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Description of Noise Pop

 
Born of an unholy union of melody, sheer volume, and white noise, Noise Pop seeks to create accessible pop from the tension between these elements. Noise Pop arguably had its roots in the influential art-pop of the Velvet Underground, but it didn't truly find its voice until the debut of the Jesus & Mary Chain in 1984. That Scottish group's LP Psychocandy was a critical success -- although the band didn't find popular success for a number of years -- and provided ample evidence that pure pop could exist within walls of sandpaper. Noise Pop's cacophonous hooks can be heard in everything from My Bloody Valentine's seminal album Loveless to virtually anything by the Pixies, to the psychedelic experimentalism of the Flaming Lips.
 

Top Noise Pop Tracks

 
Play Track Artist Price
1. Satellite Skin Modest Mouse
$0.99
2. Guilty Cocker Spaniels Modest Mouse
$0.99
3. Autumn Beds Modest Mouse
$0.99
4. The Whale Song Modest Mouse
$0.99
5. King Rat Modest Mouse
$0.99
6. Perpetual Motion Machine Modest Mouse
$0.99
7. History Sticks To Your Feet Modest Mouse
$0.99
8. Float On Modest Mouse
$1.29
9. I've Got It All (Most) Modest Mouse
$0.99
10. Dashboard Modest Mouse
$0.99
11. Where Is My Mind? Pixies
$0.99
12. Caress Buffalo Tom
$0.99
13. Bullet With Butterfly Wings Smashing Pumpkins
$1.29
14. 1979 Smashing Pumpkins
$1.29
15. The Funeral Band Of Horses
$0.99
16. Tonight, Tonight Smashing Pumpkins
$1.29
17. Missed The Boat Modest Mouse
$1.29
18. Today Smashing Pumpkins
$1.29
19. Ocean Breathes Salty Modest Mouse
$1.29
20. No One's Gonna Love You Band Of Horses
$0.99
21. The World At Large Modest Mouse
$1.29
22. Cherub Rock Smashing Pumpkins
$1.29
23. Is There a Ghost Band Of Horses
$0.99
24. The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning Smashing Pumpkins
$0.99
25. Fire It Up Modest Mouse
$1.29
26. Spiders and Flies Mercury Rev
$0.99
27. The Underdog Spoon
$0.99
28. Here Comes Your Man Pixies
$0.99
29. Disarm Smashing Pumpkins
$1.29
30. Don't You Evah Spoon
$0.99
31. Float On Modest Mouse
$1.29
32. Islands on the Coast Band Of Horses
$0.99
33. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1 The Flaming Lips
$0.99
34. 1979 Smashing Pumpkins
$1.29
35. March Into The Sea Modest Mouse
$0.99
36. Landslide Smashing Pumpkins
$1.29
37. Zero Smashing Pumpkins
$1.29
38. Detlef Schrempf Band Of Horses
$0.99
39. The General Specific Band Of Horses
$0.99
40. Our Swords Band Of Horses
$0.99
41. Ode to LRC Band Of Horses
$0.99
42. Feel The Pain Dinosaur Jr.
$0.99
43. Gigantic Pixies
$0.99
44. The Good Times Are Killing Me Modest Mouse
$0.99
45. Do You Realize?? The Flaming Lips
$0.99
46. Florida Modest Mouse
$0.99
47. Parting Of The Sensory Modest Mouse
$0.99
48. Bury Me With It Modest Mouse
$0.99
49. Black Cadillacs Modest Mouse
$0.99
50. We've Got Everything Modest Mouse
$0.99
 

Noise Pop Key Albums

 
Siamese Dream
$9.99
Surfer Rosa
$9.99

 

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Noise Pop Key Artists

 
Archers of Loaf

This North Carolina Indie
Rock quartet made guitars
sound like they still had
undiscovered possibilities
in the early '90s. Early Ar...

Buffalo Tom

One time sludge-dishing
noisy pop group who've
graduated to cathartic
rootsy power ballads.

Dinosaur Jr.

Trio led by Indie Rock
guitar god J. Mascis played a
very loud, very slow kind of
Hardcore. These days we
call it Noise Rock.

Frank Black

Frank Black's post-Pixies
career has been one of
moderate success and a
sound one might even call
ordinary. Encompassing g...

Imperial Teen

Effervescent San Francisco
outfit sings bubbly anthems
of sexual confusion and
longing.

Mary Timony

Mary Timony is best-known
as the frontwoman for indie
rockers Helium; she
recorded her first solo
album in 2000.

Pixies

The band that begat
Nirvana, pioneers of the
quiet
verse/eardrum-piercing
chorus technique. In 1986...

Super Friendz

The Super Friendz formed
in Halifax, Nova Scotia in
1993. The bands was part of
a scene known as the
Halifax Pop Explosion.

The Breeders

Platinum selling spin-off of
the Pixies whose
well-constructed noisy pop
turned Kim Deal into a rock
star back in '93. The band...

The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips play
nasal-inflected indie rock
touched with psychedelia
and consistently
experimental sonic textur...

The Jesus and Mary Chain

This group's
wall-of-feedback guitars
and Girl Group melodies
provided alternative music
with one of its defining ba...

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