Meanings
plural noisefests
- An event or situation characterized by a great deal of noise.
It’s a pretty good game, the Times admits, but it’s a noisefest rather than a real sport—a few players engaged in bewildering and rather aimless activity and a lot of spectators indulging in a purposeless riot of excitement.
1917 August 24, “Baseball in London”, in The Norfolk Daily News, volume 30, number 99, Norfolk, Neb.: The Huse Publishing Company, page 4 - entertainmentA piece of music that extensively features elements of noise.
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After a typically amphetaminized crash course in all things Beat, locked and loaded by paint-stripping, nightly replays of the first two Velvets [the Velvet Underground] albums, [Lester] Bangs decided to send a review of the latter noisefest to that bastion of underground rock-writing, Rolling Stone, then based 750 miles away up Highway One to San Francisco.
2007, Clinton Heylin, “Prologue”, in Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 2
Origin
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