Swans - To Be Kind REACTION/REVIEW

[@user-fs1lc2cj5s]

“T’oussaint you’re in deep shit rn” that was hilarious. T’oussaint led one of the first prolific, successful slave revolts in Haiti. They brutally fucked all their masters up. That song is Michael channeling that energy

[@leonardofigueiredo5178]

shoutout to t'oussaint

[@prod_brn]

that’s why he’s da goat

[@st0ic734]

“I’m severely uncomfortable, I don’t know why I’m bobbing my head” the Swans experience summed up 😂

[@jakeshirley6358]

That hit

[@keithmorrison8373]

Pretty much any post rock alblum

[@jagged546]

This album is by all accounts not an easy listen, but it is so rewarding if you take time and just ingest the insanity and grandiosity of this masterpiece of an album

[@busboy20and1]

idk how he does it, but bro has a way to be genuinely entertaining while listening and breaking down songs.

[@Speeff]

"Toussaint L'Ouverture was a former slave... So shoutout to him, I guess!" what a banger

[@busboy20and1]

6:22 this expression explains everything

[@riob7810]

Time stamps: Screen Shot 0:48 Just A Little Boy 4:50 A Little God in My Hands 9:42 Bring The Sun/Toussaint L’ouveture 14:20 Some Things We Do 26:11 She Loves Us 28:09 Kirsten Supine 33:34 Oxygen 36:50 Nathalie Neal 40:49 To Be Kind 44:48

[@esoterik12]

Hell yeah dude. This album completely broke me down when I first listened to it. I fell asleep in the middle of the album and woke up at the very end. Felt like it changed my life, man. Peace.

[@user-fs1lc2cj5s]

def a life changer.

[@vicho_8508]

cant tell if its sarcasm

[@pieter7947]

consistency didn't exist before you invented it

[@smags1082]

it certainly didnt

[@barelyabear7956]

I’m so impressed you reacted to this album, there aren’t a lot of KZbinrs out there that reacted to this album. The Swans adventure begins

[@oliver6530]

LETS GOOOOO this better be the start of a casual tour through some of Swans’ greatest hits (soundtracks hint hint)

[@AndreSantos-qo6vs]

Are you dababy?😂

[@oliver6530]

@@AndreSantos-qo6vs in a way, arnt we all?

[@AndreSantos-qo6vs]

@@oliver6530 yeah yeah

[@semchen9]

See if Swans are Touring (2023 World Tour) near you, this late Summer, Early Fall. See Them. I started seeing Them live in 2012. It was Life Changing. WEAR EARPLUGS ! - Bon Voyage !

[@jaaqob2]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@shimme3526]

I've waited such a long time for a swans reaction, I couldn't be more happy :)

[@JimFitzsimons]

There's no live music experience like Swans. As much as I love their records, Swans are first and foremost a live band. Intense, overwhelming, louder than anything, hypnotic. If they're ever playing live anywhere near you, make sure you go. You'll be very glad you did.

[@el_mal_de_ojo]

100%. It's a must watch band where the studio albums are just a teaser for the ultimate expression of their sound, which is the live experience. Same as bands like Sunn O))), Earth, Boris, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, etc - the live experience is just another beast altogether.

[@atlfre6019]

pleease do the seer. it has the electricity of to be kind, but a more haunting, folk-influenced sound. great vid, really dug how you summarized the meaning of every track here, kinda made me think:D

[@Dk_Linn]

Something about the image of you sitting in the forest while getting "Toussaint Louverture" screamed at you is very funny to me. Been binging your stuff the last few days, and love the channel

[@thefunnytvmanofthenight1537]

Another insane detail about this album is that this might be the loudest the vocalist Michael Gira ever fully screams throughout an album despite being in his 60s!

[@dimwitted-fool]

End of Toussaint’s gotta be it right?

[@thefunnytvmanofthenight1537]

@@dimwitted-fool Definitely, and Oxygen

[@dimwitted-fool]

@@thefunnytvmanofthenight1537 ELLOS

[@Always_Focused]

W mans ong such a special treat thank u for listening While you’re going down the weird album rabbit hole maybe try soundtracks for the blind sometime? Or if you want something other than swans Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age is a personal fav record of mine

[@AbrahamOfWorms]

24:57 it means bring the sun. They brought the sun to earth, didn’t you hear it?

