The New Allmusic: D/D?

I prefer rateyourmusic:

superior information architecture / information design / usability
faster more uptodate content re forthcoming releases
added features such as: top rated albums by year
http://rateyourmusic.com/albums_by_year

ability to have your account on RYM and create your own content [such as lists, reviews]
e.g my list for:

2005 Albums
http://rateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_14969

Does a worthy alternative to this site exist?

allmusic.com redesigned again and it's being a turd

...and yet another Allmusic revision. I think it gets worse every time. Still, very useful information, too bad someone can't help them develop a great interface.

what happened to Rovi?

i'm not a fan, site looks like a generic database and search gives you a lot of irrelevant results. in the past it'd usually pull up the correct band or album right away.

I thought last year's redesign was the best it's been since the original layout a decade ago.

And away all of that goes with this most recent redesign. As much as some people hated last year's reboot, at least it worked. This new one is actually broken in its functionality.

It's pretty bad.

jaw-droppingly bad

actually, i do like how the similar albums tab is a bunch of album covers

MOG LINKS

MOG’s in the house; if you fakin’, get out
MOG’s in the house; if you fakin’, get out
What is it? Yeah, it’s the M-O-G
And we some real-ass hustlers, you better believe us
Yeah, and we takin’ the crown
So if you fakin’, get out, ’cause we ain’t playin’ around
Who is it, man? It’s the M-O-G
And we some real-ass hustlers, you better believe us
Yeah, and we takin’ the crown
So if you fakin’, get out, ’cause we ain’t playin’ around

The impostors launch their flash but they just ain’t got no soul
Silicon Valley geeks in it just for the dough
They don’t know Jimi from Joni, don’t know Dylan from Neil
They just know what’s on the Billboard, and they think it is real
We’re sick of your bullshit and your hype and your cheese
I mean come on, you are not going to last – bro, please
‘Cause when the MOG dog bites, it’ll never let go
It’s gonna tear your ass down, make you reap what you sew
I’m not going to name names, suckas know who you are
Y’all are lackin’ in the game, man, not up to par
What we do with 12 people takes you 210
You can never reach the level of the MOG, my friend
Y’all should’ve known better, music isn’t the same
As biotech, software, and video games
If you fakin’, get out, because we takin’ the crown
If you fakin’, get out, because we takin’ the crown

Yeah, it’s the M-O-G
And we some real-ass hustlers, you better believe us
Yeah, and we takin’ the crown
So if you fakin’, get out, ’cause we ain’t playin’ around
Who is it, man? It’s the M-O-G
And we some real-ass hustlers, you better believe us
Yeah, and we takin’ the crown
So if you fakin’, get out, ’cause we ain’t playin’ around

This game is not for suckers, you stupid motherfuckers
So if you are a sucker, get out. Bounce.
Now. And start selling some hedge funds
You guys are snakes in the grass, not legends
Y’all might have got bigger way mo’ faster than us
But all the real music fans see through your B.S.
So take your notes and try to copy, we ain’t chippin’
You know we been up in the game for years like Pippen
So take your Soulja Boy, your Fergie and your Lohan
We want Nas, Jay-Z and Snoman
And yes – you will die a slow death
And M-O-G will be there, we will take your last breath
We gonna cover you with dirt and cover you in the bog
And swear no one will remember you like spiral the frog

http://idolator.com/5213231/mog-leaps-into-battle-weaksauce-rhymes-in-tow

Selena Gomez’s 10 Best Selfies

They've had MOG, Spotify and Rdio links on the site for at least the past year. Seems iTunes has been added with this most recent redesign.

A redesign which is awful, by the way.

cool new layout, cool new radio buttons

album art mouseover: 'click to embiggen'

somewhere back there in the permanent redesign salt mine there is a human being at work

David Jeffries gives all rap albums a 3.5 and it's really fuckin dumb. Kellman needs to review more of those

what's with this User Reviews tab? are they competing with rateyourmusic now?

http://www.allmusic.com/album/ok-computer-mw0000024289/user-reviews

Even today, OK Computer is still relevant in the wake of Social Media and the decreased emphasis on human interaction in a world rule by massive companies.

otm

Oh, wonderful! Yet more music reviews by people who clearly shouldn't be doing them. Don't get me wrong, everyone's entitled to an opinion, art is subjective, rating is arbitrary and so on and so forth. However, if I want plumbing advice, I don't ask a fucking dentist. As much as everyone is entitled to an opinion and willing to give their opinion, only an idiot would treat all opinions equally. I look forward to people giving 1-star reviews of canonical albums and writing "CUZ IT'Z SHIT! LOLOLOLOLOL!!1!!"

http://www.juniordentist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/dentist_patient_nightmare1.jpg

^ Yeah, that about sums it up!

sure does

in theory I have nothing against amateur review sites. I use rateyourmusic a lot to discover obscure albums, and I'm really not concerned with whether the reviews are publication quality — all I ask is a short semi-literate blurb to the effect that 'this album exists, here's what it sounds like, it might be worth listening to' *dashes off to slsk or youtube or blogs to track it down*. there's a lot of music that professional writers have never reviewed (on AMG or elsewhere), so I'm willing to wade through a lot of shoddy amateur writing and batshit opinions on rym to find a handful of new artists I wouldn't have discovered otherwise.

however I have a feeling AMG's amateur reviewers will mostly tackle canonical dadrock stuff that's already been written about ad nauseum rather than filling holes in AMG's database, so I don't see this new feature amounting to much.

I look forward to people giving 1-star reviews of canonical albums and writing "CUZ IT'Z SHIT! LOLOLOLOLOL!!1!!"

this is the opposite of the problem of "amateur" reviews

unregistered completely otm and true to my own experience

nv otm as well, rly

seriously.
the surround ads on the opening page are making getting into the site impossible.
yes yes i know i can use chrome/ghostery, but i have started using edge as W10 is a lot happier resourcewise when using Edge.
but, the fact is, allmusic is virtually unusable in edge.

allmusic's 'similar albums' recommendations are quite odd sometimes. i just clicked out of interest to see what they thought would be similar to prince's dirty mind, and they advised i listen to maze, roy ayers, and midnight starr (all of which are fine and good, but not really similar to DM!)

Went to browse the site just now and came up with this:
http://i.imgur.com/nkDdtbw.png

Which renders the site unusable on a desktop.

agreed.

They must really be hurting in the budget department.

Sad.

Working OK for me (uh-oh, no Ad Blocker)

grossest ad blocker blocker i have ever experienced

yeah, this is the first time I've been asked to disable Adblock and Ghostery simultaneously. not sure why they've taken a sudden interest in my browsing habits but I guess I should be flattered

apparently All Media Network was acquired by an adware/malware/spyware company called Blinkx in April 2015, which explains a lot...