Coil s/d c/d etc

Search: Most everything else, but I happen to like early/mid 90's coil best: Love's Secret Domain, Stolen & Contaminated Songs, Black Light Distict, Worship the Glitch, Unnatural History 3.

Classic, obviously.

Destroy: Tainted Love (lasts for 3 hours and goths like it)

"where are you? no one has seen you in years" is a great line, and should be used more often...people who fall off the radar have been a romantic staple of pop for years of course, but this captures it well

Are they available as a domestic release in the U.S.?

can't believe i missed this for so long...coil are def one of my favorite bands, although i rarely think of them as such. love the early stuff, get iffy on the wax traxian phase, love love LOVE the last four-five years. if 1999/2000 hadn't been such overwhelming years for albums, both vols of musick to play in the dark would have been high placers in my top 10s.

Search: the twisted sound collages, the idiosyncratic approach to house, the chilly ambience.

Destroy: the crypto-sexual conspiracy theorizing, the gothic growling, the big gated eighties drum sounds.

Coil's disco steps and Ministry's distorted barre chords weaned a lot of listeners from industrial dance's cold and wizened teet. All the A students started sneaking out of the Wax Trax School of Spooky Chain Rattling.
Some fled to a more cheerful dance floor, while others turned to Am Rep and/or Earache for more guitar-based ugliness.

That being said, there are still plenty of clubs which function as industrio-gothic Greenfield Villages, and I'm sure they're very meaningful to their black-clad regulars.

this inspired me to check out the recent stuff & jesus christ it's good. i can't stop playing "batwings" (off musick... vol 2). it's going to take an age to listen to all the mp3s i've just downloaded (sometimes slsk just give you too much), but i'm loving it all so far.

It all makes sense when you see the video -- best cameo ever in that too, BTW.

Al was bending the brim of his cowboy hat, and Coil were putting on their boogie shoes, so second-string tin pounders like Meat Beat Manifesto and MC 900 Foot Jesus were left with the thankless task of recording hip hop records for white guys in black clothes.

You could have finished your routine by doing the robot with Kraftwerk. Those androids were burning up every dancefloor, cardboard or otherwise. It's no good trying to explain musical genres to dancing robots. They'll just stare blankly at you as they continue to shake their mechanical booties.

also i heard a track off "plastic spider thing" and it's fantastic, much to my surprise. i might have to check the rest of the album out.

yes, it is a bit oh dear. i'm sure i'll have gone off coil again in a few days, don't worry.

(I just said Oh Dear because I've had two days worth of gossip about Coil from two different people in the past week. Oh dear on all levels, really.)

Yeah, the four EPs were collected as 'Moon's Milk', which I recommend if you've got time to focus on them, as they move pretty slowly. I like to listen to them while I go to sleep, although there are extremely nutty and frightening tracks at the end and start of the two CDs, so if you're not asleep by them it's pretty fucked.

Other than that I only have 'ove's Secret Domain' which is awesome. I'm always loking for more Coil.

Has anyone heard that track they made featuring a guy's phone message whose boyfriend was a huge Coil fan and topped himself by jumping off a cliff? What's it called?

Also what's with them throwing half their releases off cliffs and things?

So, like, I've been entirely steeping myself in COIL these days, trying to catch up. I picked up the re-mastered Horse Rotorvator (though I had the Some Bizarre edition -- which the band has since renounced). I also picked up the Unnatural History II disc in order to finally hear the aborted tracks from Hellraiser (I really wanted them to be scarier, truthfully, but there's a lot of other great stuff on the disc). The stuff I was really looking for but couldn't seem to find, however, was Love's Secret Domain and Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.1. I'd looked all around the likely shops in NYC, but came up empty, and their official site (Threshold House) has closed the shop for now. Failing everything else, I went to eBay, and won a used copy of L's.S.D (at no great savings to me), figuring I'd never find it anywhere else. It hasn't arrived yet.

