Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind REACTION/REVIEW

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  • @riob7810
    @riob7810 Před rokem +87

    Disc1
    Red Velvet Corridor 1:09
    I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull 2:41
    Helpless Child 6:08
    Live Through Me 11:50
    Yum-Yab Killers 13:10
    The Beautiful Days 16:03
    Volcano 18:25
    Mellothumb 21:01
    All Lined Up 22:14
    Surrogate 2 25:22
    How They Suffer 25:45
    Animus 28:39
    Intermission 32:28 - 33:13
    Disc 2
    Red Velvet Wound 33:19
    The Sound 34:26
    Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey 38:28
    Blood Section 40:08
    Hypogirl 41:14
    Minus Something 42:52
    Empathy 44:58
    I Love You This Much 47:03
    YRP 48:53
    Fans Lament 51:34
    Secret Friends 52:20
    The Final Sacrifice 53:13
    YRP 2 56:04
    Surrogate Drone 56:58

  • @toomuchmustard8809
    @toomuchmustard8809 Před rokem +147

    13:07 To my knowledge nothing from SFTB has been used in a movie, but one of the main ideas of the album is being a soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist, which makes the listener sort of "blind" to the context, only hearing the movie.
    Edit: The child singing on The Beautiful Days is Jarboe as a kid, the same person doing the vocals on Yum-Yab Killers, Volcano & Hypogirl
    Edit 2: The people on How They Suffer are Michael Gira's father talking through his blindness and Jarboe's mother, going through the early stages of dementia.

  • @EyesForLies1
    @EyesForLies1 Před rokem +72

    So some notes to the songs if you‘re interested
    1. The audiotape from I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull is actually a recording from a criminal being interrogated by the FBI, and he probably was just mocking them. But like you said, in the context of this record it seems like he is talking to a disabled person, who knows what he needs for his daily routines, but isn‘t able anymore to do the actions by himself
    2. The Woman featured on the tracks is Jarboe, who was part of the band until their hiatus in 1996, she is present on almost all the earlier work of them. The child’s voice on beautiful days is an old recording of her as well
    3. All Lined Up was the fantasy of Michael of all his enemies and hated persons being tortured in front of him
    4. How They Suffer features voice recordings of Michael‘s father and Jarboe‘s mother. They sadly both passed away not too long after the release of this record

  • @san_dsouza7
    @san_dsouza7 Před rokem +113

    This album gets better and better with every listen

    • @drackaryspt1572
      @drackaryspt1572 Před rokem +5

      Agreed!

    • @adamseers
      @adamseers Před rokem +7

      Literally any album

    • @Clooger-
      @Clooger- Před 14 dny

      ​@@adamseersBrain dead comment. There's hundreds of albums that had hype behind them at first and then fell off when people listened to them more.

  • @biddleeewho4181
    @biddleeewho4181 Před rokem +36

    The woman on the album is Jarboe! She was a part of the band from the mid-80s up until their brief breakup in the late 90s (she never rejoined in the 2010s, although she does feature on a song on The Seer.) She's killer. I love her.
    Also, the child recording in The Beautiful Days is Jarboe as a child
    How They Suffer is Gira and Jarboe interviewing their father and mother respectively. Gira's father is (obviously) explaining how he became legally blind, and Jarboe's mother was suffering from Alzheimer's and was living in a nursing home. Jarboe just asked her simple question about her physical condition at the time.

  • @potato44_
    @potato44_ Před rokem +52

    Definitely do The Seer next. That album is also messed up, dark, but has more of the climaxes from To Be Kind

  • @alexandre-fu6zd
    @alexandre-fu6zd Před rokem +22

    bro you just sat there for 2hrs lisitening to that😭 respect though, soundtracks for the blind is a hard listen but it is amazing

    • @chao3948
      @chao3948 Před 4 měsíci +5

      yeah cuz it's 2 hours long?
      - "bro you just sat there for 2hrs looking at that😭"
      - "sir this is a movie theater"

