Rate Your Music vs Sputnic Music

Pick a favourite of these two pages, and see soner whos the winner.

I've never heard of Sputnik. The "reviews" at RYM are hardly ever worth reading, but the rating averages don't seem to be too far off.

Ricochet wrote: I have no idea what Sputnik is.

Aside from the inordinate man-love RYM reviewers have for Television, The Smiths and Nick Drake, I believe the ratings are fairly representative and close to the mark. As Vompatti said, the actual reviews, particularly the garbled one-line bits of inanity, are useless. Sputnik does not really have the readership to give a good rating sample per album.

The Dark Elf wrote: Aside from the inordinate man-love RYM reviewers have for Television, The Smiths and Nick Drake, I believe the ratings are fairly representative and close to the mark. As Vompatti said, the actual reviews, particularly the garbled one-line bits of inanity, are useless. Sputnik does not really have the readership to give a good rating sample per album.

+1

harmonium.ro wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: Aside from the inordinate man-love RYM reviewers have for Television, The Smiths and Nick Drake, I believe the ratings are fairly representative and close to the mark. As Vompatti said, the actual reviews, particularly the garbled one-line bits of inanity, are useless. Sputnik does not really have the readership to give a good rating sample per album. +1

+1 more.

I've found many a great album on RYM and I've only been using it for about half a year.

I personally love RYM, I've discovered tons of new music. Really, tons, not only prog, and it still is a reliable and powerful resource, also if you want to know about music subgenres, their first albums  etc etc.... I do however feel that the reviews are poor and should be written a lot better. But even the whole website's system doesn't make me want to review anything. 

The Truth wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: The Dark Elf wrote: Aside from the inordinate man-love RYM reviewers have for Television, The Smiths and Nick Drake, I believe the ratings are fairly representative and close to the mark. As Vompatti said, the actual reviews, particularly the garbled one-line bits of inanity, are useless. Sputnik does not really have the readership to give a good rating sample per album. +1 +1 more.

I guess to some extent I share the man-love for Nick Drake, but I see what you mean. Its still the best place to find out about most kinds of music... by far, imo. A quick look at RYM's charts clearly shows that music fans got way better tastes than music journalists.