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Hey tough guy...
Light stuff!!!
Nothing like it... but Real Love is better.
Lorena Bobbit's got nothin on this kid!
the rituals killing of farm animals

Public Castration Is a Good Idea
Swans
Manufacturer: Thirsty Ear
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Real Love
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ASIN: B00000JCC9
Release Date: 1999-07-20

Tracks:

Money Is Flesh
Fool
A Screw
Anything For You
Coward
A Hanging
Stupid Child
Another You

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Hey tough guy..........2007-03-24

Swans ATE your band over 20 years ago. Seriously, this is the "test" record. While Swans were always great on studio albums, nothing compares to the absolute primal, primordial beauty on display here. I can honestly say that when I first heard this record about 8 years ago, I instantly decided that metal was dead. So much darker than metal, so intense that it's nearly painful to listen to. Put it on and watch as your so-called "friends" flee in disgust. An important document of brutal truth from the beginning of time.

Light stuff!!!.......2006-08-06

I guess the title says it all. The Swans live were quite something back then. It remains as usual somewhat too intense to listen at home for an hour or so but the plaing is still something to be heard.

Nothing like it... but Real Love is better........2005-05-17

This album perfectly exemplifies the intensity and catharsis of the second period SWANS live performances. It is punishing, horrifying, genuinely evil noise; the same simple chords repeated over and over again while Gira screams, grunts, and wails on top of it. On first listen you're likely to be very put off but once it gets inside of you it doesn't let go. This music will purge you of violent energy. Listen to it loud and you will feel it's cathartic effects. I'M A COWARD, PUT YOUR KNIFE IN ME. I'M USELESS, WORTHLESS, USELESS, WORTHLESS. There's nothing like it, it's pure, unflitered negativity captured and by the act of listening to it you'll feel as if you've gotten it out of your system. Why did I give it 4 stars? Because compared to the other live disc of the same era, Real Love it isn't nearly as good. The recording quality is inferior and in my opinion the performances aren't quite as good either. So 5 stars for Real Love, 4 for Public Castration. Check out Kill the Child and Feel Good Now for Children of God era live SWANS. Also for those who don't know, SWANS live and SWANS studio are seperate entities and are barely comparable.

Lorena Bobbit's got nothin on this kid!.......2004-06-26

This is some serious self mutilating music! If you're one of these teens who take razors to your upper extremeties, this is your soundtrack! It might even do for those lower extremity iconoclasts!
Dirge me bud!

Sound out!!

Oh there's a piano? Scuse me. It was just a vampire!!

the rituals killing of farm animals.......2002-10-10

If you listen to this CD without any background or knowledge of the swans, one thought will most likely dominate your mind, the rituals killing of farm animals. It turns out that M Gira is not a Satanist to the dismay of some but an artist exploring an extremely raw grinding repetitious sound. This is a live album with only 8 tracks but those 8 tracks fill over 70 minutes and the quality is great. The live versions are far more affective than the studio material and M Gira's voice is at its most sinister. This may not be a swans jumping in point but it's not just for the swans enthusiast ether.

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