Swans Are Dead
by Swans
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Swans bestography
Swans Are Dead is ranked 10th best out of 39 albums by Swans on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Swans is To Be Kind which is ranked number 258 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,153.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Swans Are Dead track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Swans Are Dead rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 58 Music Albums of 1998 | 2/58 | 5 |
| 2026 |  Wasinski | Top 90 Music Albums of 1998 | 37/90 | 3 |
| 2026 | AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 23/100 | 16 |
| 2026 |  Helios | Top 90 Music Albums of 1998 | 60/90 | 2 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 98 Music Albums of 1998 | 72/98 | 1 |
| 2026 | Elauqsapid | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s | 19/99 | 16 |
| 2026 | Elauqsapid | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 42/100 | 57 |
| 2026 |  LedZep | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 54/100 | 9 |
| 2026 |  Rhyner | Top 30 Music Albums of 1998 | 21/30 | 2 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 70 Music Albums of 1998 | 4/70 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 56 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 319 | |||
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Swans Are Dead ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 06/10/2026 11:38 | dukeboxkool | 2,232 | 72/100 |
| ! | 11/22/2025 23:26 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,601 | 70/100 |
| ! | 10/04/2025 18:14 | Rhyner | 1,734 | 59/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.8/100, a mean average of 76.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.
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Forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/16/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5375): By Elauqsapid Rhyner 10/04/2025 17:29 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) Rhyner 11/10/2024 18:36 in What album are you listening to? (cont.)Swans Are Dead comments
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Feel Happiness and Blood Promise are surely among the best live tracks of the 20th century. Absolutely spectacular. (Edited)
Sometimes I think the first disc of this live album is the best of Swans' post-rock styled releases. It sounds like a rawer version of the Soundtracks for the Blind sound. Feel Happiness brilliantly transforms from noise jam to heartbreaking lullaby, Jarboe gives a disturbing vocal performance in I Crawled, Blood Promise gets extended as a post-rock crescendo....
The seconds disc is largely just Soundtracks for the BLind songs with lower sound quality, but the heavy version of All Lined Up and the Jarboe ballad Lavender are fantastic.
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