Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind REACTION/REVIEW

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  • @riob7810
    @riob7810 Год назад +88

    Disc1
    Red Velvet Corridor 1:09
    I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull 2:41
    Helpless Child 6:08
    Live Through Me 11:50
    Yum-Yab Killers 13:10
    The Beautiful Days 16:03
    Volcano 18:25
    Mellothumb 21:01
    All Lined Up 22:14
    Surrogate 2 25:22
    How They Suffer 25:45
    Animus 28:39
    Intermission 32:28 - 33:13
    Disc 2
    Red Velvet Wound 33:19
    The Sound 34:26
    Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey 38:28
    Blood Section 40:08
    Hypogirl 41:14
    Minus Something 42:52
    Empathy 44:58
    I Love You This Much 47:03
    YRP 48:53
    Fans Lament 51:34
    Secret Friends 52:20
    The Final Sacrifice 53:13
    YRP 2 56:04
    Surrogate Drone 56:58

  • @toomuchmustard8809
    @toomuchmustard8809 Год назад +147

    13:07 To my knowledge nothing from SFTB has been used in a movie, but one of the main ideas of the album is being a soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist, which makes the listener sort of "blind" to the context, only hearing the movie.
    Edit: The child singing on The Beautiful Days is Jarboe as a kid, the same person doing the vocals on Yum-Yab Killers, Volcano & Hypogirl
    Edit 2: The people on How They Suffer are Michael Gira's father talking through his blindness and Jarboe's mother, going through the early stages of dementia.

  • @san_dsouza7
    @san_dsouza7 Год назад +113

    This album gets better and better with every listen

    • @drackaryspt1572
      @drackaryspt1572 Год назад +5

      Agreed!

    • @adamseers
      @adamseers Год назад +7

      Literally any album

    • @Clooger-
      @Clooger- 15 дней назад

      ​@@adamseersBrain dead comment. There's hundreds of albums that had hype behind them at first and then fell off when people listened to them more.

  • @EyesForLies1
    @EyesForLies1 Год назад +72

    So some notes to the songs if you‘re interested
    1. The audiotape from I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull is actually a recording from a criminal being interrogated by the FBI, and he probably was just mocking them. But like you said, in the context of this record it seems like he is talking to a disabled person, who knows what he needs for his daily routines, but isn‘t able anymore to do the actions by himself
    2. The Woman featured on the tracks is Jarboe, who was part of the band until their hiatus in 1996, she is present on almost all the earlier work of them. The child’s voice on beautiful days is an old recording of her as well
    3. All Lined Up was the fantasy of Michael of all his enemies and hated persons being tortured in front of him
    4. How They Suffer features voice recordings of Michael‘s father and Jarboe‘s mother. They sadly both passed away not too long after the release of this record

  • @potato44_
    @potato44_ Год назад +52

    Definitely do The Seer next. That album is also messed up, dark, but has more of the climaxes from To Be Kind

  • @N_Wah_
    @N_Wah_ Месяц назад +3

    Helpless child is my favorite swans song, in my top 10 songs of all time, and it's a song I can regularly go back to and enjoy it front to back, and remain a powerful and epic building post rock masterpiece. Hell it's even a song I can relate to in a way, so it has a very strong place in my heart.

  • @biddleeewho4181
    @biddleeewho4181 Год назад +36

    The woman on the album is Jarboe! She was a part of the band from the mid-80s up until their brief breakup in the late 90s (she never rejoined in the 2010s, although she does feature on a song on The Seer.) She's killer. I love her.
    Also, the child recording in The Beautiful Days is Jarboe as a child
    How They Suffer is Gira and Jarboe interviewing their father and mother respectively. Gira's father is (obviously) explaining how he became legally blind, and Jarboe's mother was suffering from Alzheimer's and was living in a nursing home. Jarboe just asked her simple question about her physical condition at the time.

