recommend me some NoiseRock
 

I've been listening to SY for some years now and they are off course my favorit. I've now dicovered Dinosaur jr. about 6 month ago.

But I need something new!!

Could you recommend a/some great bands in these genres?? Thanks.

- Hune.prut

yep, these are good choices. also get some Big Black, Rapeman, and i cant fucking remember anything at the time now.

Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime

It's a gem, believe me.

yeah! and all the shit he produced.

Depends on what kind of noise you like hune.prut

If you like the agressive noise of SY- then Big Black, Scratch Acid, and that sort of stuff would strike your fancy.

If you like some of the more pop stylings of SY and Dinosaur Jr., you might like bands like the Jesus and Mary Chain or My Bloody Valentine.

What are your favorite songs and albums by Sonic Youth? Dinosaur Jr.?

Polvo
Unwound
Lightning Bolt
Boredoms
Melt Bannana
Arab on Radar
Comets on Fire
Acid Mothers Temple
Boris

The Notwist (of the album "12")
Lift to Experience
The Grifters ("Crappin' you negative" especially)
Ulan Bator
The Stooges (precursors of the genre at least)

Hmm.. in my mind, Shellac has never been nor never will be considered "noise rock" (except by people who update wikipedia). There's really nothing noisey about them, unless having super-trebley guitar is considered "noise rock" (I can already feel it.. I'm waiting for it... "WHAT ABOUT MAMA GINA??? THEREE'S NOISE IN THAT!!!!!!"). Obviously, Rapeman and Big Black = noise rock. But Shellac? No way. Same goes with Jesus Lizard, is it really even noisey? Maybe the vocals. But they definitely didn't start out too noisey and DEFINITELY didn't end noisey. But I guess they could be included.

As for "all bands Albini has been in", why do people constantly overlook his stint in Flour? Great band.

As for "all the bands Albini produced", granted he's produced some "noise rock" like Space Streakings, Distorted Pony, stuff like that, but I'd say 70% of his recorded output isn't noise rock at all. Jawbreaker? Joanna Newsom? Fred from B-52's? Jon Spencer? The Ghost? Page/Plant? The Auteurs? Need I keep going? Not noise rock in the least.

As for the Bush thing, Bush isn't too bad, that album he produced by them is way noisier than some of the bands listed here in fact. And the Pixies album he produced has their noisiest song: Vamos!

Anyway.. back on topic and at the top of my head.. (and I'm trying not to mention too many no wave bands, since they could be lumped in as "Noise rock")..
- Thinking Fellers Union Local # 282 (way too melodic to be considered "noise rock" but yeah, worth checking out if you're into noise rock)
- Cherubs (the band that did "Heroin Man")
- Truman's Water
- Distorted Pony (mentioned 'em above, excellent band)
- Bastro (similiar to Distorted Pony, very good with an amazing drummer)
- Mount Shasta ("Put Your Creep On" is probably the best 'noise rock' album ever)
- Point Line Plane (two keyboards playing distorted noise rocking stuff with references to stuff like Screamers)
- Bride of No No (kinda no wavey, kinda proggy, noise rock GENIUSES, best band that no one ever pays attention to)
- Pre (kinda references no wave too but..)
- Limited Express (Has Gone?) (Melt Banana-ish, so yeah, but some of their stuff is really poppy and minimal)
- Flying Luttenbachers (jazzy noise rock)
- Zeni fuckin Geva!
- Happy Flowers
- XBXRX (again, approaches no wave, but some of their stuff is total noise rock)
- Unsane
- Cutthroats 9
- Theory of Ruin
- Cows (kind of a drunken punk noise rock)
- RUINS (kind of a prog noise rock)
- Neptune
- Mindflayer (don't really care for 'em, but they're worth checking out)
- Mae Shi (some of their stuff is real mathy, some is real noisey, kind of a perplexing band)
- The 1985 (see above)
- Hair Police (lumped in with "noise, total noise, not noise rock", their stuff with drums could be considered noise "rock" because, well, it rocks)
- Lightning Bolt
- U.S. Maple
- Melt Banana
- Half Japanese
- Dazzling Killmen (a bit too mathy and jazzy, but it has really really harsh noise parts too)
- Collossamite (see above)
- Black Dice (early stuff)
- Arab on Radar
- AIDS Wolf (fucking hate them, but .. yeah)
- You Fantastic!
- Deerhoof (reeeeeeeeeeeally stretching the term "noise rock" for that one, but their early stuff definitely is)
- Pussy Galore
- Yowie (basically, the most complex band I've ever heard, there's about 9000 time changes a second, and by definition it's not "noise rock" but.. it's SO complex and pounding that it will give you a similiar migraine to noise rock)
- Vomit Lunch
- Medicine (obscure noise rock band I randomly found on soulseek once and haven't found any info on since)
- Helmet (not usually thought of as noise rock; listen to Strap It On..)
- Japanther (poppy fuzzed out stuff with overdistorted noise vocals and shitty production)
- Guitar Wolf (garage rock that is produced like a fucking Merzbow album)
- Xinlisupreme (hmm.. Big Black drum machine, My Bloody Valentine guitar walls, and almost poppy hooks combined with huge Merzbow-ish production; odd little band)
- Sun City Girls (only a little bit, but some of their stuff could fit in with noise rock)
- Caroliner (see above, but a bit more)
- Drive Like Jehu (like mentioned above, Yank Crime is fucking amazing!)
- God Bullies
- Halo of Flies
- godheadSilo (a bit "un-noisey" for noise rock, but I don't know how else to describe them; good band)
- Six Finger Satellite (only some of their stuff could be considered noise rock, I'm thinking "severe exposure"-era)
- Polvo (again, they're not even that noisey, it's like Thinking Fellers Union: brilliant band who utilizes noise for their advantage at times)
- Unwound
- Scissor Shock (definitely, if you're into noise rock at all but want something a bit weirder, check out Scissor Shock)
- Pogo the Clown
- Helios Creed
- Chrome
- Mr. Bungle (only occassionally jumps into "noise rock" territory but it's there)
- Squirrel Bait (imagine Husker Du that's a bit more angular.. did I spell that right?... with yelled vocals and thick sheens of trebled guitar)
- Darth Vegas (see above)
- Vicious Hairy Mary (see above)
- Naked City (see above)
- Mog Stunt Team
- Lubricated Goat
- The Ex (some of thier stuff, mainly later era)
- Goon Moon (newest album is stoner metal kinda stuff with some eccentricies, first album was like a noise rock band who had listened to Devo and the Residents and were trying to cover Sleep at the same time; weird band, lump 'em in how you will)
- Brainiac (hmm.. I feel odd putting them here, but they definitely have some noise rocking stuff)
- Heroine Sheiks
- Old Lady Drivers (kind of an industrial noise rock sludge, really fucking good shit also known as simply OLD)
- Gas Huffer
- Gear Jammer
- Athletic Automation
- (((microwaves))) (six finger satellite-ish abrasive pounding noise rock)
- Curse of the Birthmark (also lumped into no wave, but it's a bit too noisey)
- Nihilistic Spasm Band (did I spell all that right? Haven't listened to 'em in years)
- X-Legged Sally (HYPER complex jazzy noise rock)
- Coachwhips (amazing garage rock but produced to a noise blur, GREAT band, better than pink and brown)
- Ex-Models (not the first two albums.. but their third one is great great noise rock)
- Skullflower (not.. total noise rock.. you get the idea)

