[kj] TG Wreckers/Coil

[Christof hamille]

That is tough.  Some of their classic albums is Dreams Less Sweet, Force the 
Hand of Chance, Mouth of the Night (one of my favorites), Allegory and Self. 
  There are a ton of live albums.  Some are great (Live in Tokyo) and some 
suck (Live in Rekysjesyk??).  Thier later stuff I am not a fan of I.C. 
Water, Jack the TAb etc.  They went through their house phase.  Once you get 
into the mid 90s and on a lot of it is rereleases.  I cannot speak about 
ptv3.  As usual the early stuff is better.  Especially if you like Throbbing 
Gristle.  In the beginning of PTV Sleazy Christopherson was in it also 
before splitting to do COIL.

p.s. I think he lives in your neck of the woods now.

Good luck

Chris

>From: Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net>,"A list about all things 
>Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
>To: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar at gmail.com>,"A list about all things Killing Joke 
>(the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>
>Subject: Re: [kj] TG Wreckers/Coil
>Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:53:05 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
>
>
>Cheers, Mark. I'd had SCATOLOGY for an age, just because of the "Tainted 
>Love" cover, but had never really given the rest of the album -- which is 
>insidiously creepy -- that much of  a thorough listen until recently, 
>prompting me towards other stuff like HORSE ROTORVATOR etc.  Lemme tell 
>you, though, with the exception of one or two shops, COIL stuff is wildly 
>hard to find (not counting the `Net as a resource, of course....I'm one of 
>those people who like to hunt for discs in shops as opposed to merely 
>ordering stuff online).
>
>The one band of the TG axis I've never really heard (apart from one track, 
>really) is Psychic TV. Which album would be a good starting place?
>
>Cheers,
>Alex in NYC
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kolmar <mkolmar at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 18, 2005 1:18 PM
>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
><gathering at misera.net>
>Subject: Re: [kj] TG Wreckers/Coil
>
>On 4/10/05, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Who here is a Coil fan?
>
>I am...
>
>They are the most consistently artful and inventive of the TG
>offshoots.  PTV has some genuinely amazing stuff, alongside some
>terrible wankery.  Chris and Cosey have taken a fairly similar
>approach, for the most part, over the past 25 years.  It's all
>well-crafted in a slithery, European, mainly rhythmic sort of way, but
>not a whole lot of motion forwards, or sideways for that matter.  Coil
>are well worth checking out.  I'd suggest Black Light District if you
>can find it, or the Moon's Milk compilation of their 4
>Solstice/Equinox EPs.  Most of their output is "between pressings" at
>the moment -- with the end of World Serpent Distribution, and due to
>the limited runs that sometimes were a challenge to get even for the
>devoted.  We'll see what Sleazy does now, after Balance's death.
>
>--Mark
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