[kj] Track of the day . . Angels of Light/Swans

B. Oliver Sheppard bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net
Sat Sep 29 14:07:42 EDT 2007


I really love The Swans in the era of "Body to Body...Job to Job." Is
that an era? That was a kind of dark, plodding, noise rock, I suppose,
that at the time really reminded me of stuff from the likes of Flipper,
No Trend, and Stickmen with Rayguns, the latter two lesser known bands,
but who did a bang-up job of that kind of dismal, lurching,
angry-at-the-world type stuff. I think Richard Hell and Thurston Moore
did a cover of Stickmen w/ Rayguns' "Christian Rat Attack" in the late
1980s or early 90s.

There is a Swans shirt here I've been tempted to get:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Swans-t-shirt-angels-of-light-neurosis-jarbo_W0QQitemZ110175490432QQihZ001QQcategoryZ105033QQcmdZViewItem

"Neurosis" and "Jarboe" are in the search keywords.

-Oliver



Alexander Smith wrote:

> Well, as I said in the last sentence of that blog post, it's very

> difficult to sum up the band's entire oeuvre neatly. They went from

> being intensely loud noise rock to being sort've quasi-industrial to

> making sort've sweeping, often-lushly-orchestrated pieces.




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