Swiss Adam recently featured a post on 388 the most recent album by The Coral. His enthusiasm and eloquence were enough for me to download it for a listen and very good it is too.
I have their first three albums from the early part of the century but after that, apart from the odd song here and there, they gradually slipped off my radar.
I've just given their eponymously 2002 debut album a listen for the first time in forever. It was rightly critically well received and as Alexis Petridis wrote in The Guardian it was a mass of remarkable contradictions", with the band "exploring 1960s rock's extremities, areas too strange for Britpop's crowd-pleasing conformity".
Don't be surprised if Magic and Medicine (2003) and Nightfreak and the Sons of Becker (2004) appear here in due course
Such a good debut album and so out there for a bunch of teenagers.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing these as I've been searching for Dreaming Of You for years but didn't know what it was called. Mr WIAA and I were once at a wedding dance and the band started to play a song by The Coral which turned out to be great for one of those fast skipping around the dance floor dances - a kind of quick-step but not the ones our mums and dads would have done. It was such a great song for that but I couldn't remember the name.
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DeleteGreat post, CC. Being the contrarian/finger off the pulse person that I am, my entry point to The Coral was fourth album The Invisible Invasion.
ReplyDeleteAnd my reason for buying is even more grim: every time I visited a certain record ship late 2005/early 2006, their bargain bin was crammed with copies of the album (and the 'limited edition' 2CD no less).
Eventually I succumbed and I'm glad I did. The 2nd 'Lamacq Live' CD is worth the price alone and it was a welcome surprise to find the main album was produced by Geoff Barrow & Adrian Utley of Portishead. I enjoyed both very much.
Since then, I've only managed to add the debut and a greatest hits/singles collection so your post(s) will hopefully kick me the much needed kick up the backside.