Swans - She Loves Us

[@joem.8555]

in this song michael gira undergoes a transformation from cat to dog to in 17 minutes

[@charmofknlypi]

nice pfp bro

[@swiss1tt362]

Fantano drones unite

[@jorisvandenhoek6251]

@@charmofknlypi nigga

[@jorisvandenhoek6251]

@@charmofknlypi gocha again just like with the clipping live video

[@nigeljohnkelvin9166]

@@jorisvandenhoek6251 waaghals

[@virtuallyunknownn]

"Who was the leader of Communist China from 1949-1976 again?" "MAO MAO MAO MAO MAO" "Oh, that's right. Thanks."

[@antonkovalov3519]

You've just made my fucking day with this comment, thank you so much

[@qiwejofmsd]

"Power comes from the barrel of a gun" Honestly this song is so fucking powerful it could fit well in a revolutionary context

[@GFEBMX]

honestly burst out laughing there

[@vladimirfukkoffandie1488]

What about the Egyptian Goddess of truth, justice, and balance? "MAAT! MAAT! MAAT! MAAT! MAAT!!!!!!"

[@abcdefzhij]

I'm not sure if you're talking about the female background vocals in the beginning or Michael shouting it later on in the track lol

[@williamstagi7751]

Michael Gira loves us

[@conta-fake6723]

And we love him

[@bbilia]

nice profile pic man

[@willoverdoseonmusic]

Good profile picture.

[@bestmusicquest5868]

"Your name is fuck!"

[@drivernephi2212]

I really don't think he does.

[@PLAGUE-KARM]

This is the most intense Christmas song I’ve ever heard

[@wissamdalloul]

It's Christmas now Just a reminder to listen to the cute little song

[@PLAGUE-KARM]

@@wissamdalloul I’ll be sure to do so

[@paolovallejo8022]

quite so

[@aetherrr_3339]

you should listen to Scott Walker's "The Day the Conducator Died"

[@clarise-lyrasmith3]

this song marks the exact moment Gira took up his Pink Poodle form.

[@karlboson4803]

Hahaa! 😂

[@gele0stift]

This track belongs to the all time greats in music history. Absolute monster

[@franciscoalmeida9019]

It's my favorite from the album. I like to picture Mother Earth spawning all the complex organisms from her primordial soup during the first half of the song until it reaches the H. sapiens

[@KonstantyPL]

Real.

[@trash_bender420]

Masterpiece

[@criticalhippo4294]

After 7:30 I can't help but smiling every time I listen to this: everyone just sounds like they're having such a blast, with Gira going insane and abrasively screaming nonsense

[@Ss-pn4vd]

dont forget the dancing

[@McBignLargeBJ64]

It’s a hell of a jam. Probably my favorite thing about swans is that the music is just really fun and if you’re a musician you know just how fun this would be to play along with

[@satriaagungkalirasa3587]

@@Ss-pn4vd shaman dance

[@theo8370]

A summary of this song: This song immediately opens with an intense march-like groove with guitar lines syncopated over heavy percussion and bass. This repeats over the next few minutes turning into a hypnotic chant. The raw, primal atmosphere continues, building suspense and pulling the listener in until everything drops out giving way to a sinister drone. Slowly a massive cluster of wailing guitars build up, coming in waves all at once over top of massive hits of drum and bass. This wall of sound serves as a transition between the first and the second sections of the song. After the storm of noise dies down a simple guitar riff becomes the basis for another driving groove as well as the introduction of Michael Gira’s vocals. The groove continues to grow, adding more layers of guitar, and intensifying drums with a heavy swing feel. The vocals and lyrics continue to intensify along with the instrumental into unhinged, primal screams. The song eventually reaches a point of such intensity that it seems it can no longer contain itself and breaks apart into chaos. Suddenly all goes quiet and the listener is left suspended in an eerie drone of unintelligible voices right before every instrument comes crashing down in giant synchronized hits, over and over again, serving as the climax of the whole song. One final hit is left to ring out and fizzle into nothing, ending this gargantuan monster of a track. No one asked

[@rokuslucius]

Thanks!

[@alexjeffrey4093]

I can imagine the band members of Black Country new road listening to this when young and impressionable, positively enraptured.

