SWANS on Records In My Life (interview) 

haha, yeah it's right there isn't it?

Definitely the cinematic influence. “Soundtracks for the Blind” really is about as much of an aural feature length film as it is an album.

Yeah, now I know why I always picture Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck, whenever I chill out to Swans.

Really? 😂😂

Just Fantasia

tremendo

@@juancitolimon8743 tremolo

I was thinking underneath it all lurks a real dick

It’s funny cause I feel the exact opposite when I hear MC Ride from Death Grips talk or rap.

Are you talking about All Lined Up?

For real?

@Pason Jayne WHAT

If you think that Disney is innocent you need to do a little bit more research.

@@criticalthinker72 the music, not the company

@@thatsalotoffish4424 'Song of the South'???

@@evanwright9016 *some of the music

@@evanwright9016 It's innocent, you're just too modern

yup, very cool dude, well-spoken and has good taste in music.

as well as listen to his records: 17 minutes average

Wow, I had the same idea. Such a surreal scene.

YES

Bro I've been saying this for years, when I first watched the cowboy scene in Mulholland Drive I thought "this gives me Swans vibes"

A man's attitude goes some ways.

That’s a smart aleck thing to say.

Oh yeah, definitely! Both are in my top 5 songs of all time list

Btw - best Bad Seeds album there ever was!

The End by the Doors is one of the first Post-Rock songs ever really

a lot of recent swans stuff sounds like the doors, stuff on leaving meaning especially

Absolutely. Same here

I guess you never saw him at the merch booth after a show!

I'd say Michael Gira ain't as gloomy as he likes you to believe ... also @@nremac YEAH UNTILTED

@@nremac chiastic slide > untilted

OH GOD IT IS CURSED

If Swans don’t make you smile you must be dead inside.

haha

yeah fr

Yeah I always thought you pronounced it like “Gee-ra”

Every time I've ever heard him pronounce his last name, he says it like Ja - Raw. So that's what I say.

I say it like Jeer ah instead of jee-rah

This one was a great interview to film. Michael was a little hesitant at first but once we got the cameras rolling he really enjoyed himself.

One should never underestimate the artists that amount to something for real.

I feel the same way about The Doors as MG. And you can definitely hear their influence on Swans. Both are fantastic bands.

I love The chrystal ship. Such a beauty

girg guy yeah his writer and all

Yeah, considering he is of poor education also as far as I know

He read a shit ton on his way across Europe during his youth

Orgasmic

He's a pretty good writer imo. His writings even on his instagram posts are intriguing

Could you give us a hint?

yeah, give us a hint!

@@outis439-A He asked if I liked her show. I’m pretty sure I ate mushrooms that night. I really don’t remember much about the show, but I liked the vibe. What I said to him was so stupid. I don’t even know why I said it. It wasn’t what I really thought. He was really chill about it as I recall. That Jarboe record defined that summer for me. It ended up being my personal soundtrack. Looking back on it, it’s hard to believe how much I loved it, because it’s really twisted and creepy, wicked, maybe even evil. Very hard to listen to. (Except for Lavender, that track is beautiful.) Shoot. Me and my best friend Tammy listened to it constantly, that and Current 93, and Helios Creed. Once we even used her record as a weapon against a perverted peeping Tom who kept creeping around my bedroom window. One night we waited on him to come, and with all the lights out in the house and my bedroom window open; we put speakers facing the window....as soon as we heard him walking up we blasted the scariest song ever as loud as it would go. It sounded like a demonic exorcism. We never saw him again.

@@sweetsoul3145 👆🏻

@@scherryvalentine9673 you are the coolest person ever

It's actually gear-AH

Like giraffe, but without the "ffe".

I always thought it was pronounced like jy-rah

Even though I know the right pronunciation, I still call him JEER-ah

Boyo Same Boyo

Onemanjim It makes me feel like i'm at a Swans show

The Skoolmustard like a darker fuckedup the doors right?

liquidpebbles for me it’s the deep baritone too and the spoken parts as well.

Yes, you can definitely hear The Doors in Swans/AoL.

The singing definitely has it. I haven't heard much Swans, I literally discovered them like 3 days ago, but even I thought he had a slight Jim Morrison timbre and lyrical structure. Very interesting sound. @@djnevling8253

I'm just a little boy

He stays interested in his work.

