500 Greatest Extreme/Noise Albums Of All Time!

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47. pacific 231 - unusual perversions

brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

48. Venetian Snares - Higgins Ultra Glue Funk Tracks 1972-2006. Totally fucked 1000000bpm breakcore that pushes the tempos to the extent of pure noise chaos. Some of you might still argue its inclusion mind.

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

did anybody call?

49. borbetomagus- snuff jazz

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

stockhausen- gruppen

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

51. fushitsusha- I saw it! that of which only i could sense

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

52. cecil taylor unti- it is in the brewing luminous

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

53. Iancu dumitrescu- galaxy

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

54. parson sound - collection of works out on subliminal sounds

brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

55. jim sauter/don dietrich duo

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

56. Arthur Doyle + 4 - Alabama Feeling

Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

57)Lenny Dee Presents:IFS Vol.3-667:The Neighbor Of The Beast (i need more deathgabber in my life. i need vol 4-chillin is killin as well)
58)D.R.I.-debut album (for old time's sake. it still sounds great. and definitely influntial for grindcore/death people as well as hardcore types)

scott seward, Friday, 5 December 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

59. Ed Rush and Optical - Wormhole [brutal hard techstep jungle]

DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

60. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician

brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

three cheers to DRI!!!

brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

61. painkiller- guts of a virgin

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

62)Crass-Yes Sir, I Will
63)Flux Of Pink Indians-Fucking Pricks Treat Us Like Cunts/Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks (actually i might have that flux title backwards. in any case, let's here it for two albums of people screaming at the top of their lungs about maggie thatcher and "the system" over squalling feedback!!!)

scott seward, Friday, 5 December 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

64. Sonny Sharrock - Monkey-Pockie-Boo

NickB (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

65. Red Harvest - Cold Dark Matter

DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

66. Glen Branca - The Ascension

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

67. Teeth of Lions Rule The Divine - s/t

Following on from Khanate nomination upthread, members of Iron Monkey, Cathedral and Burning Witch (again) with two tracks of disgustingly muddy noise doom and an almost recognisable Killdozer cover.

DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

68)Viking Crown-Banished Rhythmic Hate (i'm including this for the production values(or lack thereof) alone)

keep them coming, everybody. i ask again, has anyone done an extreme buying guide? i think it might be my perfect book idea. i've been looking for a perfect book idea and this would be right up my alley. i would buy one if there was one to buy.

scott seward, Friday, 5 December 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

69. teenage jesus and the jerks-everything

x-post: scott i have never seen one. i'd buy one if you wrote it.

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

70. john cage- 62 mesostics for merce cunningham

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

71. DNA- last live at CBGB's

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

72. paul dolden- li'ivresse de la vitesse
73. masayuki takayanagi/karou abe- mass projection

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

74. mauricio kagel- acustica

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

75. Boredoms - Soul Discharge. Especially since it's one long track on CD.

Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

76. morton feldman- string quartet (II)

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

77. jesus lizard- goat

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

78. Painkiller - Buried Secrets
79. Bart Reynols Ensamble - Bart Reynols Ensamble (It isn't an album but a tape. The first tape from the argentine band actually known as Reynols)

venusinsurf, Friday, 5 December 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

80. Francisco Lopez - untitled 104

Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

81. Slab - Descension [Sludge Heavy Industrial music, they were favourites at Sounds magazine and on Peel in the late 80s. The album got a reissue on Relapse in 1999]

DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

82- stefan jaworzyn/alan wilkinson- in a sentimental mood
83- ascension- broadcast
84- john coltrane- the last concert
85- descension- live

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

86. scott walker - tilt

brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

87. Mark Stewart - As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade

DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

88. Xinlisupreme - Tomorrow Never Comes

DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

89. fushitsusa-live dbl cd (psf 15/16)
90. metal machine music
91. wolf eyes-dread
92. amm-complete crypt sessions
93. no new york
94. dna "little ants" b/w "you & you" 7"
95. red transistor "not bite" b/w "we're not crazy" 7"
96. john cage- variations 2
97. dead c-harsh seventies reality

chris besinger, Friday, 5 December 2003 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

98. Die Kreuzen - Die Kreuzen
99. Pussy Galore - Right Now
100. Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives

NickB (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

98. Big Black - Atomizer

DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

102. Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca

DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

103. Throbbing Gristle Second Annual Report

brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

104. Isis - Celestial

DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

105. Boyd Rice - Black Album

From TrouserPress:
The first album by California conceptualist Boyd Rice (one of the first avant-garde "musicians" to use turntables as a creative tool) offers no information beyond the artist's name (embossed on the all-black cover), that it was recorded in the mid-'70s and is "playable at any speed." The droning noise slices, which are not audibly ascribable to any specific instruments, seem to consist of short tape loops layered over one another to create repetitive but varying textures (like Frippertronics, but without the guitar) that slow down and speed up on their own. Unlistenable.

