Your 5 favorite albums

you suck

Is that comment directed at me? Sorry if my tastes are too common. I saw a band called Hot Garbage last night, if that's more your speed. They lived up to their name .

I'm beginning to think Turrican doesn't like this thread.

it must be doing something right then

The Innocence Mission - Birds of My Neighborhood
Bob Neuwirth - Havana Midnight
Nick Lowe - Dig My Mood
The Style Council - My Ever-Changing Moods
Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose

ummmm Turry I'm still waiting for your 5 favorite animal collective albums!!! pronto please!

Orchestra Luna - s/t
Sparks - Indiscreet
B-52's - s/t
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis

Dinnerboat: no, it wasn't!

calzino: don't know who you are, mate.

flappy bird: If it's rankings of Animal Collective albums you're after, I'm sure you're more than aware by now you're asking the wrong person. Try Googling.

Ty Googling <--- good name for a country singer

The Band - The Band
Plux Quba - Nuno Canavarro
In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
World of Echo - Arthur Russell
August 1974 - Taj Mahal Travellers

it has been fun to try to match the lists to the poster, I must say

Sing To God is on four, btw, and unlike Hats, stuff actually happens in it, so if you're a fan of stuff happening, check it out

Ultros, we listened to that Coaltar of the Deepers today - it was awesome! Looking forward to checking out other stuff on these lists, mostly frogbs' and sleeve's tbf but not ruling anyone out

We'll have the rateyourmusic.com all-time top 5000 posted completely at this rate. Great work!

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican)

you know what? ok, i'll take you up on that one.

harvey mandel - cristo redentor
strangeways - walk in the fire
the boys - s/t
ray barretto - acid
pmmp - kovemmat kädet

five great records from the rym top 5000 none of which i had heard before today.

Blue Nile are one of several good bands my mother played a lot since I was very young but they were the last one that really clicked. I was kind of astonished when it stopped being dull and it started sounding rich and gorgeous.

Cor, that Nuno Cannavaro album is the business.

In A Silent Way must have been mentioned at least three times now? Remain in Light, too.

actually the best thing about this thread is when you look at people's lists and think "okay four of those selections are on point, looks like I need to find out wtf choice 5 is".

― Tim F

one of the key things here, I think

between this and the Notated Music poll I've probably got my listening sorted well into 2017

Miles must be the top artist

I think it's Kate Bush. I count 10 Kate Bush mentions, 7 Miles mentions.

We'll have the rateyourmusic.com all-time top 5000 posted completely at this rate. Great work!

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican)

why are people so obsessed with this stupid website

The Innocence Mission - Birds of My Neighborhood
Bob Neuwirth - Havana Midnight
Nick Lowe - Dig My Mood
The Style Council - My Ever-Changing Moods
Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose

also love this list eazy. poetic champions compose is def the best '80s van record. never heard the bob neuwirth.

RYM is a great way for aspies like me to catalogue, discover and collect thoughts about music, but it's not for the casual listener sure

would turrican be more pleased if none of these albums were on the rateyourmusic.com all-time top 5000 or would it be even worse?

bah why did i post that

imago i agree, forest for the trees etc... or maybe it's trees for the forest in this case (the effects of aggregation make for arguably bland results there)

Pavement - Wowee Zowee
The Clash - Sandinista!
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
De La Soul - De La Soul is Dead
R.E.M. - Dead Letter Office

This thread is great but this exercise is hard af. Kills me I can't fit any Al Green/Fugazi/Unwound on there, or much rap or newer stuff. But I tend to love long, messy albums that you can explore forever, and each of these LPs introduced me to huge worlds of music so they'll always hold a special place

I like RYM, I like reading some users reviews and I find out about records by looking through others users whose taste I know. I also make list on the site.

Two albums I'd consider if bonus editions count: VU's Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition) and that 50-track version of Elvis Costello's Get Happy!!. Those are such insanely generous collections of music, and good examples of albums that are somehow even better when they're longer and messier

Oh yeah.

