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| 6 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/noise_rock.png]] |
| 7 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"[[Music/SonicYouth I'm just walkin' around... Your city is a wonder-town...]]"''[[note]]Clockwise from upper-left: Music/{{Flipper}}'s ''Album - Generic Flipper''; Music/BigBlack's ''Atomizer''; Music/LightningBolt's ''[[NonIndicativeName Wonderful Rainbow]]''; Music/SonicYouth's ''Music/DaydreamNation''; Music/DeathFromAbove1979's ''You're A Woman, I'm A Machine''; Music/DinosaurJr's ''You're Living All Over Me''; Music/{{Helmet}}'s ''Strap It On''; Music/ButtholeSurfers' ''[[RefugeInAudacity Locust Abortion Technician]]''; Music/ThePopGroup's ''Y''.[[/note]]]] |
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| 9 | [floatboxright: |
| 10 | Primary Stylistic Influences: |
| 11 | + PunkRock, PostPunk, Experimental & AvantGardeMusic |
| 12 | ] |
| 13 | [floatboxright: |
| 14 | Secondary Stylistic Influences: |
| 15 | + ProtoPunk, some bands influenced by KrautRock, {{Industrial}} and/or HeavyMetal |
| 16 | ] |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Noise Rock (alternately known as "noise punk" or just "noise") is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a genre of rock with a focus on abrasive noise. Noise rockers for the most part have a pronounced fondness for creating ear-bleeding music with the standard rock instrumentation; how important other factors are, such as melody or lyrics, varies from band to band. (Compare, for example, Music/SonicYouth to Music/LightningBolt, Music/{{Boredoms}} to Music/ThePopGroup. The differences in the songwriting department are far more striking than the similarities.) Noise rockers are known for their confrontational performances, unsurprisingly enough. |
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| 20 | Noise rock's antecedents can be traced to proto-punk bands like Music/TheVelvetUnderground and Music/TheStooges, [[PostPunk the No Wave scene]], and HardcorePunk. (And that's not even counting all of the bizarre Japanese groups dating back to TheSixties like Music/LesRallizesDenudes, or the [[UnbuiltTrope quirked-out]] pre-Music/SexPistols aberrations like Half-Japanese, which while obscure have made a huge impact on the genre.) The genre as a unified movement emerged in TheEighties and has bubbled underground ever since, with the occasional moment where some band gets really popular. Noise rock was also an influence on {{Shoegazing}}, {{Grindcore}}, IndustrialMetal, [[DoomMetal Drone Doom]], {{Grunge}}, and a few varieties of HardcorePunk and {{Metalcore}}. It also very commonly overlaps with PostHardcore, and most noise rock acts comfortably fit within that genre as well. |
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| 22 | Not to be confused with NoisePop, which is something slightly different. |
| 23 | ---- |
| 24 | Bands commonly associated with Noise Rock include: |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[index]] |
| 27 | * Music/AcidMothersTemple (Primarily a [[PsychedelicRock Psychedelic]]/SpaceRock band, but NoiseRock has always been an influence on their work). |
| 28 | * Music/ArabOnRadar |
| 29 | * Music/AidsWolf |
| 30 | * Music/BandOfSusans -- Had a strong PostRock streak. |
| 31 | * Music/{{Barkmarket}} |
| 32 | ** ''Gimmick'' |
