If I want to get into an artist or genre as well I usually check what the nerds think the best album is and I use that as a starting point - not always 100% reliable but it gives you a lead y'know, helps with big discographies. It's sometimes fun to peek at the reviews, by which I mean the melodramatic essays that detail how Blue by Eiffel 65 shaped some dude's youth and what society means to them as a result.
Hey RYM, Grandpa here. I have been trying to get into all sorts of classical/orchestral works, but finding an album/recording of my favorite composers can be quite difficult. Grandpa would like to be able to find the best Bach works just like he could with Dean Crosby. Grandpa would also like to be able to just click/tap a button to add it to a list instead of going into said list and looking up the album I want to add. Many good tidings, from Grandpa.
@@mystikgleam9541 RYM has considered your request and, after much deliberation, has decided to delete all classical music entries of any kind from the database. Thank you for your input :)
Here are my top 10 favorite albums of all time! 1. To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar 2. OK Computer by Radiohead 3. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd 4. In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson 5. Kid A by Radiohead 6. Madvillainy by Madvillain 7. Loveless by My Bloody Valentine 8. In Rainbows by Radiohead 9. The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd 10. good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar Note: this is all my opinion edit: people are complaining that this is “unoriginal” and “just the top 10 albums on RateYourMusic” but they clearly can’t appreciate how deep these albums are and how difficult it is to enjoy them
@@Andrei4224 mm yes a fellow Nadja enjoyer, I'd say Radiance of Shadows is my #285 for 2007 brilliant album, I love the drone metal and the post-metal sections that kinda sound cold sombre and ethereal, truly one of the albums of 2007.
if this were in fantanos comment section it would be annoying and played out, but in this context its hilarious structure 5/5 word choice 5/5 funniness 5/5 overall 3.5/5
@@biggie-cheese2 yeah was gonna put TPAB in my comment but decided against it because Bob Dylan is more stereotypically "pretentious music fan". But youre welcome to replace Bob Dylan with TPAB or Pink Floyd in your head.
@@antiarezzo7630 i agree and i'd never shame someone for rating albums that are commonly agreed upon to be good highly, but it does get a little boring when people share their lists/topsters and it's the exact same set of albums as everyone else but in a different order. like, idk, i feel like if you're sharing a list, at least give people a reason to care about what you're sharing. there's little to no discussion left to be had about a topster with tpab, igor, blonde, in rainbows, and all the other predictable picks that are seen every time lol.
Most of them see a great album and immediately circlejerk and think it's funny when it's actually annoying as fuck, they also have this thing where they only like 1 or 2 albums from a genre and think they achieved the goal infinite variety taste (limp pumpo and bitch ass darius with ghettotech, coakira with gabber, dj sprinkles and against all logic with house, basic channel for techno etc)
The website itself is SO useful for finding specific kinds of music by searching tags and stuff which is great for when I can't find any new music to listen to that I actually want to listen to, but you can't take the scores too seriously for the most part since it's kind of an echo chamber, and the reviews themselves are some of the cringiest shit on the internet
But what other way is there in this day and age to discover new music other than by chance? There are AOTY, SputnikMusic and hit lists but the same can be said about them. What do you even mean by this?
I'd say the best is OK Computer by the band Radiohead, it has this emotional and texturized quality to it that many people can relate to. More importantly, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding Radiohead albums. In a sense, one can say that those foundational artpieces were merely building blocks to what would become OK Computer. It features an embryonic and richly crisp sound that really gives the songs a big boost, and Thom Yorke's lyrics are filled with so much meaning about life, it's wonderfully psychedelic and cathartic all at once. There is this gut punch of goodness that the album induces on its listeners the first time that I can only describe as painful and agonizing. This album should be arrested for aggravated assault. I've never heard this album in my life, but it sounds really cool.
rateyourmusic is pretty good for doing deep dives into different genres and cataloging stuff you like but there's no reason to subject yourself to interacting with any part of its user base.
Hilarious! RYM is a great tool if you love music, have eclectic tastes, but don’t necessarily have many avenues to discover new different music. Let’s be real: there is too much out there to know everything. There are many albums I love that have bad scores on rym, but most of the albums that have high ratings i end up liking somewhat.
this is so true. imo every high rated album on that site is highly rated for a good reason - maybe i don't always exactly agree with how highly rated each album is on the charts or whatever, anything in the 3.80+ range is pretty much always going to be worth listening to. but yeah, there's also stuff that's a bit lower that i enjoy a lot as well, and that's fine. it's bound to happen on any site like that.
