hah yeah I've had a number of my reviews 'unpublished', including a lot of my best ones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
nowadays of course i'm much better and write essays analyzing old genesis bootlegs from a trans perspective
yeah see this is why I love RYM actually
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 May 2019 13:10 (four 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i've had some of my most _popular_ reviews unpublished.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 (four years ago) link
that twitter feed accepted my Hulk Hogan suggestion and found...so much more
― frogbs, Friday, 3 May 2019 19:31 (four 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
Fine melodic rock album. Well done, Alias guys. I am an AOR lover and a grunge hater. Unfortunately, no one can change a history, I mean a lot of great bands were blown away in 90s by the ugly form of music as grunge is. Well, it happened with the band of question. Alias debut offering the almost perfect AOR material with the strong Curci's vocals as the distinctive feature. To be quite honest, tracks of second half of the release are not so great as the first part, so I can give them about 3,75 stars.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
letmetrythisname 09 Aug 2017 02:37 GMTMambo No. 0.5
Mambo No. 0.5
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Kk1QV2x.jpg
― tandoor vittles (unregistered), Thursday, 30 May 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/4611xsk.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/CoSKkAQ.jpg
― hoostanbank de reason lyrics mp4 hd video download (unregistered), Sunday, 7 July 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
I’m sure people have listened to the stuff they rate on Rate Your Music
― brimstead, Sunday, 7 July 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
a horrible website
― dyl, Sunday, 7 July 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
RYM's ratings and forums are dominated by metal fans and pompous The Wire readers. Bit I still like the lists thing, the ones made by single users not generated from ratings.
And filtering down to single genres, even the ratings lists are useful. For instance they have helped me disover some nice 2000s synthpop gems. Johan Bäckström, for instance.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 10:05 (four years ago) link
And not just metal fans, the worst kind: progressive metal fans.
But yes the genre charts are absolutely fantastic for discovering new (old) stuff, infinitely better than any Spotify AI suggestion algorithm.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link
https://theshfl.com
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
ha the first recommendation I got was from a Lex review
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
so proud that rym is finally beginning to take female artists seriously:
https://i.imgur.com/rpKyLDw.jpg
(from the comment box for the Doja Cat/SZA collab)
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 5 August 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/niLqGMY.jpg
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 2 September 2021 21:22 (two years ago) link
Twitter brain
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 September 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
Yeah, def. If there's a prime example of an artist that could only exist under capitalism, it's obviously "the boss."
― swim, Thursday, 2 September 2021 22:29 (two years ago) link
(In a neighboring timeline, there's an awful Yakov Smirnoff bit about a soviet answer to Springsteen called "the worker".)
― swim, Thursday, 2 September 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
enjoyed this exchange i just stumbled upon
https://i.imgur.com/UtAi8BO.png
― ciderpress, Friday, 3 September 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
GOD DAMMIT WHAT WAS THE ALBUM NOW I HAVE TO KNOW
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 4 September 2021 00:16 (two years ago) link
I hate Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes and all that as much as anyone, but at the same time I don't know any other sites that collate links to reviews like that, so I use them both ten times a day.
― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 4 September 2021 00:56 (two 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