Tracklist

Disc 1

#1 New Mind
#2 In My Garden
#3 Our Love Lies
#4 Sex, God, Sex
#5 Blood and Honey
#6 Like a Drug (Sha la la la)
#7 You're Not Real, Girl
#8 Beautiful Child
#9 Blackmail
#10 Trust Me
#11 Real Love
#12 Blind Love
#13 Children of God
#14 I'll Swallow You

Disc 2

#1 1,000 Years
#2 Everything At Once
#3 Breathing Water
#4 Blood On Your Hands
#5 Nothing Without You
#6 We'll Fall Apart
#7 My Own Hands
#8 Turn To Stone
#9 Cold Bed
#10 24 Hours
#11 Red Rose
#12 One Small Sacrifice
#13 Still A Child
#14 The Center Of Your Heart

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Swans / Children Of God + World Of Skin

Young God

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Street Date:
May 27th, 2003
Ship Date:
May 19th, 2003
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Street Date:
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Ship Date:
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Here’s what Alternative Press had to say when the magazine cited this music as one of the 100 best records of the decade: Pat Robertson’s bid for the presidency, the oxymoronic Moral Majority, Baker’s fall from grace: These events were met in a head-on collision with Swans’ perfect blend of sound and themes, their musical brawn contrasting with Jarboe’s soft passionate blasphemy. “We are Special. We are perfect. We are born in the sight of god,” she sings … opting for the best salvation money can buy, the promise of expired suffering, but not before Gira’s condemnation of every last one of us, “The sex in your soul will damn you to hell,” he bellows on the opener, “New Mind.” … Early records were made of the shock of crunch and grind alone; on Children of God, oboe, piano, flute, harmonica, and cello are incorporated as each song alternates between hellish hopelessness and quiet mourning.… For Swans, love is a drug, work a humiliation, and mortality a cruel joke. What we do to convince ourselves otherwise can’t compete with this record, and it’s still downright scary, and beautiful, to hear.