The Punishment Fits The Crime/ Nothing Beats Humiliation/ Humiliation's A Disease/ Nothing Beats Humiliation/ Nothing Beats Them Like A Cop With A Club Nothing Beats Them Like A Cop In Jail Nobody Beats Your Head In Like A Cop In A Jail/ Nobody Hurts You Like A Cop With A Club/ Nobody Rapes You Like A Cop With A Club/ Nobody Beats Your Body Like A Cop In Jail/ Nobody Burns Their Body Like A Cop/ Nobody Burns Your Skin Off Like A Cop In Jail/ The Heat Hurts/ Humiliation's A Disease
Nobody beats them like a cop. a cop. with a club. a club biscuit. when hes done. he throws the wrapper in the jail.nobody hurts them like a cop. with a cup.a cup of tea. nothing hurts them like a cup. a cup of tea. nothing burns their bodies like a cup. the heat hurts, the heat hurts......
i saw Swans in London when "children of god" was released. i was ready but my brother wasnt! he thought he knew some heavy music but Mr Gira and co blew his mind.
They stopped sounding like this a looooong time ago. I think the biggest misconception about this music is that it's easy to play, which it isn't. It's exhausting and takes serious discipline. There are actual CHORDS being played here, believe it or not. There is a wrong way to do this type of thing and sadly, it's everywhere in 2010.
There is no ambition towards melody, singing, musical competence, or anything even vaguely life affirming whatsover in this music. Which makes it so fucking great to listen to in 2010. Look forward to seeing SWANS perform live in Scotlandsville this year, in whichever guise Monsieur Gira sees fit. With our freshly formed 'coalition' government as a wellspring of newfound optimism on these fair shores, it's sure to be a gas!
im just getting into this sort of noisy, droning inudstrial music. i like old swans very much, godflesh is also awesome. can anyone recommend me something similar?
First Record By Band Earth On Sub Pop Records Ambient Droony Riffing No Fucking Solos! A Lot Of Steve Albini's BIG BLACK Is Also Recommendable A n d (Sadly Neglected) Head Of David Go For The Black "Lp"(Probably Renamned "Cd" These Days...) With Boss Tracks Like " Snuff MC Rider"...M o r e OldSchool Classical Industrial Noise Are GOD Though Man Check Chrome And Their ManMan Helios Creeds SoloAlbums! <3
@HammarHeart This is cool, but new swans are better, try SftB, its my favorite album by them and features a lot of droning. Most industrial in of it self is boring, youll need something with a lot more texture to it... hell you could even try Combichrist. But I suggest either Soundtrack for the Blind or The Great Annihilator. Those are my 2 fav swans releases. If you want some evil/noisy stuff, look into Merzbow or Whitehouse. They are pretty much anti everything.
Brainbombs "OBEY" ~it's pure serial killer music from Sweden, just don't play them for the squeamish few you might actually care about if you don't think they'll get it. Their lyrics are mostly grisly rape/murder crime scenes. Absurdly brutal and laughably unapologetic.
Not so "drony" but more HARD is UNSANE. They sound like pounding someones face into pieces with the back side of a shovel. Enjoy...
@DapperZach Dude, I totally agree. As brutal as their lyrics are, my buddies and I can't help but crack up at the dude's dorky Swedish accent in contrast to the grizzly shit they say. We're usually drunk and watchin' cheesy 60's splatter flicks with the sound down while this one's spinnin'.
@HammarHeart Jesu is a great side-project of godflesh. If you're looking for industrial rather than drone, I'd have to recommend Ministry (Just land of rape and honey, and the brain is a terrible thing to taste) and KMFDM, and all the side-projects (there have been alot.) Now if you want something Swans influenced go for some Big Black, fantastic noise rock band.
@DJReveerb I loved Big Black when I was 16/17 but listening to it now, it sounds really tinny and arty to me. The real problem with Big Black - apart from Steve Albini's ego - was the fact that they thought they could get away with not having a real drummer. But he's become a great engineer.
@lexo30 i hear you man.. i could not get into big black at all. i respect them for being original and sounding quite like nothing else, but i couldn't get into them just cause of the constant drum machine usage. i loved rapeman though.
