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Rating: "Flex your muscles/ Flex your muscles/ Flex your muscles/ Flex your muscles/ Be hard, be strong/ Be hard, be hard/ Hard, hard/ And come back for more/ Ah, come back/ Ah, come back"
Besides being industrial nightmares that shattered metal, the Swans' records were industrial nightmares that shattered nerves, and ultimately, that was their true merit. Accepting to let Michael Gira and his "swans" enter your life means accepting to coexist with psychiatric drugs for life; alternatively, you can just surrender to the shamanic and neurotic crescendo of their compositions, which still amounts to blowing your mind, so think this through before delving into this band.
It goes without saying that you're an idiot if you think this music is useless, and even more so if you think it's beautiful. You're the grand vizier of dorks if you discovered them thanks to their recent reunion (a category to which I, for example, belong). But you're also an idiot if you truly listen to them, for reasons that should be clear to you by now, otherwise, it was never worth it, right?
In short, what I want to say in this review is equivalent to what - I'm sure - the Swans wanted to tell us when they took some damn slabs from foundries and smashed them against our skulls like heroin-addicted grizzlies in withdrawal. That is, whoever you are, wherever you live, whatever your belief or sexual orientation, not even a hundred years separate you from the period when your species accepted being dominated by beasts that locked men and women in concentration camps and melted them alive in crematorium ovens. So, get moving and do something.
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
01 Stay Here ()
Be Strong
Be Hard
Resist Temptation
Stick Your Hand In Your Eye
Close Your Fist
Resist
Flex Your Muscles
Walk On This Line
Look Straight Ahead
Flex Your Muscles
Be Hard
Come Back For More
02 Big Strong Boss ()
stupid snake
big strong boss
break my back
blood runs black
cut my throat
kill me snake
do what i say
you're the boss
03 Blackout ()
Get Drunk
Get Drunk
Breathe In
Breathe In
Don't Breathe
Don't Breathe
Blackout
Blackout
Don't Talk Until You're Spoken To
Don't Talk Until You're Spoken To
Don't Breath
Don't Breath
Blackout
Blackout
05 Freak ()
Come Here You Freak
I Saw You Crawling Last Night
Big Erection In Your Hand
You Rule The World
You're Gonna Murder Somebody Weak
Strong Men Win At Violence And Abuse
I'm Not Scared
I'll Take What I Want
Something For Nothing
I Want What You've Got
06 Right Wrong ()
Wrong Or Right It's Not Right Wrong Or Right It's Wrong Use Your Body To Get Satisfaction Use Your Body To Get Satisfaction Satisfy The Dog, Satisfy The Dog Satisfy The Dog, Satisfy The Dog Use Your Hands To Build Things Use Your Hands To Break Things Right Or Wrong It's Not Right Right Or Wrong It's Right Satisfy The Dog Satisfy The Dog
07 Thank You ()
Talk To Me
Tell Me The Truth
This Sells Sour
Burn My Face
This Smells Sour
Burn Me Now
08 Weakling ()
i don't feel pain
i never escape
i'm under the bed
i'm licking the floor
i never dream
this isn't real
not real [x2]
you know everything
i forgot how to breathe
you're touching my chest
when i'm touched i bleed
i never dream
this isn't real
not real [x2]
09 Gang ()
Cut Out The Infection
Beat Up The Violator
Gag Him
Then Screw Him Down
Hammer The Nail
Hammer The Nail
Hammer The Nail
Hammer The Nail
Knock Him Down
Murder His Influence
Cut Off His Deception
Rape His Memory
Hammer The Nail
Hammer The Nail
Hammer The Nail
Hammer The Nail
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