Swans/YMMV

Subjective tropes associated with Swans and their music include: "No, I was never young, and nothing has transpired, and when I look in the mirror, I feel dead, I feel cold, I am blind."
 * Archive Panic: Finding what song came from where in what version can be maddening to the dedicated fan.
 * Crosses the Line Twice: The ballistic Hardcore Punk tribute "Freak" on Filth definitely qualifies, as do the monologue on "I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull" and the boisterously gruesome lyrics to "Reeling The Liars In".
 * Crowning Music of Awesome
 * Face of the Band: Both Jarboe and Gira.
 * He Really Can Sing In Audible Octaves: Gira on Children Of God and especially Love Will Tear Us Apart.
 * Nausea Fuel: "Your Game" on Body to Body, Job to Job.
 * The lyrics are Gira reciting a short story he wrote, later to be published in his book The Consumer, filled with other equally disgusting and disturbing stories.
 * Paranoia Fuel: "Not Alone" from Swans Are Dead, most of Soundtracks for the Blind, the interludes from Love Of Life, "Look At Me Go"....
 * Tear Jerker: Often, the most famous being "God Damn the Sun".
 * The final chorus to "Blind":