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Released
  
1991

Length
  
64:14

Artist
  
Label
  
Sky Records

Recorded
  
1982-85

Body To Body, Job To Job(1991)
  
Release date
  
1991

Body to Body, Job to Job httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaen229Swa

Genres
  
Noise rock, Experimental rock, Post-rock, Art rock

Similar
  
Swans albums, Experimental rock albums

Body to body job to job


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.

Contents

Release history

While the original CDs and audio cassettes 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".

While the album, in its initial form, would eventually go out of print, it has been reissued various times. It was included on the double-disc set Filth/Body to Body, Job to Job in 1999 (which also included the band's 1983 recording Filth, and it was also included in the 2015 deluxe triple-disc reissue of Filth. The 2015 reissue of Filth containing Body to Body, Job to Job adds "Raping a Slave (Live Berlin 1984)" as a bonus track after the end of "Thug."

Track listing

  1. "I'll Cry for You" - 5:41
  2. "Red Sheet" - 3:11
  3. "Loop 33" - 0:59
  4. "Your Game" - 3:57
  5. "Seal It Over" - 3:48
  6. "Whore" - 3:56
  7. "We'll Hang for That" - 3:55
  8. "Half Life" - 3:57
  9. "Loop 21" - 1:26
  10. "Get Out" - 3:31
  11. "Job" - 5:40
  12. "Loop 1" - 1:01
  13. "Mother, My Body Disgusts Me" - 4:53
  14. "Cop" - 5:56
  15. "Only I Can Hear, Only I Can Touch" - 2:41
  16. "Thug" - 9:44

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.

The CD and cassette edition track listings reveal the year of origin for each track, save for "Loop 33":

  • 1982: 2, 7, 9, 15
  • 1983: 5, 12
  • 1984: 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16
  • 1985: 1, 13
  • Songs

    1I'll Cry For You5:45
    2Red Sheet3:03
    3Loop 331:08

    References

    Body to Body, Job to Job Wikipedia


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