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

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

I think I'm gonna have to get 'Cop," 'cuz all I have by The Swans is 
"Body to Body ... Job to Job," which I _do_ like, but I guess that a 
retrospective  comp. of their stuff?

Also, if you like that kind of art-damaged, menacing, lurching sort of 
noise-rock The Swans used to do, along with Flipper, and you have an 
open mind, you might like Stick Men with RayGuns. This is a track of 
theirs from the early 1980s called "Scavenger of Death," only one I 
could find online:


http://www.latinobuggerveil.com/ejmp3s/ScavengerOfDeath.mp3


It's not their best track, and maybe I'll upload some more, but I have 
always liked Stickmen, who rebelled against the faster-than-fast trend 
in punk at the time (though they played with bands like Black Flag and 
the Misfits incredibly) and slowing things down to a sinister, evil 
crawl. It's off their posthumous LP _Some People Deserve to Die_, and 
I'd think folks who dig The Swans, Flipper, and No Trend would like it.

-Oliver



Leigh Newton wrote:

> Cop! It's all about Cop!

>

> ----- Original Message ----

> From: Neil Perry <neilfperry at btinternet.com>

> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!) 

> <gathering at misera.net>

> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 5:14:12 PM

> Subject: Re: [kj] Track of the day . . Angels of Light/Swans

>

> 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.

>

>     _

>