Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)

• Artist: Coil
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• Release Date: 1987
• Genre: Electronica

Review

The use of the word gold in the album title is ironic, since a collection of outtakes and leftovers is generally considered to weigh in well under the gold scale. With a group such as the evolving Coil collaboration, however, there's the chance that a well-conceived collection of archive material could have quite a positive impact, whatever the relative status of individual tracks in terms of what projects they were first created for. Rejected material can become a highlight out of a combination of whatever unusual aspects already exist in a piece as well as the dramatic impact of a newly conceived program flow. Gold Is the Metal is a great example of this since the individual tracks continually present challenges to the listener combined with a sonic magnetism. Pieces seem kooky, out of shape, or severe, but no desire to skip any of the offerings results. In contrast the music is consistently engaging, the performers projecting a kind of lust for gorgeously sound-packed tracks as well as moments of eccentric distraction. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
The Last Rites of Spring		Coil
Paradisiac		Coil
Thump		Coil
For Us They Will		Coil
The Broken Wheel		Coil
Boy in a Suitcase		Coil
Golden Hole		Coil
Cardinal Points		Coil
Red Slur		Coil
...of Free Enterprise		Coil
Aqua Regalia		Coil
Metal in the Head		Coil
Either His, or Yours		Coil
Chickenskin		Coil
Soundtrap		Coil
Hellraiser		Coil
The Wheel	John Balance, Peter Christopherson	Coil
The First Five Minutes After Violent Death		Coil

Credits

Coil (Main Performer), John Balance (Artwork), John Balance (Group Member), Peter Christopherson (Artwork), Peter Christopherson (Group Member), Otto Avery (Group Member), Stephen Thrower (Group Member)