“This album is so depressing that it is actually about to make me break down and start crying. This is not a band to turn to when you feel bad. I’m not sure exactly how they do it, but the tones they choose and the slow, methodical way they present them somehow set up a mood of unending gloom and pain. Life is never going to get any better. I am going to feel like this until the day I die. I don’t want to, but I can’t stop. I try everything they tell me to do and nothing works. I don’t deserve to be alive. I am wasting a perfect life. I’m blowing it. I know I will lose it all soon. I can’t keep it together anymore. It’s too much. If you don’t feel it, I can’t explain it. I see no possible end to the psychological, emotional, mental torture that my brain puts me through every second of every day. I would be better off dead and everybody who knows me, especially those closest to me, would be better off if I was dead. I hate myself so much, it astonishes me that anybody bothers to like me. I am a worthless piece of shit. I can’t even tell the difference between fatigue and depression anymore. Am I depressed because I’m tired? Or tired because I’m depressed? And why am I anxious 24 hours a day?
As you may be able to tell, this is the absolute finest example of the Swans’ ability to take a shaky mood and completely smash it into pieces. There is no light on this recording. And it is a LONG double-album recording. Goes back and forth between studio and live pieces recorded between 81 and 85, with each track more punishing and cruel than the last. This is the sound of ultimate despair. Nobody I’ve heard has recreated it this convincingly, not even Neurosis. This is the one. For God’s sake, don’t buy this album. It is perfect Swans.” – Mark Prindle
Swans
Body To Body Job To Job
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Tracklist:
01. I’ll Cry For You
02. Red Sheet
03. Loop 33
04. Your Game
05. Seal it Over
06. Whore
07. We’ll Hang For That
08. Half Life
09. Loop 21
10. Get Out
11. Job
12. Loop 1
13. Mother, My Body Disgusts Me
14. Cop
15. Only I Can Hear, Only I Can Touch
16. Thug
17. Raping A Slave (Live Berlin 1984)
