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KharBevNor:
Plz.

If you don't know who Coil are, you suck. Here is a fairly random selection of songs by Coil, if you still do not like them you suck more.

Disco Hospital
The First Five Minutes After Violent Death+The Golden Section
Love's Secret Domain
The Anal Staircase
Windowpane
Teenage Lightning
Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night
The Original Wild Garlic Memory
Sex with Sun Ra
Fire of the Mind


Ok so. Horse Rotorvator or Love's Secret Domain?

KvP:
That's a tough call, but I generally like Coil's flirtations with acid house so I'm going with Love's Secret Domain.

I honestly don't listen much to Coil's early discography as much as I probably should. I always gravitate towards quieter, late-period stuff. I don't think Peter Christopherson really hit his stride as a producer until the Solstice / Equinox EPs.

For anyone curious I'd say the best place to start is the (unofficial?) career retrospective A Golden Hair With a Voice of Silver, which nicely demarcates late- and early-period Coil. I put up all the Coil that I enjoy (plus a Thighpaulsandra solo album and Sleazy's solo work as Threshold Houseboys Choir) up on my old blog.

KharBevNor:
It was an official (though limited run, in the original form of the split album anyway) compilation, designed to commemorate Coil's first live performance in Russia. As is the way with Russia, it was bootlegged beyond belief.

Talking of related projects, what about the Coil side-projects. I really like Black Light District, but I have never really got in to ElpH so much: I can see why the decision was made not to put that material out under the Coil banner.

KvP:
When I torrented the (more or less) entire Coil discography there wasn't a lot of division between the primary and secondary acts, so I'm not as familiar with side projects, aside from various collaborations with pre-existing artists (Nurse With Wound, Current 93, etc). I like Queens of the Circulating Library and Constant Shallowness Leads to Evil, and the former is essentially a side-project as it's the only Coil release not to include input from Sleazy.

Alex C:
LSD.

Horse Rotorvator is impressive as hell, but windowpane is a pantheon "Let's get really high and just drive around the midwest for hours at a time with this thing looped" song. It's almost kinda funky, which gives it a bit of a visceral quality without being as outright creepy as the stuff on Horse Rotorvator.

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