Noisy or Ambient 80s US Indie Tracks

Worth it for the scary Gibby photo

For 80s SCG I would nominate 'Multiple Hallucinations Of An Assassin' but the cassette version from the tape of the same name is much more suitable than the version on the Bright Surroundings album.

I am fully familiar with Roger Miller, but what else of Bob Bannister's is interesting, don't really know anything about him.

Bannister was in Tono-Bungay during the 90s... This show from 2005 gives you an idea (BB's YouTube channel will give you more)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGSgr3mjMww

Just because it's a pet obscure band, feel free to check out the 90's group Vodka that included Bannister on guitar and future Spin chick/HIV Denialism poster girl Celia Farber on drums. Halfway decent off-kilter 90's girl pop, oddly. One CD and a couple of singles I think. Worth a listen or two.

Oh, wow, thanks for creating this thread, Sund4r, and apologies for not seeing it sooner.

I think Hellhouse captures what I was flailing around for with

The Tooth Fairy and the Princess and Providence can be considered part of an 80s quasi-subgenre of forlorn but tweaked instrumental psych, which melded stoner introversion with dark romanticism. iirc the preferred medium for these downer anthems tinged w/ambient drift involved driving in the wee hours aimlessly at speed, smoking cigarettes with all windows cracked four out of four seasons and blasting shitty car speakers sporting extra hiss and spit from overcoming wind noise (because that’s what v. young Hellhouses do when they’re not fucking, reading, taking drugs, playing guitar or arguing w/girlfriends),

though the other strand is great to hear about, too. I have a pretty shallow knowledge of US 80s underground stuff compared to New Zealand stuff, where there's plenty in this vein (the aforementioned This Kind Of Punishment, a whole mess of early Alastair Galbraith and Dead C/Xpressway related stuff; there's even arguments for some early Skeptics or Marie & the Atom). I got hold of Daydream Nation and Zen Arcade (& nothing else by either band) not long after I moved to Dunedin in 2000, where the local vibe was in the post-Bailterspace/Gordons zone of High Dependency Unit and similar, and I remember hearing "Providence" & "The Tooth Fairy & the Princess" and thinking at the time that it slotted in as proto-post-rock w/stuff like Mogwai's "A Cheery Wave From Stranded Youngsters" etc; got burned out on post-rock a v.long time ago but there's something about "Providence" & "The Tooth Fairy..." that sticks - my usual experience w/80s US underground's instrumental stuff is that it tends more towards ... jazzier? ... kinda vibes? Like that SST No Age comp, or the Minutemen; was wondering if other more uh song-oriented bands experimented w/trippy quasi-instrumentals etc. Not too concerned w/country of origin, either; guess I was using US as "non-NZ" rather than "non-UK" :)

Anyway, off to listen to a bunch of the YouTubes/suggestions, cheers!

I'm sure there are dozens of Boyd Rice/NON tracks, or just open to any page of any early Bananafish magazine and you will find tons of this stuff.
Also, this was probably my first exposure as a young listener:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I0NvgKZnTk

Xpost. After looking around, I realize that Bannister's Vodka thing isn't going to be found easily unless I do it myself. Doesn't really fit with this thread, but an interesting bit of trivia. Not sure why it bombed quite as much as it seems to have...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPVywLKmPhI&feature=youtu.be

Also not sure why I can't seem to post youtube links...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPVywLKmPhI&feature=plcp

is there any solo Barlow stuff that sounds like Poledo? the few Sebadoh songs i've heard in the past were v average indie rock imo

There are many Poledo-esque moments on his first two LPs (The Freed Man/Weed Forrestin'), also on the Wasted Pieces cassette.

