Swans - Blood Promise (Live)

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  • Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2024
  • Swans are Dead (Black Disc) version of Blood Promise, which is easily one of my favourite songs of all time.
    edit: can't believe i was 14 when i uploaded this masterpiece of a song to RUclips because I couldn't find it anywhere lmao, still love it a lot tho

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  • @tropicwave1
    @tropicwave1 5 лет назад +113

    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

    • @mindmy609
      @mindmy609 4 года назад +11

      very dark lyrics however there was an atonement for this passion

    • @mr.zaiked3058
      @mr.zaiked3058 3 года назад +15

      I love the final
      AAAAAAAAA

    • @rururu5877
      @rururu5877 Год назад +2

      Baa baa baa naa naaa naa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • @heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382
    @heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382 3 года назад +267

    "Well, we're done, and we'd like to thank you for being here-
    "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
    iconic Gira moment

    • @Ss-pn4vd
      @Ss-pn4vd 3 года назад +48

      Joseph slipped out for a couple seconds

    • @jacobmorris2877
      @jacobmorris2877 3 года назад +9

      @teirvsedei It was almost certainly an edit together of two completely different concerts.

    • @minhaalakbar
      @minhaalakbar Год назад +6

      @@jacobmorris2877 its from the end of this: ruclips.net/video/pfeEThv3gTI/видео.html&ab_channel=ImaginalComponent

  • @abominacao_disgenica
    @abominacao_disgenica Год назад +67

    The final boss of rock 'n roll music in its profound sense of physicality.

  • @erlexar
    @erlexar 5 лет назад +95

    6:43 that was some ancient celestial hymn he sang lol so fucking awesome. Call it depressing whatever but to me this is music to my soul

  • @buoy9665
    @buoy9665 3 года назад +135

    if you listen close to the guitar at the end of the song you can hear how its slightly out of tune compared to just 7 minutes prior, it shows how hard they beat the shit out of those strings. bravo

    • @koollegged5739
      @koollegged5739 2 года назад +19

      Pretty sure the bassist said he broke one or two strings during this performance.

    • @thenero7583
      @thenero7583 2 года назад +3

      @@koollegged5739 where did you see this

    • @koollegged5739
      @koollegged5739 2 года назад +8

      @@thenero7583 I read it in Sacrifice And Transcendence, the oral history of Swans

  • @DemonSlide
    @DemonSlide Год назад +29

    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.

    • @MegaHariboboy
      @MegaHariboboy 14 дней назад

      This sounds like a perfect copypasta hahaha

  • @davidtalbot9325
    @davidtalbot9325 4 года назад +75

    This song, played on this same tour at the 9:30 Club, 1997, was the most profound live music experience of my life. No words can do justice to it. It was an annihilation.

  • @ryannMW7
    @ryannMW7 6 месяцев назад +15

    One of the greatest music of all time

  • @CrickeyNyan
    @CrickeyNyan 4 года назад +85

    This track always leaves me speechless. My absolute favorite from Swans Are Dead.

  • @YungJackTorrance6
    @YungJackTorrance6 2 года назад +58

    It doesn't get any better then this. And I don't think it ever will

  • @jasonlynn1017
    @jasonlynn1017 2 года назад +38

    This is one of the sublime-est pieces of music in the history of music, regardless of century.

  • @PavelMarkovic88
    @PavelMarkovic88 4 года назад +88

    I've dicovered Swans with "Blind" and I must say that this is the best thing I find in last year, just next to Protomartyr. Unique and extreme music, not for every one I think.

    • @mindmy609
      @mindmy609 4 года назад +8

      just recently heard this one but soundtracks was my first ever exposure to the band 98' Helpless child really sticks out

    • @taz2026
      @taz2026 4 года назад +12

      Props for Protomartyr!

    • @coba3220
      @coba3220 3 года назад +4

      Thank you for getting me into Protomartyr!

    • @parkurist
      @parkurist 21 день назад

      Thanks for mentioning Protomartyr, I think I'm liking it.

  • @takashimizutani1808
    @takashimizutani1808 3 года назад +45

    This evokes certain feelings in me I never knew I could feel before

  • @Ss-pn4vd
    @Ss-pn4vd 3 года назад +21

    the guitar at the end is so haunting and hollow, my favorite part i think. Of course as well Gira screaming

  • @mindmy609
    @mindmy609 4 года назад +26

    i keep coming back to this live version its eerily heart breaking im fixated with this song and the ultimate covenant that sealed the BIBLE

  • @HillsSilent
    @HillsSilent 8 лет назад +46

    Heard this last maybe close to a decade ago, so glad to hear it again.

