Swans Are Dead (live album) by Swans

Swans Are Dead by Swans
(Live album)
Year: 1998
Overall rank: 3,797th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 77 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1998 (68th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (653rd)
Award Best albums of all time (3,797th)
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Swans bestography

Swans Are Dead is ranked 9th best out of 37 albums by Swans on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Swans is To Be Kind which is ranked number 248 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,907.

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Swans Are Dead track list

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77/100 (from 77 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.7/100, a mean average of 76.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.

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From 01/30/2022 09:32
Feel Happiness and Blood Promise are surely among the best live tracks of the 20th century. Absolutely spectacular.
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From 08/08/2013 01:38
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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