  • @alexandre-fu6zd
    @alexandre-fu6zd Год назад +22

    bro you just sat there for 2hrs lisitening to that😭 respect though, soundtracks for the blind is a hard listen but it is amazing

    • @chao3948
      @chao3948 4 месяца назад +5

      yeah cuz it's 2 hours long?
      - "bro you just sat there for 2hrs looking at that😭"
      - "sir this is a movie theater"

  • @pieter7947
    @pieter7947 Год назад +122

    this guy is so dedicated to the grind that he made blinded himself by stabbing a pen in both his eyes, so that he could enjoy this album to the fullest
    respect!

  • @svperstar
    @svperstar 10 месяцев назад +20

    OKAY, this is my fave Swans album, so I will see if I can leave some random notes I know from it.
    Let me start off by saying, I believe this "era" of Swans consisted of The Great Annihilator, Die Tur Ist Zu, Soundtracks for the Blind, and ending with the absolutely best live album I've ever heard, Swans Are Dead. Swans Are Dead consists of the tours for The Great Annihilator (disc 2) and Soundtracks (disc 1). The arrangements on that live album are so good, especially on tracks like I Crawled (some of Jarboe's best best best vocals heard here, sweet and helpless one second, demonic the next), I Am the Sun, Blood Promise (blows the album version out of the water), All Lined Up (so much better than any LP version), and Lavender (a Jarboe solo song).
    The album was made under the idea that it was gonna be the last album, so a lot of what is heard on here are from recordings done throughout the band's entire history. So there is a little of every era heard on here if you know what to listen for. After mixing the album, Gira tossed everything out.
    Helpless Child and The Sound are two staple Swans songs.
    Red Velvet Corridor is likely referring to a vagina (perhaps a metaphor for being born).
    Yum Yab Killers is a Jarboe song from her 1995 solo album.
    All Lined Up is a Gira song from his 95 solo album.
    A lot of the audio is from interviews the band did with friends and family (similar to what Pink Floyd did with Dark Side), plus, I believe, some audio was taken from some FBI tapes, through a member of Jarboe's family (?).
    Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey was my phone's morning alarm a decade ago for a bit. Not sleeping through that.
    The last bit of I Love You This Much was used, in a much much shorter, condensed version, as the opening to Lavender when performed live (as heard on Swans Are Dead).
    YRP is a remake of an old Swans song from the album Cop.
    The Final Sacrifice is a side project song (from a late 80s Skin album), a version that I personally like better, sounds like it would fit in with Children of God.

    • @antoniojesus0112
      @antoniojesus0112 9 месяцев назад +1

      I love to read this kind of comments. Very useful to see through every track

  • @shimme3526
    @shimme3526 Год назад +33

    im genuinley so fucking happy your reacting to soundtracks man

    • @shimme3526
      @shimme3526 Год назад +2

      also Ive always thought beautiful days was supposed to be about the kid in the beginning and depressing transition later on in life. Also the sample that's used is from Jarboe (the female singer) when she was a child

    • @shimme3526
      @shimme3526 Год назад +1

      There's just a lot of interesting samples in this album, like How they suffer uses both of Micheal Girls parents conditions before they passed

    • @friendlystranger9662
      @friendlystranger9662 Год назад +1

      ​@@shimme3526It's Jarboe's mom on the track, not Michael's. You can hear Jarboe talking to her as well

    • @shimme3526
      @shimme3526 Год назад

      @@friendlystranger9662 oh yeah, sorry it was Jarboe's mom not Micheal's

  • @Gdlolfind7
    @Gdlolfind7 Год назад +20

    I Love You This Much actually gave me PTSD

  • @YourFriendTina
    @YourFriendTina Год назад +28

    YOOOO LOVE THIS ALBUM

  • @tomwilliams8591
    @tomwilliams8591 Год назад +20

    Please PLEASE react to their final live album before they originally disbanded, 'Swans are Dead'. It is considered by many to be both one of their absolute best releases, but also one of the best live albums of all time.
    I long for your reaction to that album's version of the song 'I Crawled'.

