Swans - The Glowing Man
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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imagine listening to this track, thinking it's the entire album
00:00 Intro
03:47 Head-Splitter
06:00 Interlude (Stan)
07:32 Sad But True (but the first bar is looped 1024x)
15:07 Elvis Presley discography instrumental
23:23 Contact Microphone in a toilet
26:45 Outro (aaaa)
LMAOOOO
@@Mrguitarcover1234 you make me laugh so hard
@@martinhotesha Thanos? Lmao
@@Mrguitarcover1234 "Elvis Presley discography instrumental" lmao. there's a percussion sound (which I believe is) in the drum line to that section that does give me old school rock and roll vibes. It sounds like one of those wooden instruments you scrape with a stick (guiro?)
I’m at a party and it’s my turn for the aux.
How'd it go?
Lol@@alexz4752
Joseph made you do it
@@22z83simple as.
For me personally, one of my favourite musical experiences I have ever had.
Same.
15:08 I half expected Thom Yorke to come and sing Bodysnatchers when I heard this
The crossover we need
Thought I was the only one who heard this
Krautrock influences
Has the light gone out for you?
I may not be able to get through a feature-length movie in one sitting, but I will happily do nothing but listen to this song three or more times in a row uninterrupted
I'ｍ glad I'm not the only one lmao
swans makes 30 minutes feel like 10
You should be proud of that ability
i feel attacked (in a good way)
lol this song is alot why would u listen to it all the time?
joseph is making me comment on this video
My name is joseph, and you are a liar.
joseph praise this comment section
Joseph made me onto the glowing man I am😢
Who is Joseph
@@cahesolo9267 everyone
My dog is scared of this, and most swans songs from The Seer on... I let the dog outside and fall into a trance, life is good. Treats for dogo after, of course.
From an Angels of Light interview:
There’s this person I call “Joseph” who has been the sort of the puppeteer of me, for my entire life. And he’s an entity that speaks through me on occasion, so it’s more like giving up to Joseph. Many of the songs are written through him. - Michael Gira
What
That's actually pretty fascinating.
When Gira has those moments of self actualization, Joseph comes through him. It's as if Joseph has been growing inside him his whole life, getting larger and more sinister.
demonic possession?
Sometimes when artists explain their lyrics, it ruins it. This one makes it way better.
The song to end all songs...
this song feels like something gira pulled out of the dirt it has a very primordial quality like the musical equivalent of a cave painting.
I mean this in a good way btdubs
You're right. Something about this record feels timeless to me, more so than pretty much any other Swans album. Something about the music is just so universally profound that I think no matter what the current trends are musically, this will always exist to utterly baffle you. Pretty much perfect record besides a couple of small moments for me with multiple genuinely perfect (or the closest to that it you can get) tracks if you ask me.
Yeah it's raw and visceral. Like a wounded animal fighting back.
Joesph is me and you are a liar
I think it's because it subverts expectations in a way that is considered unconventional and chaotic. It's really something to behold.
This song has an insane grove in the second half.
Also the loud guitar distortion(?) Right after every "i am the glowing man..." Make my mouth watering
Truth. That part when it kicks into really high gear in the last quarter. Almost too much
CAN - Mother Sky
Yeh I flipped out live. But Gira hates moshing. SO dance in place.
@@thepopgroup3366 It's the perfect levels of distortion. Gira's a master
This is nothing less than a masterpiece.
I don't think there's anything as raw and brutal that gets close to this.
Presumably, the greatest song of all time.
quite possibly the one following it is....
I AM A GLOWING MAN I AAAAAMMMMMMM
I READ THIS EXACTLY AS GIRA SANG IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
feed us michael
Feed us NOW!
yanquiuxo joseph will
Wrong album tho ;)
This song is absolutely unbelievable
7:31 if there was ever a sound of simultaneously being uplifted to heaven while being beaten down
TheCandyHole I call it rape. Even if your mind eventualy breaks, your body will still be receiving pain/pleasure
Francisco Almeida your interpretation does pair with the lyrics "no no no no no no no yes no no noooooo"
This part sounds a lot like the beginning of Bring The Sun
Some Art Nerd the glowing man is actually a result of the continued evolution of Bring the Sun while they toured in between albums.