As for stuff that's definitely no wave noisey kinda stuff, I'd reccomend:
- Scissor Girls
- DNA
- Contortions
- Mars
- 8-Eyed Spy
- Sick Lipstick
- Erase Errata (first couple of albums)
- Theoretical Girls
- Scissor Shock
- Teenage Jesus and the Jerks
stuff like that.

As for what a Dinosaur Jr. fan might like, I'd simply reccomend:
- Swirlies
- Band of Susans
- Electro Group
- Pavement ("Slanted"-era)
- Scissor Shock
- Archers of Loaf (ICKY FUCKING METTLE)

Labels worth checking into:
- Amphetamine Reptile
- Skin Graft
- ..sigh.. Load
- Touch and Go
amongst others.

Sorry, I'm having a bit of a brain fart this morning and can't think of many to list, ask me tomorrow.

Lightning Bolt but no Hella?

It is weird seeing (((microwaves))) mentioned, I think they recorded one of their albums in the studio of the radio station I used to DJ at. I think.

Hella ain't noise rock, it's some kind of mathy prog thing. And Lightning Bolt sounds NOTHING like Hella.

fuck. nice list!

thanks, i thought of some more since then but i'm too lazy to edit it.

To me they are similar in someways. Some of their riffs seem similar.

Hella is METAL through and through.


UNSANE my friend. GET SOME UNSANE
If you can find it get the 1991 singles compilation.

 

Unwound
Polvo
Eric's Trip (in a low fi way, VERY noisy)
Jesus Lizard
early BUTTHOLE SURFERS

METAL?!

Hella are very very clean and intricate, to me they .. I dunno .. I guess math .. prog .. yeah. Fuck it, I don't care about genres.

Spectral, I'm really not sure what you mean by "some of their riffs are similiar". Lightning Bolt makes 8 minute songs out of one chord. Their songs are usually one or two riffs pounding away. Hella is very very intricate with heavily picked clean single notes. Way different. Though their drummers are similiar, I guess (in that they're both fucking lunatics).

metal is also very clean and intricate. have you never heard Iron maiden? Geezz! I hates me all these fucking bands that play HEAVY METAL but are pegge as "punk" or "indie" or some other fucking moniker.

Hella is METAL

The Fucking Champs is METAL

and they suck ass toooo

Haha well.

If you're simply referring to "theres no 666 in outer space", I could maybe stretch the term enough to fit "kinda metal".

But there's no way "hold your horse is" is metal..

The drummers being fucking lunatics must be it.

