Tracklist

#1 Miracle Of Love
#2 Black Eyed Dog
#3 The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed By The Sea
#4 Untitled
#5 I Remember Who You Are
#6 Her
#7 No Cruel Angel
#8 When She Breathes
#9 Why Are We Alive?
#10 The Child's Right
#11 Untitled
#12 The Other Side Of The World
#13 Song For Dead Time [M. Gira Version]
#14 Love Will Save You
#15 Blind
#16 Unfortunate Lie [Instrumental]
#17 Was He Ever Alive?
#18 Failure
#19 Identity
#20 The Sound Of Freedom
#21 Trust Me
#22 Better Than You
#23 Saved
#24 Will We Survive?
#25 Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
#26 God Damn The Sun
#27 Eyes Of Nature
#28 You Know Everything
#29 Song For Dead Time (J Version)
#30 Picture Of Maryanne
#31 Amnesia
#32 Dream Dream
#33 Please Remember Me

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Swans / Various Failures 1988-1992

Young God

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2XCD
$21.50
yg 06cd
658457000625
Street Date:
April 6th, 1999
Ship Date:
March 29th, 1999
MP3 DOWNLOAD
$14.99
Street Date:
April 6th, 2000
Ship Date:
March 29th, 1999

1988-92 was a time of two primary radical shifts in Swans' general musical approach-learning new ways to work and ignoring the preconceptions dogging them as a result of their early extremism. The music on Various Failures ranges from delicate, acoustic ballads with accompanying strings to almost bombastic Phil Spector-influenced arrangements, to cinematic sound collages with found vocal narrations, all unified by Swans' essential intensity of feeling. This double-CD collects the best of the material released previously on their "Love Will Tear Us Apart" 12-inch (1988), The Burning World album and its various singles (1989), the World of Skin album 10 Songs for Another World (1990), White Light from the Mouth of Infinity (1990/91), and the Love of Life album and its various singles (1992), all of it out of print. Judging by inquiries addressed to the Swans website and post office box, Various Failures is bound to be the most sought-after release in Swans' ongoing series of reissues/compilations.