I like to think of it as falling into a black hole and get stretched as every single atom in your body gets ripped apart, becoming the glowing man
Love how they extended the first part of Bring the Sun.
i just discovered swans. im gonna look back on this day in 20 years with absolute fondness.
Most songs would be over by the time the vocals come in on this
this is honestly one of the greatest achievements of mankind.
grow up
@@ujjut5660 That was random of you
@@ujjut5660 🤓
@@ujjut5660 GLOW UP
One of the greatest songs I've ever heard, from one of the greatest albums I've ever heard
MrMeepbeep I really thought To Be Kind was the pinnacle of not only Swans music, but rock/avant-garde in general. As I’ve listened to The Glowing Man, I’ve come to realize this is the only album that surpasses it.
Thanks Frankie
Brilliant.
@@WillieG1016 I agree with you wholeheartedly, I love To Be Kind, it ascended to incredible heights. The Glowing Man used those heights as a springboard to completely rearrange fucking everything. It's taken me years to realise just how fucking incredible this album is, I obviously think it's better than To Be Kind.
Over the years, I started believing this is their best album since Soundtracks For The Blind.
dissapointed that not enough people are talking about how raw the drop at 3:46 is, it's probably my favorite moment in any swans song
Mongolian throat singing Gira really goes hard
the first time i heard that i physically lurched. my favorite riff of all time
AAAAA EEEEHHH AAA EHHH AAAA AAAAA EHHH
it's up there, I think 7:33 has it beat tho
Droppy BLOP!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA
the trilogy:
T H E S E E R
T O B E K I N D
THE GLOWING MAN
Y E S S ! ! !
H E L L Y E A H ! ! !
thanks for making life more bearable
Especially nowadays.
Mustafa Al-Sibai
Okay okay okay we *get* it. 2020 isn’t that good.
Just commenting because I don't want this comment section to be dead on such a great song
I love you too, Gira-senpai :3
cringe
Based
Gira onii-chan
Miguel Spins
the chord that re-enters at 16:30 from earlier in the song is so goddamn gritty and sinister holy shit
It's like the signal that the vocals are coming in soon.
Even though I prefer To Be Kind, this is the best song they've ever made and it's also my fav song ever.
How can something be your favorite if you prefer something else?
@@notspider-man7777 I am guessing they are just saying they like "to be kind" as a project, but this track is better compared to all the individual tracks on "to be kind".
Imagine being the heaviest metal band - all proud of how heavy you are and shit - only to hear the first half of this and realising that you will never match up to the heaviness of some old dudes playing one chord for 4 minutes straight.
metal is for kids
@@paolovallejo8022 facts
@@paolovallejo8022 You need to listen to Boris, man. “Flood” and “Amplifier Worship” are masterpieces.
gotta love the pretentious rock fans trash talking genres that they haven’t even tried
@@exile8955 fr
"To Be Kind" is very in your face about its tone and attitude, and you either love it or hate it but you know very quickly which one it is. "The Glowing Man" as an album is a stranger thing, much more introspective at the lowest points and yet managing to expand endlessly at the highest points. Some of the most brutal passages of Swans' entire 30+ year run distilled. Just this track alone is completely life-affirming, reality-shaking, mind-bending totally.
Well uttered mister,well uttered!
So this band is for psuedointellectuals?
I only feel ambivalent towards TBK because half of it is hypnotic and addictive, and the other half I just find obnoxious and self-indulgent. TGM, on the other hand, is a solid 8/10 for me. Pure power.
