Here is the thread where I compare/contrast Swans 'Soundtracks for the Blind' with Stars of the Lid 'And Their Refinement of the Decline'

they're the only album i have by each artist! what i've heard is good, but i'll need to return to them.

btw a lot of ilx audiophiles are about to descend on this thread and tell you your comparison is bogus

LJ, go buy more swans, you big dummy.

you seem to be the authority when it comes to awesome underground noisy industrial weirdness! ought to compile a list of advised purchases...

like, i would have bought some nurse with wound by now if he hadn't released 400000 records. where to start? is it too much of an effort? etcetera.

A lot of those connections are true of an awful lot of music, so not too meaningful.

arguably each artist's very best album

Very few fans of either band wd claim that about either of those albums I think.

They are both v. good double albums of a droney bent I can get behind tho.

LJ, I'll try to email you a list, but for NWW, the closest you'll get to a starter kit is Living Fear Of James Last.

Seems like a valid comparison. Like both, love neither. Wish they'd called it 'And Their Definement of the Recline'. Same difference, I suppose.

wow, that pun is almost certainly intentional come to think of it

cheers jj!

Only thing to do with NWW is dive in at random, really. The number of albums is thinned out a bit cos they aren't all easy to get hold of.

yeah, my favorite is still Sylvie and Babs, but you aren't going to find that easily last I checked.

i don't have that swans album but your comparison makes me want to get it now

I'll stop NWWing up this nice thread now.

- the final/most recent albums of each artist

Problem here is that there's always been a bit of a debate as to how much of an album Soundtracks really is.

xpost: warning - these two (at least to my ears) are very different in mood (trying to define this and failing), so listen first.

There's something on that Swans album for everyone!

oh shit Best Swans Epic poll is probably a really good idea, i've got enough trouble choosing one from this record alone!

arguably each artist's very best album

Very few fans of either band wd claim that about either of those albums I think.

okay not necessarily best (though i did say "arguably"), but probably my favorite from each artist, and i've heard/owned about 2/3 of Swans' catalogue and all of SotL's....so count me among the "few" here.

yeah it's ridiculous how nurse cds that were only just reissued in like 2001 are now going for £80 on amazon. i'd start with an awkward pause first (perhaps their most conventional record, "two shaves and a shine" is their yoga flame for all time sick ass pop song), then soliloquy for lilith (one of the best drone albums ever imo), then homotopy for marie (maniacal dadaist kecak biznizz). my personal favourite is spiral insana cuz that was my first nurse cd, bought completely at random.

xxxxp

i think i'll go for that compilation, then after that i'll go random.

There's something on that Swans album for everyone!

OTM!

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uh. why is the entire thread in italics now?

because you are high.

this is funny!

huh. it's in italics on safari, but not on internet explorer.

you might still be high though.

italicized in mozilla

no longer italicized

still is in safari

fuck an italic

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