@@Machinima1827 I saw them live on this tour in 1997. Never been so fucking hypnotized and “musically raped” in all my life. They had this surround drone sound going from 20:00 until they went on stage at 01:30. 5 and a half hour with one sound on repeat. When they entered the stage and played “feel happiness” and “helpless child” “the sound” etc, it was by far the best and most insane concert experience I’ve ever attended. And seen some big names like Pink Floyd, Rammstein, Depeche Mode etc. NOTHING is even close to this concert. So I didn’t. Know what I was going to back then but it marked me for life as one of the biggest happening in my now soon 50 year old life. If I could relive ONE concert again it would be that one.
13:18 is such a beautiful angle. There's something about voyeuristically witnessing raw emotion translated into music. Props to the dude with the camera for capturing this.
They ripped open reality here. They opened a sacred circle and let the other beings through. They were conduits of eternity. And its captured on film? Gods/Goddesses forgive us..
The Sublime crashes from out of these chords, Helpless Child and Blood Promise stand with the greatest musical heights of any century: Wagnerian, infinite and inenarrable. This music is the howl of being human.
All my brothers and sisters of Swans, rejoice that such embodiment of the human/divine was given to us. I will always love Michael and Jarboe. Especially Michael, as his band here was clearly one of the top 10 artists in any medium anywhere.
I adore this song, I’ve heard it many many times and the live version on Swans Are Dead too but I’ve never seen it with a video. This had me in tears in less than 30 seconds. Michael Gira and everyone who has ever worked with Swans. I love you. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much...
One of the most epic songs ever made, and they played it so amazingly on stage,thanks for uploading the whole thing, the video on two parts just break the trip
Saw them in Denver on the same two tours. Since this was an unreleased song in 95 there was no preparation for it. I swear the place felt like it was levitating. For their return in 97 it wasn't as epic, but Jarboe's take on I Crawled was a hell of an unexpected trip. Genuinely frightening at the end.
[Verse 1] Now you be the mother and I'll be your fool I'll hide myself deep inside Your crimson pool The muddy water runs Beneath your folds You won't let me breathe; You won't let me go Now you'll be the stranger and I'll be the white-skinned son You'll blacken my innocence With sugar and opium [Verse 2] The children were suffocating Down in your damp cave And you were the mother And I was the sleeping slave Protect me from violence Hold me in your cool lips You'll drug me with kindness So I can pretend I exist Now you be the only child I'll suck on your breast You'll feed me with gasoline I'll burn my name in your head
I’d love to be a fly on the wall when the synths/samples for this song were being programmed. The patches sound complex due to all the motion and subtle variety.
Most trained percussionists use two mallets to a hand like it's nothing, early as middle school sometimes. It's crazy. That, and keeping multiple beats going.
I love the instrumental part where some dude gets possessed by Jarboe´s epic keys in this , so this dude just goes : ´This is it! This is my fukking jam ... have some of this fukkers ! ` - just erupts in front of Gira tripping his ass off just playing some noisy, loud ,mean souding power chords all over the place not giving two shits about anything - ´ more dissonant , the merrier ! ` ... it´s his guitar by itself along with Jarboe´s keyboards and a bunch of all other noise which he completely ignores , an ´helpless child` filling in for Norman Westberg who actually accomplishes a decent performance here ... fukking epic !
And I couldn't be there. I was born in 1993, and am living my youth in one of the shittiest ages of humankind, with shitty music and shitty people. But Michael is still alive, at least
This is the peak of rock music.
This is the peak of music
@@trardac This is the peak.
@@HateDisease This is
@@sweetmemes1661 This
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I wish I was born at the time to see them play that song live...
Agree
At least you're alive to see them live anyway!
most likely you wouldn't know them, and if you did, you wouldn't appreciate them as you do now
They still exist and play live after covid
@@Machinima1827 I saw them live on this tour in 1997.
Never been so fucking hypnotized and “musically raped” in all my life.