@@qriofficial1769 Which tracks do you find obnoxious and self indulgent? I can understand thinking that about oxygen and the title track and maybe bring the sun, but none of the rest
Greatest band in the world... I like them so much that even in this age where people expect music to be free I still buy their albums, because I want them, as prized possessions, and to support the band, with my hard earned cash.
Me too. I've bought everything they've released on vinyl since 'reforming' in 2010. I slept on the CD-only releases, wish I hadn't - the live albums are sometimes even better than their studio counterparts. I have multiple copies of everything on wax.
YES
I think I can hear screams of terror in the last few minutes. it’s like the glowing man is ascending to heaven while stepping on the bodies of those who didn’t make it
He doesn’t make it. The album is partly about what people do to fill the void when they’re confronted with the silence and indifference of God. Hint: it isn’t good
@@orbitalbutt6757 interesting take but im not sure about the silence and indifference part. gira has said multiples times he doesnt bash on faith/god - and if anything i dont think this song is about god, perhaps transcendence.
I've been listening to this song since ages, I check the timebar and still got 7 minutes to go.
Damn you, Glowing Man
I'm listening for my second time and my thoughts are simultaneously "this is amazing" and "let's wrap this shit up"
Wow, this EP is dope! 🔥🔥
Sometimes I like to just put swans on low volume and use it as white noise to fall asleep to
@Ivory_ Lagiacrus_YT x2
yep
The last part of this song definitely can be used for white noise
Crushing grooving atmospheric transcendent genius
I can't stop listening to swans in the last few weeks, im going trough really though times right now and this band will hold a place in my heart forever till the day i die
This is the Swans masterpiece, most acclaimed song of this era made by them, and I totally see why 👏👏👏👏👏
Swans are as close as music gets to perfection. You can't guess where things are going to go from one moment to the next.
What the drummer is doing at around the 7:30 mark is hard as fuck to do for 4 straight minutes plus the fill at the end. Lord
He does it live tho.
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Flams are e z
I can do flam taps at 180bpm; 193 if I have my mt dew soda in me.
I think I sort of died after this track... I had to rewind n listen again in the middle of it. oh god I love you Michael.
Happened to me with To Be Kind a LOT
There aren’t enough dimensions of space for me to move my body to this song
Micheal Gira, don't stop until you drop!
Post-hiatus Swans fighting Pre-hiatus Swans for the best band of all time
Listening to this is the equivalent of going to church, loving thy neighbor and understanding the truth of the universe all in one. Swans will always resonate to my soul and make me feel whole. It is the most healing and cathartic music to listen to. Easily the top ten tops of music to listen to feel whole and healed.
You know those comments on music videos that say “I showed this to _ and it turned into _?” I feel like this is the only song capable of actually doing such a thing.
My dog listened to this song once and now she is a ball of molten lead.
@@haytionette accurate
I agree
Except no one comment that because everyones ears and head is too fucked up after listening to this glorious shit
I showed Joseph this and he made my body fly
I used to ride my bike to work in st. paul, and when it got too cold, I'd put on a down jacket and run the 3 miles, post holing through unshoveled sidewalk snow the whole way, and this song was exactly the right length and motivational force. It made me feel like I was going somewhere cool, instead of work.
Great, cheers from Coimata, Tarija, Bolivia, Southamerica!
Que bueno saber que escuchan a Swans en Bolivia, mi patria! Boliviano pero viviendo en el Reino Unido por 15 años.
What a beautiful idea.
La mejor canción de la mejor banda del mejor album de la historia. Nisiquiera los géneros musicales mas prestigiosos como el progresivo musica clásica o jazz me hacen dudar de tal afirmación. Mi canción favorita probablemente por la eternidad.
Banco
I love the second half so much that bassline rivals screen shot
What a perfect song
Between war, symphonic music and the power of mother nature ...
