Your way in
Psychedelic rock 1966
Effects, sitar, feedback and songs that fall apart halfway through. The lab that produced prog, space rock and, indirectly, doom.
- Heaviness
- 3
- Speed
- 4
- Melody
- 8
- Where from
- San Francisco / London
- Tempo
- 70-140 bpm
- Song length
- 3-10 min
- Written about
- Perception and its failure, Childhood, The English pastoral, Ego dissolution
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Psychedelic rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| Slow. Let it take its time. What pace? | 4 out of 10 | 70% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1966 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 90% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, era 1 out of 6. Psychedelic 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
- 1The one to put on first
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.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5One step further in
Tame Impala, Lonerism 2012
Tame Impala - Lonerism. One man, a bedroom studio, a stadium sound.
The first is Psychedelic rock's own entry point. After it come Psychedelic 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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Doom metal 89%
The branch most faithful to Black Sabbath: slow tempos, thick riffs and crushing atmosphere. The weight comes from space, not speed.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 4 steps from Psychedelic rock.
The way into Doom metal -
Glam rock 85%
Rock in glitter, platform boots and calculated ambiguity. The spectacle is half the music.
4 steps from Psychedelic rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Glam 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 6.
- 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.
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.