Please recommend me music! Random comment: People ruin this place :'(. I don't recommend any social relationships, anywhere. Music is timeless and placeless, at least for me. Well, I love you anyway.

Links and stats

http://hateyourmusic.com
http://rateyourmusic.com/wiki/Links (doesn't work anymore)
http://rateyourmusic.com/va_classifier/
http://rateyourmusic.com/misc/random Hit this for a random album
http://rateyourmusic.com/stats/top_reviewers_by_number
---- ?/???? #30 Fastro total reviews: 2,779 (well this is very odd! Why am I so high?)
---- 1/2014: #25 Fastro total reviews: 3,028
---- 8/2014: #27 Fastro total reviews: 3,340
---- 12/2014: #25 Fastro total reviews: 3,470
---- 10/2015: #22 Fastro total reviews: 3,894 (actual amount: 4,086)
---- 3/2016: #20 Fastro total reviews: 4,118
---- 21.4.2016: # 19 Fastro total reviews: 4,225 (actual 4,449)
http://rateyourmusic.com/stats/top_reviewers_by_words
---- ?/???? #335 Fastro total words: 102,660
---- 1/2014: #277 Fastro total words: 117,996
---- 8/2014: #245 Fastro total words: 135,046
---- 12/2014: #237 Fastro total words: 145,045
---- 10/2015: #199 Fastro total words: 176,195 (actual amount: 183,456)
---- 3/2016:#194 Fastro total words: 192,313
---- 24.4.2016: # 183 Fastro total words: 202,069 (actual 222,022)
http://rateyourmusic.com/misc/conformity Conformity of ratings: 0.71 ... -> 0.69 [9/2013] (the higher the rating, the less of a conformist you are, so I've become a conformist grandpa lately?)
- Wait, do we need a bigger scale, for example because there's so little difference in my 0.5 star ratings to what other people have rated?
Adjusted difference for 5.0: 0.5913984979507976
Adjusted difference for 4.5: 0.5264570585626459
Adjusted difference for 4.0: 0.3184165979055061
Adjusted difference for 3.5: 0.19680248288880164
Adjusted difference for 3.0: 0.5538449635142049
Adjusted difference for 2.5: 0.8072388414825644
Adjusted difference for 2.0: 0.9762745659066413
Adjusted difference for 1.5: 1.073308177717292
Adjusted difference for 1.0: 1.0916742109036996
Adjusted difference for 0.5: 0.8103880248428383


Distribution of ratings & the rating system

Look at my ratings histogram and its beauty. That's what it should look like. Of course the density distribution depends on what kind of music you head to. For example if you only rate the best albums it could be exponential. Certainly that's the goal - a world that contains only good music. But that's not realistic. A flat chart would be the most serviceable option, but even though would be even, it would be polarizative, since the music here in its entirety ought to follow the Gaussian distribution / Normal Law of Errors. Also the rater should be making "mistakes" so the variance grows. And people should rate the music also diversely, besides concentrating on the music they like. The mean value should be closer to 3,5 than 4,0. The variance σ2 / Standard deviation / width of density function shouldn't be too small, but closer to the standard. Thence, usefulness of the chart grows like in the flat chart. For example, if you have only ten 4,5 to 5 star ratings in overall 1,000 ratings, it probably means that you rate so high only those albums that attract you personally, but with no actual reasons. Because after all, personal opinions are quite random. And there's really no 5-star-albums, but there must be much those that you like much, so very strong chooseyness is pointless, whereas strong sophistication isn't. Be strong and lose your opinions, opinions are always wrong; evaluate AND value everything constantly. Of course the ratings should be natural, not thought to be making the histogram better. Isn't it amazing that the bell shape builds up itself automatically, at least for sin-cere people. Sinful people will die.

Note that the average rating "should" be 2.75, not 3.0 (0.5 +1 +1.5 +2 +2.5 +3 +3.5 +4 +4.5 +5)/10 = 2.75

My Average Rating: 3.06 stars (edit: 2.97... which is reasonable because I've tried to take the best albums and now there's not so many left. edit1/2011: 2.96. edit 9/2013: 2.88 ). So it's above average, naturally. I could even say that all 3.5 star albums are masterpieces - and it's always subjective. For me, 2.5 star album can be very good, but I just don't like it SO much. Anyway, I think it's even sad to give 4.0 stars for some very nice and good album. But even if you give a bad rating, you can still love it, can't you? So here emerges the need for diverse rating system. On some other sites, there is such things, and also stylistic "ratings" for heaviness, speed etc. Even if there was a possibility to rate the music objectively and subjectively apart from each other, it wouldn't be easier. It would be more difficult. For example you could love some album but not always. Some albums you could love always, but not so much compared to previous mentioned. So we would need another system - stability, that would be attached to each rating gradient. Our subjective views are never objective for a subject either, and we can never catch the atoms that are the primary reasons, so we would need an endless amount of gradients to explain all the discontinuity.

Nowadays I listen to music more extensively, so there's much popular music and other music that I don't like so much, and the average rating has gone down. So I noticed that I had two bell curves for music on that has the average in 3.5 stars (gem prog) and one that's more like 2.25 stars (other music).