@@dankmemewannabe7692 i see it that all art is based on opinion, it’s just that with highly rated rym albums, there’s a bigger consensus about opinion. So just because i or someone else has an outlying opinion, it just means it resonated for them more than most. I don’t believe in an objectively “good” or “bad” album, or any piece of art - just art that resonates with people in different ways. Even the process of putting a single rating on a piece of art, while it can be useful to create measurements of comparison within one’s own experience, can oversimplify all the different ways a piece of art can be affecting. As an example, the “so bad it’s good” signifier is usually just an indication of a much more complex web of resonance, usually including bewilderment, hilarity, nostalgia and a bunch of other conflicting feelings. In short - each experience is objectively subjective, in that everyone’s feelings are actually *truly* felt, and so the fun part is not in *defending* one’s opinion against others, but in understanding others more by figuring out why things resonate with people and not others. Competition is fun, to be sure, but in the end for me, it’s about the one thing we deserve the most of each other - a deeper and more intimate and heartfelt understanding.
@@dankmemewannabe7692 anyone can review anything as in even a deaf person or someone who feels physically ill at the sound of a guitar could go and review music and then say it wasn't anything or just painful to them and it'd be there as a real rating for others to read extreme examples, but that's what happens on principle, there's nothing to defend
uhhhh have you heard of a little indie band called Pink Floyd, its kind of a Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Space Rock, Rock Opera kinda thing, they're pretty underground though you probably havent heard of them
The only people worse than this are the “all the good music was made before the year 2000” mfs. You know, the ones who’ve never heard a single modern song aside from whats on hits 1, and decided that all modern music is bad.
This is far too accurate. Unfortunately, I have a habit of checking RYM every time I'm about to listen to a new album. I still listen to it regardless, but it does affect my opinion. How does UA-cam even know I use RYM??
never doubt the almighty algorithm. rym users probably have similar youtube-using habits in topics adjacent to rym itself. the algo can latch on to that
don't stress, my friend! getting music recommendations doesn't make you less of a music fan :D it's okay to like popular things, even if "popular" just means popular with quirky music critics.
he looks like the type of guy to stomp his feet and have steam erupt from his ears if you say "The Dark Side of the Moon is my favorite Pink Floyd album."
RYM has become so much more enjoyable for me when I just completely ignore the charts all together and just use it to find more recordings of pieces I like from my favorite classical composers and keep track of which ones are my favorite
yeah the yearly/all time charts suck, but the make your own chart feature has become my favorite way of finding music on there, it's just way more versatile than using the god awful list search, i've found a bunch of interesting genre combos that way.
@@ZeroWaveZ oooo, 125, rue Montmartre! and yeah i adore the make your own chart feature, i wish it was a bit more classical friendly (can't sort by date of compositions rather than their recording) but it's so useful for finding new music! especially if you want to explore an unorthodox genre + descriptor combo, like Death Metal + Sad (gets you Artificial Brain) or Minimalism + LGBT (gives you Julius Eastman)
My friends who are also big into music are on RYM all the time. They’re always specifying the genre of albums that I’m enjoying and say things like “it’s actually inspired by this other album that came out in the 80s” or something and all I have to say is “cool”. They do show me a lot of good music though.
its so sad because sometimes conversations revolving around genres/influences can be fun and interesting, but when you can tell that the person ur talking to is literally just repeating stuff they saw on rym its hard not to get second hand embarrassment.
I hate this because it's me but also because I have to use music sites to remind me of what came out in a given year cause my memory is absolute shite lol
exactly mannn i just use it to find new music. If i was to listen to a li st of the most popular albums or some shit i wouldnt like a lot of it. I feel that rym gives me a good pool of music to take recommendations from. I disagree with a lot of ratings and think theres some shit thats way overhated on there, or I just like it a lot more, for example kali uchis isolation is one of my fav albums, same with the strokes new abnormal, a lot of pearl jam's music, cage the elephant, muse, mgmt, Ride, tame impala. All stuff that has kinda mediocre ratings on RYM. But then my fav artists are radiohead, bowie, pink floyd, kendrick lamar, etc which makes me look like the dude in this video lmao
@@AlanGonzalez-ev6ur I mean all that msuic is really good which is why it has ascended so high on many charts. What’s lame is when you don’t branch out from the charts at all
@@AlanGonzalez-ev6ur I think rym and any other similiar site can be a helpful way to find new music and a good critique can also teach you new ways to experience music which is great. I think the problem arises when it's MORE important to appear to enjoy good quality music than actually enjoy it. But if you have the right friends, then the discussion about music is more fruitful instead just saying an album name after another lol.
same lmao, also tbh i tend to jump on the latest albums later than others, for example i'm listening to a bunch of albums that came out last year just now
@@maryfreegirl2029 I feel that, I only got into Home Is Where in like November of 2022 and was kicking myself for missing out on it when it first dropped.
