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The Key to Joy Is Disobedience

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The Key to Joy Is Disobedience
Box set by
ReleasedJuly 2003
GenreExperimental
Length7:07:57
LabelThreshold House
ProducerCoil
Coil chronology
Live One
(2003)
The Key to Joy Is Disobedience
(2003)
Megalithomania!
(2003)

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!.

Background

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The set is often incorrectly referred to as "Live Box". Upon its release, the set cost just under $200. Other than CDs, the set contains four art prints, one of which is signed and one of which contains an actual drawing. A list of beast boxes is included as well. A black glass disc and a clear glass disc are also included, supposedly for scrying use. The set is sealed with a sticker that must be broken in order to access its contents.

The box set's title is based on a line from Aleister Crowley's "Hymn to Lucifer": "The Key of Joy is disobedience."

Edition

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This box set is limited to an edition of 100 normal copies and 23 special copies, which are subtitled "Beast Box". These so-called "beast boxes" each have their own individual titles. The titles are as follows:[1]

  • lipstick eyes meat
  • arse doctor lense haircut
  • spilt guilt
  • decadent + symmetrical
  • fear of the bee means the honey is for me
  • why is a mouse when it spins
  • it just is
  • lake big nay ions lays
  • feral evidence animal reverence
  • jhonn balance
  • when sycophancy was in its infancy
  • we cure the unacceptable
  • animals dream differently in winter
  • offending team north division
  • the word that light unites is space
  • a bigger bucket
  • sipping birdsong through bedsprings
  • they all told lies beautifully
  • a murder of crows
  • extraterrestrial antelope
  • the one yew bury

The "beast boxes" were hand decorated by John Balance as well as a few other known Coil acquaintances.

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In 2022, indie rock artist Ariel Pink released an album entitled "The Key of Joy Is Disobedience" with the project Ariel Pink's Dark Side.

References

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  1. ^ "Coil live box". Brainwashed.
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