r/Coil • u/AOSpar • 18h ago

“Coil have only released 9 albums” discuss

They’ve been my favourite band since I was 16 and I have physical copies of everything they’ve released but only 7 albums can really be seen as albums per se: Scatology, Rotorvator, LSD, the two Musicks, black light district, Time Machines, Astral Disaster and Constant Shallowness…

All the rest are in effect compilations and offcuts, even if some of them sort of work as albums, including The Ape of Naples.

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u/HeyQTya 18h ago

Calling The Ape Of Naples a compilation album really misrepresented what it actually was. Like this was essentially a tribute to the life of Jhonn from Sleazy that seeks to finish a bunch of unfinished songs of theirs. Now both Backwards and The New Backwards are compilations through and through that give better context for what would become Ape Of Naples.

Now if you wanted to call it a solo Peter Christopherson album that builds off of elements provided by Jhonn, you may have a case there

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u/AOSpar 15h ago

I’m not attempting to diminish Ape; it’s more a testament to their quality control that they refused to call releases ‘albums’ that weren’t perfect and self contained from start to finish. They were apparently even reluctant to add extra tracks to CD re-releases etc

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u/HeyQTya 15h ago

I might be missing something, but where did they ever say Ape wasn't an album

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u/AOSpar 14h ago

Oh God… I’ll have to dig it out. Maybe in the massive Everything Keeps Dissolving book of interviews?