Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders
by Coil
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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 2418 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 666.
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Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Gold Is The Metal With The Broadest Shoulders rankings
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| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Steppenwolf666 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 80/100 | 1 |
| 2017 |  NoisyBeast | Top 100 Music Albums of 1987 | 37/100 | 3 |
| 2017 | NoisyBeast | Top 2000 Albums of the 1980s... # 301-400 | 14/100 | - |
| 2012 |  btener11 | Top 50 Music Albums of 1987 | 42/50 | 1 |
| 2012 | zonrod | Top 50 Music Albums of 1987 | 3/50 | 5 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 5 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 10 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 04/07/2024 11:51 |  videoheadcleaner | 12,366 | 85/100 |
| ! | 11/14/2022 05:37 |  Arthurknight | 9,590 | 72/100 |
| ! | 03/25/2019 09:27 | Godspeedyou | 1,066 | 89/100 |
| ! | 01/04/2019 11:50 | Vinngyr | 183 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/02/2018 21:16 | TodFitz | 27,377 | 63/100 |
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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 76.0/100, 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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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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