Well, I finally joined RYM. My name there is Barranco and so far I’ve included my Top 101 all-time list (you can find it here). With only 100 abums ranked Henrik is already in my compatibility list!!
I've gone completely OCD with this thing (combined with my massive free time at work) and started rating singles. My guilty pleasures are going to be outed.
Ya I know, right now I just want to post my 200 an make comments on all of them, I got about a 30 page paper to write so I'm trying not to get too obsessed
Everytime I research an album it always seems like you've rated it, musictoad. But, you've only rated 600 albums so you must have just listened to everything I'm interested in hearing!
I've gone a bit crazy with sorting for RYM. It's kind of like an addiction at this point. Anyway, my RYM username is HeroicPenguin, in case anyone cares to add me.
cwfarley2 on RYM; Henrik is my number 2 compatible; of course, I think that's a function of his rating 1,600 albums. But then again, I'm not the statistician! I like your taste Penguin. I really like Boxer by the National, and it seems like Alligator might be good too. Henrik, glad to see I'm not the only one who didn't care that much for Boys and Girls in America.
It's strange given the differences in our tastes. I'm hideously pop-oriented in comparison. I guess most AM people have a few hundred highly-rated items from the top end of the list in common though, and the list is bound to have a number of items that might not be in other common top album lists.
I love that RYM puts a little note on your user homepage now when friends write reviews or make a list. I read all of them now, instead of just when I think about visiting the friends page.
Since a while ago, you can create your own list of favorite users at http://rateyourmusic.com/test/fav_list. For each album you then go to, you will see the average rating of your favorite users. The individual favorite users' ratings will always be shown in the top of the page.
So Dear AM visitor, if you are a RYM user, I would be very pleased to add you to my list.
By the way, my name is frazze.
This is funny. I added you as a friend some time ago while I didn't even know you were the Henrik of AM. I added you because you quite high in my compatibility list! Number eight currently.
I seem to be in top of everyone's list. My guess is that my collection is "AM-formed" and therefore similar to a lot of people's collections. Yes, my feeling is that the compatibility ranking is based on collections rather than taste, which isn't optimal.
hey AlRog, just realized you're the one who made the RYM Buttnumbathon list. great idea & thanks for doing that, i've found lots of cool people through that list. i'm grmaurer over at rym. and you should join in on our movie polls here, we're in the middle of 1983 right now.