  • @franciscoalmeida9019
    @franciscoalmeida9019 Год назад +16

    Bro, do The Seer next. From To Be Kind to Soundtracks for the Blind is such a stark contrast

  • @emajorchord7064
    @emajorchord7064 Год назад +10

    smags just casually reacting to the best album of all time

  • @fuckskyler
    @fuckskyler Год назад +11

    One of my favorite albums in the entire world. It scares the shit out of me lol

  • @drackaryspt1572
    @drackaryspt1572 Год назад +20

    Thank you for doing the album fully and not in parts because it just kind of breaks the immersion and the power this album has.

  • @l-_-l6277
    @l-_-l6277 Год назад +18

    Since you’re diving deeper into post-rock, I would recommend “He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of our Rooms” by A Silver mt. Zion. They were an offshoot from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and are a bit more minimalistic

  • @navadvipachandra6770
    @navadvipachandra6770 10 месяцев назад +6

    The first time I heard Swans it was recommended by a friend. I went to a record store and bought Soundtracks for the Blind and the Great Annihilator about October 1998. I went home and put in Sound Tracks for the Blind and my first reaction was this sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I started to fall asleep and was in and out. But the whole time i was listening very strange. I loved the experience and it took that experience to get Swans. I listened to the Great Annihilator in my car nonstop for about 3 months. Been a fan of M. Gira ever since. I even like the later stuff even more. Good to see the Zoomers giving Swans a shout out.

  • @Gabriel-re6sw
    @Gabriel-re6sw Год назад +11

    take a shot every time he says "Severely uncomfortable"
    seriously tho im loving the vids and you def gotta check out "swans are dead" which at the time was supposed to be their final album. its a collection of live songs and without a doubt one of the greatest live albums.

  • @Smiggieballs1
    @Smiggieballs1 Год назад +12

    Highly recommend marquee moon by Television if you’ve never listened to it. Extremely influential with no skips and some of the best guitar work I’ve ever heard.

  • @maxwagner6342
    @maxwagner6342 Год назад +38

    I did NOT expect to see this reaction so soon after to be kind

    • @maxwagner6342
      @maxwagner6342 Год назад +1

      ruclips.net/video/PIsFdU0YZSw/видео.html this video breaks down the themes of the album pretty well

  • @karson0000
    @karson0000 Год назад +20

    an hour long smags video, what a blessing

  • @nostalgia_clinic
    @nostalgia_clinic Год назад +8

    Some albums for your consideration:
    Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
    Brand New - Science Fiction
    The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
    🍻

  • @jaaqob2
    @jaaqob2 Год назад +7

    exactly 1 hour that's crazy

  • @benw2004
    @benw2004 Год назад +7

    bro said "and i took that personally" and listened to the WHOLE ALBUM in one sitting, thats dedication😂

  • @johnkramer2144
    @johnkramer2144 Год назад +7

    Fantastic reaction as always. Honestly, my music taste is expanding BECAUSE of your reactions to music I’ve never heard myself, and I get a different perspective/ insight into music I already know. Always a pleasure.
    So I have a suggestion if you haven’t heard these albums by this band:
    Jethro Tull : Stand Up, Aqualung, or Thick as a Brick
    Aqualung is definitely the best album for an intro into the band, Stand Up is a fantastic blues, jazz and folk album and Thick as a Brick a two song roller coaster of a jazz/ folk concept album.
    Any one of these are great albums.

  • @ismellcrack6108
    @ismellcrack6108 Год назад +4

    what an incredible experience listening to this the first time

  • @doctordog2048
    @doctordog2048 Год назад +5

    0:39 in that case, DO NOT listen to:
    Charles Mingus - the black saint and the sinner lady
    King gizzard and the lizard wizard - nonagon infinity
    GY!BE - alleghlugha! don't bend! ascend!
    Marvin gaye - what's going on?

  • @wakaran7790
    @wakaran7790 Год назад +2

    I am so excited to watch!!! I love swans and I love reaction content and they usually don't gel well considering how niche they are :)))

  • @nicknickson3650
    @nicknickson3650 Год назад +7

    no way he actually reacted this. You're crazy, but thank you!

  • @franciscodiaz5511
    @franciscodiaz5511 Месяц назад

    Increíble que hayas reaccionado a este disco.
    Uno de mis álbumes favoritos.

