500 Greatest Extreme/Noise Albums Of All Time!

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Cuz that rolling stone list WAS really boring. this should be more interesting.this is also inspired by that power violence thread and a bunnybrains cd i am listening to. i don't care how you define extreme or noise. it should just be something that makes you go ouch or whooooboy! ideally, it should also be something that you actually like and enjoy or at least something that you are impressed by or that makes your jaw drop. all genres welcome. i'm hoping to get a long list of things i can buy someday when i'm rich. has anyone ever written an extreme music buying guide? maybe i should. that might be fun. and deafening! so, go to town, noiseheads!

i'm starting small(numbers don't reflect greatness-have to start somewhere)

1)Discordance Axis-The inalienable dreamless (i love this album. i have to get a copy of that early years comp.)
2)Bunnybrains-Live in New Heaven,2001 (this is just great noise of the bashing and flailing variety. and surprisingly noisy even for the bunnybrains. it's great! and i listened to years of bad bunnybrain noise so i know the difference. find the thread on ilm where my brother offers up free copies. just send him your address. am i pimping for him? nah, he is revered in japan and belgium, he doesn't need me to pimp for him. i should mention that when i saw him over thanksgiving he had a two live rabbits and a duck in the back of his car. maybe don't send him your address after all)

― scott seward, Friday, 5 December 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

3. Khanate - 'Khanate'. Um, technical doom taken to new extremes of agonising slowness by (ex)members of OLD, Burning Witch, Blind Idiot God etc. I would write more but I'm going to go to lunch instead

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i love that album too. and the louder you play it the better(and scarier)it sounds. i remember seeing old when they were old lady drivers opening for the young gods years ago and i kept thinking:"How did they arrive at that sound?" it was ugly and cool and just so....i dunno, weird.

― scott seward, Friday, 5 December 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

merzbow- rainbow electronics

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

5) Satanstornade - Satanstornade

Awesome track names. BEST cover art. Makes you feel numb when you listen to it. Totally killer

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 5 December 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Sheer Hellish Miasma--Kevin Drumm

― direct_program, Friday, 5 December 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

7) black dice - beaches and canyons
8) infest - everything
9) crossed out - everythinng

― simon 803 (simon 803), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

10. Borbetomagus - Buncha Hair That Long
11. Merzbow - Dharma
12. Borbetomagus - Live In Tokyo
13. Merzbow - Baztoutai w/Material Gadgets
14. Pat Metheny - Zero Tolerance For Silence
15. Last Exit - s/t
16. Napalm Death - Scum
17. Earth - Earth 2
18. Keiji Haino - Execration That Accept To Acknowledge

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

19)Cephalic Carnage-Lucid Interval (this album has really grown on me. i like the way they mix things up from track to track. the electronics on it were done by some guy from happy pappy. has anyone ever heard happy pappy?)
20)Converge-Jane Doe (this album is heavy and noisy enough to make a list like this i suppose, but what i like about it is how EMOTIONALLY extreme it is. i think it's a beautiful album. i called them an emo band on ilm somewhere and someone got mad at me. i refuse to call them screamo. emotional extremes are a valid criteria too. if someone were to list scott walker's Tilt it would fit)

i'm hoping some jazznoiseheads will pitch in on here.

― scott seward, Friday, 5 December 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

21. brighter death now - great death I
22. brighter death now - great death II

― brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

23. black flag - damaged. yeOw!

― brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

21. Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
22. Jackie-O Motherfucker - Magick Fire Music

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a brighter death now album(can't remember the title) and i don't think i've ever been able to get through the whole thing. so they definitely belong on a list like this!

― scott seward, Friday, 5 December 2003 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

24. birchville cat motel - screamformelongbeach 3"cdr

― brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Boris - 'Absolutego'. I made it through once. I was a shaken man.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

26. factrix - st
27. whitehouse - great white death
28. whitehouse - right to kill
29. skullflower - xaman

― brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Skullflower - Xaman -- the sound of brain erupting through skull.

Iannis Xenakis - Bohor I -- funny how electronically manipulated rattling jewelry can sound like dying, screaming human beings. Extreme because it makes you realize how easily suggestible those sorts of descriptions actually are, how strenuously we try to find recognizable patterns in seeming chaos.

― Clarke B., Friday, 5 December 2003 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, x-post already!