  • @lawannatanner4624
    @lawannatanner4624 6 лет назад +143

    "We are all little lambs who have lost our way"

    • @bartverweire
      @bartverweire 5 лет назад +17

      Thanks, been looking for this for years. Appears to be from "The Whiffenpoof Song". See ruclips.net/video/bnO4gUkTiCY/видео.html (from about 1'23")

    • @ricothepoolboy1758
      @ricothepoolboy1758 4 года назад +1

      @@bartverweire DUDE. Thank you. sounded vaguely like SOTP. Great ear. Cheers

    • @arnoburtner380
      @arnoburtner380 4 года назад +1

      @@ricothepoolboy1758 what is SOTP?

    • @nremac
      @nremac 4 года назад +3

      @@arnoburtner380 Sons Of The Pioneers, the band from Bart's link

    • @arnoburtner380
      @arnoburtner380 4 года назад

      @@nremac It's literally the sample, but thanks anyway

  • @bartconnelly6926
    @bartconnelly6926 6 лет назад +37

    love this song in this version and have listened to it at least once a week for the past year.

    • @YungJackTorrance6
      @YungJackTorrance6 2 года назад +1

      Haha I'm sure it has been 4 years now. Same for me

  • @UntitledKirk
    @UntitledKirk 6 лет назад +64

    Incredible, beautiful, just perfection in musical form.

  • @ericmsandoval
    @ericmsandoval 7 лет назад +89

    It's almost as if Gira himself trolls us there at the very end lol

    • @x-mb7kj
      @x-mb7kj 2 года назад

      Fucking drunk. Need him to taklk. 10 minutes

  • @philiphaller1018
    @philiphaller1018 Месяц назад +1

    Gives me goosebumps every single time

  • @svperstar
    @svperstar Год назад +6

    at one point, back in 97, in london, england, at the last show on that tour, this was the last track they were ever gonna play live.

    • @bobros2736
      @bobros2736 6 месяцев назад

      actually this isn't the recording of the last 97 performance, this is ruclips.net/video/TpO3b1p3EjY/видео.html

  • @bea-vw3qk
    @bea-vw3qk 2 года назад +12

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

  • @marshall7027
    @marshall7027 3 года назад +32

    If there's anybody out there who can show me a band better than Swans I am all ears. Somehow I highly doubt anybody could.

    • @doxskew2221
      @doxskew2221 2 года назад +15

      Try boris. They have long epic songs similar to swans. There ablum flood is worth your time

    • @NoNamedNobody692
      @NoNamedNobody692 2 года назад +19

      As well as Godspeed You Black Emperor.
      They even came in on r/swans top 10 artists (behind swans of course lol).
      Stereotypically so, their 2000 album “Lift Your Skinny Fists To Heaven Like Attenaes To The Sky” is an absolute MASTERCLASS in Post-Rock / Ambient Music. Absolutely MASTERFUL.

    • @clsagst
      @clsagst Год назад +9

      I would second Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I love Boris but honestly I don't think they reach this level

    • @harrysmith5340
      @harrysmith5340 Год назад +17

      Boredoms!!! You gotta check out Boredoms! Japanese band that I'd say gets equally as large sounding as Swans, different vibe but defo a similar breed of beast. I'd recommend Super AE, Vision Creation New Sun, and Super Roots 9
      Also I'd point you in the direction of This Heat, British experimental rock from the late 70's and early 80's that is a bit more experimental in the studio than Swans but defo have a similar appeal
      Outside of 'rock' bands, people like Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham are important ancestors to bands like Swans and Sonic Youth, and for sure paved the way for them

    • @marshall7027
      @marshall7027 Год назад

      @@harrysmith5340 thank you so much

  • @robertfrippgaming6924
    @robertfrippgaming6924 3 года назад +44

    How does this exist?

  • @el_mal_de_ojo
    @el_mal_de_ojo 2 месяца назад +2

    I reckon this is the best live album ever made.

