Swans: Golden Boy Swallowed by the Sea

[cananga47]

THANKS...i love...

[Dorkas12345]

un...wait for it...super

[dukeon]

I don't believe in God but if I did I'd strongly suspect Gira was involved somehow.

[ParisSpleen74]

I love the video and boxing is for troglodytes.

[GoldenBoySwallowSea]

This album MADE me love life. It blows my mind every damn time I listen to it...

[DesolationRow0]

poetry, poetry, poetry...

[squirrelike]

Excellent job MyStrangeMind... You made me a happy swan this evening...

[letshurtplanfans]

i'm a new swans fan. started listeneing today.. love it

[TheFingerbang1]

You're lucky..they just reformed.

[Trgr66]

They did? so what 'bout Angels Of Light?

And when did that happen? You see - i have problems believing that.

[thenewhumandesign]

Swans are back together. No joke. Go look at Gira's young gods records site.

[thenewhumandesign]

Well, not necessarily back together, but back.

[Trgr66]

Try Angels of Light.

Swans are dead, thats what they say.

[Trgr66]

I have to dement what i wrote, i understand Swans are getting together again. So Swans arent that dead! Lucky for us fans i believe, for me for certain..

[sveikasveta]

Estoy de acuerdo con uno de los comentarios. esta cancion es puro arte. es magnifica. es potente, lenta, poderosa, rotunda, dolorosa.. impresionante. en una palabra es SWANS.

[stiggyh]

gira for world president !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)))

[greedholymoney]

This song is supposed to be a based on a dream/nightmare M. Gira (who is a boxing fan) had about Oscar De La Hoya's decision to quit boxing and become a professional surfer.

As such, this video montage is wholly inappropriate and a complete (as opposed to incomplete) waste of time.

[SpawnofHastur]

You ever heard of a concept called 'The Death of the Author'?

This video is about what the song means to the person who MADE the damn thing.

[MyStrangeMind]

Personally, I'd rather not know that the song was about some stupid boxing nonsense. My imagination had much more intricate designs for it (:

[sex6cult9revolution]

I think your video is just fine. M Gira uses a lot of archetypal nature metaphors - so I don't see what's so inappropriate here.

Besides, I head Gira say that this track was about an acid trip on the beach, when he was a teenager in California, where he thought he saw himself in the water.

"We were injecting colors into our open veins"

[greedholymoney]

You ever heard of a concept called "Shut Your Damn Pie Hole"?

Secondly, I'm not sure you understand the concept of "Death of the Author". It does not apply to criticism of another's interpretation of a work. It applies to criticism of the work itself.

[MyStrangeMind]

The funny thing about creativity, is it means something different to everyone. You should know better than anyone, being a Swans fan, that there is no such thing as "inappropriate" creativity.

[greedholymoney]

The Swans is a bunch of egotistical junk created by an egomaniac.

Your video is not creative by my standards. It is far too literal.

[Casar1973]

what are your other perversions and obsessions otherwise? stalker?

[greedholymoney]

i like turtles

[boxeater406]

@greedholymoney hey man, well put.

[KTandRama]

@greedholymoney - Would it have been more appropriate to have filmed a wilder sea? One with giant waves constantly? That would've been cheesy. He became a surfer, his life is now devoted to the main thing in this video. Often times, you'll see videos where the music backdrops a lot of random images. This image, however, is beautiful & calming. It really allows you to hear the music.

[nonfictionstory]

@greedholymoney there is no room for your vanguardism here or anywhere.

[kawamaha]

this song is more art than music, damn good song!

[FedjaSrbija]

Love of life is my favorite album ,I dont know why Gira said its the worst...

[greedholymoney]

Because it's very bad. It's scattered all over the place. It's a collection of b-sides from White Light from the Mouth of Infinity. That's the way I see it.

[FedjaSrbija]

I understand that ,I heard it from a few people...but when the years pass some things that are not very indentified can influence our feelings much more...

...sorry for bad English ;-)

[kicksex]

love this shit

[sonicjoydivisonswans]

I just heard this one band cover this song, The Sound Of Animals Fighting, I think. It's nice to hear Swans being covered.

[counterfeitG0d]

i wouldnt really call it a cover. lol. all they do is recite the lyrics as a poem with static noise in the background.

[budgallant]

lol

[MyFavouriteBanjo]

This is a song about Jesus.

[azathoth12]

tHIS song is about LSD

[FedjaSrbija]

when I was on heroine i thouth he sings about dope:we are injecting colors into our opened veins...

[mareleblond98]

I was listening to this album 10 years ago and i remember that about 6 month ago I was looking on youtube for Swans and there wasn't any... Thank you so much for posting this.

[dodecalogue]

ha, youtube.

[Burningchromosome]

I have more Swans in my c.d. collection than

any other band.

[lonelyboy03]

Swans were geniuses. Bar none.

[Putyourknifinme]

Love of life...an orchestra of rock muscicians, brilliant. a timeless piece of music. awsome.

[ivana312]

Thanks, you made my day.

[OnTheRazorsEdge]

Man thanks for putting Swans up on YT. Hopefully more people learn of Gira's genius through this.

[swans1997]

Nice work! Love, love, love this song.

[pamdamodem]

Gods Gift to His Children... the Sun! Thankyou and God Bless You