Album · Toad The Wet Sprocket
Coil by Toad The Wet Sprocket
Coil is an album by Toad The Wet Sprocket, released in 1997. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 10 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Come Down”, on 10 lists with a best position of #57.
Coil, released on Columbia in 1997, was the fifth studio album from Toad the Wet Sprocket, the Santa Barbara band of singer and guitarist Glen Phillips, guitarist Todd Nichols, bassist Dean Dinning and drummer Randy Guss. Gavin MacKillop produced it.
It sounds like a band that knows its strengths: chiming, gently interlocking guitars, a rhythm section that never shoves, and Phillips' clear, earnest tenor carrying melodies that sit halfway between college-rock melancholy and grown-up pop. "Come Down" was the track that got picked up, a sad-eyed, sturdy song in the classic Toad mold.
It also turned out to be a full stop. The band broke up in 1998, and there would be no new Toad the Wet Sprocket album until New Constellation in 2013, 16 years later.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Coil on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Come Down | 10 | #57 | – | 1997–2021 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.