Your way in
Pop punk 1977
Punk speed, garage-pop choruses and lyrics about suburban boredom.
- Heaviness
- 3
- Speed
- 7
- Melody
- 10
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 160-200 bpm
- Song length
- 2.5-3.5 min
- Written about
- Adolescence, Suburban boredom, Romantic failure, Refusal to grow up, as a stated position
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Pop punk | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 7 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Anger at something real What should the words be about? | Adolescence, Suburban boredom, Romantic failure, Refusal to grow up, as a stated position | 50% | ×1 |
| Short. Say it and stop. How long should a song be? | up to 3.5 min | 88% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 91% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, about 1, length 1 out of 7. Pop punk leads the next by 4 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
The Descendents, Milo Goes to College 1982
The Descendents - Milo Goes to College. The manual, written twelve years before the boom.
- 3Then
- 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 Pop 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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US power metal 87%
The American version, rawer and closer to thrash than its melodic European cousin.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Pop punk.
The way into US power metal -
Funk rock 86%
Slap bass and funk grooves under rock guitars. Rap rock, and through it nu metal, start here.
4 steps from Pop punk, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Funk 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
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 7.
- Anger at something real put 108 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Black metal, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 7.
- Short. Say it and stop. put 18 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Progressive rock, Progressive metal. Worth 1 of 7.
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.