[@captainmoondog1947]

a good example is the track Sunglasses

[@doctorwhouse3881]

Such a wasted potential band. Began amazing, but in their second album they abandoned so much of what made them great.

[@conjointoates]

they literally have nothing to do with swans lmao. science fair is the closest they've come to anything swans related and even that is largely post-rock influenced not particularly swans.

[@superhero0120]

@@conjointoates this song's structure is really similar to BCNR Sunglasses, especially the part at 07:00 and the Sunglasses's second part, where after noisy chaos it suddenly goes quiet and the monotonic guitar riff comes in, then the bass, then the drums.

[@MeMeMcsplosion]

@@doctorwhouse3881 it's equally great, just in a very different form

[@neolitobject]

This song is more metal than metal itself

[@paolovallejo8022]

metal is for kids

[@asuka376]

@@paolovallejo8022 ??

[@joelebruno]

@@paolovallejo8022 found the music snob

[@gilmillan4575]

This isn’t metal though. Your comment makes no sense.

[@AfterThaNoon]

Bro this is Post-Metal in my opinion

[@eliasmsv3156]

11:40 Me looking at my grades

[@Turfdeanthantrax]

Also me trying to cum on anti depressants

[@Trubactor]

💀

[@muesalsa]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@brennenspice6098]

An absolute mammoth of a track, this is the one that finally got me into the band.

[@yandhi5016]

What a track to get someone engaged to a band lmao

[@charmofknlypi]

what got me into was 'the seer' I mean the song not the entire album

[@thepopgroup3366]

Mines is bring the sun, i already listen to some of their song, but after few listen of bring the sun i was like "what the fuck is this"

[@comradejosephstalinoftheus8698]

A Little God in My Hands and Oxygen got me into Swans.

[@elliotanderson324]

After hearing Screen Shot I decided to give this album a try. Throughout two sittings I sat confused yet engaged and excited. Nathalie Neal was really the only track that I realized was top tier stuff on the first listen. Probably because I had gotten used to their sound by then. Now I love the whole album. It’s so multifaceted and keeps me interested and wanting to keep listen throughout all two hours. The complexities are just so genius, and the abrasiveness sounds disgusting and odd at first but it sounds so perfect once you become a fan. Still though this is the only band I never recommend to any of my friends.

[@your_kind_room_guardian316]

THERES STILL 45 MINUTES TO GO, IM GOING MENTAL

[@AfterThaNoon]

Bro Fr. The 2 hrs are worth it though

[@your_kind_room_guardian316]

@WyattGotGame yeah it's a 10/10 album, but DAMN is it long

[@Taboot761]

When ever I hear this, I like to imagine some ritual being performed with a giant bonfire where tripped out people dance around in a circle praising God and chanting Hallelujah. Such great music.

[@Sam0Sat0]

Yes! My interpretation of the whole record is that it takes place in the Roman times where they worshipped the sun

[@D3r3k2323]

Well yeah, that's just what happens at Swans concerts

[@rektyrektingson4668]

@@Sam0Sat0 love it

@@D3r3k2323 pretty much

[@j.prt.979]

I picture an Egyptian sex cult. No, seriously.

[@synthmalicious7541]

That drum groove at the beginning is too good to put in words

[@taraishispookie]

Fr

[@isaiahromero9861]

The drum groove halfway through >>>

[@AfterThaNoon]

​@@isaiahromero9861made me nut honestly

[@gabeh7286]

I always say "maybe just the first few minutes of one of their long songs". But then I end up sitting through the entire thing without a single complaint.

[@vectorjeldes]

This album is a masterpiece, year by year is getting better

[@Wolvesofsheep]

This song really helped my little nephew who is struggling with some of the animal noises

[@elliotanderson324]

I would like to imagine this was Jim’s ultimate vision for The Doors’ music.

[@hyf6845]

yo nice pfp

[@elliotanderson324]

@@hyf6845 oh my god there truly is another like me. Hello whoever you are. Hope your life’s going well.

[@hyf6845]

@@elliotanderson324 you too man!

[@mauricioandres7470]

Motherfucker wow this is definitely Jim Morrison

[@mrmrfahrenheit9127]

That's what I imagine The End sounded to people in the 60s

[@lurtz8656]

God, what an incredible piece of music.

