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

[Mark Kolmar]

The period of _Cop_ / _Young God_, further documented under _Body to
Body, Job to Job_, has a lot to recommend it for the initiated.
_Greed_ / _Holy Money_ (which overlap) bring it to a new level of
refinement, plus enough sonic space to give a sense of broadened
range.  I think Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money are compiled on a
double-CD, which is probably out of print.  These have been issued and
reissued in different forms, and should not be too hard to get if you
are willing to pay a modest premium.

--Mark

On 9/29/07, Neil Perry <neilfperry at btinternet.com> 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.

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> N

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> "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

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

>

> -Oliver

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> 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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