Greed

Greed is the Third (2008) album by American neofolk band Swans. Greed marks the point where Mikey G decides to stop rapping about money and homework and instead sing about money and homework. Jarboe is there too.

Background
Certain tracks utilize guitar. The lead instrument on "Fool" is guitar. "Money is Flesh" uses a guitar.

With subsequent releases of Greed, Gira decided that nobody wants to hear the original tracks, choosing to swap them out for Holy Money versions, saying:

"''IN ADDITION: I want to take this opportunity to chastise the snivelers among you that are complaining about the fact we're cutting out some music from our re-release series in order to facilitate the streamlining / repackaging of our work . Quit whining, you ninnies . You already have the material , otherwise you wouldn't miss it . We have to make certain decisions in order to assure that what we (it's our work , for which we suffered , not you) deem the most valuable music stays available , on into the future . We absolutely cannot afford to keep everything in print - and no store would consent to stock all of the music we've released over the years (there's too much) - so we've had to be rigorous , editing out the stuff we don't think is essential . Our desire is to keep in-print the music of which we are the most proud . The entire reason for which we (not you) are risking our necks in doing this whole extremely expensive re-issue series , against all odds and in the face of generally total indifference , is that we want the curious music-aficionado , the person that cares about getting a real experience out of the music they listen to , to be able to get a grasp of the work we've done in a clear , concise , chronologically delineated format. This is our (admittedly vain) desire not to disappear, which could very easily happen , if we don't carefully manage the music we've created over the years. This is why I first came up with the concept of the dbl CD re-issues - to make an easily accessible overview of the 15 years of Swans existence. I admit that it's also a way for me to edit out the music that I think is not as good as it should have been. But why shouldn't I do that ? After all, it's my work , I'm still vital , and so I still have the prerogative to choose what I want to continue to exist ... Enough, children !!!!!"''

Reception

 * Scaruffi: 7/10
 * ofstsld: 9/10
 * afterceasetoexist: "Greed is the soundtrack of broken dreams"

Track listing

 * 1) A Hanging
 * 2) You Need Me
 * 3) Fool (#2)
 * 4) A Screw (Holy Money)
 * 5) Another You
 * 6) Money is Flesh (#2)
 * 7) Coward