Your way in
Melodic hardcore 1985
Same speed and urgency, but with sung choruses and guitar harmonies.
- Heaviness
- 5
- Speed
- 8
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 180-220 bpm
- Song length
- 2-3 min
- Written about
- Conviction, Personal politics, Community, Growing older in a young person's scene
- Vocals
- Shouted
Why this one
| You said | Melodic hardcore | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shouting, but I can still hear the words When someone is singing, what should come out? | shouted | 100% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1985 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 100% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, era 1 out of 6. Melodic hardcore 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
Bad Brains, Bad Brains 1982
Bad Brains - Bad Brains (the ROIR cassette). The fastest band of the decade.
- 2The one to put on first
Kid Dynamite, Kid Dynamite 1998
Kid Dynamite - Kid Dynamite. Seventeen songs, twenty-four minutes, zero fat.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Hardcore punk, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Melodic hardcore'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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No wave 97%
A total refusal of melody and standard tuning. Short-lived, extreme and hugely influential on noise rock.
4 steps from Melodic hardcore, meeting it only at Punk rock.
The way into No wave -
Noise rock 93%
Alternate tunings, feedback as an instrument and rhythm sections that hit like machinery. The grandfather of sludge.
5 steps from Melodic hardcore, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Noise 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 seventies and eighties put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Kawaii metal, New nu metal, Progressive metalcore. 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.