500 Greatest Extreme/Noise Albums Of All Time!

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why yes i did. of jad's 90's on work, his stuff with Mr. Willett is always the best. it should be noted, though, that i am mad about Half Japanese, Jad and David.

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i enjoyed the actual cd. i think i listened to most of it. but even you will have to admit that 155 songs on one cd is a good definition of "extreme".

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i think we are just looking at extreme differently -- im connecting it up to more of a noise thing, which i dont think superfine fits into comfortable. if its just extreme, then yeah -- that many songs on one album would fit as well as half japanese's 3LP debut on armageddon (not counting singles and tapes).

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

348. Wilt - Radio 1940
350. Merzbow - Pulse Demon

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

351. Mindflayer - It's Always 1999
352. Emil Beaulieau - Kill All The Japanese Noise Artists
353. Aube - Shade-Away

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, by the way

354. Nurse with wound .... Chance meeting on a dissecting table of an umbrella and a sewing machine

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 10 January 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"noise" is more easily defined i think. "extreme" is definitely in the eye of the beholder. way up top, i mentioned that if someone were to list Scott Walker's Tilt it would be an understandable choice. It's extreme emotionally and unsettling and yet it's not noise or anything. i was being a little silly with the liquid tapedeck and the jad, but they fit well enough for me in that they go above and beyond and over the top length-wise and are, to say the least, an acquired taste.over the top can equal extreme. how many people will ever have the fortitude to listen to all 155 songs? besides died-in-the-wool half jap fans.but i will put a lid on the silly only cuz i don't want people to start listing barry manilow box-sets or otherwise trad bores that people find irritating to the max. NOT that i'm comparing jad and barry! although, i'm sure they would get along famously.(this is why i listed Wagner. not cuz it's noise but cuz it's a challenge. both physically and mentally. listening to 155 jad fair songs, to me, is a challenge both physical and mental. and yet, i could listen to grindcore and death metal and sheet metal scraping layabouts all the live long day without blinking an eye.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 10 January 2004 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

'noise' is what you hate scott so surely the barry mannilow sets would count ;)

but yeah sonically etc etc...

355. bill orcutt- solo
356. blue humans- incadescence
357. donald miller- little treatise on morals

(I don't think anyone has put those two up there, if they have apologies).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 10 January 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

358. Beatles 'Red Album'

― Sean g, Saturday, 10 January 2004 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

359. birdseed - whitehouse

― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 10 January 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Lowdown -- Revolver 2 (san diego casio-skronk-noise band produced by Phil Elvrum! a lost classic)

― Kevin Erickson, Saturday, 10 January 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

361. Landed - Why I Live
362. Wolf Eyes - Uglied
363. Meerk Puffy - Nung

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 11 January 2004 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

364. mars - the complete studio recordings
365. james chance & the contortions boxxxxxxed set
366. pig destroyer - prowler in the yard

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 11 January 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

shout out to jack for intersystems

367. Robert Ashley - The Wolfman (1964)
368. La Monte Young - Poem For Chairs, Tables, Benches, Etc. (1960)
369. La Monte Young & Terry Riley - Two Sounds (1960)
370. Maryanne Amacher - Living Sound, Patent Pending (1979-1982)
371. Iancu Dumitrescu - Medium III (1982)
372. Iancu Dumitrescu - Pierres Sacrees (1991)

― (Jon L), Sunday, 11 January 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

373. Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmissions Vol. 1 (1993)

― (Jon L), Sunday, 11 January 2004 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

374. Tony Conrad - Four Violins (1964)
375. Arcane Device - 5 - Diabolis Ex Machina (1993) (the consistently brutal one)
376. Max Neuhaus - Fontana Mix-Feed : 6 realizations of John Cage (1966)
377. Yasunao Tone - s/t (2003)
378. John Coltrane - Ascension (1965)
379. David Tudor - Pulsers / Utitled (1984)
380. Stockhausen - INTENSITÄT (from Aus den sieben Tagen) (1968)

― (Jon L), Sunday, 11 January 2004 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

381. John Lennon / Yoko Ono - Life With The Lions (1969) (for side one, 'Cambridge 1969')
382. Otomo Yoshihide - Sound Factory (1997)
383. Alvin Lucier - Vespers (for 'North American Time Capsule', 1967)

― (Jon L), Sunday, 11 January 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

[intermission - dunno if you've read this scott, but its apposite to this thread i think - noise!]

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 January 2004 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark Sinker's noise epic! Yah, there is some my-t-fine craziness there. dunno if i have the smarts to get it all, but even the stuff i don't get is a pleasure to read. i do believe that frank kogan sent a variation and/or version of that thing in an e-mail to me before i had ever gone on ilm. if i remember correctly. i was impressed then and i'm still impressed. Is he writing a book? i thought i read somewhere that he was. kogan needs to write a book too. and don allred as well. and dave q. ilm has the mad genius territory covered! me, i was supposed to write 200 words on an oneida album and after a month i gave up cuz i'm so braindead. i don't know what my problem is. i must be saving up all my strength for my book NOISE ANNOYS:A BUYER'S GUIDE TO THE 500 GREATEST EXTREME MUSIC RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME (has that title already been taken? who should i pitch it to? Da Capo? Feral House?) maybe i should just be the editor and get everyone here to write entries. we should all be famous probably. anyone know anyone in publishing?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 11 January 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

and dave q

Several books.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

my aunt works in publishing.

