Swans - Helpless Child (live)

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  • @ephemeralsolidity1004
    @ephemeralsolidity1004 6 ปีที่แล้ว +485

    This is the peak of rock music.

    • @trardac
      @trardac 5 ปีที่แล้ว +126

      This is the peak of music

    • @HateDisease
      @HateDisease 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@trardac This is the peak.

    • @sweetmemes1661
      @sweetmemes1661 5 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@HateDisease This is

    • @RSilva-ku3dn
      @RSilva-ku3dn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@sweetmemes1661 This

    • @sauarkrokur818
      @sauarkrokur818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      T

  • @mammontustado9680
    @mammontustado9680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    13:18 is such a beautiful angle. There's something about voyeuristically witnessing raw emotion translated into music.
    Props to the dude with the camera for capturing this.

  • @anickner1178
    @anickner1178 7 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    I wish I was born at the time to see them play that song live...

    • @tortimania5734
      @tortimania5734 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree

    • @gasmaskboi19371945
      @gasmaskboi19371945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      At least you're alive to see them live anyway!

    • @Machinima1827
      @Machinima1827 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      most likely you wouldn't know them, and if you did, you wouldn't appreciate them as you do now

    • @wanneske1969
      @wanneske1969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      They still exist and play live after covid

    • @yvindaleskjr-nordheggen6776
      @yvindaleskjr-nordheggen6776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@Machinima1827 I saw them live on this tour in 1997.
      Never been so fucking hypnotized and “musically raped” in all my life.
      They had this surround drone sound going from 20:00 until they went on stage at 01:30.
      5 and a half hour with one sound on repeat. When they entered the stage and played “feel happiness” and “helpless child” “the sound” etc, it was by far the best and most insane concert experience I’ve ever attended.
      And seen some big names like Pink Floyd, Rammstein, Depeche Mode etc.
      NOTHING is even close to this concert.
      So I didn’t. Know what I was going to back then but it marked me for life as one of the biggest happening in my now soon 50 year old life.
      If I could relive ONE concert again it would be that one.

  • @MortonGoldthwait
    @MortonGoldthwait 9 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    9:12 That chord brings my knees to the earth every time I hear it.

    • @growskull
      @growskull ปีที่แล้ว +5

      f#m

    • @adrianhernandez98
      @adrianhernandez98 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@growskull is it? i was completely sure that I listen a D major

    • @growskull
      @growskull 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @adrianhernandez98 i mean theyre pretty similar chords so it might be a different voicing but i think f#m sounds like a best fit

    • @adrianhernandez98
      @adrianhernandez98 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@growskull i will try with f#m next time, but i guess they'll sound pretty similar, as you said

    • @EvilLadderGaming
      @EvilLadderGaming 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Def a D major. He’s doing the typical open C major shape but with a capo on the 2nd fret. So it’s gotta be a D major

  • @jasonlynn1017
    @jasonlynn1017 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    The Sublime crashes from out of these chords, Helpless Child and Blood Promise stand with the greatest musical heights of any century: Wagnerian, infinite and inenarrable. This music is the howl of being human.

  • @battousai12
    @battousai12 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    This is not just music. Its magic and Gira is a Shaman.

  • @AlejandroRomero-zv1fo
    @AlejandroRomero-zv1fo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    05/24/24
    I have just discovered this masterpiece, Swans will now be a part of me until I die...

  • @davidtalbot9325
    @davidtalbot9325 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I have been alive longer than nature intended. I can honestly say this fucking amazing music has kept me alive. It's like...medicine.

  • @originalsynthesist2268
    @originalsynthesist2268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    All my brothers and sisters of Swans, rejoice that such embodiment of the human/divine was given to us. I will always love Michael and Jarboe. Especially Michael, as his band here was clearly one of the top 10 artists in any medium anywhere.

  • @batcaver
    @batcaver 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Swans of the mid 90's is definetly their best period IMHO ! Magic performances on this tour !!

  • @nicholasvaccari3075
    @nicholasvaccari3075 8 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    They ripped open reality here. They opened a sacred circle and let the other beings through. They were conduits of eternity. And its captured on film? Gods/Goddesses forgive us..

    • @Skeebins
      @Skeebins 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nAHHHH just SWANS LIVE YEAHH

    • @jasonlynn1017
      @jasonlynn1017 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It should be on film to remind a thousand generations how to feel in a world gone dark and dead.

  • @civilizedworm666
    @civilizedworm666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    I dream to see them, LIVE.
    Wish Jarboe would come and tour with them, again

    • @7crosschop
      @7crosschop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It is as intense as you can imagine.

    • @LucyGoosey4636
      @LucyGoosey4636 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@7crosschop what songs have you heard them plau

    • @howardgoodwin8633
      @howardgoodwin8633 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LucyGoosey4636 learn how to spell before you commenr nwxr rimw

  • @sheilamccarthy5473
    @sheilamccarthy5473 4 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    How are people just casually chatting at the start of the performance like this amazing feat isn't happening before them

    • @danielplainview2584
      @danielplainview2584 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It takes most people a while to catch up with genius.

