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Krautrock 1968
A tireless motorik beat, studio improvisation and a refusal of the chorus. It shaped post-punk, post-rock and electronic music.
- Heaviness
- 3
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 5
- Where from
- West Germany
- Tempo
- 120-150 bpm
- Song length
- 6-20 min
- Written about
- Mostly none - the vocals are frequently phonetic, invented or absent, Motion, Machines, Deliberate refusal of an English-language rock tradition
- Vocals
- Instrumental
Why this one
| You said | Krautrock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| No words at all When someone is singing, what should come out? | instrumental | 100% | ×3 |
| As heavy as it gets How much weight do you want behind it? | 3 out of 10 | 30% | ×2 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1968 | 100% | ×1 |
| Being young and out late What should the words be about? | Mostly none - the vocals are frequently phonetic, invented or absent, Motion, Machines, Deliberate refusal of an English-language rock tradition | 0% | ×1 |
| Long. Let it go somewhere. How long should a song be? | up to 20 min | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 76% | ||
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. Krautrock 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
Pink Floyd, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 1967
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive. Ten minutes that explain half this tree.
The pick names a track. This is the record the encyclopedia holds by them.
- 2The one to put on first
- 3Then
Can, Tago Mago 1971
- 4Then
Faust, Faust IV 1973
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Psychedelic rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Krautrock'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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Hard rock 73%
Louder volume, thicker riffs, vocals pushed to the edge. Heavy metal splits off from it, but hard rock stays closer to the blues and to the chorus.
4 steps from Krautrock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Hard rock -
Canterbury scene 73%
Prog with jazz harmony and dry English humour. Looser and stranger than its symphonic neighbours.
4 steps from Krautrock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Canterbury scene
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
- No words at all put 33 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Grindcore. Worth 3 of 10.
- As heavy as it gets put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Rock and roll, Folk rock, Country rock. Worth 2 of 10.
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. Worth 1 of 10.
- Being young and out late put 115 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. 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.