Coil - At The Heart Of It All

[MissAutechre]

Beautiful...... just....... beautiful...... R.I.P John and Sleazy you will always be in out hearts.

[PSoundIndustry]

Pure beauty and one of my inspirators for PSI....

[QuanPete]

Coil live was Excellent, So handsome too.

Love my UK Lads, if you like this, try to listen to Diamanda Galas' Plague Mass, another great live performance - I even checked out of a HsptL just to be there, plus to get my 15 mins w My Diva Ms. Galas. Enjoy boys!

QP

[fsmorel123]

ignorance is bliss........ it wasn't until i went through some serious emotional highs and low's that i could really "get" coil

[DominionDayME]

i feel like vincent price is going to pop up at any moment....i feel like im in a vincent price movie....price being the reincarnation of edgar alan poe! mxxy

[heinrichkleist3473]

This is so INTENSE! Totally reminds me of that realm beyond terror - despair.

[AOCRkid]

BOOOOOOOOOORINNNNNNNG

[QuanPete]

Just love me some Coil.

#QueersDoItBetter !!!

QP

[wilderness1988]

one of the saddest tracks ever recorded

[Pedossaurus]

Deep, deep, deep! ...and intense! One of my favorites.

I wish I had bought 'Scatology' in the 80's :(

[Xx14HeavyNormalxX]

This is incredible!

[M0SSl]

@Xx14HeavyNormalxX

Yeah)

[QuanPete]

Beautiful.

QP

[Beelzebubbbbles]

"To me, fair Friend, you never can be old,

For as you were when first your eye I eyed

Such seems your beauty still. Three winters' cold

Have from the forests shook three summers' pride;

Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd 

In process of the seasons have I seen,

Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,

Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green."

[Beelzebubbbbles]

Is that Dame Judy Dench reading the sonnet by Shakespeare at the end?

[xmfdibujito]

The important thing for me is: this is your life, live it, probably there's no other kind of existence, dont waste it thinking in the future (next year, heaven, etc)

[MrMushroom123]

@xmfdibujito many people seek knowledge for things that are inexplicable and omnipresent, thats what gives them contentment in life. you cant blame someone for his philosophical interest. afterall, curiosity is what makes us human.

[xmfdibujito]

@MrMushroom123 yes, I know it pretty well. But I think that most part of the searching is because the overwhelming fear they/we feel. Is not like the curiosity that leads to art, science... The 9th symphony or a space rocket is the invention of a great mind, god is the invention of a fearful mind. Thats what I think, I dont blame others.

[MrMushroom123]

@xmfdibujito i totally understand your viewpoints. too much doubt and questioning things, can lead to a stressful and unfulfilled life. its easy to lose yourself when you cant distinguish right from wrong anymore. so i get what you mean.

[marancara]

Sooooo severe. Love Coil! Love!

[ilcylic]

Don't be a Negatron, be an Optimist Prime!

[Jairuin1]

sooo good

[street666cleaner]

this piece makes me so anxious

[uuFabio]

@Schaard Lets be honest nobody really knows the answer to that but one view is deemed as optimistic, the other pessimistic. If you whole-heartedly believe in the silent void then perhaps where you'll end up.... me personally; i'm off to explore the eternal oceans after this ;)

[lampreyboy]

How I miss you guys

[betgovrin]

wow!!! i think i'm lost...................

[curiosofsigns]

ft's a nice sound for sure.

But I'm never particularly affected by the music in that deep existential sense Coil fans talk about. This might be heretical but doesn't anybody else see the camp side of this music? I can't help but think about Vincent Price and Christopher Leigh in Hammer Horror films. But then, maybe I've post-ironied myself to death

[Grandman48]

I couldn't agree more with you Schaard! You are absolutely (and what is more: precisely) right in your interpretation of Coil's music.

[Wolfgangfm]

The Epilog is by William Shakespeare - Sonnet 104. This is the original version of the Sonnet, which was written about 1599.

[Marie0Felicite]

I want to thank a friend for introducing me to this beautiful music....

such an exquisite song..

[fashionista16]

God this is so beautiful.

[millydom23]

who wrote this piece if lit? an ex told me it was shakespeares sonnet 105 but she was full of shit...anyway ,beautifull.

