[kj] Track of the day . . Angels of Light/Swans
Alexander Smith
vassifer at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 29 17:38:35 EDT 2007
Seek ye COP/FILTH. Heavy, unrelenting, etc.
Alex in NYC
On Sep 29, 2007, at 5:14 PM, Neil Perry wrote:
> 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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