Swans - Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money
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Artist: SwansEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-03-23
Music Label: Thirsty Ear
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Half Life
- Job
- Why Hide
- Clay Man
- Your Property
- Cop
- Butcher
- Thug
- I Crawled
- Raping A Slave
- Young God
- This Is Mine
- Sealed In Skin
- Fool
- Time Is Money (Bastard)
- Money Is Flesh
- Another You
- Blackmail
- A Screw (Holy Money)
- Fool #2
- Stupid Child
- Anything For You
- Nobody
- A Screw
- Heaven
- Coward
- A Hanging
- You Need Me
- Greed
Free Music Notes for Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money
Free Music Review: At the Mercy of the Young God
Hit: 5 Stars
Having been a Swans appreciator for many years, I can say this set of recordings stands as the pinnacle of the harsh and bludgening style they had cultivated in their early years, and among my personal favorites. Punishing as the music may be, here it is a finely honed and maticulously crafted monlolith of sound designed for catharsis and amidst personal suffering, given the right attitude. Perhaps only Swans devotees will truly appreciate the quality of expression on this album, but it stands as a major achievement for a highly unique & uncompromising band, as well as an important historical document of a major influence on underground music. It would be unfair to label this recording as "noise", "industrial", "post-punk" or whatever label you may be tempted to attach to it; it stands as it is. More often than not, the more difficult music makes for more rewarding listening. *Caveat Emptor: this is NOT an album to listen too if you are abjectly depressed and are considering offing yourself.
The best tracks in the set, in my opinion, are: "Half Life", "I Crawled", "Time is Money (Bastard)", "Money is Flesh", "A Screw (Holy Money" and "A Hanging".
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This double-disc set compiles the complete material from three LPs and one EP released during the Swans' early years: 1984 through 1986. The band's general sound is that of a grungey electric guitar dirge, angry and sullen, not unlike a cross between a slowed down Killing Joke and Lou Reed's Street Hassle. The material is slow and methodical, somewhat spartan, with raspy semi-spoken vocals coming across like some anti-Western mantra. The first, earlier disc is the most stripped down--fuzzed guitars and bass, with a plodding beat. The second disc, although maintaining the same style, features a larger band and fuller sound, with occasional keyboards, female voices, and more complex drum patterns. The Swans' music is very unsettling, seeming at once angry and heavily medicated, as if the composer's rage is being filtered through a haze of antidepressants. It is also very good at conveying this combination of fog and emotion on a visceral level. --Michael C. MahanAlternative Rock Music CDs
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