― Clarke B., Friday, 5 December 2003 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

31. Naked City - "Torture Garden"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

32. drumm & dilloway - i drink your skin

― brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

33. nautical almanac - st from 96

― brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

36 (I recounted, I fucked it up apols) - The Locust 'Flight of the Wounded Locust'

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 December 2003 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

37. music for bondage films 2 - merzbow

ok its his pop album.

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

38. hanatarsh 2
you fools

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

39. caroliner - im armed with quarts of blood. the beginning of all of load records exsists in this lp

― brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

40. Diamanda Galás - The Plague Mass

I have to wait until everyone's out of the house before I can play it. I think I made it all the way through once. It left me shaking.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

any brief descriptions are very much appreciated!(i had to look up who kevin drumm was, i've never heard him. that hellish miasma record sounds good-i'm guessing drumm and dilloway is him too)

― scott seward, Friday, 5 December 2003 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

kevin drumm and aaron dilloway of wolf eyes remixing each others pieces. good shit.

― brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

41. armpit - ruby. sounds as if they have left their guitars laying against their amps and just walked away.

― brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

42. Killing Joke - Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions ...

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

43. Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

44. mainliner - mellow out

― brock (brock), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

32. drumm & dilloway - i drink your skin

grr i thought i was going to be the first person to mention this!!

45 merzbow - bastard noise

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

45. Fat - Hit

Guitars + drums + samplers and made with the help of the Borbetomagus fellers. Granted it's not a noise riot all the way through, but the opener is as powerful as any Last Exit.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

46. Fushitsusha - "Pathetique"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 5 December 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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)

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RE: To Live And Shave - Not common knowledge to me! Someone gave me that cd and i just wrote down what was on the cover for the purposes of this list. Thanks for the info!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 9 April 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott - the TLASILA radio session dated from October 22, 1999, and was broadcast live over WNUR-FM, Chicago. The "Kill Misty" album is identical to the WNUR broadcast, apart from some editing and digital equalization done after the fact. The line-up is identical, but the song titles (which were announced over the air by Tom Smith) were changed for the bootleg, and all between song announcements were deleted. TLASILA 2 did their best to cover their tracks, but in the end too many people had heard the broadcast, and put 2+2 together. I have both the WNUR session and the "Misty" boot, and they are one and the same. TLASILA 2 was a scam group, although a pretty funny one!

Matt

― Matt Clark, Jr., Saturday, 10 April 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

as long as to live & shave in la is a topic of conversation, i'd like to nominate their 1st album, '30-minuten mannercreme', and their last (before reforming), 'the wigmaker'. both are amazing, unlike anything before or since, as unique as merzbow, whitehouse, scott walker, jandek, xenakis, anyone. very cool and important music.

sindra

― sindra st. clair, Saturday, 10 April 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the highlight of my trip to nova scotia last summer was finding a copy of TL&SILA's helen butte vs. masonna pussy badsmell in a dollar bin.

new noise releases that have tickled my fancy:
-prurient/kites split LP
-hair police - rattler's echo
-burning star core tape on chondritic sound
-dead machines - plays the night shift
-ceylon mange tape on since 72 (holy shit; where do i get more of this stuff??? totally amazing.)

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 10 April 2004 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"the highlight of my trip to nova scotia last summer was finding a copy of TL&SILA's helen butte vs. masonna pussy badsmell in a dollar bin."

awesome! that's a crazy album, tho imho not as intense or bracing (or exploratory) as 'wig'.

great list you've given us. who exactly are ceylon mange, btw? isn't that a side project of the decaer pinga loons?

sindra

― sindra st. clair, Saturday, 10 April 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to say ceylon mange is somehow related to dylan nyoukis/decaer pinga... i think ILX's very own roger adultery has played with them??

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 10 April 2004 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Find threads from I Love Music, subject contains 'noise'.

89 results found:

― the Stanmore signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

i suggest CATACLASTIC FRACTURE : A NOISE COMPILATION, which was released by Lazy Squid and Deadline Records in 1994. 51 songs, international roster with most of the big names from that time.

