Your way in
No wave 1978
A total refusal of melody and standard tuning. Short-lived, extreme and hugely influential on noise rock.
- Heaviness
- 6
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 1
- Where from
- New York, USA
- Tempo
- 100-200 bpm
- Song length
- 1.5-4 min
- Written about
- Refusal, Violence, The city, Nothing, aggressively
- Vocals
- Shouted
Why this one
| You said | No wave | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shouting, but I can still hear the words When someone is singing, what should come out? | shouted | 100% | ×3 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Somewhere else entirely What should the words be about? | Refusal, Violence, The city, Nothing, aggressively | 0% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 1 out of 10 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 86% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, about 1, melody 1 out of 7. No wave leads the next by 6 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
Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures 1979
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures. Martin Hannett's production is half the record.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
Swans, Filth 1983
The first is the entry point for Post-punk, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come No wave'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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Noise rock 80%
Alternate tunings, feedback as an instrument and rhythm sections that hit like machinery. The grandfather of sludge.
5 steps from No wave, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Noise rock -
Celtic metal 79%
Irish melodies and traditional instruments over black or heavy metal.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from No wave.
The way into Celtic metal
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
- 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.
- 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 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.