Swans Are Dead (live album) by Swans
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Swans Are Dead is ranked 9th best out of 39 albums by Swans on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Swans is To Be Kind which is ranked number 247 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 6,668.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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95/100  | 05/28/2025 17:43 |  AAL2014 | | 75/100 |
75/100 | 05/14/2025 19:00 |  seb7 | | 80/100 |
80/100 | 05/13/2025 03:53 | juanr1096 | | 78/100 |
95/100 | 05/03/2025 21:51 | Pepeov | | 77/100 |
100/100 | 03/20/2025 23:25 |  teague | | 78/100 |
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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 77.5/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.
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Feel Happiness and Blood Promise are surely among the best live tracks of the 20th century. Absolutely spectacular.
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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