Swans - Killing For Company
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2017
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I love you,
- Michael Gira / Swans / Young God Records
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It can't be a Swans song without Gira saying "Skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin"
suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun
What about jarboe saying "ri-ivererererererer"
sangre de dios
@@adorno_gang37 buena foto
@@adorno_gang37 amooor de dios
This is probably the greatest song of my lifetime. Thurston Moore said this was the 'band to end all bands', this is certainly the song to end all songs. Every second is a black hole.
Who gives a shit about what Thurston Moore says ?
Where did he say that?
one of the sexiest songs ever.
never ever gets old.
Jarboe makes this song. She has an almost supernatural ability to craft haunting minimalistic sound scapes. Her work on this record and soundtracks for the blind is absolutely brilliant.
Capolavoro assoluto
Charles Beaumont 1929-1967:- "The face of evil looks like yours and mine."
Swans' creepily brilliant song about Dennis Nilsen still sounds as compelling as ever,
25 years later.
David Tennant did a magnificent job of portraying him in all of his mundane cruelty.
He was eerily like Nielsen it was quite intense viewing!
Jarboe's backing vocals are amazing
yes
la laaa😇
I've been listening to Rock, metal, doom, thrash, black metal and all that shit since I was like 13. I always thought I was listening to very dark and unsettling music but once I came across Swans I got the unshakable feeling of overwhelming darkness in every single one of their songs. The lyrics really strike like a fucking knife right into your soul. Goddamn it.
^what he said...
Death Metal is like a piano without black keys compared to Swans. :)
Coil are orders of magnitude better. Swans are still good, just a fact.
@@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan I saw coil one time at and all ages show somewhere in the suburbs of Denver Colorado in 1986 I think it was.... maybe 1987... it was them and the Butthole Surfers... I think it was six bucks for cover... Talk about a value!🤘🤘🤘
Godflesh too
Thank you Gira and Jarboe - you made the 80’s and 90’s tolerable.
Ayy an Arab listener!!
My favorite Swans song
same
this song depicts Dennis Nilsen so well that it's crazy. It's so good.
Actually it's inspired by him
I can experience the most profound despair and sadness when listening this song
I'm so in love with this song. Crazy that a song about a serial killer could be so beautiful.
Evil by Interpol is a good example of one that broke into the mainstream.
Sufjan Stevens - John wayne gacy jr
You gotta listen to In Absentia by Porcupine Tree. Like half of the songs are about rapists and killers, yet it's absolutely beautiful
@@juankgonzalez6230 fucking great band
Judging from the title, it could also be a song about a hitman, which was my first guess.
Damn, to think that I had Mr. Gira in front of me, greeted him, thanked him for an amazing show as he autographed my concert ticket... such an amazing guy
I have met him thrice - each time, he was nothing but graceful and grateful.
I love this band more than myself
The greatest band of all time
i like their dreamy stuff so much
I’ve heard this song and Blind any other recommendations?
the great annihilator is on the lower end of my swans ranking but this song is absolutely amazing
i cry myself to sleep every night with this song 🥲 gonna go cry brb
I've listened to this shit a hundred times.
Great song. I used to work in the same Job Centre as Denis Nilsen after the arrest his old colleagues said he was a lovely guy, union rep etc scratch the surface...
This song brings with it a mix of tragedy, pain, despair and nostalgia. Swans is everything.
That description makes me blush every time. G-Gira senpai...
Ikr. Now I want to buy his records.
Right
lmao these comments man
Ha
Every time I read this, I chuckle
I am good at being alone. As a matter of fact being alone is probably the only thing that I am good at.
"Killing For Company"
I couldn't stop myself
I knew I'd do it again
But I could heal myself
If I could feel your skin
And if I comprehend this moment
I know we'll live again
And if I heal your wound
We will make love again
And now we're slipping through
This millennium
We should feel sorry for the people
And can I kiss your skin?
And there's hunger in the desert
And missiles in the sky
And every soul is interwoven
Before the wrong or right
I know we'll live again
Though it's just a feeling
I know we'll never end
I'll keep you company
I'll keep you company
I'll keep you company
I'll keep you company
I'll keep you company
Thank you
In my top ten albums of all time, such dark beauty.
I've always heard OF the SWANS But never actually heard much by them.. Aaand I'm So glad I've finally got into Them!.. very inspiring.
It's "Swans" not "the swans"
@@smoshbooz chill out
@@spacefertilizer they were pretty chill
@@smoshbooz 🤓
Anthem of loneliness.
kindred spirits among the lifeless
I wish I could heart this comment
I don't think any other song deserves this title as much as this one does.
Or anthem of a lonely psychotic killer?
