Swans - Filth/Body to Body Job to Job
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Artist: SwansEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-03-21
Music Label: Young God Records
Soundtracks:
- Stay Here
- Big Strong Boss
- Blackout
- Power For Power
- Freak
- Right Wrong
- Thank You
- Weakling
- Gang
- Swans Live At The Kitchen N.Y.C. 1982/3
- I'll Cry For You
- Red Sheet
- Loop
- Your Game
- Seal It Over
- Whore
- We'll Hang For That
- Half Life
- Loop
- Get Out
- Job
- Loop 1
- Mother My Body Disgusts Me
- Cop
- Only I Can Hear Only I Can Touch
- Thug
- Raping A Slave (Live Berlin)
Free Music Notes for Filth/Body to Body Job to Job
Free Music Review: Blunt Force Trauma
Hit: 5 Stars
Anyone familiar with this early outing from Swans will understand this review, any who are not familiar will not be able to imagine the bombast contained on this recording. It has to be heard and upon listening you will either never listen to it again or you will be hooked. No other band has ever or will ever make music this heavy and powerful - BUT it is not "Heavy Metal" music. Swans music completely sets bands like Korn , Metallica , Slipknot ,Pantera etc to the side . Strangely enough the feel of early Swans may be too brutal for fans of these type acts. In blues terms it would be kind of like trying to compare John Mayer to Son House - one is an architect and one is a consumer product.
Michael Gira is the master architect behind Swans and has always had a gift for conveying authentic raw emotion through music. From what I can gather about Gira he sets out to create sounds that he would like to hear in music and he utilizes a great deal of artistic prowess and psychological content , he does not like to commit his ideas to too much meaning or ego which I find refreshing. He does however seem to have a drive to create and move on to the next thing , basically challenging himself to continually break new ground . Swans have been through about 5 phases and successfully morphed into a logical progressive sound each time until disbanded . Gira continues to make some of his best music ever under his new Angels of Light squad, which has a varied line up on each of their 3 outstanding releases : New Mother , How I Loved You , and Everything is Good Here , Please Come Home. Check these out if you want to hear something truly unique.
Back to Filth & Body to Body , Job to Job. Filth is the first Swans release to my knowledge and it has been reissued here along with BTB JTJ , which are a collection of live and rare recordings , some from their "COP" release . Each cut on Filth is a ritualistic , pounding release of emotion . There is nothing formula here , this is true originality. There are no neo-Bach lead guitar solos or any other tripe you hear in heavy metal music. The time signatures here are mid to low tempo and are very uncommon in any type of music, however everything is delivered with a force that cannot be ignored. Norm Westerberg's contorted mixture of power chords and harmonics make for a guitar sound unlike most. The drums are very well produced and powerful throughout the recording . One of the signature features of Swans early music is the use of repititon and a committed attack that each player offers , almost like getting a car door slammed on your head. The vocals are no different , mainly commands and one word statements delivered in a howl of disoreintation. There is a lot of rage here but not in a commercial way , it is in a truly unsettling yet captivating way. That is because the squad is playing honestly and not trying to cater to a pre-established musical niche.
If you want to hear something heavy that is not just more consumer product check this pair of disks out . If you can make it through both disks then you must understand what the artists were doing , if you don't make it through you will remember how you felt listening to a few songs for a long time.
Don't let the teeth scare you away! Peace
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Another exciting piece of history from one of The Big Apple's meanest, creepiest and uncompromising bands ever. As with the Various Failures triumph, 'Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job' collects material from one of the band's golden eras, a time when bands like Swans and their contemporaries such as Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth could barely get library cards, let alone featured on the covers of magazines to which they are accustomed today. Packaged in a deluxe embossed chipboard digipack with booklet. Young God Records.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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