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(I'm going to edit this profile... one day. I'm really not that cranky.)*
Formula for a high rating on RYM:
1. You are a metal band.
2. You are a (black) rapper.
3. You have not sold many albums or had many hits. Ideally, a few people in a thousand would recognize your band name. Exceptions: "classic" artists (whose virtues, real or imagined, have been pounded into your head since birth) get a major free pass.
4. May be considered an addendum to (3.): your music is as difficult and non-poppy as possible. Drone metal, clanking machine noises, or 15 minute screaming metal dirges are prime examples of this principle.
Unlike some around here, I don't think I get hipster points for rating things low. Most of the music I listen to in the first place is obtained because I think I'll like it to some degree. Why it should be otherwise is a mystery to me, unless (for example) you review music professionally and are routinely exposed to 1-2 star albums. Or perhaps you just like wasting your time listening to crap.
Oh, by the way. I'd really appreciate it if you... people would stop underrating albums from the last few years. It throws a monkey wrench into everything. For albums from 2008 and especially more recently, I have to mentally adjust the RYM score to get the "real" score (this involves adding at least .2 to recent releases). When a 3.60 album can be in the year's top 100, sometimes even top 50 or higher, you know there's a problem. FFS, this site is actually becoming almost useless for assessing newer albums because of this problem. For recent albums, the ratings are now only useful in assessing how an album from a particular year compares to others released that year; comparisons to previous years (which don't experience the rating deflation) are neigh impossible.
*(Despite the shortcomings of the site, this place has a lot going for it, and it's not like I'm a total outlier re: what I wrote above. For the music ratings, less so the film ratings, RYM has been a useful reference for when I want to get an idea on the probable quality of something: just gotta keep those shortcomings and limitations in mind.)
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Joined 2008-05-29T10:15:16Z
The thing I would change in the first place is that the rating is more median - and less average-orientated. That would not equal the problem out, but at least reduce the influence of powervoters and people who download masses of albums and rate them 0.5 if they dont like them. I think, that does concern popular modern albums in the first place.
Do you know the album "Machine Gun" by Peter Brötzmann? That is the most polarizing album I can think of - *really* brutal free jazz which sounds completely random at times (at least I think so). "Machine Gun" has an average rating of 3.88 and about 1200 ratings. With this score it would be easily on first place in 2013. Right now, only 17 people rated it with 0,5 points. While it would be easy to guess what would happen if it would be released this year and start off high in the charts - people who are not even interested in Free Jazz would listen to it and it easily had hundreds of 0.5 ratings until it would land somewhere in the mediocre middle. I often see that new albums start (deservingly) very high and fall in the following weeks and months, because so many people listen and rate it without really being used to comparable stuff. (And it is completely okay doing so, since this site it about discovering new music, dont get me wrong.)
By the way, I started a thread about that topic in the forums about a year ago, maybe you would like to read it, there are some clever posts I guess: http://rateyourmusic.com/b...board_id=1&
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He is the president, believe it or not.
This is not so different from Europe. Maybe a cheaper version or something like that. I love my country. So, where do you live, man? Sorry for my english.
I'm adding you. I dig your taste.
Actually, looking at the ratings and the charts from the 1970's and 1980's, it's pretty clear that a fair few (somewhat) highly regarded records would probably have been rated quite low at the time, while some incredibly obscure records are now highly regarded (some for no good reason other than that they're obscure it sometimes seems, but there you are).
Thanks for the tips. I'll be sure to give them a try.
Oh, and glad you appreciate the reviews.
Plausibly this could be TD yeah, though I suspect some other score producers have their fingers in as well. It's a much more restrained track than I'm used to coming from TD in the recent years (not in terms of the mood as much as the density of the arrangement).
Hey, I got bored so decided to create a 'RATE YOUR: greatest David Bowie songs' list.
Give me your top 10 in order to be scored as follows: Your position 1 song gets 5 points; positions 2 to 4 get 4 points each; positions 5 to 7 get 3 points each; positions 8 to 10 get 2 points each.
I’ll add these to the running grand total, and will update the list very regularly so check back for updates.
Hope to hear from you!
Regards
Peter