@@chadking5988 Oh please. Millenials had no better out of all the myspace emo/screamo bands filled with falsetto-sounding men in tight pants and black nail polish who were all secretly in it to sleep with 14 year olds.
Two years ago I've had a surgery. I was lying in a hospital bad tripping balls after anaesthetics listening to Soundtracks for the Blind for the very first time. I think hearing the instrumental part of Helpless Child that day made me go through a near-religious experience as if some devine power transcended into the hospital room. Love this song to death now.
Listening to the entire song would be enough to induce the necessity of surgery on any previously healthy person. This "music" should carry a health warning: "may inflict damage to the brain cells." But I approve of it: it confirms four fundamental laws of nature and one important fundamental law of Rousseau's social contract ; 1.That nature and the natural world has a time and place for everything, even crap like this. 2.That even the talentless may be successful in some shape or form. 3.While some people see only shit, others see edible shit to be enjoyed and eat lots of it repeatedly. 4.The relationship between different forms of psychological manipulation (brainwashing): both the fact that if most people like something, others will simply like it too, as opposed to when hardly anybody likes something there will always be a small reactionary group of people who like it - simply because others don't. 1. from Rousseau's social contract: giving everybody and anybody the right to vote democratically was a huge mistake.
I had listened to this album before, but the first time i really *heard* it was when I was really depressed and sick in my dorm room, trying to get some sleep. The section played in this video was the moment it felt like my soul left my body. Just an out of this world, delirious experience. God bless Gira and his cowboy hat.
I used to love listening to this album blissed out on the couch in a twilight sleep state that the music would induce. Then the live version of "Yum yab" would snap me back to reality.
Once every year or so, I go to bed listening to this album, and I'll usually be drowsy by The Beautiful Days, half asleep for the next couple of songs until All Lined Up completely obliterates my peaceful rest. Then I'll power through until the first disc is done (Animus is especially powerful in that last waking moment), go to sleep and then wake myself up to Jarboe singing about some gift...
Fell asleep once to this song and had a dream about climbing a mountain of corpses using only a sword. Was ascending towards this heavenly white light while this angel choir kept getting louder and louder in my head. Some real shit
I don't wanna sound pretentious or anything but it's so beautiful. After how depressing the song is the beautiful synth comes on and it feels like everything is going to be okay
That was the best show I ever saw from them before they split up. Their music had a a blend of beauty, horror, and madness They really delivered it well that night. Wish I saw more of that tour.
@@jack_rabbit Most of that night was new material that I don’t think ever got to the studio. The live album was superb, still… The direct they were heading with soundtracks, I was so looking for more studio output from them.
this album is so full of dread to me, it dredges up all these locked away memories and makes me feel grossly alive, it’s honestly such an effective work of art imo
i totally agree. ive listened to this album at least 100x since it came out. it takes me to a place that i have trouble describing, but you did it well. thanks
Saw the Swans way back in 1989 when the band started playing in this more mellow ethereal style instead of the pummeling and harsh dirges of the previous records. I loved that show and it was still really loud and made an impression on me. “Raping a Slave “ and Holy Money were the songs I was familiar with at the time only later did I realize that Godflesh was kinda emulating the early Swans sound only with drum machines. Anyway it’s interesting that these young people are giving this band a listen because the Swans music across the board is gonna clear the room of most casual music lovers. Whether it’s the abrasive and transgressive early albums to the more textured and beautiful sounds of later post 1980s works the Swans are a challenge to listen to.
Yeah, we love all of it. Their newer material from the past decade is just as good if not better than the old stuff. Helpless Child might be fav song of all time, it’s beautiful.
Mike, this isn't the original video. In the original, the girls are listening to BTS, the Korean boy band depicted on their shirts. It's become a meme, a self-replicating idea. Whoever made this video has made it look like they (the girls) are reacting to Swans.
I would’ve never thought that a single song could trigger an existential crisis in me and make my entire past flash before eyes for an entire 15 minutes straight…. CHRIST, I WAS DEAD WRONG!
@@nicknickson3650Dunno. Yum-Yab has grown on me a lot after a while and live version of Hypogirl is amazing (although I miss a scream in the beginning)
SInce where all telling stories about our experience with this dru- I mean song. this entire album felt like a psychedelic experience even while stone sober. then I listened to it on weed lsd and dmt..... i have not before and have yet to have a psychedelic experience that can match it in how incredible it was.
I suppose it was about 1990 when I first heard the Swans… then it was Skinny puppy and all the rest after that. Angels of light is also highly recommended.
listen to this song on 220ug. I’m a puppeteer in a puppet’s skin and bones playing actor director and producer of my universe it’s so ruthlessly beautiful. I’m joker in the mirror and christ on the cross it all lives through me i bare the pain with love. Thank Swans for reminding me of this experience of being. I’m being played by god but it’s alright.
another searing lampoon from the 'burbs...I am glad that's still how it is there, frivolous social critique without the tension of the urban interface!