Best artist has gotta be Merzbow, Boredoms, Gerogerigegege, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brainbombs, Egor Letov, Death in June, Current 93, La Monte Young, Moondog, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Luigi Russolo, Popol Vuh, Fishmans, Jean Jacques Perrey, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Rainbow Caroliner, Taj Mahal Travellers, Fushitsusha, Peter Brötzmann, John Cage, Scott Walker, Unwound, Dead, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nang Nang, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Nara Leão, Basic Channel, Raymond Scott, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Noah Howard, Terry Riley, Peter Sotos, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Boyd Rice, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Flynt, Kazumoto Endo, David Tudor, Aporea, Half Japanese, Mega Banton, Secret Chiefs 3, Keiji Haino, Ramleh, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Robbie Basho, Phil Spector, Faxed Head, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, Fred Frith, The Residents, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Hans Krüsi, Royal Trux, Jandek, Yat-Kha, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Pärson Sound, The Dead C, Comus, Cromagnon, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Doyle, Shizuka, The Red Krayola, Henry Cow, Magma, Opus Avantra, Pan.Thy.Monium., Murmuüre, Ksiezyc, Gong, Cukor Bila Smert', cLOUDDEAD, Muslimgauze and Kaoru Abe
rate your music is a pretty cool place, but a lot of people there just repeat what other people say instead of enjoying the music they like, if you go to the comment section of any album with a rating lower than 3.50 you will see what i mean
This reminds me a lot of my best friend in school. I was huge into music and I'd never known him to listen to a song in his life. I asked him if he even knew who Led Zeppelin were and he sent me a copied and pasted paragraph from Wikipedia about the Rolling Stones' album "Sticky Fingers". What's even funnier is that I believed every word and commended him on his knowledge of Led Zeppelin.
damn im awful at articulating myself. i bet i sound exactly like this 😔 no wonder my friends always wanna change the topic when its my turn to talk about music lol
The people on that website literally hate everything. Whenever I look up my favorite album, it has terrible reviews with opinions I have never heard about said album before when talking to people in real life. I do not go there anymore.
This was me back in the early 2010s. I used to get all my opinions on video games from /v/. I would tout how much better the original Fallout games were compared to the Bethesda Fallout games, having played neither.
rym is great for when you want to find new obscure sht to try out, for example i go to my fave albums page and check out lists/threads mentioning that album and click on the titles/covers that catch my eye lol, i dont rate stuff there or interact much cause i generally dont like rym users' attitudes for the most part aoty is much more chill so i rate my fave stuff there and can joke around with everybody with almost no toxicity involved
My favorite album of each decade is In The Court Of The Crimson King, Wish You Were Here, Remain In Light, OK Computer, In Rainbows, To Pimp A Butterfly, and Ants From Up There
I use RYM bc I need to see what the music nerds are listening to in order to balance out what I hear from the mainstream media. I found Fishmans and Black Country New Road from there and they were the highlight of my 2022 lol
HAHAHA same, me and my black bull Tyrone love Merzbow, Boredoms, Gerogerigegege, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brainbombs, Egor Letov, Death in June, Current 93, La Monte Young, Moondog, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Luigi Russolo, Popol Vuh, Fishmans, Jean Jacques Perrey, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Rainbow Caroliner, Taj Mahal Travellers, Fushitsusha, Peter Brötzmann, John Cage, Scott Walker, Unwound, Dead, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nang Nang, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Nara Leão, Basic Channel, Raymond Scott, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Noah Howard, Terry Riley, Peter Sotos, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Boyd Rice, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Flynt, Kazumoto Endo, David Tudor, Aporea, Half Japanese, Mega Banton, Secret Chiefs 3, Keiji Haino, Ramleh, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Robbie Basho, Phil Spector, Faxed Head, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, Fred Frith, The Residents, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Hans Krüsi, Royal Trux, Jandek, Yat-Kha, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Pärson Sound, The Dead C, Comus, Cromagnon, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Doyle, Shizuka, The Red Krayola, Henry Cow, Magma, Opus Avantra, Pan.Thy.Monium., Murmuüre, Ksiezyc, Gong, Cukor Bila Smert', cLOUDDEAD, Muslimgauze and Kaoru Abe
ok but theres literally nothing better than sometimes i might be introvert in 2021 its the best album release and all i do is shit on ratemymusic and pitchfork like ITS GENUINELY LIFE CHANGING and easy to comprehend just STREAM LITTLE SIMZ SHES SO UNDERRATED
“Male vocals” lmao this is so underrated
I like my music LGBT and introspective
@@GoldJerryGold with a hint of abstract hip hop and billy woods for good measure
fr lol
@@GoldJerryGold Twin Fantasy by Car seat Headrest
I like omnious music
1 day with a fantano fan vs 1 day with a rym nerd
"Corporate asked us to find the difference between these two pictures"
@@deeeee17 "umm.. There the same picture."
suicide
@@Lively_Pessimist I know that this is just a meme, but in all seriousness, the difference has got to bethony the flannntano.
Scary how often ranking of albums morphing closer to his rating as soon as he finally reviews them
Gotta love it when music evokes those feelings of sampling
thats exactly the kind of niche comedy i can relate to
its not niche
@@loveliescrushing you’re slow something having thousands of users doesn’t mean it’s not niche
*to which I can relate.