RYM consensus is often fairly dull, much like ILM consensus, but the trick is learning how to apply your own filters

heavy users of rym are mostly prog metal junkies ime

sorry, i didn't mean to call the website "stupid", i just think it's stupid to treat it as some monolithic thing with its own 'taste'

Yeah, the best way to get the most out of RYM is to make use of the filters. I've made some surprising discoveries that way. Otherwise, the charts just look like this thread.

Prog metal fans are very easily categorisable as stupid, and I say that as a fan of prog and metal

Yeah, there's a lot of prog/metal/prog metal "genre experts" on RYM, it's true... but they're not the only genres that RYM is useful for getting deep into.

my latest thing with rym has been the lists. the thing tim f said about knowing four of the selections? there are so, so many user-generated lists like that. find a reasonably obscure record you like and see what lists it's on, instant discovery engine.

I like RYM's genre charts a lot, I've found them very useful. And there's a lot of reviews for stuff you probably won't find elsewhere.

Basically, what I'm saying is that if flappy bird really was serious about discovering new music, that he'd really benefit from making full use of the data available on RYM or perusing many of the sites out there which feature hundreds of lists of albums. I would have also recommended the "recommendations" feature on last.fm before the site got redesigned and completely wrecked the feature, which is a bit of a shame.

I mean, it's cool that people like Hounds of Love and everything, but surely at this stage anyone who's ever found ILM or is posting here knows it's generally considered to be classic. Hats also, as much as I don't rate it, is hardly an obscure release - as far as I'm aware it's always been a critically acclaimed, well known release.

turrican do you really not get the difference between this thread and looking at RYM?

sorry, i didn't mean to call the website "stupid", i just think it's stupid to treat it as some monolithic thing with its own 'taste'

― brimstead

two words: egyptian. shumba.

(well actually i'm not sure "shumba" is an actual word. you get my point.)

Jon not Jon: Yes, on RYM at least I can filter the majority of these well-worn records out. Else, it just looks like every other list of albums since ever.

RYM fucking rules

"Orchestra Luna - s/t"

OMG you are best ilm poster and welcome in my record store any time.

RYM is great. Pretty much like Amazon reviews minus corrupt "featured" reviews. Lists, avg rating and genre-sorting are super informative and often helpful. The writing itself runs gamut from unreadable, to often better than you'll find at most professional music publications, esp for stuff that as mentioned, usually doesn't get written about. Music obsessives who know a ton about only one kind of music will write super-detailed reviews of super obscure records. Same with record collectors who go out of there way to hear everything -- does that mean I always agree w/their review? No, but who doesn't want an informed opinion?

And yeah, if you hang around long enough, you will notice people saying things like "RYM likes this a lot". Because the site emphasizes metrics and categorization, genres and "tastes" seem to evolve out of it. No, the site is not a monolithic music AI -- but it affects opinions and perspectives about music that wouldn't happen otherwise.

shit, two paragraphs means I actively tried to derail a thread

last night I dreamed I was on the (blue) nile

my latest thing with rym has been the lists. the thing tim f said about knowing four of the selections? there are so, so many user-generated lists like that. find a reasonably obscure record you like and see what lists it's on, instant discovery engine.

^^^ this is definitely the key

lots of top 20/weird genre-specific lists out there that randomly list albums I love, discovered so much weird and cool stuff that way

Zaragon is still my hero and spirit animal after all these years. nobody else comes close:

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Zaragon/1972___four_digits_in_queue/

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Zaragon/1973___a_sound_you_gotta_see/

Jon not Jon: Yes, on RYM at least I can filter the majority of these well-worn records out. Else, it just looks like every other list of albums since ever.

― pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Wednesday, October 5, 2016 4:32 PM (eleven minutes ago)

i think, uh, jon was referring to the social aspect of this thread/board, something that we all understand might be difficult for you to grasp

^^^

Here are my lists. https://rateyourmusic.com/list/lolvalstein/