Thread 127329574

Are these really the top 5 greatest albums of all time?

>>127329574 (OP)
>*removes kendrick "pussybitchassfaggot* lamar*
ah, perfect

>>127329574 (OP)
absolutely hilarious

>>127329574 (OP)
RYM and its consequences have been a disaster for music discourse

>>127329574 (OP)
yes

>>127329595
better than the normie charts.

>>127329574 (OP)
if i tell someone who is not into music to listen to these 5 albums they would end up very underwhelmed with music as an artform
it's not that they are bad but none of these albums has anything grandiose

>>127329711
What normie charts? Is there another website for rating music?

>>127329574 (OP)
Kendrick, and the people gassing his album are pieces of shit, herd mentality meets industry plant, how is that crap ahead of The Wall, Random Access Memories, Blackstar etc... ? heck even Kanye MBDTF is better. This dude getting the 2pac treatment, would be balsam for music.

>>127329574 (OP)
Wish you were here is tolerable the rest are garbage

the kendrick trend will die soon. its been 10 years. by 2030 he will he a has been

>>127329592
I think in a scale of how annoying/repulsive, I'd rank : Pink Floyd's fans >> Radiohead fans >>> K-pop fans > "Swifties" > Kendrick's.

>>127329574 (OP)
These maybe appear in the top 1000.

>>127329722
sales charts

>>127329746
yeh the top rated hip hop is shit. but i'm not really all that into hip hop anyway

>>127329574 (OP)
WYWH is so overrated

>>127329595
This. Music culture and discourse has been irreparably damaged by RYM / AotY and Spotify. You can't have a single conversation about music online without someone bringing this shit up, and their entire perception of music obviously warped by them.

>>127329574 (OP)
rymcore is trash
best album is made by guy with 5 monthly listeners

>>127329574 (OP)
Why is RYM so bad? What am I missing?

>>127329574 (OP)
>conscious hip hop

>>127329873
From least to most ofc, kek.

>>127330032
The Dark Side of the Moon>>>>>>any of this

no

>>127329574 (OP)
Nah that just shows the type of autists and trannies, mostly guilt-ridden whites and whiggers, that populates sites like RYM.

Basically it's Reddit for music rating

>>127329574 (OP)
Not that different from what a /mu/ top 5 would be. Replace TPAB with Kid A and GKMC with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and you have an accurate representation. Hell, the P4K readers poll result on the best albums of the last 25 years (which /mu/ was 100% responsible for) proves it. Grim.

There are three distinct years where the RYM chart became progressively unreliable.

>2006: Illmatic inexplicably rises into the top 25, ahead of Are You Experienced and In A Silent Way
>2011: Loveless is rediscovered by hipsters and becomes the 3rd 90s album to hold its position consistently (others being OKC and ITAOTS)
2018: In Rainbows appears and is astroturfed just ahead of TPAB

And this was all predicated by baffling changes in the bottom half of the chart. Remain In Light and Unknown Pleasures had no business there until the last decade when post-punk was memed back into relevance. It almost makes me feel bad for Lift Yr Skinny Fists, because despite being a pretentious album it's managed to stay unwavering between 15th-18th place.

Also fun fact, Elvis Costello used to be in top 5 for a few months. Not top 10, TOP FUCKING FIVE.

>>127329574 (OP)
RYM is basically a collective summary of Fantano

When did people really stop using last.fm?
I was on it a decade and a half ago but their mods were always so ban happy I stopped going there

>>127329873
Kpop is the worst because you cant understand why anyone would even listen to that stupid garbage. You might as well dress up as a baby and act like one. You are downright a dumb retard if you worship that. I doubt anyone has met anyone who is not an obnoxious piece of shit who loves kpop over the age of 16 or something

Swifties and Kendrick fans are retarded morons but I can at least see dumb normies at least liking that if they dont listen to any other music

>>127330599
How do you get banned from last.fm?

>>127330379
>Basically it's Reddit for music rating

Including the fat pedantic communist mods.

>>127329574 (OP)
>nigger music
nope

>>127329595
100% agree. but now rym-troons are becoming music journos for pitchfork and stereogum

if rym existed during the 90s we would have had 3 tupac albums in the top 5

>>127330745
No we wouldnt lmao

>>127329574 (OP)
Replace both Kendrick albums with either Abbey Road, Dark Side of the Moon, or Thriller if you really want a nigga

>>127329711
all things considerend its kinda normie chart

>>127329595
>>127330596
Fantano and his consequences have been a disaster for music discourse.
RYM was fine 15-20 years ago when it was only boomers.
>>127330563
>2011
/mu/tards and fagtano drones invaded, but the site was still usable.
>2018
Zoomers and trannies who get their taste from Fantano and the RYM hivemind invaded, site is now unusable.

>>127330599
Between 2012 to 2015, when the mods got too cocky, they removed all free downloads, replaced the radio with integrated spotify and youtube, and finally in 2015 launched an ugly shitty redesign of the site that everybody hated, that removed all groups/forums and any kind of personalisation of your profile.
>>127330662
By calling HairMetalAddict a faggot or saying something he doesn't agree with.

