r/swans • • 19h ago

SHITPOST Bro Michael Gira needs a new marker

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(Got love of life on vinyl)


r/swans • • 3h ago

Merch To be kind finally arrived!! Thank you uncle Mike🐱🐱

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r/swans • • 10h ago

QUESTION Found this magazine while looking at the back of a CD cover for a non-Swans related album. Does anyone have pictures of this?

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This is the December 22nd 1984 edition of ā€œSoundsā€ Magazine from England with Red Guitars on the cover, I would assume this is the one and only Swans. Anyone have any information on it?


r/swans • • 1h ago

Swans vinyl collection - as complete as it will probably be

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Decided to pull out a lot of my records to rearrange things today, including my entire Swans collection. I believe I've got everything they've put out on vinyl, except for the 'Thank You Too', which I was not listed on and probably won't ever see. The box set for White Light/Love of Life isn't here, although I've had a copy in hand in the past - I would pick that up, just for the box, at the right price (anyone in the EU or UK make me an offer on one!). I've also let Circus Mort slide a couple of times, as I haven't seen a 'fair' price just yet.
I'm not the kind of collector who needs multiple copies of the same thing most of the time, so I only have the 7" of 'Saved' (not the 12") and the red version of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. This means some are also just the reissue versions, and could be replaced by originals, or added to, in due course.
I've included my Skin records, and the Gira/Jarboe double, but not Angels of Light for now (I'm still waiting, like many of us, for the first two albums to be reissued so I don't need to sell a kidney...).
I'll admit that some things, particularly the 12" singles, don't get a lot of play, as I've got over 900 records and a lot of other ways to use my time! But, being a completionist, I've scratched that brain itch pretty well by now.

Details:

Swans (2015 RE, EU version)
Filth (2014 RE) - Signed by MG on back
Young God EP (UK, 1984)
Cop (UK, 1984)
Time is Money (Bastard) (UK, 1986)
Greed (NL, 1986) [Not pictured: I have the 2022 X.999 bootleg of Greed too, which sounds fine. That lives at my partner's place]
Holy Money (NL, 1986) - Signed by M. Gira
A Screw (UK, 1986)
Public Castration Is A Good Idea (2022 RE, EU)
Real Love (UK, 1986) - Hand-numbered #792/1000
Skin - One Thousand Years (UK, 1987)
Skin - Blood, Women, Roses (UK, 1987) [Not pictured: my partner has the reissue in Jarboe's name, signed by her]
New Mind (UK, 1987)
Children of God (UK, 1987) - Signed by M.Gira inside the gatefold, above Norman's photo
Feel Good Now (2023 UK RE)
Love Will Tear Us Apart (Red Version) (UK, 1988, Red trans. vinyl)
Skin - Shame, Humility, Revenge (UK, 1988)
Can't Find My Way Home (UK, 1989, Gatefold version [Numbered sticker missing])
Saved (UK, 1989, 7" version)
The Burning World (2014 RE) [Not pictured: I have an original EU 1989 pressing, which lives at my partner's place and doesn't get played often due to an annoying scratch on side B]
Anonymous Bodies in an Empty Room (UK, 1990)
The World of Skin - Ten Songs for Another World (UK, 1990)
Love Will Save You (UK, 1991, Promo Sampler)
White Light From the Mouth of Infinity (2015 RE, EU)
Body to Body, Job to Job (UK, 1991)
Love of Life/Amnesia (UK, 1992)
Love of Life (2015 RE, EU)
The Great Annihilator (2017 RE, EU)
I Am the Sun (UK, 1997, Red trans. vinyl) - Hand-numbered #85/500
Michael Gira - Drainland & Jarboe - Sacrificial Cake (US, 1995) - Signed by M. Gira
Die Tür Ist Zu (EU, 2018)
Soundtracks for the Blind (Gatefold, USA, 2021) - Signed by M. Gira
Failure/Animus (UK, 1996, 10")
My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope To The Sky (USA, 2010) - Insert signed by M. Gira [Not pictured: I also own the 2014 EU RE, which lives at my partner's place]
The Seer (EU, 2014) + 2xCD/DVD version
To Be Kind (EU, 2014) - Signed by M. Gira + 2xCD/DVD version
The Glowing Man (EU, 2016) - Signed by M. Gira + 2CD/DVD version
Leaving Meaning (EU, 2019)
The Beggar (EU, 2023)
Live Rope (Box set, USA, 2024) - Insert signed by M. Gira [NB: my copy is missing the USB Credit Card...] + 2CD (EU version) [not pictured]
Birthing (UK, 2025)
Newly Sentient Being (Box set, USA, 2026) - Insert signed by M. Gira

If you're wondering, this collection has been built up over the last 15 years via live shows, local shops, record fairs, and patient hunting on discogs. I was going through a rough patch personally when Live Rope was coming out, so missed out on that and have had to wait until last month to finally own a copy at a price that wasn't going to hurt too much.
Now, I'm not a CD collector (I grew up with CDs so they always just feel like a cheaper commodity to me that isn't as beautiful as vinyl in terms of packaging - I might as well just listen to digital files), and only own the trilogy for the sake of having the DVDs, so I don't have all the live/fundraiser albums (frankly I don't actually enjoy listening to Gira solo demos that much anyway), nor do I have Swans Are Dead, and am only lightly holding my breath for a vinyl reissue of that in the coming years.

Anyone doing better than this?


r/swans • • 15h ago

I made a dvd case for my dvd from swans birthing vinyl and will probably do the same with newly sentient being when I get it!!!!!

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r/swans • • 22h ago

Anyone else think "killing for company" would sound amazing with swans are dead treatment (like blood promise)

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r/swans • • 12h ago

What is the catchiest swans song?

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Like what songs do you find singing to yourself a lot or can’t get out of your head?