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It also feels like these things are making me more musically illiterate.

You see enough Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Imaginal Discs and the twenty yearly Trhä albums as super highly praised and something every music nerd should listen to, and forget what kind of music most people actually like... which if you go by the spotify charts, is a lot of slop! And if you go by the radio, it's mostly the same stuff since 1995.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

what kind of music most people actually like... which if you go by the spotify charts, is a lot of slop!

I don't want to go all Rick Beato-style grumpy old man, but yeah, it's really a crazy thing to open the spotify top charts and see that I don't know even a single one of the most popular artists right now. Especially in my country, it's all mass-produced slop. It's the kind of music that's not AI but might as well be, considering how it all seems to be composed by a market potential maximizing algorithm,

What is that service on the right, though? I'm not familiar and while I'm not a fan of ultra nerdy metal and post-rock, I'm way more interested in that than in the two hundredth song that sounds exactly the same as the previous one in the Spotify top charts.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's Rateyourmusic, a website. It's known for "RYMcore", which is very popular among its users - if you sort by the top albums of the year, you will find new music, but skewed toward predictable genres.

Basically music curation through 30 year old white American nerds who LOVE Radiohead.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Basically music curation through 30 year old white American nerds who LOVE Radiohead.

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Aside from that, I'll definitely check it out! Thanks

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The top 10 of all time there are:

To Pimp A Butterfly

OK Computer

In Rainbows

Wish You Were Here

good kid, m.A.A.d City

In the Court of the Crimson King

Madvillainy

Kid A

The Dark Side of the Moon

Loveless

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

some true bangers in there, but actually that's a very reddit coded normie top 10 lol

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

TPAB and 'Good Kid m.A.A.d City' but no 'Damn'

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

because damn is worse than both and I will stand on that

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Not arguing agaisnt that. DAMN is nowhere in their top 100.

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