Your way in
Punk rock 1974
Three chords, two minutes and zero patience for solos. A full reset of rock, and the second major source of extreme metal.
- Heaviness
- 4
- Speed
- 8
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- New York / London
- Tempo
- 160-200 bpm
- Song length
- 2-3 min
- Written about
- Boredom, Class, The state, Refusal
- Vocals
- Shouted
Why this one
| You said | Punk rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shouting, but I can still hear the words When someone is singing, what should come out? | shouted | 100% | ×3 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1974 | 80% | ×1 |
| Short. Say it and stop. How long should a song be? | up to 3 min | 92% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 94% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, era 1, length 1 out of 5. Punk rock 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
- 1The one to put on first
Ramones, Ramones 1976
Ramones - Ramones. Fourteen songs in twenty-nine minutes, not a wasted note.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5One step further in
The Descendents, Milo Goes to College 1982
The Descendents - Milo Goes to College. The manual, written twelve years before the boom.
The first is Punk rock's own entry point. After it come Punk 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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Teutonic thrash 83%
The German version: dirtier, faster and much closer to what would become death and black metal.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Punk rock.
The way into Teutonic thrash -
Rap rock 70%
Rapped vocals over rock riffs. The Run-DMC and Aerosmith collaboration opened the door; Rage turned it into a political weapon.
4 steps from Punk rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Rap rock
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
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. Worth 1 of 5.
- 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 5.
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.