Then naturally the top charts will balance themselves out if that's the case? What are you even trying to say?

Album Rating: 1.5

It's Sputnik 'Safe Space' syndrome - this is the place people go to hide from Pitchfork giving the latest A Perfect Circle album a 3.2 out of 10



Lucid is right, anything that lasts a long time in the top 10 chart here I'll check just to see what the fuss is about, seems a normal thing to do. Same deal on RYM.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

You and doof have lost your minds more than I have.

And idk what other people do but I know I don't go to the charts and listen to every album regardless of genre or interest just because it's rated highly. I pick and choose what to check out based on my interests. Most people who don't like post-hardcore aren't gonna go "well its in the top twenty so even if its a genre i dont like i have to check it out and rate it accordingly". Most people who know they aren't interested in things probably just...don't waste their time on it

Album Rating: 4.5

"There's a weird pushback here with the notion that only fans of the band or post-hardcore lovers should be checking and rating this."



that isn't at all what's happening here lmao

But if you guys have such little value for your own time that you mindlessly listen to every album ever in the top charts regardless of what you're legitimately interested in then you 100% deserve the shitty experiences you get with bad albums

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Literal asshattery

Weird dudes

Album Rating: 1.5

If it has electric guitars I just see it as a rock album.



I'll check most any really highly rated rock album.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I believe that

Album Rating: 4.5

1.5 is lol

Album Rating: 4.0

He has one five and he’s the only one to rate it. Obscure taste lol of course he doesn’t like this

Album Rating: 4.5

1.5 is borderline unlistenable, this is nowhere close to that

Album Rating: 1.5

I like listening to stuff I don't like, it's interesting, life-afffirming - knowing your own taste, reaffirming your own taste is the most important thing to ground your listening. I mean it still only accounts for 1% of my listening - but 1% is still checking 50, maybe 100 or so risky or 'known shit' albums a year.



Sometimes I worry I'm liking everything I'm checking - then I switch on something like this and everything is right in the universe. 'This is terrible, I'm not losing touch'



Invaluable.



Also, sometimes, hilarious. Some of my favourite listening experiences have still ended in a 1 out of 5 rating.



Also lots of people will try a film, book or first episode of a TV show they aren't convinced they'll like - I'd say it's weirder that music fans think they have to break that mode and diverge :/



One step along the path to close-mindedness and ignorance I'd worry.

Gyromania is fun at parties, I can feel it!

Album Rating: 1.5

'1.5 is borderline unlistenable, this is nowhere close to that'



Well I never want to hear it again so that's the dictionary definition of unlistenable

Album Rating: 1.5

my objectivity ain't that great, check it

Album Rating: 4.2

Well I never want to hear it again so that's the dictionary definition of unlistenable

Album Rating: 4.0

Theres a pushback because it sounds more like Magnetic North than it does like The Satellite Years

Album Rating: 1.5

I'd love to know what is 'objectively unlistenable' - dog whistles at a high pitch frequency undetectable by humans?



Unlistenable is a purely subjective term - to listen to something that's so abject you never would willingly listen to it again must be what people mean by unlistenable?



Unless they're talking about dog frequencies.