@HammarHeart Whitehouse - They're Power Electronics which is very noisy, but alot of it is anti-music and contains very offensive shouted lyrics, Whitehouse is not for everyone. They influenced J Broadrick while he was working on Godflesh though.
@industrymonkey I saw Whitehouse playing live several years back and found them deeply laughable. A bunch of middle aged geezers having a musically incompetent tantrum with a synthesiser doth not a 'legend' make.
@anaemiabag lol...i understand! when I heard it for the first time in oh,,,86, I thought it was a landmark and it was/is. i've owned it three times and each time it was stolen.
@steinber "Heavy" these days means "teenage angst" or "being over-the-top" unfortunately. ALOT of heavy music today is laughably childish, generic and boring...
Too true.....and some of the old school are not much better either.
For me old Killing Joke, Neurosis, Godflesh SunnO)))), Khanate, Burning Witch are still making music that sounds like the end of the world.
Ministry did two good LP's (Minds a terrible thing to taste, Land of Rape and Honey).....but industrial fell apart circa 1995 after NIN's Downward Spiral.
I personally moved on to stuff like Autechre, Aphex Twin, Pansonic and the more experimental electronica.
@dopplereffeckt675 Are you into "Krautrock"? Bands like Can are quite influential to electronic artists. I believe Gira cited Can as an influence on his works. Tago Mago is one of my favorite albums.
Yes mate......I am a big fan of Krautrock- Kraftwerk, Faust, early Tangerine Dream, Popul Vuh,Klaus Schulze, Neu and Can.
My favorite Krautrock LP's are Irrlicht by Klaus Schulze, Phaedra, Zeit, and Alpha Centuri by TD,Neu! by Neu! and many others....
Bands like Swans, early PiL, Joy Division, Throbbing Gristle, some of Crass's work and many other New Wave/No Wave/EBM artists were influenced by both Krautrock and musique concrete and the works of Stockhausen.
@dopplereffeckt675 it's wonderful but they're nothing like that old fat guy Stockhausen or that prostitute what's her name again oh right tangerine dream. I mean, they're totally different. swans = swans who the fuck cares about the origins, especially if they're about as boring as that kraut rock you're talking about
For those of a more open minded school of thought, you should check out the more minimal techno end of things...........
To my mind guys like Basic Channel/Rhythm & Sound/Maurizo, Richie Hawtin, Monolake,Echospace/Deepchord have carried on the good work of taking sounds to the max.......dark, dirty dubby sounds with loads of reverb and delay-very hypnotic and a lesson in production values.
@steinber And your remark : " If you're into heavy music and you don't know this album then you don't know shit. Period." makes you look like a cultured and tolerant guy...keep it up...
@crieiessacontaagora I fucking hate these turdlike responses from people like you: I think you're wrong. And that's it. Okay, based on what? I'm wrong and that's it? Make your case. What do you listen to? Why in the precious world should I give a fuck about your ever so deserved opinion if you don't convince me to do so? And if you don't dig Swans then why the fuck are you actually replying at all? Just move along there, little fella, to whatever turns YOUR wee crank! (emoticon).
@steinber "why the fuck are you actually replying at all?" You're the one who replied at all. I wasn't trying to convince you of anything, I was just saying, people deserve to say if they want. But no, you felt the need to act like the dumbfuck who always has to be right about everything. I listen to the Swans and I don't actually think "If you're into heavy music and you don't know this album then you don't know shit." - something that simple, and you still couldn't figure it out, Grandpa. .-.
When I tell people I am not impressed with dubstep, I show them this.
AsmodelSoljah 3 days ago
thrudvang123 1 week ago
I'm new to Swans but did they go religious with their later works?
StepsToNowhere 1 week ago
Nobody Beats Your Head In Like A Cop In A Jail. True story, that.
beelzabubba 1 month ago
Thumbs up if this album made your jaw drop and brought suicidal thoughts when you heard it the first time (in a good way).
AsmodelSoljah 1 month ago
HEAT! HURTS! HEAT!!! HURRRRTS! HEAT!! HURTS!!! HEAT!! HURTS! HEAT!!! HURTS! HEAT!!! HURTS!!!! HEATTTTTTT! HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTSS! HEAT! HURTSSSS!
