Poll: a few noisy 80s/90s rock bands
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Topic: Poll: a few noisy 80s/90s rock bands
Posted By: Hiram
Subject: Poll: a few noisy 80s/90s rock bands
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 01:26
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Not sure if there are many people here interested in this stuff, but here goes anyway. I've listed a few noisy rock/post-punk/alternative/grunge bands from 1980s and 1990s that I like or have liked. Nothing obscure but no household names either. Some are still active, some are not. All have, to me, a peculiar, quirky, original touch in their music. What are your favourites? Multiple votes allowed. Discussion and suggestions of similar bands welcomed.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 09:12
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I like one album with each of these bands Fugazi Shellac Sonic Youth so they are a kind of my favourites.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 09:47
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Sonic Youth are one of my all-time favorite groups, so they’d be first here. After that, in order, would be Butthole Surfers, Fugazi, Jesus Lizard, and Melvins. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 09:47
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I know five of these and prefer Sonic Youth by quite some distance. |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 10:35
Which ones? I can't say which is my favourite Fugazi. They're more song than album band to me I guess. Terraform would be my favourite Shellac and with SY it's tie between Evol and Dirty.
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David_D wrote:Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 10:38
Sonic Youth is nowadays also my favourite of these and I think I can say they're one of my all-time favourites, too. I was thinking whether I should include them in the poll since they're more of a category of their own if that makes sense. SY album poll might be in order some day. |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 10:40
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One of my favourite songs ever.
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Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 10:42
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Lyrics' punchline never fails to make me LOL.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 15:03
Fugazi (US) - Repeater (1990) Shellac (US) - At Action Park (1994) Sonic Youth (US) - Experimental Jet Set...(1994) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 15:18
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Black Flag
(USA) - My War (1983) Hüsker Dü (USA) - Zen
Arcade (1984) Babes in Toyland (USA) - Fontanelle (1992) Brygada Kryzys (PL) - Cosmopolis (1992) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 16:01
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I guess the melvins ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 16:27
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Butthole Surfers |
Posted By: LearsFool
Date Posted: January 03 2022 at 17:32
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What a poll! I think I'll go for Big Black today; Atomizer, Sound of Impact, and their EPs have long been depraved favs of mine plus that Roland character was a mean drummer -------------  
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Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: January 04 2022 at 00:12
Thanks! Brygada Kryzys are new to me, will check them out.
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: January 04 2022 at 01:52
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Sonic Youth for me. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: January 25 2022 at 03:17
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Two albums of early 80's Post-Punk, and which I'm very fond of, are Bauhaus (UK) - In the Flat Field (1980) Before (DK) - A Wish of Life (1982) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: January 25 2022 at 04:15
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I think Sonic Youth is in a different league than the rest here
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Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: January 25 2022 at 04:31
| I saw Sonic Youth in Kilburn in 1989 and they were terrible. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: January 25 2022 at 06:20
I might say so, as well. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: January 25 2022 at 12:08
Bauhaus are excellent. Haven't heard Before but will check 'em out.
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Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: January 25 2022 at 12:12
I think you are right. One day I'll put up a Sonic Youth album poll.
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Posted By: twseel
Date Posted: January 26 2022 at 05:03
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Out of these Shellac is the big standout, though my real favorite in this style is Flipper! I would have probably expected the former to be more popular among progheads than this poll shows but okay... ------------- 
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: January 31 2022 at 06:15
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How about Kyuss (US) - Sky Valley (1994) even it's more Metal influenced - though like TAD ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: January 31 2022 at 06:48
| Butthole Surfers |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 04 2022 at 15:51
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another certainly interesting Post-Punk album from the early 80's Mission of Burma (US) - VS. (1982) ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: February 04 2022 at 15:57
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Mudhoney....the originators -------------   
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: February 04 2022 at 16:11
| for what I know of this sub-genre , Sonic Youth |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: February 05 2022 at 00:38
Flipper are great fun! Thanks for bringing them up. I think Shellac definitely have a connection to math and post rock, but much less so to trad prog.
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Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: February 05 2022 at 00:40
Good album that one. I think they're more stoner than noise in their rock, but of course those styles overlap. Big
 for mentioning Mission Of Burma! |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 08 2022 at 03:49
Yes, it's definitely Stoner, and I didn't really realise that your "noisy" was meant as genre term, which by the way is a good example of that imo it's best to write genre names beginning with capital letter because it diminish misunderstandings.  ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: February 08 2022 at 04:11
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I like most of these, but I’ve given my vote to Melvins, simply because Boris named themselves after Boris by Melvins, and Boris is my favourite of the more modern noisy rock bands. And just to help David out, Boris are at their noisy best when collaborating with Noise artist, Merzbow. ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 08 2022 at 06:08
thanks ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: Hiram
Date Posted: February 08 2022 at 12:26
But I did mean "noisy" as adjective instead of Noise Rock as a genre. What I meant was that Kyuss aren't, to me, as noisy (dissonant, harsh production, etc) as the bands on the poll but concentrate more on the riff and the groove, as stoner bands do. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: February 08 2022 at 12:51
Okay, thanks for that explanation. I must admit, I don't know so much about these stylistic terms and distinctions. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |