I used to work in a one-hour photo place. The machine would spit one photo out at a time onto a type of conveyor system to be moved over with the rest of the order. So every time a photo was printed it made the sound "KaChung, KaChung" in perfect time with this song.
Of music's ability to Liberate, specifically. "Liberating the Dissonance" is a type of Gnostic ceremony preparing one for Apotheosis... M. Gira seems like he could competently escort a guy into a more Subtle World...
Oh... This song... I have owned this album/cd 4 times. (of course it was stolen )And this...This SONG... I dedicate this to all the fucked up choices I made in Partners and toxic People and Family. I survived. Therapy and Hard Work and Staying Sober. And I got rid of You All. Fuck You Predatory People. I got this. I am Strong Now. Nie Wieder. This Song Was An Inspiration To Me to Keep On With the Right Path and Staying Sober. Thank you .
mine was soundtracks for the blind times square 99 navy years second port of call lol went to hotel Chelsea too the album had the underground black lure with the nyc vibe
words cannot express the feeling I got from listening to this monster for the first time unexpectedly, listening (half-faded) in the wee hours of the morning. nothing could have prepared me.
Swans - She Lives Lyrics: [Verse 1] Now I just want to thank you For going insane Every second that you suffer Is a loss that I gain Every breath is a drain down Down into a hole And your mind is a shrinking thing: It was crushed by your skull Now you feel time unfolding Deep in your chest And your body's expanding Now there's none of you left So I just want to thank you For losing your mind Yeah you burned just like Joan of Arc Purified by the flames [Refrain] You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! [Verse 2] Now I just want to thank you For the light that you spread And magnesium and sulphur And the fear in your head And I just want to tell you You're nothing so new Every time that you touch it It'll turn against you Now your future's a cold thing Down in the damp ground And your memory's a lead room Containing this sound So I just want to thank you For killing your mind All the life that you bleed out Well I steal it for mine [Refrain] You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! You're alive! [Instrumental]
i have loved your work for most of my life. I'm 51, and discovered you in my early 20's. you've given me so much joy over the years and this album, the great annihilator has never lost its power, if anything it grows more alive, than ever the older i get. thankyou so very much for the gift of your souls, that i am able to feel your vibrations forever, is a gift few will ever understand.
I love the ending. It takes me to the most cruel and dark, but comfy, joyful and calm places of my life. Like a dream, that I already forgot long time ago, but it still lives in me somewhere, waiting to kick me in the chest just to let me know that it is still here, and it remembers everything, but it won't let me to fall again.
I still have the "Visualize Total Annihilation" bumper sticker. This song has and continues to help me as a big F**k You to Bio Family who rejected me and All Haters. Period.
Family must be seen as phenomena, just a big hole which we such gaze at but overcome it. Take the cultural poison of thy veins and turn into the sweetest honey, just as Gira made with his shitty childhood.
Swans are my 2nd favorite band of all time (after XTC) and they've made dozens and dozens of greats songs most of them quite fucked up. This might be most unnerving, most fucked up song they've made.
i think this is the most unnerving, terrifying son swans has ever done, which is saying something. 2nd favorite band of all time, their music is so completely absent of hope, and i still keep coming back again and again and again.
This is a kind of music i was looking for without knowing it. Its the perfect soundtrack for the time my Women left me. Its not the Sound of a tormented soul,but the Sound of a deeply bored soul.... Like mine at the end of the relationship.....
After more than a year we got together again, my women and me, and now...we listen together to this Song. I have to repeat myself, this Song reaches a dimension of darkness, that no other Is able to reach.
🦢 If Swans & M. Gira are the ANIMUS... wanna know who is the ANIMA? (no, it's not damn Jarboe). 🦩 CRANES, Alison Shaw: prove me wrong. (song = Far Away) th-cam.com/video/B8cJVjJP4S8/w-d-xo.html
@@simonhugo4893 I think you're right to an extent. The song is about a person ruining their life because of drugs, and subsequently, finding enjoyment in someone else's spiral of addiction; That's my interpretation anyway. In truth, we may never know the real meaning of the song.
I used to work in a one-hour photo place. The machine would spit one photo out at a time onto a type of conveyor system to be moved over with the rest of the order. So every time a photo was printed it made the sound "KaChung, KaChung" in perfect time with this song.
thank you for that information
This is why I love YT’s comment section.
This is the beauty of noise
Do you know the movie "One Hour Foto" starring Robin Williams?
This Song bring the vibes of that movie.
@@j.prt.979 well that aged poorly
The instrumental at the end, when it turned into a post rock song, it gave me chills!!!
