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Music CD - Coil: Gold Is The Metal
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Music CD: Gold Is The Metal
Artist: Coil
List Price: $33.49
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Manufacturer: World
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1. Last Rites of Spring
2. Paradisiac
3. Thump
4. For Us They Will
5. The Broken Wheel
6. Boy in a Suitcase
7. Golden Hole
8. Cardinal Points
9. Red Slur
10. ...Of Free Enterprise
11. Aqua Regalia
12. Metal in the Head
13. Either His or Yours
14. Chickenskin
15. Soundtrap
16. The First Five Minutes After Violent Death
17. Wheel
18. First Five Minutes After Violent Death
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5021958456027
Format: Import
Label: World
Manufacturer: World
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: World
Release Date: 1996-11-21
Studio: World
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Summary: Gold is the Metal WITH THE BROADEST SHOULDERS
Comment: ... Is the true title of this masterpiece. Coil, John Balance & Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson. Sleazy cut his chops as the unlikely quartet, Throbbing Gristle. This lovely little release represents Coil items from the "cutting room floor" so to speak. Technically it is stunning. Mostly instrumental, but with a few sung songs such as the lovely little ditty "Boy in a suitcase". Any song that ends with "get off me you fag, NO!" hits a soft spot in any old pederast's heart. I first purchased this disc at Rhino Records in Clairmont Ca. in 1987. But unfortunately during a heroin run a few years later I sold it for pennies on the dollar to support my habit. I regretted that choice for years as it became very hard to find again. Fortunately it was re-released in 96. The music on this disc continues Coil's Gothic Industrial Sound as was found on their "Horse Rotovator and Scatology" albums. Electronics, Noise, and well sampled orchestrial insturments combine into a Grand Classical Sound that would have made Wagner proud. This musical offering makes me pround to be a sodomite. This disc at high volume is also pretty good at removing unwanted house guests(But I would recommend something by NON or WHitehouse for that purpose). I am an "old skool" fan of Industrial Musics. I consider TG, Coil, Current 93, & Nurse With Wound to be the founding members of this genre. Coil is one of the pillars that represents the start of this movement, and Gold is the Metal with the Broadest Shoulders is one of their best works.
Molman,
Productions of Time Radio,
www.productionsoftimeradio.com
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Summary: 'Excuse me?' or 'What is that Sound and why am I tied up?'
Comment: This album doesn't make much sense.
Coil are incredible musicians/soundscape artists/those who screw with headmeats, but the flow of this accentuates the disjointed and unfinished nature of all of the 'songs', and it can be less than pleasant. The whole album feels like a found-object art project, really, and while I like it, it's not up to their usual standards.
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Summary: Orchestrated Beyond Known Boundaries
Comment: Of all the Coil CDs so aristicly cocieved and constructed, this one just scratches me where I itch. It is so many things and none. It is ethereal, dark, raw, complex, simple, evolving, dilluded, and imaginative all at once. These are more than songs, they are soundscapes which can lead you so effortlessly, mold and shape what you hear/feel, and bring you full circle. Coil are simply music geniuses whose sound always stays fresh throughout several generations. "Thump" is quite beautiful in taking sounds from a Thai boxing ring and overlapping them with a rhythmic synthesized verse/beat. "For Us They Will" is exquisitely dark - very ominous lyrics, and oppresively, unpredictable echoing beats. "The Broken Wheel" is my favorite here, because it starts out with a very unpredictable sample- (lyrics: "one, two, three, four"- followed by a short explosion of the sampled beats, then a long pause and repeat) This creates a very spontaneous sound, and when it leads to the full sample, you hear a sample of rapid-fire beats and pyrotechnic guitar that astounds. "Cardinal Points" is a blissful soundscape that has a classical asthetic to it, with angelicly high voices and deep baratones that crescendo together very hauntingly. "Aqua Regalia" is an eerie death march for the soul. "Chickenskin" is another favorite that takes simple rythms and sounds and builds upon them by overlapping, tweaking, and fluctuating them and creates a cacophonic wall of sound. "Hellraiser", as you might have guessed, was used in the Hellraiser films for its superbly haunting drone and spine-tingling tinker toy effects. This is a must have album for anyone who likes Coil, and an essential goth/industrial classic. (I reccomend starting with "Musick to Play in the Dark 1,or 2"; "Love's Secret Domain" ; or "Horse Rotorvator" - Be patient with this music, and it will be worthwile.
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Summary: It's not a dance album,unless your music dances in your head
Comment: For many consumers, "Gold is the Metal With The Broadest Shoulders" won't be easy to digest, if you swear by Coil's "Love's Secret Domain". However, for myself, this album was very easy to digest (in which I do consume this album quite often). I would also call this particular re-release refreshing. As you would expect it, Coil makes repetition interesting and unpredictable, as in "The Broken Wheel" and "The Wheal" (1,2,3,4,...1,2,3,4,....). "Red Flux's" grazing hypnotic beat, structured noise from the beginning to end. "Either His, or Yours", the music is definately on a mission, just where is it going and what story does it have to tell? I couldn't name any favorites, but I do recommend the entire album. My God, Hellraiser - a good song, a great cult movie classic. Gold is Metal - another masterpiece, unadulterated and re-released.
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Summary: Not a very good album
Comment: The only tracks I like on this album are Chickenskin and Soundtrap, those don't justify a purchase.
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Editorial Reviews:
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1996 reissue of their long deleted classic 1988 album with anew eight page full color booklet, a two sided insert &clear inner tray. All 18 tracks are in their original formand have not been remastered or remixed for this vitalre-release. Features 'Chicke
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