You're so slow that your comment is a run-on sentence.
@@dwaynekeenum1916 its not niche
What’s great about rym is you can use it to find all sorts of new music and have zero connection with the community
Yes it's fantastic for finding very specific styles that one may be interested in
that’s how i use it too lmao
If I want to get into an artist or genre as well I usually check what the nerds think the best album is and I use that as a starting point - not always 100% reliable but it gives you a lead y'know, helps with big discographies. It's sometimes fun to peek at the reviews, by which I mean the melodramatic essays that detail how Blue by Eiffel 65 shaped some dude's youth and what society means to them as a result.
Hey RYM, Grandpa here.
I have been trying to get into all sorts of classical/orchestral works, but finding an album/recording of my favorite composers can be quite difficult. Grandpa would like to be able to find the best Bach works just like he could with Dean Crosby. Grandpa would also like to be able to just click/tap a button to add it to a list instead of going into said list and looking up the album I want to add.
Many good tidings, from Grandpa.
@@mystikgleam9541 RYM has considered your request and, after much deliberation, has decided to delete all classical music entries of any kind from the database. Thank you for your input :)
Here are my top 10 favorite albums of all time!
1. To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar
2. OK Computer by Radiohead
3. Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
4. In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
5. Kid A by Radiohead
6. Madvillainy by Madvillain
7. Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
8. In Rainbows by Radiohead
9. The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
10. good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar
Note: this is all my opinion
edit: people are complaining that this is “unoriginal” and “just the top 10 albums on RateYourMusic” but they clearly can’t appreciate how deep these albums are and how difficult it is to enjoy them
he's right. i guess
In Rainbows is my #1 out of those
Production of loveless is sooo good
pretty edgy opinion, might get canceled
This genuinely look like 99.9% of all topsters I’ve seen
If he paid for RYM premium he could look at the average track ratings to figure out what his favorite song was.
I like that he used "sampling" as an adjective
RYM album ahhh pfp
@@man4437 it's just an album and btw how do you know that's an album cover?🤨 Fellow RYM user?🤝
@@Andrei4224 mm yes a fellow Nadja enjoyer, I'd say Radiance of Shadows is my #285 for 2007 brilliant album, I love the drone metal and the post-metal sections that kinda sound cold sombre and ethereal, truly one of the albums of 2007.
This guy unironically looks like a Car Seat Headrest fan.
in other words, gay
@@deelan8664 nah
Not gay enough.
Car seat headrest is good
Or one of the members. lol
“I literally love music, and I listen to it”
Spoken like a true rate your music enjoyer
My crush in 2nd grade asked me if I liked the beatles, I said yes cause I thought they made crazy frog.
Truly a match made in heaven
is this a fucking Yes reference? OMAGAWD
They didn’t? 😢
This is the funniest and highest quality UA-cam video I have ever seen. 7/10
This is the funniest and highest quality UA-cam video I have ever seen. 7/10 [2]
3.5/5
I'm feeling a light to decent 7 on this UA-cam video, did you like it, did you hate it? what would you rate it let me know in the comments down below.
if this were in fantanos comment section it would be annoying and played out, but in this context its hilarious
structure 5/5
word choice 5/5
funniness 5/5
overall
3.5/5
@@user-ey8yc7st7k I was more making fun of RYM than fantano tbf
the immeasurable cost (being annoying) of being musically literate in the modern day (sorta liking experimental hip hop)
"Music isn't any good anymore! It's all mumble rap and over-produced hyperpop! Give me Radiohead or Bob Dylan anyday."
-RYM
@@glowerworm You know their 2nd highest rated album is a rap album right
@@biggie-cheese2 yeah was gonna put TPAB in my comment but decided against it because Bob Dylan is more stereotypically "pretentious music fan". But youre welcome to replace Bob Dylan with TPAB or Pink Floyd in your head.
@@glowerworm Whatever aggregate site you're talking about, RYM ain't it. They show plenty of love for newer music-- *especially* rap music.
@Sandwich Yeah this is kind of a dated music opinion.
I love when the "music guys" all come out with their top albums of the year lists and the selections are all strikingly similar between them.
I’m not like oThUr people I have really uNiQuE music tAste
It's because they are the best? Music fans know what's good😅 if an albums good word gets around
@@antiarezzo7630they are not best at all
@@antiarezzo7630 i agree and i'd never shame someone for rating albums that are commonly agreed upon to be good highly, but it does get a little boring when people share their lists/topsters and it's the exact same set of albums as everyone else but in a different order.
like, idk, i feel like if you're sharing a list, at least give people a reason to care about what you're sharing. there's little to no discussion left to be had about a topster with tpab, igor, blonde, in rainbows, and all the other predictable picks that are seen every time lol.
