Yeah for a situation where it seems there's no coordination it generally worked out pretty well.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
And yet another "official re-release" on the way:
https://www.oldeuropacafe.com/catalog/category/black-antlers-re-edition-.html
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Tuesday, 4 June 2019 07:09 (four years ago) link
So strange to re-read this thread after all these years. The "little one" I mention in my posts is now a 15-year-old about to finish her freshman year of high school. Time flies.
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 4 June 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
Coil live 6th April 2003 – All Tomorrow’s Parties – Camber Sands, UKFound in a box of old DV tapes, here's a video that Sleazy gave me permission to film from the side of the stage during their performance at ATP. Edit/sync by Mika Hallbäck Vuorenpää. https://t.co/XOb08UPVkA pic.twitter.com/63EjnxpaID— Surgeon (@Tony_Surgeon) June 6, 2019
― toby, Friday, 7 June 2019 08:07 (four years ago) link
Thanks!
― StanM, Friday, 7 June 2019 08:38 (four years ago) link
cool, two days after "...And The Ambulance Died In His Arms"
in other news, Swanyard has some high points but a LOT of track duplication. Disappointing overall, and probably should have been a single CD, but hey why not release everything even if it's multiple versions (some tracks are repeated three times).
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Friday, 7 June 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
"No really, THIS one is the variant!"
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
Oh cool, I was at that ATP performance. I mostly remember Balance repeatedly asking them to turn the volume up.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 7 June 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
I was at that ATP and saw that performance. I had no idea who Coil were at the time and couldn't decide if I was meant to find it funny or not.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 7 June 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
I had somehow missed that there are two competing versions of the Black Light District reissue, the Infinite Fog version has a bonus track but the Dais version supposedly has better sound.
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
Thighpaulsandra has made another live show available, Copenhagen 2002 -- supposedly digital only, free download:
https://www.thighpaulsandra.co.uk/store/p199/COIL_LIVE_-_Copenhagen_2002.html
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 July 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
reissue of stolen and contaminated songs might have solved the problem of which coil record to get on lp for me - horse rotovator is just way too expensive
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 04:35 (four years ago) link
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 04:36 (four years ago) link
please allow me to say that one more time
stolen and contaminated songs is up there with their best. superior to LSD imo. my cd had disc rot so super happy to have it on vinyl now.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 12:50 (four years ago) link
As usual with these reissues the most pressing question for me is who, if anyone, authorized it and who stands to benefit financially.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
i presume danny hyde is authorising it though of course it is debateable whether he is morally able to do that. there is nobody / nothing to stop him though.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 13:25 (four years ago) link
my cd had disc rot so super happy to have it on vinyl now.
me too, although I was able to rip it without issues. and yeah, it's a great one.
current commute CD is Queens Of The Circulating Library, it's been at least 15 years since I listened to it.
― subway Stalinist (sleeve), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
same here. must dig it out.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 17:00 (four years ago) link
Another new release:
https://www.oldeuropacafe.com/catalog/category/prison-of-measured-time.html
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, 17 January 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
i think we are now fully into completely ripping the piss territory.
― stirmonster, Friday, 17 January 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
yeah Hyde could just be making "new" tracks himself at this point
this is like outtakes from Swanyard, sad lol
― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Friday, 17 January 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
tbf the Coil remix of Scorn he mentions was pretty great
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 18 January 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
The fact he refers to this music as "content" is already enough to turn stomachs.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 18 January 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
Finally getting around to hearing Stolen & Contaminated Songs and it's great (and much better than the tumbleweeds blowing through this thread would suggest). The "Love's Secret Domain" demo uses the same vocal take (at least I am 95% sure it does), and there are few vocals elsewhere (though the answering machine message on "Who'll Fall" is chilling - does anyone know whose voice that is?). I've never been 100% clear about the division of labor in Coil, though I assume it's similar to a lot of sorta He's-the-DJ-I'm-The-Rapper type duos (ie Pet Shop Boys), and that Sleazy handles the lion's share of the production work. I'm sure there are people who know how it breaks down and who does what, but this is actually the first time I've thought about it.