[FullMetalllll]

@millydom23 sonnet 104

[TheAnalStaircase]

R.I.P. Coil. Yet I still hope that someone (Thighpaulsandra, Simon, Stephen or Massimo & Pierce???) has all the tons of unreleased material Coil had - Album with William S. Burroughs. Album with Diamanda Gallas. Proper release nof their two soundtracks "A Gay Man's Guide" and "Sarah Dale's Sensuous Massage". Coil's Live At Bar Maldoror? An EP with Terence McKenna. And I am sure nthere is much more unreleased and even more unfinished recordings... I hope once it will see the light of the day.

[niggative]

@TheAnalStaircase,

McKenna, Burroughs. Fuck me they were just so up to expanding "on the personal level"

[Raskoilniki]

OMG! I had no idea Sleazy died :(

Fucking geniuses...and we are forever robbed of some of the most beautiful, haunting, terrifying music ever.

[Senban9]

@Raskoilniki It's OK, luckily someone recorded a whole bunch of the stuff.

[LaMesdeMuerte]

Perfect bso for saló... Miss coil.

[cofpaddy]

One of the collaborators and inspiration to Nine Inch Nails and How To Destroy Angels, love Coil <3

[stickmanbeer]

This is beautiful... coil... jarman... whatever you think of them , it is their great beautiful moment

[kriz716]

I'm not familiar with coil, At the start of the video i thought it was Larry Mullen jr fanning himself. Great track reminds me a little of Eno. They've got some great sounds perhaps they weren't as good at putting them together as more successful artists?

[rhritz]

@kriz716 I think they were very successful and influential. And while I like Eno's music very much, ambient and rock too, his works are so much more limited and less intense than some of the works of Coil. Try it and you may be very pleasantly surprised.

[sweeterthananything]

this "video" is actually the final scene of Derek Jarman's "The Angelic Conversation." such a devastingly beautiful conclusion to a stunning film.

[mzfiguer]

these flowers keep reappearing in coil videos? anybody know how they are called?

[cytuber]

@mzfiguer Do you mean the lotus flowers on the pond? If so, it's a Buddhist symbol (I know Sleazy was Buddhist) and it symbolises the opening of the soul -- the lotus grows out of the mud and opens to the light.

[jmavroidis]

r.i.p

[L33TSP34KL0L]

R.I.P Sleazy and Jhonn. Now both are in the afterlife, probably working on the new Coil record that we will all hear after we die.

[Schaard]

@L33TSP34KL0L The regularity with which this otherworldly nonsense ("Sleazy and Jhonn are waiting for us in Heaven, guys!") is posted on Coil's videos amazes me. Have you ever actually listened to Coil? Have you not heard the unthinkable oblivion of death that awaits us all? Human existence is an accidental catastrophe that ends in silence. The beauty of Coil's music is how they enlist accident, chaos, and even silence in a symphonic conspiracy that exposes us to the gaping maw of the void.

[FractalBolt]

@Schaard Jesus, shut up. You're as annoying as those idiots.

[octagon79]

@Schaard stfu you walking stereotype

[alchemye]

@Schaard

you are right! (woops, I just uttered a word of no existence). just to add that coil's musick may open paths to understand how in moden times otherness and chaoz may discuss their stuff. just before the edge there may be a cull to the ones that exist in us, the Others in many many respects, that we shoudl call upon and dicuss with. just to cal them after their names, that could free us from many restrictions. this is a hard deed for They are strong, at least as strong as our fears are.

[onegirlbanned]

@Schaard I think I love you.

[iseedrones]

@Schaard Coil is chaos, you're defining what happens after death, who the fuck are you to define something like that? Coil does not need answers (and if it does, then answers come in dreams).

[astroboomboy]

@Schaard People will always misread what is out of their reach to understand. Most people want their own ideas fed back to them in a loop (and I guess this applies to me too)...

[sot6699]

@Schaard even so, one can still can listen to imaginary music from the imaginary afterlife, that has nothin to do with coil

[err0r]

@Schaard Thanks for speaking some much needed sense.

[octagon79]

@Schaard "Death Is Not The End" - Sleazy. So just shut the fuck up leetgeek

[octagon79]

@Schaard Sleazy himself said "death is not the end" and had more a of an occult and 'otherworldly' leaning, an actual Coil fan would know this. There are videos of him speaking here on youtube where he says as much. So yeah, fuck you.

[forbes923]

@Schaard "Have you not heard the unthinkable oblivion of death that awaits us all? Human existence is an accidental catastrophe that ends in silence." you wrote.

Death ist not the end. There will be silence, but there will also be light. Life has no end, this existence (incarnation) is not all - there is so much more!

This catastrophe (if you will call it so) is also a chance. 

[Absinthus]

@L33TSP34KL0L Hehe, i can barely wait.

[dubwanker]

rip Sleazy

[inviableuniorn]

goodbye sweet loves. no more sad songs for you.

[ErraticDisco]

RIP 'Sleazy' & John. Now both gone. Tragic.

[SullenMorbius]

Currently, my fave Coil song.

[kassylion]

Totally amazing act. Love the depth and mood to their sound. Reminds me of all the great dark music that have had the pleasure of listening too. Nine, Gary Numan, Massive Attack, Portishead, Depeche Mode, Ministry, Unkle, Trobbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Front line Assembly, Vex Red, AllFlaws

[metalgearcolin75]

Sounds like something Valve would put in one of their games. Two tumbs up!

[slawods]

моя любимая вещь!!!!!......на все времена.....от души благодарен всем проголосовавшим "за"

[lemonita]

What's the movie abstracts from?

[rhritz]

@lemonita Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversation. Coil did a whole soundtrack for that movie.

[psychicdrill]

This is amazing! Can anyone please tell me on what album is this?

[Wolfgangfm]

@psychicdrill "At the Heart of it All" is taken from Coils' fisrt Album "Scatology" from 1984.... EPIC

[Wolfgangfm]

Jhonn Balance died on 13 November 2004 after having fallen from a second floor landing in his home...... again, alcohol did a bad job.

[MBratifisch1]

@psychicdrill - It's the third track on the first Coil album, Scatology.

[MBratifisch1]

@psychicdrill - It's the third track on the first Coil album, Scatology.

[UnitedDiscord]

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that John Balance died from falling?

[phospheratu]

@UnitedDiscord

i have been meaning to create a piece of art called "loss of balance", with jhonn about to fall off a balcony. heh

[LestatHalloween]

@UnitedDiscord I got the irony from your comment :) took me a while to get it tho.

[UnitedDiscord]

@LestatHalloween Hey, at least you got it, right? :D

[rxshea]

@UnitedDiscord falls are the second leading cause of traumatic death behind car crashes. if you don't die from cancer, heart disease, stroke, lower respiratory disease, car crash or poisoning, you'll die from a fall before anything else.

[gabrielapetrie]

Since I've seen it I've wondered what the vid is about. It came to mind later, when reading "The Confessions..." & strikes me as the indecisiveness of "East meets West" to a sort of Westerner, or the willpower of a figure like Alan Bennett, seemingly indecisive yet instrumental. Paired with the music, which is like hopelessness instrumentalised, it seems just to be a glimpse into the ultimate impenetrability of the internal experience.

[ekhighvoltage]

Google Coil, there you will find what you are looking for.

[sMoKEy131]

Rest in Peace Jhon Balance

[BobForehead]

knew thur Coil would find it's way to yer eventual like.... oi yah, look for "Teenage Lightening (Instrumental)"

[rxshea]

i have listened to this album thousands of times.

[rxshea]

coil were so bad ass.

[WahkibaJ]

@rxshea GAy ass u mean lol

[rxshea]

@WahkibaJ seriousy, did you just criticize coil by calling them gay? their music was mostly sigils to cultivate male energy. to call coil gay is like calling sugar sweet. i hate sugar, it's so sweet.

[WahkibaJ]

@rxshea LoL, no i didnt criticized them at all i love them but that doesnt change the fact that they " cultivated male energy" together all at the same time....... in the nude LMFAO

[peddleandcrank]

@rxshea ive never read such rubbish,save it for glee club you muppet.by the way are you taking what the coil fools are?

[MeekDrill]

Haunting

[Pedossaurus]

I still have an old tape with this song as well other tracks from 'The Gold Is the Metal' and they are so corrupted due to intense abuse... This is deep, very deep!

[cromlek]

so good.

[italys0]

I believe the monologue excerpt is from a derek jarman film, not exactly sure though...