  • @hzdmc7122
    @hzdmc7122 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Music can't get any better than this

  • @alexandraeast4511
    @alexandraeast4511 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    I adore this song, I’ve heard it many many times and the live version on Swans Are Dead too but I’ve never seen it with a video. This had me in tears in less than 30 seconds. Michael Gira and everyone who has ever worked with Swans. I love you. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much...

  • @crisha721
    @crisha721 6 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    this is one of their best songs. I love them so much

  • @davidmckelvey2601
    @davidmckelvey2601 5 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Now I know where Godspeed You! Black Emperor got their sound.

  • @nathanburnett9529
    @nathanburnett9529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    this video made me cry

  • @ratskin1782
    @ratskin1782 6 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Saw them live in 95 and "final" gig in 97 at LA2

    • @user-vd7io9jc8f
      @user-vd7io9jc8f 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      lucky bastard

    • @MDK2_Radio
      @MDK2_Radio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Saw them in Denver on the same two tours. Since this was an unreleased song in 95 there was no preparation for it. I swear the place felt like it was levitating. For their return in 97 it wasn't as epic, but Jarboe's take on I Crawled was a hell of an unexpected trip. Genuinely frightening at the end.

    • @cyrus2857
      @cyrus2857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      must've been life changing

    • @marcellix
      @marcellix 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      💀 San Francisco 1995

    • @abeautifulswansong
      @abeautifulswansong 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You lucky fuck

  • @Manzur89
    @Manzur89 11 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    One of the most epic songs ever made, and they played it so amazingly on stage,thanks for uploading the whole thing, the video on two parts just break the trip

  • @supplechap5429
    @supplechap5429 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I love the quality.

  • @PolicemanPlanet
    @PolicemanPlanet 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    [Verse 1]
    Now you be the mother and
    I'll be your fool
    I'll hide myself deep inside
    Your crimson pool
    The muddy water runs
    Beneath your folds
    You won't let me breathe;
    You won't let me go
    Now you'll be the stranger and
    I'll be the white-skinned son
    You'll blacken my innocence
    With sugar and opium
    [Verse 2]
    The children were suffocating
    Down in your damp cave
    And you were the mother
    And I was the sleeping slave
    Protect me from violence
    Hold me in your cool lips
    You'll drug me with kindness
    So I can pretend I exist
    Now you be the only child
    I'll suck on your breast
    You'll feed me with gasoline
    I'll burn my name in your head

    • @user-id8vi9bg4n
      @user-id8vi9bg4n 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      cmon everyone knows the words to the greatest song of all time

    • @DanielHernandez-hg5ey
      @DanielHernandez-hg5ey ปีที่แล้ว +2

      thanks mr policeman

    • @PolicemanPlanet
      @PolicemanPlanet ปีที่แล้ว +2

      thanks daniel hernandez

    • @LucyGoosey4636
      @LucyGoosey4636 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In this one he puts the last four lines of the second verse at the beginning of the second verse

  • @balance1182
    @balance1182 9 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    eternal love

  • @paulsenkans3401
    @paulsenkans3401 8 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Enlightening music. Thank you, Swans.

  • @chethongo
    @chethongo 11 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    amazing footage.

  • @ryandenis7667
    @ryandenis7667 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    this is history

  • @chaktsallo2165
    @chaktsallo2165 8 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    This footage is pure gold! Cheers for the upload

  • @PolicemanPlanet
    @PolicemanPlanet 7 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    id argue this version is better than the album version tbh

    • @PolicemanPlanet
      @PolicemanPlanet ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah no you were right this version fucks

  • @ryannMW7
    @ryannMW7 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Melhor música de todos os tempos

  • @frankfertier34
    @frankfertier34 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    les chants désespérés sont les chants les plus beaux. je me fais avoir à chaque coup, et chaque fois j'en redemande.

  • @eduardovelasquez9023
    @eduardovelasquez9023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So much passion when playing this song! This is mesmerizing. 😍

  • @richardwilliamson4848
    @richardwilliamson4848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Amazing. I saw them in San Francisco circa 1992- WOW!

  • @HiGlowie
    @HiGlowie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I’d love to be a fly on the wall when the synths/samples for this song were being programmed. The patches sound complex due to all the motion and subtle variety.

  • @wanneske1969
    @wanneske1969 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I love this guy

  • @candikmen6078
    @candikmen6078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    this song always reminds me something i forgot. breath. love. hate. write. dont write.

  • @Farcallo
    @Farcallo 11 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Wow that's just a fantastic performance. Thank you so so much for the upload!

  • @blacksmokegearjammer
    @blacksmokegearjammer 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Amazing.

  • @revengerknight92
    @revengerknight92 10 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    90s manifesto

  • @kraftyhandz
    @kraftyhandz ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Absolutely, gorgeous.

  • @shiverburn3264
    @shiverburn3264 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Is the percussionist playing vibraphone with two mallets with one hand and keeping the beat on the hi-hat with the other hand?

