This band is the shittiest, most pretentious mess of a band in indie music's fucking history.
Their most acclaimed albums are literally comprised of about 10% songwriting, and 90% droning guitar loops. This fucking scam artist Michael Gyro or whatever the fuck his name is has perfected the art of scamming pretentious """"music"""" listeners out of their cash by writing one goddamned bridge and repeating it for thirty minutes, while occasionally shouting, and then selling it on vinyl for an arm and a leg.
You know what? Let's talk about his fucking voice. MC Ride seems like a goddamned 16th century opera singer, compared to this guy - You want to call him homeless? Jesus Christ, half of the lyrics on any given Swans song are just this fifty year old cowboy wannabe shouting in the most irritating, meth-addict esque voice he can possibly fucking muster (Which is impressive, because the premise of a band where half of the songs are ONE FUCKING MELODY LOOPED FOR TWENTY MINUTES is already the most annoying fucking thing I've ever seen).
People literally watch this man and his "band" play one chord for half an hour while the drummer lightly taps his high hats while he screams "FUCK FUCK FUCK CUNT FUCK FUCK FUCK CUNT" and say "WOW I NEED TO BUY THIS ON VINYL, EVEN IF IT TAKES ALL THE MONEY I MADE FROM WORKING AT STARBUCKS LAST WEEK".
I dare you, I fucking dare you to find ONE message or theme of interest or any kind of remote fucking meaning of worth in any song by Swans (I'm not saying "Swans song" because that's what they want and fuck them). ONE. ONE FUCKING THEME OR PIECE OF LYRICAL CONTENT that isn't incoherent rambling or curse words. Yet you see them compared to other bands like they're some high quality, meaningful thing.
Swans
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They should go back and just make an album based off of the end of A Piece of the Sky. You know that Gira isn't really some big tough conservative douche like he makes himself out to be, you know that he wants to settle down and have a nice little jangle folk outfit. And you know what? He should. It sucks in the first place but it least it isn't him and four people battering expensive instruments while he shouts expletives.
Also, fuck Anthony Fantano.
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To Be Kind is my favorite Swans album. Am I a pleb?
Νο,it's a genuinely good album, if Fantano wouldn't have given it a 10 nobody would shit on it.
Needless to say, the very same critics and publications that ignored the Swans when they were releasing one masterpiece after the other hailed this mediocre senile work as a masterpiece 30 years later, finding all sorts of hidden meanings in what was simply an astute sellout.
whew & here i am just disregarding bands i don't like
Zoomin’ on...
is this the beginning of a new pasta?
nice pasta, faggot. They aren't even remotely indie. They originated from a subgenre of late 70's to early 80's post-punk music, called no wave:
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They've just been riffing on those ideas for 40 years, even if their more recent work is more eclectic. They're old news, and they were always considered "cool" to like. Fantano just exposed their more easy-listening stuff to hipsters, and now we have s0isuckers like yourself who can't into them, even though they're a household name at this point.
Not pasta, just an honest opinion.
these are all just fucking terrible
I fucking despise that Suicide song, the music is too quiet but if you turn it up Vega rapes your ears with his screaming.
>that isn't incoherent rambling or curse words. Yet you see them compared to other bands like they're some high quality, meaningful thing.
literally everything they released before reforming
Yeah, that's the point.
You're probably going to become a pasta but i don't care.
Someone finally said it and i won't waste my chance to fully agree with you.
You can find far more interesting, rewarding and not fucking lifetime consuming music by lurking Yea Forums.
The Glowing Man, Greed, White Light, and SFTB are all better my nigga
I did love the glowing man and still havent got into SFTB. Maybe Im not ready. Or worthy
unironically based
fuck pretentious music snobs and fuck music critics
I hope so
You are so visibly upset, that you need to create shitpost on our glorious board in an attempt to raise your self worth.
