Michael Gira, I love you too. Thank you for all your music that is dark and disturbing and beautiful and will never have anything ever come close to it in its uniqueness
This version of the song is underrated. The one on "Swans Are Dead" is a cool post-rock piece, but I just love how this sounds. The moody neofolk instrumentation and somber lyrics meld together to create an incredible atmosphere.
100% agree. The Swans Are Dead version is insane, but this one is just perfection for me. Love how dreamy and almost religious this one is, as opposed to the harrowing and dark live version. I wish they'd done more stuff along the lines of this or "Song for Dead Time".
The live version on "S W A N S Are Dead" is so different from this album version that it can't really be considered the same song. The lyrics are the same, true, but other than that fact the two versions are difficult to compare.
When it comes to swans I think calling anything in their discography a sound that "doesn't sound like anything else" is a hard statement to support it. So many elements of their music are reminiscent of other artists
Mkay, qualify that statement. Give me proof that "so many" of their songs sound like so many other artists. Because I've listened to just about every artist within every genre that Swans works within, and few other artists sound anything like them. Unless you can proffer legitimate comparisons, I would suggest that you fuck off and just eat shit. Or at least I would suggest that, as that would appear to be cannibalism.
*sigh* well ok then Just by records like "The Seer" alone you have: -Sonic Youth's guitar repetition; -Glenn Branca's wall of strummed guitar tones and crescendo explosions and even same percussion explosions (definetely the artist they ripped off the most); -Blues-Jazz Mish-Mashes of The Doors (a style they rely on the most on the shorter tracks of the glowing man); -Same Pauline Oliveros and Nico approach to accordion & pipe drones which clashed together with Charlemagne's-like Minimalistic Piano loops (an artista Michael Gira himself is well aware of and has mentioned once); -Floyd-esque Conceptual Strategies of revisiting already stablished thematics in different tones; -Dead Can Dance-ish or maybe even Cocteau Twins or Lycia inspired use of bells and strings (ironically placed on a song called "Avatar", which is the same title of a Dead Can Dance song) -Some very unlikely but not too far off approach of spoken word and vocal passages were Gira's performances don't sound too far off from something you'd see Edward Ka-Spel doing it On albuns like "To be Kind" You have all of the mentions above plus: -on the song "Oxygen" you have a blatant rip off from one of Glenn Branca's pieces "Lesson No.2" along with Michael Gira doing vocal performances blended with reverbs which sounds a lot similar to the way Throbbing Gristle does it on the song "What A Day" - This Heat-ish delivery of exotic percussions, tibetan and indian-like chantings and rhythms along with distorted electronic distortions; -Acid Mothers Temple's squizo phrenic, eerie, twisted and distorted ghostly choirs on "Kirsten Supine" -Painfully same way of addressing Buddhistic and mystical symbolism as "Natural Snow Buildings" Even on Albums like "Soundtracks For The Blind" which is arguably their most original piece of work you have the very dark and dense electronic drones and electronic distortion and tape manipulation reminiscent of Early Cluster, Klaus Schulze and Early Tangerine Dream (maybe even some early Popol Vuh as well) and even the same exact dark tones of a Lustmord track . Swans doesn't blend all of these in a way that sounds like a blatant copy (at least in their early records anyway, Everything up to The Seer just relies a lot from other artist's influences) but for you to say their sound isn't like anything else is simply incorrect, the thing that makes swans interesting in the first place is how they're pratically a "retrospective" or a celebration of all of the "outsider music" elements (obscure and avant-garde/experimental I mean) that have been brought to the table up untill that point
When I first started my university courses, back in 2010 and 2011, I used to travel for two hours eveyday to get to the campus. I lived far away, or the school was far away, one of the two. Needless to say, I would take my Ipod with me. I was going through a serious Swans kick back then, just newly discovering their genius music. Soon enough, those excursions in the name of education and me being on time to class (which I never was anyway) became hardcore listening sessions devoted to this record and "Soundtracks for the Blind" I was playing them to death, sometimes going into a deep trance that was hard to come of. It was hard to pretend I wanted to listen to anything anybody had to say after experiencing such stellar works of art. Suddenly the mundane commuting and public transportation seemed fun and almost something that I was looking forward to, even more so than going to class. Since I was always late, once I got to campus I would take major strolls around and keep listening to more. I became obsessed. It was almost too good. I couldn't help it. I was enthralled. I always listened to some more on the way back and on bathroom breaks. I ended up ditching that class only to come back at the end of the course and pass it on one test. Swans became my favorite band. And I was about to really see what it was all about.