A teaser for what's to come with soundtracks for the blind
Wish the whole song were that
@@zacbrown3797Appreciate the whole damn thing 🍸
Oh Mr.Gira. Your music gives us more than "some joy and pleasure!"
Uuu...Born in the troubles and sparks by AMSZ, my respects men.
Nice pfp
Swans is the existential entity of music
Of music's ability to Liberate, specifically.
"Liberating the Dissonance" is a type of Gnostic ceremony preparing one for Apotheosis...
M. Gira seems like he could competently escort a guy into a more Subtle World...
Oh... This song... I have owned this album/cd 4 times. (of course it was stolen )And this...This SONG... I dedicate this to all the fucked up choices I made in Partners and toxic People and Family. I survived. Therapy and Hard Work and Staying Sober. And I got rid of You All. Fuck You Predatory People. I got this. I am Strong Now. Nie Wieder. This Song Was An Inspiration To Me to Keep On With the Right Path and Staying Sober. Thank you .
Kristine Kearney Life would be a lot easier for you if you stopped capitalizing every word in a sentence
My kinda girl
Well, what can I say... She Lives
Congratulations!
Nie wieder? Speaking German all of the sudden?
That outro is breathtaking
I've heard this song hundreds and hundreds of times. I think it's one of the most important songs ever made.
Same
I'm not so sure if the world will ever catch up to Swans.
This was the first Swans album I ever bought. It blew me away in the 90s and it blows me away now.
mine was soundtracks for the blind times square 99 navy years second port of call lol went to hotel Chelsea too the album had the underground black lure with the nyc vibe
based and tibetpilled pfp
@@thecloudofunknowingso special plan coded
me too!
One of the darkest pieces of music ever created.
words cannot express the feeling I got from listening to this monster for the first time unexpectedly, listening (half-faded) in the wee hours of the morning. nothing could have prepared me.
had the same exact experience a while back. swans are really a one of a kind. their songs have a feeling that I've never found anywhere else.
Bendage “Doug the Dufus”
(That’s thee)
or is it doofus ?
Whichever.
same exact setting right now
yeah same, this hit me out of nowhere
Hallelujah!
I get seer vibes from this track, dark but a little whimsical in a way
It almost feels to me like She Loves Us is a direct sequel to this song. It feels like where this song ends is exactly where She Loves Us picks up.
i thoroughly appreciate your labours and will continue to appreciate the fruits of your suffering.
thank you, mr. gira.
This album was my introduction to Swans! So beautiful!
So was mine, this is my favorite song by them,
Swans - She Lives Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
Now I just want to thank you
For going insane
Every second that you suffer
Is a loss that I gain
Every breath is a drain down
Down into a hole
And your mind is a shrinking thing:
It was crushed by your skull
Now you feel time unfolding
Deep in your chest
And your body's expanding
Now there's none of you left
So I just want to thank you
For losing your mind
Yeah you burned just like Joan of Arc
Purified by the flames
[Refrain]
You're alive! You're alive!
You're alive! You're alive!
You're alive! You're alive!
You're alive!
[Verse 2]
Now I just want to thank you
For the light that you spread
And magnesium and sulphur
And the fear in your head
And I just want to tell you
You're nothing so new
Every time that you touch it
It'll turn against you
Now your future's a cold thing
Down in the damp ground
And your memory's a lead room
Containing this sound
So I just want to thank you
For killing your mind
All the life that you bleed out
Well I steal it for mine
[Refrain]
You're alive! You're alive!
You're alive! You're alive!
You're alive! You're alive!
You're alive!
[Instrumental]
Along with Coil Swans lyrics are my absolute favorite. Nothing else is like them.
@@ashasalany my two favourite bands since 07-08 maybe
I dedicated this to two girls i met once.
i have loved your work for most of my life. I'm 51, and discovered you in my early 20's. you've given me so much joy over the years and this album, the great annihilator has never lost its power, if anything it grows more alive, than ever the older i get. thankyou so very much for the gift of your souls, that i am able to feel your vibrations forever, is a gift few will ever understand.
Basically the man says you can go straight to hell.. Yeah, I love him too
I love the ending. It takes me to the most cruel and dark, but comfy, joyful and calm places of my life. Like a dream, that I already forgot long time ago, but it still lives in me somewhere, waiting to kick me in the chest just to let me know that it is still here, and it remembers everything, but it won't let me to fall again.
this description is so wholesome
Thank you, Michael.
i feel joyous and rather upbeat after listening to this song
MICHAEL...I JUST WANNA THANK YOU.
IMHO, It was this album that made Swans to reach the Godhead status.
