Your way in
Post-grunge 1994
The grunge formula cleaned up for radio: same dynamics, less dirt, vastly more airplay.
- Heaviness
- 5
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 9
- Where from
- USA / Canada
- Tempo
- 100-140 bpm
- Song length
- 3.5-4.5 min
- Written about
- Relationships, Loss, Perseverance, Interior struggle, generalised
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Post-grunge | 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? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Slow. Let it take its time. What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 60% | ×2 |
| Yes. A proper melody. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 89% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, melody 1 out of 8. Post-grunge 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
Alice in Chains, Dirt 1992
Alice in Chains - Dirt. The heaviest and bleakest record the scene produced.
- 2The one to put on first
Foo Fighters, The Colour and the Shape 1997
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape. Dave Grohl played nearly all of it himself.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Grunge, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Post-grunge'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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Desert rock 89%
The hypnotic, jam-based side of stoner rock, with lots of space between the notes and a warm bass tone.
7 steps from Post-grunge, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Desert rock -
Glam metal 88%
Hard rock with hairspray, a radio chorus and a mandatory power ballad. It ruled MTV until 1991.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Post-grunge.
The way into Glam 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
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 8.
- 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 8.
- Yes. A proper melody. put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Grindcore, Brutal death metal, Cybergrind. Worth 1 of 8.
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.