>>127329574 (OP)
lool zoomers like wish u were here kkeked

>>127330745
RYM top 3 in the 96

Unwound- Repetition
Tool-Ænima
Oliver Tremor Club-Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle

>>127329574 (OP)
I've never listened to a Kendrick lamar album and I never will

DaZmian Jul 15 2025 5.00 stars
Arguably the best album OAT
The first time I listened to this my reaction was like “This is weird”. Now, I consider this to be a masterpiece. It completely deserves to be in the argument for the best album OAT, let alone for the best Hip-Hop album of all time!
Beats: 5/5
The album blends rap with jazz in a way no other rap album has ever done. The G-Funk on Wesley’s Theory is also beautiful. This album has some of the best beats OAT, no question. If you like west-coast rap and jazz-rap, you will love this.
Lyrics: 5/5
This album mostly talks about the lives of black people in the US. I honestly love the concept, especially when the delivery is top-tier. There are simply sooo many layers to these songs, there is surely something you have missed in your first listen. Examples:
1: Kendrick refers to the devil (Lucifer) as “Lucy”.
2: In the track “How Much A Dollar Cost” Kendrick uses the homeless man as a metaphor, but talks about him as if he was real.
3: In “I” and “U” he impersonates someone that appreciates himself and someone that despises himself.
4: The interview at the end is an interview with 2Pac that took pieces of 2Pac’s interviews and put them together to make it sound like 2Pac is actually talking to Kendrick. There are many more examples I could make.
Features: 5/5
How can’t you love these features? From Rapsody to George Clinton, the list is not really stacked, but the people that are on this record all have at least good features. It’s difficult to choose a “best feature”, are there are at least 3 5/5 feature, but in my opinion, the best feature is Thundercat’s feature, it’s just perfect when combined with George Clinton’s one.
Final rating: 5/5
Though not for complete beginners, a masterpiece. In my opinion the best Hip-Hop album of all time, maybe even the best album of all time.

>>127331831
Riveting intellectual discussions being held over at RYM

>>127331831
>Lyrics: 5/5
>This album mostly talks about the lives of nigger people in muttmerica
>I honestly love the concept
>There are simply sooo many layers to these songs
wow, so deep, so interesting, what a concept, has never been done before!!

>>127331831
>There are simply sooo many layers to these songs, there is surely something you have missed in your first listen. Examples:
1: Kendrick refers to the devil (Lucifer) as “Lucy”.
stunning

>>127331831
>There are simply sooo many layers to these songs, there is surely something you have missed in your first listen. Examples:
>1: Kendrick refers to the devil (Lucifer) as “Lucy”.
stunning

>>127329574 (OP)
Why would you even ask that? Are people really this impressionable? Threads like these are actually concerning.

>>127329574 (OP)
No, picrel is the actual top 5 best albums of all time, according to God himself, disagreement is a sin.

>>127329574 (OP)
OKC and WYWH I think are overrated but I can get why they're there. The other three I can't understand. I assume Kendrick is the race obsessed American part of the userbase inflating its score, In Rainbows just isn't that good though.

>>127329746
>The Wall
>RAM
>Blackstar

This is the taste of the people who care about RYM rankings LMAO

>>127329574 (OP)
Music for intellectuals

How do you even compare a hip hop record to a normal piece of music? It's too infused with politics and race where only one race can actually know what the fuck the lyrics mean or be moved by it emotionally (beyond just "vibing with the sample").

rap is garbage

>>127332025
>>127332079
Kendrick lashit fans are the absolute worst

>>127332416
Can confirm this is true.

>>127332402
>where only one race can actually know what the fuck the lyrics mean
you cant be serious

>>127332305
I don't care about that tho ?, I don't even go to rym, there are other music rating sites, don't get the hype around it. But any of those is thousands of times better than garbage like TPAB whose only claim to glory is DEI bias propping it up, was a total disappointment, didn't live up in the slightest ti the hype, it has no nice melodies, nothing "innovative" that actually sounds good, the only thing it has going for it, according to its retarded fans themselves, is how it "talks about the lives of black people in the hoods", like, I'm sorry you grew up in poverty, but that doesn't make your music good, otherwise Sudan would be the number 1 exporter of talent, Kendrick should have written a poem/book instead of his shitty music. TPAB is by far the most overrated album atp.

>>127332425
I'm not even a rap fan, but compare this thing (most popular song from TPAB) https://youtu.be/Z-48u_uWMHY?si=b1g2w888pdXDY1jG to this https://youtu.be/Bm5iA4Zupek?si=jgnDsYlYa6BQyRz_ (I don't like some of the lyrics, but that's a great song) TPAB was/is very overhyped by fantano and industry shills.

>>127331831
Many rap albums had already blended jazz in similar ways, and why this kind of people never comment on John Coltrane, since they care so much about it, or is it just grasping at straws ? I also wonder why Black Midi isn't held in such high regard ?, because it isn't rap ?, will the rap grasp on music weaken ?

>>127333350
Vast majority of people wanking "black music" do not listen to actual good black music. Just (c)rap hop to be performative woke or because they're wiggerfied.

