― latebloomer: Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K. (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Aaaaah, now that would explain things.
Like why I'd never 'eard of 'im before.
"Which makes him a musicist, apparently..."
Are you sure he's not a comedist?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. Biondi, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
It's true. Metacritic also has blind spots with respect to hard rock, classic rock and metal in general. And they often assign numerical scores which have no correlation with the actual review. I used to laugh when my stuff would get sampled and was clearly a serious putdown or shredding would get a mediocre number in the yellow. I'm betting that happens systematically with many others which were sampled. It's better suited to aggregation of movies since the job is a lot less intensive.
As for the rest, no experience, not interested to make cost effective.
― George the Animal Steele, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Rewind: Music from 10, 20, and 30 Years Ago This MonthAs we did in October, September, August, June and July, we look back at key albums released 10, 20, and 30 years ago this month. This month, we remember November 2000, November 1990, and November 1980.Albums from November 2000Key Release:The Sophtware Slump 81by Grandaddy
As we did in October, September, August, June and July, we look back at key albums released 10, 20, and 30 years ago this month. This month, we remember November 2000, November 1990, and November 1980.
Albums from November 2000
Key Release:The Sophtware Slump 81by Grandaddy
KEY RELEASE
THE SOPHTWARE SLUMP
BY GRANDADDY
!!!!!!!!
― ilxor, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
K, so, Metacritic. I've been wondering at the way the critics' ratings of music are nearly all green ("universal acclaim") with a very few yellow ("mixed") ratings and virtually no red. Whereas the movies seem to have more of a bell curve. Is it that movies are easier to criticize without chalking it up to personal taste, or is all this new music just AWSSUM?
― Has talent, needs to figure out how to improve (staggerlee), Thursday, 14 November 2013 02:12 (ten years ago) link
music is harder to fuck up than movies
― imago, Thursday, 14 November 2013 02:17 (ten years ago) link
Sick Mouthy wrote a pretty great blog post taking off from the very same observation.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 14 November 2013 05:13 (ten years ago) link
great post. he mentions that the "criticism-topography" of video game criticism also differs from that of music and film, although he doesn't go into more detail. the reality of that situation is that the vast majority of reviews of video games is what metacritic would call "generally positive," with a smaller number of games receiving a mild reception and an astonishingly small number of them being received outright poorly. about a month ago tevis thompson wrote an excellent piece about this, if anyone happens to be interested in how this phenonemon plays into newer forms of media criticism.
― dyl, Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
How many media outlets does Metacritic go to for music?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 14 November 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Have we done pizza vs curry?
― how's life, Thursday, 14 November 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
Mod response to an image upload I just did: "Your square image is not the correct shape for a digipak which is more rectangular by design."
This fuckin site, man
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
"I tried to join the diarrhea drinkers club but they told me the amount of corn in my cup actually made it closer to poop"
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 18 January 2019 01:02 (five years ago) link
ew
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
at least i'm not uploading to genius huh
Whiney OTM.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 18 January 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
"This will have to wait until a proper scan of the digipak artwork can be uploaded."
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:21 (five years ago) link
"Hi, I do understand your frustration, but we really do want to be as accurate as possible. Imagine you went to the zoo and the lion enclosure was full of leopards. You mention it to the zoo keeper and he says "well, they're both cats, near enough". It's not really satisfactory when the goal is to present accurate information."
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2019 07:05 (five years ago) link
This is, to be clear, about an image being 'too square' to be a CD cover
the petty shits have revoked my upload privileges, lol
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2019 07:45 (five years ago) link
have swallowed my pride and sent a feedback form explaining and apologising for what i did wrong, and asking ever so nicely if i can be allowed to upload again. let's see what they have in store. probably a site ban
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2019 07:50 (five years ago) link
BAN LJ
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 January 2019 08:20 (five years ago) link
post the image here so we can rightfully shame it
― ufo, Friday, 18 January 2019 08:30 (five years ago) link
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3859399155_16.jpg
if you look closely, you will notice that this is a leopard, rather than a lion
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2019 08:39 (five years ago) link
What you have to understand, imago, is that RYM always had an inferiority complex relative to discogs. In the early days, serious music fans would pick on RYM for laughable mistakes, inconsistencies, missing information and the likes. It got to them, RYM was like: "our survival is at stake".I limit my contributions to adding singles from itunes and suggesting merges, and some of the time I don't even bother about adding a random digital single cover for an entry that will be rated by 5 people in the next 8 years.
