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
That seems exciting, if pricy
― imago, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
Also looks like Hyde has ANOTHER thing up:
https://infinitefog.bandcamp.com/album/sara-dales-sensual-massage
IFP presents a long-awaited complete version of “Sara Dale's Sensual Massage” OST with 8 exclusive and unheard tracks.Sara Dale's Sensual Massage was a delightful erotic video with a mystic soundtrack by Coil. Quite unusual for the band dreamy ambient, almost spa-relaxed soft harmonies, bland tribal rhythms, chimes, and birdsong but still with dark mysterious and inimitable Coil musick's charm.However, the second part of the album explores more rhythmic structures that remind 'Gay Man's Guide...' soundtrack.Besides the OST recordings, the edition includes bonus tracks from the "Basilisk prod.'s" era: “Theme From Blue”, and grandiose "The Hills Are Alive" so badly wanted on vinyl.
Besides the OST recordings, the edition includes bonus tracks from the "Basilisk prod.'s" era: “Theme From Blue”, and grandiose "The Hills Are Alive" so badly wanted on vinyl.
Per the notes on the Discogs page:
Complete version of Coil's OST for the erotic video “Sara Dale's Sensual Massage” including 8 previously unreleased tracks and bonus tracks from the Themes For Derek Jarman's Blue era.This material was previously partially released on Coil - The Sound Of Musick.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
And if you ever wanted to see the thing itself:
https://archive.org/details/SaraDaleSensualMassage_Film
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
"Your order (Musick to Play in the Dark Vinyl Double LP) has been dispatched"
― willem, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
got mine, wearing the T-shirt as I type this, it sounds great. flawless vinyl.
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 14:53 (three years ago) link
Exactly 10 years to the day since Peter Christopherson's death btw.
― Naughty Boys Hoo! (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
thanks for that, I guess I know what I'm listening to today
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
10 years. Oh my! Forever missed.
My MTPITD is en route and when it arrives I will try to sell my original pressings of 1 & 2. i'll be very sad to see them go but the times demand it. Eff you Covid!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
the pressing is a vast improvement over that World Serpent nonsense, FYI
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 25 November 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
good to hear.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 25 November 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
This sounds wonderful on my new vinyl. Not sure I remember those deep drones on Broccoli before. There is a quality in Coil I don't hear in other bands and I think it's probably witchcraft. I may have had a drink.
― kraudive, Friday, 27 November 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
No, it's witchcraft. ;)
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 27 November 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
anyone got a link to the original liner notes, which seem to have disappeared from the internet?
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 27 November 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
The art book just arrived and it's 1. massive + heavy 2. high quality 3. lots and lots and lots of content, some of which felt very personal (Sleazy replying to a fan letter from Geoff requesting to see a video of Sleazy getting pierced etc = I presume this would have been their very first meeting?)
― StanM, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
I put it under our tree for myself :)
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
sleeve have you actually found it in the US yet? i don't love ordering from soleilmoon
― adam, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
I got mine directly from the link above through DEPAC
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
thanks, w/ shipping works out to the soleilmoon price, perfect.
so much creepy shit to navigate with the coil reissues--cold spring is obviously run by shitty people, and infinite fog reissued tony wakeford's dorky post punk band above the ruins.
― adam, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
it all sucks but they didn't have wills so here we are
new MTPITD pressings sound great, at least
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
i'm still waiting on mine but i think the dais version of time machines sounds fucking awesome
― adam, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
sleeve: what liner notes were you looking for 2 weeks ago? MTPITD doesn't have any? (my original CD has the track titles + A Chalice Recording / Graal CD002 on the back (the word Red in red, twice), then a multicolored ring on the inner artwork with john balance, thighpaulsandra, peter christopherson, drew mcdowall around it, and that's it for notes)
― StanM, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 11:47 (three years ago) link
lyrics here http://www.brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/graal002.php?site=coil08
― StanM, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 11:49 (three years ago) link
Anyone else still waiting on their Dais order of MTPITD? I managed to snag a first edition but no sign of it yet
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
raises handConsidering trans atlantic shipping and covid19, I'm waiting patiently..
― willem, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
xps StanM it's extremely frustrating, but they did write liner notes talking about the MTPITD songs specifically, and they used to be online. They were not included in the actual release.
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
Can you remember what website they were on? maybe check archive.org?
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
90% sure they used to be on the damn Brainwashed site! SO frustrating, I remember they described "Red Birds" as "99% Thighpaulsandra" for example. Just a paragraph or two about each song.
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
check pp. 207-209 of this pdf:
http://www.barringtonarts.com/GoldenAge_Bloodsports.pdf
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
from wiki:
"Jhonn Balance originally wished to create a cohesive set of liner notes for Musick to Play in the Dark, which ended up only being published on Coil's website at the time.[4]"
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
"In them, he outlined the meanings of songs: "Are You Shivering?" refers to MDMA trips he took part in with friends, where they "would ask if each other were shivering, as pure doses can make the teeth chatter and the eyesight vibrate", "Broccoli" is "about greens and ancestor worship", and "Strange Birds", built around a found quote, refers to a period when Jhonn "regressed to BIRD MIND and only squawked and chirruped for three worrying days".[4] He stated that Coil had begun creating "lunar consciousness musick", and were "letting in things we shut out before"; "The feminine. The tidal. The cyclical."[4]"
Yeah that's how I found it :) Note 4.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
anagram that's it, thanks!
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
really wish those had been included w/ the reissue
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:54 (three years ago) link
print it off and slip it inside the, er, sleeve :)
drip some of your own blood onto it for your own personalized Coil reissue
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
ooooh, nice - thanks for the link and info
― StanM, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
what thehttps://imgur.com/a/Hg9oC7K
― StanM, Thursday, 17 December 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
https://imgur.com/a/Hg9oC7K
definitely one for the "famous people you wouldn't expect to see together" thread
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 17 December 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
wiki says she did a TV commercial for the Bristol & West Building Society that he worked on, presumably that's the connection.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Thursday, 17 December 2020 12:03 (three years ago) link
I'd guess he would have had interactions with the artists Hipgnosis worked with too? Don't know if there's any pics of him with UFO or the Scorpions or whoever though.Never realised his dad had a knighthood btw! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derman_Christopherson
― that's a hard e-no from me (Matt #2), Thursday, 17 December 2020 12:16 (three years ago) link
LSD!
https://infinitefog.bandcamp.com/album/loves-secret-domain-30th-anniversary-edition
― manuel, Saturday, 19 December 2020 04:17 (three years ago) link
was wondering when that was gonna happen
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Saturday, 19 December 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link