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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.
- 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.
- 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.
Sonemic Selects: Noise Rock. Noise rock albums, including Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Deerhoof, and Boris rated highly by the Rate Your Music / Sonemic community with member reviews.
Apr 6, 2021 · 15 bands who are crucial to the history of noise music. When it initially blasted into the world from New York’s Lower East Side almost concurrently with punk in 1977, it was dubbed no wave ...
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Jul 3, 2019 · NOISE ROCK. In another set of influences, noise kids listened to punk and metal bands, too. The infusion of the two led to a brand of noise rock largely separated from The Jesus Lizard and Braniac (even though some overlap remains).
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