Dear boomers:
It's a meme. In the original video- the girls weren't actually reacting to Helpless Child.
Figured that of course...what are they actually reacting to?
@@demogorgonn BTS.
@@youtubeuserdan4017 lmao zoomers and their effeminate pop idols
@@chadking5988 to be fair.. I am not sure that New Kids On The Block, Backstreet Boys and NSynch were much better.
@@chadking5988 Oh please. Millenials had no better out of all the myspace emo/screamo bands filled with falsetto-sounding men in tight pants and black nail polish who were all secretly in it to sleep with 14 year olds.
They are indeed Swans fans. As you can see, they are wearing tshirts with the initials BTS ''Bring The Sun'' .
Two years ago I've had a surgery. I was lying in a hospital bad tripping balls after anaesthetics listening to Soundtracks for the Blind for the very first time. I think hearing the instrumental part of Helpless Child that day made me go through a near-religious experience as if some devine power transcended into the hospital room. Love this song to death now.
lift yr skinny fists is my go to soundtrack for staring up at those spongey ceiling tiles whenever I go to the hospital
Listening to the entire song would be enough to induce the necessity of surgery on any previously healthy person. This "music" should carry a health warning: "may inflict damage to the brain cells."
But I approve of it: it confirms four fundamental laws of nature and one important fundamental law of Rousseau's social contract ; 1.That nature and the natural world has a time and place for everything, even crap like this.
2.That even the talentless may be successful in some shape or form.
3.While some people see only shit, others see edible shit to be enjoyed and eat lots of it repeatedly.
4.The relationship between different forms of psychological manipulation (brainwashing): both the fact that if most people like something, others will simply like it too, as opposed to when hardly anybody likes something there will always be a small reactionary group of people who like it - simply because others don't.
1. from Rousseau's social contract: giving everybody and anybody the right to vote democratically was a huge mistake.
@@mediastarguest 🤓🤓🤓
@@knyazshyshkin🤓👆
@@mediastarguestoh my god
this is me after the 2h30min of soundtracks for the blind
love your profile picture
@@KroisikLP thank you friend
Mediocre record tbh
@@milkmedia1657 I don't respect that statement
@@joaovalente7806 I was just really bored by it ngl
I remember listening to this for the first time. For a moment it felt like nothing else existed.
it really is tectonic. Feels like something mother earth would make. I heard it while tripping balls and my goodness...
I had listened to this album before, but the first time i really *heard* it was when I was really depressed and sick in my dorm room, trying to get some sleep. The section played in this video was the moment it felt like my soul left my body. Just an out of this world, delirious experience. God bless Gira and his cowboy hat.
18 no job, no gf, no plans and living in a rented room blues
I think every Swans fan vividly remembers the first time they heard this incredible track.
the organs and synths tear me up
I used to love listening to this album blissed out on the couch in a twilight sleep state that the music would induce. Then the live version of "Yum yab" would snap me back to reality.
AND BLOW YOUR BRAINS
OOOOOUUUTTTTT OOOOOO OOO OOOOO OOOOOO OOOOO OOOOUUUTTTTT
Once every year or so, I go to bed listening to this album, and I'll usually be drowsy by The Beautiful Days, half asleep for the next couple of songs until All Lined Up completely obliterates my peaceful rest. Then I'll power through until the first disc is done (Animus is especially powerful in that last waking moment), go to sleep and then wake myself up to Jarboe singing about some gift...
Fell asleep once to this song and had a dream about climbing a mountain of corpses using only a sword. Was ascending towards this heavenly white light while this angel choir kept getting louder and louder in my head.
Some real shit
some ppl have dreams of just falling and waking up, then there is you
Berserk dream
Griffith?
Ancestral memory. 100% real.
that's fucking cool
I don't wanna sound pretentious or anything but it's so beautiful. After how depressing the song is the beautiful synth comes on and it feels like everything is going to be okay
nice pfp :)
@@emomu ik where your pfp is from, nice pfp :)
I like to think of it as a long hug after a loooong day :)
@@CaitPepsi beach house bloom, tysm :)
I see it like "It's all going to be okay because nothing is going to be okay but that doesn't matter anymore now."
I got to see them play this in person on their 95 tour. Fucking godhead moment.
i would pay upwards of a million dollars to see them during the swans are dead tours
you are the luckiest guy in the comment section and beyond
dude, i saw them w low as the opening act on the soundtracks tour in philly. it was the loudest concert i ever went to.