  • @svperstar
    @svperstar Před 10 měsíci +20

    OKAY, this is my fave Swans album, so I will see if I can leave some random notes I know from it.
    Let me start off by saying, I believe this "era" of Swans consisted of The Great Annihilator, Die Tur Ist Zu, Soundtracks for the Blind, and ending with the absolutely best live album I've ever heard, Swans Are Dead. Swans Are Dead consists of the tours for The Great Annihilator (disc 2) and Soundtracks (disc 1). The arrangements on that live album are so good, especially on tracks like I Crawled (some of Jarboe's best best best vocals heard here, sweet and helpless one second, demonic the next), I Am the Sun, Blood Promise (blows the album version out of the water), All Lined Up (so much better than any LP version), and Lavender (a Jarboe solo song).
    The album was made under the idea that it was gonna be the last album, so a lot of what is heard on here are from recordings done throughout the band's entire history. So there is a little of every era heard on here if you know what to listen for. After mixing the album, Gira tossed everything out.
    Helpless Child and The Sound are two staple Swans songs.
    Red Velvet Corridor is likely referring to a vagina (perhaps a metaphor for being born).
    Yum Yab Killers is a Jarboe song from her 1995 solo album.
    All Lined Up is a Gira song from his 95 solo album.
    A lot of the audio is from interviews the band did with friends and family (similar to what Pink Floyd did with Dark Side), plus, I believe, some audio was taken from some FBI tapes, through a member of Jarboe's family (?).
    Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey was my phone's morning alarm a decade ago for a bit. Not sleeping through that.
    The last bit of I Love You This Much was used, in a much much shorter, condensed version, as the opening to Lavender when performed live (as heard on Swans Are Dead).
    YRP is a remake of an old Swans song from the album Cop.
    The Final Sacrifice is a side project song (from a late 80s Skin album), a version that I personally like better, sounds like it would fit in with Children of God.

    • @antoniojesus0112
      @antoniojesus0112 Před 9 měsíci +1

      I love to read this kind of comments. Very useful to see through every track

  • @tomwilliams8591
    @tomwilliams8591 Před rokem +20

    Please PLEASE react to their final live album before they originally disbanded, 'Swans are Dead'. It is considered by many to be both one of their absolute best releases, but also one of the best live albums of all time.
    I long for your reaction to that album's version of the song 'I Crawled'.

  • @pieter7947
    @pieter7947 Před rokem +122

    this guy is so dedicated to the grind that he made blinded himself by stabbing a pen in both his eyes, so that he could enjoy this album to the fullest
    respect!

  • @N_Wah_
    @N_Wah_ Před měsícem +3

    Helpless child is my favorite swans song, in my top 10 songs of all time, and it's a song I can regularly go back to and enjoy it front to back, and remain a powerful and epic building post rock masterpiece. Hell it's even a song I can relate to in a way, so it has a very strong place in my heart.

  • @Gdlolfind7
    @Gdlolfind7 Před rokem +20

    I Love You This Much actually gave me PTSD

  • @drackaryspt1572
    @drackaryspt1572 Před rokem +20

    Thank you for doing the album fully and not in parts because it just kind of breaks the immersion and the power this album has.

  • @l-_-l6277
    @l-_-l6277 Před rokem +18

    Since you’re diving deeper into post-rock, I would recommend “He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts Of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of our Rooms” by A Silver mt. Zion. They were an offshoot from Godspeed You! Black Emperor and are a bit more minimalistic

  • @shimme3526
    @shimme3526 Před rokem +33

    im genuinley so fucking happy your reacting to soundtracks man

    • @shimme3526
      @shimme3526 Před rokem +2

      also Ive always thought beautiful days was supposed to be about the kid in the beginning and depressing transition later on in life. Also the sample that's used is from Jarboe (the female singer) when she was a child

    • @shimme3526
      @shimme3526 Před rokem +1

      There's just a lot of interesting samples in this album, like How they suffer uses both of Micheal Girls parents conditions before they passed

    • @friendlystranger9662
      @friendlystranger9662 Před rokem +1

      ​@@shimme3526It's Jarboe's mom on the track, not Michael's. You can hear Jarboe talking to her as well

