Album Rating: 2.0

I find it quite strange to think someone who is into guitar music wouldn't have experienced enough Hendrix via osmosis to know if they're gonna dig it. Like not in a judgemental way, just in a mind blown way

this is venin we're talking about. she thinks music before 1992 is bad because the vocals aren't emotional enough

Album Rating: 3.5

I've experienced bits and pieces and liked what I've heard, I just haven't finished the full albums. This is the epitome of first world problems but often really old music has these "Remastered 2010" or whatever things after the song titles on streaming and it messes with my last.fm so sometimes my OCD with making it all look organized kicks in

@drifter: this is a very reductive way of looking at my personal preferences, especially since I have multiple pre-1992 albums in my 5's and even more 4.5 and 4s. I think its a generational divide thing, there's a lot of great older music, and some of the most emotional vocals I've heard in an older album came a few years before the cutoff you said I had. This must've been during a period where I thought I was outgrowing older stuff lol

Whoa how did I never realize this had a 4.4 rating on sput until now? Holy shit. I know it has its ardent defenders (s o w i n g d u h) but I would not have pegged this as unequivocal sputcore. Interesting.

Album Rating: 5.0

At one point not terribly long ago it was actually a 4.5

Album Rating: 2.0

yeh wat? I always thought this was one of the most obvious poster-children for supposed Sput greatness, hmm strange to not have noticed before, especially if you're a fan

possibly because this isn't unique to Sput in a disproportionately popular way (?), but then that specific caveat doesn't prevent Jane Doe's association with Sputcore (for example)

Album Rating: 2.0

I only know about this band because sput is so into them.

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I think they are exceedingly internet popular and have been for a long time. I definitely knew of them pre-Sput

(and the word has spread far enough that my wife knew their 'name' / vague genre and she doesn't 'internet music' at all, so idk)

Album Rating: 2.0

Fair enough, I'm not very in the loop, I always figured they were more of a thing in America but clearly not the case

The reality is that having rated every album in Brand New's discography back in 2017 (i.e., the last time they released something new) and having made no rating adjustments, I've had no need to visit the band's landing page and thus my only interaction with their albums is entering chats as they appear in the "new comments" section, which doesn't reveal anything about the album's score.

riveting thread

Album Rating: 2.0

Sometimes you just gotta get orientation done

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"...and having made no rating adjustments"

why tho? This must be where you went wrong.

P.S. Very much enjoyed reading your comment in isolation and pretending I wasn't actually at all part of this "riveting thread" lol

I guess I still like the albums just the same 🤷‍♀️
I have a hardcore excel spreadsheet for all album/movie ratings which is generally what I reference first and foremost before making any changes to sput, RYM, LB, etc.

Album Rating: 2.0

truly living the rock n roll lifestyle

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nah but seriously I’d like a spreadsheet of that ilk, would just rather not set it up (myself) because the initial phase sounds like too much of a ball-ache when Sput / RYM exist as an alternative

The key is to start long before it becomes a monolithic task. I think this particular spreadsheet has been kicking around since ca. 2008 or so (guesstimating a bit, I know I started it when I was in college because that's what I spent most of my Sociology lectures doing lol).

My constant justification is that Excel (in some form or another) will still be around looooong after sput and RYM have bitten the dust.

Album Rating: 2.0

that makes sense, definitely wish I’d maintained a rather rudimentary early draft of a ‘database’ back in my teenage years - no ratings as far as I can remember, just my CD collection and a few bits and pieces

It’s probably fairly simple if you’re technologically minded. I realise you can import ratings into a document, but they usually look a right mess and the editing process would require significant effort

Album Rating: 2.0

Don't want to stir the shit here, but this album is pretty bad. Can't stand the singing style, it's just too much expressed emotion for me to handle.

Album Rating: 2.0

Agreed. I think you’re fine tho considering I was casually discussing music cataloging despite my identical rating (foggy with the based 2/5, also)