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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 |
| The dark What should the words be about? | Work and unemployment, Class, Football and the pub, Solidarity | 0% | ×1 |
| Short. Say it and stop. How long should a song be? | up to 3 min | 92% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 76% | ||
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, length 1 out of 10. 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 75%
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 -
First wave 73%
The bands that supplied the name and the themes, while still playing speed or thrash metal. Venom released the album that christened the genre.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Oi! / street punk.
The way into First wave
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.
- Light put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Death metal, Brutal death metal, Sludge metal. 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.
- The dark put 119 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 10.
- Short. Say it and stop. put 18 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Progressive rock, Progressive metal. 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.