Unnatural History

A superb, genuine opener to Coil's excellent series of 'Unnatural History'. Ever since their earlier inception sometime in 1982, it became a blueprint to 'expect the unexpected' (and vice-versa) for Coil continuously managed to provoke thought to impressive extremes with their concept of musical menace.While from one side we have their ultimate demonic, and angelically innocent selves on the other, Coil fractured the image of life and afterlife into a bizarre sound philosophy - very rich, very fearful and truly fascinating. When I once lent 'Unnatural History' to a friend, he responded Coil is the most necrophiliac music he's ever heard. This response was actually very funny yet the sincerity of his confusion (or fear) from the offered material seemed very real. Besides 'sound' - organized or disorganized - if you're an autosuggestion freak, then you shouldn't be bothered with this collection. Albeit facing that inner fear we're all running from for the reason society constantly manages putting into our heads is not the bad idea from liberating ourselves. Crijevo, Mar 03, 2009


Volume One

Compilation Tracks Compiled (1990)

1
Sickness Of Snakes
Various Hands (3:26)
2
Sickness Of Snakes
The Swelling Of Leeches (3:05)
3
Sickness Of Snakes
The Pope Held Upside Down (3:41)
Tracks 1-3 taken from "Nightmare Culture" 12" (1985)
4
Coil & Boyd Rice
His Body Was A Playground For The Nazi Elite (3:29)
taken from "Ohrensausen" comp. LP (1985)
5
Coil
Homage To Sewage (2:23)
taken from Life At The Top comp. LP (1984)
6
Coil
Here To Here (Double Headed Secret) (4:51)
taken from The Beast 666 comp. Cass (1983)
7
Coil
S Is For Sleep (3:26)
taken from The Elephant Table Album comp. 2xLP (1983)
8
Coil
Dream Photography (3:23)
taken from Peyrere comp. Cass. (1986)
9
Coil
Comfortable (1:41)
Recorded By - John Balance
taken from "Raw Like Sewage" limited edition Cass (1983)
10
Coil
Never (4:37)
taken from the soundtrack to Derek Jarman's film "The Angelic Conversation" and was also released on "Less Than Angels" comp. Cass (1985)
11
Coil
Penetralia II (3:10)
Track 11 was intended for release on a Shock 45, but in the end was only released here
12
Coil
Sicktone (3:23)
taken from The Fight Is On comp. LP (1985)
13
Coil
How To Destroy Angels (16:41)
taken from How To Destroy Angels LP (1984)





Volume Two

Smiling in the Face of Perversity (1995)

1 Red Weather (4:12)
From the 1983 release Bethel Power Focus / Datenverarbeitung limited edition cassette.

2 Theme From Blue I (2:21)
originally released 1993 as a Threshold House 7" single 1000 numbered on blue vinyl, and 23 signed and numbered on canary yellow vinyl.

3 Airborne Bells (5:21)
was the B side to "Is Suicide Solution?" - a 1993 Clawfist 7" single release. An edition of 1400 copies.

4 Another Brown World (11:41)
was featured on "Sinople Twilight In Catal Huyuk" on the Belgian Sub Rosa label

5 Contains A Disclaimer (7:34)
was released on the Pathological Compilation.. (Cat no. Path 1) - 1989

6 The Hellraiser Theme (2:47)
7 In Memory Of The Truth (2:57)
8 Unquiet Rest (2:04)
9 Wait, Then Return (2:11)
10 The Hellbound Heart (2:21)
11 The Box Theme (3:04)
12 No New World (3:56)
13 Vanishing Point (1:53)
14 The Main Title (3:19)

"The Unreleased Themes For Hellraiser" (aka "The Consequences Of Raising Hell")
"The Hellraiser Theme", "The Box Theme" & "The Main Title" were originally released on Solar Lodge Records as a 10" 1987 (Coil 001). The original pressing was on black vinyl, with a second pressing on coloured vinyl (500 clear and 500 pink).
The CD release with additional tracks - "The Hellbound Heart", "No New World", & "Vanishing Point" (originally called "Attack Of The Sennapods") - was released in 1990 on Solar Lodge / Torso.
"In Memory Of The Truth", "Unquiet Rest" & "Wait, Then Return" are previously unreleased pieces recorded at the same sessions and subsequently lost until now.

15a Theme From Blue II (2:17)
15b Untitled (1:30)
15c The Hills Are Alive (7:17)
contains a hidden track; "Theme From Blue II" (15a) is followed by the unlisted track "The Hills Are Alive" (15c, taken from the compilation Macro Dub Infection Vol 1 Disc 1 after a period of silence (15b).






Volume Three

Joyful Participation in the Sorrows of the World(1997)

1
Coil vs. Eskaton, The
First Dark Ride (10:55)
Written-By - Hyde* , McDowall*
taken from "Nasa-Arab" 12" (1994)

2
Coil
Baby Food (12:34)
Written-By - Hyde*
taken from Chaos In Expansion comp. CD (1994)

3
Coil
Music For Commercials (8:47)
Written-By - Andrew Poppy , Billy McGee
is a collection of material Coil recorded for TV commercials and appeared on the B-side of The Unreleased Themes For Hellraiser 10" (1987)

4
Coil
Panic (12" Version) (7:36)
Co-producer - Jim Thirlwell*
taken from Panic/Tainted Love 12" (1985)

5
Coil
Neither His Nor Yours (2:52)
Engineer - Danny Hyde
taken from A Diamond Hidden In The Mouth Of A Corpse comp. LP (1985)



6
CTI
Feeder (8:43)
Lyrics By - John Balance Written-By - Carter* , Tutti* , Thrower*
taken from CTI's Core CD/LP (1988)

7
Coil
Wrong Eye (6:01)
Drums [Additional] - Charles Hayward Vocals - Rose McDowall
Written-By - Otto Avery , Thrower*
taken from Wrong Eye/Scope 7" (1990)

8
Coil
Meaning What Exactly? (3:47)
Written-By - Otto Avery , Thrower*
and 9
Coil
Scope (6:39)
Written-By - Otto Avery , Thrower*
taken from The Portable Altamont comp. CD (1991)


10
Coil
Lost Rivers Of London (7:41)
Lyrics By [Part Of The Text] - Hubert Crackanthrope
taken from Succour Cd2 (The Terrascope Benefit Album) 2xCD (1996)










Volume Four (UnOfficial Unreleased)2005


Peter Christopherson
01 - in my head a crystal sphere of heavy fluid
taken from Foxtrot

Coil
02 - broken aura
taken from Emre[Dark Matter]

Coil
03 - blue rats (blue cheese mix)
taken from Foxtrot

Coil
04 - contains a disclaimer (alt mix)

Coil
05 - heartworms
taken from Terra Serpentes

Coil
06 - if it wasn't wolves, then what was it
taken from Treat The Gods As If They Exist

Coil
07 - 13 gnomic verses

Coil
08 - london's lost rivers (vinyl version)

Coil
09 - the anal staircase (relentless mix)
taken from Total Volume 1

Coil
10 - windowpane (razormaid mix)
taken from ...Maid! How Slow Can You Go?

Coil/ElPh
11 - glisten#2
taken from Computer Music Journal Sound Anthology Volume 24, 2000

Coil
12 - the test
taken from Mutek 03

Coil
13 - sex with sun ra
taken from Rough Trade Shops - Counter Culture 04 04 Best Of 2004

Coil
14 - mayhem accelerator, part 1
taken from Brain Not In The Wire

Balance
15 - an apology
taken from Hate People Like Us