  • @rainbowvomitself
    @rainbowvomitself Год назад +5

    the track "Volcano" is about a woman having to do sexual favors to gain any headway in the music industry and it sort of serves as a criticism of the patriarchal power structure and abuse that was and still is an issue.

    • @Onche518
      @Onche518 Год назад

      I like to use it for all the tiktok and OF e-thots gaining fame by whoring themselves

  • @potentialhi7694
    @potentialhi7694 Год назад +4

    you really need to listen to Ys by Joanna Newsom, its my favorite folk album ever and the songwriting is mind-blowing

  • @assaghoff9187
    @assaghoff9187 Год назад +2

    Man btw The Glowing Man is fire and will blow your socks off!

  • @thegrinninggamer9325
    @thegrinninggamer9325 Год назад

    this album is so interesting to me. Also, I just recently got into tool and I think lateralus would be a good reaction if you haven’t heard that album yet, it’s just as good as it’s hyped up to be

  • @dancingheroes
    @dancingheroes 9 месяцев назад

    great that you loved this record!! i'm realizing that this vibe is heavily similar to what akira yamaoka did in silent hill 2's ost. a definitive listen! you'll love it

  • @bjrndencker6728
    @bjrndencker6728 Год назад +10

    you should check out Black country new road's first album "For The First Time" its so gooooood 😄

  • @Maxlovy0
    @Maxlovy0 Год назад +14

    I feel like you’d be into Lateralus by Tool if you haven’t heard it yet. It has that effect of having a constantly building feeling, but the building itself is the payoff. It’s some brain melting stuff! It’s a classic album, but I still don’t see it mentioned enough in online music circles.

  • @lordmarega
    @lordmarega 10 месяцев назад +1

    I listened to this album like 7 months ago and I still don't know how the songs are related and what the concept of the album is but it is amazing

  • @maxmiller1950
    @maxmiller1950 Год назад +4

    Flood by Boris!!!

  • @assaghoff9187
    @assaghoff9187 Год назад +2

    24:26 "I think we might be in a little bit of a cult"

  • @bjrndencker6728
    @bjrndencker6728 Год назад +6

    most consistent man since einstein

  • @EduardoIsSmiling
    @EduardoIsSmiling 11 месяцев назад +2

    The lyrics in this album feels like the samples of BOC but instead of making it ultra subliminar, hidden and modified in the tracks, they made the entire track explicitly about it

  • @ohwowwewoo1842
    @ohwowwewoo1842 Год назад +2

    You should give Animal Collective another chance. Preferably Feels or Strawberry Jam

  • @19eightyforeisnow
    @19eightyforeisnow 10 месяцев назад

    You should check out swans related project, it's a noise album that they made in 91 on alternative tentacles records.

  • @popeisyiyi1613
    @popeisyiyi1613 Год назад

    You should listen to The Ape of Naples by Coil. An album that is completely draining yet so hauntingly beautiful in a way that questions your existence. It was Coil’s last album due to John Balance’s death which makes the album speak to the listener more about him and his view on death. Truly a disturbing and fantastic album that not enough people talk about. Good choice picking this one though, SFTB is truly a masterpiece that doesn’t really sound like anything else.

  • @KarK1ttyy
    @KarK1ttyy Год назад +5

    soundtracks is one of those albums that can definitely get a bit overhyped in the music nerd way but i do think this album is special i remember being on a long car ride in the backseat at night and having it play in my headphones as we drove and we stopped a few times on these hills with outlooks and i didn't stop the album, that drive was insane. this album is very weird and special and I'm glad u got to experience it and we got to see it. also fun fact if im the first person to say it. one of the members jarboe the person who did the female vocals. her dad apparently worked for the FBI and its almost 100% confirmed a lot of those samples of people talking like on the second track are random recordings of FBI bugs or tapes they had.