GeoffSkates 1 month ago 3
Nobody beats them like a cop. a cop. with a club. a club biscuit. when hes done. he throws the wrapper in the jail.nobody hurts them like a cop. with a cup.a cup of tea. nothing hurts them like a cup. a cup of tea. nothing burns their bodies like a cup. the heat hurts, the heat hurts......
royallonghope 1 month ago
The heaviest Swans album. I like later Swans and all but Cop and Filth is where it's at.
Punk93Metal 5 months ago 2
@Punk93Metal yep
RustBuzz 3 months ago
@Punk93Metal Don't forget Young God EP.
FleshInYourHand 3 months ago
"Dying slowly" would be the best description of early Swans music. Excellent
Racosz 8 months ago
I can see where Godflesh took notes from.
Andre2010 8 months ago
'Your mom is so fat she could be a Swans song'
djthe 10 months ago 7
i saw Swans in London when "children of god" was released. i was ready but my brother wasnt! he thought he knew some heavy music but Mr Gira and co blew his mind.
royallonghope 11 months ago
eat my dirt....
royallonghope 11 months ago
Soundtrack to hell; that's Cop.
Atraiterm 1 year ago
body count cop killer
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
It's difficult, after one has immersed oneself in the Swans, to take much else seriously, especially anything that's supposed to be heavy.
MarsCoban 1 year ago 8
The more you listen to it, the more intense it gets.
Nobody does this better than Swans.
lessthanpinochet 1 year ago 3
NO ONE BURNS THIER SKIN LIKE A COP!
Jrrykobain 1 year ago
The blue-print for Godflesh (early)
2003z1 1 year ago 3
@2003z1
I agree...you can almost hear 'Cop' giving birth to 'Locust Furnace'.
What a filthy and vile conception that must have been \,,/
MostAncientOne 1 year ago
I like this. This is the first time I've heard a Swans record that actually lived up to their reputation.
lexo30 1 year ago
They stopped sounding like this a looooong time ago. I think the biggest misconception about this music is that it's easy to play, which it isn't. It's exhausting and takes serious discipline. There are actual CHORDS being played here, believe it or not. There is a wrong way to do this type of thing and sadly, it's everywhere in 2010.
steinber 1 year ago 8
There is no ambition towards melody, singing, musical competence, or anything even vaguely life affirming whatsover in this music. Which makes it so fucking great to listen to in 2010. Look forward to seeing SWANS perform live in Scotlandsville this year, in whichever guise Monsieur Gira sees fit. With our freshly formed 'coalition' government as a wellspring of newfound optimism on these fair shores, it's sure to be a gas!
spuffchops70 1 year ago
cool!
slayyer000 1 year ago
love this album The Swans were a force!!!!
natesot 1 year ago
the Swans is the only band I know that can make you feel like shit, and I love it!
SOADafi 2 years ago
im just getting into this sort of noisy, droning inudstrial music. i like old swans very much, godflesh is also awesome. can anyone recommend me something similar?
HammarHeart 2 years ago 3
old Melvins albums (Boris, Lysol, etc.)
Nargaaz 2 years ago
Boris' Absolutego. Can't recommend it enough.
dareisaya 2 years ago
First Record By Band Earth On Sub Pop Records Ambient Droony Riffing No Fucking Solos! A Lot Of Steve Albini's BIG BLACK Is Also Recommendable A n d (Sadly Neglected) Head Of David Go For The Black "Lp"(Probably Renamned "Cd" These Days...) With Boss Tracks Like " Snuff MC Rider"...M o r e OldSchool Classical Industrial Noise Are GOD Though Man Check Chrome And Their ManMan Helios Creeds SoloAlbums! <3
SodPunisher 2 years ago
@HammarHeart Throbbing Gristle
tokyohalogen 2 years ago
Try Saw Throat - Indestroy album. You can find it on youtube, search Saw Throat Indestroy.
crowbarftw 2 years ago
@HammarHeart This is cool, but new swans are better, try SftB, its my favorite album by them and features a lot of droning. Most industrial in of it self is boring, youll need something with a lot more texture to it... hell you could even try Combichrist. But I suggest either Soundtrack for the Blind or The Great Annihilator. Those are my 2 fav swans releases. If you want some evil/noisy stuff, look into Merzbow or Whitehouse. They are pretty much anti everything.
