Album Rating: 4.1

I finally - finally! - find a Swans album I like and you foul-mouthed cretins abandon me

Album Rating: 3.0

you found the wrong one

Album Rating: 4.0

Don't understand why people complain about having to listen for > 2 hrs to this. What are they spending their days with? This is much more engaging than spending days with watching some crap series.

swans good

pokemon - gotta catch 'em all

Album Rating: 3.0

michael gira as wizened mr. mime is an image I've held in the back of my head for a long, long time and only at this moment have I realised it damn

Album Rating: 3.0

“Don't understand why people complain about having to listen for > 2 hrs to this. What are they spending their days with?”



In my case, better music. The time I spend listening to overlong albums like this is time I could be listening to Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream.

Album Rating: 4.0

Fair enough. Don't listen to Selected Ambient Works II. either.

Album Rating: 3.0

Why would I? No riffs or grooves on that one either. Snoozefest!

lol what a rube

"Don't understand why people complain about having to listen for > 2 hrs to this."

Gabba: I agree. It's trivial for me to make time for Swans, who've earned my trust in the past with long albums. Also it's not like while listening I have to sit on a sofa staring straight ahead -- I walk, run, drive, work, etc., while listening. My complaint is more around the quality this time around, not the time involved. For me the payoff isn't there on The Beggar, so far at least. It took me a long time to appreciate The Seer, so this is somewhat expected with Swans, but my early impressions aren't great so far.

Album Rating: 4.0

The Beggar They Are The Harder They Fall

I was looking up the Jamaican director of that movie the harder they fall cuz a girl I know from college is related to him but she’s a very pale Australian girl first sentence of dude’s Wikipedia bio is “Henzell, whose ancestors included Huguenot glassblowers and an old English family who had made their fortune growing sugar cane on Antigua,[2] was born in Annotto Bay, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica,[3] and grew up on the Caymanas sugar cane estate near Kingston.[4]”

Huguenot glassblowers

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Just realized the Beggar Lover (Three) is a reference to, “The Body Lovers (One of Three)” and the second album Gira did, Body Haters would be 2/3, making The Beggar Lover (Three) the final of the trilogy of experimental work created by Gira over two decades ago

Album Rating: 3.0

Part Two is in fact the long track Look At Me Go

Album Rating: 3.0

Michael Gira “ I took instrumental passages and single sounds from the “My Father...” album and tortured them and stretched them and added other sounds and orchestrations and strangled that mess until it was forced into a new form called “Look At Me Go”. The process was similar to what I did with my Body Lovers/Body Haters project. In a sense this is actually The Body lovers #2 of 3.”

Album Rating: 4.0

I find this one to be less engaging that previous works like the Seer and Soundtracks but there is a charm to this. It seems like a slow roller but I wish it had more bombastic moments. It's pretty reserved but I know I will keep coming back to it over and over until it clicks. Seeing them in september

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Really enjoying the flow of the vinyl tracklist a lot more (I simply put Beggar Lover at the end). Highly recommend

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

@The Watchmen- Thank you for sharing! Never heard that track but I remember seeing it. I’ll have to check it out.

Album Rating: 3.0

@veldin - no worries. And like you I only now play this as per the vinyl track list. I know Gira has stated that cd and digital are his chosen order and that vinyl Order is largely dictated by the medium. But, it works better for me. So I pretty much treat beggar Lover as a stand alone track now and to be honest have little motivation to come back to it much. The album is fine but it’s not great. Just not enough going on in individual tracks or as a complete listening experience.