Intro/Announcement/Band Overview 00:00 Swans EP 38:29 Filth 44:19 Cop 59:10 Young God EP 1:16:41 Body to Body, Job to Job 1:23:53 Greed/Time Is Money (Bastard) EP 1:41:03 Holy Money/A Screw EP 1:56:03 Outro 2:06:01
I always remember playing Swans in the living room of my first apartment when my cousin (who was my roommate at the time) walks in with the most disgusted look on his face. He later texts my other roommate that they needed to have a talk with me because I was listening to “devil sounding music.” He was an atheist. That’s the power of Swans.
I discovered SWANS back in the mid 80s while living in NYC. Really didn't get the allure at first, but like a deranged lunatic I kept listening to them over and over. Then one day I was walking through the Alphabet on the lower east side by Tompkins Square Park and heard this deafening cacophony. Walked closer to the aural onslaught. There were SWANS pummeling it out in the park. Quite the obscure experience by chance. Thanks for your uploads
FUCK YEAH!!! Finally you guys got around to Swans! What a mind-bending and spellbinding band…. This is right up my alley along with other 80s industrial and noise rock groups. Look forward to part 2
Swans. In the words of Mark Prindle: Fun! Wheeeeeeeeee Side note, Einsturzende Neubauten were smashing together metal and bricks in Berlin from about 1980, so they predate Swans a little bit in that regard. Not sure, if any other bands got on that game before them...? Now put your knife in me.... walk away.
SPK, one of the first industrial bands did some sheet metal percussion themselves as I recall, especially the stuff they did before “machine age voodoo.” Their synth pop phase was really neat in its own right too though
As soon as I learn how to pronounce their name, we're doing them. I'm only half kidding. I've only heard one album that I dug a lot years ago. But lately I'm getting curious to hear everything else. Blixa's the man.
@@EveryAlbumEver which album would that be? Given the style shift (s) they had, you are bound to be surprised by everything either before or after “Halber Mensch” (trans. “Half human”). The neat little dynamic was this: Nick Cave said he was really inspired by early EN when he was leading the Birthday Party, and Blixa from EN got more melodic the more he played with Bad Seeds
Great Part 1! I’ll Be Completely Honest. I’ve Never Really Checked Out Any of Swans’ Discography. I Always Heard/Knew About Them, I Knew They Were Very Influential For A Lot of Bands and I Knew That Ted Parson From Prong Played Drums For Them For A Short Time. So, Now Might Be The Perfect Time For Me To Check Out Some Swans! 😉
I don’t really understand having to be in a certain “mood” to listen to this. I’m 46 and started listening to weird shit in junior high, which for me was like 4 or 5 years post Filth/Cop, but overall contemporary to that era. Music was so devoid of rules at that time that you just liked what you liked and it was usually a crazy spectrum. I would and still do listen to this and the Ramones in pretty much the same mood and setting. I just went from Cop to old Esham within a 20-minute period at breakfast yesterday morning.
I dig your idea moving forward. Yall need to do that new chat pile record God's country. I've been in a pretty fucked up place mentally and that record destroyed me.
Note: The Greed version of "Money Is Flesh" is wrong on streaming. The correct one features different drums and guitar parts (sadly the shitty horns remain). The streaming version is a repeat of Holy Money's. This is the correct one: ua-cam.com/video/qn5S5cRuyVw/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Bravo on these videos. I watched them in a wierd order; however, I am so happy that someone decided to cover Swans in this way. Only way to do it justice is 3 multy hour videos. Thanks for the hard work
I really enjoyed watching/listening to this. I've been listening to them since Greed came out because of pigfuck bands like Big Black, Foetus, and Sonic Youth.
Swans is truly transcendent brutal and beautiful, you don't listen every day but when you do it hits a different place its Wagnerian opera level of art. Love the stuff you are covering though you have wimped out by not tackling The Fall the missing link in the alternative post punk/ punk and Mark E Smith is a similar tyrant to Gira even worse for getting rid of bandmates for playing to well or tightly
Ministry's first album and filth came out the same year but Ministry's first album was not industrial. Also what the fuck happend to ministry between 1983 and 1986
Intro/Announcement/Band Overview 00:00
Swans EP 38:29
Filth 44:19
Cop 59:10
Young God EP 1:16:41
Body to Body, Job to Job 1:23:53
Greed/Time Is Money (Bastard) EP 1:41:03
Holy Money/A Screw EP 1:56:03
Outro 2:06:01
I always remember playing Swans in the living room of my first apartment when my cousin (who was my roommate at the time) walks in with the most disgusted look on his face. He later texts my other roommate that they needed to have a talk with me because I was listening to “devil sounding music.” He was an atheist. That’s the power of Swans.
No other story could describe them better. Holy shit, dude.
