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Track Listing
1. Whatever I Fear
2. Come Down
3. Rings
4. Dam Would Break
5. Desire
6. Don't Fade
7. Little Man Big Man
8. Throw It All Away
9. Amnesia
10. Little Buddha
11. Crazy Life
12. All Things in Time
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Sid Page, Van Dyke Parks | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
COIL contains both a full audio program and CD-ROM computer files compatible with Mac and PC operating systems. COIL also includes a hidden track accessible only through the band's website.
Toad The Wet Sprocket: Glen Phillips, Todd Nichols (vocals, guitar); Dean Dinning (vocals, keyboards, bass); Randy Guss (drums).
Additional personnel includes: Van Dyke Parks (strings arranger); Sid Page (violin, concert master); Joel Derovin, Armen Garabedian, Tiffany Hu, Miran Kojian, Brian Leonard, Dennis Molchan, Bob Sanov, Haim Shtrum, Eve Sprecher, Mari Tsumura, Elizabeth Wilson, John Wittenberg (violin); James Ross, John Scanlon (viola); Suzie Katayama, Dane Little (cello); Dave Stone (bass).
Producers: Gavin MacKillop, Toad The Wet Sprocket.
Recorded at Master Control, Los Angeles, California and Gopher Sound, Santa Barbara, California.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
These guys have been around long enough to qualify for grizzled-veteran status in the come-and-go world of alternative rock. COIL doesn't necessarily break any new ground for the quartet, but it does maintain the tradition of catchy, accessible "modern" rock that Toad has perfected over the course of a long recording career. Like previous Toad releases, COIL is heavy on the hooks, with lush harmonies and airy sheets of guitar adorning classic pop song forms distinguished by occasionally oblique lyrics.
Though it made its name as the friendly, inoffensive face of post-R.E.M guitar-rock, Toad The Wet Sprocket is partial to contrast and extremes, as evidenced by songs like "Desire" and "Little Buddha." In the former, singer Glen Phillips declares "I want to be clean/I want to be whole" and immediately follows it with "I want revenge/I want control." In the latter, lines like "life is suffering" and "cold and pummeling" are alternated with the repeated refrain "tee-hee, ha ha."
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