Your way in
Punk rock 1974
Three chords, two minutes and zero patience for solos. A full reset of rock, and the second major source of extreme metal.
- Heaviness
- 4
- Speed
- 8
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- New York / London
- Tempo
- 160-200 bpm
- Song length
- 2-3 min
- Written about
- Boredom, Class, The state, Refusal
- Vocals
- Shouted
Why this one
| You said | Punk rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | shouted | 80% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 4 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 8 out of 10 | 80% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1974 | 80% | ×1 |
| Being young and out late What should the words be about? | Boredom, Class, The state, Refusal | 0% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 7 out of 10 | 90% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 75% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 6 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 10. Punk rock ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. 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
- 1The one to put on first
Ramones, Ramones 1976
Ramones - Ramones. Fourteen songs in twenty-nine minutes, not a wasted note.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5One step further in
The Descendents, Milo Goes to College 1982
The Descendents - Milo Goes to College. The manual, written twelve years before the boom.
The first is Punk rock's own entry point. After it come Punk rock'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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Pirate metal 73%
Power metal with accordion and lyrics about rum. A small genre, entirely shameless and very effective live.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Punk rock.
The way into Pirate metal -
Bay Area thrash 69%
The original epicentre: technical riffing, clearer production and a little more melody.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Punk rock.
The way into Bay Area thrash
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 10.
- As fast as anyone can play put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Drone metal, Funeral doom. Worth 2 of 10.
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. Worth 1 of 10.
- Being young and out late put 115 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 10.
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.