Noise Pop
 

Not to be confused with Noise Rock.

Noise Pop is the perfect genre. Noise, for little girls afraid of noise. Great harmonies and melodies drowned in distortion and feedback.

A few favourite songs and bands:

this is Noise that I can get behind. I already like The Ravonettes



This band was probably the first noise pop album that I played in its entirety

The Ravonettes just rip off Noise Pop bands from the 80s like Jesus & Mary Chain, but they rip 'em off well. So it's ok in my book.

So you are saying I should listen to Jesus and Mary Chain?

What's a good album to get from them?

Well, they're the most original Noise Pop band and in my opinion they're the best. Psychocandy is their most famous album and it's probably the most famous Noise Pop album, and it's not only my personal favourite from the band but in my top 10 favourite albums ever. Darklands is good as well, but Psychocandy is so much better. Think My Bloody Valentine meeting The Ronettes. Or The Beach Boys, with a bit of Ramones in the mix. Even though it's drenched in layers of distortion and feedback, underneath all that you have the most perfect Pop songs you'll ever hear. Some Noise Pop bands use the Noise aesthetic to blanket mediocre songwriting, but not Psychocandy.

Just Like Honey is the coolest song ever.

Other notable tracks: Taste The Floor, The Hardest Walk, In A Hole, You Trip Me Up

I really don't have any noise pop in my library, someone hook me up!

Not a style I am overtly familiar with, but looking it up on RYM
Noise Pop - Music Genres - Rate Your Music

Pavement, Yo La Tengo, The Flaming Lips, MBV and The Jesus and Mary Chain are bands I have enjoyed.

Will need to listen to more in this style.

looks like some of those cross over into Dream Pop as well
Dream Pop - Music Genres - Rate Your Music

Will have to do more research on it.. I am always looking to explore styles I have little knowledge in.

Should give me a list outside of the known ones I mentioned of albums to check out.

There's a little bit of overlap but not that much. If you're interested in some dream pop I made a little comp a few months back:

http://www.musicbanter.com/soundtrac...tml#post987376

These are all great bands.

Awesome stuff, but I prefer dream pop tbh.

I have a copy of Sleigh Bell's Treats album and I love it. I'm not sure it would be as special to me if I listened to a lot of noise pop, though. Most of the thrill is it being something different than what I normally listen to. Although I suppose I could give some other artists a try...

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Sleigh Bells = trendy crap.



Medicine for love...

I enjoy listening to it though so that's good enough for my ears. I'm sure it's not the noisiest noise pop but it's what does it for me.

You might like Secret Shine, their early stuff is kind of like a mixture of twee pop and shoegaze. Their After Years compilation which compiles their all their early material from 1991 to 1996 is worth checking out

No problem. They reformed and released an album in 2006 but it's rather disappointing. After Years is a fantastic collection though.

Highspire are grand too, but we're veering into shoegaze territory here.

Check out the vids I sent you a page or so back too, might be what you're looking for.

Unless you've already watched them and thought they're a steaming mound of shit :laughing:

No pleasing some people.

That's true for some of their songs, sure, but there's a beauty in that for me, they take on this almost hypnotic quality. Meh, not for everybody I guess.

would u classify the radio dept. as noise pop?

No, they're dream pop, most certainly dreamy and poppy.

Is this noise pop by any chance? Absolutely love this song

Speaking of Vivian girls, oh boy. I actually saw them live and the bass player was at the merch table. I was deciding what to buy, and I started telling her what I wanted, and when she said how much I was fumbling with my money like a jackass for a minute or two. I eventually got everything straight and handed her the cash and she gave me this funny look. God was I ever embarrassed. :laughing:

Noise Pop can be done very well, or it can descend into utter dreck with 'layered sound' covering up the artist's total lack of arrangement and/or compositional skill. Jack Pat's qualification of the music as repetitive strikes me as applicable to ALL genres when they're done badly (though I'm sure this isn't what they meant).

To me, the best noise pop will let me sing along and dance like an idiot the way the best pop does (ie; it should be FUN), without descending into cheap structures or cheap hooks (not all hooks are cheap, noise pop esp. should have something clever going on). Vivian Girls fufil this imo, Ravonettes fufil it I suppose, though I'm not a fan. Po-faced noise pop I don't have time for though, it's boring and at times wince-inducing, and uses 'noise' as an excuse for the pop, as if pop can't stand on it's own.

I agree, though I'd use the word generic or call it lack of creativity. Of course there might just be a basic lack of musicality as well at a more extreme level of badness/averageness.

yo Sneer

thanks for posting that Tiger Trap track, i've been listening to the album and i really dig it

My pleasure, check out Bust 'Em Green by Henry's Dress too, really good album.

hehe she is pretty cute actually :)
Where was the show btw

The 2019 Vivian Girls release is quite good.

https://cdn2.thelineofbestfit.com/im..._300_90_c1.jpg

Memory by Vivian Girls

The singer guitarist actually had the audacity to change her last name to Ramone.

I am listening My Blood Valentine. My favorite songs Only Shallow and I Only Said.