Swans Are Dead

Swans Are Dead

Infobox Album
Name = Swans Are Dead
Type = Live album
Artist = Swans


Released = 1998
Recorded =
Genre = Experimental rock, post-rock, art rock
Length =
Label = Young God Records
Producer =
Reviews = *Pitchfork Media (7.7/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22182-swans-are-dead link]
Last album = "Soundtracks for the Blind" (1996)
This album = "Swans Are Dead" (1998)
Next album = "Various Failures" (1999)

"Swans Are Dead" is a double live album by Swans. It was released in 1998 and was recorded in 1995 and 1997 on the band's final tours.

The setlists of this era in the Swans live show were probably the most varied in terms of chronology. Although many of the songs performed were culled from "Soundtracks for the Blind", the band also resurrected songs from much earlier albums, including a reworking of "I Crawled" from the Young God EP.

Track listing

Disc one (black)

# "Feel Happiness" - 16:57
# "Low Life Form" - 4:54
# "Not Alone" - 13:12
# "Blood on Yr Hands" - 2:59
# "Hypogirl" - 3:22
# "I Crawled" - 10:05
# "I Am the Sun" - 5:26
# "Blood Promise" - 15:23

This disc was recorded in Amsterdam, New York City, Trondheim, Prague, Brussels and Atlanta on the band's final tour in 1997.

Disc two (white)

# "Final Sac" - 8:43
# "The Sound" - 12:51
# "I See Them All Lined Up" - 6:46
# "Lavender" - 8:02
# "YR PRP" - 8:51
# "Yum Yab" - 4:36
# "Helpless Child" - 17:44
# "M/F" - 3:25

This disc was recorded in Norway on the band's 1995 tour.

Likely due to time restraints, several songs played during the tour did not appear on "Swans are Dead". During the 1995 neck, the "Great Annihilator" tracks "In" and "Alcohol the Seed" were setlist staples; "Animus" also appeared, but infrequently. Shows from the 1997 tour usually included performances of the unreleased song "My Birth" and a nascent version of "The Man With the Silver Tongue" from the Angels of Light's debut (on which also appears an acoustic cut of "Not Alone").

"Feel Happiness" is one of Swans' handful of live-only tracks.

External links

* [http://www.swans.pair.com/DISCOGRAPHY/swans_dead.html Swans official website - Swans Are Dead]


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