― cyclops joint, Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

Meat Beat Manifesto "Armed Audio Warfare"..(most of it, at least)

Influenced by Mark Stewart and the Maffia's As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade, which was influenced by The Missing Brazilians' Warzone, although inexplicably neither have appeared on this thread -- until now.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 11 August 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

I dug out my copy of Borbetomagus's Live In Allentown cassette yesterday. Best thing they ever released. I'm gonna burn it to CD this weekend.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I honestly think we need Another 500 Greatest Extreme/Noise Albums Of All Time thread

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Another 500 Greatest Extreme/Noise Albums Of All Time

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Find threads from I Love Music, subject contains 'noise'.
100 results found:

― noise is shit, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

runzelstirn & gurgelstock (this rudolf eb.er thing) is all you need really.

― susi mayer, Friday, 27 January 2006 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

the most noize thing i've been listening to lately is the Gate LP on Majora. It is pretty noise. Also, the Minimal Man 7".

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 27 January 2006 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

Surfer Rosa?

Also recommended: My Name is Rah Rah s/t, Lord of the Yum Yum, 25 Suave's I Love Detroit... I am glad that the Lord of the Rings Modulator made it on there, as it's about my favorite noise album ever.

― js (honestengine), Friday, 27 January 2006 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

Peach of Immortality - Taxi Zum Shoah (this may be unreleased - I've got a cassette copy), Talking Heads '77, Jehovah My Black Ass... REM Is Air Supply
Skullflower - Form Destroyer
Frown - Wallghost
Holland/Skin/Tunnel - s/t CD
LaMonte Young - The Well Tuned Piano (tho not extreme, unless you consider the duration)

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

today at work, my boss and his partner found a charlemagne palestine double LP in a box in the basement. Four Manifestations on Six Elements. I wish i had cash for things like that. I'm pretty sure they're gonna ebay it. sigh.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

also, at work I listened to the Meerk Puffy LP. It's pretty good! I went outside to smoke and came back and the locked groove was playing. funny.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Oh hey! I'm just discovering the wonderful world of ILX. This thread has been dormant for a while, and I confess I haven't read it all yet. Anyone in there a Merzbow fan? I have the Merzbox, and it is monumental!

― Darren Skuja (Darren Skuja), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

But, in specifically answering the question, Merzbow - Akasha Gulva.

― Darren Skuja (Darren Skuja), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Boris Absolutego and Earth 2 in there. OMFG ILX RULES. But I'm late to the party, eh?

― Darren Skuja (Darren Skuja), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Whitehouse, Hijokaiden, yeah Baby!

― Darren Skuja (Darren Skuja), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Hototogisu - Prayer Rug Excorcism
Hototogisu - Chimärendämmerung
Prurient - Black Vase
Wolf Eyes - River Slaughter
Pedestrian Deposit - Fatale
Aaron Dilloway - Sounds of the Snake Charmer Vol. I

― rizzx (Rizz), Thursday, 23 November 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Dear Darren,
http://ilx.wh3rd.net/newanswers.php?board=86
yours truly

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 23 November 2006 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

what the bloody hell was that?

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 23 November 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks fetchboy.

Mister, it appears to be a concentrated noisehead discussion area. It's going to take me a while to figure out ILX.....any discussion concentrated on Merzbow or the Mmerzbox in there?

Cheers.

― Darren Skuja (Darren Skuja), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

"concentrated noisehead discussion area"...?

not really. it seems to be the dank basement where the ilx mods sequester the deformed cousins.

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

Merzbow threads

― Onimo has bone for the pink overload! (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

it has little to do with being sequestered and much more to do with a general distaste for standard ILX bullshit. (insert uk/isle of faggotry joke here.) xp

― CROWS don't FLY in STRAIGHT LINES (orion), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's now 'Fagtron Nation'

― Onimo has bone for the pink overload! (GerryNemo), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Have they gone electroclash across the pond, yet?

― CROWS don't FLY in STRAIGHT LINES (orion), Thursday, 23 November 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

I hope scott hasn't given up his dreams of turning this thread into a book yet

one idea is to start another thread, and invite people who contributed to this thread to re-post short descriptions of the albums contributed

sort of want to do that to the 'top 100 ambient albums' thread as well

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 23 November 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

was that idea ever made into a thread?

― rizzx, Saturday, 15 March 2008 20:26 (seventeen years ago)

I wish that this was available as a torrent!

― I know, right?, Saturday, 15 March 2008 21:31 (seventeen 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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