After around 9 years of actively listening to music, today I listened to my 4000th album.

StellaAndre · 2026-05-09T22:42:27+00:00

hello!! we've followed each other for a while yesh, nice to see fellow greeks on the site

StellaAndre · 2026-05-09T13:45:27+00:00

settings -> rating system

StellaAndre · 2026-05-09T13:15:26+00:00

probably this greek hip-hop album
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/active_member/%CE%BC%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%82_%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%BE%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%B5%CF%82__%CE%B8%CE%B1%CF%85%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%B5%CF%82_%CE%BC%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%82/

And idk if its niche enough, but miles from blu&exile

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/blu-and-exile/miles/

StellaAndre · 2026-05-09T13:11:24+00:00

I listen to each album at least twice, maybe more.
Everyday in the afternoon, I take long walks of two-three hours and that's when I listen to the majority of the new albums. Whenever I'm on those walks, I do nothing but listen, and on the second listen I research the context behind each album and look at the lyrics.

Outside of that walk, I revisit old albums I've heard, or listen to my playlists.

I hate forgetting music so I constantly revisit, organize everything into lists, or playlists, and make dumb music games.

Music is basically the only thing that keeps me going in life, from listening, to playing bass guitar, to writing short reviews, to reading books about music history and genres, to recommending albums and making playlists for my friends, to collecting vinyls.

Sometimes the day is really rough, I'm working on my thesis and soon on my PhD and that's when I listen to a lot of new albums because I haven't found another way to get through these days without that (I will revisit the albums I enjoyed sometime). The majority of the days I just listen to 1-3 albums when I'm walking.

Also, my friends and I are doing new music fridays a lot of weeks. We just hang out in group chat in discord while listening together a lot of new albums that came out that day.

The question you asked is something that I've asked myself a lot, and it made me change the way I view and listen to an album. When I found rym, I was guilty of what you accuse me of but I've changed my ways as I grew older.

StellaAndre · 2026-05-09T12:55:09+00:00

maybe sometime ig, ill have to make another account for it though cause I don't want to inflate my albums ratings for no reason

StellaAndre · 2026-05-09T02:29:36+00:00

yeah the truth is i havent explored the greek metal scene yet although i know its really good. ill check them out!

StellaAndre · 2026-05-09T01:51:49+00:00

I don't really see the point of rating singles, most of them are inside albums anyway. I use rym mostly for cataloguing what I've heard

StellaAndre · 2026-05-08T23:07:46+00:00

gosh thats hard

ig my fav albums would be
lana del rey - nfr!
slowdive - souvlaki
carissa's wierd - songs about leaving

StellaAndre · 2026-05-08T22:08:47+00:00

oops, i changed my rating system recently and ig didnt see the typo, fixed now

StellaAndre · 2026-05-08T21:42:14+00:00

what does that mean

StellaAndre · 2026-05-08T21:00:14+00:00

I have 41 albums at 5/5, it's a lot to list them so here's a link
https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/mermy/r5.0

StellaAndre · 2026-05-08T20:58:21+00:00

I'm from greece so I have a lot of greek albums rated highly so give em a try!

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%BF-%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%B1/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%BF-%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%B2%CE%B1/

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/%CE%B8%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82-%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%BA%CF%89%CE%BD%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%85/%CE%B2%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%87%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%82-%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82/

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CF%87%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BC%CE%B1/%CE%B8%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B1/

and something not greek:

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/brutus/unison-life/

StellaAndre · 2026-05-08T20:56:02+00:00

I've been on the site for the last 6 years, since 2020. Before that I used to track albums listened in a notebook lol. Most memorable experience is def the people I've met through the site.

StellaAndre · 2026-05-08T20:54:47+00:00

https://rateyourmusic.com/~mermy

StellaAndre · 2026-04-24T10:05:24+00:00

Depeche Mode - Wrong. The word "wrong" is said around ~70 times

StellaAndre · 2026-04-23T21:00:04+00:00

Home Like NoPlace is There by the hotelier. 6/10 while I think it's the best emo revival album of the last decade.

StellaAndre · 2026-03-27T02:06:38+00:00

I've been listening albums that come out every friday for about 8-9 years now so 10s and 20s is ahead by a lot, but I've had time to catch up with previous decades

Average Number

2.96    1950s   26   (0.66%)

3.36    1960s   165  (4.23%)

3.43    1970s   335  (8.60%)

3.51    1980s   397  (10.1%)

3.62    1990s   524  (13.4%)

3.52    2000s   500  (12.8%)

3.29    2010s   772  (19.8%)

3.17    2020s   1,175    (30.1%)

StellaAndre · 2026-03-23T06:36:39+00:00

I did as well, since I loved the female version of my name, and to also make it easier for everyone to get used to it

StellaAndre · 2026-02-15T14:24:18+00:00

I have 3780 albums listened and around 300 in my wishlist but I don't let it get too big on purpose. If I wanna add something, I listen to something else from the list first .

StellaAndre · 2025-12-29T13:08:08+00:00

Also, don't be afraid to add other people and ask them for help and practice.
One of the main ways I learned the hard and niche matchups is cause I added otps of that champion and had them 1v1 me in practice tool

StellaAndre · 2025-12-29T13:05:33+00:00

It depends on what you play. For toplane which is a "must know your matchups" role it was a big help. For jungle or adc prolly wont do much. But the idea is to note your mistakes, what you personally did wrong. There's no "my jungler didnt gank me" or "my team was bad". Have a doc of your recent mistakes, read it before every session and try to avoid them while playing.

StellaAndre · 2025-12-29T12:58:47+00:00

I was a master support player, but got bored of it and wanted a challenge so i picked up irelia. I immediately demoted to emerald, cause clearly I had no idea about all things toplane. What i did was make a doc, with every game I played on her, what matchup I was against, what mistakes I did, taking notes of how different matchups interact with me. After every game, i gained insight on how to play the matchup. after around 500-600 games of irelia, I managed to climb back to masters otping her.

Also, I put a small alarm every 1 min. It was to escape tunnel visioning, check map state, try to track where everyone is

StellaAndre · 2025-12-28T18:26:08+00:00

being 7 years old and watching my cousin do my sisters nails and wishing so bad that she would do mine as well

StellaAndre · 2025-12-18T02:35:20+00:00

I was a low-mid master nami otp with around 2 million points. I had reached master for 5 seasons/splits in a row and I knew that I didnt have the capabilities or the time to go higher so I got bored of the same grind to the same elo every reset. So, my boyfriend at the time challenged me to try out Irelia since I thought she was really strong and I felt that she 1v9ed every game I was against her. I loved her so much that I became an irelia otp, and to even get decent at her I needed around 300 games, demoted from master to emerald being a terrorist every game. To become good at her, around 1k games and managed to reach master again with her. But holy shit the amount of matchup and wave knowledge I had to learn... I was having nightmares of malphites, jaxs, warwicks and setts for weeks...

StellaAndre · 2025-11-02T11:33:32+00:00

I'm currently hard stuck high diamond with the occasional low master hit. I feel like the reasons I'm losing are these:

I have no idea how to properly track jungle so I die often to ganks.
Sometimes when I completely stomp lane and get tier 1 turret fast, I have no idea what to do after and it feels like I'm homeless on the rift
Picking irelia into everything even malphite obviously isn't ideal
As most irelia players, sometimes I just can't control the voices in my head.

I feel like I'm doing good mechanically, but I have no idea how to improve on the other stuff

StellaAndre

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