| 33 | * Music/BlackFlag -- Hardcore punk meets noise rock, prog rock, avant-garde jazz, and early '70s heavy metal. |
| 34 | * Music/BlackMidi - Mixed with math rock, prog rock, no wave, and probably a dozen other genres. |
| 35 | * Music/{{Boredoms}} -- Earlier albums only; later work is more PsychedelicRock. |
| 36 | * Music/{{Boris}} -- Along with DoomMetal, Stoner Rock, PostRock, Drone, and [[GenreRoulette whatever else they feel like]]. |
| 37 | * Music/ButtholeSurfers -- Noise rock's traveling freak show. |
| 38 | * Music/ChildBite |
| 39 | * Music/{{Chrome|Band}} -- Acid Punk grandfathers of IndustrialMetal. At their noisiest and harshest from 1978-1979. |
| 40 | * Music/ComparativeAnatomy -- Two bassists and a drum machine who dress up in animal costumes and delve into noisegrind. |
| 41 | * Music/CopShootCop -- (Also {{Industrial}}) |
| 42 | * Music/CouchSlut |
| 43 | * Music/{{Daughters}} - Noise rock with prominent elements of no wave, PostPunk, and {{industrial}}. Their first album is [[{{grindcore}} mathcore]] instead. |
| 44 | ** 2018 - ''Music/YouWontGetWhatYouWant'' |
| 45 | * Music/DeathFromAbove1979 (combined with DancePunk) |
| 46 | * Music/DinosaurJr -- Perhaps the most accessible of the bunch, bordering on {{Grunge}}. Still, songs like "Don't" really can't be classified as anything but noise rock. |
| 47 | * Music/DriveLikeJehu (also emo) |
| 48 | * Music/{{Drunkdriver}} |
| 49 | * Music/EinsturzendeNeubauten -- Early in their career, pioneered {{Industrial}}. |
| 50 | * Music/{{Flipper}} -- Famous for the batshit insane epic "Sex Bomb", as well as its enormous influence on sludge metal and (especially) grunge. |
| 51 | * Music/{{Foetus}} -- and its many incarnations. Also {{Industrial}}. |
| 52 | * Music/{{Fushitsusha}} |
| 53 | * Music/GillaBand |
| 54 | * Music/GlennBranca -- Mixes this with Modern Classical and AvantGardeMusic |
| 55 | ** 1981 - ''Music/TheAscension'' |
| 56 | * Music/{{Godflesh}} -- See also IndustrialMetal. |
| 57 | * Music/GuitarWolf |
| 58 | * Music/{{Hanatarash}} |
| 59 | * Music/HappyFlowers |
| 60 | * Music/{{HAWKS}} |
| 61 | * Music/{{HEALTH}} -- One of the more accessible noise rock groups, would later on mix their usual noise rock fare with [[{{Industrial}} EBM]] on ''Death Magic'' and IndustrialMetal on ''Slaves of Fear''. |
| 62 | * Music/{{Hella}} -- A hybrid of noise rock and math rock. |
| 63 | * Music/{{Helmet}} -- Formed by ex-Band of Susans member Page Hamilton. Also counts as AlternativeMetal and PostHardcore. |
| 64 | * Music/{{Hole}} -- ''Music/PrettyOnTheInside'', also some elements of this on ''Music/LiveThroughThis''. |
| 65 | * Music/{{Jawbox}} |
| 66 | * Music/TheJesusLizard |
| 67 | * Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno -- Their first two albums together are early examples of noise rock. |
| 68 | ** ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo1TwoVirgins'' (1968) |
| 69 | ** ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo2LifeWithTheLions'' (1969) |
| 70 | * [[Music/KENmode KEN mode]] -- A hybrid of noise rock, metalcore, sludge metal, post-rock, and emo, briefly changed to retro-styled post-hardcore/proto-grunge on ''Success'' before returning to their established style on ''Loved''. |
| 71 | * Music/{{Kittens}} -- Along with influences from CountryMusic and HardcorePunk. |
