It's Noise Rock Week!

[Paedantic Basterd]

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Noise rock (also known as noise punk[1]) describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s.[1][2] Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.[2][3]

Noise rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by RYM

Noise Rock is a vague term that has been used to encompass a wide range of bands and artists that favour dissonance, wild feedback and extreme distortion in the context of Rock music. Unlike Noise, noise rock usually retains the song structures and coherence of conventional rock music.

While the style was predicted in the late 1960s and early 1970s by bands such as the The Velvet Underground, Monks, The Stooges and Les Rallizes Dénudés, Noise Rock came to its own in the 1980s, following the advent of Punk Rock and Post-Punk. The No Wave movement was another important early influence. Pioneering bands include Sonic Youth, The Birthday Party, The Butthole Surfers, Flipper and Swans.

RYM's top Noise Rock releases

[Engine]

This should be a fun week.
Here's a song by a band from Austin, TX who made a couple albums in the early-90s:

Cockpit - Kiss the Shine by Cherubs

[TockTockTock]

Fushitsusha are my favorite noise rock band... hands down. They're also one of the first bands of the genre (they started composing and recording music in the late 70s). Their overall work is just breathtaking (and incredibly unique). It's dark. It's free-form. It's aggressive. It's psychedelic. And it often borders on just pure noise.

Here's the thread I made about them if you're interested: Fushitsusha

[Engine]

Originally Posted by Cenotaph

Fushitsusha are my favorite noise rock band... hands down. They're also one of the first bands of the genre (they started composing and recording music in the late 70s). Their overall work is just breathe-taking (and incredibly unique). It's dark. It's free-form. It's aggressive. It's psychedelic. And it often borders on just pure noise.

Here's the thread I made about them if you're interested: Fushitsusha

I like those attributes (the bolded words) but I don't really think of that as noise rock. I want more dirty, evil rock-n-roll music. Free form noisy distorted psychedelic rock like Fushitsusha is admirable but just not the same. Also, no offense but 'breathtaking' is one word

[TockTockTock]

Originally Posted by Engine

I like those attributes (the bolded words) but I don't really think of that as noise rock. I want more dirty, evil rock-n-roll music. Free form noisy distorted psychedelic rock like Fushitsusha is admirable but just not the same. Also, no offense but 'breathtaking' is one word

I can see how some of their music could escape the label, but as I'm concerned... abrasive/distorted rock music that often makes use of atonality is noise rock. It's a very broad term that encompasses anything from Sonic Youth to... well, Fushitsusha.

[Engine]

Originally Posted by Cenotaph

I can see how some of their music could escape the label, but as I'm concerned... abrasive/distorted rock music that often makes use of atonality is noise rock. It's a very broad term that encompasses anything from Sonic Youth to... well, Fushitsusha.

I don't mean to be exclusive. But I personally think of noise rock as noisy traditional rock music. That band sounds more like improvised jazz, which is way different from what I consider noise rock to be. I don't claim to be an authority on this stuff. Where the **** is bob. when you need him?

[Phantom Limb]

My favorite noise rock band

[Janszoon]

One of the best songs by one of the best bands I've been introduced to in the past few years:

[Phantom Limb]

^What's the name of that album?

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by Phantom Limb

^What's the name of that album?

Ruiner by Whores. Just an EP unfortunately, but every song is fantastic.