@@happycrimson realise that a king crimson pfp is saying this
The fear in his eyes as he has to field any questions is sooo accurate
My favourite live album? 98.12.28 男達の別れ (98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare) of course!
dont be hating on fishmans live
Fishmans is garbage bruh
@@Fthhtuu nuh uh 😡
That album is spiritual ascendance lol
@@Fthhtuu Cain was right
Rate your music users either have the best music taste known to man or are insufferable. Often times both lol
Hello yes I am both
Most of them see a great album and immediately circlejerk and think it's funny when it's actually annoying as fuck, they also have this thing where they only like 1 or 2 albums from a genre and think they achieved the goal infinite variety taste (limp pumpo and bitch ass darius with ghettotech, coakira with gabber, dj sprinkles and against all logic with house, basic channel for techno etc)
@@VreyIsGrey if you have to tell people you're something, It's probably not too true. Almost like saying "I'm a nice guy actually".
True. I have never met a RYM user who wasn't pretentious as fuck.
The website itself is SO useful for finding specific kinds of music by searching tags and stuff which is great for when I can't find any new music to listen to that I actually want to listen to, but you can't take the scores too seriously for the most part since it's kind of an echo chamber, and the reviews themselves are some of the cringiest shit on the internet
'''its sort of...sampling'' had 10/10 delivery
I LITERALLY LOVE MUSIC !!!
Oh, you love music? Name 350,000 artists
@@henryhardtits Chris Brown and uhhhh
"I LISTEN TO IT!"
Real music fans have that one overly obscure artist they follow that they have to name drop whenever possible
LOL THIOS IS ME
GFOTY
Actually, I prefer to gatekeep
B U C K E T H E A D
@@giantclaw138 are you messing with their 590158th album they just dropped? (it might actually be 590159 by the time u read this)
I think RYM is the definition of “I’m not like other kids”
But what other way is there in this day and age to discover new music other than by chance? There are AOTY, SputnikMusic and hit lists but the same can be said about them. What do you even mean by this?
@@youtubeisevil it's a joke bro xd
@@youtubeisevili usually ask chatgpt for recommendations
RYM is “too alternative for alternative” kids too
@@youtubeisevil Make friends. Go to local shows. Support your scene. I’ll see you in the pit, nerd.
RYM users when you tell them your favorite genre is pop and not Neo-Experimental Post-Industrial Hardcore Darkwave
I love the genre names making no sense but they're the actual genres from that site
I'll take the RYM guy over the Pitchfork guy any day
Well, that's kinda low hanging fruits.
AOTY guy >>>
Aren't they the same guy?
Pitchfork Guy after ranking the IceSpice Album over Donda, The Forever Story, Man on The Moon, Swimming and THRILLER
@@reecedoggg real, aoty is great, not that im biased or anything
so glad i have an objectively good music taste to share with friends
You should make Music 2
This dude LOVES neutral milk hotel btw
I'd say the best is OK Computer by the band Radiohead, it has this emotional and texturized quality to it that many people can relate to. More importantly, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding Radiohead albums. In a sense, one can say that those foundational artpieces were merely building blocks to what would become OK Computer. It features an embryonic and richly crisp sound that really gives the songs a big boost, and Thom Yorke's lyrics are filled with so much meaning about life, it's wonderfully psychedelic and cathartic all at once. There is this gut punch of goodness that the album induces on its listeners the first time that I can only describe as painful and agonizing. This album should be arrested for aggravated assault. I've never heard this album in my life, but it sounds really cool.
TPAB is number 1 now+ kid a better
Fuck you got me
I prefer Kid A, it sound like a dead baby.
this is me when i rate my music
“Not quite number three, but better than number 5, gonna out it at 4.” Love the biting analysis
This is like the guy that somehow thinks everyone hates him yet was the one to violently bully me in high school.
this is violence now
@@blarghblargh DEAF GIMPS REFEWENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
@@blarghblargh DONT GET ME WRONG
@@mamamiyalozatoz hello. Would you like to pick a card?
rateyourmusic is pretty good for doing deep dives into different genres and cataloging stuff you like but there's no reason to subject yourself to interacting with any part of its user base.
Hey, at least they’re not as bad as the Metal Archives community.
I fully acknowledge how low that bar actually is.
When they ask you your favorite individual track, go to the Track Ratings section
i was caught by the "male vocals" gag
Hilarious! RYM is a great tool if you love music, have eclectic tastes, but don’t necessarily have many avenues to discover new different music. Let’s be real: there is too much out there to know everything. There are many albums I love that have bad scores on rym, but most of the albums that have high ratings i end up liking somewhat.
how do you go about defending albums with low RYM scores (this is sort of a vain question but I still wanna ask it xd)
@@dankmemewannabe7692 just disregard their opinion. Some albums are precious to me because of their flaws.
this is so true. imo every high rated album on that site is highly rated for a good reason - maybe i don't always exactly agree with how highly rated each album is on the charts or whatever, anything in the 3.80+ range is pretty much always going to be worth listening to.
but yeah, there's also stuff that's a bit lower that i enjoy a lot as well, and that's fine. it's bound to happen on any site like that.
