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Post by Ladyfingers on May 31, 2020 15:35:40 GMT
Hard for me to really be impartial, but my girlfriend seemed to enjoy it, so if you have any interest in Swans then it's worth a watch purely for the wealth of archive material and interviews with artists. It certainly reinforces my perception that Gira is a very damaged person with an utterly inhuman sense of will. It was great seeing Jarboe get her due, and also nice to see that she's in a good state despite having the rug pulled out from under her. It'd've been nice to have a complete performance of a song appended to it as most of the music was in snippets and I can't imagine a novice to the band having any clear idea what they really sound like afterwards beyond "loud, oddly droning and dissonant". Still, seeing the band performing live at nearly every stage of their development was great. I'd be very curious to know if any non-fans of the band see it and are inspired to listen to them, but I suspect there's a little preaching to the choir going on.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Jun 1, 2020 1:31:32 GMT
so if you have any interest in Swans then it's worth a watch purely for the wealth of archive material and interviews with artists.
Love the drummers though, Unsane guy and Parsons, especially what he did with OF CABBAGES AND KINGS, one of my secret lttle bands that I've been fanatical about since the early 90's but who no one else ever gave a shit about ever |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 1, 2020 2:30:22 GMT
Swans sucked me in with White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, and I only really discovered their earlier stuff later on. The last few albums have been incredible, especially To Be Kind.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Jun 1, 2020 2:37:32 GMT
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Aug 10, 2021 10:04:06 GMT
^ Wow, really different from their old "Public Castration" days
this 2003 cd I bought the day it came out finally got pressed to vinyl: :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-13956108-1564861993-2829.jpeg.jpg) |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Aug 12, 2021 5:54:59 GMT
This was the era that sucked me in.
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Post by sukebegg on Aug 12, 2021 11:07:01 GMT
Got my Astra Zeneca jab today thanks to Uncle Ho, so I think I might watch this tonight as the Swans have always kinda eluded me even though I kept reading Forced Exposure after Byron Coley "hijacked" it and while the magazine really got me into Sonic Youth, Live Skull and other LES scuzz OG grunge whatever, not so much the Swans. I would've love to claim to have seen them at some loading dock show in downtown LA in 1986 with Sonic Youth or whatever but nah...Have been digging recent live Swans on YT a bit though. Very Branca-ish, which is a good thing...
I dug Of Cabbages and Kings a lot ~ had a precious cassette of Basic Pain Basic Pleasure. Maybe it was what I wanted the Swans to sound like. I think they just got lost in the late-80s shuffle of a ton of noisy "post-punk" from AmRep to early SubPop, Touch and Go, etc. They switched up members a lot and I see that they were on Triple X, an LA label not really known for that type of sound, which probably didn't help either. Great records tho!
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Aug 12, 2021 11:20:32 GMT
I dug Of Cabbages and Kings a lot ~ had a precious cassette of Basic Pain Basic Pleasure. Maybe it was what I wanted the Swans to sound like. I reckon. I have Basic Pain and Face on LP and just last year picked up the only other full-length they did "Hunter's Moon", criminally not issued on LP. It's great but suffers from that curious strain of commercial suicide where the WORST track on the whole album is.... the first one. Total facepalmage. How many people just give up on an album there and then in that situation.... Dat bass tone though. And those rolling "tribal" drums. Total sucker for this shit I heard their s/t 12" ep is the best thing they did? |
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Post by Ladyfingers on Aug 12, 2021 13:49:10 GMT
If you like noise rock like C&K, you might enjoy these guys.
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Post by Ladyfingers on Aug 12, 2021 13:53:14 GMT
This track off To Be Kind is fucking amazing. Like a David Lynch movie for the ears.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Aug 14, 2021 1:11:20 GMT
that ARABROT thing has a great basstone (very similar to BEASTWARS) but the vocals are a dealbreaker. An instrumental versionne would be the go for me.
that SWANS track, they remind me of COIL in that they seem to be geniunely creepy, weird people and that clearly comes across in their music (it's a good thing)
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Post by Ladyfingers on Aug 15, 2021 8:49:00 GMT
I also initially found Arabrot's vocals a bit much to take, but after a while they didn't bug me at all.
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Post by Sprague Dawley on Oct 15, 2021 23:21:30 GMT
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