Swans Are Dead

Swans Are Dead
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Live album (double album) by
Swans
ReleasedJanuary 20, 1998
RecordedSeptember 20–23, 1995
January 24 & 29, February 15 & 27, March 13–14, 1997
VenueStiftelsen, Stavanger, NOR
Garage, Bergen, NOR
Sentrum Scene, Oslo, NOR
Studentersamfundet, Trondheim, NOR
Irving Plaza, New York City, USA
House of Blues, Atlanta, USA
Palác Akropolis, Prague, CZE
Paradiso Grote Zaal, Amsterdam, NLD
L’Orangerie du Botanique, Brussels, BEL
Length142:53
LanguageEnglish
LabelYoung God
Swans chronology
Soundtracks for the Blind
(1996) 		Swans Are Dead
(1998) 		Various Failures
(1999)

Swans Are Dead is the fifth double and seventh overall live album by American experimental rock band Swans. It was released in 1998 and was recorded in 1995 and 1997 on the band's final tours, before reuniting in 2010.

The setlists of this era in the Swans live show were probably the most varied in terms of chronology. Although many of the songs performed were taken from Soundtracks for the Blind, the band also resurrected songs from much earlier albums, including a re-worked version of "I Crawled" from the Young God EP (1984).