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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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'.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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…
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
@@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.
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
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 😆
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
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.
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
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” ☠️
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
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
I think Volcano is about an Epstein talent agent type character basically daydreaming about abusing a young musician Honestly I usually stick to disc 1
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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
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.
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
This album gets better and better with every listen
Agreed!
Literally any album
@@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.
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.
Definitely do The Seer next. That album is also messed up, dark, but has more of the climaxes from To Be Kind
im genuinley so fucking happy your reacting to soundtracks man
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
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
@@shimme3526It's Jarboe's mom on the track, not Michael's. You can hear Jarboe talking to her as well
@@friendlystranger9662 oh yeah, sorry it was Jarboe's mom not Micheal's
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.
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!
🙈
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.
I love to read this kind of comments. Very useful to see through every track
bro you just sat there for 2hrs lisitening to that😭 respect though, soundtracks for the blind is a hard listen but it is amazing
yeah cuz it's 2 hours long?
- "bro you just sat there for 2hrs looking at that😭"
- "sir this is a movie theater"
I Love You This Much actually gave me PTSD
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
I second this
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'.
Bro, do The Seer next. From To Be Kind to Soundtracks for the Blind is such a stark contrast
YOOOO LOVE THIS ALBUM
One of my favorite albums in the entire world. It scares the shit out of me lol
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.
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.
I did NOT expect to see this reaction so soon after to be kind
th-cam.com/video/PIsFdU0YZSw/w-d-xo.html this video breaks down the themes of the album pretty well
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.
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.
Some albums for your consideration:
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Brand New - Science Fiction
The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta
🍻
smags just casually reacting to the best album of all time
an hour long smags video, what a blessing
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.
what an incredible experience listening to this the first time
exactly 1 hour that's crazy
bro said "and i took that personally" and listened to the WHOLE ALBUM in one sitting, thats dedication😂
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.
I like to use it for all the tiktok and OF e-thots gaining fame by whoring themselves
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?
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 :)))
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.
i second this
no way he actually reacted this. You're crazy, but thank you!
Man btw The Glowing Man is fire and will blow your socks off!
17:23 made me choke on my fuckin lunch holy shit LMAO, great video! :)
Flood by Boris!!!
you should check out Black country new road's first album "For The First Time" its so gooooood 😄
you really need to listen to Ys by Joanna Newsom, its my favorite folk album ever and the songwriting is mind-blowing
most consistent man since einstein
24:26 "I think we might be in a little bit of a cult"
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.
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
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…
Thats why you dont take drugs
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
Increíble que hayas reaccionado a este disco.
Uno de mis álbumes favoritos.
you really should listen to the great annihilator in the next swans reaction
The man in How They Suffer is actually Mr. Gira's father :) fun fact
it seems i misjudged you lmao congrats on getting through the whole thing 😂😂😂
I started to feel it at the last 3 songs ngl
@@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.
Hum - You’d Prefer An Astronaut is a must listen
Since you’re listening to these longer albums are you going to listen to drukqs by aphex?
Will probably be my next Aphex review not sure when though
@@smags1082cool👍
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
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
Live Through Me is really an incredible song
Can you listen to black midis first two albums
Schlagenheim
Cavalcade
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 😆
I would like to see you listen to "Home is in your Head" by His Name Is Alive, They're really underrated imo
The Seer next!!
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
After Swans, Kids are so fucking different for me😂😂
i remember first listening to this while playimg minecraft so i will forever associate this with minecraft
I think playing soundtracks to someone tripping would be the quickest non physical way to make someone traumatized
Quickest?
17:50 pretty sure they're the same person actually!
You should check out swans related project, it's a noise album that they made in 91 on alternative tentacles records.
The story behind Her Mouth is Filled With Honey is that she was tripping I believe.
23:05 was uncalled for that was the most random transition ever
You should check out the album “you won’t get what you want” by Daughters.
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.
This is awesome
I don't even know how to describe this whole fucking thing
27:13 I cried here, when he said I'm legally blind
I reccomend checking out "The Seer" next
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.
Pretty sure the reason the child was signing on the beautiful days is to make it feel like a horror movie
Unbelievable record, ,this deserves awards and more,,in my opinion better than the wall from pink floyd.
Please react to Leaving Meaning. You'll be the first youtuber to react to it, just saying. It's a great album.
yo can you do you're dead by flylo?
NEVER GIVE UP. NEVER SURRENDER. MODERN VAMPIRES OF THE CITY BY VAMPIRE WEEKEND PLEASE
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
Thats probaly the point and some just sound like bad trips
17:19 got me rolling
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 ;)
yea
why no you do Radiohead? whas the matter wichu?
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” ☠️
17:28
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.
Bro is pure consistency in human form (day 7 of to see the next part of the dream by parannoul)
Great video
Bro you remind me of Karsten Runquist for some reason
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
Start of YRP is just stewie griffin dying like 8 times
*lines about eating blades😂
michael i believe has expressed regret in writing All Lined Up lol which I think anybody would cause like holy fvck
When are you doin Girl with Basket of Fruit?
🐇WEEEEEEEE
Only theatre of pain by Christian death :)
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
19:52 swans is outta pocket
The Seer
I think Volcano is about an Epstein talent agent type character basically daydreaming about abusing a young musician
Honestly I usually stick to disc 1
Yeah I read it as a talented, naive young musician getting sexually exploited in exchange for a chance at fame. It's horrifying.
I feel like i love you this much is meant to represeant the horror of blidness atleast thats what it sounds like to me
2 other interpetations i have are like doubtfulness that someone loves you or the fake love of drugs