Swans/YMMV
< Swans
Subjective tropes associated with Swans and their music include:
- Archive Panic: Finding what song came from where in what version can be maddening to the dedicated fan.
- Crosses the Line Twice: The ballistic Hardcore Punk tribute "Freak" on Filth definitely qualifies, as do the monologue on "I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull" and the boisterously gruesome lyrics to "Reeling The Liars In".
- Crowning Music of Awesome
- Face of the Band: Both Jarboe and Gira.
- He Really Can Sing In Audible Octaves: Gira on Children Of God and especially Love Will Tear Us Apart.
- Nausea Fuel: "Your Game" on Body to Body, Job to Job.
- The lyrics are Gira reciting a short story he wrote, later to be published in his book The Consumer, filled with other equally disgusting and disturbing stories.
- Paranoia Fuel: "Not Alone" from Swans Are Dead, most of Soundtracks for the Blind, the interludes from Love Of Life, "Look At Me Go"....
- Tear Jerker: Often, the most famous being "God Damn the Sun".
- The final chorus to "Blind":
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No, I was never young, |
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