Six Swans songs from 1987 to 1996

I have avoided long tracks for this poll and have kept the list quite short for those who wish to check music out. These are six Swans tracks off various albums from the period of 1987 to 1996. Sorry if your favourites are not on this list from this period and for not covering other albums. I really fell for Swans when I first heard "Helpless Child" from Soundtracks for the Blind.

"Children of God"


"God Damn the Sun"


"Better Than You"


"Blind"*


"Mind/Body/Light/Sound"


"All Lined Up"


*Blind is a bonus track on a CD re-issue of White Light From the Mouth of Infinity and was originally off Michael Gira's Drainland.

HolyMoly wrote: I find “Blind” very moving.

I really love it and it moves me too. It's one of my very favourite songs.

For my mood du jour, however, I'll give a vote to "Mind/Body/Light/Sound". The Great Annihilator has been my main squeeze album of the day.

Difficult to choose, but ultimately "God Damn the Sun" for me, with "Blind" and "Better Than You" the runners-up.

Mind/Body/Light/Sound. 

I still haven't heard the 2010 album. I have heard The Seer, To Be Kind and The Glowing Man from the 2010s, and it's been quite a while since I listened to any of those in full (I surely appreciated them). And I still don't know the pre-Children of God albums well (will stream Filth soon). Of those I know, I have tended to think of Soundtracks for the Blind as the masterpiece, but I am most into The Great Annihilator now, which is a pretty new album to me. I love it throughout. Playing it again and "Killing for Company" has just come on. So good to these ears. It may be one of their most accessible albums, but I really like it, and I like the diversity in it (as I like the diversity of Swans generally). I understand it being hit or miss for someone, but in a way I like that inconsistency. I might do a poll on later Swans or one that includes later and earlier Swans.... I had thought about doing one on the ten minute plus tracks, so then later Swans would be very represented. Or just a Swans album poll or appreciation topic without poll maybe. I've been really enjoying digging into Swans more deeply of late.

Edited by Logan - February 09 2022 at 17:51

Manuel wrote: Mind/Body/Light/Sound.