I wanted to share this playlist with you for no other reason than it is SO DAMN GOOD! I play Lindi Ortega to move me, The Staves to soothe me, Radiohead to enthral me, Bruce Springsteen to inspire me. But when I just want to feel good about the world there is nothing better than a bit of rock’n’roll NOISE!
I called the playlist Noiseannoys after a Buzzcocks song – which isn’t noisy enough to be on the playlist. And I daresay the songs would annoy a lot of people – including the rest of my household if I play them too loud!
You’ll know some of these tracks, but maybe not all of them. So give ‘em a whirl and feel free to suggest other candidates. Not out-and-out metal. Love that too, but all of this lot has a punk edge, one way or another.
So here goes, in no particular order:
Monster Hospital – Metric
Desire, Snakehead – Dilly Dally
Old Lake – The Blind Shake
The Dream, Gelatinous Cube – Thee Oh Sees
2 Kindsa Love, Love All of Me – The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Feed the Mantaray – Slaves
Planet of Sound, Monkey Gone to Heaven – The Pixies
Where Boys Fear to Tread, Zero, Cherub Rock, Quiet – Smashing Pumpkins
Smells like Teen Spirit, Lithium – Nirvana
Black Math, Little Bird – The White Stripes
Waiting Room – Fugazi
Human Troll – MonoTony
The Nights of Wine and Roses, The House that Heaven Built – Japandroids
Mr Pinkus – Alice Donut
Free Speech for the Dumb – Metallica
(When you Wake) You’re Still in a Dream, Feed Me with your Kiss – My Bloody Valentine
12XU, Mr Suit – Wire
Moving Away from the Pulsebeat – Buzzcocks
Cannonball – The Breeders
And here’s the awesome “Monster Hospital” It’s from 2005, but I only discovered it this year. Video’s a bit grim but can’t stop playing this song on the iPod…
Thoughtsfromwestfive 
Kerblimey. Noiseannoys, alright.
Far too rocky for my precious tastes, John! I rattled through the first eight on iTunes and I have to say that they’re not quite my bag. I do take your point, of course, that you have many musics for many moods, and I know you’re just as inclined to listen to some weepy Welsh harpist as this lot.
I guess it’s finally time – forty years on – to say that I never really liked punk? Late Clash was some other sort of music, as indeed was what the Jam morphed into. But the basic thrash guitar stuff never rattled my cage (though I would except the noble Pistols).
I should say that your list still contains a fair few favourites, not least from Metallica, Nirvana and the White Stripes. But all those bands seem to offer something different from the straight-rocky norm.
Now, back to Burt Bacharach for me……
Well done for making it through eight! Thought Dilly Dally would have finished you off! Still, preferable to DC’s metal compilations surely? And if/when Blind Shake and Thee Oh Sees next play London, you MUST come.