[@dougxvale]

thx Fantano

[@ozeneuplm_]

yeah

[@twoforever1]

The end my friend

[@taraishispookie]

Ikr

[@jimmybrunson2553]

is swans the only band in history to get better the more elderly they get? will gira finally achieve his magnum opus when he is in depends? imagine debuting with one of the most important and influential albums ever and then continuing to peak to the age of 68, what a god. theres something spooky about seeing a bunch of geriatrics performing the most brutal music of all time. they make fucking vibraphones scary i mean...

[@thepopgroup3366]

Rare occasion of oldies band that still put out good music, This is what happen when you fully dedicate your body mind and soul to the craft of art.

[@seekelectricity]

Oxbow. Been a band for decades, and theyre in their 50s and released the best record of their career in 2017

[@brennenspice6098]

@@thepopgroup3366 love it

[@chinchirap2]

@@seekelectricity oxbow needs more recognition as one of the most interesting rock bands ever.

[@seekelectricity]

@@chinchirap2 yesssss. So fuckin true

[@TurbojugendJoe]

Seen 'em recently in a church. A truly majestic experience!

[@redacted_r]

Im gonna touch myself tonight with this song

[@fynnborchers6306]

The absolute pinnacle of music. I come here every day and it still impacts me on a spiritual level

[@torstenatterberg5788]

loving that death's dynamic shroud pfp

[@tokyonova2814]

Fynn Borchers deaths dynamic shroud ITLLT crossover into the Swans comments I love it

[@finneganlindsay]

@@torstenatterberg5788 So some dude yelling Fuck is the pinnacle of music? Come on let's be realistic here

[@zo5821]

@@finneganlindsay If it was only a dude yelling fuck then you were right. But it's sooo much more than that, just listen to the droning music, it's the sound of the end of the world

[@ihaveadiseasebrou]

I love the Dds profile tho 🤣

[@danjennpilapil6595]

I love you too, Mr. Gira.

[@rokuslucius]

This album is a masterpiece!

[@peepsiee]

never gotten an ad break in the middle of a song before this, thanks Gira

[@TheSteakStyles]

The noise transition leading into the new melody at 7:00 is incredible.

[@coisasamorfas]

Thank you for uploading To be Kind and The Glowing Man to KZbin, Michael!

[@metube7332]

Coisas Amorfas don't forget the seer, filth and soundtracks for the blind

[@gabrielduran5147]

metube We don't have Soundtracks For The Blind songs on KZbin.

[@mach3698]

damn cold

[@erlineandrews]

I love this song from beginning to end. It's like a journey, and I feel a little breathless by the end.

[@martinharrison1504]

Great great Swans track. Needs to be heard very loud.

[@ckrissatina]

this song gave me warm tears for some reason

[@supplechap5429]

This is pure energy

[@434emm]

This song is so chaotic and its filled with a lot of energy and power... I always enjoy every second, this is amazing

[@ottovorsatz1225]

Had luck and i could see them a few months ago in Vienna...2nd time ....and still amazing great... Like a train rolling over your head Hope they will give another Concert in Europe again

[@franciscoalmeida9019]

If love could be raw,this would be it.

[@samsonmcgloughlin]

If raw could be love, would it be this?

[@Sighbot]

If this could be it, love would be raw.

[@liamshope2838]

If raw could be wood, I'd have sex with myself

[@storyline9229]

If if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if if

YES

[@gf-man331]

there's just something about the way he says ''i am your girl'' at the end of his phrase he is falling as if tired and expresses indignation... So chilling

[@MattyMMW]

This sure is one brutal friggin track

[@medotata5356]

That break in the middle is unreal.

[@HoraceTheCat]

It took me years to listen to this album but I'm glad I'm finally doing it now. Masterpiece.

[@Sighbot]

This noisy section at 5:25 is about as rock n roll as you can get.

[@Walexo45]

Absolutely.

[@ninakramer9261]

Ikr

[@andrewmcpherson8441]

8:09 when you feel the percussion beef up. dayum

[@garrettlemieux4620]

chills always

[@majorman1234]

Favorite part

[@diegosebastian2226]

Way too good. How?

[@elwachin9781]

Yep, my favourite track of the second part of the album.

[@adriansolomon4580]

Just wow ,this is just some other level shit, amazing....

