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God. that VOICE. touches me every time

I never thought of myself as the kind of guy that would so very much enjoy hearing a genius madman talk about lighting his farts on fire.

Michael Gira is the only musician I'll ever need.

It's from "Smack My Crack" compilation. It was one of the John Giorno poetry systems "Dial a Poet" collections. I had it on vinyl but have seen it on C.D.

Gibt es eigentlich Aufnahmen von dem was draußen - vor Knopf's Musik-Halle - los war?

Thankyou for uploading this piece that I haven't heard since the eighties. Awesome

this song was my life in grade 11/12 back in 2014/2015. My head was filled with Pearl Jam and Swans at the time

Sounds Australian at the end is this from Australian TV? mate i need to know

1987

oh my god

What a fantastic document. Thanks so much to the op.

>the swans

Michael, stop staring into my soul.

Lemonte Young would be proud of this.

This should have been the soundtrack of Lars and The Real Girl

thanks for sharing, this is a treat. tc

^^

smack my crack1!!!

Fucking Gira. Goddamn brilliant

Twerk it like that Michael

3:57, I want some.

FLEX YOUR MUSCLES

omgg fuck that bit at the end... that was frighteningly deathly

The Ozzies ruled!! The Crimes, and Nick Cave!!!

beautiful !@!

brilliant song, my fav by Crime&CS -- when i heard it the first time long ago from some bad tape thought the first 3 minutes its by Leonard Cohen ...

@FractalBolt I'm pretty sure you can find all the videos on youtube. There's "Saint Huck" and "Stranger Than Kindness" from the Bad Seeds, and "Steal To the Sea", "All Must Be Love" and "Grain Will Bear Grain" from Crime (all of which I just looked up--they're there!) I was going to upload them, then saw they were already there so, why bother?

I want to see this whole video. This festival had Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Swans and Crime and the City Solution... god damn!, what a lineup!

Gira is genius...

@sclapione This particular video was only Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Crime and the City Solution and Swans. I had the whole thing and just pulled this song out of it to upload.

@greedholymoney You have One Cool Mother

the depth of that baritone hasn't been heard since "Children of God"...where'd it go?

@greedholymoney ………… so I'm thinking "yes" :) tell her I've got a lot of signed tour discs and I cook a lot

@TheKnifeWon Nah, not rip off, it's very cool. In fact the bass riff from the Jarboe live version of "I Crawled! in the "Swans are Dead" live 2 CD set (and the same riff used in the current Swans tours) is featured in one of the songs in Gira's "Body Lovers" project. Cool stuff :)

@greedholymoney ..... I meant it in the most respectful possible way.... =) Growing up in the 80s and liking SWANS are attractive qualities to dusty OGs (original goths)

@LokiFreign Don't talk that way about my momma! She my momma! She not a sex object!!!

@FractalBolt Yes it is! Is it ripping off when it's your own work? Haha. I hadn't listened to that song in a long time.

The riff from the lesser knowns "Was he ever alive" is very similar to this one, albeit played with more violence.

@greedholymoney Sooooo... your mom.... is she hot?

it's from, "Smack My Crack", a compilation from 1987.

the ultimate in sonic eroticism.... nothing comes close in sound...

michael gira is amazing. he is coming to a bar in my town this october and it only costs 20 bucks to go woohoo!!

Gira smiles? *feels odd combination of dread and boy-crush* :)

You have an awesome mother! :)

Nothing inside you is real.

this is absolute classic, Swans, and all the 80's underground - wish it could come back as it was back then

ONE AND ONLY.

I used to think that M.Gira got his style from the guy who plays the devil in the original Bedazzled film from 1968. Dudley Moore sings a happy song and gets a little attention and then the devil sings in this deep, contemptuous voice and the girls go crazy over him. Obviously, this wasn't really his inspiration, but watch it and you'll see what I mean. Michael is like the antithesis of a romantic singer and yet there's something so sexy about his performance.

epic x 1000000000

Incidentally, my mother first turned me on to this band. She was a big fan growing up in the eighties. This was one of her favorite songs.