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21-415: RYM may refer to: Rate Your Music , a music-based website Revolutionary Youth Movement , a 20th-century American political movement Rym Airlines , former Algerian airline (2003–2005) Princess Rym al-Ali (born 1969), Algerian princess Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

42-479: A decent amount of traction in February 2023 after music sites reported on Kendrick Lamar 's 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly overtaking Radiohead 's 1997 album OK Computer as the top rated album on the site. Parannoul Parannoul has collaborated with other shoegaze musicians like Asian Glow of South Korea and sonhos tomam conta  [ pt ] of Brazil, releasing the split album, Downfall of

63-483: A mad man’s breakfast of kooky cacophony. (And a quick look at Rate Your Music reveals that plenty of self-professed AFX fans actually do see it this way.)" Appraising Kairon; IRSE! 's album Ruination , Stereogum ' s Doug Moore saw that the band "built a big following on Rate Your Music by combining the slightly heftier variants of prog and pysch (sic) with shoegaze". In a piece concerning Mark E. Smith , Patrin noted that The Fall 's This Nation's Saving Grace

84-621: A new trend in the South Korean indie music scene since 2021. Parannoul released his first and second albums, Let's Walk on the Path of a Blue Cat in 2020 and To See the Next Part of the Dream in 2021, through Bandcamp . He has gained popularity through Bandcamp, Rate Your Music , and Reddit . His second album was reviewed on Pitchfork , Consequence of Sound , and Stereogum . He featured on

105-433: Is an online encyclopedia of music releases and films. Users can catalog items from their personal collection, review them, and assign ratings in a five-star rating system . The site also features community-based charts that track highest-rated releases. The first version of the site, nicknamed "RYM 1.0," allowed users to rate and catalog releases, as well as to write reviews, create lists and add artists and releases to

126-407: Is generated jointly by the registered user community (artists, releases, biographies, etc.); however, the majority of new, edited content must be approved by a moderator to prevent virtual vandalism. As of February 2023, RYM had over 729,000 user-created lists ranging from "popular lists" to "ultimate box sets," which cover various musical genres, including obscure micro-genres. As of August 2024,

147-531: The Neon Youth (2021), and later the Paraglow EP in 2022. In 2024, he worked with the international rap group Fax Gang to make the album Scattersun . Parannoul has also released music under other pseudonyms, including Rough and Beautiful Place (2022) as Mydreamfever , as well as several now-deleted albums as laststar . He is one of the most representative musicians in the shoegaze scene, which has emerged as

168-401: The band traditionally covers an album in its entirety, JamBase ' s Scott Bernstein noted that all but Waiting for Columbus "[were] in the top 700 on RateYourMusic, which compiles fan ratings". Selecting "Logan Rock Witch" from Richard D. James Album as their favorite Aphex Twin track, The Quietus ' s John Doran remarked "this should result in something that sounds like

189-859: The band's self-released debut EP topped the weekly charts due to fortunate timing. Rate Your Music has been received generally favorably. M.O.V.I.N [UP] ' s Maurício Angelo praised RYM as "the best guide to discovering new music, in all styles, of any tempo". Hypebot staff found Rate Your Music "snobby and multilingual and people come to show off their various incredible music collections. I’ve loved it for ages". Wired ' s Andy Baio deemed it "quirky". Radio Wave ' s Karel Veselý praised Rate Your Music and Discogs as "[t]he cult music portals". Flashmode Arabia staff commended RYM as "a fantastic way to discover new music" but critiqued its user experience. The Daily Star ' s Deeparghya Dutta Barau called it "one of those hip sites that offer functionality over aesthetics". Similarly, Newonce' s staff

210-518: The database. In May 2009, Rate Your Music started to add films to its database. The main idea of the website is to allow the users to add music releases of many types including but not limited to albums , EPs , singles , mixtapes , DJ mixes , and bootlegs to the database and to rate them. The rating system uses a scale of minimum of a half-star (or 0.5 points) to a maximum of five stars (or 5 points). Users can likewise leave reviews for RYM entries as well as create user profiles. Rate Your Music