If you are depressed and can listen to the Swans without commiting suicide you have made a great step, this is my true observation. A beautiful and true band , absolutely incredible.
I started to listen more Swans, in one of the worst phases of my life! I thought about death/live every day ...It's also my interpretation of Swans music! At this same phase, I went to see them live for the first and possibly last time! It was in this last tour! Incredible band.
@@vinyldiary6664 Me too. Swans was one of many things that pulled me out of the darkest period of my life. Saw them live once, in 2017. They're doing 3 shows here in London in May, I'm going to all 3. A transcendental experience always.
Blood Promise Swans Produced by Michael Gira Album: The Great Annihilator [Live Only] We are poor little lambs who have lost our way Baa, baa, baa [Verse 1] When silence falls And light remains And time is born Beneath the Sun I'll hide your name Inside a word And paint your eyes With false perception And I feel your mind In everything And every breath Destroys a sound And I never will follow A false sensation And I'll always believe Your blood promise [Refrain] Na na na Na na Na na na Na na Na na na Na na Na na na Na na [Verse 2] And every breath I stole from you And I never will see Your broken body And you never have spoken An unclear word And I'll never betray Your blood promise [Refrain] Na na na na Na na na Na na na na Na na na Na na na na Na na na Na na na na Na na na [Live Only] [Instrumental] Don't stop! Well, we are done And we'd like to thank you for being here- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Written by: Michael Gira Copyright (c) - Young God Publishing Release Date: 1994
When silence falls And light remains And time is born Beneath the Sun I'll hide your name Inside a word And paint your eyes With false perception And I feel your mind In everything And every breath Destroys a sound And I never will follow A false sensation And I'll always believe Your blood promise [Refrain] Na na na Na na Na na na Na na Na na na Na na Na na na Na na [Verse 2] And every breath I stole from you And I never will see Your broken body And you never have spoken An unclear word And I'll never betray Your blood promise
i dont get how this masterpiece has just so few views. in my opinion one of the best swans tracks, this thing has a lot of magic in it. it's one of my alltime favorite tracks in general. thanks alot michael gira, you are a big inspiration.
This is the music that plays in the background of a dimly lit room while you and you’re just realized forever lover stare through the eyes of each other while talking about the universe n s*it
Genius this is ... It has a dreamy melty , ethereal quality , and at the volume these baskits play at it , it gets embeded in your psyche , which is nice ;D Cheers for downloading ...
The Swans are a very unique band. They sound like no one and nobody sounds like them. This album is great but very dark. There lightest albums were White Light from the Mouth of Infinity. And maybe The Burning World. Calling those albums lighter maybe a stretch.
Michael Gira, I love you too. Thank you for all your music that is dark and disturbing and beautiful and will never have anything ever come close to it in its uniqueness
This version of the song is underrated. The one on "Swans Are Dead" is a cool post-rock piece, but I just love how this sounds. The moody neofolk instrumentation and somber lyrics meld together to create an incredible atmosphere.
My favourite version, I love to sing along.
100% agree. The Swans Are Dead version is insane, but this one is just perfection for me. Love how dreamy and almost religious this one is, as opposed to the harrowing and dark live version. I wish they'd done more stuff along the lines of this or "Song for Dead Time".
@@t.n.3819 "Song for dead time" is an absolute masterpiece
The live version on "S W A N S Are Dead" is so different from this album version that it can't really be considered the same song. The lyrics are the same, true, but other than that fact the two versions are difficult to compare.
@@t.n.3819 What about "In my garden" or "Blackmail"?
Why doesn't this have more love? This is one of the greatest songs of all time, and literally nothing sounds like this.
Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance is always sounding like this. check him out if you like this (especially DCD's early to mid eighties stuff)
When it comes to swans I think calling anything in their discography a sound that "doesn't sound like anything else" is a hard statement to support it. So many elements of their music are reminiscent of other artists
Mkay, qualify that statement. Give me proof that "so many" of their songs sound like so many other artists. Because I've listened to just about every artist within every genre that Swans works within, and few other artists sound anything like them. Unless you can proffer legitimate comparisons, I would suggest that you fuck off and just eat shit. Or at least I would suggest that, as that would appear to be cannibalism.
I listen to Dead Can Dance and Brendan Perry. None of their shit sounds anything like this.
*sigh* well ok then
Just by records like "The Seer" alone you have:
-Sonic Youth's guitar repetition;
-Glenn Branca's wall of strummed guitar tones and crescendo explosions and even same percussion explosions (definetely the artist they ripped off the most);
-Blues-Jazz Mish-Mashes of The Doors (a style they rely on the most on the shorter tracks of the glowing man);
-Same Pauline Oliveros and Nico approach to accordion & pipe drones which clashed together with Charlemagne's-like Minimalistic Piano loops (an artista Michael Gira himself is well aware of and has mentioned once);
-Floyd-esque Conceptual Strategies of revisiting already stablished thematics in different tones;
-Dead Can Dance-ish or maybe even Cocteau Twins or Lycia inspired use of bells and strings (ironically placed on a song called "Avatar", which is the same title of a Dead Can Dance song)
-Some very unlikely but not too far off approach of spoken word and vocal passages were Gira's performances don't sound too far off from something you'd see Edward Ka-Spel doing it
On albuns like "To be Kind" You have all of the mentions above plus:
-on the song "Oxygen" you have a blatant rip off from one of Glenn Branca's pieces "Lesson No.2" along with Michael Gira doing vocal performances blended with reverbs which sounds a lot similar to the way Throbbing Gristle does it on the song "What A Day"
- This Heat-ish delivery of exotic percussions, tibetan and indian-like chantings and rhythms along with distorted electronic distortions;
-Acid Mothers Temple's squizo phrenic, eerie, twisted and distorted ghostly choirs on "Kirsten Supine"
-Painfully same way of addressing Buddhistic and mystical symbolism as "Natural Snow Buildings"
Even on Albums like "Soundtracks For The Blind" which is arguably their most original piece of work you have the very dark and dense electronic drones and electronic distortion and tape manipulation reminiscent of Early Cluster, Klaus Schulze and Early Tangerine Dream (maybe even some early Popol Vuh as well) and even the same exact dark tones of a Lustmord track
.
Swans doesn't blend all of these in a way that sounds like a blatant copy (at least in their early records anyway, Everything up to The Seer just relies a lot from other artist's influences) but for you to say their sound isn't like anything else is simply incorrect, the thing that makes swans interesting in the first place is how they're pratically a "retrospective" or a celebration of all of the "outsider music" elements (obscure and avant-garde/experimental I mean) that have been brought to the table up untill that point
When I first started my university courses, back in 2010 and 2011, I used to travel for two hours eveyday to get to the campus.
I lived far away, or the school was far away, one of the two.
Needless to say, I would take my Ipod with me.
I was going through a serious Swans kick back then, just newly discovering their genius music.
Soon enough, those excursions in the name of education and me being on time to class (which I never was anyway) became hardcore listening sessions devoted to this record and "Soundtracks for the Blind" I was playing them to death, sometimes going into a deep trance that was hard to come of.
It was hard to pretend I wanted to listen to anything anybody had to say after experiencing such stellar works of art.
Suddenly the mundane commuting and public transportation seemed fun and almost something that I was looking forward to, even more so than going to class.
Since I was always late, once I got to campus I would take major strolls around and keep listening to more.
I became obsessed.
It was almost too good.
I couldn't help it.
I was enthralled.
I always listened to some more on the way back and on bathroom breaks.
I ended up ditching that class only to come back at the end of the course and pass it on one test.
Swans became my favorite band.
And I was about to really see what it was all about.
Help, I've been obsessed with Swans 3 years now
@@andresaguero5880 That's how it is, man.
And if you're lucky, it'll never go away.
No matter what i'll always have this song, along with the memories it brings back.
