RU-vid does wonders - Teenage Lightning 2 was my recommendation in may of 2019, i've started to listen to them more often in january of 2020 and developed a DEEP connection with their music since then :)
The earth=heart is flat and every compass=come pass, is pointing to the holy grail! the holy of hollies! there's no way to fck this up! is either blood up or shut uP!
I once went on a date and a guy keep on turning on Coil. We were drinking red wine and eating bread, an old Christian tradition. Forever grateful to him
Disco Hospital 0:00 Teenage Lightning 1 2:18 Things Happen 4:07 The Snow 8:29 Dark River 15:10 Where Even the Darkness Is Something to See 21:40 Teenage Lightning 2 24:46 Windowpane 29:53 Further Back and Faster 36:07 Titan Arch 44:03 Chaostrophy 49:05 Lorca Not Orca 54:42 Love's Secret Domain 56:46
I am no expert on history of electronic music, but from the many pieces of music I have heard, IMHO there was no one musically, sonically better than Coil.
I found this album while randomly going through my dad's collection of music First few sounds in, I knew I'd found something awesome Coil is now one of my favorite bands.
First time I heard this album was on mushrooms. It felt like the songs were my ribcage and that voices were being spoken backwards inside the song. 11/10 would recommend.
Dark River was the first COIL song I ever heard. I had no idea who it was because it was on an anonymous mix-tape a friend made me. I was so happy when I finally picked up this CD and found it again, years later.
The best psychedelic album in human history is Derango - Tumult, and the second best psychedelic album in human history is Odd Harmonic - S.S Porta-Ambience
One of the craziest psychedelic experiences I had of my life was (while on LSD with a group of friends/bandmates) listening to Love's Secret Domain on an insanely huge Hi-Fi stereo with a giant subwoofer, while watching the (muted) art/documentary film "Koyaanisqatsi" on a large projection screen TV circa 1995.
Coil’s albums have had spotty availability on streaming services for a long time, and all their first three main studio LP’s are currently not on Spotify. All are incredible albums, and this one is the most fun, the one in which their trademark darkness is most alloyed with lightness and even humor. Underground noise meets trendy dance rhythms, futuristic sound design mixes with themes of ancient alchemy, and chaotic drug trip simulations are held inside songs that mostly feel tight and coherent. In other words Coil, like very few groups, truly made music that recognized no boundaries. As the music from their time (late 80’s to early 2000’s) gets seen more and more from a historical perspective I think the work of John Balance and Peter Christopherson will increasingly stand out from that of their peers: this is music at once of that moment (its material being mainly the era’s synths, samplers, and drum machines) and yet transcendent in its effect. Another artist that shows the same contradictory impulses both to set and break boundaries-even if the music is made on a smaller scale and under more sober conditions-is Craggs-Farallon (ru-vid.com/show-UCnHfzXZVuU769al_ccIcjRwvideos).
It's amazing hearing how much they reworked Teenage Lighting for Ape of Naples. I'm listening to their discography in sort of random order and seeing the maturity of their song writing develop is really interesting especially with several iterations of certain songs.
Many songs on ape are 90s songs christopherson reworked for it. You can hear some of them on archivals albums like "backward" and "swanyard" (available on spotify) are interesting to hear in order to understand how their sound evolved
I got this cd in 92 , Someone had ordered and didnt like it. I listened to the first song and life changed forever. I Made a Lot of copies on cassette and would listen to this on the school bus... It took me to other worlds.
Alot of there stuff has somewhat avant pop elements things happen loves secret domain windowpane the snow all have somewhat poppy styles and I guess protection is also pretty poppy so is that early version of backwards that being sinemeom
As someone else has pointed out...Loves Secret Domain is LSD...A windowpane was my first acid 'tab' in 1987...the first and probably the best acid I have had...everything now makes sense!
My friends were always into Coil since Scatology and Horse Rotorvator, when suddenly this arrived and Coil was the bridge between experimental and dance. Not anyone was disappointed and at that time people around us started doing LSD. I was one of them and the album became this adventure for everyone involved. Mysterious, Strange, but still Coil... Even made a strange artwork about a vision I had on the final track. Chaostrophy made my neighbour once crazy. What's going on in your place?
coil, despite their core having moved on, is still bringing new heads down into the righteous funk. i blast everything from this album to the 'music to play..' records to 'backwards' and 'time machines' at work all the time and quite a few folks noticed and some even get into them and start chasing down material. good music/magick will always be contagious. one of the treats of being a freak. coil unto undo. ¡THE GREAT GOD PAN IS NOT DEAD! ¡IO PAN! ¡IO PAN!
