[kj] Track of the day . . Angels of Light/Swans
B. Oliver Sheppard
bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net
Sun Sep 30 20:57:37 EDT 2007
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!)
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> 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.
>
> _
>
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