    • @KarK1ttyy
      @KarK1ttyy Год назад +3

      also alot of lyrics like on helpless child are about Michael giras own childhood and parents if that says anything about how dark swans can get

  • @pumpkin_the_snek
    @pumpkin_the_snek 10 месяцев назад +1

    The man in How They Suffer is actually Mr. Gira's father :) fun fact

  • @opium1686
    @opium1686 Год назад +2

    you really should listen to the great annihilator in the next swans reaction

  • @nathanhunt3104
    @nathanhunt3104 Год назад +1

    Hum - You’d Prefer An Astronaut is a must listen

  • @j.prt.979
    @j.prt.979 Год назад +5

    The genre is just experimental/ambient and some post rock tracks
    Edit: yeah there’s some deeply disturbing lyrics on this album lol
    Edit: re:The Beautiful Days - nah I think the little girl and the recording at the end are related…

  • @socialist_elmo
    @socialist_elmo Год назад +1

    I would like to see you listen to "Home is in your Head" by His Name Is Alive, They're really underrated imo

  • @flynn6904
    @flynn6904 Год назад +4

    17:23 made me choke on my fuckin lunch holy shit LMAO, great video! :)

  • @SamantherPanther
    @SamantherPanther 3 месяца назад

    Live Through Me is really an incredible song

  • @drumsin4
    @drumsin4 Год назад +2

    Can you listen to black midis first two albums
    Schlagenheim
    Cavalcade

  • @respakss71
    @respakss71 Год назад

    You should review In The Wake Of Poseidon by King Crimson. It’s one of their best albums in my opinion. You should also review Foxtrot by Genesis.

  • @fjvlogs4364
    @fjvlogs4364 Год назад

    i remember first listening to this while playimg minecraft so i will forever associate this with minecraft

  • @brandonburroughs7128
    @brandonburroughs7128 11 месяцев назад

    When are you doin Girl with Basket of Fruit?

  • @BiggestMuscles
    @BiggestMuscles 11 месяцев назад

    I reccomend checking out "The Seer" next

  • @nicknickson3650
    @nicknickson3650 Год назад +1

    The Seer next!!

  • @jtotheulian708
    @jtotheulian708 6 месяцев назад

    23:05 was uncalled for that was the most random transition ever

  • @meatgrinder9506
    @meatgrinder9506 Год назад +5

    Since you’re listening to these longer albums are you going to listen to drukqs by aphex?

    • @smags1082
      @smags1082  Год назад +6

      Will probably be my next Aphex review not sure when though

    • @meatgrinder9506
      @meatgrinder9506 Год назад +1

      @@smags1082cool👍

  • @JustinAnglinVA
    @JustinAnglinVA 9 месяцев назад +2

    Trying to picture Michael Gira writing a 2 and a half hour long essay of why he hates blind people, and setting it to music. Lol kidding of course, but that'd be a comical amount of dedication to hating something 😆

  • @bluelight_blueheat
    @bluelight_blueheat Год назад +5

    it seems i misjudged you lmao congrats on getting through the whole thing 😂😂😂

    • @smags1082
      @smags1082  Год назад +3

      I started to feel it at the last 3 songs ngl

    • @bluelight_blueheat
      @bluelight_blueheat Год назад

      @@smags1082 i get it tbh. as incredible as it is, the second half being so much weaker often just completely destroys any insensitive to listen past animus a lot of the time for me.

  • @duckface524
    @duckface524 11 месяцев назад +1

    17:50 pretty sure they're the same person actually!

  • @DISCOD00D
    @DISCOD00D Год назад

    Incredible shit as always man, may I suggest Disco Volante by Mr Bungle. Best to go in totally blind but I reckon it'll blow ur mind ;)

  • @cuteasxtreme
    @cuteasxtreme Год назад +1

    The story behind Her Mouth is Filled With Honey is that she was tripping I believe.

  • @vorald4948
    @vorald4948 Год назад

    Great video

  • @OhMystii
    @OhMystii Год назад

    Should listen to the soundtrack for ‘Silent Hill 2’ by Akira Yamaoka, has similar-ish vibes to this.
    Though it’s not as weird or fucked up.

