Children Of God/World Of Skin: Swans: Amazon.ca: Music

Disc: 1
1. New Mind
2. In My Garden
3. Our Love Lies
4. Sex, God, Sex
5. Blood And Honey
6. Like A Drug
7. You're Not Real, Girl
8. Beautiful Child
9. Blackmail
10. Trust Me
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Disc: 2
1. 1,000 Years
2. Everything At Once
3. Cry Me A River
4. Breathing Water
5. Blood On Your Hands
6. Nothing Without You
7. We'll Fall Apart
8. I Want To Be Your Dog
9. My Own Hands
10. Turn To Stone
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Album Description

Two crucial breakthrough records from Swans', 1987 & 1989 period back in print. Over 145 minutes of scary and beautiful music. Young God Records. 2003.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Atmospheric masterpieces, Aug 27 2006

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Children Of God/World Of Skin (Audio CD)

This 2-disc set combines Swans' 1987 masterpiece with various tracks from the first two albums (Shame, Humility, Revenge and Blood, Women, Roses) of their side project, The World Of Skin. The third album, Ten Songs For Another World, is not represented here.

Disc 1 is the original Children of God plus one extra track, I'll Swallow You. Only the first track New Mind and Beautiful Child are really harsh; elsewhere the softer side of Swans emerge, where the mood is mostly one of resignation or sorrow. The music is very atmospheric with innovative arrangements, especially the song Like A Drug (Sha La La La). The theme seems to be the futility of love as expressed in songs like Our Love Lies, You're Not Real Girl, Real Love and Blind Love.

Disc 2, the World Of Skin tracks, sometimes has Jarboe as the torch singer like on Cry Me A River and The Man I Love, while at other times her and Michel Gira's voices perfectly complement each other in eerie harmony. My favorites include Breathing Water and the awesome lullaby Blood On Your Hands.

Fans of dark, atmospheric rock music will love this double album. It explores the emotional side that can also occasionally be found in the work of artists like e.g. Meredith Monk, Mercury Rev, Nick Drake, Nico, Velvet Underground, John Cale etc. or in sacred medieval music. But here, it's found in a more extreme form. This is gothic with real substance. Swans are an acquired taste, but once you understand the music you're addicted for life.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The utter dark, Jan 22 2004

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FormerZygote "Opinion" (Right Here, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Children Of God/World Of Skin (Audio CD)

Swans have done so much for music, effecting music itself on an unconcious level. You can hear the eager strife of so many bands to capture what came naturally to Gira and Jarboe. It would truely depend on how well one knows music to give a decent description, but far more then knowledge it takes an open mind to love any band even close to Swans.

This album is a cold, soothing, beautiful and dark album and truely amongst thier greatests. While Swans began with Michael Gira without Jarboe and as something so aggressive and heavy with anger thier devouring and honest message had always been wakeing. In this album you can see how the patience and the maturity found the message and the evolution began to flow much faster and with not only the mind but the heart and the soul.

Swans would later go on to warm thier sound even more so with "Various Failures"(the inbetween albums are near impossible to find for now) but still you can hear the solidity and fluidity that never left them for a moment.

Swans music for this album was a mixture of heavily pounding beats at slow to mid tempo violins, viola's acoustic and electric guitars and synthsizers and various obscurities inbetween. Thier music will incant a mixture for the listener of gothic and american-folk music... early Industrial drum and synth patterns(remniscant of Coil, Clock DVA and Einsturzende Neubaten) and the ethereal and gorgeous ambiance of Dead Can Dance.

If you should happen to like anythng by Swans do yourself the explicit favor of purchasing "Various Failures"(my favorite), "The Great Annihilator" and this brilliant album as well.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not their best, maybe their most important, Sep 25 2003

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Noel Pratt "Kaviraj" (Washington, D.C., and better places) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Children Of God/World Of Skin (Audio CD)

"New Mind" and "Beautiful Child" are two of the best things ever pressed to vinyl or CD. Amazing and convincing rage. Or is it the drama of darkness. You decide. Very good album. On the strength of this record I went on to scarf up all Swans I could find. Leads into their most sublime period, that from 1989 to 1991...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Second Chance
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Published on Jun 22 2003 by SMTCA 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars The melody begins........
This album marks the biggest evolution in Swans. Gira starts to stray from the noise and dissonant sounds of his previous work,and adds melody. Read more

Published on Jun 17 2003 by ruiner4321