Swans/YMMV

Subjective tropes associated with Swans and their music include:

• Archive Panic: Finding what song came from where in what version can be maddening to the dedicated fan.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The ballistic Hardcore Punk tribute "Freak" on Filth definitely qualifies, as do the monologue on "I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull" and the boisterously gruesome lyrics to "Reeling The Liars In".
• Crowning Music of Awesome
• Face of the Band: Both Jarboe and Gira.
• He Really Can Sing In Audible Octaves: Gira on Children Of God and especially Love Will Tear Us Apart.
• Nausea Fuel: "Your Game" on Body to Body, Job to Job.
  • The lyrics are Gira reciting a short story he wrote, later to be published in his book The Consumer, filled with other equally disgusting and disturbing stories.
• Paranoia Fuel: "Not Alone" from Swans Are Dead, most of Soundtracks for the Blind, the interludes from Love Of Life, "Look At Me Go"....
• Tear Jerker: Often, the most famous being "God Damn the Sun".
  • The final chorus to "Blind":

No, I was never young,
and nothing has transpired,
and when I look in the mirror,
I feel dead,
I feel cold,
I am blind.