#519 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
November 20 1986
Swans
Holy Money
Genre: If Ian Curtis didn’t die but instead got progressively more and more depressed and made to express himself through song while being disallowed from killing himself and forced to turn vegetarian and the repeatedly fed meat.
4.75 out of 5
Highlights:
A Hanging/You Need Me (They really are 2 parts of a whole…)
A Screw (Holy Money)
Money is Flesh
Ok. I get it. Right here. On “A Hanging”. It all comes together. I am consumed by a primal sadness as I listen to this and I am loathe to rehash any previous feelings about Swans or the bassist or Michael Gira in general.
Sure, he’s tortured. That’s the point.
What do you think Michael Gira does all day? Either he walks around Washington Square Park, smoking cigarettes and feeding pigeons or he watches Netflix Romantic Comedies all day.
Or he secretly owns a real estate business and leases luxury apartments too Millenials.
Or he’s a murderer.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3zPF6P53QTMzhx0bnylT7M?si=Rl-AFdetSN24sUZRqIZmeQ
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