Ranking Au5 on Monstercat

i didnt know what to do this week so uhhh heres the gold man

[@Wolfhound_Bass]

Reasonings in this video in a nutshell: 1. Song too old, and old ≠ bad 2. Song too long, and long ≠ bad 3. I can’t see what’s good/bad in this track but it’s good/bad These reasonings are… not good. They suffer from something that most rankers also have: a lack of any notable specific critique. Almost all these reasonings have no substance, no specific production critique. There’s nothing about how the songs being long make them less replayable. There’s nothing about how the older songs don’t work. There’s no mention of flows, melodies, sound design, percussion, chord progressions. I’m no producer, but there’s nothing good to take away from these reasonings. Maybe learn a little about production, you don’t need to know every little bit but a basic production knowledge will lead to stronger reasonings and better videos.

[@ashesii]

fs agree, nothing wrong with songs being 5 minutes, especially the ones that actually progress, and the presplit songs just got absolutely shafted 😭

[@double_arrow]

For some reason, I think my reasonings are best when most of the songs sound different with each other. A discography ranking like this makes it hard for me to see a difference in production. I also repeat some statements too much because there's nothing on my mind that can replace them. Also, I am not comfortable with terms I don't 100% understand, so I leave them behind. Respectfully, I will be trying to improve my reasonings (right now I've started to make them while I'm listening to the song and not while I'm editing).

[@jakubn3809]

This ranking community had reached a new type of absurdity; even veterans (2016-7) don't trashtalk old releases that much.

[@Wolfhound_Bass]

@@jakubn3809 100%, there are still good rankers out there but so many don’t have any substance whatsoever. It feels like there’s more hate and less critique, and it does not work for me.

[@jakubn3809]

@@Wolfhound_Bass What are your favorite MC rankers? Mine are RedhawkDirector, Hawkskey, TVR/Xorro, DeeCranks and Koko.

[@PIKTVRE]

Voidwalkers is the reason I started mass-listening to Au5 in the first place, definitely my favorite song from him, and in general. Really happy someone puts a 10/10 on it as well. Eden... is cool, but I definitely prefer Voidwalkers, it just has a unique feeling that no other song can recreate. I love void/cosmos-related stuff lol

[@rebirth4119]

Although we may have different opinions on the rankings, I feel like we could agree the worst of Au5 is better than the best songs of certain artists. 😅 not going to give examples though