That was the best show I ever saw from them before they split up. Their music had a a blend of beauty, horror, and madness They really delivered it well that night. Wish I saw more of that tour.
@@jack_rabbit Most of that night was new material that I don’t think ever got to the studio. The live album was superb, still… The direct they were heading with soundtracks, I was so looking for more studio output from them.
this album is so full of dread to me, it dredges up all these locked away memories and makes me feel grossly alive, it’s honestly such an effective work of art imo
i totally agree. ive listened to this album at least 100x since it came out. it takes me to a place that i have trouble describing, but you did it well. thanks
Saw the Swans way back in 1989 when the band started playing in this more mellow ethereal style instead of the pummeling and harsh dirges of the previous records. I loved that show and it was still really loud and made an impression on me. “Raping a Slave “ and Holy Money were the songs I was familiar with at the time only later did I realize that Godflesh was kinda emulating the early Swans sound only with drum machines. Anyway it’s interesting that these young people are giving this band a listen because the Swans music across the board is gonna clear the room of most casual music lovers. Whether it’s the abrasive and transgressive early albums to the more textured and beautiful sounds of later post 1980s works the Swans are a challenge to listen to.
…who gon tell him?
Yeah, we love all of it. Their newer material from the past decade is just as good if not better than the old stuff. Helpless Child might be fav song of all time, it’s beautiful.
Also, Anthony Fantano. That too. His influence is pretty crazy.
@@rubberboy9381 I will.
Mike, this isn't the original video. In the original, the girls are listening to BTS, the Korean boy band depicted on their shirts. It's become a meme, a self-replicating idea. Whoever made this video has made it look like they (the girls) are reacting to Swans.
I never thought I would find something like this because it’s rare to find swans related content aside from music, but I can agree with this
This truly makes my day
Not sure why I got this in my recommendations, but this is one of the most underrated albums ever.
Overlooked might be a better description, since this album seems to get a lot of praise from those who've heard it.
if you're a peak human being this is your exact reaction to it
Why is this getting views so fast right now? Where the hell are you all coming from?
showed up in my youtube homepage
i love swans
The algorithm works in mysterious ways
saw it on my feed, i listen to a lot of swans. maybe that's why?
@@TheSPY1997 same with me.
First listen be like
this is genuinely how helpless child gets me
I would’ve never thought that a single song could trigger an existential crisis in me and make my entire past flash before eyes for an entire 15 minutes straight….
CHRIST, I WAS DEAD WRONG!
Whenever that organ comes in I feel like I've gained mountains worth of knowledge I wasn't supposed to know.
Is the Swans fandom getting more memes or have we been shitposting since Filth and I just didn't notice?
soundtracks for the blind is THE prize jewel on the already glorious crown that is the swans' discography.
except for Yum Yab and Hypogirl. Remove those two songs and it's a 10/10
@@nicknickson3650 nah, they add variety and a bit of humour in this dark trip
@@nicknickson3650Dunno. Yum-Yab has grown on me a lot after a while and live version of Hypogirl is amazing (although I miss a scream in the beginning)
So what's in the screen? Gira's killing the child?
This is me every time I listen to the live version of Blood Promise
Or just the studio version. Blood Promise live or not live is fucking beautiful.
the Swans are Dead version of Blood Promise is heartbreaking
gawd this fucking anime shit
nothing can replicate the first listen to Helpless child.
I reacted like this to Swans when I was a teenager. Michael Gira puts the fear in all of us!
Once he looked me dead in the eye. Scared the shit outta me
@@rayrayfad3654 Same! I want my innocence back!
This is me after listening to Ed Sheeran.
This song blew my mind. It was overwhelming for so long.
I want to see a Prisoner In Your Skull reaction where it's just someone having a panic attack
My favorite album. It got me through some rough times.
Imagine Gira watching this .
Added to my "Music" playlist.
swans memes are top memes
What's the original video?
ruclips.net/video/ISs1T4lQspg/видео.html
@@youtubeuserdan4017 thank you brother. glad to have a comrade with based politics and cool music taste.
This is the sole purpose of internet.
Real art is art that moves you ❤️
Listening to swans after finishing silent hill was nothing but I loved how it felt like an extension of it
SInce where all telling stories about our experience with this dru- I mean song. this entire album felt like a psychedelic experience even while stone sober. then I listened to it on weed lsd and dmt..... i have not before and have yet to have a psychedelic experience that can match it in how incredible it was.
i need to listen to this on lsd
This song made me fuckin cry in awe
The algorithm has chosen you
I love this so much.
I kid you not this song literally altered my vision while I listened to it, it was a surreal experience
rcb x swans
I suppose it was about 1990 when I first heard the Swans… then it was Skinny puppy and all the rest after that.
Angels of light is also highly recommended.
