Your way in
Melodic hardcore 1985
Same speed and urgency, but with sung choruses and guitar harmonies.
- Heaviness
- 5
- Speed
- 8
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 180-220 bpm
- Song length
- 2-3 min
- Written about
- Conviction, Personal politics, Community, Growing older in a young person's scene
- Vocals
- Shouted
Why this one
| You said | Melodic hardcore | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1985 | 80% | ×1 |
| Anger at something real What should the words be about? | Conviction, Personal politics, Community, Growing older in a young person's scene | 50% | ×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 4 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 5. Melodic hardcore 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
- 1Start one step outside
Bad Brains, Bad Brains 1982
Bad Brains - Bad Brains (the ROIR cassette). The fastest band of the decade.
- 2The one to put on first
Kid Dynamite, Kid Dynamite 1998
Kid Dynamite - Kid Dynamite. Seventeen songs, twenty-four minutes, zero fat.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Hardcore punk, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Melodic hardcore'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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Screamo 84%
Emo pushed into hysteria: continuous screaming, cutting guitars and songs that collapse into silence. Also called skramz.
4 steps from Melodic hardcore, meeting it only at Hardcore punk.
The way into Screamo -
Funk rock 83%
Slap bass and funk grooves under rock guitars. Rap rock, and through it nu metal, start here.
5 steps from Melodic hardcore, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Funk 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
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 5.
- Anger at something real put 108 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Black metal, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 5.
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.