“I only Listen to Real Music”

that's why I only listen to whatever music andrew tate say it's good

I remember having a friend who listened to Breakcore, I didn’t understand the appeal until they simply said “I don’t know, it just kinda sounds like the noise inside my head, as if my feelings were converted into a song” This has been my philosophy for music ever since

“Real music” is one of the most infuriating terms you can use for any kind of music.

i choose albums based on their covers, usually works

This is why I stick to the very simple music philosophy my father passed down onto me "If you like the music then to you it's good music"

As a frequent consultant of rym, this video really speaks to the part inside of me that cries when I see that my favorite album has a rating of less than 4 stars

Great points throughout this video. Very few people are able to admit this sort of bias or come to the same conclusion you did openly about this stuff. As someone who deals with this for a living, this was a nice vid to watch

I always thought my musical taste is unique and anti-mainstream Then i look into RYM page and think, "Crap, i'm not special"

i think people forget that RYM has nothing to do with critical acclaim, its literally just a pretty large community of somewhat like minded normal people who enjoy music enough to rate it, if you dont gel with the average taste of a RYM user theres literally nothing wrong with that!

one thing about rym: PLEASE don't listen down the all-time rym charts. like, really, it's so much better to put in some thought into what you're gonna listen to, consoder your own preferences for the sonic palate, the genre, the aesthetics, don't just click them one by one, use genre filters, use descriptors, use lists by other users, browse the "obscure" releases pages (there's literally a whole section for that on rym!) this is the way you can get a full rym experience, i do it myself and I've found so many phenomenal albums and artists

Honestly, I had the reverse experience, I started with really obscure, extreme releases and slowly started to appreciate more mainstream stuff after checking out many albums I found on RYM.

The best thing about RYM is lists, they are useful for finding good albums that often are a little overlooked.

I enjoyed this yap session a lot. Keep it up

I think it's a great idea to listen to the most acclaimed albums (as they are extremely influential) but just don't get mad when you don't like something. I hated to be kind, but liked soundtracks for the blind and vespertine, for example. Your opinion on an album does not change its worth to the music world, but you'll eventually like something anyways. I just had to accept that even if I hate an album-it's still basically good and there's nothing I can do to change that.

One of my favourite activies is to search up any artist I like on RYM and laugh about at all the people who spent way too much time writing an angry review about why the artist "isn't as good anymore" and "They're just imitating artist xy".

its impossible to define which are the best albums in history. i started using rym as a reference for discovering music, not as the "ultimate truth about music". I love the site but seeing that in the top 100 albums, there were fewer than 10 by female artists, and only three or four albums not in English made it clear to me that in a way the site is still conservative towards certain kind of artists and music.

i think its more fun to just consult random people on what music they like. Sometimes I'll make a deal with a friend to listen to this one album if they listen to this album i enjoy. It's pretty nice to bond over music like that instead of just looking through reviews that all say that the thing you like sucks and just make you feel kinda shitty.

I think I've had the opposite experience to musical anesthesia. The more I listen to great albums from a variety of genres, the more appreciation I have for albums that I previously would've written off, and the better I'm able to articulate why I love the albums that I already do

People keep hating on rym, yet honestly ive found soo much incredible music through it - im really happy ive got into it in the first place

You somehow managed to capture so much of how I feel about exploring new music. The pessimistic section is also so accurate for me. I stumbled on an old playlist of mine from a few years ago, songs that got me through so much and all I could think was how basic my taste was and I hate that I felt that way. Its a complicated thing balancing enjoyment and the human urge to fit in as having "good taste"