The album reviewed in this video discusses serious issues such as physical and psychological abuse and drug addiction. If you or a loved one is dealing with such issues, please use any of the following helplines and resources: National Domestic Violence Hotline: www.thehotline.org/ RAIIN Sexual Assault Hotline: www.rainn.org/ Human Trafficking Hotline: humantraffickinghotline.org/ ChildHelp Child Abuse Hotline: www.childhelp.org/ National Suicide Prevention Hotline: suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ SAMHSA Substance Abuse Helpline: www.samhsa.gov/
My mom told me, about 3/4ths of the way through this album, “This is the only album you’ve ever played for me that I actually find disturbing.” She said all the variations of sound and different voices made her think of hell. I knew Soundtracks was special but when she told me that I became obsessed.
my favorite "interview" on this album is the one from I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull, because of the story behind it. From what I read it's actually from a tapped phoneline, and the person talking is being spied on by some investigator. The person being listened in on is obviously aware of that fact, talking directly to the person tapping the line. He's obviously being spied on for something as he says that he's "fucked up". But the person spying on him is "more fucked up" than him for spying on him. It's really disturbing and reading about the truth of it made me feel genuinely scared. Love this album so much
The recording is one of a number on the album taken from the tapes of Jarboe's father who was an FBI agent. It's not from a tapped phone, but from a wire worn by a police informant involved in some criminal ring the FBI was investigating. The guy is basically calling the cops listening in on him more fucked up than he is because their whole job and life's purpose is dependent on crime and criminals like him existing in the first place.
@@resiseven7407 It is true. Jarboe's parents were FBI agents and this is sourced from a tape her father had and it is most likely he the man the 'fucked up' person in the recording is addressing
Fun fact: That scream on Hypogirl was done by Jarboe in the vocal booth directly after she had downed a bunch of whiskey. She is known to be abstinent to all drugs, so that scream was just her gut reaction and wasn’t necessarily intended to be in the song. She decided to drink in order to conjure the persona she was trying to portray in the lyrics. The scream ended up being recorded by accident and Michael decided mid-production to leave it in. I just always thought this little detail was really cool. There’s a documentary on swans called Where Does a Body End that explains this along with the whole history of the band and Michael. It was independently made, but has a lot of heart into it. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn what swans is all about or any die hard fans
I like to think of this album as a life cycle, it begins with themes of birth (RVC, Helpless Child, Live Through Me), then references to violence/perversion/abuse against children (Yum Yab Killers, Volcano, All Lined Up), then the child matures and comes to term with their childhood abuse and their parents’ life and passing (How They Suffer, Animus, RVW, The Sound), continues to endure abuse, depression, and depravity through their adult life (HMIFWH, Blood Section, Hypogirl, Minus Something, YRP), experiences resentment for their past abusers (Empathy), and eventually decides to commit suicide due to the almost religious devotion to the addictive abuse (The Final Sacrifice, YRP 2) and the final track (Surrogate Drone) symbolizes how the emptiness of death carries a haunting resemblance to their tragic life, and the concluding sounds of a tape ending give a twisted sort of relief that this depiction of a wasted life was just a work of fiction, to which this album was the soundtrack, so vivid that even the blind could understand the story without watching the so called movie
I never realized how insanely creative and disturbing the lyrics to Volcano and Yum-Yab Killers were. Genuinely super fuxked up in an engrossing way. Also, from the way you describe it I can relate to how much you love Helpless Child. No other piece of music can match. Great analysis!
@@JeanMarceaux SFTB is actually an incredible album to listen to while reading house of leaves, I put it on while reading it one time and I got to the part where you're deciding the letters for Johnny's mother and oh my god the time literally disappeared it was genuinely distressing
I just listened to this album a few hours ago and I was speechless. I didn’t know what to think of it, but I definitely knew that it was an experience. I follow you on Instagram and remembered that you’d recently uploaded this video, so I went to check it out to see what in the fuck happened in that album. After watching your video, this album intrigues me even more. I have never ever heard an album like this, and this probably the most disturbing album I’ve ever heard. I really can’t describe it, and I think you and your friend put into words really well.
you were great at explaining the depths of this lp, such a good way of picking up the right words and i admire the obviously deep dive you did in the record itself i am impressed, definitely looking forward to more of these
I've just finished to listen to SFTB for the first time, and holy moly this video was so helpful for the understanding of this album. Thank you Patrick!
