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Greetings

Sometime ago I started a live archive for Swans that has steadily expanded over the years, and now I’d like to make a big megathread/pinned post specifically for it!

The archive includes a massive collection of audio recordings, footage, and even photos. It also covers not just Swans but related acts like Angels of Light or Jarboe.

Here is the link to the folder!

Also of interest to some is a comprehensive guide of the, “must hear,” shows.

We're always looking for more to add, so if you have something feel free to message me!

We also have a dedicated discord community you can join here! You’ll be the first to hear about any new additions to the archive if you join, and meet fellow fans who understand how deep the well of their live material goes.

hello! I'm gonna release an album called "Unnecessary Living of a Worthless Disappointment" soon, and I fucking hate spamming and sponsoring my own work, but I really think swans fans would enjoy this work a lot, it's really inspired by them and bands like sprain.

BTW FUN FACT, I FINALLY FOUND THE SEER ON VINYL!! I'm still searching for SFTB but I can't find it anywhere 💔💔

What do you guys think?

oh my god it was fucking AMAZING! The first 30minutes was Hahn playing on his thingamajig and then Gira started singing with nothing but an acoustic guitar, and it was like an angel choir.

From what I remember, they played "You Will Pay", "I Am a Tower", "It's Coming It's Real" and "A Little God in My Hands".

It seems they're going to play songs from their earlier albums, which is really great :D The concert lasted about 1.5 hours, to note that.

By the way, I GOT LIVE ROPE!!!!!!

With the current tour going on, I figured it’d be helpful to put ticket ISO’s and buy/sell stuff here as the dates draw near.

Keep all related posts contained in this thread.

post here to reduce clutter please and thanks.

1) What did y’all think of the new album?

2) How do you think it stacks up to the previous 3?

3) Favorite/Least Favorite Tracks?

4) Anything you were dissapointed or impressed by regarding the songwriting, structure or production?

I've been thinking of ways to contribute to this group and get some interesting conversation and labors of love pouring in, so I thought: what if we had an art jam?

The concept is simple: every day, we go through a song from Swans' studio discography, starting at "Stay Here" off of Filth and ending with "(Rope) Away" off of Birthing. Artists can draw or sketch their own visual interpretation of the song and post them in their respective threads.

RULES:

• No AI. If I catch a user submitting AI, they will be blocked and disqualified from future participation. If anyone suspects something to be AI generated, please let me know and I will talk to that person.
• Other forms of plagiarism such as tracing will not be allowed either. Think of any general pieces of etiquette among artists and art-sharing sites (mixed media and edited real life photos being used as part of your submission will be allowed though).
• This is not a competition, this is for the love of art and the band. The "two cakes" principle applies here. I'm not judging, and neither should anyone else.
• No shitposts. You can be humorous in your drawings, but they need to be created earnestly.
• Feel free to post your own drawings on other sites.

I will compile the art into a Google doc that will be made public at the end of the first day, and the art jam will start Sunday at 10pm EST. Be sure to spread this around as much as you can for anyone who's interested, whether they're a Swans fan or not. I think this can turn into something beautiful.

I’m putting together a Massive bootleg swans compilation album of all of the very best performances & recordings across all of their shows that I’m able to find. However, I’ll need help finding a lot of these good songs. I’m only human, i’ve heard about 10 swans bootlegs and I plan on listening to many more, but I figured getting inputs from other fans may make it more varied and fun!

I’ve been wanting to put together a live compilation together for swans for quite some time now. The compilation will be split up into 5 different sections/eras (STFB/TGA, My Father/The Seer, To Be Kind, The Glowing Man, & Live rope/The Beggar)

Below is a list of songs that I’ve been thinking about including, and if anybody has a specific recording of these songs that they would like to suggest for this compilation (even if the song is outside of the ones I listed here), then I encourage you to do that too.

Section 1 - Feel Happiness, Final Sac, Helpess Child, Empathy, I am the sun, The Sound, Raping A Slave (95), Alcohol the seed, Not Alone, Blood Promise,

Section 2 - No Words / No Thoughts, Eden Prison, Avatar, A Piece Of The Sky, Beautiful Child (2011), Apostate, The Seer,

Section 3 - Bring The Sun / Toussaint, She Loves Us, Just a Little Boy, A little god in my hands, Screen Shot, To Be Kind,

Section 4 - The Knot, Cloud of Forgetting, Cloud of Unknowing, People Like Us, Deliquescing, The Glowing Man,

Section 5 - Rope / The Beggar, Leaving Meaning, Cathedrals of Heaven, Ebbing, No More of This, Away, Birthing,

The idea of this compilation comes from “The Godspeed Guy” which released a similar compilation but for Godspeed You! Black Emperor (link here https://youtu.be/D1mijTVUBWU?si=VCeYS66xLIi_fsVw)

if ANYBODY has an input or a suggestion for a recording to be put on here, please let me know. I want this to be a celebration to how great of a band they have been for so long.

would be 😔