I think Hellhouse captures what I was flailing around for with

thanks, glad you appreciate the tracks. here are a few more noisy/ambient instrumentals, mostly from the 80s (and all from the US):

Andy Hawkins/Azonic - River Blindness (from ’95, but shares w/Reoccuring Dreams an obsession w/bridging metal, psych and noise through the anti-essentialist/punk equalizer of obliterating volume: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Gh9bkcFsU&feature=share&list=PLY5Lq4uZXIeGCbLSO8iU_zmhiWFuNqJqb
Blind Idiot God - Thunderhead (from '92 and a bit obvious but so fucking great): http://youtu.be/CwC0pkh1aII
Carol Parkinson - Heavybeat: http://youtu.be/V0Wd6pOKOo0
David Linton - Ringo: http://youtu.be/6SDKvxEz_xQ
Glenn Branca - Symphony No. Six, Fourth Movement: http://youtu.be/_xwfr_P6vgA
Honor Role - Break the Ice: http://youtu.be/wC04Ic870m4
Lee Ranaldo - Here: http://youtu.be/a1Y30OryyfY
Notekillers - The Zipper: http://youtu.be/aqPdaTXutdk
Rhys Chatham - Guitar Trio (break glass in the event of 70s rawk poll wreck): http://youtu.be/cDHUtZ4WoE4
Steve Fisk - Weekend Review: http://youtu.be/8YYjmGB6Ny8
Urinals - Orange Anal Sin: http://youtu.be/ewip8myoSb0

not sure how deep yr. knowledge of US 80s instrumental rock/psych goes, but maybe I'll throw together a Spotify playlist of the more obvious stuff that I've skipped.

sleep. just need more sleep.

okay, this is about nine hours too long, swings between o_0 and the bludgeoning obvious w/r/t selections and segues, and pointedly ignores SST prog-nooding, Bananafish free-noise wankery, Tortoise-ruined post-rock, and most of NZ, but it fairly covers noisy/ambient 80s US indie instrumentals w/psych overtones (while blatantly ignoring "US", “80s”, “indie”, “instrumental” and “psych” parameters when convenient). I started by weaving together the strands connecting Providence, The Tooth Fairy and the Princess and Dreams Reoccurring (which tbh I could've knocked off in twenty tracks), and then just started plundering Spotify's large but v. hit-and-miss catalogue f/all related fragments, detours and half-remembered favorites over several decades. the tracks are actually sequenced but who the fuck has nine hours to listen to a mix etc. enjoy the mess:

http://open.spotify.com/user/1234500846/playlist/13SZfHpW2HAE6lcOVHw319

tracklist:

