Your way in
Blues rock 1963
Electric blues played louder, longer and with improvised solos. The direct bridge between Muddy Waters and Black Sabbath.
- Heaviness
- 4
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 8
- Where from
- London / Chicago
- Tempo
- 90-130 bpm
- Song length
- 4-8 min
- Written about
- Desire, Travel and escape, Devotion and betrayal, The supernatural, borrowed from Delta lyrics
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Blues rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1963 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 100% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, era 1 out of 6. Blues rock 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
- 1The one to put on first
Cream, Fresh Cream 1966
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love. The riff that showed how thick a trio could sound.
The pick names a track. This is the record the encyclopedia holds by them.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is Blues rock's own entry point. After it come Blues 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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Proto-metal 100%
The heavy bands from before the term existed: over-amplified acid rock, already built around the riff.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 4 steps from Blues rock.
The way into Proto-metal -
Zeuhl 96%
Operatic rock sung in an invented language, with fretless bass and choir. A tiny French branch with fanatical disciples.
4 steps from Blues rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Zeuhl
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 6.
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. 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.