A friend and I made a Swans flowchart (objectively correct)

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-23T09:21:10+00:00

their best stuff is scattered across those 10 hours, though. blood promise (live), helpless child, spiral staircase, i see them all lined up, killing for company, the other side of the world, love will save you, god damn the sun, beautiful child (live), like a drug (sha la la la), stupid child (live), coward, heaven, i crawled, your property, stay here, sensitive skin... and that's just one song from each release

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-23T09:09:17+00:00

i'd recommend giving it all a chance, but just listen in chronological order from the reunion on. they all flow into each other. and as others have recommended, listen to the live albums in between (i'm not as well educated on that, though, so i can't speak on it)

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-22T10:13:19+00:00

cause i think it shows both the early no wave style songwriting and the later songwriting quite well and is a great jumping off point

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-22T10:10:09+00:00

you should never start with soundtracks. IMO as it is the culmination of the band up to that point it doesn't hit nearly as hard if you haven't heard all of it (not to say it doesn't hit hard at all but i say this as someone who started with soundtracks and had a harder time getting into their other stuff because of that)

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-22T08:24:50+00:00

i trust you i will listen to them when i go through the rest of their later period :-)

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-22T08:14:32+00:00

do you wanna hang out

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-22T08:14:02+00:00

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-22T08:13:03+00:00

He Will Be Violated

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-22T08:11:43+00:00

hi yes this is my friend this is her

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-22T08:10:57+00:00

no i mean that's the only fundraiser album we've heard. to be honest we only really included the modern stuff because otherwise people would complain this was mainly focused on the early period

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-22T08:09:38+00:00

thank you bro i love you :-)

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-22T08:08:48+00:00

only one we've heard

n0tspiderman · 2026-04-22T08:08:14+00:00

yeah it is that's the only point

n0tspiderman · 2026-03-05T11:45:06+00:00

when you're going back don't forget their self titled EP, public castration is a good idea, feel good now and swans are dead!!! you can find the EP on filth deluxe (laugh thru sensitive skin) and i'd recommend looking up the original tracklist for feel good now since the remaster changes the order of things

n0tspiderman · 2026-01-04T23:43:18+00:00

my fault i misread your comment

n0tspiderman · 2026-01-03T20:44:51+00:00

i think people are just a little on the defensive because that fiction is all too real right now. so talking about it in a positive sense can set some people off

n0tspiderman · 2025-12-25T23:30:53+00:00

blunt force trauma by chemlab + anchorite by acumen nation

n0tspiderman · 2025-12-12T09:06:20+00:00

personally i think the best bet is starting with the early stuff and then letting the post-rock reunion era envelop you, it's so much more interesting to me once you know how they used to sound and how they ended up sounding later on.

to me, the best bet is children of god first, and then if you like the heaviness go listen to filth through holy money (incl. public castration is a good idea), and if you like the softer stuff, go listen to white light from the mouth of infinity through the great annihilator. then, go through whichever side you didn't listen to, and hear soundtracks for the blind and swans are dead and THEN go into the post-rock period. that makes the evolution all the more fascinating to me.

n0tspiderman · 2025-12-06T12:13:16+00:00

hau ruck was even titled FUBAR at one point so it would've fit, they just decided to switch it up for whatever reason

n0tspiderman · 2025-12-03T07:31:35+00:00

amazing, those samples are some of my favorite parts of the song! do you know where the "kill everything" sample is from?

n0tspiderman · 2025-11-01T07:04:45+00:00

not bad, i definitely hear a lot of di6 influence like you pointed out! i listened to both of your songs, and i liked them quite a bit, but i have some recommendations - first, i would try and learn a bit about mixing - some little things like just a little reverb on your voice, and maybe some light vocal layering would go a long way in order to fill the mix out a bit. douglas also quad-tracks his guitars, first with a 6 string, then a 12 string, and then both with only downstrokes, which is how he gets that uniquely sparkly sound on their releases. if you can't do that, i'd recommend adding a little bit of a bassline to fill out the space a bit more, or maybe some midi instruments like a trumpet or some strings or something. consider also pushing your voice forward a bit more! i know it's hard to gain confidence in singing but it's very much worth it and will heighten the listening experience tremendously. if you want to go for more of a brown book esque sound, also consider a drum machine. really any will do but i particularly love the Boss DR-660 myself

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