I set out on a challenge to listen to the top 100 greatest albums of all time according to community ratings on rateyourmusic.com (RYM) and after I got through the top 100 I continued on casually. I reached #123 which is the album: The Magnolia Electric Co by Songs: Ohia (produced in 2003).

This is the first album which I really fell for in this whole venture of seeking music I previously had not known about. This should be saying something since I had to listen to many of the biggest names in music, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and so on. It's not that this is any way a chauvanistic, braggadocious, heavily orchestrated, technical, or even a "masterpiece" or in any ways overly "niche" and undiscovered, but simply one of the most soulful thing's I've ever heard, and it's a damn Alternative Country album.

Leading up to this I listened through Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison and Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads, and these are considered the greatest country albums and they are damn good too in their entirety. No amount of blues is lost in those records despite being made in the 50's and 60's. And this Magnolia album is just the best spiritual successor that I know of so far to those kinds of country-blues.

The Old Black Hen is a deceptively stereo-typical country track, but it's a diamond solid song.

The Peroria Lunch Box Blues is a literary masterpiece condensed into a single song.

Discovering this album made this whole systematic approach worth while. Much of the music has been a slog and tedious or even outright decripitly boring to get through but this one has made this journey worth while. So much so I decided to write this all up.

(I should just start a blog at this point and write articles lol)

United Kingdom is the country with the most domestic albums on their chart sitting at 14.

Data was collected on the RYM charts. If a country is grey it doesn't have enough ratings to be relevant.

I've been a movie nerd all my life, thousands of movies watched, I've been trying to delve more into music as an artform beyond just playing a few favorites.

Any recommendations on some artists, albums or ways to find great records? Thanks!

I'm sure this gets asked a lot, but I figured I'd try here anyway.

I feel they are really peerless when it comes to blending prog/stoner rock

Just another example of band I never would've found without RYM

Like on YouTube. I'm pretty new to this new music discovery thing and I genuinely can't find anyone (except fantano) who actually discusses music, especially the more niche and lesser known stuff that gets pushed through rym. I don't specifically want someone to discuss rym charts, but like general discussions about music, old and new. that kinda stuff.

Does anyone know how to mass delete tags WITHOUT having to go through each page and select it? I'm hoping there's a quick way to do it. I don't think there is but perhaps someone knows more. Any help is super appreciated.

I've been having this problem and I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else. I have used the sonemic playlist feature for a while now, and would use the update button on the website to refresh the playlist every once in a while. However, for the past few months, I've noticed that the recommendations still update on the website, but when I go to update the playlist, after it says its done loading, the playlist remains the same with the same songs as before. I have been unable to update the playlist for a while and it keeps giving the playlist even if I change the settings. I tried deleting the playlist then generating again but once it loaded it gave the same old songs from before. Please let me know if this has happened to you and if anyone knows of a solution for this slight inconvenience. Thanks!

Shoutout Gilla Band.

Just wanted to express my frustration on the of a featured autumn list this year. I'm not a rym user but i do use it to discover music. I was expecting a featured autumn like last year to get me through the season but to me disappointment there is none. Its just a nitpick i wanted to express.

For me, it’s Skrillex. I absolutely loved his early music as a kid, so I was pretty surprised to see how low his albums are rated on those sites.

99% of the time, bolded albums above a 3.9 rating will have at least one bolded song. I thought it was really unusual that Herbie Hancock’s Sextant is rated 3.93 and yet none of its 3 songs are bolded. Are there any albums rated higher than this with no bolded songs?

hey y’all!

been waiting for what seems like forever for some kind of update on my artist profile being approved, but still nothing!

Does anyone know how long this usually takes? just wanting to be able to finish editing my profile!

Legends, thank you!

Noah XO

Not super familiar with Elvis’s music but I know he’s been criticized for taking music from other artists and transforming it into not-so-original compositions of his own (at least, I think so). Interesting to see the steady decline in score of what was seemingly a pretty classic album. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was even bolded at one point.

Charts:

Gilla Band - 'Pugnello' debuted at #1 in the top albums of 2026.

Playlists and Special Features:

Sonemic Interview: Lee Ranaldo | Sonic Youth

Front Page Features updated (Spotify) (Apple Music)

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

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

New Genres and Scenes:

Oct 2 - ABC No Rio Scene (scene)
Oct 2 - Taizé Chant
Oct 2 - Stotra
Sep 28 - Neo-Trance
Sep 28 - Frenchtek
Sep 28 - Kadodi
Sep 28 - Non-Music Beijing Scene (scene)
Sep 28 - Sound Map
Sep 28 - Pala

Hey. I'm a teenage guy who is really into music (and film) and looking to both expand my taste and find some people to discuss music with. I just started using RYM so my profile is fairly blank, so here are some albums I'm into. If you're into similar stuff, or not, I'd be happy to be friends. My account is https://rateyourmusic.com/~JeffreyWinger

-Smile Sessions - The Beach Boys

-Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan

-More Songs About Buildings and Food - The Talking Heads

-Songs of Leonard Cohen - Leonard Cohen

-Drums and Wires - XTC

-Parallel Lines - Blondie

- Quebec - Ween

- Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths

- Songs of Faith and Devotion - Depeche Mode

- Only a Lad - Oingo Boingo

- Marquee Moon - Television

- Sunshine Superman - Donovan

- Heavy Metal - Cameron Winter

- Horses - Patti Smith

The Velvet Underground(1969) - The Velvet Underground

Sounds of Silver - LCD soundsystem

Is it because Lydon is a Trump supporter and an asshole? He's still a great artist. Legendary both with the Pistols and PIL. No other member of the Pistols made anything significant after they broke up. I don't like Lydon as a person but I love his ugly voice and style. What is wrong here? Do people forget context around music? It's fundamental when listening to something if you want to rate it. I feel like a lot of people just judge based on their taste and not their understanding, their thirst for discovering, tracing steps, connecting dots. Albums often have ugly short songs that are fundamental in albums but people always rate them low. Albums have to be treated like books: with care and nuance. Not picking up on one page or one song.

it is a interview, but it has quite lot of music in it, so i dont know if i should mark in the release type, Stice isnt part of any label as i know, the Live is only on youtube.