Marcus Åkerman Sometimes you’re average lonely person who might never hurt a fly otherwise is dangerously close to becoming a monster/killer. If you’re alienated enough, you lose yourself
this is my fav song and album by Swans. I am the Sun is superb too.
Mother/father ; " Celebrity lifestyle " ... this album is just superb .
I just love your voice in this song. It is so enchanting....
So sensual too! Especially when it gets to the end with the vocal exchanges between him and Jarboe, and the way he moans...
yes
thanks
This song was inspired by the Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen, who would kill people for company...keep their bodies, prop them up to watch TV with him, bathe them, etc...
Wow about your friend!!! ....also True that, it is a same way as the song Jenny from Falco..somehow makes in a strange way as you say to feel sympathy... I dont know about this story and im not sure maybe yes maybe no have seen this movie But i Listen yesterday for first time this song..from a lovely friend.. and i come today to listen it again. Is very nice:))
@@originalherbalist ah dude your friend almost became curry. thats weird
Awe
I don't imagine serial killers listen to music at all. Music is about feeling....which they don't have
@xisobelx373 Dahmer didn't want corpses...he was trying to make zombie sex slaves. Get it right!
to be played loud when it's your birthday but your life has fallen apart
Thank you Michael Gira, I look forward to owning physical copies of the works of swans. I enjoyed your write-up here.
you brilliant. with you since 86. thanks
nice, swans and serial killers are two of my favourite things
edgy
mine is chocolate cake and stalin
Lightning bugs and rape for me
tumblr personified
How about a Smile Guide?
the ultimate love song
I think this is my favorite Swans song yet.
Writing a book to this. I love you all.
i made an edit of this song and would love to hear your suggestions!
ruclips.net/video/ScsfuiWIMgI/видео.html
@@nightshiftts makes it more internal for me, thank you for the edit. I love it.
Chills, every time.
Holy shit the bass in this song is amazing.
To go pair with "Very friendly" by Throbbing Gristle ; two all time classics
" ... drinking soOme ...Germaaaaan wiiiiiiiine ...." . Why is it that part always comes to mind when I think of that song ?
@@saraivatoledo1842 I`ll never forget that Aemon Andrews was on the television ........... And that it was `The SMITHS` who rang the Police and cried "theres been a M m m muuurdeeer"
@@barrythornton9947 Cool. Plus your english is apparently superior to mine ...I was reading what I typed and wondering what I must had been on when I typed that the way it is. Albeit, " ...drriiiiinking soooOme GermaN wiiine !!! " is indeed catchy for some reason which I can´t truly explain to myself ...maybe I subconsciously enjoy my German wines ,definitely not teh nazi connotation some people give to it ...I´m one of the most "Nazi punks fuck off !!! " people out there .
Also ,might just be the nazi connotation strengthens the shock value of it all ... bloody dissecting a simple phrase from a simple song ...I can be such a loser and a nerd it scares me 😂 .
What a gorgeous cut off of the album. An album that I must explore a lot more. Swans seem to have a lot of depth to their 90s output.
Yes
@@samschofield2824 yes
@@cooldude123817 yes
yes
@Грецов Алексей All Swans is great. My favourite is Filth.
I feel like this song belongs somewhere on Buffalo Bill’s Dungeon Playlist right along with Goodbye Horses.
Lyrics:
I couldn't stop myself
I knew I'd do it again
But I could heal myself
If I could feel your skin
And if I comprehend this moment
I know we'll live again
And if I heal your wound
We will make love again
And now we're slipping through
Through this millenium
We should feel sorry for the people
And can I kiss your skin?
And there's hunger in the desert
And missiles in the sky
And every soul is interwoven
Before the wrong or right
I know we'll live again
Though it's just a feeling
I know we'll never end
Like there was no beginning
I know it's cold tonight
I'll kiss your velvet skin
I know we'll never end
I'll keep you company
I'll keep you company
I'll keep you company
Sublime
In my top 10 swans songs? Very VERY likely.
Favorite Swans song
No you dont understand I need to inject this song into my veins
perfect song for a single guy on xmas eve......
Hey, I hope it gets better this year
Playing this now. Xmas Eve 2019
valentines in like 30 minutes
Lol, good luck with corona. This Christmas and New Years were awful but it seems this year is gonna be worse 🤣
Me realizing it's Valentine's the day after I had a mental breakdown
This song is superb.
The whole discography of the band is suberb.
In my opinion, this is the saddest piece by SWANS.
I dunno, man. Helpless Child is pretty motherfucking bleak.
"Failure", guys
No one gonna mention Goddamn the Sun???