How I Loved You is a 10/10 album.
listen to this song on 220ug. I’m a puppeteer in a puppet’s skin and bones playing actor director and producer of my universe it’s so ruthlessly beautiful. I’m joker in the mirror and christ on the cross it all lives through me i bare the pain with love. Thank Swans for reminding me of this experience of being. I’m being played by god but it’s alright.
Best song of all time
real asf
It's a brilliant track but you have to check out 'Feel Happiness'
Thanks for the tip. Gonna check it out now.
Too real that song fucked me up
thanks to you sir I will be listening to this song on repeat for another week
why is all this anime shit styled like how we grew up
instant tears
Wonder what they actually reacting to
Apparently, it's BTS.
They look like they're watching 2 girls one cup for the first time
I'm pretty sure they're watching that alligator eating a family's dog video that's kicking around the Tube
I've reported this video to Michael Gira.
I mean can you blame anyone, it's really a devastating song
theres no time like the first time my god
Helpless Child is beautiful, not scary
They cry because of the emotional nature of that part, not because it's scary.
Best lyrics in a Swan song is a repetition of the line -
" God bless you, damn you to hell."
So true.
i thought that swans was immune to cringe reaction videos
I would genuinely like to try this for real, by getting a couple of young girls, and seeing how they react to the song.
They would probably get bored :(
I showed like 10 seconds of animus to my cousin and she loved it, she's 14 y.o.
@@lautaromontoya3993 Neat!
Oh, God, where is this video with the Godspeed song?
another searing lampoon from the 'burbs...I am glad that's still how it is there, frivolous social critique without the tension of the urban interface!
What?
@@youtubeuserdan4017 I feel that I get this video
all us who searched "m gira breaks dust" or "dog reacting to swans blaring near food bowl" got routed here
This sounds so Australian
BTS = Blind The for Soundtracks
Har!
Sounds pretty good. Think I'll check em' out
Never doubled over over Swans before
Hey, that's me listening 2 swans
Damn I felt this way on my first listening, either. Helpless Child is unmatched.
at last, SWANS memes, what a wonderfull moment to be alive.
bet youre a gamer
Anyone else appreciating OP's profile picture from Pyroclasts?
from a facebook shared link
swans but make it hopeful
Pretty much my reaction, chilling in my mates room whilst sipping a jack and coke...
this but unironically
why are you all styled like how we grew up ?
like why is this happening ?
@@ktiitfa2491 i have no idea what youre talking about
now i really want to know wat they were really listening to
BTS (apparently)
You're a freak, whoever made this video. Thumbs up.
You are more fucked up than me.
the way they are reacting makes you think that they are actually watching some tragic, sad or morbid stuff
they were reacting to a bts music video
Helpless children listening to Helpless Child. Swans have made far louder and 'worse' music btw, especially in 1982-1985
Cop > STFTB
You are correct! Early Swans is terrifying in comparison to this stuff.
@@pathogensmusick Boom crash boom crash "ARHSHDSIUFHKSAHDK!!!" Boom crash...
Yum Yab is where you get scared, not Helpless Child. HC is a gorgeous, unending trance-dirge. SFTB is on par with the Holy Triptych, imo
Do i have to listen to the entire album to get this or just the song?
Both
the song works well on its own but the entire album is good
highly recommend listening to the entire album
finally someone understands
Well...well, fuck. I mean, I just don't know what to say.
two girls and five guys and a cup
he ain't wrong tho
What’s the original meme from?
According to other comments, they're listening to BTS.
what is the original vid?
ruclips.net/video/ISs1T4lQspg/видео.html
glad i'm not the only one who gets emotional at this part. i get the same effect from the swans are dead version of blood promise
what were they originally reacting to?
BTS.
@@youtubeuserdan4017 what the hell is "bts"
@@spatrk6634 korean boy bands who raid our cultures styles and attach our cultures to the worst music ever
@@spatrk6634 A boy band from South Korea.
@@ktiitfa2491dude it's just a korean boy band, it's not that deep
I don't think I've ever liked a video faster
Ambience will fuck you up man.
Kids stay away from vibes.
Okay but wtf was the original video they were reacting to? Was it like an Isis beheading or something??
They were reacting to BTS. I *wish* they were reacting to a beheading instead.
Oh haha that puts the video in a bit of a different light
I love you youtube algorithm
real
That's exactly how I reacted to my first Swans record.
this was my first swans record. still my fave next to To Be Kind
so what is the video they are actually reacting to? I've seen this meme a bunch and want to know.
BTS or some shit.
Was amazed someone was reacting to the Swans, and turns out I still haven't seen it.
Soundtracks for the blind made me come to terms with being neurodivergent/having Asperger’s
me irl
this is extremely accurate though