ITT: Post cringeworthy RateYourMusic profiles
http://rateyourmusic.com/~AntiWarhol
https://rateyourmusic.com/~docperkins
http://rateyourmusic.com/~Hesjz
https://rateyourmusic.com/~BurstingFlares
>>61031990
bump
>>61032374
https://rateyourmusic.com/~qwerty100
https://rateyourmusic.com/~Fhtagnsothoth
https://rateyourmusic.com/~No_
>>61031990
all of them
but marsbars, LimedIBagels and SellMeAGod are some of the worst specimens on there. seems to be at least one of them on the front page of every vaguely popular album. they post pages and pages of self-absorbed bullshit
well the first 2 do, i've never actually read a sellmeagod review beyond the first time he writes 'thee'. actually fuck that faggot
cryst.................................................................................. bi...................................................................
>>61032948
Marsbars writes for PopMatters. at least he's experienced in music criticism than most RYMers.
>>61032041
>that rating system
I refuse to believe that some of these people have any friends.
Top cringe coming through.
https://rateyourmusic.com/~Cinematery
>>61033186
>one of the greatest movies ever made
>398 ratings for
ok
>>61033186
>Cannibal Holocaust (1980) 5/5
wew lad
>>61033186
2edgy4me
https://rateyourmusic.com/~TheCrystalBird
I guess this is an obvious one, but really, fuck this prick.
https://rateyourmusic.com/~boldfaure
https://rateyourmusic.com/~JSelby
I wish I could be 14 forever
http://rateyourmusic.com/~emillog
https://rateyourmusic.com/~mookid
>>61033628
>>61033642
>>61033855
The holy triumvirate of cringe
https://rateyourmusic.com/~KreativE535
https://rateyourmusic.com/~KreativE535
https://rateyourmusic.com/~KreativE535
pretty cringeworthy desu
https://rateyourmusic.com/~PieScarf
https://rateyourmusic.com/~Tyler643
https://rateyourmusic.com/~Entracte7
I don't understand faggots like this. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but if you rate that many albums with a 0.5 in comparison with your other ratings then you're either listening to the wrong stuff or just unpleasant in general.
>>61034601
this guys on the opposite end except I don't understand how you rate 21k pieces but none of them warrant a 0.5.
>>61033837
this one is boring
>>61033642
>>61033868
I'm not nearly as bad as CrystalBird and shit.
>>61034817
you certainly are here on /mu/
>>61034829
How so? Would genuinely like to know.
>>61034848
overbearing, self-absorded, toxically self-righteous, no sense of self-awareness, no interest in contributing to the board, keeps bringing up the same three or so albums like a paid viral hatemarketer...
>>61034601
This guy is Scaruffi: the RYM account
>>61034899
>PIEro SCARuFfi
seems intentional to me
>>61034884
I see what you mean.
Truth be told I used to use /mu/ a lot more often than I do now. Or at least a lot more usefully.
Nowadays it's just not fun anymore, so all I find for entertainment here is shitposting and b8ing.
It comes off very badly but only because I've found that the feedback from qualityposting vs the feedback from shitposting is insufficient.
>>61033186
>Crash 5/5
that movie was awful
I could get hit with a baseball bat that had 'RACISM EXISTS' written on it in neon yellow lettering and it would be less subtle than what Crash tried to convey.
https://rateyourmusic.com/~MyTasteSucksTBH
>>61033642
>>61034817
>shits on most acclaimed 2015 albums
>gives Undertale OST 4 and Liturgy 5 stars
>>61034970
>doesn't like what I like
>likes what I don't like
Nice.
https://rateyourmusic.com/~5thEye
Not completely horrible, but lmao that rating scale and those 5s
>atmosludge, GYBE, Madvillain and token classical album
horbgolber
hes so fucking cringeworthy
>>61035038
>the essence of music itself
>Arvo Part's Tabula Rasa
16-18yrs old
>>61034791
https://rateyourmusic.com/wiki/RYM:Weighting+FAQ
Daily reminder that rating everything too low or too high means you have ZERO impact on the scores.
>>61035084
His review
>This is hands down the best piece of classical music I have ever heard in my entire life.