― Nabozo, Friday, 18 January 2019 09:45 (five years ago) link
Have you ever seen Wiki edits talk pages ? Contributing there is probably making the Devil go pale and embarrassed. And yet what a beautiful internet creation... you need the devil you see (sorry, I've just read Doctor Faustus)
― Nabozo, Friday, 18 January 2019 09:48 (five years ago) link
See this is why I only add primarily digital releases if any
― don't let's be beastly to the gammons (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 18 January 2019 10:51 (five years ago) link
I don't use RYM for classical music at all because their catalogue is glaringly incomplete and manually adding each work, which requires that you post the details to a specific subforum where it will take at least 24h for your submission to be approved by Cerberus-like mods – not to mention the fact that the performers' entries are routinely lacking as well – is a full-time unpaid internship. For non-classical music, however, I've never had much trouble adding new bands/releases/album covers, perhaps because they were all on Bandcamp.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 11:19 (five years ago) link
yeah that's what I did here, but the image from Bandcamp - the only image online, pretty much - was the 'wrong shape', I despair tbh
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2019 11:34 (five years ago) link
I suppose you can save it to your computer and resize it before uploading it right back. I've had to do that before, now that I think of it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 18 January 2019 11:43 (five years ago) link
all sorted now thankfully - key to my restored privileges being my politeness and calm, apologetic response. 2007 LJ is looking on at me in envy
and yeah I do understand the need for a precise database. there is an element of preserving history to all this which I get
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
even so that sounds awfully pedantic. like I've added tracklistings and times to albums and had them held up because I put I "owned" the release which meant I had a CD with a catalogue # and label and they wouldn't approve until I had that, when the reality is I lost the CD long ago
that said as a general resource I think RYM is pretty nice - I've discovered a lot of great stuff through there
― frogbs, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
well yeah it's absolutely key to my listening habits
― imago, Friday, 18 January 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
on consideration i am impressed at how much rym has improved over the past decade, especially considering the constant influx of 4chan users. to deal with that while consistently improving the quality of the reviews and the ratings is an accomplishment imo. i think the comparison to wikipedia is a good one, but unlike wikipedia rym doesn't have the "npov" fig leaf. adapting the wikipedia model to a site that is pretty much nothing _but_ subjective opinions... again, an accomplishment imo.
― The Elvis of Nationalism and Amoral Patriotism (rushomancy), Friday, 18 January 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
IMDB is pretty much the model here I guess.
― Siegbran, Friday, 18 January 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
Just discovered this 'Best of Rate Your Music' twitter & am loving it:
pic.twitter.com/0MtnqR1UCA— Best of RateYourMusic (@Rateyrmusic) April 27, 2019
― One Eye Open, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
*nervously scans twitter feed*
might have a few good review submissions for there, notably
https://rateyourmusic.com/review?id=44402954
and
https://rateyourmusic.com/review?id=4612007
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
also this which I suspect might be too *good* for that feed
https://rateyourmusic.com/review?id=26968079
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
lol those are all incredible
― One Eye Open, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
Yeah one of my first thoughts was “please don’t let me be on this feed”, but I don’t think I posted any true fuckwittery during my brief affair with RYM long ago
― One Eye Open, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:09 (five years ago) link
off the current topic but i enjoy being an asshole in the album comment boxes rym added a few years ago
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
yeah i have tons of shitty rym meme reviews from when i was old enough that i should have known better. i'm very grateful because some mods are going through and "unpublishing" all of them so unless you're my friend there you won't know what a bozo i was
nowadays of course i'm much better and write essays analyzing old genesis bootlegs from a trans perspective
rym comment boxes are one step above youtube comments and should go away but i occasionally post the shit that would've gone in my meme reviews there
my real vice is the message boards, which is 90% teenage canon-builders talking about which radiohead record is best and 10% people recommending serbian punk records nobody outside of serbia has ever heard of, i love this board but it alone can't feed my jones
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Thursday, 2 May 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
hah yeah I've had a number of my reviews 'unpublished', including a lot of my best ones
I understand why the comment boxes are there, it's kind of nice that every album gets its own discussion thread now, and it keeps a lot of the shit out of the reviews. wish they were a bit more interactive though
yeah see this is why I love RYM actually
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
i've had some of my most _popular_ reviews unpublished. initially i was a little put out by it, but in the long run it does make the site better, because back when they would host any old shit the stuff that got "liked" most were the dumb joke reviews rather than anything that had any kind of actual thought or effort put into it. not only is "publishing any old shit" a really bad idea for an internet site in 2019, but establishing some sort of editorial control goes a long way towards making the site better
nowadays the stuff that gets "liked" the most are long lists of random records three people have heard, and i'm ok with that, except insofar as we tend to "like" the lists without actually listening to any of the records
the other thing i find really interesting, because it's as far as i can tell deliberately obscure, is that they do have some fairly advanced anti-brigading features in their ranking algorithms. it's complicated, but in practical terms it seems like basically only ratings between 2.5 and 4 are counted towards the overall score of a record
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
that twitter feed accepted my Hulk Hogan suggestion and found...so much more
― frogbs, Friday, 3 May 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
The guitar riffs here are some of the coolest I've heard. I spent a whole summer smoking pot in my parents garage learning to play this album on the guitar and I would be a shitty person if I had not done that. You'd probably agree that you are lame compared to me, while reading this. I'd agree, and then add that Possessed should thank me for writing this review. You're welcome!
