What's the best album to get into swans?

what's the best album to get into swans?

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just start with their first album and go in order.

Soundtracks For The Blind is their magnum opus. If you don’t like it, you won’t like anything else they did

The Great Annihilator is by far their most accessible album.

Soundtracks for the Blind is my favourite but not necessarily a good entry point.

I listened to SFTB first. I liked it, so I went back to Filth and listened to their discography in order (along with Angels of Light)

Unironically To Be Kind.

This

Yeah it’s unironically a difficult question to answer because it depends on what you’re into. For me, it was Filth, which probably isn’t the case for most people.

various failures compilation.

They did like 5 different genres, but To Be Kind or the Seer are probably the best to get into

but then everything else will feel mediocre, even though it isn't

After listening to Filth and White Light and not really clicking with either, I listened to Soundtracks for the Blind and it became one of my favourite records of all time.
Swans are all over the place. Listen to a few records from across their discography and see what (if anything) clicks.

I'd prefer that than listen to the rest of an artist's discography and running the risk of not liking anything.

Angels of Light - How I Loved You is as good or better than anything Swans has done, and probably more accessible too.
I listened to The Seer for the first time in a few years yesterday. There are some high highs but a lot of aimless jank and the two following albums are waaay better to me. They have similar stretches of instrumentals but they don't bore me like the stuff on Seer does. Glowing Man is the best of the "trilogy" I think.

White Light from the Mouth of Infinity

I strongly encourage you to not even bother.

t. someone who was into Swans for over a decade before the reunion even happened.

honestly up to you. i started with greed and loved it even though most people will tell you it's one of their worst releases. i would recommend you don't start with soundtracks though.

Great Annihilator is some solid goth rock, I like their earlier stuff like Children of God more than the post-rock albums

Soundtracks for the Blind is nothing like Filth or Cop or The Burning World or White Light from the Mouth of Infinity.

>Angels of Light - How I Loved You is as good or better than anything Swans has done, and probably more accessible too.
>Not Skin
>Not The Body Lovers

It's literally Tool, but gay.

why wouldn't you rec it if you like it, like wtf

This guy is an idiot, don't listen to this guy in particular

Depends on the kinda music you find most accessible:
White Light from the Mouth of Infinity is folky
Children of God is goth rocky
To Be Kind is post-rocky
I think these are their easiest entry points

That doesn’t matter. If you don’t like SFTB you’re not gonna enjoy Filth
If you like SFTB you should go back and listen to everything before it. If you don’t like SFTB, why bother listening to what lead up to it?

>If you don't like an artist's most experimental album (Which, SFTB is not) you won't like any of their other albums and you should just give up because I say so
Fucking retard

It's literally not Tool because it's good

>If you don't like an artist's most experimental album
Who are you quoting
>(Which, SFTB is not)
Nobody said it was
>you won't like any of their other albums and you should just give up because I say so
SFTB is the culmination of all they were doing before. If you listen to SFTB and enjoy it, it would be worthwhile to listen to everything they did before it. If you don’t like SFTB, sure, there might be some songs or even some albums you would enjoy, but you’re not gonna like most of it and it would mostly just be a waste of time.
The alternatives to SFTB are using any other album as an entry point (which is completely arbitrary), or using their first album as an entry point (except Filth isn’t representative of most of their work and will put off listeners not used to such harsh music)
I’m dead fucking serious, listen to SFTB a few times. If you enjoy it, go listen to their work in order. That is the BEST way to get into Swans

What do you even mean "the culmination"? There is hardly any no-wave to be found the whole album, you're completely ignoring that this was an experimental project for Swans and not "the culmination" if it was a culmination, it'd have no-wave, neo-folk, and noise rock
>Who are you quoting
You, this is literally what you're saying,
>Nobody said it was
I do, there's more experimental and better """culmination""" albums Swans have made,
>I’m dead fucking serious, listen to SFTB a few times. If you enjoy it, go listen to their work in order. That is the BEST way to get into Swans
And where would they go to after that? It sounds like you love a specific album far too much, also, there's no reason why whatever you recommend to be listened to after you finish and enjoy SFTB, should be listened to regardless of your enjoyment.
You're gatekeeping their entire discography because of your fucking stupid opinion

Because it's not good, and it's not important and their fans are the least critical people on the planet. No one should remember or appraise any of Gira's music. He's a cringy tryhard dope and people just waft his fucking farts all day. Plus he turned Swans into a literal jam band and people act like that's fucking cool, despite being everything he would have railed against for several decades. Beyond fucking lame.

Ask any Swans fan what their favorite record is, they will all pretend like they're all worth hearing and massively important. They're not. Swans never fucking mattered. Never will. The revisionism around them is absolutely insane and turns my stomach.

Imagine being this fucking bitter about a band

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do not listen to this retard lol

Chris ott pls leave