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10 songs that feel like TV Party

Matched to TV Party by Black Flag on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

The song you love
TV Party
Black Flag
intense 95/100 intensity 160 BPM
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Built for Speed — Motorhead intense 150 BPM

A 98% feel-match — carries the same rebellious pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (94/100).

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Something Else — Sex Pistols intense 150 BPM

98% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (94/100). Same harsh texture.

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Guilty of Being White — Minor Threat intense 160 BPM

Keeps the same rebellious pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (95/100). Measured 99% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (160 BPM).

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Holidays in the Sun — Sex Pistols intense 140 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (93/100). Same harsh texture.

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Did You No Wrong — Sex Pistols intense 140 BPM

A 96% feel-match — carries the same rebellious pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (93/100).

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Seventeen — Sex Pistols intense 140 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (93/100). Same harsh texture.

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C'mon Everybody — Sex Pistols intense 140 BPM

Keeps the same rebellious pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (93/100). Measured 96% alike.

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Wild in the Streets — Circle Jerks intense 180 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (97/100). Same harsh texture.

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Live Fast Die Young — Circle Jerks intense 180 BPM

A 96% feel-match — carries the same rebellious pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (97/100).

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Letter Bomb — Circle Jerks intense 180 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (97/100). Same harsh texture.

…and if you want it calmer

Same feeling, measured gentler — for when TV Party is more than you want right now.

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Year One — X moderate 130 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 8. Intensity 50/100, down from 95.

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Slime — The Slits moderate 130 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 8, so it lands at 50/100 — the pull without the edge.

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Let's Do the Split — The Slits moderate 130 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 8. Reads 50/100.

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Typical Girls — The Slits moderate 130 BPM

Holds the same feel while it trades the harsher texture for something layered. 54/100, versus the original's 95.

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Bring It On — Hard-Fi moderate 130 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 8. Intensity 50/100, down from 95.

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Suburban Knights — Hard-Fi moderate 130 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 8, so it lands at 50/100 — the pull without the edge.

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Mary Jane — The Vines moderate 130 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while it trades the harsher texture for something layered. Reads 54/100.

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Skint and Minted — The Libertines moderate 130 BPM

Holds the same feel while its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 8. 50/100, versus the original's 95.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “TV Party” by Black Flag?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Built for Speed” by Motorhead, “Something Else” by Sex Pistols, “Guilty of Being White” by Minor Threat — the top match scores 98% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

What songs are like “TV Party” but calmer?

“Year One” by X, “Slime” by The Slits, “Let's Do the Split” by The Slits keep a similar feel while measuring gentler — lower dynamic swing, fewer sudden shifts, or a calmer overall level.

How intense is “TV Party”?

It measures 95/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 8/10, harsh texture, frequent sudden shifts, and dynamic vocals. Tempo is 160 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

This is one of the more intense things in our library — more energetic than 99% of the 19,209 songs we've measured. Its intensity reading of 95/100 comes from a dynamic range of 8/10, harsh texture, frequent shifts, and dynamic vocals. Relatively few songs occupy this exact corner of the spectrum.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is blazing intensity: more extreme on that axis than 99% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on near-total stillness — steady volume, no surprises, a slow and unhurried pulse — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep0/10
Focus0/10
Workout10/10
Dinner3/10
Party / hype10/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

1981 in context

The 194 songs we’ve measured from 1981 average a dynamic range of 6.4/10. At 8/10, this track is louder and more dynamic than its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity95
Dynamics78
Tempo67
Surprise75
Density85
Predictability100
Vocal force75
Trigger load25

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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