[@saraivatoledo1842]

Those erratic tempos at the end ... this is just beyond anything out there ... as it was in the 80s too to those who were listening .

[@dbk7187]

the best music ever

[@matt1anime]

an incredible piece of music

[@andresaguero5880]

SHE LOVES US

[@chadgrewal4829]

Best track on To Be Kind.

[@tiago9679]

15:48 literally my favorite part in any swans song

[@j.prt.979]

same tbh. one of the most epic outros I've heard

[@enzogalli5506]

Awesome!!! Artwork and genius = Swans

[@Ptrixie]

song got my cat thinking im calling her. love it tho cuz now i get to snuggle my baby while hearing a guy lose his mind

[@banjogyro]

She Loves Us!

[@MortonGoldthwait]

This album is the soundtrack to a child experiencing every aspect of humanity, sin and the grace of Christ for the first time.

[@Sighbot]

Swans albums always have that spiritual element.

[@DaRkShadOwxXx14]

@ starting a local swans cult now

[@aestheticbeatz5700]

@@DaRkShadOwxXx14 I'll join

[@rleeroberts6350]

Oop step back everybody and give this man some room to be a Taoist...

[@PolyesterGiant]

god what a banger

[@buried4430]

AAAAHH- LE- LE- LE- LE- LE- LE- LE- LUJAAHH

[@Kalitayy]

11:39 Me in an internet cafe after losing 10 competitive matches and 1000 MMR

[@TallgrassMeander]

When you find out she's pregnant: FUCK FUCK FUCK When the kid is born: YOUR NAME IS FUCK

[@renias8965]

Sheer piece of brilliance.Gira sounds a lot like the almighty Jim Morrison in here.I guess Jim's psyche has been reincarnated into Gira's mind,so the transference of vision to be inherited once and for all!

[@paolovallejo8022]

with way more talent too

[@calvinfletcher4699]

almost forgot my name for a second. Thanks for reminding me.

[@survivaloftheidiots6239]

hallelujah! so good dude

[@luiserike]

this songs is like iggy pop trying to do his station to station

[@mustachopistacho]

MAU MAU MAU

[@chandraphotography7062]

Im amused by this, and the screenshot peice in Titans season 4 episode 4 is just incredible 👏

[@medbou5260]

Brilliant!!

[@ElektrikMuffins]

i love you too babe

[@damnedbelowjudas_]

“Halleleleluleueleoeleueleoeleueleoelujah!”

[@stormgiant100]

Needs to be seen LOUD in a tiny hot airless club - cathartic.

[@trashhuman3977]

"What's the name of that new CN show?" " *M A O M A O M A O M A O M A O* "

[@williamlages8985]

How great a Swans/Nick Cave tour would be?

[@lonerrite]

incredible

[@chadgrewal4829]

Best Song by later day SWANS

[@munozkidd8659]

Band: “Michael we’ve been playing for like 10 minutes can we stop now?” Michael: 13:42

[@suffermore1576]

your profile pic is cool

[@KidWizardCartoons]

Your name is fuck! Awesome track, definitely my favorite of theirs.

[@LittleWeevil]

11:38 When you're ascending to the afterlife but you also stubbed your toe

[@edwindavidhernandezgonzale9048]

*unintelligable intro* [Verse 1] I am nothing I am no one Come to my mouth Come to my tongue [Chorus] I am your girl I am your son Come to my house Come to my lung [Verse 2] Come to my house Come to my mouth, wow Come to my tongue, tongue Fun fun fun! Fun! [Chorus] I am your girl I am your son, son Come to my mouth, wow Come to my lung, oh [Verse 3] Fun fun fun! Mau mau mau mau Mau mau mau mau Fuck fuck fuck fuck Your name is fuck! Your name is fuck! (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck! (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck! (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) I'm going home! I'm going home! (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Your name is fuck! (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) [Chorus] I am your girl (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) I am your son (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Come to my tongue (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Come to my lung (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Come to my lung (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Come to my lung (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Come to my lung (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) [Outro] Your name is fuck! (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Your name is fuck! (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Your name is fuck! (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) I'm going home (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) I'm going home (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) I'm going home (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) I'm going home (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) [?] (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Run run run! (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Mau mau mau mau mau (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Mau mau mau mau mau (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Mau mau mau mau mau (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Mau mau mau mau (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) [?] (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Hallelujah! (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!) Do you understand? Do you understand?

