For a while I spent very little time on this particular site but found myself drawn back into the group of folks who post on here 2 years ago when I discovered half of them had Twitter accounts.
In the 10 years since then I’ve gotten a degree in music from a polytechnic which I graduated from a year ago, played in bands, performed in barbershop chorus competitions in Las Vegas, came out as both bisexual and gender non-binary and exposed myself to an ever-increasing range of music and people to play and share music with. My tastes were just starting to reject the dodgy rockism that I had indoctrinated myself in and was still dominant of my male friends and classmates and it was quite cathartic in a way to be able to vent on a website that nobody had ever heard of to nobody who knew me personally about all the opinions I still couldn’t admit to the people in my social group for fear of ridicule. Granted, I was 13 and still very much at the age where nuance is impossible but was also in the middle of a really difficult year in my own personal life too.
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Over here there was more of a community brewing as well as a less ugly colour scheme that made it much more visually appealing, plus the entries for songs and albums had their review sections filtered to show all the other English-language reviews on the portal and I got to see first-hand all the opinions I sharply disagreed with and began writing away hostile reviews about how the things other people liked sucked or why the things other people hated were good with the occasional ad hominem remark and a fair share of caps lock and exclamation points thrown in there.
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It was also a pretty lonely site with not much on it besides said archives but lucky for me the site was also part of a portal to a bunch of chart sites for a whole load of different countries, one of which was for my neighbours and creator of the TV show Neighbours Australia. That website was of course and had just updated its archives to include the entire history of single and album charts in my country of New Zealand until the year 1975 when the RIANZ took over the compilations of NZ’s music charts. I gave myself a terrible moniker that was a combination of my 2 then-favourite rock bands and immersed myself with the depths of the archives of chart history that the site had to offer. On this day a decade ago, my 13-year-old self registered an account on a little-known website that I had been lurking at for a while and what felt like a goldmine after having built up an obsession with music charts since I was a kid who’d religiously watch the Top 40 countdown.