Your way in
Post-grunge 1994
The grunge formula cleaned up for radio: same dynamics, less dirt, vastly more airplay.
- Heaviness
- 5
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 9
- Where from
- USA / Canada
- Tempo
- 100-140 bpm
- Song length
- 3.5-4.5 min
- Written about
- Relationships, Loss, Perseverance, Interior struggle, generalised
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Post-grunge | 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? | 1994 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 100% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 2 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, era 1 out of 3. Post-grunge 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
Alice in Chains, Dirt 1992
Alice in Chains - Dirt. The heaviest and bleakest record the scene produced.
- 2The one to put on first
Foo Fighters, The Colour and the Shape 1997
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape. Dave Grohl played nearly all of it himself.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Grunge, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Post-grunge'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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Desert rock 100%
The hypnotic, jam-based side of stoner rock, with lots of space between the notes and a warm bass tone.
7 steps from Post-grunge, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Desert rock -
Youth crew / straight edge 95%
Hardcore with a code: no alcohol, no drugs, gang vocals and breakdowns. The ethics of the scene became the subject of the songs.
6 steps from Post-grunge, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Youth crew / straight edge
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 3.
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.