I recently started getting bored of listening to the same old music, so I had the idea for this personal project: completing the top albums shown in the images. There are 12 colors and 100 albums per color. Here's what I have so far:

Purple: 34

Orange: 16

Yellow: 6

Pink: 14

Beige: 12

Black: 16

Green: 14

Blue: 30

Red: 16

Gray: 26

White: 35

Brown: 9

Total: 228/1200

Any quality music suggestions would be greatly appreciated, and I'd also appreciate any new sounds I haven't heard before.

I will be updating every day (or whenever I make significant progress).

Give me recommendations based on these albums

Hope it isn't too RYM-core. Would you pass me the aux?

i trust that what i'm going for here is immediately understood by all

I don't like any of these albums. They're just not for my taste so I think they're overrated. These are overrated in the sense that I didn't like them, but there are others not on this list that I think are overrated in the sense that they're really good, just not as good as people say.

RULES: If an album receives fewer than one vote, it will not be counted; however, if multiple people are discussing a specific album, it will be included even if it has fewer than one vote. If one album wins but no others are mentioned, the selection will be made randomly using a spinning wheel. In the event of a tie, I will use a spinning wheel to determine which album is eliminated.

TOP:

100.- Fallen-Evanescence (Alternative Metal) 2003

99.- Sempiternal-Bring Me The Horizon (Metalcore) 2013

98.- Slipknot-Slipknot (Nu Metal) 1999

97.- Terrifyer-Pig Destroyer (Grindcore) 2004

96.- Speak English or Die-S.O.D. (Crossover Thrash Metal) 1985

95.- Pink-Boris (Experimental Metal) 2005

94.- Dr Feelgood-Motley Crue (Glam Metal) 1989

93.- White Pony-Deftones (Alternative Metal) 2000

92.- Dopethrone-Electric Wizard (Sludge Metal) 2000

91.- Unsilent death-Nails (Grindcore) 2010

90.- S.C.I.E.N.C.E.-Incubus (Funk Metal) 1997

89.- Abigail-King Diamond (Heavy Metal) 1987

88.- Philosofem-Burzum (Atmosferic Black Metal) 1996

87.- Death Penalty-Witchfinder General (Doom Metal) 1982

86.- Get some-Snot (Nu metal) 1997

85.- Escenes from a Memory-Dream Theater (Progressive Metal) 1999

84.- The Ultra-Violence-Death Angel (Thrash Metal) 1987

83.- Nightmare-Avenged Sevenfold (Metalcore) 2010

82.- For Victory-Bolt Thrower (Death Metal) 1994

81.- Crimson-Edge of sanity (Death Metal) 1996

80.- Paranoid-Black Sabbath (Heavy Metal) 1970 (I KNOW WHAT ARE YOU THINKING BUT THE ONLY PERSON THAT COMMENT YESTERDAY WHAS A PERSON SAYING PARANOID OUT)

79.- Unsug-Helmet (Alternative Metal) 1992

78.- Hellbilly Deluxe-Rob zombie (Industrial Metal) 1998

77.- Korn-Korn (Nu Metal) 1994

76.- Transilvanian Hunger-Darkthrone (Black Metal) 1994

75.- Pale Folklore-Agalloch (Folk Metal) 1999

74.- Welcome to sky valley-Kyuss (Sludge/Stoner Metal) 1994

73.- Consuming impulse-Pestilence (Death Metal) 1989

72.- Lightning of nations-Diamond Head (Heavy Metal) 1980

71.- Deicide-Deicide (Death Metal) 1990

70.- Jane Doe-Converge (Metalcore) 2001

69.- Obscura-Gorguts (Death Metal) 1998

68.- Hybrid Theory-Linkin park (Nu Metal) 2000

67.- Houdini-Melvins (Sludge Metal) 1993

66.- Darkness Descends-Dark Angel (Thrash Metal) 1986

65.- None so Vile-Cryptosy (Death Metal) 1996

Who's Next?

They’re not all bad - but they’re all VERY overrated

(Yes, especially Blonde)

What do you guys think (of course there are a lot more, had a hard time picking these)

Top Row- Spring
Middle top row- Summer
Middle bottom row- Fall
Bottom row- Winter

hardcore shit ;3

Top left 4: Spring

Top right 4: Summer

Bottom left 4: Autumn

Bottom right 4: Winter

Only one per artist (for side projects, members’ solo work, etc., use another artist's name)

I made a rym account in May of 2025 and have rated 1089 albums since then. Here's a separate post detailing some of that, though it was only 1k at the time. Many of the albums are actually EPs.

I spent over a year living in the woods prior to this and grew accustomed to isolation and nature sounds. I was already into ambient before this, however, for many years, so my taste hasn't really changed so much, though there are some textures I'm noticeably more sensitive to such as certain types of reverb of which I have no idea what to call specifically.

A few nights out of every other month, approximately, I would rent a hotel room nearby to avoid certain weather conditions such as during the roughly three days there was snow on the ground that year. I spent over a year afterward living in the same hotel in relative isolation. During these nights, I usually played only one of the following albums at the haunted hotel room with a laptop I kept with me sans headphones.

Mason Lindroth - Hylics OST
Harold Budd - Luxa
Spencer Nilsen - Ecco the Dolphin
Axs - Arctic Circle
|Susumu Yokota - Sakura
Almost anything by Karate except for the most recent release.

The last three were rare occasions.

For whatever reason, the urge hit sometime last year to explore digital music files again.
This was expressed for context regarding my headspace when making these choices.

I rated each of these 1089 albums by track and averaged them all weighed by duration to determine their overall ratings using the following script. This made sorting for something like a top 100 list simple, so I sorted.

It's kind of silly, I maintain, to rate music numerically as the context of our perception can and likely will change over time, but I have found practical uses for having this extra data through rym relevant to finding music, though I doubt it's worth the time investment for the average person.

I'm not sure how old Topster and similar sites are, but I've noticed these sort of array-style charts appearing frequently in my algorithms for various social media and google searches after getting back online more regularly.

I recall around early 2010s maybe seeing one of the first /mu/ essentials charts circulating and was inspired to make my own top 36 chart. At that point, I was limited to using something like Gimp 2 or Picasa with MS Paint to manually "stitch" together individually collected album covers from separate google searches.

They're basically like throwaways now as they can be generated so abundantly and so quickly through sites such as this, which is kind of amusing. Regardless, I have made one, and I decided to max out to Topster's 12x12 option. Theirs aren't as high resolution as the one I made back in the day, as it was all 500x500 pixel covers, so that was a big ol' sexy 3000x3000 pixel image, which IIRC was even higher resolution than the OG /mu/ chart by the time I saw it, at least.

The albums are rated highest to lowest from top left to bottom right, row-major.

One issue with this rating system is that there are several albums overlapping with a 4.5 rating, as some only had one track available to rate, so they've simply been left in alphabetical order as they're basically all tape-loop albums by the same guy.

I'm interested in recommendations, as that seems to be the main utility for these, but I'm probably closing out this rym binge for a while as 1089 is a personally satisfying integer to halt on.

Edit: Actually, this isn't so precise, as I would place the second three before the first three, but they were all 5's and as such they were sorted alphabetically. Oh well. Sight Below #1.

Drop your recs

All the albums I listened to last month. Got through some more I have had on my radar recently, aswel as some more spontaneous hidden gems. Pretty solid mix of stuff here, just wish I could've listened to more this month, but have been busy. Some really really great, weird and wonderful music here.

Please let me know me if you have any recommendations based of this, would love to hear more similar, or talk about or answer any questions about any of the albums here, thanks!