#JARBOE

[feverchilll]

is it really possible for a goth girl and a country boy to be in a relationship?? 

[virtualdissection]

Jarboe from swans

[sarcopod]

M. Gira and Jarboe (1991)

[dancingindystopia]

interview with Jarboe in Angry Women in Rock Vol 1 zine (1996)

part 1/2

[deathflagblues]

Swans - children of god Era

[womenofnoise]

Jarboe, Children of God/World of Skin era, 1988.

[spasm0ltyic]

[unaturalhistory]

SWANS

[yourfavealbumisgender]

Soundtracks for the Blind by Swans is Agender!

requested by anon

[postpunkindustrial]

Jarboe - Walls are Bleeding

[valseorcstra]

[radiophd]

jarboe -- surgical saviour

[dancingindystopia]

interview with Jarboe in Angry Women in Rock Vol 1 zine (1996)

part 2/2

[thxrgism]

from what i understand Soundtracks For The Blind was kinda imagined as the soundtrack for a film. i get that there are a lot of more personal themes to the album (i.e. gira and jarboe’s relationships with their parents) but am i the only one who has an imagined “plot” to the movie?

here’s the outline i wrote at 2am last week:

Protagonist lives with abusive parent(s) (I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull, Helpless Child)  who use her as a scapegoat for their own problems. She runs away and joins a cult out of desperation (Live Through Me, Yum-Yab Killers), and witnesses and experiences physical and sexual violence and exploitation within the cult (The Beautiful Days, Volcano, All Lined Up). She begins to confront the possibility of growing old in this cult (How They Suffer), and begins wishing for the god they believe in to give her an opportunity out (Animus), which eventually comes after the leader’s death (Red Velvet Wound). However, after she escapes she turns to drugs (Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey, Blood Section) and impulsive sexual relationships (Hypogirl) to cope with her trauma. However, she comes to realize that she is unsatisfied (Minus Something), and that both her views and her parent’s views on how to live her life were unsatisfying. After running out of money she moves back in with them, still finding them equally as terrible as before (Empathy, YRP), and begins to turn to the god of the cult she was in, drinking the blood of the now-deceased leader in an attempt to be possessed by him (The Final Sacrifice), and killing her parents  (YRP 2) in hopes of being satisfied by the sacrifices as the leader claimed to be. However, she finds herself then with neither her parents nor her god by her side, and is left unsatisfied (Surrogate Drone).

[human-antithesis]

Erase

Did you want to tell me… I go to hell Did you want to tell me… I say my prayers When did I become your definition When did I become your definition Did you want to tell me I'm wrong It don't mean a thing at all Did you want to tell me Make my peace Did you want to tell me I'll never be Define me define me define me define me Defy me defy me defy me defy me Defile me defile me defile me defile me Define me define me define me define me Defy me defy me defy me defy me Defile me defile me defile me defile me Where are you I can't breathe Where will I go from here What will I do without you in my life Someone give me a reason to live I have a posistion open It's like this You make me laugh You make my life easier You diminish my pain

Erase the traces of scar tissue across my brain There all all these well-wishers, well, idiots keeping score And I would love to disapoint them