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Funk rock 1984
Slap bass and funk grooves under rock guitars. Rap rock, and through it nu metal, start here.
- Heaviness
- 5
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- California, USA
- Tempo
- 100-130 bpm
- Song length
- 3.5-5 min
- Written about
- Sex, The body, Los Angeles, Politics, on the Living Colour and Fishbone side
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Funk rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| No words at all When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 80% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1984 | 100% | ×1 |
| Anger at something real What should the words be about? | Sex, The body, Los Angeles, Politics, on the Living Colour and Fishbone side | 50% | ×1 |
| Normal How long should a song be? | up to 5 min | 96% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 87% | ||
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. Funk 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
Pixies, Doolittle 1989
Pixies - Doolittle. Cobain admitted he was simply trying to write a Pixies song.
- 2The one to put on first
Faith No More, Angel Dust 1992
Faith No More - Angel Dust. An album that deliberately sabotages its own success.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Alternative rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Funk 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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Anarcho-punk 86%
Total political punk: collectives, self-releasing and militant pacifism. It laid down the DIY ethic the underground still runs on.
4 steps from Funk rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Anarcho-punk -
US power metal 83%
The American version, rawer and closer to thrash than its melodic European cousin.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Funk rock.
The way into US power 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Normal put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Progressive rock, Krautrock, Acid 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.