@@dankmemewannabe7692 i see it that all art is based on opinion, it’s just that with highly rated rym albums, there’s a bigger consensus about opinion. So just because i or someone else has an outlying opinion, it just means it resonated for them more than most. I don’t believe in an objectively “good” or “bad” album, or any piece of art - just art that resonates with people in different ways. Even the process of putting a single rating on a piece of art, while it can be useful to create measurements of comparison within one’s own experience, can oversimplify all the different ways a piece of art can be affecting. As an example, the “so bad it’s good” signifier is usually just an indication of a much more complex web of resonance, usually including bewilderment, hilarity, nostalgia and a bunch of other conflicting feelings. In short - each experience is objectively subjective, in that everyone’s feelings are actually *truly* felt, and so the fun part is not in *defending* one’s opinion against others, but in understanding others more by figuring out why things resonate with people and not others. Competition is fun, to be sure, but in the end for me, it’s about the one thing we deserve the most of each other - a deeper and more intimate and heartfelt understanding.
@@dankmemewannabe7692 anyone can review anything
as in even a deaf person or someone who feels physically ill at the sound of a guitar could go and review music and then say it wasn't anything or just painful to them
and it'd be there as a real rating for others to read
extreme examples, but that's what happens on principle, there's nothing to defend
My fav feeling in the world is when i say enough music so that my friends call me 'a real guy'
uhhhh have you heard of a little indie band called Pink Floyd, its kind of a Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Space Rock, Rock Opera kinda thing, they're pretty underground though you probably havent heard of them
@@ictogon Male Vocals too
if only he knew how MUCH rym loves the beatles
damn black midi made into this man's top 5 list 2 years in a row. What a feat. That's good music!
Not anymore 🫤
@@lugarespecial not anymore 😔 they have gone down the charts 😢 now its bad 😭
"i literally love music, and i listen to it"
“might even call it brutal prog” i couldnt hold in my laughter😂😂😂
prog
@@pentexsucks43 ty
if someone asks me my fav albums i have to go to rym cuz that’s where i keep my album lists 😭
The only people worse than this are the “all the good music was made before the year 2000” mfs. You know, the ones who’ve never heard a single modern song aside from whats on hits 1, and decided that all modern music is bad.
"they told me i could listen to anything, so i listened to what they told me to" - average rym user
This is the equivalent of someone's favorite movie being Shawshank Redemption and their favorite show being Planet Earth II.
My favorite show got number one spot on the Rolling Stone chart of 2010's shows 💀
This is far too accurate. Unfortunately, I have a habit of checking RYM every time I'm about to listen to a new album. I still listen to it regardless, but it does affect my opinion.
How does UA-cam even know I use RYM??
never doubt the almighty algorithm. rym users probably have similar youtube-using habits in topics adjacent to rym itself. the algo can latch on to that
"but it does affect my opinion"
you're gross
@@johnes4882 Alternatively, UA-cam is just factoring in their past Google searches
this video im feeling 3.5/5 stars
I genuinely love all of those albums, but now you got me worried that I'm THAT guy.
Edit: love your video btw, it's nothing against you. :)
Same hahahaha
don't stress, my friend! getting music recommendations doesn't make you less of a music fan :D it's okay to like popular things, even if "popular" just means popular with quirky music critics.
i think the videos not critical of liking those albums but just of people who based their "favorites" off what other people say
we're all that guy, don't worry
You are that guy, those all suck ass.
he looks like the type of guy to stomp his feet and have steam erupt from his ears if you say "The Dark Side of the Moon is my favorite Pink Floyd album."
All roads lead to The Beatles
😂
RYM has become so much more enjoyable for me when I just completely ignore the charts all together and just use it to find more recordings of pieces I like from my favorite classical composers and keep track of which ones are my favorite
yeah the yearly/all time charts suck, but the make your own chart feature has become my favorite way of finding music on there, it's just way more versatile than using the god awful list search, i've found a bunch of interesting genre combos that way.
@@ZeroWaveZ oooo, 125, rue Montmartre! and yeah i adore the make your own chart feature, i wish it was a bit more classical friendly (can't sort by date of compositions rather than their recording) but it's so useful for finding new music! especially if you want to explore an unorthodox genre + descriptor combo, like Death Metal + Sad (gets you Artificial Brain) or Minimalism + LGBT (gives you Julius Eastman)
if you like classical listen to takashi yoshimatsu, super underrated japanese composer
this is the funniest shit. the part about not even being able to name a song on LP! and the rationale for it had me in stitches
The sad thing is I can't either. Veteran better anyways
@@antiarezzo7630No sir👩🏿🦲 LP, cornballs> really though I love all of em and its hard for me to rank
@Brad Taste In Music
I loved him lowkey struggling to say the first title lol
This dude definitely has TPAB as his favorite album of all time
My friends who are also big into music are on RYM all the time. They’re always specifying the genre of albums that I’m enjoying and say things like “it’s actually inspired by this other album that came out in the 80s” or something and all I have to say is “cool”. They do show me a lot of good music though.
its so sad because sometimes conversations revolving around genres/influences can be fun and interesting, but when you can tell that the person ur talking to is literally just repeating stuff they saw on rym its hard not to get second hand embarrassment.
