Your way in
Southern rock 1969
Blues rock with a Southern accent: two or three lead guitars, slide playing and songs as long as a Georgia highway.
- Heaviness
- 4
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 9
- Where from
- Southern USA
- Tempo
- 90-140 bpm
- Song length
- 4-12 min
- Written about
- The South, defended and criticised, Freedom and the road, Family, Fatalism
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Southern rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 4 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| Slow. Let it take its time. What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 60% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1969 | 100% | ×1 |
| Yes. A proper melody. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 82% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, melody 1 out of 6. Southern 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
Cream, Fresh Cream 1966
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love. The riff that showed how thick a trio could sound.
The pick names a track. This is the record the encyclopedia holds by them.
- 2The one to put on first
The Allman Brothers Band, The Allman Brothers Band 1969
The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East. The best live rock album there is.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Blues rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Southern 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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Country rock 80%
Pedal steel and three-part harmony over a rock rhythm section. The sound of Laurel Canyon.
4 steps from Southern rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Country rock -
Acid rock 80%
The heavy end of psychedelia: raw distortion and endless jams. Blue Cheer is often named the first genuinely heavy band.
4 steps from Southern rock, 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
- Slow. Let it take its time. put 22 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Hardcore punk, Black metal, Death metal. 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.
- Yes. A proper melody. put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Grindcore, Brutal death metal, Cybergrind. 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.