Ryus
11.20.21 | public castration would be #1 if i included live albums |
Assemblage
11.20.21 | Pretty good! This is close to how I rank Swans. The only one imo that I feel is too low is 'The Burning World' but I love that one way more than most other people. Everything else is either spot on or one bump up or down either way for me.
This band is too close to having like 3 or 4 fives in their discog. |
Ryus
11.20.21 | i like the burning world a decent amount, its so hard to rank these guys lol. putting "the great annihilator" at 6th was particularly painful to me because i love that album |
Jasdevi087
11.20.21 | weird that we agree that Greed is the worst from that era and that Cop > Filth, but literally nothing else |
Assemblage
11.20.21 | I know what you mean, and it kinda only gets harder because the post reunion stuff gets longer and longer and they already have a ton of albums lol. Cop was the hardest for me to "get" even though I immensely loved Filth from first listen. Greed's always been my least favorite and I haven't listened to Holy Money as much as the others because I just keep rotating through my favorites lol. I have been meaning to give Annihilator a relisten. I really like half of it, but the other half is some of my least listened Swans tunes oddly :/ |
GhandhiLion
11.20.21 | Greed accessible pleb filter |
Ryus
11.20.21 | greed is aight but holy money is like greed except 10 times better |
oltnabrick
11.20.21 | Children of God and The Burning World like the only Swans i'd ever listen to any more lol |
Assemblage
11.20.21 | Anyone ever get into The World of Skin? Only Swans side project I've checked was New Mother. |
sometimes
11.20.21 | this is interesting i think maybe i agree w 1 but 8 gotta be 2 for me prob, and i dont like 2 as much as most people honestly |
cylinder
11.20.21 | Agree with 1 and 2. 7 too low tho |
Jasdevi087
11.20.21 | i seem to remember enjoying World of Skin |
Ryus
11.20.21 | havent heard it assemblage but the avant folk tag has me interested |
zakalwe
11.20.21 | Shit band, no fans |
GhandhiLion
11.20.21 | lol |
Ryus
11.20.21 | zak im sorry but you have three 5s by the worst band of all time sleaford mods |
zakalwe
11.20.21 | insolence |
Ryus
11.20.21 | zak listen to this song and tell me its not lovely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14b_yqIVeLg |
zakalwe
11.20.21 | OK hang on a sec mate. |
DoofDoof
11.20.21 | It's hard to like The National and totally dismiss the 'White Light from the Mouth' album |
zakalwe
11.20.21 | Yeah, that is not bad at all. A bit lumbering.
Scrolling through the comments though I saw this absolute pearler.
“Ever have a song that "feels" like your stumbled-through childhood and current self all at once?
It's like the neighborhood where you grew up is the music embodied: vast and old and terrifying and more than your young self could ever hope to comprehend. Yet you still feel fondly when revisiting, like you really have come home.
And the lyrics are you yourself, though your life's never been harsh in the way the writer chronicles: trying to look back on everything and condemn your past and present self because you always have been -- and always will be -- blind.
Sorry, just a rambling YouTube comment, carry on!
(P.S.: little observation. I know it's nothing unique for White Light, but the fade-in and fade-out make it feel like a piece that never stops playing in the background. We just tuned in and heard a piece of someone else's pain.)”
Ridiculous |
GhandhiLion
11.20.21 | not bad, you made a mistake reading youtube comments |
Kompys2000
11.20.21 | Lol come on zak I've seen you make comments of the exact same nature about Oasis and the Sex Pistols |
GhandhiLion
11.20.21 | Nirvana |
zakalwe
11.20.21 | The day I say ‘neighbourhood’ is the day I shove me neck through the noose pal |
Kompys2000
11.20.21 | Ah ah ah "neighborhood" without the u, gotta spell it like a yank ;) |
Storm In A Teacup
06.09.23 | Shit band. |
Ryus
06.09.23 | begone this is not the coheed thread
their post-reunion work is mostly mid though |
Storm In A Teacup
06.09.23 | Excuse me, sir. I WAS being a friend. Your next list you make will destroy this list. I was commemorating it with my excellent opinion. |
