Your way in
Easycore 2007
Pop punk with hardcore breakdowns glued into the middle. Sweet chorus, hammer at the end.
- Heaviness
- 5
- Speed
- 7
- Melody
- 9
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 150-190 bpm
- Song length
- 3-4 min
- Written about
- Friendship, Adolescence, Heartbreak, comically, Not growing up
- Vocals
- Sung and screamed
Why this one
| You said | Easycore | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | mixed | 100% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Yes. A proper melody. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 98% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, melody 1 out of 6. Easycore leads the next by 2 points. 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
The Descendents, Milo Goes to College 1982
The Descendents - Milo Goes to College. The manual, written twelve years before the boom.
- 2The one to put on first
A Day to Remember, Homesick 2009
A Day to Remember - Homesick. The most effective sweet-to-brutal switching in the genre.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Pop punk, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Easycore'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 97%
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 7 steps from Easycore.
The way into Pirate metal -
Post-hardcore 95%
Hardcore that allows itself dynamics, empty space and irregular structures. Emo, screamo and mathcore all branch off from here.
4 steps from Easycore, meeting it only at Punk rock.
The way into Post-hardcore
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 6.
- Yes. A proper melody. put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Grindcore, Brutal death metal, Cybergrind. Worth 1 of 6.
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.