Haha it’s mad this came out today because I’ve been putting together a swans ranking and this is the last album I have left to listen to after college today
Exactly what I thought, i loved early stuff and the post hiatus stuff but I never had the patience to sit though this one all the way through, time to relisten
Seriously great job here man! Best video I've seen on sftb, and the best video I've seen you put out. I hope this lands on a lot of people's recommended pages, great fucking work!!
@@oliverroy4176 just did it on a run today. Took a small 10 minute break in between the two discs but other than that, it was all the way through with no breaks
Fantastic analysis. I have to admit that I haven’t listened too much to the lyrics. The only thing I’ve noticed is that there is a clear paralell between the discs in how the order of the songs are very similar. Ant ideas why?
I listened to soundtracks in its entirety for the first time today. I’ve enjoyed other swans projects and they are certainly out there compared to the main stream. But this album, like no other, is just so off putting. Listening to this today was perhaps the most visceral and disturbing musical experience I’ve had.
Instantly became my favorite album. I knew I was going to love it based off of the the first few seconds of the first song, but I wanted to keep my expectations low so I wouldn't be dissapointed. I couldn't have possibly been disappointed. There will never be another Soundtracks, no matter how hard anyone tries.
This was a really great breakdown of the album! You helped me get a better understanding of a lot of the interviews such as the one on I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull. Not sure how I did not make the connection between the interview and Dementia or Alzheimer's.
Hey Pat, great video! I've watched it through a few times already, and your analysis (along with that of Bang can) has really helped me grow a deeper understanding and appreciation for this masterpiece. All I really had to say though is regarding my own thoughts on Her Mouth Was Filled With Honey. Your interpretation seemed to be that the spoken audio was meant to represent an abusive parent/child relationship, but personally I'm not entirely sure how this connection was made by just what seems to be a father concerned about his daughter. Personally, I took your proposal that it was related to abuse, but my interpretation is this: In the ending sentence, the man suspects that she's "mooning over that boyfriend." My theory is that while this exerpt is related to abuse as you stated, the father is not the focus, and he's just an observer, seeing the effect that an emotionally damaging relationship can have on an individual - in this case, a young girl. But that's just my idea. You can call it overly literal, but I just think that's what makes the most sense to me. Again, thanks for the vid, you did awesome :)
So I was wondering why I didn't particularly care for Soundtracks after listening to it on Bnadcmap. I wasn't wowed, but I wasn't disappointed, either; it felt exactly like a Swans record should, to me. Turns out one of the most powerful pieces on the album, Helpless Child, is unavailable for streaming on the album page, nor can you buy it separately, as a track. Animus is also unavailable. So is Sound. And The Final Sacrifice. So yeah, thank you, Michael Gira of the band Swans, for publicly castrating your magnum opus. Smart decision. Maybe I should shoot him a message. P.S. Mind you, the entirety of Everywhere at the End of Time is available for streaming (in its entirety, I emphasize) on Caretaker's bandcamp.
I loved this review! great vid dude, i didn't know the themes of the record was so heavy (i'm not america so i listen music like the vocals are like other being instrumental sound). I gonna listen more then i have listened, thank you.
Great video! I just listened to this album today and had no idea how much it would draw me in with how intriguing it is. Do you (or anyone else reading this comment) have any ideas on why volcano is titled as such? I still haven’t been able to figure that out
You can trace the influence of Swans through even the mere concept of this album. Which was summarily ripped off for The Porcupine Tree album Arriving Somewhere But Not Here. Which is also a good album btw
I figured IWAPIYS was referring to how the mother's mental health issues are compounded on the child. Since when mental illness is passed on, it usually presents worse in the next generation. Also, Yum Yab is just Yab-Yum inverted. It's from Tibetan Buddhism. As a genius annotator said "Yab-yum depicts a male deity... in sexual union with his female consort (who represents prajna, often translated as wisdom). Whereas Yab-yum depicts the feminine form as seated on the masculine form’s lap, Yum-yab inverts this by having the masculine form seated on the feminine form’s lap."
