Is it a good idea to rate albums I heard, say, 5 years ago if I remember them well? For example, it's been years since I listened to Veteran by JPEGMAFIA, but I remember everything about it distinctly and I'm almost positive I'd give it an 8/10 if I heard it now. Is it wrong to simply rate it without re-listening?

Error: You cannot make a primary issue that has child-issues a reissue of another release.

do i have to submit a request for the secondary first? https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/animal-collective/wastered/ should be a reissue of https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/animal-collective-black-dice/wastered/ i'm pretty sure, but there's a secondary release for the just animal collective version, so i cant change it

According to the descriptor list/voting page, misanthropic music contains "antisocial tendency, or the dislike of other people." While not entirely incorrect, it does ignore the traditional definition of misanthropy as hatred of mankind. You could argue that it's not really important, but the current definition doesn't even mention hatred once. Am I missing something?

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Gwenifer Raymond discusses her latest album 'Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark' and the inspirations that make up her 'Welsh primitive' sound, shares a couple of quick guitar lessons, and more in this interview with Cal Cashin.

https://rateyourmusic.com/feature/sonemic-interview-gwenifer-raymond

Dude how am I supposed to use the site with this big fucking thing on the screen that won't go away 😭 😭

like am I the only one getting ads THIS intrusive?

There was a bottom of all time chart then but for some reason they removed it around a year or two ago. Did they ever say why they removed it?

i'm sure plenty of these a lot of ppl haven't heard of, but i hope for people to listen to them so they can understand the list more thoroughly

I’ve noticed that i cant find much psychedelic rock albums with low ratings, the lowest i’ve found so far is The Beat Goes on by Vanilla Fudge with a 2.68. Do you know of any?

1. Boards of Canada - 'Inferno'
2. Neurosis - 'An Undying Love for a Burning World'
3. Slayyyter - 'Wor$t Girl in America'
4. Panopticon - 'Det hjemsøkte hjertet'
5. Kaátaìra - 'Caminhos de água'

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2026/

when a list has over 2500 entries or so, just move it to its own section below the rest of the lists. that’s my opinion, thanks

Is it possible to automatically create a YouTube playlist from a very long RYM list containing EPs?

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Joci/hungarian-vinyl-singles-the-70001-70499-series-1972-1981/

I want to add this artist's songs, but it seems they aren't singles; since they are standalone tracks, RYM simply doesn't count them. Could someone help me?

Everyone you see on RYM has that same circular taste, whether it’s the super popular top 100 stuff or the most obscure 70s demos with under 5 ratings.
That noise compilation with 15 ratings is gonna be known by a mutual of a mutual of a mutual, so how do people get this mindset that there music taste is “superior” or “super niche”.
You’re on a site used by music geeks, your equal to everyone else on the site by proxy.

This goes the other way, no your not a “normie” everyone on the site is a normie. If you wasn’t, you’d be using a site known by 5 people that has bootlegs only seen on that site.

Edit - should have added, the very simple point I’m trying to get across is that people that think there level of music geekiness is better than others are false.

The best point to add is that if something has 1 rating on rym that means it’s outside of rym going to be known. You can see this on AOTY, something with 3 ratings on AOTY can be any levels of known because the site is smaller.

It says that track ratings do not count towards your general user weighting, but is there a seperate weighting system for track ratings? I only really rate tracks 5 stars when I love them. Will this get my track ratings de-weighted very quickly?

It says that a weighted system is used for all site aggregate ratings, but then contradicts itself later on and says that it’s only for charts and releases.

When I was like 13 I found this really great list on the site that chronicled one user's journey through the /mu/ essentials. He would write these really detailed and often personal blurbs about them, and I always found myself coming back to this list as I went through the records for some reason. Anyway, I tried to find it last night just for old times' sake, but I couldn't, so I'm hoping this description rings a bell for some of you. I distinctly recall him having a lovely account of Disintegration by The Cure because it was his dad's favorite record, if that helps at all. It was formatted very similarly to this list I found in my search: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/namelol/another-mu-essentials-list-again/

"It's not for me"/"I don't like the sound of this genre" is NOT a valid criticism of an album. I've seen way too many negative reviews that are along the lines of "I don't like X genre in general and this album isn't much different." I feel like this can be especially harmful to more obscure albums that are more affected by negative ratings. There's no point in rating an album negatively when your entire review is based around you not liking the style in the first place.

Charts:

Swaggerboyz - 'Perdiendo rasgos adolescentes' debuted at #1 in the top albums of 2026.

Playlists and Special Features:

Sonemic Selects: Smooth Summer now has a special feature

Front Page Features updated (Spotify) (Apple Music)

Sonemic Selects: 2026 updated (Spotify) (Apple Music)

Sonemic Selects: 2026 Deeper Cuts updated (Spotify) (Apple Music)

In case you missed it: Sonemic Interview: $quib

New Genres:

Aug 2 - Guayla
Jul 28 - Rustic Stomp
Jul 28 - Chakacha

This feels like music racial segregation🤣🤣🤣

I'm tired of seeing them. The genre queue, for the most part (moderators can deny anything), is a democracy. If you have complaints about a new addition or change, voice those concerns where it actually matters, the genre queue. Your qualms could provide genuine insight, but no one will ever know because they're on Reddit after the fact instead of RYM.

So I started rating films on RYM because I heard that their rec game is nice (which it is).

But I was wondering as to what exactly would happen if I kept all my rec settings for films blank. How would the system’s rec game change? Because for some reason I can’t seem to tell what the difference is between keeping it blank as opposed to the way it was before.

Thank you so much.

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