Come at me you plebian. I am the fucking pinnacle of man, both body and mind. I attend an Ivy league university, completely payed off by scholarships, with the leftover money used to buy myself a luxury vehicle. My grade point average is perfect point O. After I finish my dual bachelors I will be accepted straight away into the doctorate program. I will have two doctorate degree's by age twenty-five, owe zero debts, and make more money a year than you will in a lifetime. The funny thing is, this is the average Yea Forums browser. There are many who far surpass me.
Of course, knowing this, you figure the only way to attack me is the only way you know how, using words of which the meaning escapes you, insult some genre of music no one on this board listens to, and using our own image macros to mock yourself.
You forgot your "implying" by the way, the text suits you perfectly.
Go ahead and reply, doing so only proves my point to such an extent that you might as well just beg to suck my dick and eat my bodily waste, so that maybe an iota of my greatness could pass onto you.
Please post all Swans Pasta you have.
Or at least the best ones.
Imagine what it’s like to rely so heavily on vocals and lyrics when listening to music. No wonder you’re a brainlet who’s stuck working at a coffee shop for minimum wage and projecting as a result. Yowza.
>wahhh I just don’t get Swans so I’m going to try taking them down a notch for the rest of the world
OP pic related: it’s you.
This was posted last year, I remember specifically laughing at the "Michael Gyro" part, and the refusal to say "Swans song". It's probably the same dude trying to make his copypasta take off because it didn't last year, or just someone who saved it.
It’s based
Explain this
>he wants to settle down and have a nice little jangle folk outfit. And you know what? He should
Are you retarded? He did literally that in 1999 with angels of light.
I honestly love his voice but i agreed on the rest of your slam. Is just like techno with guitars lol
potentially the stupidest fucking thing i've ever read
t. the To Be Kind baby
yes
Can you really tell me isnt just repetitive af patterns with zero ideas???
it's true they're fucking gay
nice b8, my good bitch OP cant into art
Go listen to Akron/Family & Angels of Light, the split album.
repetitive =/= zero ideas
this. boring music for pseuds. there are tons of more interersting "experimental" groups. gira is a rappist also
80 iq, the post
Love Of Life and this are two excellent albums. Aside from Soundtracks For The Blind, these are my favorites.
So are you but I still read your posts
Good pasta.
I like this post. Swans haven’t been good since No Wave died.
>fifty year old cowboy wannabe
> "WOW I NEED TO BUY THIS ON VINYL, EVEN IF IT TAKES ALL THE MONEY I MADE FROM WORKING AT STARBUCKS LAST WEEK".
this. kek
and also hipsters, liberal who listens swans lol
>Imagine what it’s like to rely so heavily on vocals and lyrics
not op bit the music is also boring, cunt
no, techno is good
>techno with guitars
like the fall but not swans
no, techno is good
honestly i don't think is bait haha
>fuck pretentious music snobs
You're on Yea Forums user
pleb filtered
SFTB is just weird muh mental illness muh physical detoriation rumination shit but they somehow really pulled it off
True and based. Swans are a vastly inferior version of every post-punk/industrial band that influenced them, neatly packaged for pitchfork-reading plebs.
lol imagine thinking swans are a "deep" band that you have to "get". they're literally babby's second experimental rock band, the next logical stepping stone after getting bullied for thinking radiohead is experimental
ur the pleb
no u
Swans are great. You are just easily frightened.
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There's a thin line between love & hate.
>A Piece of the Sky
Great song.
Based. My favorite is the one that says "The touch of your thought was close to my neck"
Jarboe's tits fell out while she was fiddling with cords on her keyboard in 1987, on the Children of God tour.
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>neatly packaged for pitchfork-reading plebs
>lol imagine thinking swans are a "deep" band that you have to "get". they're literally babby's second experimental rock band
kek. this
>conservative
he's literally a hippie that just happens to look mean. He's anti-Trump, anti-Authoritarian.
Filth and Cop are the only good swans album
ITT: The Glowing Pleb