>No, that's not saying a lot, but it's also one of the best albums I have ever heard in my entire life. If you are not moved by "Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten", you must have a heart of stone.
>Despite its minimalist structure this music holds depths of emotion and beauty (well, like most minimalist music, I guess). Like I said before, "Cantus" is the best example of this. I sat mesmerized through the entire piece and was disappointed to have it end. The opener "Fratres (for violin and piano)" is quite good as well; of course its structure has little to be spoken for but the instrumentation and dynamics are brilliant. "Fratres (for 12 celli)" came off as the only disappointingly average track, as it doesn't have quite the same emotion in it the first two pieces do.
>The epic half-hour eponymous closer is just as every bit as awe-inducing as "Cantus". My god, this is brilliant. Never have I heard a song so captivating as this. The violinists must have steel wrists. I'll admit the denouement, which lasts 2/3 of the song, is a bit overlong, but it's a small flaw.
>What else can I say? This is ridiculously good. I can't possibly overstate that.
>>61035118
See these are the people I hate.
People who try to talk about shit they don't understand.
>>61035110
So if someone rates several albums and writes reviews reasonably and then dies or leaves the site, his ratings will get eventually zero weight? seems unfair
>>61035160
in either case it's not like he's going to care about it though
>>61035110
do most RYM users really care about their impact on the scores? it's the least interesting part of RYM really
>>61033628
can someone redpill me on this person? i keep hearing this name dropped everywhere but i have no idea what they did.
>>61035224
all you need to do is open the profile, you'll see immediately
>>61035191
>do most RYM users really care about their impact on the scores?
I do, because it helps reducing spammers and downraters
>>61035118
>this music holds depths of emotion and beauty
this means absolutely nothing
this entire review means absolutely nothing
>>61035148
I'm fine with someone being really moved by a piece of music, but when your review is just "this is beautiful" without even trying to explain why then you're just wasting everyone's time. Please, enjoy the music, but don't try to pretend to are making a statement about it or explaining it in any meaningful way
>>61032870
>weirdo metal
https://rateyourmusic.com/~hfield07
https://rateyourmusic.com/~hfield07Single
This guy would be fine, except he has a separate account for rating singles.
>>61035311
>except he has a separate account for rating singles
My friend and I do that too
>mfw not mentioned itt
>>61033186
>any Uwe Boll movie
>5 stars
Assault on Wall Street wasn't even a so bad it's funny Uwe Boll movie, it was just a boring one
>>61035311
I don't even understand the purpose of rating singles that are also featured on LPs, which is what that guy seems to do.
If the singles are standalone, I'd understand, but if you're already rating the fucking album why rate the single
What is with RYM and morton feldman? Same goes for some other 20th C avant-garde composers (usually indeterminate/aleatoric composers).I see these guys pop up on so many profiles that don't include composers from the past centuries of classical music, including their influences, direct or indirect. Is it cool on the site to be super into this kind of stuff?
For reference I have nothing against Feldman, like some of his music, and the music of some of his contemporaries.
Everyone seems to hate TheCunningStunt
>tfw he's one of my top 5 compaible users
>>61035363
Some singles contain B-sides and shit
>>61035243
I see some generic Tumblr schlock, but I don't really see any reason that this user is more infamous than any other generic Tumblr person. Besides, I don't really have a problem with crazies if they keep to themselves, so I want to know if there's anything other than the obvious.
>>61035402
he doesn't keep to himself. he shitposts (literally calls it that himself) in ever album comment box, shits over every forum section and posts on /mu/ (unless you ask him on RYM, in which case we're literally hitler)
>>61035395
In that dude's account description it literally says "Singles are rated for the A-side."
>>61035366
boldfaure here.
These composers make music that is outside of the highly structured harmonies of classic, romantic, and of course earlier/later musics. Instead people like Feldman and Xenakis and co. are more concerned with timbre and atmosphere.
This attracts people who don't know much about music and just prefer general moodiness. The problem is when they then elevate this moody but admittedly quite barren music structurally to the level of Bach and Mozart.
