THE SWOON made a lot of noise.
In the late 1980s, a cacophonous noise shattered the peace of the great plains. A commotion of drums, guitars, and teenage angst came tumbling out of a Cottonwood, MN garage, staggered about, shook itself off, and called itself THE SWOON. A few short years later, the band vanished without a trace and the prairie hush resumed. This website collects the memories, revisits the noise, and writes the epitaph. If you want SWOON nostalgia or you just kinda like that end-of-the-eighties vibe, subscribe at the bottom of the page.
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Arms of Plenty
Daniel Thomas THE SWOON wrote Arms of Plenty in 1990 while living and rehearsing in the Minneapolis house, not long after our keyboard player had left the band. It represents a lost era of THE SWOON; it’s just one of many never-recorded songs that percolated up from the explosion of creativity and thick clouds of…
Seven Daughters
Daniel Thomas THE SWOON wrote the song SEVEN DAUGHTERS in 1991. I remember working on the lyrics with my girlfriend-at-the time on NEW YEAR’S EVE 1991, one full year after THE SWOON’s official END OF THE WORLD PARTY (New Year’s Eve 1990). In retrospect, the end of the world in 1990 turned out to be underwhelming…
SLEEP LITTLE STASH
No, it’s not a book about getting high off your own stash. “Stash” was the name of one of the characters inhabiting the imaginary world of THE SWOON stories. The name is short for Anastasia, a Greek/Russian name that means “Resurrection.”
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