Name some bands that incorporate a lot of dissonance and noise into more "normal" songs

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Examples:

Sonic Youth
Deerhoof
My Bloody Valentine (more noise than dissonance)
Captain Beefheart (although some is not quite "normal")

Keep the list going.

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Saturday, 24 December 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

early pavement

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Saturday, 24 December 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

The Luxurious Bags
The Dead C
Iran
some Sebadoh

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 24 December 2005 05:31 (twenty years ago)

jandek

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 24 December 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

seriously i think there's probably already a thread on this..
lemme check
noisy, guitary, poppy shrediness
"noise" vs. "noisy": is noise a genre unto itself, or just a catchall term for the total set of "noisy" variants of pre-existing musical genres?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 24 December 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

JAMC

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Saturday, 24 December 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)

When the fuck has Jandek ever written a "normal" song in which to incorporate dissonance and noise?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 24 December 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Aphex Twin? Squarepusher?

― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

neutral milk hotel

― Peter Densmore (pbnmyj), Saturday, 24 December 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Telescopes

― Zora (Zora), Saturday, 24 December 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

When the fuck has Jandek ever written a "normal" song in which to incorporate dissonance and noise?

what about his irving berlin-songbook lp?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 24 December 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Flying Saucer Attack
Animal Collective

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 24 December 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

tall dwarfs

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 24 December 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

Gastr del Sol

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 24 December 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Xiu Xiu

― 31g (31g), Saturday, 24 December 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

Grauzone

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

Peter Gabriel 3, David bowie late 70s, Tom Waits Black Rider, Mr. Bungle Disco Volante, King Crimson 3 of a PErfect Pair, Sugarcubes when Einar plays trumpet,

― howell huser (chaki), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

boredoms? noiserock?

― Stephen C (ihope), Sunday, 25 December 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

the House of Love

― jingo, Sunday, 25 December 2005 02:49 (twenty years ago)

Nightblooms (at least in the early days: cf. the original version of "Never Dream at All" on the "Crystal Eyes" single--actually "Crystal Eyes" too--and compare it to the We Will Rock You-type re-recording of "Never Dream at All" that was a single & on 24 Days a few years later)

― Douglas (Douglas), Sunday, 25 December 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

Yo La Tengo

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Sunday, 25 December 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

Butthole Surfers
Pere Ubu
The Fall

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 25 December 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

ashlee simpson

― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Sunday, 25 December 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

offa the top my head,

OCS
Les Georges Leningrad
Country Teasers
Xiu Xiu
Trumans Water
Royal Trux
Electric Eels
Flipper

vashtee simpson seconded

― limb&trunks, Sunday, 25 December 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Milemarker
Silkworm

― IndieFucker, Sunday, 25 December 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

uh, wtf is "normal" about a les georges leningrad song?

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 25 December 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

I think Boris may count?

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 25 December 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

uh, wtf is "dissonant" about silkworm/neutral milk hotel song?

― d90 (d90), Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

okay - i'm drunk - dad is watching a tom petty bootleg dvd i bought him .... whatever.,, i heart disssssonance always. x ...mas

― d90 (d90), Sunday, 25 December 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

lovechild / run on
danny and the dressmakers
arab on radar
brigitte fontaine
the new lightning bolt has a bunch of conventional rock sounding songs.
boyracer, henry's dress, autocollants, bright lights, black tambourine, blonde redhead, blurt, the box, d.a.f., godzuki with freewade (that's pretty poppy), early half japanese....

i feel like this has blown too far open, i don't know if it's a matter of misinterpretting the request or that i listen to a lot of pop music with feedback and noise in it, but i could keep listing and listing.

re jandek and "normal" songs: "crack a smile" (jandek's best song in my opinion) is quite "normal" that whole album is.

― Dan Gr (certain), Monday, 26 December 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Boo Radleys and Olivia Tremor Control to thread.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 26 December 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Unwound

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 26 December 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Medicine
Curve

Slap Happy Humphrey were an extreme example of this.

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party, Monday, 26 December 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

Kaito UK

― dlp9001, Monday, 26 December 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, YOU DWEEBS!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 26 December 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Polvo!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, especially the first three albums.

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

Cornelius
New Fast Automatic Daffodils
Flaming Lips
Boo Radleys (seconded)

this is my favouritest type of music!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

pixies
nirvana
the birthday party
the ex
the jesus lizard
wilco

― 6335, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Jeff Beck on his first few solo albums, no kidding. Truth is pretty well-known as a heavy proto-metal shredder w/puking guitar noises but check out Rough and Ready from a couple years later where Beck unexpectedly inserts free-form Lee Ranaldo feedback blurt into several unsuspecting "tasty" lite-rock songs. It's good.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

psychic ills

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

The B-52's "Rock Lobster"

― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

early Yardbirds... (well, dissonance at least)

― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Perrey and Kingsley

― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Dickie Goodman (50s)

― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

The poster asked for "more normal songs".....alot of the above named bands are far from normal or mainstream. I'd have to say Beck is the king of dissonance and weird aural noises in normal songs.

― oldskool, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Einsturzende Neubauten, Tortoise, The Books, Church of Betty, Mogwai come to mind. Fuck normal.

― j j steichmann (jaysteich), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

isn't this all basically 80% of all college rock in the 80s, 90s, and 00s so far?

― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

actually

isn't this all basically 80% of all college rock ~~in the 80s, 90s, and 00s so far~~?

― dali madison's nut (donut), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Broken Social Scene

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

the Who. they kinda invented it ("Anyway Anyhow Anywhere," "My Generation," etc. )

and the Small Faces ("What'cha Gonna Do About It")

no, sorry, the Who didn't invent it: Bo Diddley did ("Mumblin' Guitar"), as did Link Wray ("Rumble," "Run Chicken Run," etc.)

Barn Owl is almost the opposite, playing only the dissonant parts of "normal" songs, but without the "normal" songs surrounding them (as distinct from what any other "noise" bands i've seen do).

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:34 (twenty years ago)

NIN

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

isn't this all basically 80% of ~~college~~ rock ~~in the 80s, 90s, and 00s so far?~~

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

title track of Herbie Mann - Memphis Underground... groovy jazzy funking along nicely & then all of a sudden you are assaulted by Sonny Sharrock guitar solo! the Larry Coryell solo before it is dissonant but will not prepare you for the eek eek eek. also Hold on I'm Coming from the same record.

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 22:31 (twenty years ago)

not sure if they're doing it particularly well, but there's the double

― jermaine (jnoble), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

maybe i am stupid but isnt the answer to this question, like, all of indie rock from the 90s?

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Definitely Broadcast's Tender Buttons: sweet melodies + glitch/distortion.

Pere Ubu's "Heaven" also comes to mind: a cute pop song with this weird mechanical rumble which periodically surfaces, quite at odds with the rest of the track.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 02:58 (twenty years ago)

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