So, today, on a lark, I pop into Tower Records on Broadway looking for nothing in particular. Once upon a time (in the days of vinyl), if you were looking for a record and Tower didn't have it, there was a good chance that said record simply didn't exist. But, that was then. In the ensuing years, Tower has fallen into a decline that recalls the fall of the Roman Empire. They're a lost cause teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. But sure enough -- push me down the anal staircase! Their in the import section are more COIL releases than I've ever spotted in any locale...including Musick to Play in the Dark Vol.1 (which I instantly snapped up) and....rotorvate my damn horse...Love's Secret Domain...WRAPPED, PRISTINE AND FACTORY SEALED...unlike the used version I'm waiting to arrive in the mail, which -- for all I know -- may have been used as a coaster. I suck.

I really dig the first vol. of Unnatural History, some really strange sounds on there.

Only got it today, so haven't had a chance to listen to it (it's tough with a little person in the house....I've ripped it to my iPod, so shall listen intently to it soon enough).

I'm well into Musick to Play in the Dark 1, though I'm not wild about "The Dreamer is Still Asleep". Love's Secret Domain isn't what I expected at all, but I'm quite enjoying it. I love the title track and the two "Teenage Lightning" tracks. Been downloading some of their other stuff (and oof is there a lot of it). I agree with whomever said it above that much of it is just far too abstract (notably the stuff fom the COIL-ANS box), but none of it is dull, at the very least.

Secondly, the General Store at the Threshold House site is back open...czech it out! http://www.thresholdhouse.com/

http://www.brainwashed.com/common/images/covers/loci15_traycard.jpg

the final Soisong broadcast is available for free/name your price: https://coh-official.bandcamp.com/track/soisong-broadcast-9

expected tomorrow: the final Soisong album

https://twitter.com/soisong

and between all the NFT stuff on the COH twitter feed:

Just finished the principal recordings of the last Soisong album. Dunno how many on here are familiar with the name, but do you know the sense of "sad relief"? Quite peculiar.. 🤔😅

— COH 🎶 (@CoH_tweet) November 14, 2021

oh, I already pasted that. well, it's tomorrow then :-)

This looks, to me, extremely not worthwhile.
https://infinitefog.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-backwards-extended-edition

yeah - good luck to Danny Hyde with this further milking attempt but the material really is getting very thin now...

Jesus - get lost with that NFT crap already

TONIGHT 20.12.2021 at 20:21 on @withFND - @soisong première of AEIVAA II0I, a collection of voices colorfully filmed by soijin04/ @nxpanin 👽🎶 pic.twitter.com/ibCKOpoLaI

— COH 🎶 (@CoH_tweet) December 20, 2021

right. so:

short sketches = bandcamp download : https://coh-official.bandcamp.com/album/kam1e-07

full album = CD : https://soisong.greedbag.com/buy/kam1e/

This looks, to me, extremely not worthwhile.
https://infinitefog.bandcamp.com/album/the-new-backwards-extended-edition

yep, this looks like the least essential reissue so far and will likely be the first one I don't immediately pre-order

3 X LP collectors box €135 EUR or more

just eff right off.

Coil's one of my all time favorite bands but it's weird, now that I have multiple copies of LSD and both volumes of MTPITD, in addition to all the must-have releases I already owned (Horse Rotorvator, Ape of Naples, Black Antlers, And The Ambulance, etc) I kinda think I'm finally done collecting Coil stuff? I mean, given that both Geff and Sleazy are dead and all. Unless there is some crazy revelatory archival thing left to be discovered (doubtful), I think I'm finally OK with what I have.

Pretty much we're at an end point, yeah. It's just repressings or remixes or whatever from here on in, unless more live shows (semi-)formally emerge.

same, I mean after those Threshold Archive releases there's really nothing left that I'm aware of

Live Box is still essential tho

(xp)

Winter solstice today so listening to Moon’s Milk.

Same, and also -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCa2johwTDM

I got me the reissue of MTPITD2 the other week. I'd heard it a few times before and thought it was one of their weaker albums but it's a lot better than I remember. Batwings is one of their finest achievements. Possibly top three Coil tracks material

Just listened to a bit of MTPITD2, my first Coil for quite a few years. Then I went back to Broccoli and was reminded of what I always used to think: do people really take acid/mushrooms and listen to Coil? Some of that stuff seems designed to cause a bad trip (I'm fully prepared to be 'missing the point' on this but thought I'd ask).

i feel MTPITD2 has matured with age and I like it way more now than i did when it came out.

