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I've never cared much for the full on noise some people here favour (Merzbow, that kind of thing) but there is a definite invigorating rush to be had from songs like Live Skull's 'Fort Belvedere' or the final couple of minutes of SYs 'Schizophrenia'. Saying that I doubt most people here would consider that to be 'noise' at all.
'Noise', as bands like SY and Live Skull were described in the mid 80s, at least in Britain, was more just a generic term for noisy alternative Rock coming out of the US at the time, but this was only in the context of the janglier sounds associated with the likes of British bands such as the The Smiths and really didn't adequately describe the sounds coming from the actual records. Swans were probably the closest to what people would now describe as 'noise' and even they sound pretty tame compared to what's currently going on.
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