Christoph De Babalon – Nostep
Aphex Twin – #6
Bowery Electric – Over and Over
Two Dollar Guitar – Patagonia
Chromatics – Tick of the Clock (Single)
Sand Circles – Entering Motor City
Sonic Youth – Providence (Album Version)
Honor Role – Break the lce
Big Boys – Sound on Sound
Hüsker Dü – The Tooth Fairy and the Princess
Hüsker Dü – One Step at a Time
Tuxedomoon – A Piano Solo
Tuxedomoon – Lowlands Tone Poem
Colin Newman – Fish 12
Rosa Yemen – Larousse Baron Bic
Rosa Yemen – Decryptated
The Residents – Numb Erone
Public Image Ltd. – Radio 4
Unwound – Excuse Me But Pardon My French
Butthole Surfers – Strangers Die Everyday
Philip Glass – Ange Des Orages
Jaco Pastorius – Okonkole Y Trompa
Glenn Branca – Symphony No. 6: Fourth Movement
Brian Brain – Brainstorm
Absolute Body Control – What Took You So Long?
Six Finger Satellite – Fall to Pieces
LX Sweat – How I Feel (Jack Your Body)
Samantha Glass – Dakota Shadows
Matthewdavid + Sun Araw – A1
U.S. Girls – National Anthem
U.S. Girls – The Day After 4th July
Malaria – Einsam
Unwound – Bonus Track
Minny Pops – Mountain
Martin Rev – Coal Train
Young Marble Giants – Sporting Life
The Cleaners From Venus – This Rainy Decade
Dark Day – Window
Gary Numan – Airlane
Crash Course In Science – Near Marineland
Tuxedomoon – Tritone
Moebius – Sinister
Unwound – Census
Shit And Shine – Flower Petal Sword
Arsenal – Half Control
Scratch Acid – Albino Slug
Mission Of Burma – All World Cowboy Romance
Purged – The Fall
Pell Mell – Anna Karina
Savage Republic – Song for Rikki
Glenn Branca – Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar
Link Wray – Jack the Ripper
Faust – Krautrock
Neu! – Fur immer
Urinals – Orange Anal Sin
Cul De Sac – Doldrums
Pell Mell – Saucer
Unrest – Hydrofoil No. 4
Trans Am – Carboforce
Aluk Todolo – Occult Rock VII
Holy Fuck – The Pulse
Holy Strays – Purls
Sand Circles – White Sand
F/i – Electric Waltz
Windy & Carl – Undercurrent
Flying Saucer Attack – Popol Vuh 1
Steve Roach – Gone West
Roy Montgomery – Fantasia on a Theme by Sandy Bull (Slight Return)
Andy Hawkins – River Blindness
Hüsker Dü – Reoccurring Dreams
Unrest – Hydro
Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All- Stars – Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Chicago
Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All- Stars – Guitar Trio Pt. 2, Chicago
D.A.F. – Bild 1
D.A.F. – Bild 2
Purged – Word of the Lord
Savage Republic – White Ginger
Smalts – Werktitel *7
Jarboe – Dance Demented
Ike Yard – Loss
Helmet – Rumble
Don Caballero – Belted Sweater
Shit And Shine – friseur nelson
Ensemble Economique – Psychical
Main – Core
Link Wray – Rumble
The Replacements – Buck Hill
Man Or Astro-Man? – A Reversal of Polarity
Flin Flon – Swift Current - Version 1
Trans Am – Armed Response
Agent Orange – Bite the Hand That Feeds Pt. 2
Notekillers – The Zipper
Band Of Susans – Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Lightning Bolt – The Faire Folk
Lightning Bolt – The Soft Spoken Spectre
The Denison / Kimball Trio – Framed
Sonic Youth – Loud and Soft (Live)
Unwound – Sensible
Cluster – Umleitung
Harmonia – Arabesque
Moebius – B 36
Conrad Schnitzler – Con 3.1
Eric Copeland – Scum Pipe
Klaus Schulze – Study for Terry Riley
Diamanda Galas – La Treizieme Revient
JARBOE/JUSTIN K. BROADRICK – Decay
Godflesh – Flowers
The Vocokesh – All This and Hieronymus Bosch
F/i – Observation (The Eye on Top of the Pyramid)
Air Miami – Sweet as a Candy Bar
Lightning Bolt – King Kandy
Bowery Electric – Slow Thrills
Spectrum – Ecstasy in Slow Motion
Sand Circles – Sun Circles
Swanox – Dawnrunner
Bugskull – --
Cough Cool – Teal Impala
High Wolf – Dream is Good
Jonny L – Exabyte
Scorn – The End

other tracks:

Caspar Brotzmann Massaker - Schlaf: http://youtu.be/bywrixHsrqw
Destroy All Monsters - Conga: http://youtu.be/yQWNwVyV17g
Flying Saucer Attack - Since When (Four): http://youtu.be/fMLdkcncAvU
Hovercraft - Phantom Limb: http://youtu.be/-R6UCqj4xo4
Justin K. Broadrick - Guitar Two: http://youtu.be/fD2dFKsE-LA
Liquid Sky OST - Alien Theme II: http://youtu.be/RHEU6VzdQoA
Pain Teens - Veil of Light: http://youtu.be/-zPCCdDVVLI
Raybeats - Tone Zone: http://youtu.be/1W5HKnYiaqg
Savage Republic - Andelusia: http://youtu.be/wOPpK0wugw8
Slovenly - Squeaky Clean: http://youtu.be/ArxgS2nHLdA
Throbbing Gristle - Final Muzak: http://youtu.be/44XQJe_QFiY
Toiling Midgets - Slaughter on Sumner St: http://youtu.be/DebNuOdss-w

a few of these tracks are v. long, but there are so many two- and three-minute instrumentals that I wouldn't be surprised if ILX already had a thread f/this niche but resilient form (have a feeling this is it).

*and bludgeoning banality w/r/t selections* ffs, important to clear up this typo, not at all apparent

Ooh that looks killer. Anticipating my next opportunity to have headphones on!

Oh boy, this is gonna be great. Used to greatly annoy one of my flatmates by vocalising along to "The Faire Folk"; glad to see dots being joined.

Oh, cool: I hadn't seen that at least some Band of Susans was on Spotify. Looks like it happened recently?

This is a really great place to browse for this kind of stuff:

http://noise-arch.net/