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The lyrics of The Squirming Coil offer an enigmatic link between the demon seed horror of Ira Levins Rosemarys Baby, Indiana Jones discovery of the well of souls in a lost city in Egypt, the hubris of Icarus during his escape from Crete, the adventures of Poster Nutbags primary pal, Jimmy, and the tragic murder of John Lennon outside The Dakota. Through ingesting the fictional tannis root, a fungus also known as Devils Pepper, we can decipher the riddle in the rhyme and discover we are being cautioned against seeking favor, fortune or fame, at any price. When we deal with the devil, the cost is invariably going to mean our soul.
On a musical level, The Squirming Coil is a fabulously energetic and cerebral pièce de résistance not an epic of Fluffhead or You Enjoy Myself proportions but a stolid landmark of an earlier era in Anastasio compositions. However, the compositional mastery is not the means by which one version of Coil can be segregated from another. The composed portion of the song is largely consistent in style and content. Where things can get interesting is in the often painfully sweet piano-based outro that Page tends to deliver in quiet solitude at the end of the set or encore in which it appears. Therein lies the key to finding the good stuff. The Squirming Coil proper, as defined by the Lawn Boy studio version, is roughly six minutes long. Any more than that, and you can bet Page was showing off in some way. Coil is therefore one of the true examples where longer is probably better.
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