>>61035442
Ok then
>>61035402
>Besides, I don't really have a problem with crazies if they keep to themselves
This fuck doesn't. He makes it a point to spew his lolsoquirky bullshit virtually everywhere on the fucking site.
>>61035366
itt: pleb stories
>chilling with friends
>put morton feldman's second string quartet
>confront myself and my self (as an ontological historical entity) with the mirror of atonality (as a mirror is not an empathic but a reflexive entity, alien to the space and time it reflects and only existing by itself in relation to the other) and realize the boundaries of human thought, comprehension and consciousness
>reach rational ecstasy
>pleb friend gets up and says "what is this silence shit, lmao, put some nirvana"
>get angry at their rockist subaltern consumption conditioned by the structures of power of the imperialist white economies, but contain it
>calm myself down by remembering quotes from finnegans wake, my favorite book since i was a teenager
>mfw can't express myself because i'm a spectator in the society of spectacle
"It is not the slumber of reason which engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality." - Gilles Deleuze
>>61035443
>boldfaure here
Stopped reading there
>>61035442
Having a separate account for singles is pretty extreme, but I can kind of see the logic. There are plenty of albums I've rated 3 or 3.5, but there's maybe one song there that's a 5 or something.
>>61034944
The profile is cringey as fuck but you're a dumbass because thats the Paul Haggis film not the David Cronenberg one.
>>61035443
having gone through western art music backwards, starting in a similar fashion, I can confirm this. I was really fascinated by dissonance-heavy string quartets and the like but never really got a foothold in pre-20th century music. taking classes on the development of music changed my viewpoint on this though, and I've slowly begun working my way backwards, and I feel like even the Romantics that /mu/ loves to shit on have much more to them than the experiment-driven 20th century composers. Not that I don't still enjoy those though.
>>61035469
>>61035432
True, but you can just ignore it, right? I was thinking somewhere along the lines of being a dick to other users or spouting comments that went beyond annoying to completely retarded.
>>61035595
it's more that he's a figurehead for that type of behavior, which has a lot of followers on RYM. so many it's impossible to ignore if you seriously use the site
>>61035443
who the hell is boldfaure? are you a faure fan or something?
anyways thanks for the explanation, that is understandable. though couldn't you say something similar, especially about xenakis that it is systematized composing but in a different way.
>>61035549
/mu/ loves to shit on anything, i don't think what it is really matters
>>61035443
>This attracts people who don't know much about music and just prefer general moodiness.
I have a degree in music composition and theory, and Feldman is one of my favorite composers. AMA
>>61035645
Eh, I guess I can kind of see what you're talking about then.
I mostly stay out of the RYM "community" in general because I'm not sure how to really "enter" it, so I can't pretend I really know what the perspective of someone who has to interact with other RYM users reglarly is.
>>61035680
how's your unemployment going?
>>61035656
>who the hell is boldfaure? are you a faure fan or something?
yeah the name came from favorite composer+punny phrase
>>61035680
did you have a conventional music upbringing? do you like ambient/drone music? I mean I know one or two people like you who are the exact same (comp majors who love Feldman) but they're in rock bands so hardly the classical listener archetype
>>61035680
Give an analysis on your favorite Beethoven string quartet.
>>61035479
tbf the study of those Feldman and similar tryhards is one I've taken up with fervor as I'm sure you know
>>61035766
can you really call them tryhards if the reason they listen to him is because their appeal lies in a field more compatible with rock music?
That'd pretty much proof of trying less hard isn't it?
>>61034518
Eh, aside from having no 5s I don't see anything wrong with this one
>>61035366
Yeah, Feldman is trendy
>>61035793
It's not the liking it that's the problem so much as the explanations for why they like it:
Feldman's second string quartet appears on the surface to be one of the most devastatingly inaccessible pieces of music in the twentieth century. It surely sat around on my computer for awhile before I got the nerve to digest it one disc at a time.
