RYM exists for no other reason to massage the egos of 16-year-old genre tourists who are incapable of forming an...

yeah, listening to what others recommend me is fun, especially when it's good music.

It's pretty good to catalogue. Rating is dumb tho, i don't have time to put arbitrary numbers to music

have you ever considered having independent thought?

yes, and i have listened to albums that are not popularly acclaimed by audiences or my friends. some of these have become my favorite albums, too. doesn't mean tourism isn't fun.

>"I own every Radiohead album on vinyl. I'm patrician."

based

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I like it to help me genre tourism

RYM is the music version of reddit. I don't mean that in any derogatory way, but there's no free speech on either website.

How the fuck do these young users age

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They probably rate singles

I do too dawg
Look at this tho
rateyourmusic.com/~Whoa
Yeah he's 24 but 40 fucking thousand?
How bro

could have been listening to music from a young age like that kid from dad reacts. also a lot of those ratings are singles.

I listened to over 3,000 albums from age 15 to age 17, then I stopped browsing Yea Forums and RYM regularly, and I still haven't hit 4,000 by age 22.

All it takes is being pathologically obsessed with finding the next obscure 10/10 and improving the aesthetic of your top albums list.

Rym has been taken over by radical left politics, sadly. I would rather it be neutral but the people who run the site are all hard left and buy into white privilege. If you try and get someone to listen to your band, while many good people there will check it out, a lot are content just listening to whatever mainstream media tells them to. It's a great idea, but an unworthy individual runs the site.

They're already actively trying to wipe Christian & The Hedgehog Boys from the annals of music history.

>only listening to what you're told to
There's nothing wrong with listening to what's popular, as long as you're doing it out of interest and not to fit in. Listening to what's popular and what people recommend are just different forms of music discovery there's nothing inherently wrong with either.

le npc meme xd

I don't even have 500 I am pleb, then again I don't rate most stuff I listen to.

Why are RYM reviewers so racist, stupid and arrogant? John Bonham is a great drummer and this guy decides to disrespect him to push forward a disgusting racial narrative.

John Bonham has tons of incredible drum solos that puts Babatunde Olatunji to shame, like this for example :

youtube.com/watch?v=cRuTcnd8YLU
youtube.com/watch?v=Rvn6PKON4xU

If this is "caveman arrogance" for you, I suggest you to stop talking about music.

I'm not even White, I'm actually from Nigeria, and I wanted to see reviews of some of the artists of my country. And the first thing I see is an American bringing race to the discussion as if it was relevant here. Why are Americans so obsessed with race? What does race have to do with banging sticks and hands on drums? Can you just talk about the music?

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thread didn't work out? stop spamming cuck, no one cares

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I like RYM for organizing and cataloging music that I found and enjoy :)

I'm posting it here because it's also relevant here.

SEETHING

You don't have to explain yourself to these spergs

TBBWC > radiohead

RYM has given rise to an annoying subculture of people obsessed with assigning numbers to things after listening to them. But I'd be lying if I said it's not a useful tool for quickly finding out which works by an artist are the most acclaimed.

this, discogs doesnt have digital releases so its as good as nothing
I dont interact with the tasteless faggots on rym at all

zoomers don't go outside

>It will not be missed
is it shutting down or something?

What I dislike about RYM users is how many of them are "artist tourists". Like there are thousands of ratings giving The Glow Pt.2 a great score, but Mount Eerie has about a third of total ratings. Like are these fucks give the album a 9 or 10 and refuse to even check out their other stuff?

Have sex

Nah people getting mad because their ratings are now de-weighted after mass 5.0/5.0 a shitty meme single for the lulz.

the mental gymnastics of the spineless drone never cease to amaze me. have fun being spoonfed, you blazing faggot

how exactly do you discover music if not through other people?

>what is a label
>what is a genre
>what is a book
>what is chronological order
>what is an algorithm
>what is a compilation
>what is a local scene
>what is a library
>what is a record
>what is a record store
>what is a CD
>what is any website ever that has music on it
yah there are plenty of ways to find music that isn't being given to you by rym's top albums or by fantano

I wasn't even arguing in favor of using rym to find music in particular. I just said there's nothing wrong with listening to what people say is good and finding out whether it's good for yourself. Also you listed "any website ever that has music on it" as an alternative to using rym. If you're fine with using any other website that has top album lists why do you have a problem with rym? I'll admit most of the reviews on rym are garbage but that doesn't mean you should ignore all the top album lists on the site.

the person that replied to you wasn't me. compilations, various record stores, following record labels and dj mixes are my means

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you said
>how exactly do you discover music if not through other people?

>i spent 100-150 days straight listening to music in two years

nice meme

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So you finished up this stupid npc meme and went back to searching the archives for good music that nobody likes? Wasting your life bro

I also said there's nothing wrong with listening to what people recommend

You know you can listen to music and do other activities right

those are all valid ways of finding music and I would say using top album charts is just as good, especially if they're of a genre or artist you already know you like

we wouldn't have this autism if the mods just added a "meme" descriptor that could be used to remove things like that single from the charts

the mods are the autism, their obsession with trimming and tampering with the charts is fucking nutty

focus on allowing me to be able to search the charts filtered by more than one genre at a time, or by subgenres. They promised that functionality years ago and took our money for it.

this album is sooo innocent

You don't add people or look into lists?

>discogs doesnt have digital releases

i'm pretty sure it does though

Howcome people have rating curves that peak at like 3 stars?

Do they seriously listen to whole albums that they straight up just dont care for?

>discogs doesnt have digital releases so its as good as nothing
what the hell are you talking about
quit making shit up

Its good as a database of music, similar to IMDb. But like IMDb, the ratings system is shit. But at least they don't use "professional critic" scores like movie sites do.

>snd

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doing that much you arent actually giving enough time to digest the albums, woulda been more worthwhile to givve them a few listens before moving on

lot of free time, rating singles, and/or listening to music as a hobby from an early age

You genre tourists don't know what you're missing out on. I've been reading books and watching documentaries on some of my favorite genres and really exploring them further than I've ever done before, listening to all the important/foundational releases and obscure stuff.

Exploring genres you're not familiar with is fun but digging deep into your favorites and learning has been even more fun for me, would recommend.

>implying any digital only releases are worth hearing
lmao

>Dorkcore 101
>Not a masterpiece
Too long for you pleb?
Also unironically only reason i dont use discogs is because nobody added kevin and the bikes yet

What have you been enjoying recently?

I'm currently reading Ted Gioia's History of Jazz and also watching Ken Burns documentary on Jazz. Never really listened to much pre-50s jazz before so checking out stuff like Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin has been fun.

I read Simon Reynolds' Rip It Up and Start Again (book on post-punk) a while ago, was fine but not what I was expecting. I started a little side project last year where I'd go through all the yearly charts on RYM for Punk (and related genres like New Wave) starting with 1976 and listen to anything that was popular that I hadn't already heard or just looked interesting to me. Completed the 70s and currently going through the 80s but I've put that on hold while I've been listening to jazz and other stuff.

Going through this and it's canon has been a great deal of fun. The mixtape that comes along with some editions of the book isn't too shabby either.

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coorect :) haha

the joys of the joys of the joys of

this. that top 100 is embarrasing. electronic music tourists

will rym ever get sued for not releasing sonemic

t. rich

>takes one second
>doesn't have time

whoa, you have a busy and full life!

Weird I've always thought the same thing about Yea Forums

trip has an opinion lol

White guilt