― Blake (BlakeSEVEN), Saturday, 16 September 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 17 September 2006 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Sunday, 17 September 2006 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link
She had said she planned for the gig to be...what was it? "a Post-Modern Gospel" yeah, I think that's what she said at the end of it. Crazy stuff.
Also she did that Dead Can Dance cover of "American Dreaming" and it drove me crazy cause I couldn't remember who did that song. It was only when I got home that I figured it out.
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 17 September 2006 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link
*commercial starts*
It's called SWANSMAGIC! :)
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 08:47 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/jarboeliving
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 17 September 2006 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link
No, it's nice that you finally understand!
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 17 September 2006 10:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Sunday, 17 September 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Sunday, 17 September 2006 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― robert in SLC (robert in SLC), Sunday, 17 September 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ficky Stingers (Bimble...), Sunday, 17 September 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
listening to it now, with SFA's 'Mountain People' the perfect alphabetical introduction.
― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Sunday, 17 September 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Just got "Soundtracks for the Blind" the other day, but haven't really had the proper setting to listen to it.
I do remember being very off-put by a lot of the "Various Failures" compilation when I first got it, since I'd only ever heard the early stuff ("Public Castration is a Good Idea" is probably the most brutal album I've ever heard), but I've gotten a lot more comfortable with their later period in the last couple years. I especially dislike the cover of "Black Eyed Dog". The way Jarboe sings it just bugs me.
― vartman (novaheat), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link
boooooooooooo! ya should have seen her do it live. scare the pants off ya.
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 29 September 2006 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link
I think I've decided my fav Swans album is:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BkqYXCVGL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
― ilxor, Friday, 6 March 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going to give that one another listen really soon because I think out of all the Swans studio albums, it's the one I'm least familiar with.
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Friday, 6 March 2009 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I adore that record. I fell in love with Swans with "Holy Money," purchased on cassette from a Seattle pawn shop around 1987? 88?, tipped off by something I'd read in SPIN. (Hard to believe, looking back.) "Children of God" followed, plus the "Love Will Tear Us Apart" 12"s.... "The Burning World" soundtracked the summer after my senior year in high school. And then "Love of Life" and "White Light from the Mouth of Infinity" just blew my mind wide open. When I think of those records, all I can think is MASS (as in volume, as in weight, and communion, all at once).
― pshrbrn, Friday, 6 March 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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― StanM, Friday, 29 May 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmmm.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 May 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I know, I've had enough with these reunions, but this is SWANS
― StanM, Friday, 29 May 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
dude just said he was thinking about swans as he got into his car after a show
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I do this all the time
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
gira: "at some point in the future, there is a chance that swans would maybe play some shows, possibly. can I get in my car now?"
internet: SWANS REFORMED TOUR IMMINENT
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
that said, if it's a gira-jarboe-westberg-kizys-parsons reunion I will print this thread out and eat it
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone told me he doesn't get along with Jarboe now, is that true?
― "But didn't MBV come from a nasty goth background?" (Bimble), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
That's about how it works, yeah. (xxpost) :-)
― StanM, Friday, 29 May 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
"I was just thinking gee I bet I could get a better guarantee if I credited this to Swans"
― da croupier, Friday, 29 May 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
a friend saw his solo show in boston a couple weeks ago, said it was mindblowing
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
swans are dead! they can't play again.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 May 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
they should really leave it be. and i say this as someone who considers them one of their top ten fave bands.
― scott seward, Friday, 29 May 2009 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
original article here: http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7536&Itemid=1
I love Swans, but not sure I want to see a naked, sweating, 55-yr-old Gira...
― Duke, Friday, 29 May 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
they were so amazing on that swans are dead tour though... okay, i'd go see them. hahahaha!
― scott seward, Friday, 29 May 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
A reunion seems somewhat strenuously unlikely.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 29 May 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe Gira just wants to resurrect the name to play all those songs and house his new Swans-sounding material, and get whoever he wants to join in? Not necessarily with Jarboe (she wasn't in the band from the start, who knows, maybe he's not going to ask her permission), a choice of five or six drummers, guitarists, bass players, or maybe even new people?
― StanM, Friday, 29 May 2009 22:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, how many incarnations have there been? Which one would be THE reunion?
― StanM, Friday, 29 May 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
not willing to talk out of school any further than this, but it doesn't seem unlikely to me.
― worm? lol (J0hn D.), Friday, 29 May 2009 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
You just want to see Edward III print out this thread and eat it too, don't you? :-)
― StanM, Friday, 29 May 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw 'em @ the Fab Mab in '86.
The 2 drummers had way oversized kits and cymbals (16" hit hats as I recall), the bass ran through TWO giant folded horn cabs, Jarbo had one. Gira was really pissed the venue hadn't supplied the requested 10,000 watt PA (for a venue about the size of CBs).
I SWEAR that everyone in the audience looked like they were being subject to massive G-forces and seemed to be physically exhausted and beaten up after the show. I was really happy to have been @ the side of the stage.
BRILLIANT.
― factcheckr, Saturday, 30 May 2009 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Consider this another vote for Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money, three albums and a couple of 12" singles jammed onto a two-CD set. If you like that, pick up the live album Public Castration Is A Good Idea from the same era. The songs get almost twice as long sometimes; play it loud enough to make your neighbors cry.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 20 April 2014 23:56 (ten years ago) link