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{{Infobox album
| name       = The Key to Joy Is Disobedience
| type       = [[box set]]
| artist     = [[Coil (band)|Coil]]
| cover      = Thekeytojoyisdisobedience.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = July 2003
| recorded   =
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Experimental music|Experimental]]
| length     = 7:07:57
| label      = [[Threshold House]]
| producer   = [[Coil (band)|Coil]]
| prev_title = [[Live One (Coil album)|Live One]]
| prev_year  = 2003
| next_title = [[Megalithomania!]]
| next_year  = 2003
}}

'''''The Key to Joy Is Disobedience''''' was a box set released by the group [[Coil (band)|Coil]]. It contains the following releases: ''[[Live Four]]'', ''[[Live Three]]'', ''[[Live Two]]'', ''[[Live One (Coil album)|Live One]]'', ''ANS'', and ''[[Megalithomania!]]''.

==Background==
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 [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hymn-to-lucifer/ "Hymn to Lucifer"]: "The Key of Joy is disobedience."

==Edition==
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:<ref name="brainwashed">{{cite web |title=Coil live box |url=http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/coillive.php?site=coil08 |website=[[Brainwashed (website)|Brainwashed]]}}</ref>

*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.

==In popular culture==
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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==External links==
* {{Discogs master|823518|Live Box}}
* {{MusicBrainz release group|mbid=5d95fc8a-69e3-4417-8a6b-2d1277b9fa9d|name=Live Box}}
* [http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/coillive.php?site=coil08 ''Live Box''] at [[Brainwashed (website)|Brainwashed]]

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