  • @-k-b-
    @-k-b- 9 месяцев назад +5

    This version feels like it would've fit snug on SFTB

  • @epsonBaptism
    @epsonBaptism 6 месяцев назад +5

    This is their best track. Few if any Swans songs have this much substance

  • @rururu5877
    @rururu5877 2 года назад +9

    We'd like to thank you-
    HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • @cellularsenescence
    @cellularsenescence Год назад +8

    15:15

  • @Goonette-gp9fn
    @Goonette-gp9fn Год назад +6

    Couldn‘t believe they played part of this the other night in Germany

  • @daviddavid-ud9bt
    @daviddavid-ud9bt 3 года назад +4

    They were amazing at the Somerville Theater in Boston.

  • @ratskin1782
    @ratskin1782 5 лет назад +27

    I was at the Final Concert...LA2....met Gira outside and went to an after party with Swans and Nick Cave. Hutchence was there a few months before he went away.

    • @theslydog59
      @theslydog59 5 лет назад +6

      How was this song? This recording is from their 2nd last concert before splitting up, and I heard that the recording of their last ever song, Blood Promise, couldn't be used. Also, that Gira went on stage naked. True/false?

    • @twint9
      @twint9 5 лет назад +10

      @@theslydog59 Gira did go onstage naked! There are photos!

    • @ratskin1782
      @ratskin1782 4 года назад

      @TomorrowNeverKnows 1995 was The Gret Annihilator tour and I was at the LA2 gig for that. Not sure i it was the final gig of that tour. The 1997 Swans Are Dead tour LA2 gig was the final gig of that tour. I have the cd-r that Jarboe sent me of it.

    • @ratskin1782
      @ratskin1782 4 года назад

      @@theslydog59 Both true. But Gira only came out naked after the last track to wave goodbye.

    • @ratskin1782
      @ratskin1782 4 года назад

      @TomorrowNeverKnows I also got the cd-r. From Jarboe and 2 other 97 gigs free. No tours in 96 unfortunatly.

  • @TeenageJesusSuperstr
    @TeenageJesusSuperstr 3 года назад +12

    Makes me livid that this isn’t on Apple Music

  • @marke9088
    @marke9088 6 лет назад +37

    It's not "the" Swans. Just Swans.

    • @JohnCane147
      @JohnCane147 3 года назад +2

      Jarboe called them "the Swans" in an interview, so fuck you

    • @marke9088
      @marke9088 3 года назад +8

      @@JohnCane147 She said a lot of things but I go by the creator of the band who I've met twice and when I asked Gira he said it's only Swans. No need to swear at me. Stay safe.

    • @JohnCane147
      @JohnCane147 3 года назад +4

      @@marke9088 yeah I was joking don't worry. I kind of like how "The Swans" sounds tho lol

  • @ClimekCrap
    @ClimekCrap 4 года назад +3

    stunning

  • @seansabu310
    @seansabu310 Год назад +3

    This is serious business ....

  • @voidman9
    @voidman9 2 года назад

    What was the source picture on the other upload of this (the two people chained together)

  • @Sean-ht9gp
    @Sean-ht9gp 11 месяцев назад +3

    Swans is all great music summed up in a sonic catharsis

  • @tortimania5734
    @tortimania5734 6 лет назад +10

    Un canal en español, sii! ¿Podrías pasar la letra? Gracias por subirla

  • @lubrano3049
    @lubrano3049 9 месяцев назад

  • @zamboni33
    @zamboni33 Год назад

    💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @JOE-nr4hi
    @JOE-nr4hi 2 года назад +2

    Definitive

  • @PolicemanPlanet
    @PolicemanPlanet 6 лет назад +1

    Thank you so fuckin much for dis

  • @Michael-Gira
    @Michael-Gira 2 месяца назад

    HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  • @licas63
    @licas63 Год назад

    Pere Ubu

  • @ionlyusepics
    @ionlyusepics 3 года назад +18

    8:50 is just so chilling

    • @YungJackTorrance6
      @YungJackTorrance6 2 года назад +5

      My favorite swans song

    • @YungJackTorrance6
      @YungJackTorrance6 2 года назад +9

      I know exactly what your talking about . A rush just goes threw my whole body lol

    • @McBignLargeBJ64
      @McBignLargeBJ64 2 года назад +5

      I know, it almost too much. I start sweating

    • @flergus2
      @flergus2 2 года назад +5

      9:22 is also chilling, shit starts getting real here

    • @coldercoronet6248
      @coldercoronet6248 2 года назад +1

      @@YungJackTorrance6 I’m glad their’s more Semetary and Swans fans out their.