I’m a new swans fan, what albums should I listen to first? I’ve already listened to most of the great annihilator

Was listening to Soundtracks and thought it would be fun to draw something with it

I once referred to these as the two most different sounding songs in Swans' entire discography. This is certainly an interesting matchup.

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"A little god in my hands"

Im wondering what exactly is signed when it comes to these records can anyone who has bought from here plz explain?

I've been looking to play oxygen on the drums but I have no idea where to start. Would anyone know how or at least something about it??

Hi. Im having a fever, and i was wondering if a fever would help the listening experience?

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Here are the tabs for World of Skin. I'm continuing to work hard on these, the next one will be for The burning world.

World Of Skin Tabs

Hi so in a similar vein to the recent post regarding Michael/Swans being influenced by the blues, I was listening to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan last night as prep for watching the new biopic and I was struck when listening to Masters of War in particular of some similarities between Dylan and Swans, namely the uncompromising tone (which I hadn't realised was so present on this album having been slightly put off by the nice but overplayed Blowin in the Wind) but also the almost hypnosis inducing repetition and simplicity of the music combined with a lot of lyrically interesting verses which I guess is a common trait of folk music but which could be a bit boring and jarring except for the quality of both Dylan's and Michael's lyrics and vocal performance which does kind of jar but in a good way if that makes sense?

Then I remembered that when I saw Angels of Light back in around 2005 they actually did a cover of Pity the poor immigrant which I found particularly moving.

I also found a post here comparing a more recent Dylan song to a Swans song.

So I guess there's definitely some respect there but I wondered if anyone else knew of anything documented regarding Dylan's influence on Michael or any other similarities people have noticed?

Hello everybody, I have been very busy! I will still update for every album I finish but all of my tabs will be found in this google drive from now on. More updates coming soon! xoxoxoxoxo

The Swans Guitar Tab Google Drive

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I think these to albums are quite alike. Theyr both long, and critically aclaimed albums.

Both has that really interesting " filler" that makes the album better in a way.

And both are pretty depressing(happiness is a warm gun, helter skelter, piggies etc.)

specifically their trilogy albums. i mean just a little boy is basically a 12 minute blues song

Sorry if this gets asked a lot.

I’ve heard the whole Swans discography nearly 2 times. The only non swans related albums I’ve heard is Drainland & shame, humility, revenge.

I plan on going through the angels of light catalog & the body lovers album soon!

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HI. I want to check out live rope, because its so well recived, but i kinda want to hear the original tracks first. I know this is asking alot, but could someone write what album each track is from?

thanks!

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