But a funny thing happened: a work I expected to come back to in five sittings ended up filling my ears continuously with the only interruptions being necessary tasks of life. The album grabbed me like no music ever has, but I can sort of contextualize it within my limited and by-no-means-universal experiences to try to shed some light on the beauty of the album for people who might not be "getting it." The low volume of tones is the first piece of this puzzle: constantly insisting that the listener lean in closer, allow the album to overcome him/her. This is already a highly cliched perspective, but perhaps it speaks to the excellence of the record that there's just that something about it that people give up trying to explain and just resort to the tried-and-true re-contextualization of others' words.
The length surely contributes to the mastery of the piece, too. Lasting six hours, the string quartet unfolds gracefully. It is somewhat exhausting, and the amount of willpower in the performances is highly visceral if one allows him or herself to be absorbed by the piece. One of the highlights of the listening experience I had was leaning back, forgetting all else surrounding the album, and just absorbing the sounds, and I always recall hearing above those sounds every so often a slight rock of an instrument or an adjustment of something and sharp breaths occasionally fluttering over.
1/2
>>61035793
>>61035831
And that gets to the heart of it - this massive work is, ironically, the most intimate, beautiful thing I might ever hear. If I may indulge in the classic method of reviewing these quiet pieces RYM is so endeared towards but can never sum up why except through some weird pseudo-synesthesia, this album is like waking up at 6 a.m. on a Sunday (and just coincidentally the same length as that experience) - you roll back over, but your sleep is never restored. Gradiently, you move around, fighting to regain your R.E.M. but ultimately content to lie in bed. You get small two-hour increments of sleep until finally when you see 11 on your clock, you are okay with greeting the world... and then you lie there awake for another hour. It's sort of like that, I guess.
2/2
courtesy of joy_circumcision who is apparently deleting their account? interesting.
>>61033642
Is this not a parody account then? Pretty sure it is.
>>61035680
Why is a big Honking Jew like Feldmansteinberg one of your favorite composers? are you actively anti-white?
>>61035859
>courtesy of joy_circumcision who is apparently deleting their account? interesting.
He was like 17 when he wrote that. Not even sure why you're posting it though.
>>61035831
>>61035859
is it because the review is written in a way that heavily suggests experience on the subject even though none is shown in the content?
Because I believe in becoming enamoured with something without much logic being involved. That's what I like about music. Any piece could have someone thinking it's the best thing ever in their eyes. That's how powerful music is.
>>61035706
lmao i currently work in sound design for teater and performance, but no yeah getting jobs with non-stem degrees is pretty tough for real
>>61035730
i mean, sort of? i started out with straight up normal piano lessons at a young age, but i got pretty into electronic music and dj-ing in my teens, so i kinda went at my comp education from an electroacoustic standpoint, and i am admittedly kind of a john cage-whore. still, my experience of writing in counterpoint and older styles of composition has definitely changed the way i listen to folks like feldman. does that make sense?
>>61035756
my favorite quartet is maybe number 14? (is that plebby? idk) and i did do a pretty thorough analysis of it back in the day in my music theory class. but im fucking drunk and tired now, im not gonna do any work now lol.
>>61035907
>He was like 17 when he wrote that.
Why is that relevant?
>Not even sure why you're posting it though.
Because he doesn't understand the music but is trying to act as if he does.
>>61035951
Yep.
>Because I believe in becoming enamoured with something without much logic being involved.
Feel free. Just don't write a review saying it. No value in it.
>>61036032
>but i got pretty into electronic music and dj-ing in my teens
yeah you're not the conventional classical guy
I get what you mean, and I mean every stereotype has exceptions like you and my friends IRL.
>>61036044
I don't know, writing a review is an interesting exercise that forces you to think a little more about what you've listened to. of course a review written by someone with a lot of knowledge on the subject is likely going to be more useful to other readers, but I wouldn't say there's no value in writing one.
>>61036068
If you're interested, pianist James Pritchett has a really cool blog where he does honest-to-god music theory analyses of Feldman, Cage, and the like. There is a surprising amount of complexity in some of these pieces, especially from the performer's point of view.
http://rosewhitemusic.com/piano/
>>61035478
i know that continental feel friend.
>>61035311
That's acceptable. My autism flares up when I visit someone else's RYM account and the single ratings are mixed in with album ratings.
https://rateyourmusic.com/~IDontActuallyLikeMusic
>average /pol/ack
