SWANS
Some Cranes songs sounded like the Swans sounded from 1987 to 1993 (apart from the singing). Swans have released much more albums than Cranes. They were one of the most influential noise bands in the 80-ies. I know that Matt and/or Mark used to like Swans, and The Young Gods, which is a band that took it's name from a Swans song and sound very similar to Swans (but not as good). You should definitely check out the following Swans albums : Love of life, The Bruning world, Children of God , and the best one : White light from the mouth of Infinity. Kind greetings Johan Antwerpen ----- Original Message ----- From: "jeff stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 7:41 AM Subject: Re: [inthenight] swans > >>>They sounded like a neat cross between Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twin,s Joy > >>>Division and Swans back then . (my favourite 4 bands)<<< > > I just recently discovered Swans and have also noticed some simiarities > between them and earlyCranes. Have Cranes ever mentioned liking or being > influenced by Swans? I also wondered because of the similarity in names. > > > Jeff > > > Btw if anyone else is into Swans they just re-released Children of > God/World Of Skin. They were going a for a small fortune on Ebay. > >From: "johan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [inthenight] guitar heavy songs > >Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:54:59 +0200 > > > > > > > >Hi there > > > > > >I agree on the fact that the live cd is very laidback (but not bad) ! The > >drums are very silent. > > > > > >I was one of the first Cranes fans in Belgium (since 1991). I saw them play > >Starblood live in the MTV studios on Tv, and I was sold ! I thought ' wow > >,who are these guys !?'. > >On their first gigs Alison was always dressed in a white fairy-like dress > >and the guys where dressed in black and had dreadlocks and piercings. The > >early fans were all Gothic people. Actually , their audience at that time > >was all black dressed ! They sounded like a neat cross between Dead Can > >Dance, Cocteau Twin,s Joy Division and Swans back then . (my favourite 4 > >bands) > > > >Since then they seem to want to get rid of their Gothic tag and seem to > >evolve to a pure pop band. All the 'disturbing' things like the screaming, > >the heavy drums and the guitar walls have gone since them. > > > >However , I will always stay a Cranes -fan. > > > >Johan 'I love you Alisooooooooon' > >Antwerp > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: nathaniel blair > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 5:00 PM > > Subject: [inthenight] guitar heavy songs > > > > > > yeah, i was one of the people at the '02 los angeles show who was > >screaming for "starblood" for the whole second half of the show. nobody > >really joined in though, and i get the feeling that the large majority of > >the crowd didn't really even know who the cranes were. but now that i look > >back, there really weren't any guitar heavy songs in the entire setlist > >except for "adrift", and that's pretty much entirely different from the > >guitar heavy stuff off of wings of joy. (i don't know about fuse as i > >still haven't heard that album) And "sixth of may" has always been a > >favorite of mine too that would have been nice to have heard. but other > >than that, i was mostly satisfied with the setlist as they did play a lot > >of their good older songs. they played my favorite, "far away", and after > >that i was pretty much content. i did write down the entire set list, but > >i misplaced it. i believe they played "adoration" which i love, but did ! > >not play "tomorrow's tears" which i really would have appreciated. > > > > nathaniel > > > > MoonFish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Scott Sisson shouted to the world: > > > > > I'm wondering if Cranes want to play starblood anymore. > > > Its kind of been their anthem (of sorts) for the last 10 years, but > >maybe > > they want to move on with their more "chilled" style of music? THe > >whole > > live album has a very chilled sound to it, and DAD001 is similarly > >relaxed. > > > > I think it's a different question. "Starblood" was a real thing with > >Mark > > Francombre. Nowadays it wouldn't make sense anymore, with Paul trying > >to > > imitate Mark. > > Playing "Starblood" today would be as summoning a ghost. > > Though they all know people would die to hear older tunes played live, > >I > > suppose they're mumbling on it, when people at concerts ask for > >"Reach", or > > "Sixth of May" for example. > > > > MoonFish 3.1 > > 999 > > > > ~:Apocalypse through Apocalypse:~ > > www.lupinaria.org/moonfish > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe to inthenigh! t, send an email to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > with "unsubscribe inthenight" in the body of the message. > > For further information send "help" to the same address. > > Do not use quotes in your message. > > http://www.starblood.org/ > > > > > > only one thing i've got to say, and listen close: fuzz is in the air! > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > > _________________________________________________________________ > Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online > http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 > > - > To unsubscribe to inthenight, send an email to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > with "unsubscribe inthenight" in the body of the message. > For further information send "help" to the same address. > Do not use quotes in your message. > http://www.starblood.org/ > - To unsubscribe to inthenight, send an email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with "unsubscribe inthenight" in the body of the message. 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