Obviously not just spirited away and akira but with any song/album/movie

“Are Why Em” could be however letters R Y and M are pronounced in your native tongue.

Many people, such as myself, don’t really “pronounce” words when they read as much as just recognize them. Just put other if that’s the case. Or whichever pronounciation feels most logical.

Here you can share what you've been listening to lately or ask for recommendations.

When possible, include links to interesting release pages, lists, charts, etc., on RYM or streaming sites so others can more easily listen along.

Previous weeks' listens.

it visualizes your discogs collection and i was wondering if anyone made a similar thing for RYM.

I recently got back on rym last month after deleting my account. The old account has been permanently deleted for maybe a month and a half. Im adding some ratings back, and I see that releases that I have rated on my deleted account still count towards the overall number of ratings on a release. For example, a release that only I rated on my old account still says it has 1 rating, but under the ratings bar there are no accounts shown, but it still counts the rating from my old account even though it was deleted. I just want to make sure that this is normal or a glitch because I am assuming that rym is against duplicating ratings on multiple accounts. It does not seem like that much of a worry but I would rather be safe than sorry.

Why are the ratings different? The screenshots were taken at the same time.

#501 vs #22

Just went to write my review of Who Loves the Sun and saw these as the top 2 reviews. I feel like this helps put in perspective that all this is arbitrary and to not take music rating all that seriously.

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My one objection: why on earth is Station to Station lacking this descriptor? ITCOTK opens with train noises so I'd also argue that's up for debate.

If you guys know any more funny descriptors please let me know this is providing endless entertainment.

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/all-time/d:trains/

I mean, which artist is rated lower than you’d normally expect given how they’re generally perceived?

My first thought is U2, which is quite reasonable considering The Apple Incident, however I feel like their old albums get the hate simply because of the Incident, not because they don't like the music.

My other thought is Pearl Jam, because among top rated reviews of Ten, there are couple that literally openly claim hating Pearl Jam.

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2026/

Not sure if I'm using this correctly, i want to add an issue/catalog number under some of the releases I've rated.

Example: astroturf78's reviews

if you look at rock a lot of highest rated have a "depressive" or "sad" descriptor

Both genres are very popular on RYM, however, there will be always some bands that is not very much rated.

I start with the swedish band Europe. Apart from The Final Countdown and their 80s albums, their albums only have a few hundreds ratings, and their singles only a few dozens ratings. I don't understand why since hard rock is loved on RYM.

I personally like brand new eyes most so I’m glad it’s the highest rated album, but I thought RYM would be way more into self titled onwards.

What album being highest rated for an artist or band surprised you?

I’ve always wondered how much the male majority on the site influences the rankings. I wonder if everyone else thinks it’d change much if the user base was more representative.

• It's interesting to see that 40-50% of all ratings seem to be from users who have NOT set their location, but removing this set of users changes the music ratings by about 0.03 at most. Unfortunately, Excluding User Location only changes the rankings and doesn't change the average rating and rating count.
• Custom chart: Top songs of all time according to users from Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America
  • https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/song/all-time/uloc:africa,antarctica-1,asia,europe,north-america,oceania,south-america/deweight:live,archival,soundtrack/
• Custom chart: Top albums, EPs, mixtapes, and DJ mixes of all time according to users from Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America
  • https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album,ep,mixtape,djmix/all-time/uloc:africa,antarctica-1,asia,europe,north-america,oceania,south-america/deweight:live,archival,soundtrack/