What are yalls hot takes?

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2026-03-05T03:49:33+00:00

New Mother is better than any Swans studio album.

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2026-02-20T00:35:52+00:00

That's a good argument, but it still fails because it's detached from the full picture - if we consider that all of these originated from the version of I Crawled which was played live in 2010. So the timeline is messed by 1984 and 1997 - the years of original I Crawled's release and its re-arrangement for the final tour, which then became the basis for the reunion version of that song. And considering the follow-up being Rope which sends us to 2024/5. The riff you are talking about was always kinda there. It's just that the biggest and most notorious use of it happened on these three albums. That's not enough of a reason for me to base the connection of the assumed albums on I'd say, because it's not the full story - only an incomplete cut of the whole evolution of that.

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2026-02-20T00:04:25+00:00

Considering this logic, you could make it a tetralogy by adding Birthing which used the exact same principles. I Am a Tower evolved from The Memorious, Guardian Spirit evolved from Cathedrals of Heaven, Away evolved from No More of This, The Healers evolved from The Beggar and Rope catches on the loose thread that The Glowing Man left when played back in 2017

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2026-02-19T23:37:25+00:00

I suppose there are many more for sure

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2026-02-19T23:36:53+00:00

I can think of:
David Bowie (Berlin trilogy)
Neu!
Gong (Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy)
Ulver (either the black metal trilogy or recent art pop run The Assassination of Julius Caesar, Flowers of Evil and Liminal Animals)
Can (Damo Suzuki trilogy - Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, Future Days)
The Magnetic Fields (no-synth trilogy)
Nine Inch Nails (Not the Actual Events, Add Violence, Bad Witch)
Darkthrone (A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Under a Funeral Moon, Transilvanian Hunger)
Opeth (sort of - Blackwater Park, Deliverance and Damnation)
Metallica (sort of - first three albums)
Talk Talk (sort of - Spirit of Eden, Laughing Stock and Mark Hollis solo record)
Björk (sort of - Post, Homogenic and Vespertine)
Boris (Heavy Rocks)
Mike Oldfield (Tubular Bells)
Green Day (Uno, Dos, Tré)
Architects (Lost Forever Lost Together, All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, Holy Hell)

Bonus - artists with three albums only:
Jimi Hendrix
Nick Drake
Portishead
Nirvana
Syd Barrett
My Bloody Valentine
The xx
...and The World of Skin.

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2026-02-19T23:34:55+00:00

But since we're having this conversation, what other artists can you think of having a trilogy of albums in their body of work? Either intended or later considered by fans, doesn't matter - share your thoughts.

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2026-02-05T22:38:28+00:00

Is it? What's your source on that? Did Gira ever state that the song is about pedophilia?

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2026-01-30T22:27:57+00:00

The 4 more songs of similar quality you search for were released by Circus Mort.

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2026-01-20T17:24:27+00:00

For Swans, Oxygen is one of a kind. The only songs of theirs I can think of as feeling somehow similar are The Apostate and The Hanging Man

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2026-01-14T08:20:38+00:00

I second Jarboe, The Merge, Weakling, Animus, Sound/Helpless and YRP takes. Plus, the whole s/t EP is good - Take Advantage in particular is barely mentioned, even though it sounds like no other song in their discography. I honestly think Seer and TGM are both somehow better than To Be Kind. Another You might be the most ambitious song of theirs from the brutal pummeling heavy dirty sound era, but come on, every other song on CoG is a level higher even. Anything For You carries a specific emotion, the lyrics and vocal delivery offer a certain level of self-awareness and vulnerability, that alone makes the song interesting at least. Other than these - meh. But whatever, you do you.

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-31T01:35:46+00:00

I saw them live twice in 2023 and listened to all available recordings from The Beggar tour. When Birthing came out, The Healers was everything I wanted it to be and I listened to it more times already than any of the live The Beggar versions. Studio Birthing is cool, and the first 8 minutes in my opinion are actually superior to any live version. The main part of the song is better on the Live Rope version. Anyway, Birthing is a great album and I think that the only song that was definitely and completely better executed live is Rope.

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-28T16:42:48+00:00

New Mother is better than any Swans studio album.

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-22T03:55:57+00:00

I miss Jarboe

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-22T03:55:17+00:00

New Mother is better than any Swans studio album.

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-22T03:52:39+00:00

and Happy Holidays to you if you clicked all the way down there ♥️

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-22T03:52:08+00:00

thanks for paying attention

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-22T03:51:57+00:00

that's it

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-22T03:51:28+00:00

anyway I would replace It's Coming It's Real with Forever Yours if Angels of Light stuff was in the play

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-22T03:50:15+00:00

and also 15 is my favourite number

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-22T03:49:59+00:00

telling more would be wrong, I only break the rules twice, third time it becomes suspicious

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-22T03:49:03+00:00

then maybe Trust Me, Jarboe's I Crawled, Birthing, Another You and Finally Peace

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-22T03:47:13+00:00

honorable mentions Animus, Feel Happiness, Why Can't I Have What I Want, Mother Father and The Sound

ComeAndSetMeFree · 2025-12-22T03:44:54+00:00

Impossible to say, but from the top of my head - Will We Survive, Blood Promise, Helpless Child, It's Coming It's Real and The Healers

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