Album Rating: 4.5

the albanian phrasebook

Another New Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura & Otomo... Music Video

Album Rating: 4.5

and the categories remain closed in our cartesian worlds..

good morning

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Hachiko

hii

Album Rating: 4.9

i want to become a dentist so i can play this in my office

Album Rating: 3.5

Ew at the conversation on page 2...

I can't believe I'm even bothering to type this but... that there seems to be a trend of certain obscure albums does not at all suggest that people are pretending to like them (though your interpretation, MisterTornado, does go to show that you conclude one must be pretending because you find that they are trendy and you yourself don't like them). All it is is that a source or sources that people look to have given the albums praise. Perhaps upon first glance it may seem that all one has to do is jump on the bandwagon to be admired (by who?) but you then quickly come to realize that what the only people who notice this niche seem to really admire is trendsetting and standing out within this niche. (I'm speaking based on what I notice in the way anonymous posters on /mu/ gossip about RYMers.) The kind of ratings that are more likely to be not genuine are ones in which a user who rates esoteric music deliberately evades rating too many recognizable albums to contrive the appearance of being an independent who discovers music separately from everyone else on RYM.

Album Rating: 4.9

lol exitsense it was a year ago calm your farm



on one hand i agree, and i think the reason /mu/ seems to loathe RYMers is because ppl on that website carve out their identities based on which canonical albums they like and when people are more obviously broadly-listened than they are they react with hostility; the mere fact that people out there are parsing and digesting music they haven't even heard of is proof of their parochial approach to consuming music and so they freak.



but on the other hand like remember that time you wrote a list trying to lampoon people who (correctly) think Radiohead to be experimental? let's not pretend that all of us aren't prone to being high-minded about our collections at certain times. and i absolutely stand by the fact that some ppl on RYM are disingenuous about their tastes and collections, although i don't think ur one of them (we just have markedly differing approaches in how we construct parameters of what music we like is)

Album Rating: 4.9

also lots of people do go out and find albums by themselves, by luck or research, because they have a sense of what they like? obviously if it's all albums like that something is amiss but with the plethora of wonderful blogspots, bargain bins and spotify oddities finding albums that other people might not have heard isn't exactly an onerous task

Album Rating: 3.5

People labeling Radiohead experimental is more problematic and debatable than people overrating Radiohead, something much more subjective which I'm not as bothered by (or at least I give up on caring). It's not that I think Radiohead aren't good enough or something to be called experimental, merely that their music...isn't very experimental, not even for rock music. "Experimental" is relative but one should at least take into account the history of what has been called experimental music. Why should Radiohead be considered a part of that? You think they are correct, but why? I'd argue with you on why Feels shouldn't be called freak folk but I wouldn't bother arguing why I prefer Jed Speare, so I don't know why you joked that I would do something like that.



Divine Music from a Jail was one of the few throat singing albums you checked out. I would think for other people it would be the same for similar reasons.

Album Rating: 3.5

I can see how someone would think "experimental" might apply to Radiohead in the sense that they "experimented" in their own musical development by adding electronic and jazz to their alt rock. But one would click on the tag "experimental" not to look at this type of rock which is slightly more alt than alt rock, but to look at, well, stuff like Good Morning Good Night. So putting Radiohead under experimental renders experimental a useless category.



Think of an undoubtedly experimental rock album, like Tago Mago. Kid A supposedly experiments by adding a bit of krautrock, jazz, electronic, and ambient -- and not the more foreboding tendencies of those styles. So Kid A is derivative. Very derivative: even if mixing these styles isn't common for rock bands to do, there's nothing confrontational, nothing Cubist about the way they play their songs. At least RYM uses "art rock" to distinguish between experimental rock (like Tago Mago, which isn't as experimental as experimental like lowercase or electroacoustic) and art rock (slightly more unconventional than alt rock), but users haven't yet figured out that experimental rock shouldn't be used on Kid A, simply art rock.



Experimental and avant-garde, when used to describe a type of music, are nearly synonymous. They vary slightly in their connotations and usage: one more often calls Scelsi's microtonal drones avant-garde, and Cage's or Lucier's indeterminate sounds experimental as well as avant-garde.

Album Rating: 4.0

what this is album is a little new age ish and what music simple patterns with the varied instruments have have got the person psyched 3D

Album Rating: 4.9

dude i hope that comment on christians comment box didn't really rile u, you know me pretty well and u know that i have a lame sense of 'humour'! I grasp your point, and you grasp mine, but for me experimental and avant-garde aren't synonymous at alll - if we're talking RYM-speak i'd rather experimental function as a descriptor and 'art rock' function as a genre. but to reiterate, esoteric/bizarre =/= experimental. I.e Choirs of the Eye = Experimental; Lowercase = Avant-garde but not necessarily, as with Jurg Frey's Weites Lands, experimental. i think we have different definitions and ultimately i think mine to be correct and 2 b fair i think i have semiotics on my side but i know how highly you value delving into unusual and that's commendable and you've certainly heard more than me and probably have better taste so????



idk what Divine Music has to do with anything but i've heard more tuvan throat singing albums than i've had hot dinners, it was one of the few 'niche' genres i knew anything about even before i went off the deep end musically

Album Rating: 4.9

P.S. i know you're not trying to be condescending but 'users haven't yet figured out' 'I give up on caring' like that's some pretty loaded language when it comes to positioning yourself against other listeners

Album Rating: 1.0

wtf is this stupid meme music this literally is hurting my ears

Album Rating: 4.0

go back to 4chan e.

:'(

Album Rating: 4.0

semiotics

Album Rating: 3.5

memetics