    • @shimme3526
      @shimme3526 Před rokem

      @@friendlystranger9662 oh yeah, sorry it was Jarboe's mom not Micheal's

  • @franciscoalmeida9019
    @franciscoalmeida9019 Před rokem +16

    Bro, do The Seer next. From To Be Kind to Soundtracks for the Blind is such a stark contrast

  • @fuckskyler
    @fuckskyler Před rokem +11

    One of my favorite albums in the entire world. It scares the shit out of me lol

  • @YourFriendTina
    @YourFriendTina Před rokem +28

    YOOOO LOVE THIS ALBUM

  • @Smiggieballs1
    @Smiggieballs1 Před rokem +12

    Highly recommend marquee moon by Television if you’ve never listened to it. Extremely influential with no skips and some of the best guitar work I’ve ever heard.

  • @navadvipachandra6770
    @navadvipachandra6770 Před 10 měsíci +6

    The first time I heard Swans it was recommended by a friend. I went to a record store and bought Soundtracks for the Blind and the Great Annihilator about October 1998. I went home and put in Sound Tracks for the Blind and my first reaction was this sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I started to fall asleep and was in and out. But the whole time i was listening very strange. I loved the experience and it took that experience to get Swans. I listened to the Great Annihilator in my car nonstop for about 3 months. Been a fan of M. Gira ever since. I even like the later stuff even more. Good to see the Zoomers giving Swans a shout out.

  • @Gabriel-re6sw
    @Gabriel-re6sw Před rokem +11

    take a shot every time he says "Severely uncomfortable"
    seriously tho im loving the vids and you def gotta check out "swans are dead" which at the time was supposed to be their final album. its a collection of live songs and without a doubt one of the greatest live albums.

  • @emajorchord7064
    @emajorchord7064 Před rokem +9

    smags just casually reacting to the best album of all time

  • @nostalgia_clinic
    @nostalgia_clinic Před rokem +8

    Some albums for your consideration:
    Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
    Brand New - Science Fiction
    The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
    🍻

  • @maxwagner6342
    @maxwagner6342 Před rokem +38

    I did NOT expect to see this reaction so soon after to be kind

    • @maxwagner6342
      @maxwagner6342 Před rokem +1

      czcams.com/video/PIsFdU0YZSw/video.html this video breaks down the themes of the album pretty well

  • @benw2004
    @benw2004 Před rokem +7

    bro said "and i took that personally" and listened to the WHOLE ALBUM in one sitting, thats dedication😂

  • @johnkramer2144
    @johnkramer2144 Před rokem +7

    Fantastic reaction as always. Honestly, my music taste is expanding BECAUSE of your reactions to music I’ve never heard myself, and I get a different perspective/ insight into music I already know. Always a pleasure.
    So I have a suggestion if you haven’t heard these albums by this band:
    Jethro Tull : Stand Up, Aqualung, or Thick as a Brick
    Aqualung is definitely the best album for an intro into the band, Stand Up is a fantastic blues, jazz and folk album and Thick as a Brick a two song roller coaster of a jazz/ folk concept album.
    Any one of these are great albums.

  • @karson0000
    @karson0000 Před rokem +20

    an hour long smags video, what a blessing

  • @jaaqob2
    @jaaqob2 Před rokem +7

    exactly 1 hour that's crazy

  • @ismellcrack6108
    @ismellcrack6108 Před rokem +4

    what an incredible experience listening to this the first time

  • @nicknickson3650
    @nicknickson3650 Před rokem +7

    no way he actually reacted this. You're crazy, but thank you!

  • @doctordog2048
    @doctordog2048 Před rokem +5

    0:39 in that case, DO NOT listen to:
    Charles Mingus - the black saint and the sinner lady
    King gizzard and the lizard wizard - nonagon infinity
    GY!BE - alleghlugha! don't bend! ascend!
    Marvin gaye - what's going on?

  • @potentialhi7694
    @potentialhi7694 Před rokem +4

    you really need to listen to Ys by Joanna Newsom, its my favorite folk album ever and the songwriting is mind-blowing

  • @rainbowvomitself
    @rainbowvomitself Před rokem +5

    the track "Volcano" is about a woman having to do sexual favors to gain any headway in the music industry and it sort of serves as a criticism of the patriarchal power structure and abuse that was and still is an issue.

