noisefest
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]noisefest (plural noisefests)
- An event or situation characterized by a great deal of noise.
- 1917 August 24, “Baseball in London”, in The Norfolk Daily News, volume 30, number 99, Norfolk, Neb.: The Huse Publishing Company, page 4:
- 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.
- (music) A piece of music that extensively features elements of noise.
- 2007, Clinton Heylin, “Prologue”, in Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge, London: Viking, →ISBN, page 2:
- 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.