[@Always_Focused]

Do more outdoor reactions!! They’re such a vibe

[@jaaqob2]

Great video man. Glad you enjoyed the album. To me this album sounds like I'm inside an insane person's mind.

[@vamperwampers]

although i know soundtracks for the blind will most likely be the next one… great annihilator is fuckin beautiful and i dont think (if i remember correctly) theres any SUPER long songs… which is … good lol also great review bro im so glad you finally reviewed swans ❤

[@scarpola9]

He’s done it again 💆🏽‍♀️

[@shio5848]

Absolutely great reaction! If you weren't already planning to, please check out their 2016 album The Glowing Man. I think it's a completely life changing transcendental record, and the title track is almost definitely one of, if not the greatest song ever made.

[@yoauntcarsey]

The reaction to the 2nd song had me dying😂

[@solartea_]

bro is literally just listening to all the albums im listening to rn

[@thomasispissed2686]

holy shit, he did it! I'll watch this later

[@bruhmanbtw1442]

OUTDOOR REVIEW ⁉️⁉️⁉️

[@smags1082]

Love the nature

[@drackaryspt1572]

By way great vid loved how you analysed the songs and the themes in the album Swans are one of my favorite bands and I just love to fall into their songs and experience them but I do have to admit its not for everyone so I'm really happy you enjoyed it hope you do more of their's like The Seer(this one being the most terrefying of their albums in my opinion) or The Glowing Man next. Keep up the good content.

[@el_mal_de_ojo]

Whenever I do acid and I want a very 'shamanistic' experience, my go-to band is Swans, specially this album, but really more so The Glowing Man (their best work, in my opinion) and the live album Deliquescence. Groovy, hypnotic, trance-inducing. Going hard, 4 tabs, turning off all the lights and listening to Swans is a religious experience.

[@dimwitted-fool]

Dude drugs lmao!

[@weslleymoreira5257]

They are One entity 🙏🔆♾️

[@theo8370]

I feel like being outside for the first disk and moving inside for the second perfectly matches the way I feel about the two halves of this album, and how they just feel different for some reason.

[@Foghuffer]

I just saw them do a show in Richmond VA and it was beautiful man, got a shirt signed by Michael Gira the lead singer too

[@FellaMakingVideos]

lucky

[@solartea_]

new to the channel and u just dropped a goat album reaction waiting to watch this

[@lizardman7718]

Another vid another W

[@Luis-sc7vw]

Now you have to do their entire discography

[@jtotheulian708]

when ever daddy gyra was speaking in spanish in the long song it sounded like americans at mexico trying to comunicate with the locals

[@iamacookie6]

The goat returns

[@jjaj1243]

It’s funny that you mentioned inhaler users for oxygen. In an interview Michael Gira said the song was inspired by an asthma attack that was so severe it sent him to the hospital

[@svperstar]

no one does Swans reviews! imo, second best swans album behind Soundtracks There is a live album called Not Here Not Now that contains superior versions of To Be Kind and Just a Little Boy (a much much harder version). I hate that this version that didn't make the album.

[@qwaneedo3226]

Where did you listen to these live albums I’ve been wanting to listen to them but I can’t find them anywhere on streaming services, it says the newest live album is swans are dead which I know is not true

[@svperstar]

@@qwaneedo3226 i dont know why most of the newer live stuff isn't out. i know not here not now is the primavera 2013 show (at least the first three tracks).

[@resiseven7407]

@@qwaneedo3226 most were released as fundraiser albums and to my knowledge were never made available elsewhere. just grab them off slsk, it does no harm anymore,

[@daviddixon9991]

My recommendation: "Wrong" by Nomeansno, which is one of the most technically proficient punk albums ever. Way ahead of its time.

[@ebdubs6186]

Got to listen in one sitting to The Caretaker's 6 part ambient dementia thing.

[@j.prt.979]

Loved your interpretation! Close to mine but I don’t usually hear people say that

[@danielandrus8024]

Your reaction is what I think my friends would do when I show them swans but then they just turn it off

[@godzilla5742]

When do you think you'll get to listening to (The Seer) and (The Glowing Man)?

