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The Coral
by The Coral
Product Group: Music
Studio: Sony
ISBN: B00008J2Q9
EAN: 0696998719224
UPC: 696998719224
Audio CD
Original Release Date: 2002-07-29
Release Date: 2003-03-04
SKU: 08100416
Condition: New New
Comments: New Audio CD still in factory shrink wrap.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
While the fiery rock & roll spirit of the La's Lee Mavers courses through their veins, the debut album by youthful Liverpudlian mystics the Coral prove they are far more than Merseybeat imitators. The opening "Spanish Main" ("We've set sail again! / We're heading for the Spanish Main!") casts the sextet as marauding pirates, out to pillage musical history for loot. It's possible to hear the influence of everything from Captain Beefheart to Miles Davis, from Spanish mariachi music to Cossack dance rhythms, surfacing between the tight, ragged grooves of "I Remember When" and "Shadows Fall." This album is stuffed to bursting point with ideas that are presented with remarkable clarity. Highlights are the curious, swooping fable of "Simon Diamond" and the insane "Skeleton Key," which finds frontman James Skelly croaking, "Solid gold skeleton key / Opens the most intricate lock / Brother, roll another for me / I am shipwrecked on the rocks!" as his bandmates caw like parrots in the background. --Louis Pattison
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Customer Reviews
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Fun Music Like It Used to Be
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-07-05
This Liverpool band gives a new, refreshing and rollicking spin to old tunes and invents new sounds in the process. Much fun to listen to and makes you want to get up and dance!
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good album, but not nothing new if you've heard Syd Barrett
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-12-26
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
As many of the other reviews have said, I first The Coral on the Conan O'Brien Show. I was interested, and actually went and bought the album a few days later even without hearing anything else from the album. This album is definitely different than most music being released today, but it's clear to me where they got their sound from. Only a few of the reviews I read mentioned early Pink Floyd and/or Syd Barrett, and to me, this album sounds A LOT like the early Pink Floyd era. The short, wacked-out, psychedelic songs clearly have the Syd Barrett signature sound, especially "Skeleton Key". Almost every song has some resembelence to the early Pink Floyd days. Sometimes its a guitar riff, sometimes a certain lyric, but in either case, it's similiar. I'm not calling the Coral cheap rip-offs of Syd Barrett, nor am I saying this is a bad album, I'm simply saying that if there had been no Syd Barrett, the Coral probably wouldn't be a blessing for us today, which is simply, something different from all the other junk out there today. this is a breath of fresh air, and it's definitely a good choice.
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Good sound ...
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-02-23
This was a great unique CD, with familiar 60s garage band sound. I recommend it to anyone who likes that type of music.
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Whoa....trippy man...
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-02-15
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I had never heard of The Coral but their song Dreaming of You is featured in an episode of Scrubs. It is a damn fine pop song and I had to check out the rest of the album. So...no other song on the disc sounds remotely like it. This disc seems like something put together by late 60's and early 70's acid/psychedelic bands. I hear influences by early Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Santana, Donovan, maybe some Moody Blues and Jefferson Airplane. No one song has the same exact sound influence but it is all so groovy and funky. You would never guess by listnening that it was a modern artist or recording.
So that is a description, but does it rock? Hell yeah. I first listened to it in my car but if you have a pair of headphones, jam it on your MP3.
I am just old enough to recognize the roots of this stuff but not quite old enough to have been in my musical prime while those roots were in the forefront. I like bands like Franz Ferdinand, The Killers and the like and as another reviewer said, this is not that sound at all. I do see some minor connection to the White Stripes, but mostly due to a persistent heavy bass line throughout this album.
So to summarize:This is real retro rock. The era is 60's/70's psych rock as opposed to 80's punk & garage, but truly cool music. I am going to definitely try another disc from The Coral after completely digesting this one. And "Dreaming of You" is probably one of the better pop songs I have heard recently.
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Brave Old World
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-08-25
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Imagine Arthur Lee and Jim Morrison sailing across the world in Captain Beefheart's ship, wreaking havoc and looting the musical riches they encounter in order to concoct the best, most bizarrely tuneful music on earth and you might be close to what the Coral's brand of psych pop sounds like.
They composed this unnaturally assured debut while no one in the band was even 20 and that surely lends their music a youthful effervescence rivalled by nobody in these days of studied posturing and mechanical songwriting- they put across the tremendous fun they must have had making this album.
I was initially drawn to this band because it was the very first time I saw anyone being actively influenced by my favourite band- Love, but I've become a Coral fan basically due to their blending formula in which the only rule seems to be that, as long as there's quality in it, every genre can be absorbed and consequently transformed in heady and highly entertaining pop music.
In addition to their adventurous nature they write truly memorable songs, of which the supremely catchy "Dreaming of You", "I Remember When" and "Goodbye" are sterling examples, without totally abandoning a more gnarly and obscure side ("Skeleton Key", the bonus track "Time Travel").
Who would have thought that the best album of the 21st century would mostly reach for inspiration from almost 40 years in the past?
The Coral's debut does just that and settles the band not as promising hopefuls but as more than qualified contenders for the title of most vital band in the world.
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