Swans "Coward" @ Primavera Sound 2013

[@WarH345]

this isn't your first time watching this; you've at least been here 50 times, admit it.

[@Saltedcoil]

That bass could destroy lives, fucking intense.

[@charmicarmicat2981]

They played this live when I saw them back in 2012. Everytime Chris played they baseline it felt like I was getting hit in the chest

[@drpibisback7680]

*GARNK-GARNK-GARNK* *GARNK-GARNK-GARNK*

[@levvercic4324]

saw them in ljubljana two days ago, was right next to the stage, in front of chris acctualy, i could feel how the bass made the hair on my arms move and if i looked up or opened my mouth i felt it in my throat, a beautiful and unsettling feeling

[@koollegged5739]

There's a version of Swans playing Coward in Ljubljana in 1986 on Kill The Child, and the full show can be found here:kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZ-uh3R4icafn6M @@levvercic4324

[@phira360]

are they called swans because of the way gira flaps his arms?

[@phira360]

whoracle11 it was a joke :P although, real swans do kill a lot of people

[@NEWSUPERCHARGER2001]

phira360 Haha!

[@wanneske1969]

no , because they are beautiful but cruel birds

[@Kodamair]

hands down, the heaviest live recording of this monstrous track. simple incredible and wretched in every possible way :)

[@sex6cult9revolution]

PUBLIC CASTRATION IS A GOOD IDEA

[@Arinisonfire]

The Public Castration version is much, much heavier

[@karlboson4803]

It's good, I prefer the Copenhagen video!

[@unhxlysilver1688]

@@Arinisonfire the PCIAG version is super sludgy and a lot more slowburn this ones more instantly hard hitting

[@koollegged5739]

The version at the Zap Club, Brighton 1986 is so savage and actually matches the tempo of this version. @@unhxlysilver1688

[@TeaDrinker3000]

This is the first time in my entire life I'd describe a song as being my 'drug'. Not in a cringy, hyperbolic expression of enjoyment sense, but in a self-medicating sense. Listening to this exact version of Coward is like aspirin... makes the bad stuff in my head go away

[@lostmedia-e6p]

I understand that completely! Stuff like this, Nine Inch Nails' TDS, and Daughters does the same!

[@aa-th2vj]

victimhood dopamine is a hell of a drug, rapes the receptors

[@shitmagician9519]

hm, I think it's cringy and hyperbolic :D

[@buoy9665]

imagine coming to this show to see solange and waiting thru this lol

[@EvilDwarf-ik3it]

3:07 I actually love how they reverse his scream here so good

[@crisha721]

I'm addicted to this song, in a slightly masochistic way

[@stevesk8r]

seeing them in may... can't fucking wait

[@jaffro1325]

Should be an experience!!

[@Sportsguyy18]

Gira and Yorke have no idea what to do with their hands during shows. Awesome performance.

[@dontpanic5278]

Gira knows exactly what to do with them

[@drpibisback7680]

@@dontpanic5278 His stage presence is less "rock frontman" and more "shaman invoking ancient evils into the human world."

[@misterpopeofficial.]

Stop being a bitch then

[@misterpopeofficial.]

@@dontpanic5278 just ask Larkin Grimm

[@lookaghost836]

@@misterpopeofficial. 💀💀

[@kosterblue4673]

Is that... is that a xylophone in the background? Did they add a xylophone to one of the heaviest songs of all time. I love it

[@inaijik]

steel lap guitar

[@presquenoir2798]

my first show of them after a long wait..great! @french guys près de moi, nice to meet you here and there..

[@vinyldiary6664]

Fucking legends! I feel privileged to have seen them!

[@michaelwilson9450]

So these guys won't be playing the Super Bowl at halftime? Imagine thousands of plebians wishing it was Aerosmith instead,while dropping their Bud Lights!

[@TheWallsaretalking1]

SO BRUTAL, love it

[@zeroale]

LOS PAPAS DEL DRONE!!

[@dhdoctors]

This is some pretty awesome fucked up shit...

[@billyalarie2841]

krishna krishna hare hare

[@misterpopeofficial.]

Fuck the world love this ongoing service

[@chinchirap]

perfecto

[@andrescornejo2634]

What does he say at the start of the song? English isn't my first language

[@brysonthomas8183]

“stick your knife in me” “put your knife in me” “walk away” “i love you” phrases of that nature

[@kingink1971]

Just before the song starts, Gira says " Kill the world back! Now!"

[@andrescornejo2634]

@@kingink1971 Thank you

[@OfficerPupp]

“Kill the World Bank now!”

[@kennyslg8914]

Man this version is like Blues Clues compared to the live Screw version from the 80's. That version is terrifying. This is still badass though.

[@TeaDrinker3000]

Personally I disagree. The old version is angry and intense, and working from a place of desperation. You can't have desperation without a belief in the existence of hope to contrast with it. This 2013 version on the other hand is just utterly insane. It lies outside the realms of a man's ability to reason at all.

[@drpibisback7680]

This new live version seems to be drawing more on the heavier sound of Filth and Cop. The ultra-slow Public Castration version and spooky album version are both ominous in a really different way to this version.

[@harleymagoo]

Those fucking headbangers. Lucky Gira didn't chuck a waterbottle at them.

[@Castvr]

What's wrong with them? They're just enjoying the show, pretty sure Gira would be glad they enjoyed it so much as well.

[@trevorw2841]

That's not enjoying the show. That's just being obnoxious.

[@bobsbigboy_]

its just a primal and spontaneous reaction to the rhythm, let them be

[@ColombianThunder]

Harley Magoo He used to hate it but he doesn’t seem to mind it anymore

[@horsyswillkill]

it would be hypocritiqual for swans to critique them as the bass player head bangs multiple times during multiple performances

[@sneakaholic011]

beautiful brutality. i could cry it's so good

[@DylanWhite-k5j]

That guitar is now in a wheelchair 😅

[@jjohnson8977]

Wow, and not in a good way