The album reviewed in this video discusses serious issues such as physical and psychological abuse and drug addiction.
If you or a loved one is dealing with such issues, please use any of the following helplines and resources:
National Domestic Violence Hotline: www.thehotline.org/
RAIIN Sexual Assault Hotline: www.rainn.org/
Human Trafficking Hotline: humantraffickinghotline.org/
ChildHelp Child Abuse Hotline: www.childhelp.org/
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
SAMHSA Substance Abuse Helpline: www.samhsa.gov/
It feels like you and I listend very diffrently to this album
Very cool Mr Tervo
I love how you’re talking about an album with themes of abuse, rape, and murder with a Skrillex album in the back
And the cuts to the Bang can
My mom told me, about 3/4ths of the way through this album, “This is the only album you’ve ever played for me that I actually find disturbing.” She said all the variations of sound and different voices made her think of hell. I knew Soundtracks was special but when she told me that I became obsessed.
my favorite "interview" on this album is the one from I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull, because of the story behind it. From what I read it's actually from a tapped phoneline, and the person talking is being spied on by some investigator. The person being listened in on is obviously aware of that fact, talking directly to the person tapping the line. He's obviously being spied on for something as he says that he's "fucked up". But the person spying on him is "more fucked up" than him for spying on him. It's really disturbing and reading about the truth of it made me feel genuinely scared. Love this album so much
The recording is one of a number on the album taken from the tapes of Jarboe's father who was an FBI agent. It's not from a tapped phone, but from a wire worn by a police informant involved in some criminal ring the FBI was investigating. The guy is basically calling the cops listening in on him more fucked up than he is because their whole job and life's purpose is dependent on crime and criminals like him existing in the first place.
@@resiseven7407 🤓
@@filth315 lol i was asking for that. still dont think this is true tho
@@resiseven7407 It is true. Jarboe's parents were FBI agents and this is sourced from a tape her father had and it is most likely he the man the 'fucked up' person in the recording is addressing
So the investigator called him in to turn on the water?
Fun fact: That scream on Hypogirl was done by Jarboe in the vocal booth directly after she had downed a bunch of whiskey. She is known to be abstinent to all drugs, so that scream was just her gut reaction and wasn’t necessarily intended to be in the song. She decided to drink in order to conjure the persona she was trying to portray in the lyrics. The scream ended up being recorded by accident and Michael decided mid-production to leave it in. I just always thought this little detail was really cool.
There’s a documentary on swans called Where Does a Body End that explains this along with the whole history of the band and Michael. It was independently made, but has a lot of heart into it. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn what swans is all about or any die hard fans
That doc is emotionally distressing.
"After the silver disc ends, things get weird"
Well, for me this album is weird right from the start
I like to think of this album as a life cycle, it begins with themes of birth (RVC, Helpless Child, Live Through Me), then references to violence/perversion/abuse against children (Yum Yab Killers, Volcano, All Lined Up), then the child matures and comes to term with their childhood abuse and their parents’ life and passing (How They Suffer, Animus, RVW, The Sound), continues to endure abuse, depression, and depravity through their adult life (HMIFWH, Blood Section, Hypogirl, Minus Something, YRP), experiences resentment for their past abusers (Empathy), and eventually decides to commit suicide due to the almost religious devotion to the addictive abuse (The Final Sacrifice, YRP 2) and the final track (Surrogate Drone) symbolizes how the emptiness of death carries a haunting resemblance to their tragic life, and the concluding sounds of a tape ending give a twisted sort of relief that this depiction of a wasted life was just a work of fiction, to which this album was the soundtrack, so vivid that even the blind could understand the story without watching the so called movie
this is the best explanation
I never realized how insanely creative and disturbing the lyrics to Volcano and Yum-Yab Killers were. Genuinely super fuxked up in an engrossing way. Also, from the way you describe it I can relate to how much you love Helpless Child. No other piece of music can match. Great analysis!