NightRanger77 2 years ago
Brainbombs "OBEY" ~it's pure serial killer music from Sweden, just don't play them for the squeamish few you might actually care about if you don't think they'll get it. Their lyrics are mostly grisly rape/murder crime scenes. Absurdly brutal and laughably unapologetic.
Not so "drony" but more HARD is UNSANE. They sound like pounding someones face into pieces with the back side of a shovel. Enjoy...
CANDOKNOWHOW 1 year ago
The vocalist for Brainbombs on Urge to Kill sounds a little like Arnold Schwarzenegger and therefore hard to listen to without smirking
DapperZach 1 year ago
@DapperZach Dude, I totally agree. As brutal as their lyrics are, my buddies and I can't help but crack up at the dude's dorky Swedish accent in contrast to the grizzly shit they say. We're usually drunk and watchin' cheesy 60's splatter flicks with the sound down while this one's spinnin'.
CANDOKNOWHOW 1 year ago
WTF??? ZACH, It's GEORGE in SD... Is this ZACH Hellion Wulvz???
CANDOKNOWHOW 1 year ago
@HammarHeart Jesu is a great side-project of godflesh. If you're looking for industrial rather than drone, I'd have to recommend Ministry (Just land of rape and honey, and the brain is a terrible thing to taste) and KMFDM, and all the side-projects (there have been alot.) Now if you want something Swans influenced go for some Big Black, fantastic noise rock band.
DJReveerb 1 year ago 5
@DJReveerb I loved Big Black when I was 16/17 but listening to it now, it sounds really tinny and arty to me. The real problem with Big Black - apart from Steve Albini's ego - was the fact that they thought they could get away with not having a real drummer. But he's become a great engineer.
lexo30 1 year ago
@lexo30 i hear you man.. i could not get into big black at all. i respect them for being original and sounding quite like nothing else, but i couldn't get into them just cause of the constant drum machine usage. i loved rapeman though.
youknowyourrite1 1 year ago
@HammarHeart Whitehouse - They're Power Electronics which is very noisy, but alot of it is anti-music and contains very offensive shouted lyrics, Whitehouse is not for everyone. They influenced J Broadrick while he was working on Godflesh though.
industrymonkey 1 year ago
@industrymonkey I saw Whitehouse playing live several years back and found them deeply laughable. A bunch of middle aged geezers having a musically incompetent tantrum with a synthesiser doth not a 'legend' make.
spuffchops70 1 year ago
@spuffchops70 That what i thought when I first heard Whitehouse. I prefer The Grey Wolves to Whitehouse.
industrymonkey 1 year ago
Hard and true. Timeless. Hurts deep.
Emutronix 2 years ago
Just got this album yesterday, and i'm loving it!
wordupassholes 2 years ago
Nobody rapes them like a cop
Harrington86 2 years ago 13
@Harrington86 hehehe yeah no 1 rapes them like a cop
SouthernCross33 3 months ago
This Album brings back some great memories. Thank you for uploading this.
kamikazeCopilot 2 years ago 8
Brilliant. An album that defined an entire genre. If you're into heavy music and you don't know this album then you don't know shit. Period.
steinber 2 years ago 31
Yes! A lot more stated with the SWANS than anyone knows.
arthurspilling 2 years ago 8
@steinber amen to that.
industrymonkey 1 year ago
@steinber cheers i just found it... lol. this changes everything.
anaemiabag 1 year ago
@anaemiabag lol...i understand! when I heard it for the first time in oh,,,86, I thought it was a landmark and it was/is. i've owned it three times and each time it was stolen.
steinber 1 year ago
@steinber "Heavy" these days means "teenage angst" or "being over-the-top" unfortunately. ALOT of heavy music today is laughably childish, generic and boring...
Atraiterm 1 year ago 4
@Atraiterm
Too true.....and some of the old school are not much better either.
