which has always been Coil’s main point, and which is why i got you drunk in the first place. Coil finds the intersection of pleasure & unease that is the very fulcrum upon which the modern age pivots & has pivoted since roughly the Kennedy assassination, to use a point of reference near & dear to so many of the late-seventies art-terrorism crowd. ballard, bowles, malzburg: Coil’s read all that stuff, and then listened to a lot of the dry dull modern-composer stuff, and then they did a wonderful thing. they went out dancing. and they came back with the great idea of changing “lonesome” in Elvis’s “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” to “loathsome,” and proceeding from there. |
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