on the contrary

Album Rating: 3.5

I actually like most stuff on here except for the title track and 93 Ave. A Piece Of The Sky could also be a bit shorter.

Album Rating: 1.5

fuck yea pseudo-intelligent i can rock that label, i mean isn't that enough to make you staff around these parts

Album Rating: 4.0

From an interview during the Seer press cycle:



"BR: How do you feel about bands still being influenced by you?



MG: Well, usually they're pretty awful so I'm not flattered, I'm kind of indifferent. But, yeah...that's how I feel about it, ha ha. I just heard this tremendous cover of a song from 'My Father...' called 'Reeling The Liars In' by this tremendously talented soul singer from Canada, a black woman. She goes under the name Cold Specks. Look it up on YouTube, she did a really beautiful version of it, and it's the first Swans cover I'd ever heard that I liked (you can watch this at the bottom of the page). The song had sort of a gospel melody, and she took that and really made it gospel and coupled with the words, it was really powerful. That's the kind of thing I appreciate, when someone takes something and puts it in a new context in the world; that shows creativity."



http://beardrock.com/interviews/michael-gira

its overloaded for sure, yes, but in it's highest moments its really exceptional. Hopefully eventually I find a way to give this a 3.5 because it really deserves it most of the time, but spends too much muddled and dicking around too

and yea toxin thats pretty accurate actually look at channing its a 5 freeman

Album Rating: 1.5

"Well, usually they're pretty awful so I'm not flattered"

fucking lol these dudes deserve a rating bump just for him saying that

Album Rating: 4.0

Well, that is where you and I differ. To me, comments like that make him a reprehensible piece of

shit.

gira is a weird dude i think hes a little pretentious sometimes but he's still a fucking genius

"Well, that is where you and I differ. To me, comments like that make him a reprehensible piece of
shit."

Yeah but still

Lol

fuck yea pseudo-intelligent i can rock that label, i mean isn't that enough to make you staff around these parts

a piece of shit that wrote the sound

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't want to be presumptuous, but doesn't the list of bands influenced by Swans include Sun0)))), Boris, Godflesh and so on?

Album Rating: 1.5

"To me, comments like that make him a reprehensible piece of shit."

lol since when did being a cocky twat make you reprehensible



fact is that 90% of people on his cock agree to that statement anyways

Album Rating: 1.5

"I think that's a different kind of pseudo intellectual"

what are you trying to say, mister ? ?

i dunno???

Album Rating: 4.0

"a piece of shit wrote the sound"



Is that some kind of statement of faith?

lol those are a few. tons and tons of bands all across the musical spectrum list swans as an influence

Album Rating: 4.0

Mhm, which means that my reaction is warranted. He described a lot of bands that are seen as objectively good as being awful. But then again, he has his opinions and I won't begrudge him for that.

Album Rating: 1.5

"are seen as objectively good"

its kind of an unprofessional thing to say in an interview, and may be a slap in the face to his fans on some level but its his honest view