Coven Cream Deep Purple The Deviants The Doors The Electric Prunes The Fugs Grateful Dead The Great Society The Groundhogs Hawkwind Iron Butterfly Jefferson Airplane The Jimi Hendrix Experience Janis Joplie JPT Scare Band Love MC5 Moby Grape The Music Machine Quicksilver Messenger Service Santana The Seeds Grace Slick Steppenwolf Tully Vanilla Fudge Wooden Shjips .38 Special 10,000 Maniacs 10cc The B-52's A Flock of Seagulls A Tribe Called Quest A-ha ABBA ABC AC/DC Ryan Adams Adele The Airborne Toxic Event Alberta Cross Alice In Chains Alice Cooper Lily Allen All American Rejects The Allman Brothers Band Gregg Allman Girls Aloud AJR alt-J Ambrosia American Authors Tori Amos Anderson Paak The Angels The Animals Fiona Apple Aqualung Arcade Fire Tasmin Archer Arctic Monkeys Jann Arden Arlo Parks Louis Armstrong Joseph Arthur Ásgeir Asia Asleep at the Wheel Assembly of Dust Nicole Atkins Atlas Genius Augustana The Avett Brothers Bachman-Turner Overdrive Badfinger Badly Drawn Boy Bahamas Bakar Bananarama The Band Dazz Band The Bangles Band of Horses Sara Bareilles Barenaked Ladies The Baseball Project Bear Hands The Beach Boys Beastie Boys The Beatles The Beautiful South Beck Howie Beck Jeff Beck Bee Gees The Bees / A Band of Bees Beirut Belle Brigade Ben Folds Five Chuck Berry Best Coast Better Than Ezra Big Head Todd & The Monsters Andrew Bird The Black Crowes The Black Keys The Black Eyed Peas Black Pumas Blessid Union of Souls Björk Aloe Blacc James Blake Blonde Redhead Blondie Blind Faith Blind Melon Blue Merle The Blue Nile Blue October Blue Öyster Cult David Bowie Blur A-Trak Afrojack Alesso Erol Alkan Steve Aoki The Avener Avicii Danny Ávila Benny Benassi Bingo Players Blasterjaxx The Bloody Beetroots Bodyrox Booka Shade Boys Noize Breakbot Busy P Felix Cartal CFCF The Chainsmokers Chuckie Clockwork Cold Blank Congorock The Count & Sinden Crookers Dada Life Daft Punk John Dahlbäck deadmau5 Digitalism Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Diplo Dirty South DJ Ajax DJ Tocadisco Duck Sauce 187 Lockdown 3 of a Kind 3rd Edge All About She AlunaGeorge Shola Ama Amira Architechs Artful Dodger Asher D A vs B Katy B B-15 Project Bad Boy Chiller Crew Daniel Bedingfield Dane Bowers Burial Ed Case TJ Cases Club Asylum MJ Cole Colour Girl Da Click Craig David Roy Davis Jr. De Nada

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Do your worst!

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

They’re on standbi

BamBOO!

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

At work, I have a workstation.

edit: cheers u/cheer_up_richard

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.

Welcome back to another riveting day of High Concept Pop!

We officially have the day one banners out, as well as a correction. There were actually 76 participants overall, and the two raters whose ballots were missed out on yesterday have been added to today’s reveal. Apart from averages, the only thing that would have changed with their ballots added to yesterdays results would have been that Make the Bus and Suite III would have swapped places.

So, are we ready for another day of High Concept Pop?

Yeah!

Our average with the two new ballots is 7.867, and our average controversy is 1.687, which means anything with a controversy score higher than that is controversial. Today, we will be eliminating the songs that placed #30 - #16, and the songs that placed #4 and #3 in the bonus rate.

Here’s a list with each album, and the songs they have that are still in:

Plastic Beach

Welcome to the World of Plastic Beach (ft. Hypnotica Brass Ensemble and Snoop Dogg)

Rhinestone Eyes

Stylo (ft. Mos Def and Bobby Womack)

Superfast Jellyfish (ft. Gruff Rhys and De La Soul)

Empire Ants (ft. Little Dragon)

On Melancholy Hill

To Binge (ft. Little Dragon)

Age of Adz

Futile Devices

Too Much

Age of Adz

I Walked

Get Real Get Right All for Myself

I Want to Be Well

Impossible Soul

The Archandroid

Suite II Overture

Dance or Die (ft. Saul Williams)

Faster

Locked Inside

Sir Greendown

Cold War

Tightrope (ft. Big Boi)

Oh, Maker

Come Alive (War of the Roses)

Neon Valley Street

Wondaland

57821 (ft. Deep Cotton)

Say You’ll Go

BaBopByeYa

And the songs that have been eliminated over the course of the past two days:

#45 >Janelle Monae - Neon Gumbo!< #44 >!< #43 >!< #42 >!< #41 >!< #40 >!< #39 >!< #38 >!< #37 >!< #36 >![Gorillaz - Plastic Beach ft. Paul Simonon and Mick Jones](h

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "