Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) was the third album released by Coil in the year 1987

Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders) was the third album released by Coil in the year 1987. It is not a proper follow-up to 1986's Horse Rotorvator, but more a collection of outtakes and demos from the Scatology, Horse Rotorvator and Hellraiser soundtrack sessions Of Free Enterprise" to "Herald", et., while others ("Boy In a Suitcase") do not appear anywhere else

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Recorded By, Mixed By – Coil, Jim Thirlwell. Limited to 500 copies. The first press has 2 second gaps between tracks and different CD image. Both presses have the tracks are improperly indexed as "The Wheal" start 2:43 intro track 16 and ends 58 second into track 17, where "The First Five Minutes After Violent Death" starts. Matrix, Runout: ARSN 228017.

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Tracklist: 1. The Last Rites Of Spring, 2. Paradisiac, 3. Thump, 4. For Us They Will, 5. The Broken Wheel, 6. Boy In A Suitcase, 7. Golden Hole, 8. Cardinal Points, 9. Red Slur, 1. Of Free Enterprise, 11. Aqua Regalia, 12. Metal In The Head, 13. Either His Or Yours, 14. Chickenskin, 15. Soundtrap, 16. The First Five Minutes After Violent Death. 1. The Last Rites Of Spring. 6. Boy In A Suitcase.

The album opens with "The Last Rites of Spring" and ends with "The First Five Minutes of Violent Death". The former sounds like the dark forces are banging on the door, forcing it open to run manically around screaming and chanting. The later is about the most resigned sounding Coil track, the corpse being well and truly gutted. In between we have premium late 80's Coil, that combines a flair for esoteric melody with chaotic noise and seemingly random samples. Sometimes abbreviated as GITMWTBS (more often shortened to Gold Is The Metal), this is a "stop-gap and breathing space" between proper albums, which is noticeable as it doesn't have the obvious unity that Scatology and Horse Rotorvator have. It features unreleased tracks from the Horse Rotorvator era, including alternate versions and unreleased tracks.

It's far weirder than both Scatology and Horse Rotorvator and more instrumental as well (only 2 songs on the entire album have consistent lyrics. The tracks with the string sections were really pretty as well. Would recommend, but only after someone had checked Horse Rotorvator first.

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.

Album Gold Is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders). For Us They Will Lyrics.