Feel Good Now

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Feel Good Now
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Live album by
Swans
Released1988
Recorded1987
Length86:42
Producer Michael Gira
Swans chronology
Love Will Tear Us Apart
(1988)		Feel Good Now
(1988)		 The Burning World
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Ondarock 6.5/10 [2]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 6/10 [3]

Feel Good Now is the second live album by the New York City no wave band Swans. It was recorded on a Sony Professional Walkman on their 1987 Children of God tour in Europe. [4] A remaster of the album, along with the studio album Children of God , was released on November 13, 2020. [5]

Contents

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Intro"0:38
2."New Mind"5:27
3."Blood and Honey"7:10
4."Trust Me"4:54
5."Stupid German Talk*"0:36
6."Into Blind Love and Out*"0:30
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Willy in Ravensburg"1:00
2."Sex God Sex"9:46
3."Various Audience Tricks"0:55
4."Like a Drug"8:32
5."Our Love Lies*"5:18
Side C
No.TitleLength
1."Manchester in Love*"1:00
2."Beautiful Child"5:42
3."Blackmail"4:22
4."Children of God"6:38
5."Beautiful Reprise - The Town and Country Backstab Cowardice"2:31
6."Thank You"0:54
Side D
No.TitleLength
1."Various Audience Members"1:29
2."Hello to Our Friends"0:22
3."Blind Love"18:36
4."Thank You, Goodbye**"0:11
5."Good Luck**"0:11
Notes

2002 reissue

The album was reissued by Atavistic Records (ALP135CD) in 2002 having been remastered (according to the liner notes) by Gira at Micromoose Studio, Brooklyn, New York. The track listing of the reissue is different:

  1. "Intro"
  2. "Blind Love"
  3. "Like A Drug"
  4. "Blood and Honey"
  5. "New Mind"
  6. "Sex God Sex"
  7. "Beautiful Child"
  8. "Blackmail"
  9. "Trust Me"
  10. "Children of God"
  11. "Beautiful Reprise Backstab"

("Trust Me" does not appear in the track listing on the liner notes)

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1988)Peak
position
UK Indie Chart [6] 7

References

  1. ↑ Raggett, Ned. "Feel Good Now – Swans : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved March 1, 2013.
  2. ↑ Fabretti, Claudio. "Swans – Liturgie dell'apocalisse". Ondarock (in Italian). Retrieved August 19, 2025.
  3. ↑ Newman, Andy (1995). "Swans". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. pp. 390–391. ISBN   0-679-75574-8.
  4. ↑ "Swans - Feel Good Now". Discogs. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Children of God / Feel Good Now (Remastered 2020)". Young God Records . Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  6. ↑ Lazell, Barry (1997). Indie Hits 1980-1989. Cherry Red Books. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved September 5, 2014.


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