500 Greatest Extreme/Noise Albums Of All Time!

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.

I don't own that album, so I don't really know if it's a noisy one or not, but I have to say in their defence that the first time I saw Jackie-O was with the two saxes & umpteen guitar line-up, and they were pretty fucking ferocious. Second time round they were not so hot though...

Please also add Headkick Facsimile and Consumer Revolt by Cop $hoot Cop and Self-Titled LP by Karp

we are almost half-way there! keep them coming, noisniks.

149.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger (the ultimate minimalist BM album)
150.Ildjarn - Strength And Anger
151.Beherit - The Oath Of Black Blood
152.Immortal - Battles In The North
153.Cryptopsy - None So Vile
154.Antaeus - Cut Your Flesh And Worship Satan
155.Mysticum - In The Streams Of Inferno
156.Mortician - Hacked Up For Barbeque
157.Suffocation - Pierced From Within

etc etc.

It should be something that makes your significant other refuse to have sex with you.

I was tempted to paste over a Merzbow discography to get us into the 300’s but that would have been cheating.

173. Merzbow - The Merzcedes (mythical car with one-off Merzbow CD in the stereo)

"Shinsen Na Clitoris" -- Masonna
"Testament" -- Massimo Toniutti (mondo weirdo Italiano sonoro)
"Sound From Hands" -- Massimo Toniutti
"Mechanical Sound Orchestra" -- Matt Heckert (recording of moise-generating machines/art installations that he's built)
"At The Factory, Manchester" -- Throbbing Gristle
"Sonicfuck USA" -- KK Null
"Repent" -- Charles Gayle
"Body Samples" -- Controlled Bleeding
"Flussdichte" -- Asmus Tietchens/David Lee Myers
"The Place Where The Black Stars Hang" -- Lustmord (not all noise is loud)
"Shouting at the Ground" -- Zoviet France (ditto)
"Corale" -- Luigi & Antonio Russolo (electronic noise from the 1920's!)
"Survival Research Laboratories" -- SRL (compilation of their "live" stuff; pretty silly distinction -- can you imagine them overdubbing?)
"Buda_Rom" -- Voice Crack/Gunter Muller

191. "Noise" -- a recording of nuclear bomb tests from the '40's and '50's, quite possibly the loudest sounds on earth unless there's a CD of earthquakes out there somewhere.
192. "Hilbert's Hotel" -- a 73-minute pipe organ chord
193. "The Nature of Nature" -- pretty much just an album-length electronic tone
194. "When We Focus on Nothing As Opposed to the Set or Subset of Infinite Events..." -- a DIFFERENT 70+ minute chord
195. "The Grandi Series (Ambient): Still Life #7" -- data on the CD, but your stereo won't make noise from it. But it's an album. Is it noise or not?
196. "Well Tempered Clavier" -- Bach excerpts played on a keyboard with drum patches programmed into the keys

Also the Hafler Trio:

197. "Mastery of Money"
198. "Kill The King"
199. "Play the Hafler Trio"

Not numbered/included due to lack of titular information:

-- The Christian Marclay records which were laid on a gallery floor and packaged up after crowds had walked on them repeatedly

-- Also, surely I can't be the only one blasted/curious/nerdy/perverse enough to have listened to stereo test records in the same fashion as "music", with no equipment testing going on, hence listeing to a sequence of pure tones and stereo pans.

Actually, all of JLIAT's discography (James Whitehead's) qualifies for this list, but if one devotes a career, as he has, to extreme noise, in my eyes it raises the bar for inclusion of only the most extreme example.

Back when computer programs came on cassette, I put some in my walkman. Totally mind-roasting.

Throbbing Gristle kicked off their second album with same, so why not

206) Throbbing Gristle 'D.O.A.'
207) K2 - Metaloplakia

Costes - Jap Jew
Christian Zanesi - Stop! l'Horizon
Christian Marclay - More Encores
Residents - Eskimo
Vander Top Blasquiz Garber - Sons
Jonathan Bepler - Cremaster 3 soundtrack album
New Kingdom - Heavy Load
Musica Transonic - 1st