Your way in
Glam rock 1971
Rock in glitter, platform boots and calculated ambiguity. The spectacle is half the music.
- Heaviness
- 4
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 9
- Where from
- United Kingdom
- Tempo
- 110-150 bpm
- Song length
- 3-4.5 min
- Written about
- Persona and artifice, Sex and ambiguity, Teenage life, Stardom, self-referentially
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Glam rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1971 | 100% | ×1 |
| Normal How long should a song be? | up to 4.5 min | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 100% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, era 1, length 1 out of 7. Glam 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
- 2The one to put on first
T. Rex, Electric Warrior 1971
T. Rex - Electric Warrior. The simplest and most effective record in the genre.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
Slade, Slayed? 1972
The first is the entry point for Hard rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Glam 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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Alternative rock 99%
An umbrella for everything that grew outside commercial radio and then conquered it. Defined originally by the college-radio network, not by any one sound.
4 steps from Glam rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Alternative rock -
New wave 99%
Post-punk's commercial face: synthesizers, hooks and jerky rhythms. Punk without the rage, but with the same ideas.
6 steps from Glam rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into New wave
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.
- The seventies and eighties put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Kawaii metal, New nu metal, Progressive metalcore. Worth 1 of 7.
- Normal put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Progressive rock, Krautrock, Acid rock. 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.