One other observation after one listen: I think people forget how funny Coil can be. For example, see "Wrim Wram Wrom," whose tantalizingly inscrutable title appears to be inspired not by some esoteric Gnostic evocation but by the phonetic rendering of the synth sounds used on the track! That's my take, anyway.
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 23 January 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
Yes, it is wonderful. The answering machine message on "Who'll Fall" was from a good friend of theirs but I don't think they ever revealed exactly who it was.
Sleazy was responsible for the vast majority of the production work; in the earlier days i think probably 100%. Around the LSD era Balance was perhaps a bit more involved with the production work. And yes, Coil had so much humour, something that I feel passes some of their more po faced fans by completely.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 23 January 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link
looks like they took horse rotorvator off spotify
― sleight return (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
seems dais is reissuing musick to play in the dark vol. 1
https://www.facebook.com/daisrecords/photos/a.231357123577167/3235353896510793/?type=3&app=fbl
― manuel, Saturday, 15 August 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
Makes sense since McDowell was still in the band then.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 15 August 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
nice, I would like to own a legit (well, as legit as it can get) copy of this on vinyl
― sleeve, Saturday, 15 August 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
presale starts tomorrow 7am pacific 10am eastern
― manuel, Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
Presales on the label's website, do you think? I don't use the zuckronimicon.
― grebo shot first (Noel Emits), Thursday, 20 August 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
yep I think that works
https://www.daisrecords.com/
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 August 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
Do they have a European partner to pre-order from to avoid stupid customs and postage costs?
― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Friday, 21 August 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
live now - https://www.daisrecords.com/collections/coil
― stirmonster, Friday, 21 August 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
Oh cool they're doing CDs too. Thanks.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 21 August 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
Also Norman Records
― kraudive, Friday, 21 August 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
got the black vinyl and the circle t-shirt, stoked
― sleeve, Friday, 21 August 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
The "moon" vinyl (200 copies) was sold out at 8:08
managed to get the "eclipse" version though (400 copies)
Been wanting this on vinyl for years. Very happy
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 21 August 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
wish i had known about Norman Records.
i often say i have worn out a record but in the case of this it is actually true. original copies go for crazy money but mine has been played so much it must be totally worthless now. excited to hear it without scratches.
― stirmonster, Friday, 21 August 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
With WAVs from Bleep as well.
― grebo shot first (Noel Emits), Friday, 21 August 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
yeah thanks for pointing out the norman option, kraudive!
― willem, Friday, 21 August 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
there's also this https://coilofficial.bandcamp.com/music
― StanM, Saturday, 22 August 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
"Official"
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 22 August 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
Indeed.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 22 August 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
indeed. (haha, "other messages have been posted since you last looked") I still get caught by these remaster-rereleases if/when they sound better than the originals, mostly, but it's gotta stop *some* time.
― StanM, Saturday, 22 August 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Second pressing just announced - better hurry!
https://www.daisrecords.com/collections/frontpage/products/coil-musick-to-play-in-the-dark
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 25 August 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link
And the reissues keep on coming:
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/a-guide-for-beginners-the-voice-of-silver-a-guide-for-finishers-a-hair-of-gold-csr288cd
I actually really like these compilations (I got them back in the day), they give a good overview of the band's output for those (like me) who find a whole album's worth of Coil a bit much.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 29 August 2020 10:35 (three years ago) link
dammit - well ok then, it does seem to sound a bit better too :(
― StanM, Saturday, 29 August 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
Had I missed any news about this? Thighpaulsandra is putting out a Coil book drawing on their 'art and archives':
https://www.timeless-shop.com/product/the-universe-is-a-haunted-house-coil-through-their-art-archives/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link