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dankrsta · 04-23-2010, 04:57 AM

Swans are one of my two all time favorite bands. I would recommend "Children of God" (1988) first, because that album still has that slow, heavy, rhythmic sound of their earlier albums, but also paves the way for the more melodic, sprawled, classically beautiful music of their later phase. "Soundtracks for the Blind" (1996) is brilliant as their last album, ending a great career as a kind of a symbolic swan song. It's also their most beautiful album.

But, if you're more interested in an extremely dark, noisy and hypnotic sound "Children of God" will lead you to "Greed" (1985), "Holy Money" (1986), "Cop" (1984) and "Filth" (1983) as their noisiest and angriest album.

If I have too choose, my personal favorite would be SKIN-Shame,Humility,Revenge (1988).

04-23-2010, 04:57 AM	#23 (permalink)
dankrsta ... Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,776	Swans are one of my two all time favorite bands. I would recommend "Children of God" (1988) first, because that album still has that slow, heavy, rhythmic sound of their earlier albums, but also paves the way for the more melodic, sprawled, classically beautiful music of their later phase. "Soundtracks for the Blind" (1996) is brilliant as their last album, ending a great career as a kind of a symbolic swan song. It's also their most beautiful album. But, if you're more interested in an extremely dark, noisy and hypnotic sound "Children of God" will lead you to "Greed" (1985), "Holy Money" (1986), "Cop" (1984) and "Filth" (1983) as their noisiest and angriest album. If I have too choose, my personal favorite would be SKIN-Shame,Humility,Revenge (1988).