Hence.. THE GREAT ANNIHILATOR
I discovered your music long ago & already own much of it on CD. However, this medium is great for turning others on to it. Love.
I still have the "Visualize Total Annihilation" bumper sticker. This song has and continues to help me as a big F**k You to Bio Family who rejected me and All Haters. Period.
Family must be seen as phenomena, just a big hole which we such gaze at but overcome it. Take the cultural poison of thy veins and turn into the sweetest honey, just as Gira made with his shitty childhood.
Two months later still amazing.
Swans are my 2nd favorite band of all time (after XTC) and they've made dozens and dozens of greats songs most of them quite fucked up. This might be most unnerving, most fucked up song they've made.
This has got some serious Joy Division vibes about it , buried as they may be they get pretty obvious in Micheael´s delivery at least .
Say it again definition of Swans EPIC LOUD
i think this is the most unnerving, terrifying son swans has ever done, which is saying something. 2nd favorite band of all time, their music is so completely absent of hope, and i still keep coming back again and again and again.
Paper Okami who's your 1st favorite?
@@mellrat xtc
@@paperokami8144 great choice
All Lined Up would like to have a word.
Some of their music can be hopeful, a big catalogue as you probably know. Still, this is by far my favorite Swans era
Come back again to Argentina!!! Please
great song
It's insane that this came out in the 90s
Why? It’s very 90s.
the 90s were weird as hell
@@spacefertilizer to me it sounds more like mid to late 80s
Masterpiece... greetings Gira.
The man who kissed my hand, despite me being super rude and unpleasant. Thank you, same office, big respect!
That charmeur did that with many ladies back then so dont get carried away
Does anyone else think She Loves Us is a spiritual sequel to this song? There are more similarities beyond the name.
Outstanding
This is a kind of music i was looking for without knowing it.
Its the perfect soundtrack for the time my Women left me.
Its not the Sound of a tormented soul,but the Sound of a deeply bored soul....
Like mine at the end of the relationship.....
After more than a year we got together again, my women and me, and now...we listen together to this Song.
I have to repeat myself, this Song reaches a dimension of darkness, that no other Is able to reach.
WHat is this song about?, the dark thrilling music makes this very sinister
It's about celebrating the downfall of someone you hate, or has wronged you.
I love it.
You're alive
You're alive
Perfect
I wanna fall in love with a girl who knows this song religiously.
I'm currently falling in love with one.
In the mind of the narcissist. Terrifyingly true, terrifying...
Entrancing.
❤❤❤!
♥♥♥
god damn this is some hostile shit, it's almost like the music itself doesn't want to be listened to. feels like i'm being cursed
I'm late to the party again, the gothic, moody, cowboy, desert, acid dropping, hosted by ghosts party. Did you all get here a while ago?
might be the darkest most fucked up song that Swans has ever done. And that's saying something!
kind of goth
🦢 If Swans & M. Gira are the ANIMUS...
wanna know who is the ANIMA? (no, it's not damn Jarboe).
🦩 CRANES, Alison Shaw: prove me wrong. (song = Far Away)
th-cam.com/video/B8cJVjJP4S8/w-d-xo.html
i still dont fully understand what this song is about
It's a song about someone who Gira/or the narrator hates, and is celebrating their downfall.
💪👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Fan fukkn tastic
every word the Gospel &*
damn that riff sounds completely different when you play it at 1.25 speed
Well, I'm here because of the PK video.
Who else came here from Wow Wow Wubbzy YTPs?
No... but I want to see this now!
Me
LABAS MENO ZMones paklausom PINK u
i like to think that the drugs are singing to me here
good
sad as fuck
I'm here because of half life
how?
@@mun7731 how what
oh nvm, i thought you were talking about another half life lol
@@mun7731 you win or you lose
I came because of paperking99's wow wow wubbzy TH-came Poop.
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@@ScisaacFisaac oh you should watch his channel. He makes funny ytps. th-cam.com/channels/nRWAZv11OIDZinIsloh7zA.html
Same.
It's about drugs isnt it ? :(
It's about going insane and dying.
@@asabovesobelow1362 no, it's actually about celebrating the downfall of someone you hate haha, y'all both been wrong for a year
@@jerryseinfeld1988 "Everytime you'll touch it, it'll turn against you" I have a hard time making sense of this line then
@@simonhugo4893 I think you're right to an extent. The song is about a person ruining their life because of drugs, and subsequently, finding enjoyment in someone else's spiral of addiction; That's my interpretation anyway. In truth, we may never know the real meaning of the song.
I think Gira is talking about his music