SWANS - Beautiful Child Live 1987 

Check out bootleg from this show: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hVfijSpsAcQ.html Distorted sound, especially in Beautiful Child at the end - absolutely madness, how intense and loud this show was... Maybe their most brutal show in 1987

Mardi Gras by any chance ?

@@theotroop Yes it was. Unforgettable night.

Volume, tunings, and minimal effects. In fact here the majority of the dissonance you're hearing is from Jarboe's keyboard/Mirage sampler.

schwarzblatt Prayer to the dark obelisk

There is a tons of bending of strings too so that it never feels like there is a sustained note that we can call the “home note”

@@Yapperofthecentury97 you know of the Obelisk of Doom? The object of which we do not speak frivolously? I discourage inundation of the uninitiated....mmmmm the unpledged....you see ?

@@apothecurio in High School...we called your mom the "home note" and your dad the "seeless wanderer"....true story

That's what I always thought, fits well within the Children of God concept: the deep ambiguity of religious experience.

In the pre internet era this album was released, it was a tiny minority of their fans who understood exactly who and what the children of god group was and what they were about. The lyrics of something like this song become even more disturbing when you do a little research into the cult and their alleged crimes and indignities.

I heard them in my depressed teenager phase. What a glorious way to encompass my sadness into a rapturous roar of applause and degradation on the mental scale of my mind at 16. 2013 in November was an interesting time to fall in love with Swans

I bet!!!!!!

Watch old live videos of Jeromes Dream

Rollins w/ Black Flag, HR w/ Bad Brains. Any Iggy. Elvis Louisiana Hayrides. I can think of a few but I get what you’re saying.

You’re a cool person. Hope you’re still well.

@@daikiraihatesu thanks and right back at you 💖

on God

Fuck that shit, Swans is elite right here!

I can confirm that it was so loud your whole body hurt not just your ears, and more than a few people couldn't take it and walked out, admittedly not as much on this tour as the previous one in 86, my first swans, a few months after the Public Castration is a Good Idea live double LP was recorded.

History will forget Cave

@@guycomments It makes me think of something Cormac McCarthy would write. Something like Child of God.

@@notvcinema8741 well Michael has stated that he loves Cormac McCarthy, I believe his favourite book of his being Blood Meridian because he is based.

@@notvcinema8741 If that movie version of Blood Meridian ever got made, (which I am not sure it will, or ever should) Michael Gira should do the score

Micheal Gira himself was an alleged participant of one the instances of Hermann Nitsch's performance called Orgien Mysterien Theater. Google it. The influence on his music is quite evident.

The track is based on the story of Ibrahim

111noir2000 this sounds fucking horrible 😂😂😂

I agree...just read the consumer.

i agree with you to some extent but i think Gira personally denies talent, he said something about making a song out of essentially one chord the entire time, i mean i guess that in itself is a 'talent' but the only reason its a talent is because he made something out of a lack of talent otherwise. its whatever, he gave us this music and its been a long time going and still, no one else has given us anything comparable. anyone that comes close is instantly recognized as merely an attempt at copying, or they pay their tributes and cite Swans as a source of inspiration.

@@defstrikem2743 ur gay

Great interpretation!

According to some of the comments this song was written about this particular moment with Abraham.

What's this collaboration of which you speak? O person, 13 years in the past

I wouldn't describe this as metal.

We all have those thoughts deep within our subconscious but just don't realise or choose to ignore them.

They cut out the last minute of this where you get a better idea what it's about. Try to listen to the whole Kill the Child album on here. I wish they didn't cut it short on this.

It's apparently inspired by the biblical story of Abraham being told to sacrifice his son Isaac by God, and attempts to but God stops him and says Only kidding it's a test of your loyalty More or less. This is what Gira said, but there's a less acknowledged connection to the album title, and that is the cult group formerly known as the children of god, they made enough of a bad name for themselves they were supressed and kicked out of countries, (EDIT: apologies , this detail doesn't realate to them I was thinking of The Process Church of the Final Judgement, an English group who influenced and inspired Charles Manson to emulate some of their mind control techniques.) subsequently changed their name but I think rose McGowan and the Phoenix kids were raised in the group, or a similar organization

You sure right

Me too geest shows

I'm glad they did! Very versatile band

I agree

I thought you were talking about Norman Westburg and I was confused until it cut to who you were definitely talking about and then I was confused about who that is and why he’s there

@@thefunnytvmanofthenight1537 wow! replying to a comment i made 13 years ago lol

@@napalmslayer swans are still amazing

I know but I made that comment when i Was like seventeen lol