Body to Body, Job to Job
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Body To Body, Job To Job is a compilation album
by the American
no wave
/noise rock
band Swans
. It was released simultaneously on LP
, CD
and audio cassette
in 1991
. It presents various live recordings, tape loops and previously unavailable material from the years 1982-1985. While the CD and audio cassette contained 16 songs, the LP version – due to the limited length of the medium – omitted 4 songs: "Whore", "Loop 21", "Get Out" and "Mother, My Body Disgusts Me".
Notes: "Whore" was originally released on the album Cop
in 1984 as "Butcher"; the disparity indicates that the song's title may have been taken from an early setlist. "Your Game" is an early version of the song "Your Property," which originally appeared on Cop
as well; the lyric at this time was a spoken word piece titled "Your Game" that was later collected in Gira's book The Consumer. "Mother, My Body Disgusts Me" is an early version of the title track from Greed, with different lyrics.
Compilation album
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by the American
United States
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no wave
No Wave
No Wave was a short-lived but influential underground music, film, performance art, video, and contemporary art scene that had its beginnings during the mid-1970s in New York City. The term No Wave is in part satirical word play rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre...
/noise rock
Noise rock
Noise rock describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.-Style:Noise...
band Swans
Swans (band)
Swans are an influential American post-punk band initially active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s New York No Wave scene and stay intact into the next decade. Formed by Gira in...
. It was released simultaneously on LP
LP record
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, CD
Compact Disc
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and audio cassette
Compact Cassette
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in 1991
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. It presents various live recordings, tape loops and previously unavailable material from the years 1982-1985. While the CD and audio cassette contained 16 songs, the LP version – due to the limited length of the medium – omitted 4 songs: "Whore", "Loop 21", "Get Out" and "Mother, My Body Disgusts Me".
Track listing
- "I'll Cry for You" - 5:41
- "Red Sheet" - 3:11
- "Loop 33" - 0:59
- "Your Game" - 3:57
- "Seal It Over" - 3:48
- "Whore" - 3:56
- "We'll Hang for That" - 3:55
- "Half Life" - 3:57
- "Loop 21" - 1:26
- "Get Out" - 3:31
- "Job" - 5:40
- "Loop 1" - 1:01
- "Mother, My Body Disgusts Me" - 4:53
- "Cop" - 5:56
- "Only I Can Hear, Only I Can Touch" - 2:41
- "Thug" - 9:44
Notes: "Whore" was originally released on the album Cop
Cop (album)
Cop is the second album by Swans.On Cop, Swans took the style of their previous LP, 1983's Filth, and intensified it, utilising slower tempos, more tape loops, and even more abrasive musical textures...
in 1984 as "Butcher"; the disparity indicates that the song's title may have been taken from an early setlist. "Your Game" is an early version of the song "Your Property," which originally appeared on Cop
Cop (album)
Cop is the second album by Swans.On Cop, Swans took the style of their previous LP, 1983's Filth, and intensified it, utilising slower tempos, more tape loops, and even more abrasive musical textures...
as well; the lyric at this time was a spoken word piece titled "Your Game" that was later collected in Gira's book The Consumer. "Mother, My Body Disgusts Me" is an early version of the title track from Greed, with different lyrics.