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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: hit by a rock Re: Swan
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Date: Wed, 1-May-85 19:15:04 EDT
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>> 
>>     Oh well, we still have Nurse With Wound. Any Swan fans out there?
>> 
>> -michael
>
>    I really don't understand why people consider Those Swans part of the 
>industrialization of music movement. Really! Hyper-compressed
>guitars sound to me more like early Gang of Four and Big Black
>than E.N. or C.V. 
>    A note of historical interest to some: The Caberet Voltaire
>was the place of origin of the anti-art DADA movement.
>It is said that the DADA movement at its inception was nihilist,
>anti-art,anti-war and only later did the establishment label it as art.
>
>    Any takers for a Swans discography??

Note that the Cabaret Voltaire he's talking about is the original
French(?) club by that name, (circa 1910-20), not the present musical group.

As far as a Swans discography, as far as I know there are only 2 records,
an LP (Filth) and an EP.  If there is more, I'd like to know about them.

Keith Doyle
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