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''Soundtracks for the Blind'' is the tenth studio album by experimental rock band Music/{{Swans}}. [[Main/GenreBusting Even for this band]], this album is known to be an outlier in their catalogue for its heavy use of field recordings, [[Main/GenreRoulette various sudden and abrupt shifts of genre]], and the band's first true case of Main/EpicRocking that they would become infamous for on later albums, featuring their first 10+ minute tracks to appear on a studio album.
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''Soundtracks for the Blind'' is the tenth studio album by experimental rock band Music/{{Swans}}. [[Main/GenreBusting
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[[GenreBusting Even for this band]], this album is known to be an outlier in their catalogue for its heavy use of field recordings,
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* TalkativeLoon: The dude speaking on "I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull", who goes on an excessively detailed rant about the ways in which the person he's speaking to is "fucked up."
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* BreatherEpisode: "Live Through Me", which comes between the truly draining "Helpless Child" and the brutal "Yum Yab Killers", is a short instrumental with an almost inspiring and hopeful melody.
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* AlbumIntroTrack: "Red Velvet Corridor" effectively serves this purpose, a short ambient piece right at the start of the first disc.
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* LyricalDissonance: Pretty much every track Jarboe sings, with the exception of "YRP".
** "Volcano" is a fast-tempo dance-pop song with lyrics about [[Main/ImAHumanitarian cannibalizing a rock star.]]]]
** "Red Velvet Wound" is a lullaby-like song about a miscarriage.
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* ScareChord: The shrieking synths that fade in and out of "The Beautiful Days".
* SpokenWordInMusic: The album makes extensive use of field recordings and samples, many of them taped monologues by anonymous speakers presented completely out of context.
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* SurrealHorror: It is a very weird, disjointed, and ''hostile'' musical experience. Almost every track is completely different from the one proceeding it, with brutal hardcore punk tracks being followed by drugged out dance pop numbers. The most pronounced example is one of the first tracks, "I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull", which is a procession of increasingly disturbing musical ideas spaced out over 6 minutes, all centered around a rambling, borderline schizophrenic monologue explaining why the listener is "fucked up".
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* SuddenlyShouting: In "The Final Sacrifice", after about 5 minutes of soft instrumentals and Gira’s brooding delivery, out of nowhere he begins to scream-sing at the top of his lungs.lungs.
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''Soundtracks for the Blind'' is the tenth studio album by experimental rock band Music/{{Swans}}. [[Main/GenreBusting Even for this band]], this album is known to be an outlier in their catalogue for its heavy use of field recordings, [[Main/GenreRoulette various sudden and abrupt shifts of genre]], and the band's first true case of Main/EpicRocking that they would become infamous for on later albums, featuring their first 10+ minute tracks to appear on a studio album.
Released on October 22, 1996, this was originally intended to be their final studio album before their breakup the following year. While they did indeed reunite in 2010 to further experimentation and further success, the blueprints for much of their seminal post-reunion works can be found in this album.
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!! Tracklist:
!!! Silver Disc:
# "Red Velvet Corridor" (3:04)
# "I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull" (6:39)
# "Helpless Child" (15:47)
# "Live Through Me" (2:32)
# "Yum-Yab Killers" (5:07)
# "The Beautiful Days" (7:49)
# "Volcano" (5:18)
# "Mellothumb" (2:46)
# "All Lined Up" (4:48)
# "Surrogate 2" (1:52)
# "How They Suffer" (5:52)
# "Animus" (10:41)
!!! Copper Disc:
# "Red Velvet Wound" (2:02)
# "The Sound" (13:11)
# "Her Mouth Is Filled with Honey" (3:19)
# "Blood Section" (2:39)
# "Hypogirl" (2:44)
# "Minus Something" (4:14)
# "Empathy" (6:45)
# "I Love You This Much" (7:23)
# "YRP" (7:47)
# "Fan's Lament" (1:28)
# "Secret Friends" (3:08)
# "The Final Sacrifice" (10:27)
# "YRP 2" (2:09)
# "Surrogate Drone" (2:06)
!! Tropes features within this album:
* BoleroEffect: The four 10+ minute tracks, "I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull" and "YRP" are more or less [[Main/TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]] for this trope alongside Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor.
* DroneOfDread: "Surrogate Drone".
* EpicRocking: The album itself is a whopping 2 hours and 21 minutes, Swans' longest studio album to date.