Ducks - Sighttracks for the Deaf
Queens of the Stone Age moment
@@memondayz *Rated B*
Swallows- Flavortracks for the anosmic
Zampano writing a whole ass research paper about a movie he never saw because of being blind moment
@@JeanMarceaux SFTB is actually an incredible album to listen to while reading house of leaves, I put it on while reading it one time and I got to the part where you're deciding the letters for Johnny's mother and oh my god the time literally disappeared it was genuinely distressing
I just listened to this album a few hours ago and I was speechless. I didn’t know what to think of it, but I definitely knew that it was an experience. I follow you on Instagram and remembered that you’d recently uploaded this video, so I went to check it out to see what in the fuck happened in that album. After watching your video, this album intrigues me even more. I have never ever heard an album like this, and this probably the most disturbing album I’ve ever heard. I really can’t describe it, and I think you and your friend put into words really well.
you were great at explaining the depths of this lp, such a good way of picking up the right words and i admire the obviously deep dive you did in the record itself
i am impressed, definitely looking forward to more of these
I've just finished to listen to SFTB for the first time, and holy moly this video was so helpful for the understanding of this album. Thank you Patrick!
Haha it’s mad this came out today because I’ve been putting together a swans ranking and this is the last album I have left to listen to after college today
"jarboe softened their sound"
Bang can gives huge neutralmilkstore vibes
I love theneutralmilkstore. All my homies love theneutralmilkstore.
Literally exactly what I was thinking
Damn... i might need to give Swans another chance
edit: also, i really loved this video. Perhaps you could do more like this. To be Kind maybe?
Exactly what I thought, i loved early stuff and the post hiatus stuff but I never had the patience to sit though this one all the way through, time to relisten
What a lovely video, I'm only 5 minutes and I already love you're way of explaining things. Thanks
Psychological horror in audio form
Ur wall is the Color of the album
Great review. I'll never forget the first time I indulged in this album. I couldn't move.
You pronounced Michael gira correctly! Well researched boiiiiiii
I know how to say it but I purposely pronounce it wrong sometimes lol
swans is such an amazing band and this masterpiece of an album proves it
Every time I hear hypogirl I think of resident evil 7
I get RE7 vibes from Empathy and Helpless Child
insert "youre not anthony fantano" joke here
Loved the video, Patrick!
bruh I've followed your instagram memepage forever as a massive radiohead fan and I didn't even know you had a youtube
swans moment
Seriously great job here man! Best video I've seen on sftb, and the best video I've seen you put out. I hope this lands on a lot of people's recommended pages, great fucking work!!
Have you listened to this all the way through in one sitting? That's insane
I listened to it all the way through once or twice a day every day for approximately a month in order to write this!
@@patricktervo2013 SFTB is probably my favorite album of all time but I'd still get tired of it after a while. Mad respect !!
@@patricktervo2013 how is this possible without going completely insane wtf
do people NOT do that?
@@oliverroy4176 just did it on a run today. Took a small 10 minute break in between the two discs but other than that, it was all the way through with no breaks
Loved this video man, keep it up!
Fantastic analysis. I have to admit that I haven’t listened too much to the lyrics. The only thing I’ve noticed is that there is a clear paralell between the discs in how the order of the songs are very similar. Ant ideas why?
I listened to soundtracks in its entirety for the first time today. I’ve enjoyed other swans projects and they are certainly out there compared to the main stream. But this album, like no other, is just so off putting. Listening to this today was perhaps the most visceral and disturbing musical experience I’ve had.
Instantly became my favorite album. I knew I was going to love it based off of the the first few seconds of the first song, but I wanted to keep my expectations low so I wouldn't be dissapointed. I couldn't have possibly been disappointed. There will never be another Soundtracks, no matter how hard anyone tries.
