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Let's talk about Coil
Hairy Joe Bob:
While I dearly love the solar music (I'm currently listening to Love's Secret Domain quite a lot - Chaostrophy is fantastic!) I have a closer affinity with their moon music. Musick to Play in the Dark is phenomenal.
My girlfriend is very lucky to have seen them live twice before John passed away and I'll always be upset I never got to see them. Coil live is such a different beast but hopefully one day I'll be able to afford this.
Also, I think you missed possibly their most moving song in that list:
Going Up
Alex C:
I probably listen to Music to Play in the Dark vol. 1 as background music more often than anything else they've done. I like my music a touch icy and sleek (probably why I took to ital tek so quickly once KvP's last mix introduced me to it-- predictable, since Red Birds is a huge favorite of mine) but I have a short attention span, so that album represents almost precisely how slow building music can be before it starts to lose me.
KharBevNor:
My favourite Coil fact (quote from Wikipedia):
"A music video for the song "Love's Secret Domain" was also shot and is currently unreleased and unaired due to its nature: as Christopherson explained, "We shot 'Love's Secret Domain' in a go-go boy bar in Bangkok; with John [Balance] performing on stage with about 20 or 30 dancing boys, which probably won't get played on MTV, in fact!""
Coil actually made a music video so homoerotic that they thought it would be a bad idea to release it.
I will explain to those less familiar with Coil that Coil is possibly one of the most fantastically queer musical acts ever to have graced the earth with their presence.
KvP:
They were tight with with Derek Jarman (made some fantastic soundtracks for him) and claimed that their photo of a pierced / tattooed penis inspired Hellraiser, which is probably true. William S. Burroughs once tried to cruise Peter but was turned down. Peter now lives and makes music in Thailand as the Threshold Houseboys Choir, and often appears in photos with teenage boys. They don't call him Sleazy for nothing.
Alex C:
I never really knew for sure since I know fuck all about the musical groups I listen to, but I kinda assumed they were gay because it's industrial music and sometimes thighpaulsandra is involved. Such criteria has yet to steer me wrong.
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