Your way in
Acid rock 1967
The heavy end of psychedelia: raw distortion and endless jams. Blue Cheer is often named the first genuinely heavy band.
- Heaviness
- 5
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 6
- Where from
- San Francisco, USA
- Tempo
- 90-140 bpm
- Song length
- 5-20 min
- Written about
- Drugs, directly, Transcendence, Apocalypse, Very little, at length
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Acid rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 50% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1967 | 100% | ×1 |
| Long. Let it go somewhere. How long should a song be? | up to 20 min | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 83% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, length 1 out of 6. Acid 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
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
Blue Cheer, Blue Cheer 1969
Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues. Three people and a wall of Marshalls.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 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 Acid 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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Proto-punk 79%
Garage rock turned hostile and repetitive, with noise and nihilism. Nobody called it punk yet, but everyone at CBGB copied from it.
5 steps from Acid rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Proto-punk -
Southern rock 77%
Blues rock with a Southern accent: two or three lead guitars, slide playing and songs as long as a Georgia highway.
4 steps from Acid rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Southern 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
- 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 6.
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. Worth 1 of 6.
- 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 6.
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.