hm, that's a really loaded questionyou could try following this chartor you could start with To Be Kind, which is my personal favoritejust beware—swans requires a lot of patience to get into, and you gotta be in the right moodhave fun
a little bit of context:to be kind is actually the third in a series of four albums released after michael gira broke up the band in the late 90s, their final album being called Soundtracks for the Blind, which is a pretty great album and a fan-favorite (even if jim thinks it's their worst record)when they got back together, their comeback album was called My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky, which was a dark folk oeuvre which happens to contain my favorite Swans song: "You Fucking People Make Me Sick," which pretty much sums up everything i feel about humanity in one beautifully disturbing songthe second album is called the Seerthe third is To Be Kind, my favorite all-around swans recordthe fourth and latest is called The Glowing Man, which is also very good, and not located on that chart because it just came out less than two years ago
i should try to make a similar chart for NIN
Quote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 06:23:41 PMi should try to make a similar chart for NINyo let me help you with that
Quote from: Prehistoric on July 28, 2017, 06:29:07 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 06:23:41 PMi should try to make a similar chart for NINyo let me help you with thatI found this already, bit outdated, but it's pretty good.
Quote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 10:43:11 PMQuote from: Prehistoric on July 28, 2017, 06:29:07 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 06:23:41 PMi should try to make a similar chart for NINyo let me help you with thatI found this already, bit outdated, but it's pretty good.Can't read any of that.
Quote from: Prehistoric on July 28, 2017, 10:43:48 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 10:43:11 PMQuote from: Prehistoric on July 28, 2017, 06:29:07 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 06:23:41 PMi should try to make a similar chart for NINyo let me help you with thatI found this already, bit outdated, but it's pretty good.Can't read any of that.right click -> open in new tab
Quote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 10:44:49 PMQuote from: Prehistoric on July 28, 2017, 10:43:48 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 10:43:11 PMQuote from: Prehistoric on July 28, 2017, 06:29:07 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 06:23:41 PMi should try to make a similar chart for NINyo let me help you with thatI found this already, bit outdated, but it's pretty good.Can't read any of that.right click -> open in new tabthis is the size of the image on my screen at regular zoom
Quote from: Prehistoric on July 28, 2017, 10:46:53 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 10:44:49 PMQuote from: Prehistoric on July 28, 2017, 10:43:48 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 10:43:11 PMQuote from: Prehistoric on July 28, 2017, 06:29:07 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 06:23:41 PMi should try to make a similar chart for NINyo let me help you with thatI found this already, bit outdated, but it's pretty good.Can't read any of that.right click -> open in new tabthis is the size of the image on my screen at regular zoomwhat the fucktry this
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Quote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 10:49:58 PMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaathere we gointeresting that they'd start with the downward spiral, but i guess it's as good a place as any. the fragile was a bad place for me to start, i think.
Quote from: Prehistoric on July 28, 2017, 10:51:47 PMQuote from: Verbatim on July 28, 2017, 10:49:58 PMaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaathere we gointeresting that they'd start with the downward spiral, but i guess it's as good a place as any. the fragile was a bad place for me to start, i think.i thought you started with PHM
No, I started to like NIN after PHM. The Fragile was the first NIN record I listened to, and it was right after the instrumental version was uploaded to YouTube. You actually made a thread about it, I don't know if you remember.Anyways, after listening to that, I bought the regular version on CD. I thought it was cool but it didn't grip me like PHM did. Obviously my taste has evolved a bit since then, but yeah.
Quote from: Prehistoric on July 28, 2017, 10:54:52 PMNo, I started to like NIN after PHM. The Fragile was the first NIN record I listened to, and it was right after the instrumental version was uploaded to YouTube. You actually made a thread about it, I don't know if you remember.Anyways, after listening to that, I bought the regular version on CD. I thought it was cool but it didn't grip me like PHM did. Obviously my taste has evolved a bit since then, but yeah.oh yeah, i remember nowwell, according to the dude who made that chart, PHM was a logical progression from the fragile anywayi think if i were to make my own chart, i'd have two or three starting points—PHM, TDS, and something else