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Neo-prog 1981
Prog's 1980s comeback, with digital keyboards, shorter songs and more melodrama.
- Heaviness
- 3
- Speed
- 4
- Melody
- 9
- Where from
- United Kingdom
- Tempo
- 100-150 bpm
- Song length
- 4-10 min
- Written about
- Childhood and memory, Loss, Personal narrative across a whole album, Britain in the 1980s
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Neo-prog | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| Light How much weight do you want behind it? | 3 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 4 out of 10 | 40% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1981 | 100% | ×1 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Childhood and memory, Loss, Personal narrative across a whole album, Britain in the 1980s | 100% | ×1 |
| Long. Let it go somewhere. How long should a song be? | up to 10 min | 67% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 83% | ||
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, length 1 out of 10. Neo-prog 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
King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King 1969
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King. The first track tells you everything.
- 2The one to put on first
Marillion, Misplaced Childhood 1985
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood. A continuous album with no gaps between tracks.
- 3Then
IQ, The Wake 1985
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Progressive rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Neo-prog'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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Neoclassical metal 82%
Bach and Paganini transposed onto a distorted guitar: harmonic minor scales, sweep arpeggios and three-minute solos.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Neo-prog.
The way into Neoclassical metal -
Neo-psychedelia 80%
Psychedelia retold by every new generation, with digital studios and rather less mysticism.
4 steps from Neo-prog, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Neo-psychedelia
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
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 10.
- Light put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Death metal, Brutal death metal, Sludge metal. Worth 2 of 10.
- As fast as anyone can play put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Drone metal, Funeral doom. Worth 2 of 10.
- 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.
- The inside of a head put 88 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Black metal. Worth 1 of 10.
- Long. Let it go somewhere. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Rock and roll. 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.