Performer: Swans
Genre: Electronic / Rock
Album: Soundtracks For The Blind
Released: 1996
Style: Post Rock, Experimental, Industrial, No Wave
MP3 version ZIP size: 1844 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1610 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1277 mb
Rating: 4.6
Votes: 705
Other Formats: ADX ASF MP2 MIDI MP4 MPC AIFF

Tracklist Hide Credits

1-1	Red Velvet Corridor	3:04
1-2	I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull	6:39
1-3	Helpless Child	15:47
1-4	Live Through Me	2:31
1-5	Yum-Yab Killers	5:07
1-6	The Beautiful Days	7:49
1-7	Volcano Producer – Jarboe	5:19
1-8	Mellothumb	2:45
1-9	All Lined Up	4:48
1-10	Surrogate 2	1:51
1-11	How They Suffer	5:52
1-12	Animus Viola – Cris Force*	10:42
2-1	Red Velvet Wound	2:02
2-2	The Sound	13:11
2-3	Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey	3:18
2-4	Blood Section	2:39
2-5	Hypogirl	2:44
2-6	Minus Something	4:14
2-7	Empathy	6:45
2-8	I Love You This Much	7:23
2-9	YRP Viola – Cris Force*	7:46
2-10	Fan's Lament	1:28
2-11	Secret Friends	3:08
2-12	The Final Sacrifice	10:27
2-13	YRP 2	2:09
2-14	Surrogate Drone	2:09

Credits

• Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Michael R. Gira*, Vudi (tracks: 1-3, 1-5, 1-9, 1-12, 2-2, 2-7, 2-9, 2-12, 2-13)
• Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar – Joe Goldring (tracks: 1-3, 1-5, 1-9, 1-12, 2-2, 2-7, 2-9, 2-12, 2-13)
• Design [Package Design], Design Concept – Gira*
• Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone – Larry Mullins (tracks: 1-3, 1-5, 1-9, 1-12, 2-2, 2-7, 2-9, 2-12, 2-13)
• Engineer [Live] – Andy Ray (tracks: 1-5, 2-8, 2-12, 2-13)
• Mastered By – Chris Griffin
• Mixed By, Recorded By – Billy Anderson, Chris Griffin , Larry Lame, Martin Bisi
• Musician [Additional] – Al Kizys*, Clinton Steele, Christoph Hahn*, Larry Lame, Norman Westberg, Bill Rieflin*
• Producer – M. Gira* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-6, 1-8 to 2-14)
• Sampler [Samples] – Michael R. Gira*
• Voice, Sounds, Loops – Jarboe, Michael R. Gira*

Notes

Jewel case packaging. Mailorder copies from Young God Records are signed by M. Gira.

All material comprising this album was compiled from a wide variety of sources - ranging from hand-held cassette recordings, to found sounds, to samples, to loops, to finished multi-track recordings - and was combined, collaged, manipulated and EQed at Griffin Mastering, Atlanta, GA.

CD1: 1,2,3,4,6,8,9,10,11,12 copyright 1996 Young God Publishing (ASCAP). 5,7 copyright 1996 Jarboe Music (ASCAP).
CD2: 1 copyright 1996 Jarboe Music (ASCAP). 2-14 copyright 1996 Young God Publishing (ASCAP).

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 6 58457 00012 0
• Barcode (Scanned): 658457000120
• Matrix / Runout (Silver CD): YGCD01 CD1 6745-CD-1070 16-249-02
• Mastering SID Code (Silver CD): IFPI LK13
• Matrix / Runout (Copper CD): YGCD01 CD2 6745-CD-1071 16-247-07-2
• Mastering SID Code (Copper CD): IFPI IV89

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
YG01, ALP59CD	Swans	Soundtracks For The Blind ‎(2xCD, Album, Dig)	Young God Records, Atavistic	YG01, ALP59CD	UK	1996
YG61, STUMM421	Swans	Soundtracks For The Blind ‎(4xLP + Box, Album, Ltd, RE, RM)	Young God Records, Mute	YG61, STUMM421	Europe	2018
none	Swans	Soundtracks For The Blind ‎(26xFile, MP3, Album, 320)	Young God Records	none	US	2014
YG61	Swans	Soundtracks For The Blind / Die Tür Ist Zu ‎(2xCD, Album + CD, EP + RE, RM, Dig)	Young God Records	YG61	US	2018
YG61	Swans	Soundtracks For The Blind ‎(4xLP + Box, Album, Ltd, RE, RM)	Young God Records	YG61	US	2018