If you are depressed and can listen to the Swans without commiting suicide you have made a great step, this is my true observation. A beautiful and true band , absolutely incredible.
gives you a comfort with the sadness some upbeat music does polar opposites
I listen to swans when I'm depressed and it makes me feel better, especially the angels of light. Not always though.
Frogman Five this is really good reading honestly
I started to listen more Swans, in one of the worst phases of my life! I thought about death/live every day ...It's also my interpretation of Swans music! At this same phase, I went to see them live for the first and possibly last time! It was in this last tour! Incredible band.
@@vinyldiary6664 Me too. Swans was one of many things that pulled me out of the darkest period of my life. Saw them live once, in 2017. They're doing 3 shows here in London in May, I'm going to all 3. A transcendental experience always.
POWER OF POETRY AND SOUND
The atmosphere of this song, plus Michael's singing, is... Just... Bro 😩.
Blood Promise
Swans
Produced by Michael Gira
Album: The Great Annihilator
[Live Only]
We are poor little lambs who have lost our way
Baa, baa, baa
[Verse 1]
When silence falls
And light remains
And time is born
Beneath the Sun
I'll hide your name
Inside a word
And paint your eyes
With false perception
And I feel your mind
In everything
And every breath
Destroys a sound
And I never will follow
A false sensation
And I'll always believe
Your blood promise
[Refrain]
Na na na
Na na
Na na na
Na na
Na na na
Na na
Na na na
Na na
[Verse 2]
And every breath
I stole from you
And I never will see
Your broken body
And you never have spoken
An unclear word
And I'll never betray
Your blood promise
[Refrain]
Na na na na
Na na na
Na na na na
Na na na
Na na na na
Na na na
Na na na na
Na na na
[Live Only]
[Instrumental]
Don't stop!
Well, we are done
And we'd like to thank you for being here-
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Written by: Michael Gira
Copyright (c) - Young God Publishing
Release Date: 1994
When silence falls
And light remains
And time is born
Beneath the Sun
I'll hide your name
Inside a word
And paint your eyes
With false perception
And I feel your mind
In everything
And every breath
Destroys a sound
And I never will follow
A false sensation
And I'll always believe
Your blood promise
[Refrain]
Na na na
Na na
Na na na
Na na
Na na na
Na na
Na na na
Na na
[Verse 2]
And every breath
I stole from you
And I never will see
Your broken body
And you never have spoken
An unclear word
And I'll never betray
Your blood promise
i dont get how this masterpiece has just so few views. in my opinion one of the best swans tracks, this thing has a lot of magic in it. it's one of my alltime favorite tracks in general. thanks alot michael gira, you are a big inspiration.
I can`t stop listening to this band, they`re incredible :)
This is the music that plays in the background of a dimly lit room while you and you’re just realized forever lover stare through the eyes of each other while talking about the universe n s*it
So very beautiful.
agreed
Genius this is ...
It has a dreamy melty , ethereal quality , and at the volume these baskits play at it , it gets embeded in your psyche , which is nice ;D
Cheers for downloading ...
This is one of the most dark and beatiful song ever made
This sounds like a dream
I wish they made more like this
you and me both... the post-2010 stuff doesn't do it for me.
Leaving Meaning
Unmissable!!! Awesome !!! Relentless !!!
AMAZING
Great track
in Aeternum. ♥
unmovable eternal genius
The Swans are a very unique band. They sound like no one and nobody sounds like them. This album is great but very dark. There lightest albums were White Light from the Mouth of Infinity. And maybe The Burning World. Calling those albums lighter maybe a stretch.
nice.
If you like this version of the song, check out the band Dead Can Dance, particularly the album "In the Realm of a Dying Sun."
It's odd how different the Swans are Dead version is compared to this one.
I love a lot the studio version, but holy fuck the live...
Yeah the Swans Are Dead version is just the best song ever
I totally agree, both versions are great but the live version just nails it, like jesus on the cross
They're both good, but in wildly different ways. Their tones are so incredibly different it's almost hard to judge them as the same song.
Their live shows seem to jam the songs rather than sound exactly like the studio. It’s weird but it’s amazing as well. Makes for a more fun discog
🔮
WOW. Debería ser mas largo.
Better than the live version tbh
elek
Tf is Oreimo