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by Cardholder
For bands that I both love and fascinate me, I do tend to follow thoroughly much of their discographies, which is the case for Sonic Youth, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Coil. Love all their eras from beginning to end.
Even Public Image Ltd post-Flowers of Romance I liked, though I did not follow since their reunion. So that's one band.
It really pains me to say, but another band is Swans. I was a huge fan of all their eras, and I had many of their albums. I even had the Forever Burned reissue CD, along with their first self-titled 12" EP and Die Tür ist zu, and also Michael Gira's I Am Singing to You from My Room. I also loved My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky (I would've also had loved The Seer, but I hadn't had that record back then).
Unfortunately, when the Larkin Grimm incident broke, things soured. I believe Grimm and I can't reconcile Gira's actions with the music. Furthermore, every time when I try to search for any information or updates about the case, I tend to see gross Reddit threads about Grimm having a history of false accusations and other shit like that, which kills any moments of desire for me to listen to Young God or any of their stuff.
When I first heard the news (which was here on the old forum), I had just gotten Filth / Body to Body, Job to Job. While I was incredibly disheartened, I decided to listen to it a couple of more times until it faded from my daily listening cycle (this is a habit I have for newly acquired records). Enjoy the last moments of what I thought was a great band. Once my daily listening for Filth . . . faded, I stopped listening and following Swans all together. That was nearly 10 years ago.