Damn I discovered Swans a few MONTHS ago and it's easily in my top 5 bands now. I really hate the fact that amazing music like this doesn't get very popular just because it's different and unique. I recommend this stuff to people and they don't like it cause it's too "weird". I recently became a mild insomniac and this band really helps me out with anxiety and helps me fall asleep. I hope these guys get recognized and appreciated more, cause they certainly deserve it.
this songs making me a fucking insomniac cuz of how long it is
also friends are cringe
Hairy Ballbastic
Then...don’t listen to them?
@@s-o-m-b-e-r but its so good
Hairy Ballbastic ah I thought you were disagreeing. It is indeed, so good.
if swans were mainstream it'd lose its appeal
also it not being mainstream doesn't make it unpopular. swans is a household name in the music community.
The bridge section from 12:00 to roughly 15:00 is just flawless and whimsical.
To Be Kind is like going from bunker to bunker and watching a nuclear explosion
The Glowing Man is like walking through a detonating minefield
Then The Seer is the warning of that nuclear explosion
The way the description is worded in an oddly personal way. I like it.
Why did it take me so long to see something like that?
This song is extraordinary but the repetitive riff from 7:30 takes it another level, if that was possible.
this song is like a thunderstorm, at 0:00 until 3:47 its like the storm coming, 3:47 to 7:30 its like the first bit of the storm, then at 7:30 it goes into full mode, with thunder, lightning, rain, hail (if you live in Kansas then a tornado). At 11:58 the main storm stops and it stays at light rain, and at 15:00 to 28:51 its just rain. Yes, i made this up on the spot.
wait why does this make so much sense
@@benjybrasington9508 i made it up during a storm
@@Hi-11291do you mean Storm by Godspeed You! Black Emperor?
this is so real
This track and Helpless child are the only things I have listend to (as of yet) that ive physically needed to lie down for a couple minutes after
7:32 I swear this is just the beginning of Bring the sun but slightly faster. Either way, incredible song.
the song was conceived during extended jam periods of bring the sun
I think all of the newer swans records are supposed to reference one another as a greater work or universe
It really is.
if you read the book Power and Sacrifice: an oral history of swans, you'll read that The Seer turned into bring the sun/toissant l'oveture, and then into glowing man. they are all basically an evolution of one idea
@@zlessly What is the book of power and sacrifice?
I'm on 600ug rn and listening to this shit in silent darkness is fucking terrifying
Just curious, how did you know the exact dosage? I havent tripped acid since like 2006, back then we just found shady white guys with dreadlocks and took their word for it (ie "don't take more than 3" type of useless advice)..
@@cowboydan8021 my guy advertises the dosages
Listened to "The Seer" in a hot salt bath in complete darkness on 220ug and felt the presence of god carrying me through the matrix it was so beautiful and ruthlessly terrifying. I put myself through an actual rebirth and it made me so grateful for everything in my life you gotta love it.
Swans + big-boy acid doses is a match made in heaven/hell. I almost always trip with 400ug and Swans is always there with me in one way or another. Listening to their discography on acid is why TGM is my personal favourite of all their releases - it becomes a portal to a different reality.
Literally the best thing ever
goosebumps goosebumps goosebumps goosebumps goosebumps goosebumps overdose.
thank you very mych for making this world worth living in. from mexico with love
7:30 i get goosebumps everytime.
same dude, my favorite part of the whole album
Agree. Almost paralysing power and intensity.
🎵I get those goosebumps every time🎵
@@randabibblia8231 I need the heimlich, throw that to the side
Just listened to this for the first time but it wasn't enough so I'm listening to it for the second time
listening to this while working out
I started my Swans journey with this song after failing to get into the discography 9 months earlier. Even though every album I've listened to is beautiful in their own way, The Glowing Man (the album and the song) is still my absolute favorite.
Every time I hear that intro, I'm being brought back to when I first listened to this before school. I remember when I finished it, I immediately rewound it and listened again. After the second listen, I went to bandcamp and played the whole album 2 times in a row.