    • @Onche518
      @Onche518 Před rokem

      I like to use it for all the tiktok and OF e-thots gaining fame by whoring themselves

  • @wakaran7790
    @wakaran7790 Před rokem +2

    I am so excited to watch!!! I love swans and I love reaction content and they usually don't gel well considering how niche they are :)))

  • @assaghoff9187
    @assaghoff9187 Před rokem +2

    Man btw The Glowing Man is fire and will blow your socks off!

  • @franciscodiaz5511
    @franciscodiaz5511 Před měsícem

    Increíble que hayas reaccionado a este disco.
    Uno de mis álbumes favoritos.

  • @Maxlovy0
    @Maxlovy0 Před rokem +14

    I feel like you’d be into Lateralus by Tool if you haven’t heard it yet. It has that effect of having a constantly building feeling, but the building itself is the payoff. It’s some brain melting stuff! It’s a classic album, but I still don’t see it mentioned enough in online music circles.

  • @maxmiller1950
    @maxmiller1950 Před rokem +4

    Flood by Boris!!!

  • @thegrinninggamer9325
    @thegrinninggamer9325 Před rokem

    this album is so interesting to me. Also, I just recently got into tool and I think lateralus would be a good reaction if you haven’t heard that album yet, it’s just as good as it’s hyped up to be

  • @dancingheroes
    @dancingheroes Před 9 měsíci

    great that you loved this record!! i'm realizing that this vibe is heavily similar to what akira yamaoka did in silent hill 2's ost. a definitive listen! you'll love it

  • @EduardoIsSmiling
    @EduardoIsSmiling Před 11 měsíci +2

    The lyrics in this album feels like the samples of BOC but instead of making it ultra subliminar, hidden and modified in the tracks, they made the entire track explicitly about it

  • @lordmarega
    @lordmarega Před 10 měsíci +1

    I listened to this album like 7 months ago and I still don't know how the songs are related and what the concept of the album is but it is amazing

  • @bjrndencker6728
    @bjrndencker6728 Před rokem +6

    most consistent man since einstein

  • @assaghoff9187
    @assaghoff9187 Před rokem +2

    24:26 "I think we might be in a little bit of a cult"

  • @KarK1ttyy
    @KarK1ttyy Před rokem +5

    soundtracks is one of those albums that can definitely get a bit overhyped in the music nerd way but i do think this album is special i remember being on a long car ride in the backseat at night and having it play in my headphones as we drove and we stopped a few times on these hills with outlooks and i didn't stop the album, that drive was insane. this album is very weird and special and I'm glad u got to experience it and we got to see it. also fun fact if im the first person to say it. one of the members jarboe the person who did the female vocals. her dad apparently worked for the FBI and its almost 100% confirmed a lot of those samples of people talking like on the second track are random recordings of FBI bugs or tapes they had.

    • @KarK1ttyy
      @KarK1ttyy Před rokem +3

      also alot of lyrics like on helpless child are about Michael giras own childhood and parents if that says anything about how dark swans can get

  • @bjrndencker6728
    @bjrndencker6728 Před rokem +10

    you should check out Black country new road's first album "For The First Time" its so gooooood 😄

  • @nathanhunt3104
    @nathanhunt3104 Před rokem +1

    Hum - You’d Prefer An Astronaut is a must listen

  • @opium1686
    @opium1686 Před rokem +2

    you really should listen to the great annihilator in the next swans reaction

  • @SamantherPanther
    @SamantherPanther Před 3 měsíci

    Live Through Me is really an incredible song

  • @pumpkin_the_snek
    @pumpkin_the_snek Před 10 měsíci +1

    The man in How They Suffer is actually Mr. Gira's father :) fun fact

  • @19eightyforeisnow
    @19eightyforeisnow Před 10 měsíci

    You should check out swans related project, it's a noise album that they made in 91 on alternative tentacles records.

