Live One was a double live album released by Coil

Coil (band)

Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...

. This CD was the fourth of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Four

Live Four

Live Four was a compilation CD of live Coil songs. This CD was the first of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Three, Live Two and Live One. This album was later released as part of Coil's box set The Key To Joy Is Disobedience.The performance dates for "Bang Bang" and "An...

, Live Three

Live Three

Live Three was a CD by Coil which documents their live performance on 6 April 2002 at Teatro delle Celebrazioni in Bologna, Italy. This CD was one of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Four, Live Two and Live One...

 and Live Two

Live Two

Live Two was a CD by Coil which documents their live performance on 15 September 2001 at DK Gorbunova in Moscow, Russia. This CD was one of four releases in a series. Its counterparts are Live Four, Live Three and Live One...

. This album was later released as part of Coil's box set The Key To Joy Is Disobedience

The Key To Joy Is Disobedience

The Key To Joy Is Disobedience was a box set released by the group Coil. It contains the following releases: Live Four, Live Three, Live Two, Live One, ANS and Megalithomania!. The set is often incorrectly referred to as "Live Box". Upon its release, the set cost just under $200...

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"CD A" was originally released as Coil Presents Time Machines

Coil Presents Time Machines

Coil Presents Time Machines was a live CD by Coil. This CD was produced in a limited amount of 1,000 copies and was given away with the initial mail orders of Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 2. The CD is a live performance which took place on April 2, 2000 at the Cornucopia festival in the Royal...

. It is a recording of a performance which took place on April 2, 2000 at the Cornucopia

Cornucopia

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 festival in the Royal Festival Hall

Royal Festival Hall

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 in London

London

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, England

England

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"CD B" is a recording of a live concert that took place at Sonar

Sonar

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 in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, Spain

Spain

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 17 June 2000. The studio instrumental used during this performance has surfaced on the internet. The video for this show is also available on the 'Colour Sound Oblivion' 16DVD set.

"Everything Keeps Dissolving", "Blue Chasms" and "Elves" are otherwise unreleased. However, "Elves" was widely circulated on the bootleg Backwards, in its original studio form; That version, however, is notably absent of Balance's vocals. "Circulating" is a short version of the song "Queens Of The Circulating Library

Queens Of The Circulating Library

Queens of the Circulating Library is a 2000 album by the experimental British group Coil. It is unusual in the sense that it is perhaps the only release without participation from Peter Christopherson. On this album, Coil were: "Thighpaulsandra & John Balance with Dorothy Lewis as the queen of the...

", from the album with the same name.

Coil were: Jhon Balance, Peter Christopherson

Peter Christopherson

Peter Martin Christopherson, a.k.a. Sleazy was a musician, video director and designer, and former member of the influential British design agency Hipgnosis....

, Simon Norris, Thighpaulsandra

Thighpaulsandra

Thighpaulsandra is a Welsh experimental musician and multi-instrumentalist known mostly for performing on synthesizers and keyboards. As Tim Lewis, he began his career working with Julian Cope. A collaboration with Cope in 1993 followed, as the experimental duo Queen Elizabeth...

 on "CD A". "CD B" features all of the same artists as "CD A" with the addition of William Breeze

William Breeze

William Breeze was born in Paris, France on 12 August 1955 and is an American musician and occultist, best known as a member of Coil and as the current international leader of Ordo Templi Orientis...

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This album is currently available in CD format at Coil's official website, Thresholdhouse.com.

"CD A"

1. "Everything Keeps Dissolving" – 15:14
2. "Queens of the Circulating Library" – 13:50
3. "Chasms" – 21:39

"CD B"

1. "Everything Keeps Dissolving" – 5:28
2. "Amethyst Deceivers
   Amethyst Deceivers
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   " – 6:23
3. "Circulating" – 12:48
4. "The Universe Is a Haunted House" – 18:09
5. "Elves" – 8:17
   • "Blue Chasms" is printed on the sleeve as an additional song before "Elves", but does not appear on this release.
   • A track indexing error cuts "The Universe Is a Haunted House" off prematurely and it continues into the final track "Elves".
   • Unlike every other Coil live release (excluding Transparent
     Transparent (album)
     Transparent is the first release by the band Coil. It was a collaboration with Zos Kia and credited to "Zos Kia/Coil".The cassette version was released in 1984 on Nekrophile Rekords with catalogue number NRC 05. The CD version was released in 1997 on the label "Threshold House" with catalogue...
     
     ), Live One is almost entirely bereft of live vocals, the one exception being "Elves", on which John Balance produces several nigh-incomprehensible screams, apparently of the same phrase. There are sampled vocals elsewhere, however, as on both versions of "Queens..." and "Chasms".