Your way in
Psychobilly 1980
Rockabilly with slapped upright bass, punk speed and lyrics about monsters. Quiff haircut mandatory.
- Heaviness
- 4
- Speed
- 8
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- United Kingdom
- Tempo
- 180-220 bpm
- Song length
- 2-3 min
- Written about
- Horror films, Sex and violence, comically, Delinquency, Cars and monsters
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Psychobilly | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| No words at all When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 80% | ×3 |
| Light How much weight do you want behind it? | 4 out of 10 | 80% | ×2 |
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 8 out of 10 | 80% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1980 | 100% | ×1 |
| Being young and out late What should the words be about? | Horror films, Sex and violence, comically, Delinquency, Cars and monsters | 50% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 79% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1 out of 9. Psychobilly 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
- 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 Psychobilly'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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Glam metal 78%
Hard rock with hairspray, a radio chorus and a mandatory power ballad. It ruled MTV until 1991.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Psychobilly.
The way into Glam metal -
Math rock 78%
Odd meters and interlocking riffs assembled like a puzzle, usually without vocals. Post-rock's cerebral cousin.
4 steps from Psychobilly, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Math rock
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
- No words at all put 33 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Grindcore. 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.
- 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 9.
- The seventies and eighties put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Kawaii metal, New nu metal, Progressive metalcore. Worth 1 of 9.
- 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 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.