| 72 | * Music/{{Liars}} -- At first, before they went dance-punk, and then went [[GenreBusting almost everywhere else]]. |
| 73 | * Music/LightningBolt |
| 74 | * Music/LiveSkull -- A member of the same NYC scene which gave the world Music/{{Swans}} and Music/SonicYouth, among others. |
| 75 | * Music/MeltBanana -- A female-fronted example, with extreme GenreBusting tendencies. |
| 76 | * Music/MerShoppingMissbrukForStudenter -- A mix of Noise Rock, HarshNoise, {{Industrial}}, and {{Ambient}}. |
| 77 | * Music/{{Mclusky}} |
| 78 | * Music/{{Nirvana}} - Mixed with their usual {{Grunge}} sound on ''Music/InUtero'', and the occasional track outside of it. |
| 79 | * Music/NoAge |
| 80 | * Music/YokoOno |
| 81 | * Music/ThePaperChase |
| 82 | * Music/PinkAndBrown |
| 83 | * Music/APlaceToBuryStrangers |
| 84 | * Music/ThePopGroup -- See also PostPunk, GenreBusting. |
| 85 | * Music/ThePsychicParamount -- Loud, abrasive noise rock mixed with PsychedelicRock. |
| 86 | * Music/PussyGalore |
| 87 | * Music/{{Queenadreena}} |
| 88 | * Music/LesRallizesDenudes |
| 89 | * Music/{{Ramleh}} -- Combined HardRock with {{Industrial}} [[HellIsThatNoise Power Electronics]]. |
| 90 | * Music/LouReed |
| 91 | ** ''Music/MetalMachineMusic'' (1975) |
| 92 | * Music/TheResidents |
| 93 | ** 1976 - ''Music/TheThirdReichNRoll'' |
| 94 | ** 1979 - ''Music/{{Eskimo}}'' |
| 95 | ** 1980 - ''Music/TheCommercialAlbum'' |
| 96 | * Music/RoyalTrux -- Though they had [[BluesRock bluesy]] tendencies as well. |
| 97 | * Music/{{Satanized}} |
| 98 | * Music/LesSavyFav |
| 99 | * Music/{{Scarling}} -- A [[GenreBusting four-way crash between]] Noise Rock, NoisePop, {{Shoegazing}} and {{Goth}} Rock. |
| 100 | * Music/ScratchAcid |
| 101 | * Music/SkullKontrol |
| 102 | * Music/SonicYouth -- Especially 1981-1985. |
| 103 | * Music/{{Spacemen 3}} |
| 104 | * Music/SteelPoleBathtub |
| 105 | * Music/SteveAlbini, [[RecordProducer recording engineer]], played guitar and/or sang in the following Noise Rock bands: |
| 106 | ** Music/BigBlack |
| 107 | *** ''Music/SongsAboutFucking'' (1987) |
| 108 | ** Music/{{Rapeman}} |
| 109 | ** Music/{{Shellac}} |
| 110 | * Music/StreetSects -- Also {{Industrial}}, plunderphonics and HarshNoise. |
| 111 | * Music/{{Swans}} -- Mainly 1982-1986, with later works predicating PostRock. |
| 112 | ** 2012 - ''Music/{{The Seer|Album}}'' |
| 113 | ** 2014 - ''Music/ToBeKind'' |
| 114 | * Music/{{Tad}} (also grunge) |
| 115 | * Music/TodayIsTheDay -- also {{Grindcore}} and AvantGardeMetal. |
| 116 | * Music/{{Totimoshi}} |
| 117 | * Music/{{Unsane}} -- A particularly aggressive group that also counts as PostHardcore. |
| 118 | * Music/{{Unwound}} -- A fusion of this and PostHardcore, they have been hugely influential in both scenes. |
| 119 | * Music/TheVelvetUnderground -- The final tracks of the first two albums, namely "European Son" on the first and "Sister Ray" on the latter are seen as the earliest examples of the genre. |
| 120 | ** ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico'' (1967) |
| 121 | ** ''Music/WhiteLightWhiteHeat'' (1968) |
| 122 | * [[Music/{{Whores}} Whores.]] (some sludge metal and grunge elements on ''Gold'') |
| 123 | * Music/ZeniGeva -- A Japanese group with [[HeavyMetal Metal]] and ProgressiveRock influences. |
| 124 | * Music/JohnZorn |
| 125 | ** ''Music/{{Radio}}'' (1993) |
| 126 | [[/index]] |
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