231-517: The forums, stating, "if you haven't already spent half your day exploring the above, there are the highly active, engaged threads to dive in to". Evolver.fm ' s Eliot Van Buskirk advised readers to "Keep a wishlist on rateyourmusic.com". In an interview with PopMatters , American electronic musician Skylar Spence noted that he would use Discogs and Rate Your Music to find "a lot of cool, old, hidden treasures that way". In an article previewing an upcoming Phish Halloween concert, in which

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252-512: The popularity of the band Duster , which had recently reformed after being inactive since 2000. Pitchfork and Junkee noted the website's impact on the career of the anonymous South Korean musician Parannoul , who said that he felt more anxiety than joy after his 2021 album To See the Next Part of the Dream topped the website's album chart for the year. Chat Pile guitarist Luther Manhole said, "Our popularity on RYM definitely contributed to us having this career-type-thing, 100%.", as

273-475: The pure white smoke coming out of it. I wanted to show the clean yet dirty side of youth through this smokestack. The little birds above the smoke show the mind of the teenager that wanted to be free." On 1 January 2022, Parannoul released Rough and Beautiful Place under the pseudonym Mydreamfever. The release is a departure from the shoegaze style present on his Parannoul works, with the album being described as ambient and new-age . Rough and Beautiful Place

294-497: The release of Retribution Body's album Self Destruction , Tiny Mix Tapes ' s Lijah Fosl offered "a reminder that ' dark ambient ' is more than just a random rateyourmusic.com categorization". In a review for American musician Yves Tumor 's album Safe in the Hands of Love , The Brown Daily Herald ' s Katherine Ok associated plunderphonics with "crate-digging, list-obsessed 'Rate Your Music' users". The website gained

315-443: The scenes from リリイ・シュシュのすべて ( All About Lily Chou-Chou ). It's not an important scene at all, it's just a scene that lasts five seconds...But for some reason, the smokestack and the white smoke made me feel nostalgic. (Actually the whole movie feels that way.) When I first saw the factory with smokestacks, I felt stuffy and uncomfortable, like we won't have freedom inside there. On the other hand, I felt something contradictory when I saw

336-449: The site had over 1.2 million users registered, with over 6.2 million releases added and 137 million ratings. [1] Rate Your Music has been credited with helping previously unknown artists and albums rise to popularity, most prominently Have a Nice Life 's debut album Deathconsciousness and Sweet Trip 's 2003 album Velocity : Design : Comfort . In 2019, Vice and The Ringer credited Rate Your Music for maintaining

357-401: The split album Downfall of the Neon Youth with Asian Glow and sonhos tomam conta  [ pt ] , contributing four tracks, which was released on October 22, 2021. Parannoul describes himself as "just a student writing music in my bedroom". In an interview with Sonemic , Parannoul stated that the album cover for his album To See the Next Part of the Dream "is actually one of

378-487: The title RYM . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RYM&oldid=1229470764 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rate Your Music Rate Your Music (often abbreviated to RYM )

399-685: Was "the album that Rate Your Music still ranks as their best by a sliver as of less than 24 hours after Smith’s death". Covering the Japanese band Fishmans album 98.12.28 Otokotachi no Wakare , The Michigan Daily ' s Sayan Ghosh noted the "classic music lover’s past-time of perusing through internet boards such as Rate Your Music". In response to Swedish symphonic metal band Therion 's album Beloved Antichrist , Stereogum ' s Ian Chainey opined that "extremely fickle user bases of Rate Your Music, Encyclopaedia Metallum , and Prog Archives all rate Therion’s albums highly". Commenting on

420-646: Was featured as Bandcamp's "Album of the Day" shortly after its release. He joined the crew Digital Dawn, which includes Asian Glow , Brokenteeth , Wapddi, Della Zyr and Fin Fior, and he held his first concert with Digital Dawn in September 2022. His third album under the name Parannoul, After the Magic , was released on January 28, 2023. Parannoul sings in Korean . His tracks are titled in

441-419: Was somewhat critical, stating the site was "Extremely ugly visually (its creators like the consistency: RYM has not changed the layout to this day), but quite useful". Centuries of Sound founder James Errington said "[he consulted] websites like Rate Your Music and Acclaimed Music to pick top hits" for his year-by-year mixtapes of the 20th century. Pigeons and Planes ' s Adrienne Black highlighted

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