Top 50 Noise Rock Songs | RYM Charts

Reminder that this ranking is not my opinion; it's from RateYourMusic and was chosen by the users of the site. The only subjective part is the personal favourites.

Chart retrieved from January 6th, 2025. That was before the first chart update of the year.

The Noise Rock genre is not included in either primary or secondary genres due to its placement being redundant, but keep in mind that all of these songs were marked as noise rock and other related genres by RYM users.

According to RYM, Noise Rock is a subgenre of Rock that "Incorporates high amounts of distortion and varying levels of dissonance, lo-fi production, and feedback". Better known artists of the genre include Unwound, The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Daughters, Slint, Drive Like Jehu, among others. https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/noise...

Here is a list of the artists that made it in the list from most to least appearences:

Unwound: 8
Swans: 5
Boris: 4
Daughters: 3
Death Grips: 3
Sonic Youth: 3
Big Black: 2
black midi: 2
Dinosaur Jr.: 2
Drive Like Jehu: 2
Glenn Branca: 2
The Velvet Underground: 2
Converge: 1
dälek: 1
The Gerogerigegege: 1
Contortions: 1
Lightning Bolt: 1
The Microphones: 1
Moss Icon: 1
my bloody valentine: 1
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: 1
Nico: 1
This Heat: 1
Wipers: 1
Yo La Tengo: 1