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

[Neil Perry]

Maybe that's the stuff I need to hear - which albums are the heavier ones?
I've just heard Soundtracks for the Blind, and it ain't my cup of tea - too
much ambient noodling and too many dreary ballads.

N


"B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 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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