Your way in
Midwest emo 1994
Open tunings and interlocking arpeggios, odd meters and lyrics about autumn and empty rooms.
- Heaviness
- 2
- Speed
- 4
- Melody
- 10
- Where from
- Illinois / Kansas, USA
- Tempo
- 100-150 bpm
- Song length
- 3.5-6 min
- Written about
- Adolescence in retrospect, Place - specifically the suburban Midwest, Failure at intimacy, Weather and seasons
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Midwest emo | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light How much weight do you want behind it? | 2 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Slow. Let it take its time. What pace? | 4 out of 10 | 70% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 1994 | 76% | ×1 |
| The dark What should the words be about? | Adolescence in retrospect, Place - specifically the suburban Midwest, Failure at intimacy, Weather and seasons | 0% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 69% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1 out of 6. Midwest emo 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
Sunny Day Real Estate, Diary 1994
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary. The bridge between DC hardcore and everything that followed.
- 2The one to put on first
American Football, American Football 1999
American Football - Never Meant. That opening guitar figure is a whole genre.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Emo, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Midwest emo'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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Funeral doom 67%
The slowest metal in existence: under 40 bpm, organ, guttural vocals and fifteen-minute songs. Music for a single chord.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 9 steps from Midwest emo.
The way into Funeral doom -
Dream pop 67%
The same reverb haze, but with the melody left on the surface and the tempo slower.
8 steps from Midwest emo, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Dream pop
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
- Light put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Death metal, Brutal death metal, Sludge metal. Worth 2 of 6.
- Slow. Let it take its time. put 22 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Hardcore punk, Black metal, Death metal. Worth 2 of 6.
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 6.
- The dark put 119 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. 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.