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- Flipper - Album Generic Flipper (1982) For the most part, US hardcore kept itself short, fast and loud. Where there’s an established rule, however, there will always be ornery sorts keen to twist and subvert it, and amid the blistering speed of hardcore’s first wave emerged a clutch of mucky fuckers – No Trend and Kilslug among them – keen to mess with the heads of those expecting a high-octane slamfest.
- The Jesus Lizard - Goat (1991) Singer David Yow and bass player David Wm Sims helped define noise-rock with the brilliantly splenetic Scratch Acid. But if Scratch Acid remain a connoisseur’s choice, The Jesus Lizard are a bona fide noise-rock godhead, and Goat remains their defining statement.
- Unsane - Total Destruction (1993) In simple, blunt terms, Unsane can be summed up by the ‘hit’ video for 1995’s Scrape, which portrays a sausage-string of soft human meat being broken and ruptured across a series of skateboarding wipeouts.
- Oxbow - An Evil Heat (2002) Calling Oxbow a noise-rock band is perhaps reductive, since they’ve been responsible for some of heavy music’s most cerebral, artful explorations over the past 35 years.
Noise rock fuses rock to noise, usually with recognizable "rock" instrumentation, but with greater use of distortion and electronic effects, varying degrees of atonality, improvisation, and white noise. One notable band of this genre is Sonic Youth, who took inspiration from the no wave composers Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham. [7]
- The Velvet Underground – “Sister Ray” (1968) The old saw about the Velvet Underground’s debut was that everyone who bought a copy started a band. It’s cliché for a reason — its influence extends well beyond sales figures.
- The Stooges – “L.A. Blues” (1970) The Stooges spent much of their brief career provoking audiences and listeners, creating an outrageous spectacle that frequently ended violently.
- The Residents – “Satisfaction” (1976) More than simply noise in the sense of feedback or dissonance, the Residents’ entire existence was noise. The Bay Area-based performance-art troupe and avant-rock group created an entire identity based around upsetting standards and norms, performing something that sounded vaguely like pop music while hiding their faces behind giant eyeball helmets.
- Half Japanese – “No Direct Line From My Brain To My Heart” (1980) Half Japanese’s Jad Fair said in documentary The Band That Would Be King that all you really need to play guitar is a cord to plug it in.
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Jun 7, 2021 · Noise Rock Guide: History and Characteristics of Noise Rock. Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Jun 7, 2021 • 5 min read. Abrasive, unforgiving, and boundlessly creative, noise rock has expanded the boundaries of independent music since the late 1960s.
Apr 6, 2021 · the jesus and mary chain, the melvins, the stooges, the velvet underground, throbbing gristle, thurston moore, whores., yoko ono. When it initially blasted into the world from New York’s Lower ...
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Oct 21, 2020 · Louder. 10 obscure but brilliant noise rock albums you need in your life. By Briony Edwards. published 21 October 2020. London noiseniks USA Nails select 10 essential but underrated noise rock albums everyone should hear. (Image credit: Hex Records/Bigout Records)
Jul 3, 2019 · According to Novak, noise comes from the circulation of cultural ideas and artifacts, emerging from the accumulated meaningless debris that accompanies all forms of communication. Vinyl pops and scratches, for example, become noisy if what you want to hear is the recordings on that record. Noise music, therefore, comes from artists purposefully ...
