Anyone here like Noise Rock

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Anyone here like Noise Rock because? i do
noise rock is awesome like

the velvet underground,
captain Beefheart,
Mars,
DNA,
Teenage jesus and the jerks,
Suicide
big black,
sonic youth,
swans,
flipper,
Butthole surfers,
p**** galore,
the Birthday Party,
Black Flag (My war)
Scratch Acid,
the Jesus Lizard,
Helmet,
Fugazi,
Royal Trux,
the Melvins,
The Boredoms,
Naked City,
Drive Like Jehu,
Unwound,
Jawbox,
Melt Banana,
Daisy Chainsaw,
The Locust,

I do.

Matt11, I'd think you'd like this band called No Age. They have an album out called Nouns that I suggest you look into. It's a fine album.

I never heard the term "noise rock" before but I like many of those bands especially Velvet Underground, Big Black, Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Butthole Surfers. There's also lots there I haven't heard of though.


Edit: Docstrange, I am now downloading Nouns by No Age as I post and on your recommendation. I will let you know what I think once I listen to it.

yes

Sonic youth,

Naked City, Yes ! !! John Zorn is my idol, I saw Fred Frith and Joey Barron of Naked City live.

I saw Fantomas and The Melvins Big Band and it was insane, a very good show, 2 drummers, 2 bass player, 2 guitar player and Mike Patton on microphone. Awesome !

Yes very much, and I suggest you also check these out as well:

5ive (the band from Boston MA, not the Eurotrash Boy Band)
Acid Mothers Temple
AIDS Wolf
Arabonradar
Azuza Plane
Bearclaw
Boris
Chrome
Controlled Bleeding
DMBQ
Doc Wor Mirran
Eternal Elysium
Flower Travellin' Band (Proto noise/Doom rock)
F**k On The Beach
G.I.S.M.
Gerogerigegege
Happy Flowers
James Chance & The Contortions
Koenji Hyakkei/Ruins
Les Rallizes Denudes (NOISY, feedback drenched proto-shoegaze, their orginal bassist hijacked an airliner with other Japanese Red Army members and sought political asylum in North Korea, where he still lives)
Magma
Monitor
Negativeland
Pere Ubu
Rancid Hell Spawn
Red Transistor
Rorschach (The band from Holland)
Saccharine Trust
Shellac
Smegma (Major influence for the Butthole Surfers)
Snakefinger
The Ex
The Residents (practially the founders of the genre, Snakefinger was virtually their fifth member when he was alive)
Victims Family
Zeni Geva
Zoogz Rift

i love shellac and Rapeman

boris and peter Ubu i've heard off then

Pere Ubu, not Pete Ubu. They formed from the remains of a band called Rocket From The Tombs, who conversely had members of The Dead Boys, and the song pool was shared. Peter Laughner was the guitar player in both bands. Pere Ubu is considered to be proto-Industrial music. You'd do well to look for copies of 'The Modern Dance', 'Datapanik In The Year Zero', and the recently reprinted compilation from live bootleg tapes, '390 Degrees Of Simulated Sound'.

Some favourites:

Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Flipper - Generic Flipper
Swans - Filth, Cop, Young God
Butthole Surfers - Psychic Powerless, Rembrandt Pussyhorse
feedtime - feedtime
Sonic Youth - Evol, Daydream Nation
King Snake Roost - Things That Play Themselves
Boredoms - Soul Discharge
Band of Susans - Love Agenda
Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives

Yep I like noise rock - of those listed especially VU, Beefheart, Suicide, Swans, the Melvins, the Boredoms, Acid Mothers Temple, the Residents, Glenn Branca. I've been meaning to check out many of the other bands listed.

But my favorite noise-rock band hasn't been mentioned and that is Skullflower. If you haven't heard them, check them out on last.fm (which I linked to) as a lot of the tracks are fully stream-able. Their later material veers a bit further out of "rock" territory and more into freeform noise improv but their earlier stuff is some amazing heavy psychedelic droning noise rock. The albums Xaman, IIIrd Gatekeeper, Last Shot at Heaven, and Obsidian Shaking Codex are great examples of their early material. The later more freeform stuff is also really good if you like that sort of thing.

Two words: Lightning. Bolt. I'm not too heavily into noise rock (haven't had time to explore it) but these guys are spectacular.

Love the Lighting Bolt also melt banana they're preety noisy experimental

also i love the Post Hardcore/Noise Rock band girls against Boys, Drive Like Jehu and Unwound

these are my favourites:

Flipper- Generic Flipper
Swans- Body To Body, Job To Job
Sonic Youth- Evol, Daydream Nation
Fugazi- Repeater, In On The Kill Taker
Shellac- Action Park
Big Black- Atomzer, Songs about f*****g
Rapeman- Two Nums and A Pack Mule
Butthole Surfers- Butthole Surfers+pcpep
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Royal Trux- Cats And Dogs
Unwound - unwound
Scratch Acid - The Greatest Gift
dEUS - Worst Case Scemrio (early)
Lightning Bolt- Lightning Bolt
Melt Banana - Cell-Scape
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion- Now I Got Worry
p**** Galore- Exile On Main Street
Helmet- Meantime
Unsane- Lambhouse (The Collection 1991 - 1998)
Jesus Lizard- Head/Pure
Blonde Redhead - Fake Can Be Just As Good
Daisy Chainsaw - Eleventeen
Mclusky - Do Dallas

I haven't heard Body to Body Job to Job because it just seemed like a collection of out-takes, which usually doesn't excite me as much as a solid album. My favourite Helmet album is their first one Strap It On. I've only heard Fake Train from Unwound, which is great, sort of a hardcore band well-informed by Branca. Drive Like Jehu I also thought of as more of a hardcore band but Yank Crime is great. Nice to see a mention of Head because most people getting into the Jesus Lizard favour Goat instead seemingly because it was recorded by Steve Albini. I never got around to hearing the first Butthole Surfers EP, I think I should. I never progressed much further than Twin Infinitives from Royal Trux, I think I heard Accelerator one time and wasn't nearly as excited (I guess the insanity of Twin Infinitives was hard to match). Atomizer is easily my favourite thing to come from Albini as an actual song-writer.

That's about it, I don't really know that much about the other bands you listed apart from maybe one other album (I never knew Blonde Redhead were really a noise rock band; I guess Misery Is a Butterfly was a bad way to start).

These guys are actually from my home state (which also brought the world such groups as Talking Heads, Les Savy Fav, Throwing Muses, Belly, Black Dice and ZOX).
I saw them live two years ago at a mid-sized venue called Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel. They play in the audience instead of on stage and are probably the loudest band i've ever seen live.

The Brown Reason To Live/PPP EP is OK, but I think one of the best representaions of the Butthole Surfers early period is the truly excellent 'Blind Eye See's All' video that was shot in early 1985. It's primarily from a couple of Detroit shows in February and March 1985. The songs re broken up with an interview that they did where they were very clearly under the influence of chemical compounds.

The video captures the best period of them when they still had the two standup drummers, and Kathleen the dancer, who has a relative that's posted to these forums. --It was originally released on VHS by Touch&Go, and was subsequently out of print for years until the past year or so, where it is now available as a DVD from the Butthole Surfers website.