I remember listening to Live Through Me just as i was walking down the street a few blocks down from where i live, i didn´t sleep for 2 days and all of a sudden i see a fat bald guy with gray beard and an orange t-shirt walking really weird coming over and i was just tripping at the surreality of the moment.
The Burning World has excellent songwriting, it's a shame that the production/mixing is very disappointing. God Damn The Sun and Let It Come Down still can be considered some of the best songs of SWANS catalog tho. Did you heard the live version of Let It Come Down? It is absolutely monstrous.
@@neverforgot1974 I actually haven't, at least I don't think so. I'd say The Burning World still was instrumental in establishing the later Swans sound, and moreso the side projects, like Angels of Light.
What's also interesting to me is that Bill Laswell, who was behind mixing The Burning World, was definitely no stranger to producing avant-garde, genre bending records. It seems that this time he decided to overcomplicate the sound, perhaps?
@@JeanMarceaux Yes, it doesn't matter how much of a misstep TBW was, the fact is this album built the foundation to the sound that SWANS achieved during their peak. Michael himself said: "I wouldn't have acrued the knowledge necessary to make White LIght without having completely fucked up on The Burning World."
The latter half of Apostate should have been the church "healing" scene from the first Borat. And Avatar would have been any time Aang enters the avatar state (ik, kinda obvious) Also TGM, Kristen Supine and The Sound was literally how I felt listening to them
The first time I heard Helpless Child I was walking in the middle of a crowded street so I was trying to play it cool but I'm 100% sure I was making the same face as that cat the whole time
I LOL'd at Surrogate Drone. You know, any of you folks who want to put together content that is aimed at being "Swans complete" or is open to using any Swans material, IMO, you should feel free to throw in anything Skin/World Of Skin, The Body Haters/Lovers, Angels of Light or M Gira solo/spoken work. It's all Michael's and you could argue it's all related - whether or not it uses the Swans brand. Not a criticism - just an idea.
