[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

http://mothersagainstnoise.us/index.html

Some samples

John Cage- Known as "the father of noise" to his devoted followers, ironically this post-modern "composer"'s most well know work is titled 4"33', which was nothing more than four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence! While this may seem like it
would be pleasant to listen to, compared with most of the sonic garbage of his offspring, who could consider it to be music, much less by a Composer? A more
careful look into the title reveals something interesting: there are four hundred and thirty three active ingredients in the drug marijuana. (the phrase 420, used by many pot heads, was based on a study of the drug before the Harrison Drug Act of 1916, in
which only four hundred twenty active ingredients were found. Later, 13 more were discovered). Cage was also an avid mushroom collector, coincidentally psychedelic mushrooms are another popular escape for drug users! Ironically, Cage's life can be used as a potent object lesson for the escapist noise fan, he died of a drug overdose, and his life, turned out, to be a Cage.

Wolf Eyes- This band next to Lightning Bolt is the most popular current Noise band involved in the conspiracy. In 2004 Wolf Eyes signed a major label deal with Sub-Pop Records, whom poses as an independent label, the Sub-Pop label was responsible for bringing the band Nirvana to the mainstream in the 90's. This is proof that this current wave is no longer a passing fad, and with this new platform for exposure Wolf Eyes has preached nihilism, alcohol abuse, abrasive noise and graphic displays of violence and death (one album covers pictures a young girl with a knife thru her face) While some of Wolf Eyes music walks the line of industrial (like Nine Inch Nails or Throbbing Gristle) most of it is completely unlistenable garbage. They manically tour around the world playing their brand of rebellion at extremely loud volumes and encourage there fans to break laws and assault the police. One look at their "song" titles says it all: Stabbed in the Face, Human Slaughterhouse, Sandpapered Eyes... etc. Wolf Eyes is dangerous because it attracts fans from metal, punk, industrail, and even jazz. They have collaberated with the likes of: Free Jazz degenerate Anthony Braxton, Sonic Youth, so-called party rocker Andrew WK and others directly involved in this Conspiracy.

Lightning Bolt: While this band primarily plays classic progressive rock (Like Rush) it does incorporate noise elements in its music. But the real danger occurs when they play live, their music is played at ear splitting volumes, using huge stadium styled amplifiers in small packed clubs. They encourage the audience to go deaf and feel the music, the drummer is deaf because of the extreme volume they play at. This band is dangerous because unlike most ‘industrial' influenced noise bands, they entice young audiences with a indy rock attitude and friendly guy nice look. Also what is dangerous and unique with Lightning Bolt is that they are straight-edged, which means that they don't do drugs, smoke, eat sugar, or engage in pre-marital sex. Because of these unique elements they are pushing the noise agenda to a different audience, but the goals remain the same: destruction of the natural order.

RADIOHEAD: a lot of people keep asking why i included them into this list, but they are what i consider a 'gateway band', my son was started out by listening to Radiohead. By presenting a plastic commercialized pop product this act has effortlessly slipped under the radar of a lot of watchdog groups. They use alot electronic noise and noise imagery within compositions and it may on the surface seem harmless. If your child only has pop records and a Radiohead record, it might not be too late to save them.... please remove Radiohead CDs from their music collection.


I should tell them they forgot Sonic Youth and Einsturzende Neubauten.

[Everyneurotic]

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead

...In 2004 Wolf Eyes signed a major label deal with Sub-Pop Records, whom poses as an independent label...so-called party rocker Andrew WK and others directly involved in this Conspiracy...

no one who isn't part of underground in an independent label would accuse sub pop of being a major label (or even know the existance of indies and their difference with a major, or care so much as to point that sub pop is a "fake" indie)

so, is the andrew wk mention/accusation a decoy for people not to know it's him behind m.a.n.?

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I don't think so, there are articles that mention them picketing a wolf eyes show, although it could be an SY/ wolf eyes joke taken too far.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_against_noise

[Everyneurotic]

supposedly, spin tracked the ip of the webmaster (or something like that) down to the servers of island/def jam, which is the label awk is signed to; and since he is like best friends with wolf eyes, it wouldn't be so far-fetched if they weren't in it on the joke too.

the only way to find out if they are real is if the mom's vs skronk start protesting outside radiohead concerts, or if radiohead speak out about them or something. (radiohead being the band mentioned with the least contact between all of them)

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Known 420 myths:

There are approximately 420 active chemicals in marijuana.
Actually, there are approximately 315 active chemicals in marijuana. This number goes up and down depending on which plant is used.

The site seems to have a lot of their facts wrong.

[finding nobody]

hahahaha!