Love the casual lefty shake at the end
Good video, I give it an average of 3.78/5.00 from 2574 ratings
I know this video is a joke, but By The Time I Get To Pheonix and Volcanic Bird Enemy are legit great albums!
hi Jeremy how are you.
LUCAS GRAHAM
I mean all those albums are great tbh its not my top 5 but hey those do be good records
Hi Jeremy
Omg Jeremy
Someone who ranks their music based on anthony fantano, same vibe
I hate this because it's me but also because I have to use music sites to remind me of what came out in a given year cause my memory is absolute shite lol
exactly mannn i just use it to find new music. If i was to listen to a li st of the most popular albums or some shit i wouldnt like a lot of it. I feel that rym gives me a good pool of music to take recommendations from. I disagree with a lot of ratings and think theres some shit thats way overhated on there, or I just like it a lot more, for example kali uchis isolation is one of my fav albums, same with the strokes new abnormal, a lot of pearl jam's music, cage the elephant, muse, mgmt, Ride, tame impala. All stuff that has kinda mediocre ratings on RYM. But then my fav artists are radiohead, bowie, pink floyd, kendrick lamar, etc which makes me look like the dude in this video lmao
@@AlanGonzalez-ev6ur I mean all that msuic is really good which is why it has ascended so high on many charts. What’s lame is when you don’t branch out from the charts at all
@@AlanGonzalez-ev6ur I think rym and any other similiar site can be a helpful way to find new music and a good critique can also teach you new ways to experience music which is great. I think the problem arises when it's MORE important to appear to enjoy good quality music than actually enjoy it. But if you have the right friends, then the discussion about music is more fruitful instead just saying an album name after another lol.
same lmao, also tbh i tend to jump on the latest albums later than others, for example i'm listening to a bunch of albums that came out last year just now
@@maryfreegirl2029 I feel that, I only got into Home Is Where in like November of 2022 and was kicking myself for missing out on it when it first dropped.
i wait for fantano to review it so i dont have to worry about forming my own opinion
I don’t listen to this kind of music, so when I heard the name of the first album I genuinely thought he made it up 💀
This is probably the best video I've seen in my entire life
You really need to watch more UA-cam then
You guys were my roommates freshman year 😭😭😭 glad your UA-cam channel is going well!
I hate myself for knowing #5 - #3 but not remembering a single song.
Slipping Bitches Brew into your all-time top 10 to prove you totally appreciate jazz
Lmfaoooo
"what are you talking about i literally love music! and i listen to it!!" 😭
Injury Reserve definitely deserves to be on that list, that album broke my heart
Volcanic bird enemy is such a good fucking album tho. LUM never misses
Impressive, very nice
Now let's replace "rate your music" with "the needle drop"
Four of those were in my 2021 AOTY list and I feel called out.
This should have more views.
Best artist has gotta be Merzbow, Boredoms, Gerogerigegege, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brainbombs, Egor Letov, Death in June, Current 93, La Monte Young, Moondog, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Luigi Russolo, Popol Vuh, Fishmans, Jean Jacques Perrey, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Rainbow Caroliner, Taj Mahal Travellers, Fushitsusha, Peter Brötzmann, John Cage, Scott Walker, Unwound, Dead, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nang Nang, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Nara Leão, Basic Channel, Raymond Scott, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Noah Howard, Terry Riley, Peter Sotos, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Boyd Rice, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Flynt, Kazumoto Endo, David Tudor, Aporea, Half Japanese, Mega Banton, Secret Chiefs 3, Keiji Haino, Ramleh, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Robbie Basho, Phil Spector, Faxed Head, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, Fred Frith, The Residents, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Hans Krüsi, Royal Trux, Jandek, Yat-Kha, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Pärson Sound, The Dead C, Comus, Cromagnon, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Doyle, Shizuka, The Red Krayola, Henry Cow, Magma, Opus Avantra, Pan.Thy.Monium., Murmuüre, Ksiezyc, Gong, Cukor Bila Smert', cLOUDDEAD, Muslimgauze and Kaoru Abe
rate your music is a pretty cool place, but a lot of people there just repeat what other people say instead of enjoying the music they like, if you go to the comment section of any album with a rating lower than 3.50 you will see what i mean
As someone with a RYM account. This is pretty accurate.