Jesus fuck, this made me feel old. You know the kids have control of the internet when somebody says this about a dude who's a decade older than your old man.

But beware when you take a picture of him.

You are part of an exclusive and informed audience. We applaud your musical knowledge!

Yeah I agree. I used to listen to that album on repeat in high school and never grew tired of it!

mcbillygoat ! “Frankie Teardrop” gets to me every time. That song is just so insanely intense. It’s like the electronica version of The Doors’ song “The End’.

It's really fucking dense haha. But if you like Swans you would probably like that album!.

Thanks for suggesting

I would refute that with Marvin Gaye what’s going on, but yeah suicide is a great band I found them thru spacemen 3

We often talk about that one, the name is so particular. Thanks for watching!

Gira is definitely a true artist

Are you really gatekeeping the concept "loving things"? If you were really so much more passionate than everyone around you, you would have done something noteworthy by now instead of being a snob and worrying about what the people around you are doing.

lmao

Suicide, Stooges, Bowie, krautrock! the man knows, there is no doubt

Robert Lustmord no shit

There is a record of Gira,Palestine, and a few other collaborators. Also, Gira released a recording that features Charlemagne, david Coulter , etc. on his own Young God Records.

very shocking pick. not sure what to think. Thank you very much for watching

My sister hates it lol

It was pretty much the first proper gothic rock album.

Beach boys are darker than The Doors to me. Beach Boys are closer to an escapist type of delusion that is also a deeper truth at the same time. The Doors are transparent.

It's not easy, I understand ... but so, as you enter the journey, wow! You'll never be the same again! the last 4 albums, are probably one of the best moments of modern music! You should try to listen, it's really worth it!

I always thought that if the lyrics were sunnier, Blind could be played on an AM station. Just so you know, if you aren't enjoying Swans, you're not turning it up LOUD ENOUGH. It needs to be loud enough to frighten animals and small children or you won't get the intended effect.

You need to listen to Oxygen at maximum volume till you get asthma....

idk later swans is a lot more esoteric and subtle - even by the time of white light its dark but its not difficult the way the stark truth of filth, cop, a screw, greed are those arent songs that could possibly have been done by someone who wasnt personally well acquainted with the subject matter and in giras case likely as both perpetrator and victim - and his observation of cruelty and dehumanization in his own family and life settings , living on the streets, working tough shit jobs, being in jail, being a drug dealer, etc. I appreciate his fearlessness in this aspect, its probably most profound on You See Through Me Clay Man, Big Strong Boss, Why Hide, and Blackout hit too close for me and I can’t deal with those ones but thats it I think.

@Pason Jayne he did during his youth, survival of the fittest.

It’S the proDuct that mixeD with their bLooD that createD that SounD… SeemS Strange but true TAM

yes it is.

It really doesn't. His singing voice pronounces R's like W's, whereas his speaking voice doesn't exhibit that particular speech impediment.

Hambone Jones not really a speech impediment more like a pattern

Right, "pattern" is a more accurate term.

It's two parts of one song (People Like Us).

@@youtubeuserdan4017 Thanks!

haha, interesting you saw it that way. No, he was only saying the name of the show to confirm it before filming the intro.

RIML_TV hahaha damn my mind is tainted

He smiles a lot actually.

Swans - People Like Us

Joey hey...thanks!

well, he sure know they took inspiration from Branca as well,,,, but Gira was there first of course, soundtracks to the blind has these pre-post-rock songs,,,,,,

Reading my comment back I wish I hadn't said anything. I try not to compare real artists of any field, I meant it all complimentary.

It's part of the same song used through out the episode. Swans - People Like Us.

northerntrans thanks!

Swans - People Like Us

Gee thanks always thought doomers were self centered. Did not know this was on Glowing man, guess I'm still being a pussy about listening to SWANS massive discography.

I think he took our question to mean, "are you listening to any current artists?" While Charlemagne Palestine is a 20th century composer which makes him much more current than say Bach or Handel, he's still not exactly a modern recording artist in the likes of The Weeknd or Drake (no quality inference in either of those references of course).

yeah i was thinking a 20th century minimalist composer is pretty contemporary, just threw me off when MG was saying its definitely not contemporary when in my mind it certainly is

"People Like Us"

Ahh thanks, I don't know why but I never revisited that one as much as the other tracks from The Glowing Man, gonna listen to it now though

I found it captivating, and after editing the video I can imagine a Doors influence on its sound.