Blind is the one for me too. xxx
yeah first album I heard by them 1998 pre psychologically fuct me up after listening dropped 3 hits of blodder bad trip mirrors and scissors soundtracks for thee blind but you are more fucked up than me let me give you one example
My fave SWANS song
Love this song! All of my cds are put away right now. Glad I can add some stuff in a playlist. Thanks!! I heart you.
And there's hunger in the desert
And missiles in the sky
And every soul is interwoven
Before the wrong or right
I know we'll live again
Though it's just a feeling
I know we'll never end
Like there was no beginning
I know it's cold tonight
I'll kiss your velvet skin
I know we'll never end
I'll keep you company
I'll keep you company
I'll keep you company
I always found Dennis Nilsen (the guy this song is about) an especially "gothic" sort of person and an incredibly "gothic" song is the perfect thing to tell his story.
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The song, itself, is very spooky, morbid, sad, creepy and yet... weirdly beautiful in a strange, sick sort of way.
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Nilsen was a man so utterly lonely that he lost his marbles for a bit and started killing guys so they could be like "Real Dolls". He craved a relationship but couldn't keep real ones with living people. Like Jeffrey Dahmer, he craved companionship and yet was incapable of it... to have those two opposing things and not be able to handle it is a tragic state to be in. Add the fact that both were necrophiles and... well... you get two sick puppies who murdered guys so they could have corpses for boyfriends.
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Both Nilsen and Dahmer were pitiful. Their crimes were monstrous, but they were pitiful.
They weren't pitiful they were abominations and they deserved swift deaths.
No they are not.
Don’t romanticize serial killers.
Masterpiece
i can't belive I'm listening this song, look for Dennis Nilsen right now.
there is a very beautiful version of this by TEMPERS
i just love that woman
both good versions of course
one of their best
This is a beautiful song
I love this guy
i love the slow paced feeling. anyone got recs like this?
Blood Promise
You'll keep me company
It’s so good 🎶🎶
I'll keep you company...
Love you too.
Beautiful! See you in Porto in a couple of weeks.
Augusto Bastos R Sou do Brasil e sonho em ver um show do Swans.
Veri Good!!!
terribly beautiful
...and the best!
amazing
It sounds like extasy. Damn good song
Great!
The great song...
(...) Y hay hambre en el desierto, y misiles en el cielo...
So compelling...
Underrated
I should not relate to this song as strongly as I do
Dennis Nilsen died 6 days ago in prison.
good
RIP?
Feels bad, man.
Mark Kozelek should write a song about his death.
@@gimmedataids Rot In Peace
this song makes me cry
Hermoso
Two years later this song keeps haunting me
Wow
his despair is my joy. there's someone out there more sad than me.
I've been single for 27 years and it seems I am invisible to women - O wat I wouldn't give for some company
@Sudipta Banerjee The song is fundamentally about loneliness. Don't be a jerk.
masterpiece
el mejor tema del album, temazo
Estoy obsesionada con esta canción
Tomasz Beksiński nie powstydziłby się tego puścić na trójce. Skojarzył mi się z tym kawałkiem...
Zdecydowanie
Tomasz puszczał kiedykolwiek Swans? Mam takie mgliste wspomnienie, że kiedyś czytałam o jego ojcu, który włączał Swans do malowania...
this is so good…….well good being a criminal understatement
i love swans :^)
You guys are fucking EPIC. Thank you for making your music.
im imagining goin out in the actual desert (i live in one), putting this on,inhaling some dmt ,then suddenly being on like another plane of existence
it would have to be like one of the greatest things you could ever experience as a human/person
nah this song is strictly reserved for scopolamine
I think helpless child would be better, or this mother's milk and where does a body end could do well with your trip too
Best on The Great Annihilator album
Swans is the greatest band of all time. Not up for discussion.
Me too
3:25 ... sublime
wtf this is swans
wow .
🖤
4:30 ❤️
OUI !!!! un petit aire de Virgin Black =) !!!! thank you !!!!!
je vous merde tous I had never heard of Virgin Black before now, THANK YOU!! ❤️ theyre awesome.
Geminiangel ;) =) ok no problème !!!!
speed up to 1.25 for Depeche Mode mode
picco logna Exactly what I thought
Then speed up to 1.50 and we have The Cure mode
Hi people. You have no idea how much I've loved your music...well, since White Columns. :) I played with Emily XYZ the last day but, Emily yanked me out of Life Cafe (my first day there too).. fuck 'em... and said, YOU want to see this band. So, I did. The only other band even close to you was when I saw Tar. I hope you're all safe and thank you so much for so much enjoyment.
Swans destroys or deracinate music then re assemble entirely new ascetics of expression , they truly are pushing the limits of what music can be they are more focused on creating an experience rather than music