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Swans - Blood Promise (Live)

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2015
  • Swans are Dead (Black Disc) version of Blood Promise, which is easily one of my favourite songs of all time.
    edit: can't believe i was 14 when i uploaded this masterpiece of a song to TH-cam because I couldn't find it anywhere lmao, still love it a lot tho

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  • @tropicwave1
    @tropicwave1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Blood Promise
    Swans
    Produced by Michael Gira
    Album: The Great Annihilator
    [Live Only]
    We are poor little lambs who have lost our way
    Baa, baa, baa
    [Verse 1]
    When silence falls
    And light remains
    And time is born
    Beneath the Sun
    I'll hide your name
    Inside a word
    And paint your eyes
    With false perception
    And I feel your mind
    In everything
    And every breath
    Destroys a sound
    And I never will follow
    A false sensation
    And I'll always believe
    Your blood promise
    [Refrain]
    Na na na
    Na na
    Na na na
    Na na
    Na na na
    Na na
    Na na na
    Na na
    [Verse 2]
    And every breath
    I stole from you
    And I never will see
    Your broken body
    And you never have spoken
    An unclear word
    And I'll never betray
    Your blood promise
    [Refrain]
    Na na na na
    Na na na
    Na na na na
    Na na na
    Na na na na
    Na na na
    Na na na na
    Na na na
    [Live Only]
    [Instrumental]
    Don't stop!
    Well, we are done
    And we'd like to thank you for being here-
    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    Written by: Michael Gira
    Copyright (c) - Young God Publishing
    Release Date: 1994

    • @mindmy609
      @mindmy609 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      very dark lyrics however there was an atonement for this passion

    • @mr.zaiked3058
      @mr.zaiked3058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I love the final
      AAAAAAAAA

    • @rururu5877
      @rururu5877 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Baa baa baa naa naaa naa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • @heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382
    @heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382 3 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    "Well, we're done, and we'd like to thank you for being here-
    "HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
    iconic Gira moment

    • @Ss-pn4vd
      @Ss-pn4vd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Joseph slipped out for a couple seconds

    • @jacobmorris2877
      @jacobmorris2877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @teirvsedei It was almost certainly an edit together of two completely different concerts.

    • @minhaalakbar
      @minhaalakbar ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jacobmorris2877 its from the end of this: th-cam.com/video/pfeEThv3gTI/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ImaginalComponent

  • @abominacao_disgenica
    @abominacao_disgenica 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    The final boss of rock 'n roll music in its profound sense of physicality.

  • @CrickeyNyan
    @CrickeyNyan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    This track always leaves me speechless. My absolute favorite from Swans Are Dead.

  • @DemonSlide
    @DemonSlide ปีที่แล้ว +20

    When I first started my university courses, back in 2010 and 2011, I used to travel for two hours eveyday to get to the campus.
    I lived far away, or the school was far away, one of the two.
    Needless to say, I would take my Ipod with me.
    I was going through a serious Swans kick back then, just newly discovering their genius music.
    Soon enough, those excursions in the name of education and me being on time to class (which I never was anyway) became hardcore listening sessions devoted to this record and "Soundtracks for the Blind" I was playing them to death, sometimes going into a deep trance that was hard to come of.
    It was hard to pretend I wanted to listen to anything anybody had to say after experiencing such stellar works of art.
    Suddenly the mundane commuting and public transportation seemed fun and almost something that I was looking forward to, even more so than going to class.
    Since I was always late, once I got to campus I would take major strolls around and keep listening to more.
    I became obsessed.
    It was almost too good.
    I couldn't help it.
    I was enthralled.
    I always listened to some more on the way back and on bathroom breaks.
    I ended up ditching that class only to come back at the end of the course and pass it on one test.
    Swans became my favorite band.
    And I was about to really see what it was all about.

  • @YungJackTorrance6
    @YungJackTorrance6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    It doesn't get any better then this. And I don't think it ever will

    • @abcdefzhij
      @abcdefzhij 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hmmmm….

  • @takashimizutani1808
    @takashimizutani1808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    This evokes certain feelings in me I never knew I could feel before

  • @erlexar
    @erlexar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    6:43 that was some ancient celestial hymn he sang lol so fucking awesome. Call it depressing whatever but to me this is music to my soul

  • @davidtalbot9325
    @davidtalbot9325 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    This song, played on this same tour at the 9:30 Club, 1997, was the most profound live music experience of my life. No words can do justice to it. It was an annihilation.