This reminds me a lot of my best friend in school. I was huge into music and I'd never known him to listen to a song in his life. I asked him if he even knew who Led Zeppelin were and he sent me a copied and pasted paragraph from Wikipedia about the Rolling Stones' album "Sticky Fingers". What's even funnier is that I believed every word and commended him on his knowledge of Led Zeppelin.
The communities of those websites are the character Tyler in The Menu.
I laughed out loud. Well done guys!
damn im awful at articulating myself. i bet i sound exactly like this 😔 no wonder my friends always wanna change the topic when its my turn to talk about music lol
Just listen to a lot of Bud Powell
dude, my favorite genre is dream pop trip hop indie pop plunderphonics hypnagogic pop too!!
I do love to see Ugly Mane getting the recognition he deserves
The people on that website literally hate everything. Whenever I look up my favorite album, it has terrible reviews with opinions I have never heard about said album before when talking to people in real life. I do not go there anymore.
What doesn't help is that the top 100 has a lot of shitty experimental and indie "music" just because it's critically acclaimed.
What are their ratings? Basically all my liked albums are between 3.00 and 4.00.
@@Darksider54189Examples?
god fuckign damnit volcanic bird enemy and the voiced concern is my favourite album of all time
Damn that was a very good year for music
These are all amazing albums
lol I’m not that guy. I’m the kind that gets their music taste from the salty contrarians in the RYM comment section.
Actually, my 862nd favorite 2015 album (as of 24 January 2023) is Sigh's Graveward.
this guy most really love tpab since recently
so happy for you that this blew up
This was me back in the early 2010s. I used to get all my opinions on video games from /v/. I would tout how much better the original Fallout games were compared to the Bethesda Fallout games, having played neither.
How has this channel not blown up. This shit’s fuckin hilarious
It's derivative humor.
@@lotanowo most popular things are
Respect the Vehemence pfp. AOTY 2022 for me
rym is great for when you want to find new obscure sht to try out, for example i go to my fave albums page and check out lists/threads mentioning that album and click on the titles/covers that catch my eye lol, i dont rate stuff there or interact much cause i generally dont like rym users' attitudes for the most part
aoty is much more chill so i rate my fave stuff there and can joke around with everybody with almost no toxicity involved
My favorite album of each decade is In The Court Of The Crimson King, Wish You Were Here, Remain In Light, OK Computer, In Rainbows, To Pimp A Butterfly, and Ants From Up There
dude you're really good
I use RYM bc I need to see what the music nerds are listening to in order to balance out what I hear from the mainstream media. I found Fishmans and Black Country New Road from there and they were the highlight of my 2022 lol
ZA FISHMANSSSSS
HAHAHA same, me and my black bull Tyrone love Merzbow, Boredoms, Gerogerigegege, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brainbombs, Egor Letov, Death in June, Current 93, La Monte Young, Moondog, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Luigi Russolo, Popol Vuh, Fishmans, Jean Jacques Perrey, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Rainbow Caroliner, Taj Mahal Travellers, Fushitsusha, Peter Brötzmann, John Cage, Scott Walker, Unwound, Dead, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nang Nang, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Nara Leão, Basic Channel, Raymond Scott, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Noah Howard, Terry Riley, Peter Sotos, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Boyd Rice, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Flynt, Kazumoto Endo, David Tudor, Aporea, Half Japanese, Mega Banton, Secret Chiefs 3, Keiji Haino, Ramleh, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Robbie Basho, Phil Spector, Faxed Head, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, Fred Frith, The Residents, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Hans Krüsi, Royal Trux, Jandek, Yat-Kha, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Pärson Sound, The Dead C, Comus, Cromagnon, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Doyle, Shizuka, The Red Krayola, Henry Cow, Magma, Opus Avantra, Pan.Thy.Monium., Murmuüre, Ksiezyc, Gong, Cukor Bila Smert', cLOUDDEAD, Muslimgauze and Kaoru Abe
@@v5j95jv9j5w I love this copypasta
@@maryfreegirl2029 Godtier band, I have tried to put my friends on but they run away when they see the link to a 42min song lol
@@v5j95jv9j5w i love a bunch of these, especially murmuure and clouddead, idk what that says about me lol
And fishmans ofc
This is a personal attack because he hit my Top 4 on the nose.
ok but theres literally nothing better than sometimes i might be introvert in 2021 its the best album release and all i do is shit on ratemymusic and pitchfork like ITS GENUINELY LIFE CHANGING and easy to comprehend just STREAM LITTLE SIMZ SHES SO UNDERRATED
Fr fr, Volcanic Bird Enemy and LP! are my favourites from 2021. Such creative and entertaining albums
Honestly that’s a pretty good list though 😂 I’d probably put Injury Reserve first
I love Fantano and black midi but this vid is so accurate lmaoooooooo
These records really do slap though! But I get it 😂
*I know Jpeg and Black MIDI, the rest I have no idea. Sounds interesting though. I’ll check em, and evolve to my final form.*
SIMBI by little simz changed my life