... of romance novels.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell her it's the story of a man and his passionate love for a broken amplifier.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Only if the amplifier is named Jasmine and has a heaving bosom.

384. Prurient - Body Language
385. V/A - Old Tyme Lemonade

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I got my Bunny Brains "Live in New Haven" CD today! Yay! God knows how long it's been sitting in my mailbox, but there it was.

But why was it shipped from Belgium?

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 12 January 2004 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)

it is actually a belgian release. my brother was making cdr's of the belgian cdr's and giving them to people, i dunno, maybe he ran out and had to fax belgium for reinforcements.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I love how whenever I wear my Merzbow shirt and someone who knows who he is always asks me "Do you think there really is a Merzcar?" or "Do you have the Merzbox?" I've been trying to think of more witty comments to reply with. so far I've just used "Only some of it" or "yeah, but I hate it."

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 12 January 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell them all about how Frog is the coolest looking LP EVER.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 12 January 2004 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

no time to check through the thread but I hope i listed bill orcutt's solo rec on audible hiss.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

386. Steve Reich : "Early Works"

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

387. Coil - "How to Destroy Angels"
388. Pink + Brown - "Shame Fantasy II"
389. Extreme Animals - "Midi Slaves"

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

>no time to check through the thread but I hope i listed bill orcutt's solo rec on audible hiss.

yep, you did. you also listed dolden's 'L’ivresse de la vitesse' twice at #72 and #245. don't mind me though, I'm so fucking pretentious I'm dating my entries.

245. Paul Dolden - Threshold of Deafening Silence (1990)
390. SPK - Information Overload Unit (1981)
391. MB - Symphony for a Genocide (1981)

― jon l (Jon L), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Flesh Parade-Kill Whitey

― Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Dare I add it.

392: The Human League "The Golden Hour Of The Future" (collection of all their pre-Reproduction electronic noise making)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

(oops, dan beat me to that one)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

393: The British Electric Foundation "Music For Listening to..."
This is basically Heaven 17 fresh after being booted out of Human League, and this EP is their sorta demo for their first album "Penthouse and Pavement", well, the first side at least. The second side is stuff that rivals early Cabaret Voltaire on the harrowing, loud, electronic noise front.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

dan selzer did get that one upthread, but it escaped the number count, so 393 it is, yep that one's on the list for the original version of 'I Got The Fear' alone... also dave q had three that escaped:

394. Dayglo Abortions "Feed Us a Fetus"
395. Germs 'Germicide'
396. Flipper 'Blow'n Chunks'

397. Hecker '2 Track 12"' (Pandämonium 9 Playlist/Stocha Acid Vlook)

The 12" is even better than Sun Pandamonium

― (Jon L), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

ah well I already overtook that number, so up the ones from British Electric Foundation and on...

so 399 is next!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

399. Francis Dhomont: Frankenstein Symphony
400. Kryzstof Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
401. Karlheinz Stockhausen: Die Jahreslauf
402. Einsturzende Neubauten: Drawings of Patient O.T.
403. Harry Partch: Delusions of the Fury

― four-oh-three, Tuesday, 13 January 2004 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

flipper 'blow 'n chunks' has been mentioned already..

403. man is the bastard - sum of the men
404. wolf eyes - fuck birmingham
405. mindflayer - take your skin off
406. box patrol - world war when?
407. thrones - white rabbit white rabbit

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

408. violent ramp - s/t 7" (freedom from)

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Old Man Gloom - The Seminar EP's
Mohinder - Discography
Sore Throar - Disgrace to the corpse of Sid
Godflesh - Us and Them
Arab On Radar - Yahweh or the Highway

― MattR, Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

414 John Zorn - Kristallnacht
415 Caspar Brötzmann Massaker - Koksofen
416 Caspar Brötzmann Massaker - Home

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

417 Neil Young - Arc

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

418. Naked City
419. Muslimgauze - Arab Quarter
420. Mr. Brinkman - ZZ Pot
421. Les Rallizes Denudes - Live 77

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

ha, yes live 77 is great: if you don't find it scott then just trying getting some bootlegs under various titles.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

422: Limbus 4 "Mandalas"

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

423. Nels Cline Singers - Instrumentals

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably this one has already been mentioned, but I don't feel like looking back through everything to find out......

424. Merzbow-Spiral Honey

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:35 (twenty-two years ago)

425. Whichever one of Merzbow - Rainbow Electronics or Merzbow - Rainbow Electronics 2 hasn't been mentioned yet. Only 75 to go!

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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