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Favorite Swans album (first tenure)
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:08 pm
by boilermaker
Since we can only list 10 options in the poll question, I can't cover their entire career
Re: Favorite Swans album (first tenure)
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:05 pm
by OrthodoxEaster
Oh, man. Tough.
Gonna go w/Cop, especially the original CD pressing w/the Raping a Slave EP tacked on. Slow, pummeling perfection. That drum sound, damn.
Filth is a really close second. It has the same heaviness but moves a whole lot more. W/that double rhythm section and all. Almost a tossup, but Cop has better production and it seems a little more deliberate and fully realized.
Re: Favorite Swans album (first tenure)
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:07 pm
by AdamN
So damn tough, I could only whittle it down to three.
Cop
White Light
SFTB
Re: Favorite Swans album (first tenure)
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:48 am
by A_Man_Who_Tries
Could pick from a few, but SftB is a rare beast of a double album. Wouldn't trim a thing from it.
Re: Favorite Swans album (first tenure)
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:50 am
by M.H
If we're using the most recent reissue where Gira throws in 'Blind', than my vote goes to White Light...
Greed and The Great Annihilator are also at the top of the pantheon for me.
Re: Favorite Swans album (first tenure)
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:27 am
by jfv
Not sure if this counts as "kerbled"; if not, this thread can be a reference:
https://premierrockforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=70350
Voted for
Filth in the other thread. Voted for it again here.
Re: Favorite Swans album (first tenure)
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:16 am
by zorg
Yeah, that is a pretty straightforward kerble. I'll use this space to mention that I saw Swans live in 2023 for the first time, and am kicking myself for sleeping on this band for so long. I owned Cop/Greed/Holy Money in the 90's, at a time when they could have been their biggest, but they were instead at their low ebb, and somehow I thought they were still doing like gothy Jarboe "Burning World" stuff. I also slept through the Pitchfork revivalism, until finally actually sampling their reunion records and was agog. The new material is pretty uniformly fantastic, the newest iteration might even be my favorite, and that show was just great. Also met Michael, who is very gracious with his fans. Top band.
Re: Favorite Swans album (first tenure)
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:17 am
by zircona1
Soundtracks For the Blind. I like very little of the early, heavy, pummeling material. Gets monotonous after a while.
Re: Favorite Swans album (first tenure)
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:50 pm
by rsmurphy
Filth
Re: Favorite Swans album (first tenure)
Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:49 pm
by AdamN
zorg wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:16 am
Yeah, that is a pretty straightforward kerble. I'll use this space to mention that I saw Swans live in 2023 for the first time, and am kicking myself for sleeping on this band for so long. I owned Cop/Greed/Holy Money in the 90's, at a time when they could have been their biggest, but they were instead at their low ebb, and somehow I thought they were still doing like gothy Jarboe "Burning World" stuff. I also slept through the Pitchfork revivalism, until finally actually sampling their reunion records and was agog. The new material is pretty uniformly fantastic, the newest iteration might even be my favorite, and that show was just great. Also met Michael, who is very gracious with his fans. Top band.
I happened to be on vacation in Zagreb last November when they were there. I talked to Chris the bass player in the large foyer of the venue before the show, mainly about how our ancestors are from near there (my grandma was born in Samobor). Then when Michael introduced the band in the middle of the show, he rolled the r in Pravdica in a dramatic way and proceeded to jazz him about Chris being one of you (the audience) and that his ancestors were mountain people. lol