[@bbqpig2241]

FUCK! FUCK!

[@hungrybois5954]

Fuck KZbin for having two adds be slapped in this masterpiece that should be uninterrupted.

[@sailormanly]

cant believe they got mr. mittens on this track

[@sebastianlindoazanero1951]

Come to Brazil

[@spagootest2185]

COME TO MY TONGUE

[@franciscoalmeida9019]

Come to my house!

[@motorhead412]

meow meow meow meow meow

[@jennifer9047]

The groove from 8:12 - 11:40 sounds like Winona's Big Brown Beaver a little bit.🐹

[@keepertortoise5247]

Lol, nice catch hahaha

[@SgtVitamin]

Been listening for a week and got primus vibes here

[@chadgrewal4829]

Come to NZ please!!

[@ckrissatina]

average fan experience watching the detroit lions play

[@shymanets]

anyone get Jim Morrison vibe from this 11:50 ?

[@buried4430]

Most of Swans songs remind me of The End

[@jimmybrunson2553]

the doors is explicitly one of the biggest influences on gira. he loves the doors and the beatles lol (zoomers BTFO)

[@renias8965]

To me Swans’ music is the definite and ultimate progression of what Jim and the co would’ve achieved,had Jim lived through the 21st century.I cannot stress more the fact that this vision would be the inevitable level up of The Doors and their legacy.None the less,Swans are preserving Jim’s heritage with great care and mysticism.Glad!

[@joshkorda8809]

classic

[@alwaysnegative211]

Why do alot of swans songs (espesially in the recent trilogy of albums) does Gira sound like he's trying to conjure up something dark?

[@rleeroberts6350]

Oh look...a newcomer. Bro hes always sounded like this / that.

[@hanielulises841]

@@rleeroberts6350 lmfao

[@jimmybrunson2553]

hes just a silly goose :)

[@jennifer9047]

Heh. Try Dr. John's album "Gris-Gris". *That* shit conjures darkness. 👹

[@D3r3k2323]

Because of Joseph

[@modefathy1205]

هاللويا ..هاللويا

[@mreverything1143]

Reminds me of The End by The Doors

[@buried4430]

It does

[@vb2388]

If Jim Morrison played for CAN we would get SWANS..

[@bparanteza9875]

so is this the *brbr deng* all the cool kids were talking about?

[@stevenhines5550]

To me its like Beethoven

[@charmofknlypi]

better

[@vinyldiary6664]

@@charmofknlypi Edgy

[@brazilbr4415]

@@vinyldiary6664 ygde

[@buried4430]

Beethoven in your nightmares

[@HenriBosch-oy3fz]

It Is

[@chadgrewal4829]

come to NZ

[@ninakramer9261]

Cats MIAU MIAU MIAU MIAU MIAU

[@hisyam9271]

best comment

[@jerrytheobnoxiousmouse.ser6161]

I wish I could just enjoy this album and concentrate on the music but the jumpscares make me nervous

[@franciscomedeiros8662]

Strenghten your heart

[@re_1241]

Be hard

[@buried4430]

Be strong

[@Woahthere668]

Be brave

[@kaiga9341]

Stick your hand in your eye

[@wimhuyghe5657]

Zijn er mooiere dingen in het leven die zo lelijk zijn? Of? Zijn er lelijker dingen in het leven die zo mooi zijn? Wat is de vraag eigenlijk?

[@briandeabler9704]

This song captures the mood of taking a test you didn’t study for

[@chadgrewal4829]

How to turn a kitty cat into werewolf within 17 minutes!!!

[@chucknorrispawnch]

MAU WAUW

[@jtotheulian708]

beginning: 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱 ending🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶

[@agsrf6479]

why do people on /mu/ hate this so much?

[@choomp2636]

Why do you like this

[@agsrf6479]

@@choomp2636 Cause it sounds good

[@choomp2636]

@@agsrf6479 It's too repetitive in my opinion

[@agsrf6479]

@@choomp2636 If you have such low patience and no sense of instrumental building go listen to skrillex and diplo

[@choomp2636]

@@agsrf6479 It wasn't meant personally, I hope your life brightens up