They had this surround drone sound going from 20:00 until they went on stage at 01:30.
5 and a half hour with one sound on repeat. When they entered the stage and played “feel happiness” and “helpless child” “the sound” etc, it was by far the best and most insane concert experience I’ve ever attended.
And seen some big names like Pink Floyd, Rammstein, Depeche Mode etc.
NOTHING is even close to this concert.
So I didn’t. Know what I was going to back then but it marked me for life as one of the biggest happening in my now soon 50 year old life.
If I could relive ONE concert again it would be that one.
13:18 is such a beautiful angle. There's something about voyeuristically witnessing raw emotion translated into music.
Props to the dude with the camera for capturing this.
They ripped open reality here. They opened a sacred circle and let the other beings through. They were conduits of eternity. And its captured on film? Gods/Goddesses forgive us..
nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nAHHHH just SWANS LIVE YEAHH
It should be on film to remind a thousand generations how to feel in a world gone dark and dead.
9:12 That chord brings my knees to the earth every time I hear it.
f#m
@@growskull is it? i was completely sure that I listen a D major
@adrianhernandez98 i mean theyre pretty similar chords so it might be a different voicing but i think f#m sounds like a best fit
@@growskull i will try with f#m next time, but i guess they'll sound pretty similar, as you said
Def a D major. He’s doing the typical open C major shape but with a capo on the 2nd fret. So it’s gotta be a D major
This is not just music. Its magic and Gira is a Shaman.
05/24/24
I have just discovered this masterpiece, Swans will now be a part of me until I die...
Now I know where Godspeed You! Black Emperor got their sound.
Hear muh!
I have been alive longer than nature intended. I can honestly say this fucking amazing music has kept me alive. It's like...medicine.
The Sublime crashes from out of these chords, Helpless Child and Blood Promise stand with the greatest musical heights of any century: Wagnerian, infinite and inenarrable. This music is the howl of being human.
How are people just casually chatting at the start of the performance like this amazing feat isn't happening before them
It takes most people a while to catch up with genius.
Swans of the mid 90's is definetly their best period IMHO ! Magic performances on this tour !!
All my brothers and sisters of Swans, rejoice that such embodiment of the human/divine was given to us. I will always love Michael and Jarboe. Especially Michael, as his band here was clearly one of the top 10 artists in any medium anywhere.
Music can't get any better than this
I dream to see them, LIVE.
Wish Jarboe would come and tour with them, again
It is as intense as you can imagine.
@@7crosschop what songs have you heard them plau
@@LucyGoosey4636 learn how to spell before you commenr nwxr rimw
this video made me cry
I adore this song, I’ve heard it many many times and the live version on Swans Are Dead too but I’ve never seen it with a video. This had me in tears in less than 30 seconds. Michael Gira and everyone who has ever worked with Swans. I love you. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much...
this is one of their best songs. I love them so much
One of the most epic songs ever made, and they played it so amazingly on stage,thanks for uploading the whole thing, the video on two parts just break the trip
Saw them live in 95 and "final" gig in 97 at LA2
lucky bastard
Saw them in Denver on the same two tours. Since this was an unreleased song in 95 there was no preparation for it. I swear the place felt like it was levitating. For their return in 97 it wasn't as epic, but Jarboe's take on I Crawled was a hell of an unexpected trip. Genuinely frightening at the end.
must've been life changing
💀 San Francisco 1995
You lucky fuck
[Verse 1]
Now you be the mother and
I'll be your fool
I'll hide myself deep inside
Your crimson pool
The muddy water runs
Beneath your folds
You won't let me breathe;
You won't let me go
Now you'll be the stranger and
I'll be the white-skinned son
You'll blacken my innocence
With sugar and opium
[Verse 2]
The children were suffocating
Down in your damp cave
And you were the mother
And I was the sleeping slave
Protect me from violence
Hold me in your cool lips
You'll drug me with kindness
So I can pretend I exist
Now you be the only child
I'll suck on your breast
You'll feed me with gasoline
I'll burn my name in your head
cmon everyone knows the words to the greatest song of all time
thanks mr policeman
thanks daniel hernandez
In this one he puts the last four lines of the second verse at the beginning of the second verse
I love the quality.
eternal love
Enlightening music. Thank you, Swans.
amazing footage.
