Marlowe wrote:Neither do the people who go to the shows. If anyone with zero music experience wants to have an instant career in a band (that will get press & an indy record deal) just form a noise rock band with a interesting name and GO! Jump right in and go directly to the top and claim the title! The audience's don't descriminate at all and will appreciate ANYTHING you do as long as it looks like you really into it!
Trust me, this doesn't work. We've been trying that angle for 5 years!
Or wait, are you talking about noise? Because you may have a point with pure noise artists. I've seen some brilliant noise artists and a whole crap-ton of boring ones, and very often i've seen noise audiences have a hard time separating the proverbial wheat from the chaff.
But there's a difference between noise and noise-
rock, methinks. Noise i almost put in more of a performance art context--Cock ESP, Masona, Maldoror, Wolf Eyes, etc. Not much in the way of musical structure, but interesting in how the noises are produced, and how the performance is staged.
Noise-ROCK, however, to use well-known examples, could include stuff like Sonic Youth, Jesus Lizard, Big Black, Melt-Banana...a large number of bands that fit under a large umbrella of bands who like to incorporate loud, dissonant, abrasively jarring noise to construct what can be otherwise consumed as "rock songs."
Maybe this is obvious to a lot of you, and if so, my apologies, but Marlowe's post seemed to be confusing the two, and i thought i'd stick up for my noise-rock-obsessed peeps.