am now wondering who Brad is on RYM haha
― imago, Thursday, 6 June 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
i'll bite, what is RYM
― Frozen CD, Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkUxFB6jbDc
― Detective Picacho (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
those quotes that unperson pulled do the opposite of making the music sound cool and worthy of my time.
rym is a site where white people make themselves feel better by giving black musicians free promotion. it's alright.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
hmmm, rethink that take
― Detective Picacho (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
Sounds like RYM has changed. I was on there a lot in like 2004 and it was pretty quaint -- Mull Historical Society CD-R swaps, "does anyone else like Around the Sun?" etc. A user I admired was really into Kitchens of Distinction...
― geoffreyess, Friday, 7 June 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link
It's a good place to discover new metal and prog, and enjoy some psychotic writing, and that's about it
― Simon H., Friday, 7 June 2019 02:44 (four years ago) link
You’re thinking of ILM
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 7 June 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link
That's not fair. I never find out about cool new prog via ILM.
― Simon H., Friday, 7 June 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
lol spock's beard
― j., Friday, 7 June 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
It depends where you’re lookingThere are some users who do hugely deep dives into genres Reminiscent of the mp3 blog days
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 7 June 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link
it is an excellent place to keep track of one's own listening and discover new things, and generally stay on top of being a music nerd. all the unsavoury window-dressing is kind of beside the point and avoidable
― imago, Friday, 7 June 2019 11:26 (four years ago) link
IOW, it's reddit for music nerds
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Friday, 7 June 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
It's like ILM if we still listened to music instead of podcasts
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 7 June 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
yea I think the reddit analogy works, it's a huge place with a lot of cool niche stuff and it's quite easy to ignore the community at large
― frogbs, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
one thing it certainly does have is the worst music forum of all time
― imago, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
I use it just for figuring out which album to start with for an artist, does a pretty good job for that
― Vinnie, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
clearly you've never been to /mu/ xp
― frogbs, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
it basically is /mu/ fwict
― imago, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:30 (four years ago) link
Yeah I find RYM v. useful for keeping track of things I've heard and browsing other peoples' lists can be a lot of fun but I avoid the forums/comment boxes like the plague.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/FzrhVoNiFn— Best of RateYourMusic (@Rateyrmusic) June 7, 2019
proud of you imago
― frogbs, Friday, 7 June 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
lolllllll
― Arugula Raccoon (DJP), Friday, 7 June 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/taylor-swift-you-need-to-calm-down/
This track review deserves a shoutout for focusing entirely on lyrical content (save for a reference to "a hook that’s mostly vowels"); and ending with this thought:
“You Need to Calm Down” is like one of those fancy unicorn cupcakes, an impossibly cute confection designed to distract you from the fact that it’s a mediocre dessert. I cannot think of something I would rather buy into less.
Really -- you can't think of anything worse to "buy into" than a "mediocre," "well-intentioned" "confection" of a track? And is music really for "buying into" in the first place? (Hey -- what about the music, anyway?)
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
And is music really for "buying into" in the first place?
This is a strange question. Of course music is for buying into, otherwise no one would try to share it with anyone else.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 14 June 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
AND no one would try to make a living as a professional musician if they weren't trying to get people to buy into the music they are creating/performing.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 14 June 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
I think of an ideology or idea as something you "buy into"; and music as something you listen to / enjoy.
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2019 21:27 (four years ago) link
(or, literally, "buy" -- if you purchase it)
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
I cannot think of something I would rather buy into less.
I can think some music website that should rather buy into a copy editor more.
― punning display, Friday, 14 June 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
“Sure I like it, but I don’t, like, buy into it or anything!”
― One Eye Open, Friday, 14 June 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
omg i didn't see, i'm famous now lol
― imago, Friday, 14 June 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
This track review deserves a shoutout for focusing entirely on lyrical content
(Hey -- what about the music, anyway?)
Can’t imagine why Pitchfork isn’t parsing the chord changes on a song where Taylor thematically links her social-media haters to the Westboro Baptist Church
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Saturday, 15 June 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
(Also the point of the “buy into” line - however awkwardly-phrased - is clearly that this song reads to the author more as an act of lateral career positioning than a piece of music, and they regard it as a failure both in terms of that being an aspiration to begin with and in its ability to succeed at that aspiration)
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Saturday, 15 June 2019 02:45 (four years ago) link
Pitchfork | The Most Trusted Voice in “Career Positioning”
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Saturday, 15 June 2019 03:32 (four years ago) link
I’m rolling my eyes but also you’re not wrong
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Saturday, 15 June 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
Crumb and 2017 follow-up Locket, both misty and meandering, cast the four-part group as the new kid on today’s jazz-influenced psych block, among bands like Tame Impala and King Krule.
did Tame Impala cover a Kamasi Washington song or something
― Οὖτις, Monday, 17 June 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
haha "jazzy" and "jazz influenced" are two classic overused rock crit phrases
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 June 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
the only two King Krule songs I ever subjected myself to sounded like annoying post-punk singer songwriter shit
― Οὖτις, Monday, 17 June 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
so I'll defer to others on that point - but of the three Tame Impala songs I own I'd be hard-pressed to point to a "jazz influence"
King krules is p great
― flopson, Monday, 17 June 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
lol meant "three Tame Impala ALBUMS" there
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 17 June 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
4.8 for Madonna.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/madonna-madame-x/
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 09:55 (four years ago) link
If I wanted someone to write a witty pan, I'd hire Rich.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link
par for the course
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 11:18 (four years ago) link
4.8 is way too generous. I bet the editor bumped that score up a couple points after the review was turned in.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
it is hilarious to me the way they are still trying against all odds to push frankie cosmos
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link
RichJuz madonna review is so well-written damn
― flopson, Thursday, 20 June 2019 21:46 (four years ago) link
I stopped reading at "grotesque wealth"...
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
that's the second sentence
― flopson, Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
she's more than halfway to a billion. only like 300 bernies
― flopson, Thursday, 20 June 2019 23:15 (four years ago) link
Their 2001 song “Everybody Got Their Something” sampled a guitar hook from George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass while also bringing to mind a then-current Faith Evans hit.
anyone care to point out where this reputed sample (it links to "I Dig Love") is? cuz I sure don't hear it.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 21 June 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link