Your way in
Stoner rock 1990
Thick down-tuned riffs, groovy drums and a fuzz tone. Born at generator parties in the desert.
- Heaviness
- 6
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- Palm Desert, California
- Tempo
- 90-130 bpm
- Song length
- 4-7 min
- Written about
- The desert, Drugs, cheerfully, The road, Science fiction
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Stoner rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| Slow. Let it take its time. What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 60% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 1990 | 60% | ×1 |
| Somewhere else entirely What should the words be about? | The desert, Drugs, cheerfully, The road, Science fiction | 100% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 7 out of 10 | 90% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 85% | ||
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. Stoner rock leads the next by 1 point. 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
- 2The one to put on first
Kyuss, Blues for the Red Sun 1992
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun. That guitar tone has been copied for thirty years.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Hard rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Stoner 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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NWOTHM 83%
New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal: a new generation deliberately playing like it's 1982, down to the tape production.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Stoner rock.
The way into NWOTHM -
Space rock 82%
A repetitive riff under a thick layer of synthesizers and cosmic whoosh. Lemmy went straight from here into Motörhead.
5 steps from Stoner rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Space 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
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 10.
- Slow. Let it take its time. put 22 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Hardcore punk, Black metal, Death metal. Worth 2 of 10.
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. 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.
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.