how do i get into swans

You listen to Soundtrack for the Blind

Then you move on to stuff like the Seer and To Be Kind if you liked that.

Swans is one of those bands that goes through cycles, Gira has changed their sound like 5 times over the span of their career.

>>69528630
Listen to To Be Kind. Then Greed. Then anything in their discography after that.
>>69528647
I really wouldn't listen to Soundtracks first. That's almost like suggesting TMR for someone interested in Beefheart.

>>69528647
>You listen to Soundtrack for the Blind
Soundtracks for the Blind can't be fully enjoyed without having listened to every other Swans album.

>>69528684
>>69528685
>Guy suggests listening to their Magnum Opus first
>LISTEN TO THEIR AWFUL EXPERIMENAL SHIT FIRST

You faggots are thinking about it backwards.

You think you should suggest Filth and Public Castration as "entry-level"?

>>69528630
Start at the beginning, like any artist.

>>69528647
i've only listened to to be kind

>>69528737
Then go experience The Seer

>>69528710
>Guy suggests listening to their Magnum Opus first
but their magnum opus is Public Castration.
also, Filth is way more entry-level than the literal rupture of conventional music: the album

>>69528710
I don't think I know.

Luckily I lurked /mu/ before into-ing Swans. I listened to their discog chronologically with Soundtracks last and it worked for me

>>69528754
>the Seer
will do
what would you recommend after the seer

Just listen to Filth thru Holy Money alongside Public Castration.

just listen to all of it you nigger
Swans have never released a bad album

>>69528630
I suggest you just listen in order.

This is the song that made me fall in love with Swans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e7eL3MT9Ng

You get yourself a lobotomy. Then I imagine Swans wouldn't sound too bad.

go night skating and get really pissed off in a sweaty t shirt and listen to Cop

You don't they are garbo

STOP OP

DON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE IN THIS THREAD, AND INSTEAD FOLLOW THIS CHART. EXCEPT REPLACE MY FATHER... WITH THE GLOWING MAN

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>>69530293
FUCK ME

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Filth was my first album that I liked from them.
Then I went on to Cop
Just use this picture

>>69528684
haha, yeah, totally

To Be Kind and Michael Gira's Angels of Light stuff is a good place to start.

Then go check out Greed and Cop,
then The Seer and The Glowing Man,
and then The Burning World and My Father,
then White Light, Children Of God, and Love Of Life

listen to Soundtracks For The Blind and The Great Annihilator

then back down to Filth and Holy Money and Public Castration and various live albums.

>>69531317
>cont

this is just a very stupid order I came up with while typing out the post so don't take it too seriously

Look, the most accessible album is either WLFTMOI, Love of Life or Various Failures, last two are basically the same thing. Don't start with STFTB unless you're already into ambient, post-rock, very slow songs and all that crap.

>>69528630
FLEX YOUR MUSCLLEEEE

>>69531483
this

my brother is a normie who listens to Beirut and Nick Drake all day, with an ear for rock and indie, and even getting him to listen to a track like Empathy or The Sound has been dicey