Your way in
Skate punk 1990
Faster, more technical pop punk with two-beat drumming and short solos. The soundtrack to skate videos.
- Heaviness
- 4
- Speed
- 9
- Melody
- 8
- Where from
- California, USA
- Tempo
- 180-230 bpm
- Song length
- 2-3 min
- Written about
- Skating, Politics, sceptically, Adolescence, Jokes
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Skate punk | 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? | 4 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1990 | 100% | ×1 |
| Normal How long should a song be? | up to 3 min | 88% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 88% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, length 1 out of 9. Skate punk leads the next by 3 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
The Descendents, Milo Goes to College 1982
The Descendents - Milo Goes to College. The manual, written twelve years before the boom.
- 2The one to put on first
NOFX, Punk in Drublic 1994
NOFX - Punk in Drublic. Technical, fast and unreasonably well written.
- 3Then
- 4Then
Lagwagon, Hoss 1995
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Pop punk, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Skate punk'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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Instrumental prog metal 85%
No vocals: the melody is carried by guitar or keyboard, and the structure can be as complex as it likes.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Skate punk.
The way into Instrumental prog metal -
Symphonic power metal 83%
Power metal with orchestra, choir and a fantasy libretto. The more, the better.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Skate punk.
The way into Symphonic 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 9.
- As fast as anyone can play put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Drone metal, Funeral doom. Worth 2 of 9.
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 9.
- Normal put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Progressive rock, Krautrock, Acid rock. Worth 1 of 9.
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.