this five star review of possessed's seven churches is easily the best thing i've ever read on rym and one of the greatest pieces of music writing of all time
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/0GMbUMqkkW— Best of RateYourMusic (@Rateyrmusic) May 19, 2019
that LOL in the end kills me
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
even I don't know what album that is and I wrote the posts lmao
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Saturday, 4 September 2021 08:55 (two years ago) link
ohhhh it's that Silverchair side-project, obvs :D
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Saturday, 4 September 2021 08:57 (two years ago) link
(the song in question is Somewhere Down The Barrel)
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Saturday, 4 September 2021 08:59 (two years ago) link
rym absolutely adores the new bruno mars album so i'm not sure what planet i'm on
― ufo, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:06 (two years ago) link
#2 for the year?? damn I almost wanna check that out.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
it's a solid 70s pastiche, not at all a bad album but not really anything special either, so it's just baffling the way they've latched onto it this much. like rym is still not that interested in soul or r&b more generally so why this of all things lol. does .paak's involvement add sufficient cred to the project or something idk
― ufo, Thursday, 18 November 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link
"Random Access Memories" was also a high-profile pastiche and wildly popular, this doesn't surprise me at all.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 18 November 2021 10:29 (two years ago) link
RYM is by nature of its yearly charts something of a consensus engine and it is populated by, shall we say, those of an impressionable age. It tends to fetishise that which its impressionable users unconsciously deem makes themselves more cool and current - coronations are preordained (watch OUT for next year's Black Country, New Road album!) but why,say, this and Little Simz uber alles I don't actually know. Maybe these albums are particularly clear in what they're doing - ambiguity tends to vex consensus
― imago, Thursday, 18 November 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link
RAM was a gigantically hyped comeback album from a beloved act that hadn't put anything out in a while & had pretty wide critical buy-in (much more than this one), but i'm not sure it was like, beloved to this degree by RYM. even if it was it's not a great comparison point.
mars' schtick for the last decade has been well-crafted-but-shallow pastiches of pop from decades gone by & there's not some huge improvement in quality here, so why have they suddenly bought into this album? it's ranked at something like #16 all time in soul albums which is obviously absurd & will surely go down, but still lol.
the little simz album being overrated there (it's solid but not a masterpiece like they rate it as) is much less of a surprise though, she was already an established favourite there & RYM is fairly sympathetic to lushly-produced conscious hip-hop overall, it's very in the community's wheelhouse.
― ufo, Thursday, 18 November 2021 11:18 (two years ago) link
Definitely there's a sense that artists have arcs, and if they release a killer breakthrough (Simz' Grey Area, Weyes Blood's FRSTE) then it's likely that the next album will come out to much hype, and if that album is more grandly-realised (as both of those artists' follow-ups were) then it'll do very well indeed
― imago, Thursday, 18 November 2021 11:24 (two years ago) link
That's the story with Injury Reserve, black midi...most of the top ten in fact. But then...yeah, why Bruno Mars lol
― imago, Thursday, 18 November 2021 11:26 (two years ago) link
Lol I had the same thought as ufo today as I saw its rating on rym. It's a solid album for sure but very surprised rym would rate it so high. But some albums start high and then tend downward as a wider base check them out, no?
― Vinnie, Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:21 (two years ago) link
yea it doesn't really compare to Daft Punk because even HAA and the Tron soundtrack were defended pretty vigorously by people who knew they sucked and spent half the reviews apologizing, it was kind of predictable that the next halfway decent Daft Punk album was gonna be lionized. RYM doesn't like Bruno Mars at all. Maybe it just is that good
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
oh wait I just saw the album was released only 6 days ago, yeah that rating's gonna come down. seems to happen a lot on RYM where something gets a lot of early bandwagon hype which encourages a lot of people to check out something they wouldn't be into otherwise and surprise a lot of them won't like it. its kinda shitty but that's how RYM works
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:27 (two years ago) link
it's wacky it's this high after a week though
ugh why do i care rym sucks
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
human after all >>>>> rym
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 November 2021 14:32 (two years ago) link
RYM is people, I mean that's just how popularity works.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 18 November 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
I guess it works the same way how "Back To Basics" is by far the highest rated Xtina album.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 18 November 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
thanks for the revive, ufo. i thought i was the only one who felt like that re:the new bruno thing. it's fine, but like 3.5 stars on the absolute best day.
