Performer: Swans
Genre: Rock
Album: Filth
Released: 2015
Style: Industrial, Experimental
MP3 version ZIP size: 1751 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1233 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1361 mb
Rating: 4.4
Votes: 662
Other Formats: DMF APE DTS AHX WMA XM MP2

Tracklist

Filth
1-1	Stay Here	5:36
1-2	Big Strong Boss	3:02
1-3	Blackout	3:47
1-4	Power For Power	5:52
1-5	Freak	1:13
1-6	Right Wrong	4:43
1-7	Thank You	3:52
1-8	Weakling	5:20
1-9	Gang	3:24
Live At The Kitchen NYC 1982/3	(24:18)
1-10 a.	Strip/Burn
1-10 b.	Heatsheet
1-10 c.	Blackout
1-10 d.	Clay Man
1-10 e.	Stay Here
1-10 f.	Weakling
Body To Body
2-1	I'll Cry For You	5:41
2-2	Red Sheet	3:11
2-3	Loop 33	0:59
2-4	Your Game	3:57
2-5	Seal It Over	3:48
2-6	Whore	3:56
2-7	We'll Hang For That	3:55
2-8	Half Life	3:57
2-9	Loop 21	1:26
2-10	Get Out	3:31
2-11	Job	5:40
2-12	Loop 1	1:01
2-13	Mother, My Body Disgusts Me	4:43
2-14	Cop	5:56
2-15	Only I Can Hear, Only I Can Touch.	2:41
2-16	Thug	9:44
2-17	Raping A Slave (Live Berlin 1984)	9:02
E.P. #1 Plus Live Recordings
3-1	Laugh	4:09
3-2	Speak	4:28
3-3	Take Advantage	4:35
3-4	Sensitive Skin	6:17
Live At CBGB NYC 1982-3
3-5	Living Arms	3:26
3-6	Howling Red Sheet	3:40
3-7	Big Strong Boss	2:46
3-8	Clay Man	4:56
3-9	We'll Hang For That	4:38
Live At Heaven London 1984
3-10	This Is Mine	7:02
3-11	Why Hide	8:36
3-12	I Crawled	7:06

Companies, etc.

• Licensed To – Mute Artists Ltd.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Young God Records
• Copyright (c) – Young God Records
• Published By – Young God Publishing
• Published By – Mute Song
• Recorded At – Vanguard Studios
• Recorded At – Sorcerer Sound
• Recorded At – Minot Sound
• Mastered At – micro-moose-berlin

Credits

• Bass – Harry Crosby (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10), M.Gira* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10)
• Bass, Vocals – Michael Gira (tracks: 3-1 to 3-4)
• Design [Re-issue Package] – Gira*
• Drums – Jonathan Kane (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10, 3-1 to 3-4), Roli Mosimann (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10)
• Engineer – Greg Curry (tracks: 3-1 to 3-4), Mark Berry (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10), Ray Bardani (tracks: 3-1 to 3-4)
• Executive-Producer – Susan Martin (tracks: 3-1 to 3-4)
• Guitar – Bob Pezzola (tracks: 3-1 to 3-4), Norman Westberg (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10)
• Layout – Paul A. Taylor*
• Mastered By [Entire Reissue] – Doug Henderson
• Music By – Gira* (tracks: 1-1 to 2-17), Swans (tracks: 1-1 to 3-4)
• Percussion – Jonathan Kane (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10), Roli Mosimann (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10)
• Performer [Personnel] – Harry Crosby (tracks: 3-10 to 3-12), Jonathan Kane (tracks: 3-5 to 3-9), M. Gira* (tracks: 3-5 to 3-12), Norman Westberg (tracks: 3-10 to 3-12), Roli Mosimann (tracks: 3-10 to 3-12), Sue Hanel (tracks: 3-5 to 3-9)
• Performer [Players] – Crosby* (tracks: 2-1, 2-4 to 2-8, 2-10, 2-11, 2-13 to 2-17), Kane* (tracks: 2-1, 2-2, 2-5, 2-7, 2-15), Gira* (tracks: 2-1, 2-2, 2-4 to 2-8, 2-10, 2-11, 2-13 to 2-17), Westberg* (tracks: 2-1, 2-4 to 2-8, 2-10, 2-11, 2-13 to 2-17), Mosimann* (tracks: 2-1, 2-4 to 2-8, 2-10, 2-11, 2-13 to 2-17), Hanel* (tracks: 2-2)
• Photography By [Booklet Photos] – Catherine Ceresole, Lee Ranaldo
• Producer – Gira* (tracks: 1-1 to 2-17), M. Gira* (tracks: 3-1 to 3-4), Mosimann* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10)
• Saxophone – Daniel Galli-Duani (tracks: 3-1 to 3-4)
• Tape [Tapes] – M.Gira* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10)
• Vocals – M.Gira* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-10)
• Words By – M.Gira* (tracks: 1-1 to 2-17), Gira* (tracks: 3-1 to 3-4)