* "Helpless Child", "Animus", "The Sound" and "The Final Sacrifice" all exceed 10 minutes.
** Lesser examples include "I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull", "The Beautiful Days", "Empathy", "I Love You This Much" and "YRP".
* GenreRoulette: This album goes ''all over the place'', featuring sprawling Main/PostRock (the 10+ minute tracks, "I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull", "All Lined Up", "YRP"), Main/{{Ambient}} ("Red Velvet Corridor", "The Beautiful Days"), a live Main/HardcorePunk song ("Yum-Yab Killers"), Dance-Pop ("Volcano") and ''way'' too many more to count.
* LyricalDissonance: "Volcano" is a fast-tempo dance-pop song with lyrics about [[Main/ImAHumanitarian cannibalizing a rock star.]]
* MinisculeRocking: "Surrogate 2" (1:52) and "Fan's Lament" (1:28).
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Depends on the song. Some songs reach as low as a 2 ("The Beautiful Days", "Surrogate Drone"), as high as a 9 ("Yum-Yab Killers", "YRP 2", with many songs switching between ends of the scale!
[[caption-width-right:316:I see them all lined up...]]
''Soundtracks for the Blind'' is the tenth studio album by experimental rock band Music/{{Swans}}. [[Main/GenreBusting Even for this band]], this album is known to be an outlier in their catalogue for its heavy use of field recordings, [[Main/GenreRoulette various sudden and abrupt shifts of genre]], and the band's first true case of Main/EpicRocking that they would become infamous for on later albums, featuring their first 10+ minute tracks to appear on a studio album.
Released on October 22, 1996, this was originally intended to be their final studio album before their breakup the following year. While they did indeed reunite in 2010 to further experimentation and further success, the blueprints for much of their seminal post-reunion works can be found in this album.
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!! Tracklist:
!!! Silver Disc:
# "Red Velvet Corridor" (3:04)
# "I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull" (6:39)
# "Helpless Child" (15:47)
# "Live Through Me" (2:32)
# "Yum-Yab Killers" (5:07)
# "The Beautiful Days" (7:49)
# "Volcano" (5:18)
# "Mellothumb" (2:46)
# "All Lined Up" (4:48)
# "Surrogate 2" (1:52)
# "How They Suffer" (5:52)
# "Animus" (10:41)
!!! Copper Disc:
# "Red Velvet Wound" (2:02)
# "The Sound" (13:11)
# "Her Mouth Is Filled with Honey" (3:19)
# "Blood Section" (2:39)
# "Hypogirl" (2:44)
# "Minus Something" (4:14)
# "Empathy" (6:45)
# "I Love You This Much" (7:23)
# "YRP" (7:47)
# "Fan's Lament" (1:28)
# "Secret Friends" (3:08)
# "The Final Sacrifice" (10:27)
# "YRP 2" (2:09)
# "Surrogate Drone" (2:06)
!! Tropes features within this album:
* BoleroEffect: The four 10+ minute tracks, "I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull" and "YRP" are more or less [[Main/TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]] for this trope alongside Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor.
* DroneOfDread: "Surrogate Drone".
* EpicRocking: The album itself is a whopping 2 hours and 21 minutes, Swans' longest studio album to date.
* "Helpless Child", "Animus", "The Sound" and "The Final Sacrifice" all exceed 10 minutes.
** Lesser examples include "I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull", "The Beautiful Days", "Empathy", "I Love You This Much" and "YRP".
* GenreRoulette: This album goes ''all over the place'', featuring sprawling Main/PostRock (the 10+ minute tracks, "I Was a Prisoner in Your Skull", "All Lined Up", "YRP"), Main/{{Ambient}} ("Red Velvet Corridor", "The Beautiful Days"), a live Main/HardcorePunk song ("Yum-Yab Killers"), Dance-Pop ("Volcano") and ''way'' too many more to count.
* LyricalDissonance: "Volcano" is a fast-tempo dance-pop song with lyrics about [[Main/ImAHumanitarian cannibalizing a rock star.]]
* MinisculeRocking: "Surrogate 2" (1:52) and "Fan's Lament" (1:28).
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Depends on the song. Some songs reach as low as a 2 ("The Beautiful Days", "Surrogate Drone"), as high as a 9 ("Yum-Yab Killers", "YRP 2", with many songs switching between ends of the scale!