I discovered SWANS back in the mid 80s while living in NYC. Really didn't get the allure at first, but like a deranged lunatic I kept listening to them over and over. Then one day I was walking through the Alphabet on the lower east side by Tompkins Square Park and heard this deafening cacophony. Walked closer to the aural onslaught. There were SWANS pummeling it out in the park. Quite the obscure experience by chance. Thanks for your uploads
Cool new plan guys.
Don’t burn yourself out. I would miss the show.
An episode covering Foetus would be phenomenal.
You guys keep picking some really great bands to feature, Swans ( in all iterations) are simply amazing.
You know a band is interesting when you need to define what a riff is to even talk about them.
I saw them in 1984, in a tiny bar, in Cleveland. Changed my life.
This made my week as I just so happened to be in an early to mid Swans kick (Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money, great annihilator respectively)
Interesting to spot the influence Swans had on some of Ministry's sludgier tracks, especially on their Filth Pig album.
Ministry definitely wear their influences on their sleeves sometimes. Moral Hygiene has got some straight up Killing Joke worship on it.
Gira’s first recording is with the band circus mort, 1981’s self-titled EP and it’s great
FUCK YEAH!!! Finally you guys got around to Swans! What a mind-bending and spellbinding band…. This is right up my alley along with other 80s industrial and noise rock groups. Look forward to part 2
Swans. In the words of Mark Prindle: Fun! Wheeeeeeeeee
Side note, Einsturzende Neubauten were smashing together metal and bricks in Berlin from about 1980, so they predate Swans a little bit in that regard. Not sure, if any other bands got on that game before them...?
Now put your knife in me.... walk away.
SPK, one of the first industrial bands did some sheet metal percussion themselves as I recall, especially the stuff they did before “machine age voodoo.” Their synth pop phase was really neat in its own right too though
As soon as I learn how to pronounce their name, we're doing them. I'm only half kidding. I've only heard one album that I dug a lot years ago. But lately I'm getting curious to hear everything else. Blixa's the man.
@@EveryAlbumEver which album would that be? Given the style shift (s) they had, you are bound to be surprised by everything either before or after “Halber Mensch” (trans. “Half human”).
The neat little dynamic was this: Nick Cave said he was really inspired by early EN when he was leading the Birthday Party, and Blixa from EN got more melodic the more he played with Bad Seeds
Great Part 1! I’ll Be Completely Honest. I’ve Never Really Checked Out Any of Swans’ Discography. I Always Heard/Knew About Them, I Knew They Were Very Influential For A Lot of Bands and I Knew That Ted Parson From Prong Played Drums For Them For A Short Time. So, Now Might Be The Perfect Time For Me To Check Out Some Swans! 😉
I don’t really understand having to be in a certain “mood” to listen to this. I’m 46 and started listening to weird shit in junior high, which for me was like 4 or 5 years post Filth/Cop, but overall contemporary to that era. Music was so devoid of rules at that time that you just liked what you liked and it was usually a crazy spectrum. I would and still do listen to this and the Ramones in pretty much the same mood and setting. I just went from Cop to old Esham within a 20-minute period at breakfast yesterday morning.
Damn Ive been listening to you guys for 1.5 years, all because I saw the Samhain episode and got hooked, love you guys.
For me it was RX Bandits.
Love the swans T-shirt . Perfect for that job interview or bank appointment .
I’ve only seen swans live twice . Once in late 80’s once in 2024 . This last was one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen
I dig your idea moving forward. Yall need to do that new chat pile record God's country. I've been in a pretty fucked up place mentally and that record destroyed me.
I'm already sold just by that description.
Like young God and you won't get what you want and the nastiest nirvana songs combined.
YES YES YES YES YYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (as you can tell, I am quite excited for the episode)
Note: The Greed version of "Money Is Flesh" is wrong on streaming. The correct one features different drums and guitar parts (sadly the shitty horns remain). The streaming version is a repeat of Holy Money's.
This is the correct one: ua-cam.com/video/qn5S5cRuyVw/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
Bravo on these videos. I watched them in a wierd order; however, I am so happy that someone decided to cover Swans in this way. Only way to do it justice is 3 multy hour videos. Thanks for the hard work
I really enjoyed watching/listening to this. I've been listening to them since Greed came out because of pigfuck bands like Big Black, Foetus, and Sonic Youth.
cop was my first it took me a while to move past it
Give some 👍🏼 before you leave!
If you were wondering only the holy money money is flesh is one streaming, the greed version of money is flesh is slower and 6 minutes.
Holy fuck
Love SWANS
Swans is truly transcendent brutal and beautiful, you don't listen every day but when you do it hits a different place its Wagnerian opera level of art. Love the stuff you are covering though you have wimped out by not tackling The Fall the missing link in the alternative post punk/ punk and Mark E Smith is a similar tyrant to Gira even worse for getting rid of bandmates for playing to well or tightly
where’s public castration??
Ministry's first album and filth came out the same year but Ministry's first album was not industrial.
Also what the fuck happend to ministry between 1983 and 1986