Your way in
Rock and roll 1954
Ground zero: twelve-bar blues sped up, piano hammered hard, lyrics about cars and girls. It made the electric guitar the defining instrument of the century.
- Heaviness
- 2
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 8
- Where from
- Memphis / Chicago, USA
- Tempo
- 140-180 bpm
- Song length
- 2-2.5 min
- Written about
- Cars, School, Dancing, Sex, barely disguised
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Rock and roll | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| A steady walk What pace? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| Being young and out late What should the words be about? | Cars, School, Dancing, Sex, barely disguised | 100% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 8 out of 10 | 80% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 90% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted pace 2, about 1, melody 1 out of 4. Rock and roll 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
- 1The one to put on first
Chuck Berry, Chuck 2017
Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode. That opening riff is the DNA of the entire tree.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is Rock and roll's own entry point. After it come Rock and roll'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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Death 'n' roll 88%
Death metal that admits its rock roots: groove, blues riffing and a hoarse shout.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Rock and roll.
The way into Death 'n' roll -
Neue Deutsche Härte 83%
The German version: simple heavy riffs, danceable synths, declaimed German vocals and a great deal of pyrotechnics.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Rock and roll.
The way into Neue Deutsche Härte
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
- 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 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.