A Screw Explained

A Screw
Type:Single
Artist:Swans
Genre:Industrial
Label:K.422
Producer:Michael Gira
Prev Title:Holy Money
Prev Year:1986
Next Title:Public Castration Is a Good Idea
Next Year:1986

A Screw is a single by the New York City experimental rock group Swans. The single's three songs were later appended as bonus tracks to the CD release of Holy Money.

Background and composition

The single's title track sees the band diving their farthest into the realm of industrial dance music, complete with dubby, distorted vocals and complex programmed rhythms, a distinct contrast to the naturalistic album version. The piano-driven ode to obsessive love, "Blackmail", was Jarboe's first Swans track as lead vocalist. A reworked version of "Blackmail" appears on the 1987 album Children of God.[1]

Regarding his contribution to the single's title track, drummer Ted Parsons said:

Track listing

Notes

Personnel

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Children of God Discogs entry. discogs.com. Discogs. December 14, 2017.
  2. Web site: Original "A Screw" Discogs entry. discogs.com. Discogs. December 14, 2017.
  3. Book: Lazell, Barry . Indie Hits 1980-1989 . Cherry Red Books . 1997 . September 5, 2014 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20110606125645/http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/indiehits/s.htm . June 6, 2011 .