Notes

[Filth]
Recorded 1983 Vanguard Studios, NYC.

[Body To Body]
BTB CD is compromised of various studio out-takes and live recordings.
Track 2 players: Gira, Kane, Hanel and others (see list below)

Thanks to Catherine and Nicholas Ceresole for their contributions. Thanks to Rob Collins for saving our ass in London.
The following performed live with Swans at one time or another in the years 1982 to 1985: M. Gira, Norman Westberg, Sue Hanel, Roli Mosimann, Harry Crosby, Mojo, Jonathan Kane, Dan Braun, Thurston Moore, Craig Cafton, Bob Pezzola, Ray the plumber, Jonathan Prosser...
Booklet photos by Catherine Ceresole and Lee Ranaldo, with thanks!
This entire reissue mastered by Doug Henderson at Micro-Moose, Berlin.

[Swans E.P. #1]
Recorded August '81 - March '82 at Sorcerer Sound NYC & Minot Sound Studios White Plains, NY.
All compositions published by Young God Publishing (ASCAP)
Thanks to Daniel Gira.
PERSONNEL ON ADDITIONAL LIVE TRACKS: M. Gira, Jonathan Kane, Sue Hanel and other various players as listed above on tracks 5 - 9 [3-5 to 3-9]; M. Gira, Norman Westberg, Harry Crosby, Roli Mosimann on tracks 10, 11, 12... ([3-10 to 3-12]

This 3CD package constitutes a definitive picture of Swans in the years 1982 - 1983/4.

[Sticker]
℗ & © Young God Records under exclusive license to Mute Artists Ltd. MCPS. Printed in the EU.

Comes in an 8-panel Digipak printed on embossed brown chipboard with a pocket on the left inner panel for the booklet and three transparent trays on the other panels;contains a 16 pages fold-out booklet with lyrics and rare photos.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Sticker On Shrink-wrap Packaging): 5051083083805
• Label Code (Sticker On Shrink-wrap Packaging): LC27959
• Matrix / Runout (CD One): 00095 53723 178 01 # 53723184
• Mould SID Code (CD One): IFPI 0124
• Matrix / Runout (CD Two): 00095 53723 179 01 # 53723186
• Mould SID Code (CD Two): IFPI 0115
• Matrix / Runout (CD Three): 00095 53723 180 01 # 53723188
• Mould SID Code (CD Three): IFPI 0152
• Matrix / Runout (Mould Code Area, All CDs): A
• Mastering SID Code: IFPI LZ87

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
N11	Swans	Filth ‎(LP, Album)	Neutral Records	N11	US	1983
ND 03, N11	Swans	Filth ‎(LP, Album)	Zensor, Neutral Records	ND 03, N11	Germany	1983
YG48	Swans	Filth ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM + 2xCD, Comp, RE, RM + Dlx)	Young God Records	YG48	US	2015
YG 001-1	Swans	Filth L.P. # 1 1983 ‎(LP, Album, Ltd, RE, Tra)	Young God Records	YG 001-1	US	1990
YG 001-1	Swans	Filth L.P. # 1 1983 ‎(LP, Album, RE, TP)	Young God Records	YG 001-1	US	1990