[acca007]

@italys0

Yep, I think it might be the "Angelic Conversation". :)

[sparkydeltorro]

wow i have to say, i'm really knew to this. I knew the NIN version (who i love) but, i expected a really harsh sound. Instead it's eerie, but utterly soothing. Absolutely amazing.

[sparkydeltorro]

"new to this" sorry.

[err0r]

NIN did not cover this song, the title was merely pinched for the 'further down the spiral' release. Come on, do you really hear any similarity between these two songs?

[DeadPixel2009]

actually it was done by Aphex Twin and was probably a tribute to coil. One of my favorite tracks on that album

[chupaalylman]

yes. some of brass parts has been stretched and pitched down, try to hear it.

[rxshea]

the NIN version is actually a completely different song and it's by Aphex Twin, released on a NIN remix album. but at least we are all listening to good musick. now get musick to play in the dark.

[shadowkunt]

is this a totally original song by coil or is it based or sampled from another song?

[DaruStyx]

@shadowkunt

original Coil from the album Scatology

[shadowkunt]

Yep I know that obviously. Question still stands...

[kanijokachondo]

Powerful - Deep - Lovely = Poetry

[ubbuu]

thanks could you upload more from the angelic conversation

[zpoyly]

where do i get it, rohypnol is still available in drug stores here in mexico, can you give me some valuable info to where can i find HALDOL. gracias.

[asfyxi]

hahaha Smart takling about drugs on a public site you tit!

[zpoyly]

so....

[nightpowder]

the video comes from the angelic conversation by derek jarman, i adore the videoclip and the music

[Astonish666]

so I take it the nin remix with aphex twin is originally based off this track?

[stlkr]

aye!

[chemicalmarch2]

doubtful

[comfeefort]

f-ing beautifull..!!!!

[jwihde]

This looks like it's shot on super 8. It looks like a memory of a dream. I love that feel.

[zorrodebianco]

There was beautiful work with the COIL.

They got tuned to each other very gently.

[trollmaster02235]

This video is from the Derek Jerman movie ? I know the music is, but I wonder about the video. There's no video for the original track ?

[luhashe]

this is from the angelic conversation by derek jarman.

[MagnitudePerson]

NIOOIIIOCE NOICE NICE !!!

[zpoyly]

ROHYPNOL + COIL = THE BEST

[MagnitudePerson]

I concur

[atzenanu]

Try Haldol;)

[MipKouta]

Beautiful music.

[zpoyly]

loves secret domain is way ahead of its time i thik came out in 89? help me out

[fireshred]

91 actually. i have a copy of it on cd i may be willing to sell. though the album cover has about a half an inch corner cut off of it (was like that when i bought it...) also may have a few scratches tho plays fine.... aye... also have number 1000 or so of black light district.... coil is so amazing, they got me through my late teens early 20s vagabonding..... hahahha

[Trgr66]

Is it really a fact that the coil catalouge is nearly sold out? Im sarhing for 'Black Antlers' and 'Remote Wiewer' and have had no luck so far. Im really happy had had the honour to see Coil, in Oslo(!) . The Key To Joy Is Disobidiensce i think that tour was called. In 2004 or 2005, sorry for my miserable memory.

Anyway, i'll continue my search. Goodbye.

[NJD1967]

All of Coil's output is difficult to obtain.I recently purchased TheNewBackwards via Amazon for £12 but see its now £25+!.The musicians do not benefit from rip off prices&limited availability-only unscrupulous dealers-HorseRotorvator(which I foolishly gave away!)-original CD issue from 1995-now priced in excess of £50-the reissue from 2003-£140-for used copies!!!

Perhaps an independant label will recognise the demand for Coil material & re-release all whole back catalogue-heres hoping!!!

[Trgr66]

Wow! thats something my good man. Yes, lets hope f eks p.christopherson can re-release them....

[pinhead77123]

whats up with this freakness?

[fenceclimber]

It's from Derek Jarman's The Angelic Conversation. Coil provided the soundtrack some of which was released as How To Destroy Angels. This however appeared on Scatology.

[4lrAm]

"...hear this, thou age unbred;

Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead"

[luhashe]

hmm.. but in the sctatology album and in the guide one are songs without speaking verse.

where can I find it?

[luhashe]

hmm I see it's from movie!

