As there's a 'The heavy stuff' thread, I thought I'd start one to cover the kind of music that some people might think of as noise. Maybe avant garde, music concrete, tape collages, guitar feedback, modular bleeps and bloops, etc.
Anyone into anything like that? It's kind of hard to explain to people what there is to like in something that is essentially dissonant noise with no discernible rhythm, but to me it's a pleasing experience.
Examples might be Ornette Coleman's 'Free Jazz', Pink Floyd's 'A Saucerful of Secrets', The Beatles 'Revolution 9', The Stooges 'L.A. Blues', etc.
Is it just noise? Is it music? Is it something of both?
The noisy stuff
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Oh...he's a great player, one of the absolute best.michaelm wrote:. John McLaughlin's guitar playing on that album probably falls into what I was thinking of though
If that's [and saucer full of secrets] what you consider part of noisy, I'm on board for noisy.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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I would say both fall at the more musical end of noisy though.Vraith wrote:Oh...he's a great player, one of the absolute best.michaelm wrote:. John McLaughlin's guitar playing on that album probably falls into what I was thinking of though
If that's [and saucer full of secrets] what you consider part of noisy, I'm on board for noisy.
But agree that McLaughlin is an awesome player. Birds of Fire just sounds so messy on the surface, but it's far from random notes or anything like that.
For noise I was more thinking things like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFp73sqwNfU
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Yea, familiar with that one and a couple others you mentioned initially...
but it's not something I have much knowledge about/exposure to...
just random bits...mostly occasional experiments/forays by bands who
aren't really committed to the "genre." [and most of which would also qualify for the "heavy" thread.]
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Ornette Coleman made a hell of a noise sometimes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bRTFr0ytA8
This album is great though. Once in a while I have to listen to it loud in the car!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bRTFr0ytA8
This album is great though. Once in a while I have to listen to it loud in the car!
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do you mean this sort of thing - of which I actually like when in the mood.
Ion Dissonance - The Bud Dwyer Effect
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Ion Dissonance - The Bud Dwyer Effect
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Marx, Lennon
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Nurse with wound - The bottom feeder
Chris and Cosey - Re-education through labour
Chrome - March of the chrome police
Cabaret voltaire - Nag nag nag
Tear garden - Sheila liked the rodeo
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Do the punk rock bands like X and Social Distortion count? 'Cause I like them and have made it a point to see them both live.
Does an old-time album like Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum fit in here? 'Cause that kind of noise stresses my speakers to the limit when I turn it up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABVXW5uEj1w
[Blue Cheer: Second Time Around]
Does an old-time album like Blue Cheer's Vincebus Eruptum fit in here? 'Cause that kind of noise stresses my speakers to the limit when I turn it up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABVXW5uEj1w
[Blue Cheer: Second Time Around]