  • @buoy9665
    @buoy9665 2 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    if you listen close to the guitar at the end of the song you can hear how its slightly out of tune compared to just 7 minutes prior, it shows how hard they beat the shit out of those strings. bravo

    • @koollegged5739
      @koollegged5739 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Pretty sure the bassist said he broke one or two strings during this performance.

    • @thenero7583
      @thenero7583 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@koollegged5739 where did you see this

    • @koollegged5739
      @koollegged5739 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@thenero7583 I read it in Sacrifice And Transcendence, the oral history of Swans

  • @PavelMarkovic88
    @PavelMarkovic88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    I've dicovered Swans with "Blind" and I must say that this is the best thing I find in last year, just next to Protomartyr. Unique and extreme music, not for every one I think.

    • @mindmy609
      @mindmy609 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      just recently heard this one but soundtracks was my first ever exposure to the band 98' Helpless child really sticks out

    • @taz2026
      @taz2026 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Props for Protomartyr!

    • @coba3220
      @coba3220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for getting me into Protomartyr!

  • @jasonlynn1017
    @jasonlynn1017 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    This is one of the sublime-est pieces of music in the history of music, regardless of century.

  • @HillsSilent
    @HillsSilent 8 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Heard this last maybe close to a decade ago, so glad to hear it again.

    • @rururu5877
      @rururu5877 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Man a decade and half

  • @bartconnelly6926
    @bartconnelly6926 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    love this song in this version and have listened to it at least once a week for the past year.

    • @YungJackTorrance6
      @YungJackTorrance6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Haha I'm sure it has been 4 years now. Same for me

  • @UntitledKirk
    @UntitledKirk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Incredible, beautiful, just perfection in musical form.

    • @ionlyusepics
      @ionlyusepics 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      right again mr kirk

  • @ryannMW7
    @ryannMW7 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    One of the greatest music of all time

  • @Ss-pn4vd
    @Ss-pn4vd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    the guitar at the end is so haunting and hollow, my favorite part i think. Of course as well Gira screaming

  • @mindmy609
    @mindmy609 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    i keep coming back to this live version its eerily heart breaking im fixated with this song and the ultimate covenant that sealed the BIBLE

  • @PetruMihai
    @PetruMihai 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is their best track. Few if any Swans songs have this much substance

  • @lawannatanner4624
    @lawannatanner4624 5 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    "We are all little lambs who have lost our way"

    • @bartverweire
      @bartverweire 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Thanks, been looking for this for years. Appears to be from "The Whiffenpoof Song". See th-cam.com/video/bnO4gUkTiCY/w-d-xo.html (from about 1'23")

    • @ricothepoolboy1758
      @ricothepoolboy1758 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bartverweire DUDE. Thank you. sounded vaguely like SOTP. Great ear. Cheers

    • @arnoburtner380
      @arnoburtner380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ricothepoolboy1758 what is SOTP?

    • @nremac
      @nremac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@arnoburtner380 Sons Of The Pioneers, the band from Bart's link

    • @arnoburtner380
      @arnoburtner380 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nremac It's literally the sample, but thanks anyway

  • @marshall7027
    @marshall7027 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    If there's anybody out there who can show me a band better than Swans I am all ears. Somehow I highly doubt anybody could.

    • @doxskew2221
      @doxskew2221 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Try boris. They have long epic songs similar to swans. There ablum flood is worth your time

    • @NoNamedNobody692
      @NoNamedNobody692 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      As well as Godspeed You Black Emperor.
      They even came in on r/swans top 10 artists (behind swans of course lol).
      Stereotypically so, their 2000 album “Lift Your Skinny Fists To Heaven Like Attenaes To The Sky” is an absolute MASTERCLASS in Post-Rock / Ambient Music. Absolutely MASTERFUL.

    • @clsagst
      @clsagst ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I would second Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I love Boris but honestly I don't think they reach this level

    • @harrysmith5340
      @harrysmith5340 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Boredoms!!! You gotta check out Boredoms! Japanese band that I'd say gets equally as large sounding as Swans, different vibe but defo a similar breed of beast. I'd recommend Super AE, Vision Creation New Sun, and Super Roots 9
      Also I'd point you in the direction of This Heat, British experimental rock from the late 70's and early 80's that is a bit more experimental in the studio than Swans but defo have a similar appeal
      Outside of 'rock' bands, people like Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham are important ancestors to bands like Swans and Sonic Youth, and for sure paved the way for them

    • @marshall7027
      @marshall7027 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@harrysmith5340 thank you so much

  • @svperstar
    @svperstar 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    at one point, back in 97, in london, england, at the last show on that tour, this was the last track they were ever gonna play live.

