Noise Pop Music: Album, Track and Artist Charts

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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.

Noise Pop Key Tracks

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Play/Add	Track	Artist
	1. Vapour Trail	RIDE
	2. Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam	The Vaselines
	3. Behind The Counter	The Fall
	4. Claire	Jimmy Eat World
	5. Sparks Are Gonna Fly	Catherine Wheel
	6. Flight '96	Chavez
	7. Heart Cooks Brain	Modest Mouse
	8. I Can't Stop Smiling	Velocity Girl

Noise Pop Key Albums

Siamese Dream

Smashing Pumpkins

Surfer Rosa

Pixies

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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...

The Meices

Noise Pop

Description of Noise Pop

Noise Pop Key Tracks

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