So, this is Noise Rock.

[Cato]

Not my cup of tea but I can't hear anything that outrageous or radically different going on there.

Reminds me of some of the more ravey indie bands from the early 90s.

If someone played that to me and told me it was a new 'Sheep on Drugs' EP (the band, not the stoned woolly animal) I'd not have disbelieved them.

Can't really see what the fuss or ire is about.

[Burns-bass]

8 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Am I imagining things, or does a member of the audience call out a request for Wonderwall at 1:27 in the video?

Nice spot.

[nikon F]

well having listened to that ( well maybe 30 seconds of that ) i think i'll rush out later and get their 1990 release of William Bennett Is My D1ck  ,,,oh and while i'm there i might as well get the More stinky poo E.P. (1992)

 

 

NOT. 🤢

Edited December 1, 2020 by nikon F
i didnt write richard or stinky poo

[Barking Spiders]

If I was young this might be just the kind of band I'd want to play in, guaranteed to make your olds tear their hair out. Then again when I was young I was listening to and going to see stuff like Test Department

[joeystrange]

I’m pretty sure this is just loud jazz.

[Rich]

The other day I managed to drop a couple of old jars, a cat and a biscuit tin full of cutlery onto a stone floor. Accidentally wrote a Noise Rock album.

[Matt4510]

16 hours ago, musicbassman said:

The audience clearly love it, but I think the disco pills might help.

 

 

Saw these 2 a few times now and can confirm the disco pills theory.

They're like a noiser less polished royal blood in the sense of trying to make the bass sound like anything but, cool vid

[Leonard Smalls]

Here's a bit of poppy noisecore; audience are great!

And here's some jazzier noisecore:

And this is what happens when serious jazzers get involved

 All are hilariously entertaining!

[BigRedX]

Doesn't sound that different to any other "Post Rock" band to me.

[Baloney Balderdash]

I like Lightning Bolt.

Noise Rock has been around as a genre since the early 80's though, and got increasingly popular in the 90's (though largely remaining an underground kind of genre).

Sonic Youth properly being the most popular band of this genre. 

I played bass in a noise rock band myself around the mid 90's, and later in the 00's in a noise rock and hardcore influenced math rock band with the same lineup, but with an added extra bass player (where I had more sort of a "lead" bass player kind of role and the other bassist sticking mostly to a more traditional supportive bassist kind of role).

Basically it is just more or less experimental rock, partially drawing inspiration from early punk and incorporating noise/atonal and sometimes improvisational elements from avantgarde music and free jazz.  

 

This is a great album from Lightning Bolt :

 

Edited December 1, 2020 by Baloney Balderdash

[PaulWarning]

sounds like some of the early punk bands from the late 70's, early 80's, basically they couldn't play, some of them got signed to earache records though

[Bolo]

14 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Here's a bit of poppy noisecore; audience are great!

 

Pretty good grindcore! This is stuff I listen to to relax. I love how much fun the crowd is having, makes me wish I was younger and fitter.

[MacDaddy]

23 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said:

Here's a bit of poppy noisecore; audience are great!

 

 

 

 

I remember being young and having a flat stomach....

[musicbassman]

Flat stomach - tick !  🙂

Risk of developing major long term problems with vocal chord nodules and polyps - tick !   ☹️

[Barking Spiders]

15 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

I like Lightning Bolt.

Noise Rock has been around as a genre since the early 80's though, and got increasingly popular in the 90's (though largely remaining an underground kind of genre).

Sonic Youth properly being the most popular band of this genre. 

I played bass in a noise rock band myself around the mid 90's, and later in the 00's in a noise rock and hardcore influenced math rock band with the same lineup, but with an added extra bass player (where I had more sort of a "lead" bass player kind of role and the other bassist sticking mostly to a more traditional supportive bassist kind of role).

Basically it is just more or less experimental rock, partially drawing inspiration from early punk and incorporating noise/atonal and sometimes improvisational elements from avantgarde music and free jazz.  

 

This is a great album from Lightning Bolt :

 

Rock's not really my bag so most of the sub-sub-post-sub genre names mean nowt to me. What be 'math rock'  then ?

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

5 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

What be 'math rock'  then ?

Instead of getting counted in with the standard ‘1234’, it’s ‘9 cubed plus 8 cubed minus 7’ 😂.

[Nail Soup]

55 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said:

Rock's not really my bag so most of the sub-sub-post-sub genre names mean nowt to me. What be 'math rock'  then ?

Surely the genre you like has a 'math' sub-genre? Just work it out from there.

[Baloney Balderdash]

1 hour ago, Barking Spiders said:

Rock's not really my bag so most of the sub-sub-post-sub genre names mean nowt to me. What be 'math rock'  then ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_rock

Basically progressive rock for hipsters. 

Edited December 2, 2020 by Baloney Balderdash

[bobbass4k]

15 minutes ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_rock

Basically progressive rock for hipsters. 

How dare you. It's also self-indulgent w***y jazz for hipsters. 

To be fair it probably has the same ratio of utter toss to good stuff as prog, but with less Rick Wakeman in a wizard's cloak. So I think we can all agree it has an edge.

[BigRedX]

2 minutes ago, bobbass4k said:

How dare you. It's also self-indulgent w***y jazz for hipsters. 

To be fair it probably has the same ratio of utter toss to good stuff as prog, but with less Rick Wakeman in a wizard's cloak. So I think we can all agree it has an edge.

No. Rick Wakeman in a wizards cloak was one of the few good things about prog rock. At least he didn't look as dull as the average Math Rock band.