i used to trip to Coil quite a lot, but stopped tripping a little while after "Love's Secret Domain" came out. The one that was way too much to listen to tripping was their Sickness Of Snakes side project but I really did love tripping while listening to those other early albums.

https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p221/Coil_-_Constant_Shallowness_Leads_to_Evil.html

^ the one coil thing I never liked

thighpaulsandra.co.uk : " Available now on CD, the first in a series of remastered live COIL releases and re-releases: 'Selvaggina, Go Back into the Woods' "

the new Dais remastered MTPITD2 vinyl pressing sounds fabulous btw

Thighpaulsandra has just put out a rerelease of Selvaggina, Go Back into the Woods:

https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p222/Coil_-_Selvaggina%2C_Go_Back_into_the_Woods.html#/

Of note: he says this will be "the first in a series of remastered live COIL releases and re-releases."

the new Dais remastered MTPITD2 vinyl pressing sounds fabulous btw

― thinkmanship (sleeve), Sunday, June 26, 2022 1:59 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Which color variation did you get? I ended up getting the "transparent crystal blue" or whatever they were calling it, and was pleasantly surprised by how good it sounded, given the dreaded colored vinyl

I used to think I preferred volume 1 but these days I'm leaning toward this second volume being the better of the two, though that could be because I was previously a lot more familiar with Volume 1 for many years ("Batwings" aside)

I always get black if it's an option

so this is what it feels like to be in Ned's killfile

Ha, my apologies StanM, had completely missed your post. No killfile, just me being a doof.

;-)

Constant Shallowness also on Bandcamp now - https://coilofficial.bandcamp.com/album/constant-shallowness-leads-to-evil

Heads up, another live archival release via Thighpaulsandra, free download:

https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p226/COIL_LIVE_-_Limoges_2002.html#/

Thank you!

nice!

Megalithomania reissue announced

https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p224/Megalithomania%21_-_Coil_at_Conway_Hall.html#/

so... when do we get out the "scraping the barrel" reactions? I feel like we're close

I mean, kinda makes sense to bring these CDRs back from when the band were still a going concern.

xp not this one, it's great. you wanna see scraping the barrel, check out Swanyard

this and all the live ones and ANS really do need legit reissues imo.

Isn't this the one where it sounds like Sleazy and John are breaking up onstage?

I don't think so, this is all instrumental iirc

indeed - "why are you here?" was at this show.

http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/coilcdr3.php

thought this revive was gonna be about this - http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/everything-keeps-dissolving/

^^ well that looks pretty cool

indeed - "why are you here?" was at this show.

http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/coilcdr3.php

― StanM, Sunday, August 21, 2022 5:00 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ah yes, that's what I was thinking of. Not sure how much the lore surrounding that event is accurate, or if that callout was actually meant for Sleazy or was just John doing a bit, but I just did some reading and I guess they, uh, decoupled a few days later.

And yes I will definitely be buying that book. Thank you for posting that!

Just listened to a bit of MTPITD2, my first Coil for quite a few years. Then I went back to Broccoli and was reminded of what I always used to think: do people really take acid/mushrooms and listen to Coil? Some of that stuff seems designed to cause a bad trip (I'm fully prepared to be 'missing the point' on this but thought I'd ask).

I've done it a bit. It can be overwhelming if you're not in a positive state of mind to begin with, but listening to LSD on its namesake substance is like entering a portal to another realm.

MTPITD2 might be my favorite Coil these days; I could live inside "Tiny Golden Books," dosed or not.

On psychedelics the morbid aspects of the music tend to become more amusing than disturbing, for me at least

According to this supposedly reliable website, they had already split up by the time of the Conway Hall gig:

https://live-coil-archive.com/2002-sept-oct/2002-megalithomania/

More archival stuff from Thighpaulsandra -- a rerelease of the 2000 Royal Festival Hall gig

https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p232/Coil_-_Persistence_is_all.html

Plus another free archival download: Lodz 2002

https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p230/COIL_LIVE_-_L%C3%B3dz_2002.html

thx!

Really loving the new This Immortal Coil: https://thisimmortalcoil.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-ended-a-long-time-ago

randomly decided to listen to And The Ambulance Died In His Arms again, what a fever dream