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 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1978 | 100% | ×1 |
| 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 | 88% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 6 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 10. 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 82%
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 -
Folk metal 80%
Traditional instruments and folk melodies built into metal. Every region has written its own version.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from No wave.
The way into Folk 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
- 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 10.
- Somewhere else entirely put 106 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 10.
- 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 10.
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.