[@poiesist]

Love this album, love this band, love u smaggie. I call this an indoctrination to monkey mind’s deprogram Vol. 2: Libido. It succeeds aitmmd Vol. 1: Fear, and precedes aitmmd Vol. 3: Meaning. Please enjoy our free introductory pamphlets

[@jtotheulian708]

fun fact michel gyra wrote a book called consumor never read it but it looks good

[@gagestens]

you should definitely check out “the lamb as effigy” by sprain, lots of insane noise crescendos and long songs like this album i think you’d dig it

[@pedrojesus2432]

yo, you shoild listen to mr bungle's disco volante, probably the weirdest and most experimental album out there

[@todddouglas7231]

"T'oussaint was a former slave... so shout out to him i guess" LOL

[@opium1686]

soundtracks for the blind next

[@maxmiller1950]

Flood by Boris 🥺🥺🥺

[@OpethMcNugget]

This! Or Feedbacker

[@wii240]

yo bro you should do King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard: Nonagon Infinity. its one of my favorite albums

[@pythonstone]

the band that I can listen to their instrumentals and think

[@LumiNyte]

Nathalie Neal is a friend of Michael Gira and the person Gira named his daughter after I think

[@etalex7074]

Do Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails or The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse

[@syntheticsilkwood2206]

Listen to spears into hooks by meira asher hardest album ever! (For me) Also some diamanda galas would be nice too i hear a lot of vocal influences in gira's performance in this album which are similar to her style

[@KOOL_AID_KID]

I love the seer, but I don’t mind a to be kind reaction 😎

[@pigonthewind7908]

Please do any Van Der Graaf Generator album

[@semchen9]

I recommend you Review their latest Album, The Beggar. It's very Accessible, and its extremely Beautiful. It's also my favorite Swans Album.

[@solartea_]

is it really? i dont know which album of theirs to listen to next, i heard soundtracks first then to be kind

[@semchen9]

@@solartea_ for me, yes. I got hooked on them, around 2010, via an Occult Writer and Editor Friend of mine. (He started seeing them live in the late 80's. I started listening, Religiously, all the way back to their, White Light from the Mouth of Infinity Album). He took me to see them. I was pretty much ill-prepared, with,..."surrendering" to 'The Tumult' that was to play upon my Senses. I am right now, as I write this, listening to The Beggar Album. And of course, "Medicines" differ upon us. All I know, for me, here is another Dose of Mana.

[@ryanmcbride3806]

day 1028 of asking for a moon shaped pool reaction

[@manuelmora26]

Oh boy

[@mikeyoulis]

What a Great Video Bro!❤

[@pythonstone]

Experience the heaven with Bring the sun Toussaint

[@seanm241]

I STEAL ALL THE OXYGEENNNNN

[@pythonstone]

Powerful conceptual Album❤️🔥

[@thoru4367]

Very hypnotic album

[@Emmanuel19994]

Do the money store or LP!

[@wakaran7790]

SWANS RAAHHH

[@RSG200]

bro do glowing man

[@neminem233]

HE DOESN'T SAY "OH NO" IN OXYGEN

[@DolaBill]

This album will put hair on your chest

[@DaviHaub]

Man i would love a reaction for the album The devil and god are raging inside me by brand new

[@fjvlogs4364]

mr. smag

[@poiesist]

Mr. taste

[@michaelstokes919]

I'm definitely in the minority, but this is one of my least favourite Swans albums. Can't put my finger on it, but it's never quite clicked with me.

[@Odradekk-i6z]

The Land of Nod - Reality Channel

[@mawtymawty9010]

Must recommend Superunknown by Soundgarden. Vocals are insane and it's a ride all the way through

[@mm-zd9ml]

Honestly I don't like swans, is like been on DMT, Fen and been drunk 24/7. I do like TOOL and know that maynard likes to listen to this band.

[@turquoisehexagonsun6922]

LFGGG

[@ishowspeed8813]

you need to listen Selling England by the Pound by Genesis

[@smags1082]

I did that one

[@kuondafrog]

😢

[@slons3682]

next do the glowing man!

[@jtotheulian708]

listen to filth or cop/young god

[@francis-808]

Very…repetitive. 🙈

[@bobsbigboy_]

listen to The Immortal Samsara Travelers - Hanging gardens in glacial apocha