I Am the Sun
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I Am the Sun is a 1997
live single by the New York
No Wave
band Swans
. It contains live versions of two songs from their 1995 album The Great Annihilator
.
The session at VPRO was recorded on December 14, 1994. During that session also the songs "I See Them All Lined Up", "Mother/Father" (which appears also on Die Tür Ist Zu
) and "She Lives!" were recorded (all acoustic versions).
1997 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1997.-January:*January 9 – David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Robert Smith of The Cure, Lou Reed, and Billy...
live single by the New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
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...
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 contains live versions of two songs from their 1995 album The Great Annihilator
The Great Annihilator
The Great Annihilator is a studio album by Swans. It was released in 1995 and re-released in 2002. The re-released version contains "I Am the Sun" as bonus track....
.
Track listing
- "I Am the Sun" (live at the Flesh Club 1996)
- "My Buried Child" (live VPRO Radio 1995)
The session at VPRO was recorded on December 14, 1994. During that session also the songs "I See Them All Lined Up", "Mother/Father" (which appears also on Die Tür Ist Zu
Die Tür Ist Zu
is an EP by Swans, released in 1996 only in Germany. It contains early, German-language versions of two songs on the then unreleased Soundtracks for the Blind album, two studio outtakes (German for The Door Is Closed) is an EP by Swans, released in 1996 only in Germany. It contains early,...
) and "She Lives!" were recorded (all acoustic versions).