This album was like an actual drug. I couldn't focus in school, and this music was the only thing I would talk about all week (my friends probably got really tired of me, ngl). After all of this, I did tons of research into the band, made a mental list of every album I wanted to listen to, and then jumped straight into the Swans rabbit hole.
Anyways, I would say the song is pretty decent lmao.
This song is in the same key as "Bring The Sun/Toussaint L'Ouverture". If you want to experience this track differently, I can recommend playing the 1st part of "Bring The Sun" (without Toussaint L'Ouverture) before the 2nd part of this track, starting at 15:00 minutes. The transition is nearly smooth and it energizes an already energetic tune further.
One can also chew on some mushrooms.
@@BlueArcStreaming Indeed.
the seer's title track is also in the key of d minor (the key of 'bring the sun' and 'the glowing man'), all of them centerpieces of their respective records. it really seals up the trilogy
This song was actually birthed from them touring Bring The Sun and it eventually evolved into some skeleton version of this, that they kept developing further and further!
@@TwigCity interesting! makes sense then
thank you for all you have done
I love you Michael. thanks for all the music, thru all the changes.
Witnessing this song live (it was "Black Hole Man" when I saw it) is probably ly the greatest thing I will ever experience.
That whole period of Swans on tour was something truly, truly special. Caught them in 2017, I feel absolutely privileged that I was there to see them at the height of their powers.
Thank you. Great stuff..... I’ve just bought The Seer, To Be Kind & The Glowing Man......Epic works in every way.
One of the best periods in the history of music!
I like the way he says I am a glowing man i am
I wonder why most music cannot even touch this . . . . Largely, I think, it's because this goes completely beyond music
Because this latest incarnation of Swans is less about the logic and reason behind music, and more about the sheer feeling of it. The physicality of it. It's not about 'getting' the band, you can't 'get' Swans, just experience it. Swans live (saw them during the Deliquescence release period, after The Glowing Man) is an otherworldly experience, 3 hours of volume and power hitting you constantly, exhausted from standing, nearly hallucinating from the sensory overload. Yes, god damn yes, this goes beyond music. This is a portal to your inner self. Ecstasy!
Ok ill like your comment just for 7 up but still, it does not go completely beyond music, what am i supposed to do pause it? Put it on mute? Get outta heere
the live shows are pretty crazy but actually shut up about this. this is real music, it does not "transcend" and you don't need to be a genius to like it. it's just a good instrumental and good singing, like every other song
shhhhhh don't ruin the fun
words words words words words
I am a n-n-n-n-nothing mannn , I am a glowing growing man
Absolutely amazing!
This is PHENOMENAL. I always knew that certain Swans tracks really have an hypnotic quality to them, but this one's something special. :)
This is what I'm talking about. This is rawk. 🤘🙂
2020 needs some SWANS
this is as long as a swans song
This is the best Thing.
27:17 what a epic and heroic way to finish such a msterpiece, gives me chills those voices...
Hearing this song makes reverent of what loops of notes can do to make a hypnotic experience better.
So intense! I love this song.
Simply magnificent. Thank you.
take all the great things of to be kind and make it into a song, this is it. it’s a thick and elusive sound of magic, groovy rock, crushing crescendo and unsettling melodie’s one of the best songs ever made. this is the only 10+ minute song i don’t find myself skipping ahead in and enjoying the whole thing.
I always listen to this song while cooking.
*Michael Gira, reading my comment with a rifle in his hands:
-The chase begins
amazing sound.....
The scream at 26:45 is crushing
It is fr the best part of the song
Gira took fall damage
FANTASTIC
Force of Nature
my brain is melting
best moments of this song:
7:33
12:46
15:07
20:18
23:20
Was at the last concert they did in nyc. They played this and we fucking danced
I was there also. Could not help but leap.
this song is amazing
Swans best song
Brad taste in music brought me here.