Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders
by Coil

Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders by Coil
Year: 1987
Overall rank: 57,006th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 11 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1987 (643rd)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (6,495th)
Award Best albums of all time (57,006th)

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Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders is ranked 16th best out of 38 albums by Coil on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Coil is The Ape Of Naples which is ranked number 2385 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 666.

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Overall rank: 57,006th | 1980s rank: 6,495th | 1987 rank: 643rd

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 11 votes)
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04/07/2024 11:51 videoheadcleaner  Ratings distribution  12,22785/100
 
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11/14/2022 05:37 Arthurknight  Ratings distribution  9,59372/100
 
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06/02/2018 21:16 TodFitz  Ratings distribution  27,35363/100

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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.1/100, a mean average of 79.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 10.8.

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From 09/30/2012 10:59 | #51473
Gold Is the Metal with the Broadest Shoulders was the third album released by Coil in the year 1987. It is not a proper follow-up to 1986's Horse Rotorvator, but more a collection of outtakes and demos from the Scatology, Horse Rotorvator and Hellraiser soundtrack sessions. Some obviously correspond to earlier and later released material ("Golden Hole" to "Penetralia", "...Of Free Enterprise" to "Herald", etc.), while others ("Boy In a Suitcase") do not appear anywhere else. "The Last Rites Of Spring" includes a sample by Stravinsky, also used extensively in The Anal Staircase.
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