  • @j.prt.979
    @j.prt.979 Před rokem +5

    The genre is just experimental/ambient and some post rock tracks
    Edit: yeah there’s some deeply disturbing lyrics on this album lol
    Edit: re:The Beautiful Days - nah I think the little girl and the recording at the end are related…

  • @ohwowwewoo1842
    @ohwowwewoo1842 Před rokem +2

    You should give Animal Collective another chance. Preferably Feels or Strawberry Jam

  • @flynn6904
    @flynn6904 Před rokem +4

    17:23 made me choke on my fuckin lunch holy shit LMAO, great video! :)

  • @popeisyiyi1613
    @popeisyiyi1613 Před rokem

    You should listen to The Ape of Naples by Coil. An album that is completely draining yet so hauntingly beautiful in a way that questions your existence. It was Coil’s last album due to John Balance’s death which makes the album speak to the listener more about him and his view on death. Truly a disturbing and fantastic album that not enough people talk about. Good choice picking this one though, SFTB is truly a masterpiece that doesn’t really sound like anything else.

  • @socialist_elmo
    @socialist_elmo Před rokem +1

    I would like to see you listen to "Home is in your Head" by His Name Is Alive, They're really underrated imo

  • @nicknickson3650
    @nicknickson3650 Před rokem +1

    The Seer next!!

  • @respakss71
    @respakss71 Před rokem

    You should review In The Wake Of Poseidon by King Crimson. It’s one of their best albums in my opinion. You should also review Foxtrot by Genesis.

  • @bluelight_blueheat
    @bluelight_blueheat Před rokem +5

    it seems i misjudged you lmao congrats on getting through the whole thing 😂😂😂

    • @smags1082
      @smags1082  Před rokem +3

      I started to feel it at the last 3 songs ngl

    • @bluelight_blueheat
      @bluelight_blueheat Před rokem

      @@smags1082 i get it tbh. as incredible as it is, the second half being so much weaker often just completely destroys any insensitive to listen past animus a lot of the time for me.

  • @fjvlogs4364
    @fjvlogs4364 Před rokem

    i remember first listening to this while playimg minecraft so i will forever associate this with minecraft

  • @DISCOD00D
    @DISCOD00D Před rokem

    Incredible shit as always man, may I suggest Disco Volante by Mr Bungle. Best to go in totally blind but I reckon it'll blow ur mind ;)

  • @vorald4948
    @vorald4948 Před rokem

    Great video

  • @BiggestMuscles
    @BiggestMuscles Před 11 měsíci

    I reccomend checking out "The Seer" next

  • @brandonburroughs7128
    @brandonburroughs7128 Před 11 měsíci

    When are you doin Girl with Basket of Fruit?

  • @drumsin4
    @drumsin4 Před rokem +2

    Can you listen to black midis first two albums
    Schlagenheim
    Cavalcade

  • @JustinAnglinVA
    @JustinAnglinVA Před 9 měsíci +2

    Trying to picture Michael Gira writing a 2 and a half hour long essay of why he hates blind people, and setting it to music. Lol kidding of course, but that'd be a comical amount of dedication to hating something 😆

  • @barelyabear7956
    @barelyabear7956 Před rokem +2

    This is awesome

  • @meatgrinder9506
    @meatgrinder9506 Před rokem +5

    Since you’re listening to these longer albums are you going to listen to drukqs by aphex?

    • @smags1082
      @smags1082  Před rokem +6

      Will probably be my next Aphex review not sure when though

    • @meatgrinder9506
      @meatgrinder9506 Před rokem +1

      @@smags1082cool👍

  • @cuteasxtreme
    @cuteasxtreme Před rokem +1

    The story behind Her Mouth is Filled With Honey is that she was tripping I believe.

  • @pigammon7843
    @pigammon7843 Před rokem

    NEVER GIVE UP. NEVER SURRENDER. MODERN VAMPIRES OF THE CITY BY VAMPIRE WEEKEND PLEASE

  • @animepython8238
    @animepython8238 Před 10 měsíci +1

    After Swans, Kids are so fucking different for me😂😂

  • @jtotheulian708
    @jtotheulian708 Před 6 měsíci

    23:05 was uncalled for that was the most random transition ever

  • @velear7
    @velear7 Před rokem +1

    yo can you do you're dead by flylo?

  • @duckface524
    @duckface524 Před 10 měsíci +1

    17:50 pretty sure they're the same person actually!