    • @bobros2736
      @bobros2736 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      actually this isn't the recording of the last 97 performance, this is th-cam.com/video/TpO3b1p3EjY/w-d-xo.html

  • @ericmsandoval
    @ericmsandoval 7 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    It's almost as if Gira himself trolls us there at the very end lol

    • @x-mb7kj
      @x-mb7kj 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fucking drunk. Need him to taklk. 10 minutes

  • @ratskin1782
    @ratskin1782 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I was at the Final Concert...LA2....met Gira outside and went to an after party with Swans and Nick Cave. Hutchence was there a few months before he went away.

    • @theslydog59
      @theslydog59 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      How was this song? This recording is from their 2nd last concert before splitting up, and I heard that the recording of their last ever song, Blood Promise, couldn't be used. Also, that Gira went on stage naked. True/false?

    • @twint9
      @twint9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@theslydog59 Gira did go onstage naked! There are photos!

    • @ratskin1782
      @ratskin1782 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @TomorrowNeverKnows 1995 was The Gret Annihilator tour and I was at the LA2 gig for that. Not sure i it was the final gig of that tour. The 1997 Swans Are Dead tour LA2 gig was the final gig of that tour. I have the cd-r that Jarboe sent me of it.

    • @ratskin1782
      @ratskin1782 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theslydog59 Both true. But Gira only came out naked after the last track to wave goodbye.

    • @ratskin1782
      @ratskin1782 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @TomorrowNeverKnows I also got the cd-r. From Jarboe and 2 other 97 gigs free. No tours in 96 unfortunatly.

  • @robertfrippgaming6924
    @robertfrippgaming6924 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    How does this exist?

  • @TeenageJesusSuperstr
    @TeenageJesusSuperstr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Makes me livid that this isn’t on Apple Music

  • @Goonette-gp9fn
    @Goonette-gp9fn 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Couldn‘t believe they played part of this the other night in Germany

    • @thenero9493
      @thenero9493 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      WHAT THEY DID??

  • @daviddavid-ud9bt
    @daviddavid-ud9bt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They were amazing at the Somerville Theater in Boston.

  • @Sean-ht9gp
    @Sean-ht9gp 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Swans is all great music summed up in a sonic catharsis

  • @ClimekCrap
    @ClimekCrap 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    stunning

  • @ionlyusepics
    @ionlyusepics 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    8:50 is just so chilling

    • @YungJackTorrance6
      @YungJackTorrance6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My favorite swans song

    • @YungJackTorrance6
      @YungJackTorrance6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I know exactly what your talking about . A rush just goes threw my whole body lol

    • @McBignLargeBJ64
      @McBignLargeBJ64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I know, it almost too much. I start sweating

    • @flergus2
      @flergus2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      9:22 is also chilling, shit starts getting real here

    • @coldercoronet6248
      @coldercoronet6248 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@YungJackTorrance6 I’m glad their’s more Semetary and Swans fans out their.

  • @rururu5877
    @rururu5877 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    We'd like to thank you-
    HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • @marke9088
    @marke9088 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    It's not "the" Swans. Just Swans.

    • @anonymouzzz4307
      @anonymouzzz4307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jarboe called them "the Swans" in an interview, so fuck you

    • @marke9088
      @marke9088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@anonymouzzz4307 She said a lot of things but I go by the creator of the band who I've met twice and when I asked Gira he said it's only Swans. No need to swear at me. Stay safe.

    • @anonymouzzz4307
      @anonymouzzz4307 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@marke9088 yeah I was joking don't worry. I kind of like how "The Swans" sounds tho lol

  • @bea-vw3qk
    @bea-vw3qk ปีที่แล้ว +8

    AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa

  • @-k-b-
    @-k-b- 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This version feels like it would've fit snug on SFTB

  • @cellularsenescence
    @cellularsenescence ปีที่แล้ว +6

    15:15

  • @seansabu310
    @seansabu310 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is serious business ....

  • @TheToqueWearer
    @TheToqueWearer ปีที่แล้ว

    What was the source picture on the other upload of this (the two people chained together)

  • @zamboni33
    @zamboni33 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    💕💕💕❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @tortimania5734
    @tortimania5734 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Un canal en español, sii! ¿Podrías pasar la letra? Gracias por subirla

  • @PolicemanPlanet
    @PolicemanPlanet 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so fuckin much for dis

    • @itsNarg
      @itsNarg  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      oh shit

  • @JOE-nr4hi
    @JOE-nr4hi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Definitive

  • @lubrano3049
    @lubrano3049 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @licas63
    @licas63 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pere Ubu