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 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Weighted mean | 100% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 2 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2 out of 4. Acid rock ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. 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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Post-grunge 100%
The grunge formula cleaned up for radio: same dynamics, less dirt, vastly more airplay.
5 steps from Acid rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Post-grunge -
Post-hardcore 95%
Hardcore that allows itself dynamics, empty space and irregular structures. Emo, screamo and mathcore all branch off from here.
5 steps from Acid rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Post-hardcore
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.