NickB (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

106. Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps

NickB (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

107- swans- filth

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

108. swans- body to body job to job

Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

109-- Dead C "Trapdoor Fucking Exit"
110-- Ornette Coleman "Free Jazz"
111-- Glenn Branca "Symphony No. 2"

earlnash, Friday, 5 December 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

112. Anal Magic & The Rev. Dwight Frizzell - Beyond The Black Crack

NickB (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

113. Miles Davis - "Rated X" (from Get Up With It)

Clarke B., Friday, 5 December 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

114. Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium

DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 5 December 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

or a hard drive you could buy with all this on it!

I know, right?, Saturday, 15 March 2008 21:32 (seventeen years ago)

or a Merzedes with a hard drive sautered into the dash with all this on it!

Craig D., Saturday, 15 March 2008 23:18 (seventeen years ago)

Sick Things - Sounds of Silence. The Australian band whose members would go on to Fungus Brains, Venom P Stinger, and the Dirty Three. Massive, if maybe unintentional, distortion. Not too hard to find online.

Michael Train, Saturday, 15 March 2008 23:36 (seventeen years ago)

yeah, but that leaves around 391 that are pretty difficult I'd wager.

I know, right?, Sunday, 16 March 2008 02:57 (seventeen years ago)

i lost my copy of joe colley - desperate attempts at beauty. ;_; what a thing. he's kind of a hardcore analog sound artist type, lots of metal balls in speaker cones and elaborate feedback vs. natural processes vs. physical space conceptual pieces but they SOUND UNNNBELIEVABLE. 'desperate attempts' has a lot of field recordings in there too, ice cracking in water mostly? anyway, it's really nerve-wracking and controlled. 'untitled piece for prepared chord organ, microphones, and electronic motors' is more ethereal but just as alien as is 'anthem: static for empty life." don't be put off by the titles! those last two are some of the best "ambient" i've ever heard, super super super dense and warm.

i know drumm has already been mentioned, but he really is fantastic. 'impish tyrant' is my fav. raw raw raw raw raw raw raw. and riffs!

strgn, Sunday, 16 March 2008 05:44 (seventeen years ago)

john wiese - magical crystal blah

strgn, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 08:17 (seventeen years ago)

jason lescalleet - mattresslessness

strgn, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 08:17 (seventeen years ago)

Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Borre Fen
Emaciator - Neglect
Grunt - Seer of Decay
Macronympha - Pittsburgh, PA

rizzx, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 11:02 (seventeen years ago)

Sick Things - Sounds of Silence
This is a fucking awesome record!

Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 11:17 (seventeen years ago)

Labyrinths & Jokes (Hanson)
Patchouli and Echoes (Chocolate Monk)
Swissotic Commune Document (Chocolate Monk)
Testament (RRR)
All the Bananafish compilations

gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 11:26 (seventeen years ago)

Smegma - Pigs for Lepers

gnarly sceptre, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 11:27 (seventeen years ago)

Bill Dixon - "Mosaic"
Kevin Drumm - self-titled on Perdition Plastics
The Who - "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere"
Xenakis - "S.709"

Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 12:58 (seventeen years ago)

C.C.C.C. Live Sounds Dopa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD_rG9FTjy0

U-Haul, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 16:28 (seventeen years ago)

Another 500 Greatest Extreme/Noise Albums Of All Time

-- milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:26 (2 years ago) Link

also, live sounds dopa & the album with xenakis "s.709", #179 & #163

Milton Parker, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 17:58 (seventeen years ago)

DNA on DNA
and Cosmic Kurushi Monsters: Tokyo Invasion vol. 1 are both sublime, and i'm not a huge noise person

outdoor_miner, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)


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