Melhor música de todos os tempos
this is history
This footage is pure gold! Cheers for the upload
id argue this version is better than the album version tbh
yeah no you were right this version fucks
I’d love to be a fly on the wall when the synths/samples for this song were being programmed. The patches sound complex due to all the motion and subtle variety.
So much passion when playing this song! This is mesmerizing. 😍
Wow that's just a fantastic performance. Thank you so so much for the upload!
Amazing. I saw them in San Francisco circa 1992- WOW!
les chants désespérés sont les chants les plus beaux. je me fais avoir à chaque coup, et chaque fois j'en redemande.
I love this guy
Absolutely, gorgeous.
90s manifesto
Is the percussionist playing vibraphone with two mallets with one hand and keeping the beat on the hi-hat with the other hand?
Most trained percussionists use two mallets to a hand like it's nothing, early as middle school sometimes. It's crazy. That, and keeping multiple beats going.
I think so, but both are keeping the beat though. In the intro the vibraphone seems more random / free form but later it plays a structured melody
haha indeed, thats why he is still the drummer of swans to this day ;)
Amazing.
this song always reminds me something i forgot. breath. love. hate. write. dont write.
I love the instrumental part where some dude gets possessed by Jarboe´s epic keys in this , so this dude just goes : ´This is it! This is my fukking jam ... have some of this fukkers ! ` - just erupts in front of Gira tripping his ass off just playing some noisy, loud ,mean souding power chords all over the place not giving two shits about anything - ´ more dissonant , the merrier ! ` ... it´s his guitar by itself along with Jarboe´s keyboards and a bunch of all other noise which he completely ignores , an ´helpless child` filling in for Norman Westberg who actually accomplishes a decent performance here ... fukking epic !
Fantastic video.
lo-fi with filed recording version
Ayyy another Schopenhauerian Swans fan !
This is happening
do you still have this in original quality somewhere?
Belleza
Who’s the other guitar player hitting those deafening chords at 7:55? the one in the T shirt looking at Michael
Joe Goldring, he was the bass player for this tour and played 3rd guitar on Helpless Child it seems.
@@TheMadalucardI wish there was a comprehensive tab of all 3 guitars on this. It sounds like the second guitarist is playing open d or something
No words.
Oh man......
To the 5 people that gave thumbs down on this one:
Hannah Montana rules!!!
Lol. Atta boy
Is discovering Swans before 18 a good thing or a bad thing?
Anyone know the date or venue of this gig?
1995 for sure
@@lorenzo_paiano_ obviously 1995 but i was hoping more for confirmation of venue, country, filmmaker, etc...
@@ImaginalComponent ok i now found out watching the film Where Does A Body End that the gig was at Paradiso in Amsterdam (obviously in 1995)
Kings of pain
awesome
What instrument makes the opening sounds?
This is the music OAT
The intro sounds so similar to the SFTB version it scares me
Gira's performance was truly fantastic but the crowd was too noisy. How can someone talk while they play this song?
444 likes. The heavenly nature of this video leaks through! :0
12:34 the synths come in
Anyone knows the chords???
During the parts where he’s singing a I think it starts with an F#m then it’s a C# and a Dmaj
f#m c#sus but the crescendo is all f#m
SWAGS
:)
And I couldn't be there. I was born in 1993, and am living my youth in one of the shittiest ages of humankind, with shitty music and shitty people. But Michael is still alive, at least
The guitar is too loud and there is no melody.
No melody?
There is a melody, the sound quality is just not the greatest