  • @animepython8238
    @animepython8238 Před 10 měsíci

    27:13 I cried here, when he said I'm legally blind

  • @severslwt9330
    @severslwt9330 Před 2 měsíci

    yea

  • @turqdeth
    @turqdeth Před rokem

    Bro is pure consistency in human form (day 7 of to see the next part of the dream by parannoul)

  • @OhMystii
    @OhMystii Před rokem

    Should listen to the soundtrack for ‘Silent Hill 2’ by Akira Yamaoka, has similar-ish vibes to this.
    Though it’s not as weird or fucked up.

  • @thefunnytvmanofthenight1537
    @thefunnytvmanofthenight1537 Před 9 měsíci

    This album is what the full spectrum of depression and despair sounds like to me
    This album changed the way I perceive music, art, and the world in general in a way
    The soundscapes on this album remind me of nightmares

    • @keithmorrison8373
      @keithmorrison8373 Před 3 měsíci

      Thats probaly the point and some just sound like bad trips

  • @ramonduran9002
    @ramonduran9002 Před 4 měsíci

    Unbelievable record, ,this deserves awards and more,,in my opinion better than the wall from pink floyd.

  • @jtotheulian708
    @jtotheulian708 Před 6 měsíci

    17:19 got me rolling

  • @individual5021
    @individual5021 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I think playing soundtracks to someone tripping would be the quickest non physical way to make someone traumatized

  • @CrunchyElia
    @CrunchyElia Před 5 dny

    I don't even know how to describe this whole fucking thing

  • @brandonburroughs7128
    @brandonburroughs7128 Před 11 měsíci +1

    17:28

  • @lucki9155
    @lucki9155 Před rokem

    🐇WEEEEEEEE

  • @ColombianThunder
    @ColombianThunder Před rokem +1

    Bro you remind me of Karsten Runquist for some reason

  • @keithmorrison8373
    @keithmorrison8373 Před 5 měsíci

    Pretty sure the reason the child was signing on the beautiful days is to make it feel like a horror movie

  • @nicknickson3650
    @nicknickson3650 Před 2 měsíci

    Please react to Leaving Meaning. You'll be the first youtuber to react to it, just saying. It's a great album.

  • @misterdumb
    @misterdumb Před rokem +1

    why no you do Radiohead? whas the matter wichu?

  • @LumiNyte
    @LumiNyte Před 2 měsíci

    i showed this album to a friend of mine and he said “they should make an album called ‘soundtracks for the defecating’ so that i can listen to them while shitting”

  • @keithmorrison8373
    @keithmorrison8373 Před 5 měsíci

    I feel like i love you this much is meant to represeant the horror of blidness atleast thats what it sounds like to me

    • @keithmorrison8373
      @keithmorrison8373 Před 5 měsíci

      2 other interpetations i have are like doubtfulness that someone loves you or the fake love of drugs

  • @apeheadboink
    @apeheadboink Před 6 měsíci

    michael i believe has expressed regret in writing All Lined Up lol which I think anybody would cause like holy fvck

  • @vmaximo185
    @vmaximo185 Před 5 měsíci

    Yeah, I didn't enjoy this album. I mean, I kind of get why people enjoy it. It's just the demographic for this kind of music is very specific
    Good reaction as always

  • @keithmorrison8373
    @keithmorrison8373 Před 5 měsíci

    I generally cant tell if jarobe songs are like allegory for addiction self therapy through messed up lyrics or really screwrd up humor cause some of that is so messed up that i cant take it serioisly i think its all of the above

  • @whereami2700
    @whereami2700 Před 10 měsíci

    The Seer

  • @rufustherat1794
    @rufustherat1794 Před 27 dny

    *lines about eating blades😂

  • @sackryag
    @sackryag Před měsícem

    Start of YRP is just stewie griffin dying like 8 times

  • @jtotheulian708
    @jtotheulian708 Před 6 měsíci

    17:29 💀

  • @peepnox7747
    @peepnox7747 Před rokem +7

    You should check out the album “you won’t get what you want” by Daughters.

  • @Armin6873
    @Armin6873 Před rokem

    Only theatre of pain by Christian death :)