Shameless fuckin self promo?? :D

noise rock can be kind of a vague description but I guess they all can

but as far as bands who were influenced by sonic youth:

Unwound
Live Skull

happy go licky

Rusted Shut

dellilah!
i keed
but not really
maybe the live shows....
if you can find their album somehow
israeli noise band
leitterscpheich ( a liter of cum) are one of the better noise bands around that i have heard...

I figured if I was going to write a long list like that, I might as well self-promote a bit.

I hate that they kept the Hella name for There's no 666... because it's NOT Hella, man. It's a rock band.
But Hella are not at all like Lightning Bolt, that is one comparison that is ALWAYS therown around, but makes no sense (aside from wild drumming, but the music itself is not at all similar... plus, LB's drumming is, a lot of the time, pretty steady banging and clanging 1/1 beats (if you knwo what I mean))

The Ruins
USAISAMONSTER
lake a dracula
cough
mindflayer
and for Hella, I would call them really complex math rock.

Well, i think that there are great songs on all the SY records, but Dinosaur jr. I haven't heard that much of yet. I like the noise on songs like Catholic Block, but also like Hoarfrost...
So, I guess that I just like anything that compares to SY or Dino jr.

Harry Pussy (Maybe a bit much to handle)
Slugfuckers (Australia band that most would call "post-punk" I guess but are more noisey and extreme)
Old Skull (8 year old trying to play hardcore punk)
Flipper (I never really thought they fit the hardcore punk scene, when someone played them to me I remember describing them as noise rock)

good job at listing bands I already listed, SHERIFF! :)

this thread reminded me of a band I haven't listened to in a good 5 years.. the fuckemos!

Live Skull were contemporaries of Sonic Youth. I'm sure Sonic Youth would say they were just as influenced by Live Skull as vice versa. Same story with Swans. They all played together a lot in the post-no wave scene and toured together when they first got out of New York.

Since the guy was asking for new bands, and mostly, except from Adam, got old classic bands I'd say Liars would be around the top of the list (Unwound is fair too of course) of who he should check out.

Also (and I'm probably repeating other people, not making a comprehensive list, just who I like that fits the genre):

Black Dice (but early if you're looking for noise rock, their later stuff is great, but it's experimental music much more than noise rock)
Boredoms (also mutated into just plain experimental band, but the early stuff set the noise rock standard)
The Curtains
Cop Shoot Cop
Deerhoof (older mostly, they're probably more "noise pop" than rock)
The Flying Luttenbachers (experimental metal crossover)
Grindwall (awesome Italian band I found on My Space. reccomended!)
Hairy Pussy
Halo of Flies
Helmet (first couple of albums)
Karp (they get called "hardcore" a lot for some reason, and are the direct children of the Melvins)
Lightning Bolt
Melt Banana
Melvins (yes they mine the metal/grunge tip, but I still think they are primarily a noise rock band, and while not new, they 'aint dead either!)
Minus (kind of prog rock crossover)
Noggin (guitar/electric violin combo, not exactly rock, but not exactly not)
Painkiller (John Zorn, Bill Laswell, and Mick Harris the drummer from Napalm Death!)
Pink and Brown
Ruins
Skullflower (borders on just plain "noise" and even ambient, but great)
Surgery (waay Sonic Youth influenced)
Unsane

I like most Ikue stuff I've heard, but she does seem to benefit best with somebody interesting to play off. Specializing in drum machines is going to make that inevitable though. I thought the SYR with Kim and DJ Olive was the lowpoint of the series. It's o.k. in the middle of a series that's mostly brilliant. They shouldn't have put it out as SYR.


Well, grunge is definitely a term we'd all be better off to have eradicated from the human consciousness. Obviously the Melvins don't belong in any way in the same genre with Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains, yet they certainly have more connection to Mudhoney and Nirvana than just friendships and common members. Arguably "grunge" was originally a fusing of Sabbath style metal with Sonic Youth/Wipers style noise rock, and the Melvins were the original fusers.


Skullflower is like that sometimes for sure. Boredom is one reaction to pure noise stuff that is not unjustified or even unwanted necessarily. Then when you hit it just right, it can make perfect sense. I like their newest stuff best as it's oddly somewhat pretty. Though the very same stuff I'm describing that way brought a old, bald, seriously freaked out, security guard down to the basement when I was doing my radio show one morning to make sure I was actually playing music that was making that "racket". He said, "I thought at first it was Jimi Hendrix doing the Star Spangled Banner, but then it never gets going!" So I will always love them for that moment.

Thanks for the replies. There's a lot to check out.

The Stooges - Funhouse
Velvets - White Light/White Heat
Black Flag - Damaged

90% of the music talked about here owes a massive debt to those three albums.

Don't be so sure

Why has no one mentioned the glory of Swans? (careful, Filth might scare the pants off of you). I'd recommend Flipper, Swans (early albums), early Butthole Surfers, Birthday Party.

I'd Kiss Its Dirty Face.

the first two yes, damaged? i duno man, just because theyre loud and awesome doesnt mean they have anything to do with noise...

well, greg ginn's guitar is very dissonant.

Everytime I see this thread title I see it as 'rec me some NickelBack'
and I laugh.