Your way in
Oi! / street punk 1977
Working-class punk with terrace choruses and lyrics about the pub, the factory and football.
- Heaviness
- 4
- Speed
- 7
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- United Kingdom
- Tempo
- 150-190 bpm
- Song length
- 2-3 min
- Written about
- Work and unemployment, Class, Football and the pub, Solidarity
- Vocals
- Shouted
Why this one
| You said | Oi! / street punk | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | shouted | 80% | ×3 |
| Light How much weight do you want behind it? | 4 out of 10 | 80% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 7 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1977 | 68% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 7 out of 10 | 90% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 84% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, melody 1 out of 9. Oi! / street punk leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Ramones, Ramones 1976
Ramones - Ramones. Fourteen songs in twenty-nine minutes, not a wasted note.
- 2The one to put on first
Cock Sparrer, Cock Sparrer 1978
Cock Sparrer - Shock Troops. Slade-level choruses with punk guitars.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Punk rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Oi! / street punk's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Emo 83%
Hardcore in which the lyrics turn confessional and the voice cracks. The term started as an insult and became an entire decade of fashion.
4 steps from Oi! / street punk, meeting it only at Punk rock.
The way into Emo -
Avant-garde metal 77%
Metal that imports anything - jazz, cabaret, electronics - and refuses to settle into a shape.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Oi! / street punk.
The way into Avant-garde metal
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Both, trading off put 72 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 9.
- Light put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Death metal, Brutal death metal, Sludge metal. Worth 2 of 9.
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. Worth 1 of 9.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.