>>127329574 (OP)
If your a hipster faggot i guess

>>127329746
>This dude getting the 2pac treatment, would be balsam for music
Usually an artist meeting an untimely death greatly elevates the profile of their music. So be careful what you wish for.

>>127329595
you're mistaken, it was anthony fantano's fault. his fanbase then took over this site and it became bad. no one should think a death grips album is top 50 of all time except a fantano fan.
>>127330596
agreed
>>127329746
blackstar and mbdtf deserve to be on there instead of any radiohead or kendrick. kendrick first albums are pretty good but he's not good enough to gain this level of dickriding.

>>127330898
>>127335277
/mu/ helped kickstart fantano's career so in a way it's /mu/'s fault too
>inb4 "fantano used to be good"
not really. he has never given particularly interesting or insightful commentary on music

>>127329595
Don't blame RYM and other media sites. Blame the NPCs for being NPCs. Like 99% of /mu/. If you even know who [insert literalwho Tuber] is, then kill yourself for being a human-shaped AI-bot.

There's never been a rap album that deserves a 4 and above on RYM. TPAB at number one is a fucking joke

>>127335594
Anyone who still says NPC funnily enough has probably no original ideas of their own

>>127329574 (OP)
MUSTARRRRDDDDDDD

>>127335619
I"ll stop saying "npc" when we come up with a better name for them

>>127329574 (OP)
Dont know why people get triggered by these sort of lists. With time you realize that it's worthless to worry about them because your favs are different and?

>>127333350
>I also wonder why Black Midi isn't held in such high regard
It's literally the only avant-prog band this youngsters care about

>>127329574 (OP)
lol
yes, Kendrick Lamar and Radiohead has 4/5 of the greatest albums of all time. yes, this is an undeniable fact and truth.

whichever white 35-40-year-old North American white woman made this list, kudos to her father for insisting on Pink Floyd tho

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
2. Steely Dan - Aja
3. Frank Sinatra - Sings For Only The Lonely
4. The Beatles -Abbey Road
5. Julie London - Sophisticated Lady

too bad musicians don't really make albums any more

>>127335863
nice bait

>>127335915
you haven't seen Kendrick's demographics?
his biggest audience segment is literally
American:Female:Non-Hispanic White:31yrs-39yrs

>>127329574 (OP)
haha imagine all the rym trannies changing their radiohead rankings because of muh palestine that would throw them off a roof

>>127329574 (OP)
Kendrick is in the best albums of all time TWICE?!?
TWICE?!?
Hard disagree.
No led zeppelin, no black sabbath, no metallica, no the cure, no echo and the bunnymen, siouxsie and the banshees, no nirvana or alice in chains but Kendrick?

>>127330217
The site itself is good to get recommendations and maybe explore genres a little more in depth but the bias towards certain styles and the hivemind rankings are dumb

>>127329574 (OP)
First, rap is not music, so those two albums don't belong there.

Secondly, Radiohead is whiny U2 so them having 2 picks among the best ever albums says more about the users of that site being some sad terminally indoors neurotics aged between 30 and 40-something. It's a mere expression of a certain group with certain mental characteristics.

It's the reflection of their collective hugbox that this RYM site is. They built an altar to their collective sadness and stuck Radiohead at the top. Alongside not-music-but-it-makes-me-feel-so-gangsta-despite-being-a-total-beta-irl rap

>>127329574 (OP)
This just shows how much of a grip Kendrick had on the 2010s

>>127335822
who the fuck still says "triggered" in 2025

>>127336431
bro got triggered and crashed out

>>127330153
Maybe because it used to be underrated

>>127329574 (OP)
zoomers are the generation that is current teenage to late-20s
they get to decide that shit
this is what they have decided

>>127329574 (OP)
Obviously not

>>127329574 (OP)
The first three of them aren't even in top 5 of those artists' discographies lmao

>>127329574 (OP)
OK Computer was a good album. In Rainbows is pretty mid. Some good tracks but I still think it's a mid album.

>>127339084
Why did millennials and zoomers attach to thst one so much? I actually really like radiohead (burned out on them but I'll accept them being highly rated) but never cared for In Rainbows much. Id rather hear King of Limbs.

>>127329595
Maybe if youre under the age of 21, but until then you dont really matter anyway

Kendrick has made some super good songs but his album are mid.

>>127335518
True, Fagtano was here shilling his channel from the start.

>inb4 "fantano used to be good"
>not really. he has never given particularly interesting or insightful commentary on music
He was never good. The early shit he shilled here was mostly agreeing with the /mu/ and pitchfork consensus. That along with making le epic 4chan and /mu/ references in his videos made people stick around and this board became his first audience. I told him to fuck off and that he's an unfunny faggot, maybe more should've done the same.

>>127339084
>>127339847
In Rainbows used to be considered mid on here, RYM and Last.fm, maybe even the least liked Radiohead album, not counting Pablo Honey. So much so I thought it was underrated at the time, even if it was mediocre. No idea why zoomers latched on to it that much.

>>127329574 (OP)
Only one that deserves to be up there is Pink Floyd