Collection/Ownership/Tags
- I own everything I have rated, so not owned is "owned".
- Used to own means that I don't even want that album, but I have listened it through.
- fmt.MP3, Owned: Digital is reserved for Finnish prog(gy) music only.
- Tag "x" means that I have it but haven't rated it yet.
- Tag "y" means I want it bad (weighted wishlist).
- Many of the tags are genres that are not primary genres in those albums, or not even that, but belong to same family in some ways. Tags are not complete, at all. I use them quite seldom.

Ratings by types:
typs,ss.rd,Albums
type,ss.rd,EPs
typc,ss.rd,Compilations
typi,ss.rd,Singles
typb,ss.rd,Bootlegs
typd,ss.rd,DVDs
ss.rd,All

My favourite random genres - a probability for the music to be good

- Maybe an average rating in a scale of 0,5 to 5,0
- This is not a complete list and it is old. I have to update it later.

3,7 1. avant-prog
3,6 2. symphonic prog
3,6 3. italian symphonic prog
3,5 4. progressive rock
3,5 5. rock in opposition
3,4 6. avant-garde (modern classical)
3,3 7. technical thrash metal
3,3 8. zeuhl
3,2 9. progressive metal
3,2 10. experimental rock
3,1 11. funeral doom metal
3,1 12. progressive death metal
3,0 13. symphonic black metal
3,0 14. jazz-rock
3,0 15. death doom metal
3,0 16. canterbury scene
3,0 17. progressive folk
3,0 18. technical death metal
2,9 19. death metal
2,9 20. art pop
2,9 21. psychedelic pop
2,9 22. progressive pop
2,9 23. jazz fusion
2,9 24. black metal
2,9 25. math rock
2,9 26. avant-garde metal
2,9 27. traditional doom metal
2,9 28. maybe wave
2,8 29. heavy metal
2,8 30. folk
2,8 31. krautrock
2,8 32. goregrind
2,8 33. medieval music
2,8 34. grindcore
2,8 35. cybergrind
2,8 36. deathgrind
2,8 37. doom metal
2,8 38. avant-garde jazz
2,7 39. atmospheric black metal
2,7 40. sludge metal
2,7 41. atmospheric sludge metal
2,7 42. brutal death metal
2,7 43. post-punk
2,7 44. noisecore
2,7 45. microtonal
2,7 46. spectralism
2,7 47. chamber music
2,7 48. hindustani classical music
2,7 49. bulgarian folk music
2,7 50. gothic metal
2,6 51. noise rock
2,6 52. new wave
2,6 53. indie pop
2,6 54. indie electronic
2,6 55. atmospheric rock
2,6 56. blackened death metal
2,6 57. art rock
2,6 58. psychedelic rock
2,6 59. experimental
2,6 60. idm
2,6 61. progressive electronic
2,6 62. berlin school
2,6 63. polyphonic chant
2,6 64. thrash metal
2,6 65. breakcore
2,6 66. space rock
2,6 67. neoclassical darkwave
2,6 68. neomedieval folk
2,6 69. electronic
2,6 70. depressive black metal
2,6 71. noise pop
2,6 72. freak folk
2,6 73. avant-folk
2,6 74. western classical music
2,6 75. neoclassicism
2,6 76. groove metal
2,6 77. gypsy
2,6 78. industrial metal
2,6 79. folk metal
2,6 80. crust punk
2,6 81. impressionism
2,6 82. tropicali punk
2,6 83. hardcore punk
2,6 84. melodic death metal
2,6 85. ethereal wave
2,6 86. drone doom metal
2,6 87. jazz-funk
2,6 88. industrial
2,6 89. hard rock
2,6 90. neo-medieval folk
2,6 91. crossover thrash
2,6 92. chamber jazz
2,6 93. classical period
2,6 94. no wave
2,6 95. drill and bass
2,6 96. alternative metal
2,6 97. rock
2,6 98. electronica
2,6 99. neo-psychedelia
2,6 100. dream pop
2,6 101. illbient
2,6 102. broken beat
2,6 103. idb
2,6 104. 2-step
2,6 105. renaissance
2,6 106. darkwave
2,6 107. neofolk
2,6 108. indie rock
2,6 109. classic rock
2,6 110. melodic black metal
2,6 111. art punk
2,6 112. suomisaundi
2,6 113. experimental hip hop
2,6 114. southeast asian classical music
2,6 115. jazz
2,6 116. electroclash
2,6 117. dark cabaret
2,6 118. raga rock
2,6 119. nu jazz
2,6 120. cape jazz
2,6 121. acid jazz
2,5 122. flamenco
2,5 123. darkstep
2,5 124. dubstep
2,5 125. post-rock
2,5 126. uk garage
2,5 127. orchestral
2,5 128. neurofunk
2,5 129. folktronica
2,5 130. opera
2,5 131. romantic period
2,5 132. martial industrial
2,4 133. goa trance
2,4 134. death 'n' roll
2,4 135. alternative rock
2,4 136. pop
2,4 137. funk rock
2,4 138. funk metal
2,4 139. neo-classical metal
2,4 140. vocal jazz
2,4 141. traditional folk
2,4 142. folk rock
2,4 143. yé-yé
2,4 144. chamber folk
2,3 145. electroacoustic
2,3 146. psytrance
2,3 147. emo
2,3 148. grunge
2,3 149. indie folk
2,3 150. caribbean
2,3 151. bhangra
2,3 152. celtic
2,3 153. free folk
2,3 154. swing
2,3 155. samba-jazz
2,3 156. memphis rap
2,3 157. traditional chinese music
2,3 158. piano rock
2,3 159. post-hardcore
2,3 160. chiptune
2,2 161. new york hardcore
2,2 162. jungle
2,2 163. breakbeat
2,2 164. industrial rock
2,2 165. psychedelic folk
2,2 166. folk pop
2,2 167. abstract hip hop
2,2 168. pigfuck
2,2 169. britpop
2,2 170. jam band
2,2 171. trip hop
2,2 172. neo-prog
2,2 173. gothic country
2,2 174. arabic music
2,2 175. alt-country
2,2 176. glitch
2,2 177. riot grrrl
2,2 178. speed metal
2,2 179. synth pop
2,2 180. metal
2,2 181. power metal
2,2 182. power violence
2,2 183. tardcore
2,2 184. throat singing
2,2 185. shoegaze
2,2 186. dark psytrance
2,2 187. drum and bass
2,2 188. samba
2,2 189. african
2,2 190. ebm
2,2 191. reggae
2,2 192. dub
2,2 193. tropicália
2,2 194. mpb
2,2 195. contemporary folk
2,2 196. singer-songwriter
2,2 197. neoclassical new age
2,1 198. piano blues
2,1 199. neue deutsche welle
2,1 200. blues
2,1 201. electropop
2,1 202. space age pop
2,1 203. church music
2,1 204. power electronics
2,1 205. post-grunge
2,1 206. synth punk
2,1 207. blues rock
2,1 208. jangle pop
2,1 209. jazz pop
2,1 210. harsh noise
2,1 211. new age
2,0 212. noise
2,0 213. downtempo
2,0 214. tape music
2,0 215. cool jazz
1,9 216. humppa
1,9 217. big band
1,9 218. d-beat
1,9 219. acoustic rock
1,9 220. melodic metalcore
1,8 221. nu metal
1,8 222. metalcore
1,8 223. tango
1,8 224. turbo folk
1,8 225. punk rock
1,8 226. anarchopunk
1,8 227. hip hop
1,8 228. bossa nova
1,8 229. cabaret
1,7 230. bluegrass
1,7 231. ska
1,7 232. rap metal
1,7 233. trance
1,7 234. progressive psytrance
1,6 235. house
1,6 236. ambient
1,6 237. habanera
1,5 238. comedy rock
1,5 239. spoken word
1,4 240. eurodance
1,4 241. ska punk
1,3 242. skate punk
1,3 243. hardstyle
1,3 244. chanson
1,2 245. country
1,1 246. pop punk
1,0 247. techno
(taken from rateyourgenre.com)