    • @ScisaacFisaac
      @ScisaacFisaac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Most trained percussionists use two mallets to a hand like it's nothing, early as middle school sometimes. It's crazy. That, and keeping multiple beats going.

    • @oryangoat5915
      @oryangoat5915 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think so, but both are keeping the beat though. In the intro the vibraphone seems more random / free form but later it plays a structured melody

    • @bastiangustavsen3168
      @bastiangustavsen3168 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      haha indeed, thats why he is still the drummer of swans to this day ;)

  • @explayq230
    @explayq230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    lo-fi with filed recording version

    • @milesnoname7904
      @milesnoname7904 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ayyy another Schopenhauerian Swans fan !

  • @mzcv2371
    @mzcv2371 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Belleza

  • @delhidelirium9091
    @delhidelirium9091 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I love the instrumental part where some dude gets possessed by Jarboe´s epic keys in this , so this dude just goes : ´This is it! This is my fukking jam ... have some of this fukkers ! ` - just erupts in front of Gira tripping his ass off just playing some noisy, loud ,mean souding power chords all over the place not giving two shits about anything - ´ more dissonant , the merrier ! ` ... it´s his guitar by itself along with Jarboe´s keyboards and a bunch of all other noise which he completely ignores , an ´helpless child` filling in for Norman Westberg who actually accomplishes a decent performance here ... fukking epic !

  • @griffinmoore6819
    @griffinmoore6819 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic video.

  • @gnisiseggmine5809
    @gnisiseggmine5809 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    do you still have this in original quality somewhere?

  • @pfisterbuddy
    @pfisterbuddy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oh man......

  • @swans7618
    @swans7618 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No words.

  • @xildu4830
    @xildu4830 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is happening

  • @_n4nom4n
    @_n4nom4n ปีที่แล้ว

    Kings of pain

  • @wolfgabe8925
    @wolfgabe8925 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Who’s the other guitar player hitting those deafening chords at 7:55? the one in the T shirt looking at Michael

    • @TheMadalucard
      @TheMadalucard 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Joe Goldring, he was the bass player for this tour and played 3rd guitar on Helpless Child it seems.

    • @woah3157
      @woah3157 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@TheMadalucardI wish there was a comprehensive tab of all 3 guitars on this. It sounds like the second guitarist is playing open d or something

  • @zkills1783
    @zkills1783 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is the music OAT

  • @yvindaleskjr-nordheggen6776
    @yvindaleskjr-nordheggen6776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    To the 5 people that gave thumbs down on this one:
    Hannah Montana rules!!!

  • @n11k.nd3k
    @n11k.nd3k 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    awesome

  • @mrlucas9072
    @mrlucas9072 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    12:34 the synths come in

  • @ImaginalComponent
    @ImaginalComponent 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Anyone know the date or venue of this gig?

    • @lorenzo_paiano_
      @lorenzo_paiano_ ปีที่แล้ว

      1995 for sure

    • @ImaginalComponent
      @ImaginalComponent ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@lorenzo_paiano_ obviously 1995 but i was hoping more for confirmation of venue, country, filmmaker, etc...

    • @lorenzo_paiano_
      @lorenzo_paiano_ ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ImaginalComponent ok i now found out watching the film Where Does A Body End that the gig was at Paradiso in Amsterdam (obviously in 1995)

  • @supplechap5429
    @supplechap5429 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    444 likes. The heavenly nature of this video leaks through! :0

  • @garrettlemieux4620
    @garrettlemieux4620 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    What instrument makes the opening sounds?

  • @eliasmsv3156
    @eliasmsv3156 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The intro sounds so similar to the SFTB version it scares me

  • @The_Jnrel
    @The_Jnrel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Is discovering Swans before 18 a good thing or a bad thing?

  • @gangsterdelbosco
    @gangsterdelbosco ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gira's performance was truly fantastic but the crowd was too noisy. How can someone talk while they play this song?

  • @mybloodyabsolen
    @mybloodyabsolen ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anyone knows the chords???

    • @breakingthestitch2507
      @breakingthestitch2507 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      During the parts where he’s singing a I think it starts with an F#m then it’s a C# and a Dmaj

    • @growskull
      @growskull ปีที่แล้ว +1

      f#m c#sus but the crescendo is all f#m

  • @user-mc6mg4ef2j
    @user-mc6mg4ef2j 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    SWAGS

  • @peepnox7747
    @peepnox7747 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    :)

  • @Curtainkob
    @Curtainkob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    And I couldn't be there. I was born in 1993, and am living my youth in one of the shittiest ages of humankind, with shitty music and shitty people. But Michael is still alive, at least

  • @bierdlll
    @bierdlll 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The guitar is too loud and there is no melody.

    • @kiraisatsana102
      @kiraisatsana102 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No melody?

    • @Christian-97
      @Christian-97 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      There is a melody, the sound quality is just not the greatest

  • @torsofuckd
    @torsofuckd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Lloré