i still haven't developed the patience required for rym. i gave it a big try this past summer after some prompting here, but i think it's just not meant for people like me.
anyway, brad otm:
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Thursday, 18 November 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
wrt Mars, as mentioned upthread this isn't a Bruno Mars album it's Bruno AND Anderson Paak, who I think has a lot more uh "cred" or whatever you want to call it, I'd bet money that's a big part in how it's being received
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 November 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
Part of it could also be that the weirdos that live in the rym comment boxes just aren't familiar with the source material that is being pastiched here? Too busy listening to Bull of Heaven to be bothered.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 18 November 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
Part of it could also be that the weirdos that live in the rym comment boxes just aren't familiar with the source material that is being pastiched here
lol idk how true this is, but that's similar to what i'm pondering. i've tried with anderson paak as well and have had a similar reaction: this is decent, but i don't think i like it as much as the rest of you seem to.
that being said, i really wanted to like it because i do feel like bruno and anderson are genuinely talented dudes. but i've found them underwhelming on record so far.
― the beginning of the end of discourse. (Austin), Thursday, 18 November 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
I love Malibu but that's the only album I've heard of Paak's that I would rate highly
― Vinnie, Thursday, 18 November 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, November 18, 2021 7:31 AM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink
damn i gotta keep returning to this post, especially after this happened:
https://i.imgur.com/ti4uOoK.png
not that it's apparent that i'm a woman i guess (i think i refused to declare my gender on rym for my entire time there? wow, must've been a sign)
rym def the worst place on the internet i inhabit and i think it's gotta end
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
be careful declaring someone's assumed pronouns on the internet you may ruin some trans person's day lol
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
oh my god i can't believe a person with pronouns misgendered me
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
yeesh sorry. tbf RYM is about as trans-friendly (and trans-populated) an internet space as I can think of and the moderation staff will absolutely take your side here
― imago, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 22:19 (one year ago) link
ugh the user who said that to you is an idiot with abysmal taste
― imago, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 22:23 (one year ago) link
it's ok! i don't care! it's a horrible website!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
:( it is better for having you drop by into shoutboxes of unfancied albums and declaring them the best thing ever, cheered me no end to see you doing your thing in the LTTP box
― imago, Wednesday, 31 August 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
― imago
lotta overspill from /tttt/ though, lotta fucked up people with some fucked up bullshit going on who take it out on other folks :( the staff do the best they can but there is a _lot_ of bullshit and assholery for them to deal with.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 1 September 2022 04:58 (one year ago) link
Anybody else getting nearly constant phishing warnings when using RYM the past few days? Seems like it’s some issue with the autoplay ads, because it only seems to be when I click on artist and album pages with those.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2024 04:54 (four months ago) link
anyone using albumoftheyear.org ? looks like rym but has critic reviews like metacritic.
― formerly abanana (dat), Friday, 2 February 2024 06:26 (four months ago) link
https://rateyourmusic.com/rdescriptor/set?album_id=257953
six members of the RateYourMusic.com (RYM) community don't believe Sisqó's Y2K sex jam "Thong Song" is humorous (i.e. "uses comedy to reflect a sense of humor towards the relevant subject matter", not "I personally find this song amusing") and accordingly voted against the "humorous" descriptor on the single's release page. of the seventeen descriptors the community voted on, "humorous" is the only one that got rejected due to an accumulation of downvotes. even "epic" passed muster! if properly publicized, this revelation will trigger the death of RYM, the cancellation of Sharifi, and the termination of Project Sonemic.
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 14 April 2024 00:56 (one month ago) link
We have every reason to believe that Sisqó treated the subject of thongs with the utmost seriousness
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 14 April 2024 01:23 (one month ago) link
I don't doubt that Sisqó is sincere in his horniness! but that's exactly what makes it comedic: the fact that he sings about buttfloss with a passion that singers normally reserve for their soulmates, or Jesus, or world peace. also "dumps like a truck (uh), truck (uh), truck (uh)". it's pure OTT heterosexual camp, and it would be a huge stretch to say the humor wasn't intentional. those rymers are insane
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Sunday, 14 April 2024 02:06 (one month ago) link
Lol RYM currently ranks “Meet the Grahams” as the best single of all time
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Friday, 10 May 2024 03:00 (three weeks ago) link
which means kl is #1 on albums+singles.
another thing for drake to suck on.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 10 May 2024 03:14 (three weeks ago) link
Given that Drake had beef with Fantano it probably would bother him
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Friday, 10 May 2024 03:21 (three weeks ago) link