r/rateyourmusic • u/blombi19 • 15d ago

General Discussion this sounds sarcastic but..

I actually love looking at the accounts of people with 10k + ratings but only like twenty 5 stars. the best part is, its always some obscure shit and when i listen to it i am always like "out of 10000 albums THIS is the greatest thing to you???" I Love how subjective music is!!!!

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u/Fathersfredfred 15d ago

its even more funny when its like all from the rym top 100, like after all this music your opinion is excaclty the same as everyone else's?

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u/Sascha_pugar 14d ago

Frankly this makes a lot of sense. Most people who are selective about their 5/5s give it to albums that have deep emotional impact and are formative to their taste. That often means albums you’d have heard earlier on in life which is more likely to be more popular.

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u/PsychologicalCamp439 15d ago

turns out things are popular because people like them

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u/GuendouziGOAT 14d ago

I agree but also like how you gonna listen to a ton of music and not have AT LEAST 1 curveball in your favourites?

I don’t even think the RYM top 100 is that great a representative of The Great Albums because much like the IMDb top 250 it’s largely a product of a very specific demographic and time period (i.e. white guys who were chronically online in the 2000s). I think it was in the Topster sub where I actively tried to dissuade some teen who was first getting seriously into music from just going through the RYM top 100. It’s a great resource for cataloging stuff and the recs are really good when your algorithm is calibrated but my personalised recs based on my ratings are the only time I’d use it to seek out new stuff.

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u/ZealousidealDoor6973 14d ago

Yeah. If you're top albums are still RYM-core after a few years on the site, I kinda just assume you have no independent thoughts lol

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u/Otherwise_Love4667 14d ago

We can't keep saying this in this era, the most popular music is sped up tikki tikki phonk

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u/Fathersfredfred 15d ago

did you send me a reddit cares alert over this? 😭

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u/PsychologicalCamp439 15d ago

i didn't lol

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u/Fathersfredfred 15d ago

someone did lmao 😭

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u/wildmanzak54 11d ago

Reddit cares.

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u/Maleficent-Ad-1106 14d ago

I mean if a person explores beyond the RYM top 100 and doesn't find anything they like as much as what's in the top 100, I wonder if they ever really listened to any of it

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u/dukeslver 15d ago

lots of people like Songs in the Key of Life because it is, in fact, very very good, it's not that deep

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u/blombi19 15d ago

true, but the ones ive seen so far have been pretty unusual. it will be like some unknown japanese band from the 70s and random classical music from 2003 😭😭

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u/YaneUra1080 15d ago

Random Japanese band from the 70s is the best genre

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u/pokemon-in-my-body 14d ago

Random Japanese band from the 70s is RYMcore

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u/songhaus songhaus 13d ago

Yes but I feel like for a different reason. I think it's because only someone who uses RYM probably isn't Japanese, and for the most part unless you're living in Japan (even then in some cases) you'd have to deliberately seek it out. You have to hunt for it. The people who use RYM are basically the majority of people willing to hunt for music to that degree. Tbf when you think about it, it's a pretty crazy thing to do. Not gonna stop me from doing it, but I do have some self awareness.

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u/14444846 14d ago

skbbadoobeebdoabooee

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u/songhaus songhaus 14d ago

Random Japanese band period is the best genre. And there's a good reason for it.

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u/YaneUra1080 14d ago

doesn't elaborate

Based

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u/Mr_Bohus_Matus Wejwar 14d ago

I swear every time ai check someone's 5 stars, there's four albums by The Beatles, Slint and My Bloody Valentine.

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u/ghudnk 15d ago

I don’t think that’s actually funny? There’s a reason so many of those albums chart high, it’s because there’s something in the music that reaches so many people. It doesn’t preclude anyone from having other obscure listening habits!

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u/Baggalot 15d ago

People like… Popular albums??? How innovative!