Genre amounts

= How many pages some random genres have here with me. Actually this doesn't tell much, because usually I like those with more little numbers.

236 rock
86 progressive rock
86 metal
34 experimental rock
33 pop
32 electronic
29 alternative rock
26 avant-prog
24 folk
21 progressive metal
21 jazz
20 contemporary folk
19 hard rock
18 death metal
16 black metal
15 psychedelic rock
14 symphonic prog
14 punk rock
13 classical music
12 indie rock
11 western classical music
11 pop/rock
9 modern classical
9 doom metal
9 experimental
9 jazz-rock
8 avant-garde metal
8 thrash metal
8 heavy metal
8 post-punk
8 hardcore punk
7 progressive folk
7 indie pop
7 jazz fusion
7 art rock
6 art pop
6 traditional folk music
5 symphonic metal
5 progressive death metal
5 technical death metal
5 noise rock
5 krautrock
5 folk rock
5 power metal
5 hip hop
4 zeuhl
4 ambient
4 rock in opposition
4 avant-garde jazz
4 grindcore
4 trance
4 folk metal
4 new wave
4 gothic metal
4 psychedelic folk
3 technical thrash metal
3 progressive pop
3 idm
3 darkwave
3 drum and bass
3 world music
3 funeral doom metal
3 death doom metal
3 canterbury scene
3 psychedelic pop
3 atmospheric black metal
3 sludge metal
3 space rock
3 art punk
3 alternative metal
3 synth pop
3 african
3 hardcore techno
3 gothic rock
3 industrial
3 rhythm & blues
2 traditional doom metal
2 speed metal
2 brutal death metal
2 uk garage
2 dubstep
2 stoner metal
2 progressive electronic
2 chamber music
2 math rock
2 deathgrind
2 breakcore
2 electropop
2 south asian
2 neo-prog
2 reggae
2 baroque pop
2 no wave
2 free jazz
2 neofolk
2 avant-folk