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Avant-prog / RIO 1978
Rock in Opposition: dissonance, chamber music and left-wing politics. Prog that refuses on principle to be pleasant.
- Heaviness
- 3
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 3
- Where from
- Europe
- Tempo
- 60-160 bpm
- Song length
- 4-12 min
- Written about
- Politics, explicitly Marxist on the English side, Dread, Language and its failure, Formal experiment as a subject
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Avant-prog / RIO | 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? | 3 out of 10 | 80% | ×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 |
| Anger at something real What should the words be about? | Politics, explicitly Marxist on the English side, Dread, Language and its failure, Formal experiment as a subject | 50% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 3 out of 10 | 80% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 89% | ||
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. Avant-prog / RIO leads the next by 2 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
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
Univers Zero, Univers Zero 1977
Univers Zero - Heresie. Closer to Bartók than to rock.
- 3Then
- 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 Avant-prog / RIO'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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Funk rock 87%
Slap bass and funk grooves under rock guitars. Rap rock, and through it nu metal, start here.
4 steps from Avant-prog / RIO, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Funk rock -
Post-punk 86%
Punk asking what comes next: melodic bass up front, dry guitar, space and cold. Possibly the most fertile branch in all of rock.
4 steps from Avant-prog / RIO, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Post-punk
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.
- 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.
- Anger at something real put 108 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Black metal, Blues 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.