uh, Austin--it's Rate your music, RATE
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
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
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
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 years ago) link
so he clicked his mouse 120,000 times in 10 years
― brimstead, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
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.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
Fellow ILMers have written RYM reviews and they’re unsurprisingly very good!
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
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."
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
"An improvement on their last offering."
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
rymmv
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
― brimstead
just think of the Cookie Clicker score he could have had by now. what a waste.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
Genres Avant-Garde Jazz, Drone Metal, ZeuhlBrutal Prog, Tribal Ambient, Avant-Garde Metal, Spiritual Jazz, Drone, Psychedelic Rock, Free Jazz, Post-Metal vote on genresDescriptors avant-garde, dense, spiritual, progressive, psychedelic, tribal, heavy, surreal, eclectic, uncommon time signatures, chaotic, occult, epic, mysterious, apocalyptic, fantasy, ritualistic, hypnotic, dissonant, ominous, meditative, cryptic, atmospheric, improvisation, noisy, abstract, repetitive, male vocals, concept album, complex
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
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
is that the genre/tag list for NEPTUNIAN MAXIMALISM?
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
I just mean, why assume that someone rating an album = they even heard the album
― brimstead, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 18:58 (three years ago) link
Kate, that album rules. imago gave it 4 stars iirc.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
i apologize for bad posts, just being snooty
― brimstead, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.)
haha got it in one
we need less neptunian maximalism and more uranian maximalism if you ask me
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
that's a really cool album even if the trend towards beyond-CD-capacity opuses this year is tiring me out
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
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"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
― 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
― imago, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
very disappointed that Neptunian Maximalism is a band, not a new genre
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 July 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
it's kind of both
― imago, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
rym quite liking this year's just alright strokes album when they hated the far-superior comedown machine is still baffling to me
― ufo, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
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.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 17 July 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
Sounds awesome!
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 17 July 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link
seriously fuck neptunian maximalism y'all need to get with plutonian herd
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 17 July 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
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.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 17 July 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
I didn't hate it but I definitely regret spending the best part of 6 and a half hours of my life with it
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 17 July 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
Hah, I thought it'd be up your alley, ultros. What are your 2020 metal highlights thus far, pray tell?
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 July 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
I'll do a roundup in the metal thread in a sec
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 17 July 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Cool, thanks.
― pomenitul, Friday, 17 July 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
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.
― cwkiii, Saturday, 18 July 2020 02:55 (three years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
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.
― panburger partner (unregistered), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
also most of them are chauvinist dicks iirc
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
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
― panburger partner (unregistered), Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
I like some godawful crap too but I wouldn't put it in my avatar.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
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.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 24 July 2020 03:17 (three years ago) link
How does any other site with reviews from the public compare? Metal archives? Prog archives? I don't know many others.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 24 July 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Friday, 24 July 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
the reviews on metal archives tend mainly to be 90% and up or 30% and under iirc
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Friday, 24 July 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
your average metal archives review is about as good as your average rym review, which is to say bad
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 24 July 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
I'd imagine many of those reviews are on both sites.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 24 July 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
democracy sucks eh
― imago, Friday, 24 July 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
All Music, Album of the Year, and Metacritic all have user reviews. About the quality you'd expect. Probably more boring than RYM reviews.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 24 July 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
and yet still more interesting and varied than the critics'
― imago, Friday, 24 July 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
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
― imago, Friday, 24 July 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/iPyejd8.png
RYM is a discourse, a place of argument, of back-and-forth
― imago, Friday, 24 July 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
I think we need a 'rolling 2020 music-related challops thread'. Not being sarcastic btw.
― pomenitul, Friday, 24 July 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link