 | Swans Love of Life
3.6
great
| Ranking: #184 for 1992 | |
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| 4.0 excellent | GrandpaSeth3000 | April 5th 14 |
Bump this soundoff if you want me to give this a review for this website!
- gs3k
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| 3.5 great | praise jimmy EMERITUS | April 5th 14 |
sorry gramps but the younger generation will do the reviewing love ya in troll II though
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| 3.5 great | Britch2tiger | February 28th 16 |
A rather eccentric neofolk album that's more uplifting in comparison to this band's normally nihilistic discography. The album itself isn't bad, but just feels a bit off from the rest of their other major albums. In all honesty, Brendan Nixon worded this album better.
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| 0.0 | BMDrummer | June 14th 14 |
Both the Burning World and White Light were seeing Swans take a folkier, gothic, and more accessible route, which was satisfying, despite hitting a few bumps along the way. Love of Live sees them going further and further into this overall sound, with very gothic crooning, nice melodies, and an overall almost Cure-like atmosphere. They're utilizing even more percussive elements reminiscent of Joy Division's Closer, and the new use of sampling hints at the massive Soundtracks for the Blind. While some of the instrumentation and atmospheric passages aren't as powerful as they were on White Light, this album is still a near masterpiece by anyone else's standards. But, it's only White Light part two.
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| 0.0 | ThroneOfAgony | August 16th 12 |
At times this album was a bit underwhelming, with a lot of rather blandish instrumentation, but overall the few standout tracks (there may be just a few, but they are extremely brilliant tracks) definitely make up for it.
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| 3.5 great | FirstStrikeIsDeadly | June 8th 17 |
This is good, but it kind of feels like a collection of B-sides from the previous, superior album White Light from the Mouth of Infinity. Still, check it out if you really liked that album. One particularly interesting thing about this album is that you can start to see the affinity for recorded conversations and ambience that would go on to define the band's magnum opus Soundtracks for the Blind. There aren't many standouts on here unfortunately, but No Cure for the Lonely can be a tearjerker.
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| 4.0 excellent | Lani | February 2nd 24 |
| 3.0 good | doofy | January 8th 24 |
| 3.5 great | kkarron | September 3rd 23 |
| 3.5 great | Lucman | June 26th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | Josh | June 24th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | NeoZod | May 18th 23 |
| 2.5 average | Timmy | January 24th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Samuel | October 24th 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | yinei007 | September 14th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Zakusz | April 6th 22 |
| 2.0 poor | Elynna | March 16th 22 |
| 3.5 great | Ryus | November 15th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Lvxfra | October 22nd 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | El Olam | August 25th 21 |
| 3.0 good | Roidv | June 29th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Yep321 | June 11th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | kabster | June 10th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Mandy | February 8th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Juuso | February 7th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | jsegura | December 20th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | CalinD | December 13th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | nahtanoj | November 26th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Gazham | August 12th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tib | June 21st 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | rajtako | November 24th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | phylyps | November 3rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | JOK | October 27th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Slowdiiv | September 13th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Sine | August 25th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | kb3984 | August 21st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | wojodta | April 19th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | qyxxxyq | April 9th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Nate | April 3rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | P0laris | March 17th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | Thomm | February 23rd 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jrpuri2 | January 26th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jordan M. EMERITUS | July 9th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Hvunted | March 3rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Piglet | January 25th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Fear | December 10th 17 |
| 3.0 good | RAGG | December 2nd 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | orakst | October 4th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Gueero | August 26th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Jan555 | August 22nd 17 |
| 3.5 great | YeeHaw | July 11th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | GazAldo | June 30th 17 |
| 3.5 great | Swarm | May 13th 17 |
| 3.5 great | wg98 | May 13th 17 |
| 3.0 good | Borbs | March 7th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Corney | February 16th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | bSmith | January 6th 17 |
| 3.5 great | btati | August 25th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | john866 | August 1st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Skye09 | June 24th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Henry | April 20th 16 |
| 3.0 good | Jade | April 14th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Lassie | March 31st 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mootgut | February 26th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | bobby72 | February 12th 16 |
| 4.5 superb | loulou | January 3rd 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kour0s | October 9th 15 |
| 3.5 great | SuzyC | December 25th 14 |
| 3.0 good | newrot | December 25th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Krimea | December 24th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Crimea | December 8th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | TurntUp | October 15th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mookid | October 1st 14 |
| 1.0 awful | Cal665 | July 13th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Meruem | May 22nd 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | dre517 | April 14th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Veldin | April 11th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | redswan | March 23rd 14 |
| 4.5 superb | Sithese | February 17th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | tarkus | January 10th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | eboph | January 1st 14 |
| 3.0 good | unkle | November 6th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Grimsby | October 13th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | September 14th 13 |
| 3.5 great | joomisy | September 5th 13 |
| 3.0 good | Arel | June 25th 13 |
| 3.5 great | Crawl | April 17th 13 |
| 2.5 average | Doxxman | November 26th 12 |
| 3.0 good | krkat | September 28th 12 |
| 3.5 great | KILL | September 6th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Ophion | August 8th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | JesusV4 | April 12th 12 |
| 4.5 superb | Host78 | March 20th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Foaming | February 19th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Oblomov | December 13th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Blade86 | November 16th 11 |
| 3.5 great | stfrnz | August 17th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | mrfixit | December 10th 10 |
| 2.5 average | IAJP | August 14th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Cavs | June 21st 10 |
| 4.5 superb | Krampus | September 4th 09 |
| 4.0 excellent | chaos17 | August 12th 09 |
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