who the hell are all these people so efficient at listening that they need to actively search for more music? what do you have two separate sets of earbuds, a pair of cans, and speakers blasting over that show me your workflow

maybe true colt but also i am too bad at getting onto recs and so 0 marks

@colton yeah that's true, sput has all the rec gods

when I was a kid I just listened to boomer stuff I found out about from my parents and virtually everything since turning like 10 has been from sputnik honestly. only a few exceptions

How the fuck do you find new music on rym? I get way more new things out of Sput

Fuck I always forget that I found out about Modest Mouse from Snake reccing me them on the first list I ever made on here lmao, crazy stuff. They're like one of my favorite bands of all time now.

"How the fuck do you find new music on rym? I get way more new things out of Sput"

the charts and lists mostly. its so much better for finding music. the only stuff i find on sput is stuff thats directly rec'd to me basically

No yeah I've also found a shit ton of great stuff just trawling the rym charts. Pick a genre you're interested in, pick whichever ones look cool and listen until you hear sth you like

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Personally, the stuff that's popular on Sputnik caters more to my tastes than what gets popular on rym, so I discover most albums from here.

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Yeah sometimes I use RYM for the custom searches, can be pretty useful if you’re after a specific style. You can filter to include/exclude by genre and/or ‘influence’ which is handy. Pretty sure I’d never have bothered if it wasn’t for a few users on here recommending it.

I’ve literally never ventured into the community ‘section’ - however that works.

esoteric charts and random genre combination plus a lot of knowing the sort of thing you wanna listen to helps you dig up some old gems and is #1 best way for finding music



other than anat recs

O wauw, I’ve been on rym for a couple of months now and this is the first time I used the charts. Will dive into it some more. I litterly thought rym was just one big radiohead jerk off competition

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Eh, it's been a couple of years since the last Radiohead release, so it's pretty safe for now.

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‘who the hell are all these people so efficient at listening that they need to actively search for more music?’

I used to think like this, but then as my tastes changed I realised it was advantageous to reject what I was being ‘fed’ and go in a direction that requires doing a little bit of digging. Yeah theoretically I could just hang out here and pick whatever pops up on the front page via reviews/discussions etc (and sometimes that’s fine, but you can’t JUST do that). Feel free to replace ‘Sput front page’ with whatever else your default music discovering source would be.

Album Rating: 3.0

the sput front page burns my eyes

" How the hell are all these people" ?

I wish I was efficient, but I do actively search

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Recommendations are easy



Just jam Zapruder

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There are like 30+ artists represented on the front page (in one place or another). I’ve heard 6 of them, maybe 7 (quick scan).

Once upon a time I’d be at least wanting to fill in some more ‘gaps’ but now I’m okay with this.

Check Zapruder (2).

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RYM charts are the ultimate tool for music nerds for sure, even if it leads to some circle-jerking there and you get these interesting cycles of really random obscure stuff gradually rising on the charts. But RYM certainly has its weird biases just as much as Sput does even if they have more robust micro-communities around a wider array of genres than Sput.

If the gap bothers you at all, you could skim the rest in less than 10 minutes. Some of the releases are not from 2021 so you could cut them out, and some of them are metal so it could be quicker than 10.