Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money digipack

Tracklisting

BLACK CD (COP/YOUNG GOD – 1984)

1.Half Life 2.Job 3.Why Hide 4.Clay Man 5.Your Property 6.Cop 7.Butcher 8.Thug 9.I Crawled 10.Raping A Slave 11.Young God 12.This Is Mine 13.Sealed In Skin 14.Fool

WHITE CD (GREED/HOLY MONEY – 1985/6)

1.Time Is Money (Bastard) 2.Money Is Flesh 3.Another You 4.Blackmail 5.A Screw (Holy Money) 6.Fool#2 7.Stupid Child 8.Anything For You 9.Nobody 10.A Screw 11.Heaven 12.Coward 13.A Hanging 14.You Need Me 15.Greed

Biog

AMAZING DOUBLE CD RE-ISSUE OF 4 SWANS EARLY ALBUMS!!!

This is the digipack repressing of the double CD, with booklet and 6 page digipack...nice!

Crawling out of the same noisy, arty New York underground that sired SONIC YOUTH and LYDIA LUNCH, Swans created a dark, abrasive, murky, slowed-down noise rock that served as a starting point for their ruminations about alienation, depression, depravity, and the disturbing side of human nature. Singers Michael Gira and Jarboe have been the group's only constants over the years; Gira has taken the group from its early confrontational shock tactics to a more varied, mature attack. The band first appeared on record in 1982 with a self-titled EP, and these early releases document their search for the musical vocabulary to express their ideas effectively. Female singer Jarboe joined the group for 1986's Holy Money and brought a gentler, more relaxed dimension to Swans' sound.

“The Swans are the only band in the universe. There is no other sonic experience of such incredible power and magnitude to be found anywhere. That is an absolute fact.” - ATTITUDE (USA)

“Swans can confidently be described as nothing short of a miracle” - NME

“Swans are like some elite combat group. Abandoning conventional concepts of pitch and melody, they strip rock and roll to the barest bones. Power, urgency, excitement. This is no pose” - THE VILLAGE VOICE