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Michael Gira

Michael Gira
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Michael Rolfe Gira (pronounced jeer-AH) (born 1954) is an American musician, author, and artist. He is the main force behind the New York City musical group Swans, active from 1982 to 1997, reformed in 2010. He also fronts The Angels of Light and is founder of Young God Records (YGR website). Gira lived with his parents in a relatively affluent suburb of Los Angeles, California, though they divorced when he was a young teenager. After staying with his alcoholic mother for much of his youth

Top songs

  1. Blind
  2. Where Does Your Body Begin?
  3. You See Through Me
  4. I See Them All Lined Up
  5. Your Naked Body
  6. Unreal
  7. Why I Ate My Wife
  8. Fan Letter
  9. Low Life Form
  10. Jim
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  1. Oxygen
  2. If You…
  3. Promise of Water
  4. If You...
  5. Destroyer
  6. My Birth
  7. Reeling The Liars In
  8. Eden Prison
  9. Purple Creek
  10. Michael's White Hands
  11. Rose of Los Angeles
  12. Surrogate
  13. Viragio
  14. What You Were
  15. Failure
  16. Opium Song
  17. Little Mouth
  18. My Sister Said
  19. Eden Prison (That Way)
  20. Swallow You
  21. Whiskey Johnny
  22. Eden Prison (This Way)
  23. My Lazy Clown
  24. Lena's Song
  25. Inside Madeline
  26. No Words/No Thoughts
  27. Jackie's Spine
  28. The Provider
  29. All Lined Up
  30. Let It Be You
  31. Mean Monster Mike
  32. Yellow Light
  33. Children Remember
  34. Crooked Man
  35. God's Servant
  36. Waiting Beside Viragio
  37. Love Will Save You
  38. God Damn the Sun
  39. Watch the Puppet
  40. Rosalie And Juliette
  41. My Suicide
  42. Where Does Your Body Begin
  43. No Words/No Title
  44. No Words/No Title (Sketch Recorded 2001)
  45. I Remember Who You Are
  46. If You
  47. Someone Like Me
  48. All Sous' Rising (Live Fragment)
  49. Lines
  50. All Souls' Rising
  51. Mosquito Coast
  52. Song For My Father
  53. forever yours
  54. Mary Found John
  55. All Souls Rising
  56. No Words / No Thoughts
  57. Irish Queen
  58. untitled love song
  59. On the Mountain
  60. Song for a Warrior (demo)
  61. The Family God
  62. Nations
  63. Game
  64. Jackies Spine
  65. When Will I Return?
  66. I'm an Infant, I Worship Him
  67. What Will Come
  68. Kosinski
  69. Oxygen (original version/demo)
  70. People Like Us
  71. Annaline
  72. Kosinksy
  73. NO Words/NO Title 2
  74. Bloodsucker
  75. Un Real
  76. Kosinsky
  77. This is Mine
  78. two women
  79. On the Mountain Looking Down
  80. The Sex Machine
  81. Pacing the Locks
  82. MTV And The Cult Of The Body
  83. Rosalee and Julieette
  84. The Idiot
  85. Why I Hate My Wife
  86. Cold Creeping
  87. Is/Was
  88. Palisades
  89. 4'33"
  90. Brown Eyes

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