  • @pythonstone
    @pythonstone 10 месяцев назад +1

    After Swans, Kids are so fucking different for me😂😂

  • @pigammon7843
    @pigammon7843 Год назад

    NEVER GIVE UP. NEVER SURRENDER. MODERN VAMPIRES OF THE CITY BY VAMPIRE WEEKEND PLEASE

  • @barelyabear7956
    @barelyabear7956 Год назад +2

    This is awesome

  • @pythonstone
    @pythonstone 10 месяцев назад

    27:13 I cried here, when he said I'm legally blind

  • @velear7
    @velear7 Год назад +1

    yo can you do you're dead by flylo?

  • @turqdeth
    @turqdeth Год назад

    Bro is pure consistency in human form (day 7 of to see the next part of the dream by parannoul)

  • @thefunnytvmanofthenight1537
    @thefunnytvmanofthenight1537 9 месяцев назад

    This album is what the full spectrum of depression and despair sounds like to me
    This album changed the way I perceive music, art, and the world in general in a way
    The soundscapes on this album remind me of nightmares

    • @keithmorrison8373
      @keithmorrison8373 3 месяца назад

      Thats probaly the point and some just sound like bad trips

  • @misterdumb
    @misterdumb Год назад +1

    why no you do Radiohead? whas the matter wichu?

  • @jtotheulian708
    @jtotheulian708 6 месяцев назад

    17:19 got me rolling

  • @brandonburroughs7128
    @brandonburroughs7128 11 месяцев назад +1

    17:28

  • @severslwt9330
    @severslwt9330 2 месяца назад

    yea

  • @keithmorrison8373
    @keithmorrison8373 5 месяцев назад

    Pretty sure the reason the child was signing on the beautiful days is to make it feel like a horror movie

  • @CrunchyElia
    @CrunchyElia 6 дней назад

    I don't even know how to describe this whole fucking thing

  • @ColombianThunder
    @ColombianThunder Год назад +1

    Bro you remind me of Karsten Runquist for some reason

  • @peepnox7747
    @peepnox7747 Год назад +7

    You should check out the album “you won’t get what you want” by Daughters.

  • @individual5021
    @individual5021 4 месяца назад +1

    I think playing soundtracks to someone tripping would be the quickest non physical way to make someone traumatized

  • @ramonduran9002
    @ramonduran9002 4 месяца назад

    Unbelievable record, ,this deserves awards and more,,in my opinion better than the wall from pink floyd.

  • @apeheadboink
    @apeheadboink 6 месяцев назад

    michael i believe has expressed regret in writing All Lined Up lol which I think anybody would cause like holy fvck

  • @nicknickson3650
    @nicknickson3650 2 месяца назад

    Please react to Leaving Meaning. You'll be the first youtuber to react to it, just saying. It's a great album.

  • @keithmorrison8373
    @keithmorrison8373 5 месяцев назад

    I feel like i love you this much is meant to represeant the horror of blidness atleast thats what it sounds like to me

    • @keithmorrison8373
      @keithmorrison8373 5 месяцев назад

      2 other interpetations i have are like doubtfulness that someone loves you or the fake love of drugs

  • @lucki9155
    @lucki9155 Год назад

    🐇WEEEEEEEE

  • @keithmorrison8373
    @keithmorrison8373 5 месяцев назад

    I generally cant tell if jarobe songs are like allegory for addiction self therapy through messed up lyrics or really screwrd up humor cause some of that is so messed up that i cant take it serioisly i think its all of the above

  • @rufustherat1794
    @rufustherat1794 29 дней назад

    *lines about eating blades😂

  • @LumiNyte
    @LumiNyte 2 месяца назад

    i showed this album to a friend of mine and he said “they should make an album called ‘soundtracks for the defecating’ so that i can listen to them while shitting”

  • @jtotheulian708
    @jtotheulian708 6 месяцев назад

    17:29 💀

  • @whereami2700
    @whereami2700 10 месяцев назад

    The Seer

  • @jtotheulian708
    @jtotheulian708 6 месяцев назад

    19:52 swans is outta pocket

  • @Armin6873
    @Armin6873 Год назад

    Only theatre of pain by Christian death :)

  • @vmaximo185
    @vmaximo185 5 месяцев назад

    Yeah, I didn't enjoy this album. I mean, I kind of get why people enjoy it. It's just the demographic for this kind of music is very specific
    Good reaction as always