Your way in
Stoner rock 1990
Thick down-tuned riffs, groovy drums and a fuzz tone. Born at generator parties in the desert.
- Heaviness
- 6
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- Palm Desert, California
- Tempo
- 90-130 bpm
- Song length
- 4-7 min
- Written about
- The desert, Drugs, cheerfully, The road, Science fiction
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Stoner rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| No words at all When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 80% | ×3 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Somewhere else entirely What should the words be about? | The desert, Drugs, cheerfully, The road, Science fiction | 100% | ×1 |
| Short. Say it and stop. How long should a song be? | up to 7 min | 58% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 85% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, about 1, length 1 out of 7. Stoner rock leads the next by 3 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
- 2The one to put on first
Kyuss, Blues for the Red Sun 1992
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun. That guitar tone has been copied for thirty years.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Hard rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Stoner 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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Surf rock 82%
Instrumental, drenched in tank reverb, with fast tremolo picking. The sound of the Californian coast, later recycled by punk and by Tarantino.
5 steps from Stoner rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Surf rock -
NWOTHM 81%
New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal: a new generation deliberately playing like it's 1982, down to the tape production.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Stoner rock.
The way into NWOTHM
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 7.
- Somewhere else entirely put 106 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 7.
- 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 7.
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.