www.rateyourmusic.com C/D?

omg how do i get my music added to the rym database?!?!?

i must rate all of my music the most fair and unexciting rating possible: two and a half stars!

unrelated: just loaded up the site for the first time in a long while and among the highlighted reviews was this one for minnie riperton's first album:

It's no secret that I'm a huge sucker for string arrangements-- just check out some of my fives and you'll see the obsession I have with the lushest of pop songs. As far as I'm concerned, this is the premiere sleeper baroque pop album. Minnie puts her best foot forward on the immense, immaculate Les Fleur, but throughout are gorgeous arrangements graced with her soulful pipes. There's not a single dull moment here. This is up there with your Scott Walkers, Brian Wilsons, and Lee Hazlewoods. Maya Rudolph's mom was onto something, y'all.

a ***gasp*** BLACK WOMAN who makes music that's "up there with" a bunch of white men!??!?!! golly, how insightful.

yep, the place can still get fucked unmercifully as far as i'm concerned.

uh, Austin--it's Rate your music, RATE

sounds like that LP is almost as good as 15 Big Ones!

i would co-sign with some of the people above saying that generally the reviews are god awful needledrop-esque pseud shite, but that the general year rating charts actually aren't too bad most of the time and sometimes include some interesting outliers, and there are also at least a few users who make some good genre specific lists that are helpful for discovery

so i typed the above and then saw they've got that new Strokes album at #14 so just ignore me, i'm deleting my account etc

so he clicked his mouse 120,000 times in 10 years

I don't think I have ever consciously read an entire RYM review. get in, peep the genre charts for cool new shit, get out.

Fellow ILMers have written RYM reviews and they’re unsurprisingly very good!

i should start submitting the same exact review for everything, but change the rating.

have it be some real opaque, vanilla type of write up: "the songs here are as present as ever and it truly feels like a revelation."

"An improvement on their last offering."

rymmv

so he clicked his mouse 120,000 times in 10 years

― brimstead

just think of the Cookie Clicker score he could have had by now. what a waste.

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y'all i just fucking can't, imago can you please listen to and hate this record so that you can shit-talk it, thanks

otoh i also found this album on there just now and i'm liking it a lot!

https://youtu.be/aSwkcsxhAoM

is that the genre/tag list for NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM?

I just mean, why assume that someone rating an album = they even heard the album

Kate, that album rules. imago gave it 4 stars iirc.

i apologize for bad posts, just being snooty

is that the genre/tag list for NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM?

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.)

haha got it in one

we need less neptunian maximalism and more uranian maximalism if you ask me

that's a really cool album even if the trend towards beyond-CD-capacity opuses this year is tiring me out

I got a real nice comment in my shoutbox the other day, "its so refreshing every time i discover a new bizarre electronic pop artist youre there in the reviews"

NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM is indeed great; I might have given it even more than 4 stars if they hadn't turned the entire final third of the album into some sort of interminable latter-day-Earth imitation

so i typed the above and then saw they've got that new Strokes album at #14 so just ignore me, i'm deleting my account etc

― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:15 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

the current top 10 is better than any other organisation will muster at year's end, and don't worry canon fans, Apple is still #1

very disappointed that Neptunian Maximalism is a band, not a new genre

it's kind of both

rym quite liking this year's just alright strokes album when they hated the far-superior comedown machine is still baffling to me

I don't usually write reviews, but I just had too for this one. This album is just so terrible. I mean, it’s so bad that it should be banned from your ears. This should be illegal in every country!! This makes your city garbage dumb look like a heaven. This album is just so crap that if it was manure, the amount of shit that it possesses could fertilizer the world 5 times over. But then it would also kill everything because the level of crap in it is just such horrible quality. Even global warming would be like "Dude, slow down!!" because it can’t keep up with this level of pollution!

The point of this is, do not listen to this, no matter how morbid you're curiosity. Listening to this is like committing suicide on music. Just don’t. Just please don’t. Save yourself the pain and hurt this will cause you.

Sounds awesome!

seriously fuck neptunian maximalism y'all need to get with plutonian herd

It's cute that Neptunian Maximalism is getting hate in here when it will almost certainly be a top 10 album in this year's ILM metal album poll.

I think it's really great but a little ponderous which eventually caused me to decide to not purchase it. The only ridiculously long album of late I have the patience for is the Paysage d'Hiver.

I didn't hate it but I definitely regret spending the best part of 6 and a half hours of my life with it

Hah, I thought it'd be up your alley, ultros. What are your 2020 metal highlights thus far, pray tell?

I'll do a roundup in the metal thread in a sec

Cool, thanks.

As much as I agree that the reviews on this site are super garbage, this one of Sun Ra's Atlantis actually made me lol today:

Side A: Welcome to Atlantis! Listen to the music of our people!

Side B: Fuck, we're sinking! You chose a bad day for visiting us.

Have to admit I was a little confused and annoyed at the recent negativity in this thread, but now I've seen some users with anime/4chan/tankie style names and avatars giving negative reviews to dreampop albums and I'm not happy.

I'm still haunted by a review by an anime (which I can't find now) that began with something like, "it's 2100 and I'm a fembot with a perfect bubble butt..." and only went downhill from there. the deviantart containment wall is in urgent need of repair.

Part of the thing that bothers me with these guys is that they're often into lots of surprisingly great stuff but then they love all these shitty cartoons too.

also most of them are chauvinist dicks iirc

xpost - I probably don't have a right to complain about that because I have "good"/"obscure" taste in music but somewhat vanilla taste in music and tv. but I guess I have enough self awareness to keep my questionable tastes to myself (and I'm over the age of 19, unlike a lot of those anime bros)

it's weird that those users are downrating dreampop albums when Loveless and Souvlaki and Long Season are mainstays in the /mu/ canon. I didn't think it was typical for 4chan types to dump on "esoteric" indie stuff

I like some godawful crap too but I wouldn't put it in my avatar.

As much as I agree that the reviews on this site are super garbage, this one of Sun Ra's Atlantis actually made me lol today:

Side A: Welcome to Atlantis! Listen to the music of our people!

Side B: Fuck, we're sinking! You chose a bad day for visiting us.

How does any other site with reviews from the public compare? Metal archives? Prog archives? I don't know many others.

the reviews on prog archives tend to be super wordy and often use timestamps to just describe what's happening in the music in the most literal way

the reviews on metal archives tend mainly to be 90% and up or 30% and under iirc

your average metal archives review is about as good as your average rym review, which is to say bad

I'd imagine many of those reviews are on both sites.

democracy sucks eh

All Music, Album of the Year, and Metacritic all have user reviews. About the quality you'd expect. Probably more boring than RYM reviews.

and yet still more interesting and varied than the critics'

https://i.imgur.com/SXNzIZK.png

professional music criticism in 2020 is a circled-wagon hellscape of desperate assent and absolute fealty to the pitchfork-industrial canon

https://i.imgur.com/iPyejd8.png

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