Bee Stings [EP, Import]

Coil | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 3, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: EP, Import
• Label: Threshold House/World Serpent
• ASIN: B00000B9BS
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #432,016 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bee Stings

2. Glowworms/Waveforms

3. Summer Substructures

4. A Warning from the Sun (For Fritz)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Positively Weird, July 5, 2000

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Ulfster - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bee Stings (Audio CD)

As another of the "Seasons"-Series, this is probably the weirdest - and possibly the most potent of the four releases. Unfortunately, the track listing on the Amazon page is stightly erroneous, so I take the liberty of correcting:

1. Bee Stings

2. Glowworms/Waveforms

3. Summer Substructures

4. A Warning From The Sun (for Fritz)

This EP, with a running length of approx. 25 min, offers four different kinds of music in four songs that could not be more various in their respective styles: "Bee Stings" is almost conventional, a combination of electronics and beautiful strings, whilst "Glowworms/..." is close to ambient droning - which is not to say it is not highly interesting. Even more multilayered than aforementioned song is "Summer Substructures", that takes more than a bow towards Schoenberg. If Coil ever did a song that really deserved the label "sidereal", living up to both possible linguistic interpretations of the word, this is it. The last "tune" almost does not deserve this title, as it is a very chaotic, almost (but not quite) unlistenable collection of noise and shrieking vocals, making the listener more than just a little bit uneasy - which in itself shows it's brilliance: When was it the last time a song/tune/whatever really made you think whether you could stand it any longer? (and NO, I don't mean Dancefloor!)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Summer Solstice, February 5, 2000

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tvsr "tvsr" (regions unknown...) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bee Stings (Audio CD)

track listing (slighty corrected from above) is as follows :

1. Bee Stings
2. Glowworms/Waveforms
3. Summer Substructures
4. A Warning From The Sun (for Fritz)

second installment of the equinox solstice series, and probably my favorite. great vocal manipulation, great poetry, very creative sounds and music. this series is limited and has already been deleted, make sure you get them before they are gone.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Warming up., March 14, 2000

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P. Ortman (Midwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bee Stings (Audio CD)

This album has its strong moments, and its weak moments. Its strongest is "Glow Worm/Waveform", and Its weakest is "A Warning From The Sun"

This album has a very odd feel to it, and I am sure that it is intentional. The electronics of all match the time of year exceptionally well. Coil manages to pull it off indescribably well. Spring's electronics feel renewing, starting, and building up. Summers's feel hazy, warm, sharp, and almost bright. Autumn's feel retrospective, aged, mature, aware, ending. Winter's feel cold, seperate, transcendetal, almost like "afterlife". This is something only Coil could do without looking pretentious. The only greater example might be their "Angelic Conversation" soundtrack.