Your way in
Post-punk 1978
Punk asking what comes next: melodic bass up front, dry guitar, space and cold. Possibly the most fertile branch in all of rock.
- Heaviness
- 3
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 6
- Where from
- United Kingdom
- Tempo
- 110-150 bpm
- Song length
- 3-6 min
- Written about
- Alienation, Industrial decline, Consumption and politics, Interiority
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Post-punk | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 6 out of 10 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 100% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted pace 2, era 1, melody 1 out of 4. Post-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
Ramones, Ramones 1976
Ramones - Ramones. Fourteen songs in twenty-nine minutes, not a wasted note.
- 2The one to put on first
Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures 1979
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures. Martin Hannett's production is half the record.
- 3Then
Wire, Pink Flag 1977
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Punk rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Post-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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Alternative metal 98%
Metal weight without the dress code or the scene rules: unconventional structures and influences from post-punk, funk or shoegaze.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Post-punk.
The way into Alternative metal -
Acid rock 97%
The heavy end of psychedelia: raw distortion and endless jams. Blue Cheer is often named the first genuinely heavy band.
4 steps from Post-punk, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Acid rock
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
- 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 4.
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.