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I have a strong feeling after trying to listen to this several times that it just really sucks. "I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull" is seriously horrible. Gira recites it SO unnaturally. And those lyrics... I guess you could claim I "don't understand", and maybe I don't. But then again, maybe I do.
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Album Rating: 4.5
not cool brother
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"I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull" is a highlight here (although, granted, one of many). It's not Gira who's reciting, and these are not his words either. Just a sample from Jarboe's father's collection.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
"I have a strong feeling after trying to listen to this several times that it just really sucks."
LOL
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Album Rating: 4.5
Just saw the track listing for The Glowing Man. They really insist on doing only twenty minute songs do they?
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Can't wait
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Album Rating: 4.0
Now I try to dig this seriously. I am afraid this will require many, many listening sessions before I can come up with a judgment
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Album Rating: 3.0
SFTB is their greatest 90s effort. Personally, it's my favorite record by them. It's deep, numbing, enticing in ways, and it just leaves you drained during the first listen. Not for a first-time Swans listener, imo.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Any first-timer should listen to Children Of God and then spread out in whichever direction they were pleased by the most. (Backward=Heavier/Further=Atmospheric)
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Album Rating: 4.0
I have already 4d the Seer, which was lovely but already exhausting tbh! And I listened to Cop, which is a 3 to me. Interesting in its sheer aggression and fury, but too repetitive. I listened to SFTB like 1 year ago, but it was too much
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Album Rating: 3.0
Again, Children Of God is key for first-time Swans listeners more often than not. haha
As for Cop, I'd say go at it again after listening to Filth. I think it helps to have Filth already in your mind. Both great records, imo.
I think something that also helps is telling yourself that Swans is much more than just a band. Swans can be considered three to four whole different outfits if you study their whole catalog of music. I guess it helps to know that not all their music is going to sound exactly the same in retrospect.
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Album Rating: 4.0
interesting! they remind me a bit of Ulver in this context
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Every Swans album is different:
Filth - heavy, dark, grim, but rhythm-driven - danceable;
Cop - even heavier and darker, but also significantly slower, doomy, very hard to dance to;
Greed - again dark, but hardly heavy, screams replaced by singing, aggression replaced by decay; female voice appears;
Holy Money - builds upon Greed but is much more "metallic", industrial, inhuman - the voice even more detached (easiest to hear by comparing the two "Money Is Flesh" versions);
Children of God - adds folk, post-punk, gothic rock, religious hymns and all sorts of other genres to the equation, a deaf person would hear the difference;
The Burning World - a complete shift of style, a combination of folk, world and pop;
White Light from the Mouth of Infinity - gothic rock and neofolk, a bit exaggerated atmosphere (think The Cure), guitar crescendos etc.: almost post-rock;
Love of Life - same gothic/folk/post-punk genre combination as above, but without the post-rock tendencies, focus on short, concise songs, many interludes;
The Great Annihilator - Swans go psychedelic rock (title track is basically an update on "Tomorrow Never Knows");
Soundtracks for the Blind - don't think I need to describe this one, absolutely nothing like it out there (Swans or non-Swans);
My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky - takes the Angels of Light post-folk-rock formula and applies it to a rock band;
The Seer - well it's a fucking monster (just look at the running times), dark, bloated, minimalistic;
To Be Kind - another monster, but radically different in sound: lively, rhythm-driven, full of new, strange sounds, krautrockish, bright, hopeful;
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Album Rating: 5.0
pre much ya
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Album Rating: 3.0
Basically
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Album Rating: 4.5
Filth is pretty cool, but I just don't love that style of music they did after Filth. COG is where it's at.
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Album Rating: 3.0
NOW I AM READY
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Album Rating: 4.5
YOU FEED ME WITH GASOLINE
I'LL BURN MY NAME IN YOUR HEAD
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Album Rating: 4.5
Gonna be jamming this behemoth throughout the day. Good lord it doesn't get any better than Helpless Child.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
Or All Lined Up
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