I owe this album since the early '90 and it's still #1 on my favourite albums of all time. Headphones and a dark place are very recommended! Substances on your own risk. This musick is addictive. Even today when listen to it I still hear new sound out of it. My favourite track : Further back and faster. Pure sex musick.
I have an AWESOME 12" remix of "The Snow" by Meat Beat Manifesto that I still play out at our gigs! Any club DJ's out there who play acid/techno/House should grab a copy from Discogs, as it's a killer tune.
only just a few mins in but @2:27 or near about that is pure magic transition, i wish i had composed that. a talented off beat band of geneii and creators of sound n beat.lovely samples there, coil never fail to impress me with their unique buildup of soundscape, i was taken by their 10"EP the unofficial Hellraiser theme, I cant hear their tracks often enough, and I fall in love each time with their excellence, oh help Things Happen, has blown me away the sound samples the beat is complex and solid those vocals floor almost me,speechless.reminds me of moon unit zappa, on witch arriving too late, valley girl(just a bit)
Dark River has such an intense Autechre vibe, for the longest time I actually thought that was early Autechre. The total free range in the melody that is framed by the growling but unimposing yet uber dark bassline, the heaps of negative space, the absence of clutter... Like a crushing mental image that comes rolling towards you inevitably, menacing yet not entirely unfriendly.
I remember laughing my ass off at the video for windowpane and then forgetting what it was for years. Complete coincidence I have found it again here. This is indeed a good day.
It's a bit frustrating to know that most people that listen to this are listening on cheap, crappy speakers or headphones. This album BEGS for - almost *requires* - a high-end system with a balanced subwoofer. There is so much going on in the low-end and even high frequencies. (Although, many of us folks have hoped for a remastered version for many years). Play it loud and with a sub, and center yourself. I promise, it's pure magic. Don't be alarmed -- It will not harm you. It's only lightning... teenage lightning.
Listening for the first time. I'm a huge fan of both coil and EDM. However i always dodged this album, feeling like a coil album inspired by or about EDM might just make me want to listen to EDM lol. Dunno wtf I was thinking. This album goes back and forth between being at the forefront of its time and ahead of it. This IS one of EDM history's watershed albums.
@@musicuniverse1356 True. COIL rereleased the three Was trax lps "Horse Rotorvator", "Scatalogy" & "Loves Secrets Domain" with the subtitle "Stevø, pay us what you owe us"
I couldn't get into most Coil albums for the longest time but something clicked the other day. Going through the first part of their discography these last few days and I've noticed they seem to work under no limitations. Absolutely nothing is off the table for them. It's a little daunting listening to them because their discography is so huge and varying stylistically. I originally started listening to them because I was interested in dark ambient and drone (Time Machines, How to Destroy Angels etc). If any long time fans can give me Coil recommendations for albums that lean in that direction it would be greatly appreciated.
@@elementofnaivity Also: "The Remote Viewer", Coil Presents Black Light District - "A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room", ELpH vs Coil - "Worship The Glitch", "Astral Disaster", "The Restitution Of Decayed Intelligence", "Moon's Milk (In Four Phases) Bonus Disc", "Zwolf" and for heavy drone "Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil".
'moon's milk' is damn near perfect, if it isn't. the 'queens of the circulating library'-era, if you will, has a rapturous grip on me, currently. it's all awesome, but that stuff transcends everything everywhere. wicked. CSO 15 and 16 are incredible collections, too. give your brain a good washing. no, a thorough cleansing, with COIL for good health.😃
I think this might be an attempt to sonically replicate an LSD trip. if you happen to have taken some actual LSD, give it a listen. Of course each trip is different and it depends on what you're listening to. I dunno, it's hard to find real LSD nowadays. I am satisfied with the memories of my experiences.
"Pascha" refers to one of Jewish holidays, which might have been an influence for Christian Easter i think. It's nice to see similarities in foreign languages - Babel is still within us ;)
I would like to buy Coil's CDs, but the prices are totally exaggerated. From 50 euros to 80 euros on Discogs and Ebay. They're crazy. And the band doesn't get anything out of it. Does anyone know where to buy their music at a reasonable price?
Just got this on CD for 25 bucks at a local record store here in Santiago, Chile. Guess you just gotta look for specialized weird ass music shops and pray for the best. Good luck!
@@joseharo8495there's basically no music stores In my city, let alone "weird ass" ones Only thing I was able to find that I could even think of listening to was some Metallica and areosmith CDs and vinyls, but everything else is literally trash (literally, it's all disco polo)
jungastein On their release CD,Vinyl and cassette tape were totally different mixes/versions of „Love Secret ´ s Domain“...You have to collect all versions,.Coils record release politics were truly unusual!But they still remain my most favourite band.
Stolen and Contaminated Songs was released shortly after this one, and had unused material from many of the same sessions, so maybe you heard similarities and confused the two?