For me old Killing Joke, Neurosis, Godflesh SunnO)))), Khanate, Burning Witch are still making music that sounds like the end of the world.
Ministry did two good LP's (Minds a terrible thing to taste, Land of Rape and Honey).....but industrial fell apart circa 1995 after NIN's Downward Spiral.
I personally moved on to stuff like Autechre, Aphex Twin, Pansonic and the more experimental electronica.
dopplereffeckt675 8 months ago
@dopplereffeckt675 Are you into "Krautrock"? Bands like Can are quite influential to electronic artists. I believe Gira cited Can as an influence on his works. Tago Mago is one of my favorite albums.
Atraiterm 8 months ago
@Atraiterm
Yes mate......I am a big fan of Krautrock- Kraftwerk, Faust, early Tangerine Dream, Popul Vuh,Klaus Schulze, Neu and Can.
My favorite Krautrock LP's are Irrlicht by Klaus Schulze, Phaedra, Zeit, and Alpha Centuri by TD,Neu! by Neu! and many others....
Bands like Swans, early PiL, Joy Division, Throbbing Gristle, some of Crass's work and many other New Wave/No Wave/EBM artists were influenced by both Krautrock and musique concrete and the works of Stockhausen.
dopplereffeckt675 8 months ago
@dopplereffeckt675 it's wonderful but they're nothing like that old fat guy Stockhausen or that prostitute what's her name again oh right tangerine dream. I mean, they're totally different. swans = swans who the fuck cares about the origins, especially if they're about as boring as that kraut rock you're talking about
kk2355 4 months ago
For those of a more open minded school of thought, you should check out the more minimal techno end of things...........
To my mind guys like Basic Channel/Rhythm & Sound/Maurizo, Richie Hawtin, Monolake,Echospace/Deepchord have carried on the good work of taking sounds to the max.......dark, dirty dubby sounds with loads of reverb and delay-very hypnotic and a lesson in production values.
dopplereffeckt675 8 months ago
@dopplereffeckt675 minimal techno is a fat piece of shit
kk2355 4 months ago
@Atraiterm
implying it wasn't the same way in the 80s?
kingofcrunk1010 2 months ago
@steinber if you say so...
Stadtkind32 8 months ago
@Stadtkind32 Twenty other freaks agree.
steinber 8 months ago
@steinber In a very good-hearted way I tell you this : your opinion is not a universal truth...It's just your opinion...
Stadtkind32 8 months ago
@Stadtkind32 uhm, yeah obviously it's my opinion. Which is also correct.
steinber 8 months ago
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@steinber And your remark : " If you're into heavy music and you don't know this album then you don't know shit. Period." makes you look like a cultured and tolerant guy...keep it up...
Stadtkind32 8 months ago
@steinber I think you're wrong. ._.
crieiessacontaagora 6 months ago
@crieiessacontaagora who gives a sheeeit?
steinber 6 months ago
@steinber I was just stating my opinion, asshole. You deserve yours and I deserve mine as well. .-.
crieiessacontaagora 6 months ago
@crieiessacontaagora Your opinion that my opinion is just my opinion is just your opinion. Now fuck off before you wake up mom n dad.
steinber 6 months ago
@steinber Wow your kind of talk is sooo mature I think I can learn a lot from you, Grandpa. ._.
crieiessacontaagora 6 months ago
@crieiessacontaagora I fucking hate these turdlike responses from people like you: I think you're wrong. And that's it. Okay, based on what? I'm wrong and that's it? Make your case. What do you listen to? Why in the precious world should I give a fuck about your ever so deserved opinion if you don't convince me to do so? And if you don't dig Swans then why the fuck are you actually replying at all? Just move along there, little fella, to whatever turns YOUR wee crank! (emoticon).
steinber 6 months ago
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@steinber "why the fuck are you actually replying at all?" You're the one who replied at all. I wasn't trying to convince you of anything, I was just saying, people deserve to say if they want. But no, you felt the need to act like the dumbfuck who always has to be right about everything. I listen to the Swans and I don't actually think "If you're into heavy music and you don't know this album then you don't know shit." - something that simple, and you still couldn't figure it out, Grandpa. .-.
crieiessacontaagora 6 months ago