Your way in
Noise rock 1983
Alternate tunings, feedback as an instrument and rhythm sections that hit like machinery. The grandfather of sludge.
- Heaviness
- 7
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 3
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 90-150 bpm
- Song length
- 3-7 min
- Written about
- Violence, American ugliness, Sex without romance, Deliberate discomfort
- Vocals
- Shouted
Why this one
| You said | Noise rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| No words at all When someone is singing, what should come out? | shouted | 60% | ×3 |
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 7 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1983 | 44% | ×1 |
| Being young and out late What should the words be about? | Violence, American ugliness, Sex without romance, Deliberate discomfort | 100% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 3 out of 10 | 80% | ×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, melody 1 out of 10. Noise rock 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
Pixies, Doolittle 1989
Pixies - Doolittle. Cobain admitted he was simply trying to write a Pixies song.
- 2The one to put on first
The Jesus Lizard, Goat 1991
The Jesus Lizard - Goat. The rhythm section sounds like heavy plant in operation.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Alternative rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Noise rock'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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Hard rock 76%
Louder volume, thicker riffs, vocals pushed to the edge. Heavy metal splits off from it, but hard rock stays closer to the blues and to the chorus.
4 steps from Noise rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Hard rock -
Proto-punk 74%
Garage rock turned hostile and repetitive, with noise and nihilism. Nobody called it punk yet, but everyone at CBGB copied from it.
5 steps from Noise rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Proto-punk
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 10.
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. Worth 1 of 10.
- 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 10.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. 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.