Anonymous Bodies in an Empty Room
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Anonymous Bodies in an Empty Room is a live release by the New York
No Wave
band Swans
. It was recorded from shows on their The Burning World
tour.
†The second half of an unreleased song from 1988 entitled "A Young Girl Needs More". This and another song, "The Unknown", appeared only in live form during that tour.
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 was recorded from shows on their The Burning World
The Burning World (album)
The Burning World is an album by the American rock band Swans. It was released in 1989 on Uni Records, and it was its only major label release and only album featuring production by Bill Laswell....
tour.
Track listing
- "Let It Come Down"
- "Blood on Your Hands"
- "Untitled Excerpt"†
- "Will We Survive"
- "See No More"
- "Still a Child"
- "(She's a) Universal Emptiness"
- "Miracle of Love"
†The second half of an unreleased song from 1988 entitled "A Young Girl Needs More". This and another song, "The Unknown", appeared only in live form during that tour.