NOISE MUSIC EMBRACES:

1. Rebellion
2. Violence
3. Nihilism (belief in nothing)
4. Escapism
5. Drugs / Alcoholism
6. Sexual Perversion, Self-Mutilation
7. Dissonant / Offensive Sound
8. The Occult
9. Anti-God / Anti-Authority
10. Cult-like Organization, Terrorism

i'll bet the 9/11 terrorists were jammin the boredoms while hijacking the plane

[golden child]

wow this has gone toooo far.

i remember when the site was just a plain and simple geocities site.
this is how i goes, which i believe to be about 98% accurate.

this is a real group of mothers and they setup a simple geocities site to promote their cause, it spread throughout the internet like a virus and they couldnt handle the traffic that was going through their site considering geocities only gives you something like 50 MB of bandwidth. so some kind soul offered them hosting and a domain name at www.mothersagainstnoise.org, this kind soul turned out to be a noise musician himself and highjacked the website and used it to promote some compilations and things of his own. if you go to www.mothersagainstnoise.com it forwards to it aswell.

so the true mothers moved to www.mothersagainstnoise.us. if you do a whois lookup on that site it returns

Registrant: Mothers Against Noise 1200 N Street, NW Apt #2155 Washington, DC 20009 US Domain Name: MOTHERSAGAINSTNOISE.US Administrative Contact , Technical Contact : Smith, M. mothersagainstnoise@hotmail.com 1200 N Street, NW Apt #2155 Washington, DC 20009 US Phone: 201-538-5591 Record expires on 02-Jan-2009
Record created on 02-Jan-2006 Database last updated on 02-Jan-2006

call the number, see who picks up.
ok, i looked it up... that number doesnt exist

and according to www.mothersagainstnoise.org

And here's some facts about www.mothersagainstnoise.us...

If you are wondering who are the people behind the original M.A.N. (the supposedly real "anti-noise crusade") represented by www.mothersagainstnoise.us, you can do a 'whois' search and would get these results:

until 2006/01/06 the mothersagainstnoise.us website was registered to the address

Administrative Contact Organization: Mothers Against Noise
Administrative Contact Address1: 825 Eighth Avenue
Administrative Contact City: New York
Administrative Contact State/Province: NY
Administrative Contact Postal Code: 10019

According to http://betsie.tripod.com/literary/id161.html", this is what is located at the address above:

Universal Music Group
825 Eighth Avenue
New York
NY 10019"

Who will soon be releasing a To Shave And Live In LA album with Andrew W.K., who happens to be on the "MAN"'s list of "most dangerous noise acts".

Everything indicates that, originally, "Mothers Against Noise" (as represented by www.mothersagainstnoise.us) was a marketing hoax to build hype for a Big Record Company "alternative" release.

As usual, it would seem that the public is taken for idiots who can be royally fucked on a regular. Feel free to gobble all the mindless hype you were fed at www.mothersagainstnoise.us. Or feel free to send them a big "fuck you".

Nowadays, www.mothersagainstnoise.us is registered under a false name, a false address in Washington and a Nextel (cellphone operator) phone number in Jersey. Draw your own conclusions.

now im starting to second guess myself, its not so much that i dont believe its fake as much as i dont believe universal did it.

there was a thurston quote on it, ill see if i can find it

Earlier this year, when Wolf Eyes toured with Sonic Youth for three weeks, they met up with proof that they were doing something right in the form of M.A.N. — Mothers Against Noise — a group of middle-aged mothers picketing outside a California venue. Quote John Olson :“We pulled up to the venue in San Diego and there’s all these women outside with M.A.N signs. And (Sonic Youth’s) Thurston (Moore) was like, ‘That’s not for us, dude. That’s for you.’”

ive heard aaron dilloway say that this maybe a fake website/hoax but these picketing mothers exist... he has seen them.

now i dont know...

[Glice]

I think, if I remember this debacle from the noise forums, the case turned out to be that there was one 'genuine' MAN and a MAN established by Universal for comedy promo, and somewhere along the lines the latter disappeared.

In all honesty though, if it's real, it's fairly harmless and quite funny, if it's not, it's fairly funny and deeply cynical. Either way, doesn't make a jot of difference to my life.

NEXT!

[nomadicfollower]

All that did was remind me how much I love those bands.

[HaydenAsche]

The old one mentioned Sonic Youth and Radiohead.

Radiohead is such destructive violent noise.

[val-holla-ing]

they're so cute!

[Trasher02]

weren't you able to buy some merchandise?
i'd love a t-shirt

[whorefrost]

check out "viral marketing" on wikipedia

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I always though Nirvana was the gateway band.

[terminal pharmacy]

if you remember the old one you should also remember it happened to turn into an indie label, it was a well though out plan to get people to look at the bands that they were selling, i will try and find the shop page. then chuck the link here

http://mothersagainstnoise.org/music.htm

[LittlePuppetBoy]

MAN is such a bunch of bullshit