Superb account of a great, daunting record ... which I now have to listen to all over again. Thanks :)
Incredible review to an incredible record. Well done!
Excellent breakdown , please make more of these
This was a really great breakdown of the album! You helped me get a better understanding of a lot of the interviews such as the one on I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull. Not sure how I did not make the connection between the interview and Dementia or Alzheimer's.
Hey Pat, great video! I've watched it through a few times already, and your analysis (along with that of Bang can) has really helped me grow a deeper understanding and appreciation for this masterpiece.
All I really had to say though is regarding my own thoughts on Her Mouth Was Filled With Honey. Your interpretation seemed to be that the spoken audio was meant to represent an abusive parent/child relationship, but personally I'm not entirely sure how this connection was made by just what seems to be a father concerned about his daughter. Personally, I took your proposal that it was related to abuse, but my interpretation is this:
In the ending sentence, the man suspects that she's "mooning over that boyfriend." My theory is that while this exerpt is related to abuse as you stated, the father is not the focus, and he's just an observer, seeing the effect that an emotionally damaging relationship can have on an individual - in this case, a young girl.
But that's just my idea. You can call it overly literal, but I just think that's what makes the most sense to me. Again, thanks for the vid, you did awesome :)
What a video!!! 👏👏 Great work!
Wait until you read Michael giras book, the consumer. It’s the most fucked up I’ve ever felt
You did NOT have to flex that hard with the TBK and TGM records
So I was wondering why I didn't particularly care for Soundtracks after listening to it on Bnadcmap. I wasn't wowed, but I wasn't disappointed, either; it felt exactly like a Swans record should, to me.
Turns out one of the most powerful pieces on the album, Helpless Child, is unavailable for streaming on the album page, nor can you buy it separately, as a track. Animus is also unavailable. So is Sound. And The Final Sacrifice.
So yeah, thank you, Michael Gira of the band Swans, for publicly castrating your magnum opus. Smart decision.
Maybe I should shoot him a message.
P.S. Mind you, the entirety of Everywhere at the End of Time is available for streaming (in its entirety, I emphasize) on Caretaker's bandcamp.
I subscribed the second he said that this is the OKest Computer youtube channel.
great video with great explanations
I loved this review! great vid dude, i didn't know the themes of the record was so heavy (i'm not america so i listen music like the vocals are like other being instrumental sound). I gonna listen more then i have listened, thank you.
This is amazing!
Whoa, what a well articulated and excellent breakdown, I would like to know your thoughts on Swans Are Dead.
hype moment
album breakdown: The Glow Pt 2
please
great video pat! you should send a link to Mr.Gira, I think he'd like it :)
Great video! I just listened to this album today and had no idea how much it would draw me in with how intriguing it is. Do you (or anyone else reading this comment) have any ideas on why volcano is titled as such? I still haven’t been able to figure that out
You can trace the influence of Swans through even the mere concept of this album. Which was summarily ripped off for The Porcupine Tree album Arriving Somewhere But Not Here. Which is also a good album btw
Swans :)💜
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Great helpful vid
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Someone said Soundtrack For The Trust Fund 🤣
This is such a good video
Volcano = Madonna
Anthony Fantano 2
I have that shirt lol
Oh wait you’re that guy from Instagram 😅
Nice video
i dont get this album.
That's OK, this album is really dense
bogos binted
AKA (David Lynch makes a Western)
Haha 666 likes
weak chin
I figured IWAPIYS was referring to how the mother's mental health issues are compounded on the child. Since when mental illness is passed on, it usually presents worse in the next generation. Also, Yum Yab is just Yab-Yum inverted. It's from Tibetan Buddhism. As a genius annotator said "Yab-yum depicts a male deity... in sexual union with his female consort (who represents prajna, often translated as wisdom). Whereas Yab-yum depicts the feminine form as seated on the masculine form’s lap, Yum-yab inverts this by having the masculine form seated on the feminine form’s lap."
love ur instagram account didnt know you had a youtube channel