[FullMetalllll]

If anyone is interested the ending is Shakespeare`s sonnet 104

[yeahwhatever666]

Thanks for the hint. Love it

[DormirinDementia]

What a great song. This has a strong introspective quality. I decided yesterday that I was going to buy The Ape of Naples from amazon, but when I got there, I was looking at a 60+ dollar order. That's fucking ridiculous. Anyone know where I can get it for cheaper?

[cromlek]

its worth it!!!

almost all coil is incredibly hard to get hold of without illegally downloading

and why rip off such amazing artists?

if you find sleazy's site

from there you get get hold of stuff

its deep and underground and u must search hard...

good luck

[WCarnation]

I dunno man

Jhons dead, the band is dead

most of the high prices are given by resellers

Who is really profiting?

[filterizvr]

RIP John...

[guiding3your3abyss]

...how did he die..?

[dastree]

fell from his balcony, drunk, landed on his head. he is missed! "93 do as thou will"

[KeithMoonLives4Ever]

I remember the times when i was into coil in the late 80's and trying to get my head around things in my life . and at many a time i found myself ever so unable to do so . i remember listening to the album this track is originally on 'scatology' and trying to end my life , spending hours on end , fantasizing , days on end on how to end my life .... fucked up times they where .

[TheMidimid]

@KeithMoonLives4Ever o0

[Vagoo77]

Why would anybody compare NIN to Coil, they don't even sound alike, not counting the remixes they did.

[karinabitch777]

This is so sensual and sublime at the same time.......

[aaron3009]

Kooky

[the6sin6boy6]

this is my soul

[raindog951]

Great track. This tune has been stuck in my head for weeks now for some reason, and now I've found a video to go with it!

[Dracko55]

I live in a crazy world where I can enjoy both NIN and Coil at the same time!

It's easy, if you try!

[the6sin6boy6]

NIN, COIL, THROBBING GRISTLE, SKINNY PUPPY, KMFDM the best!!!

[ThePoisonDoor]

Great ambient track - they are amazing

[lovecraft4780]

If NIN is a firecracker, Coil is an nuclear bomb.

[RomZomCom]

You're an idiot, aren't you? It's Aphex Twin who did the track, and you obviously didn't hear it.

[DissentDispute]

Music shan't tolerate your apples and oranges philosophy!!

[ThePoisonDoor]

Coil really are amazing guys!

[saldekcn]

Is this an excerpt from Derek Jarman's film "the angelic conversation"?

[JML1970]

Yes. Coil created the soundtrack.

[no1rockfan]

I question these previous comparisons between NIN and Coil. They have little in common.

Coil is an extension of the Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV origins of industrial, while NIN takes more from the Richard Kirk/Kraftwerk schools of influence.

Peter (Sleazy) and Johnn are on a while different plane. Peace and Absinthe for Sleazy and Thigpaulsandra , and a toast to the moon in memory of Johnn.

[RomZomCom]

Technically, it wasn't Trent Renzor who did the NIN version - his friend, Richard D. James, alias Aphex Twin, composed the version you hear on the album.

[XxMetalManxX]

@no1rockfan well i don't know if you've heard the fragile or the whole ghosts collection by nine inch nails. it had alot of dark ambient type of influence in it- nine inch nails can't really be categorized lol. remember that trent was influenced by early industrial roots as well as synth pop. it wound up to be nine inch nails. sometimes the early industrial/dark ambient roots come out.

[jpom29]

Sheer brilliance from the masters. RIP Jhonn.

[spartan1010101]

ooh give up with the pretentious attitude; don't like NIN, leave it alone. do you think with coil working on the same god damn album with a song of the same name as their own they'd piss and moan if it was worth it.

PS: I like how everyone likes using the term "ripping off"; its called "influence", or even more so "like-mindedness", but god Trent must bee too dimwitted to possibly understand coil like you folk do.

[GlowStormLion]

A-FUCKING-MEN!!! :) thank you for saying what i've been thinking for YEARS despite social pressures

[stattick1]

Coil remixed a bunch of NIN songs and was on reznor's Nothing label for a long spell, though nothing materialized. Just sayin'. And also: who CARES?

[hamfist13]

I will quantify my last comment,John(JHONN) is a cousin of mine- so I feel somewhat protective, all of his & Sleazy's work is incomparable. R.I.P John In dreams I walk with you XXIII