The Coral [Enhanced]

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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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The Coral [Enhanced]

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TRUE PUNK
Rockin'
Coral Fang
This Album Rocks... SO BUY IT!!!!!
OMG! Words Cannot Explain The Love!

Coral Fang
The Distillers
Manufacturer: Sire / London/Rhino
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ASIN: B0000CDLA1
Release Date: 2003-10-14

Tracks:

Drain The Blood
Dismantle Me
Die On A Rope
The Gallow Is God
Coral Fang
The Hunger
Hall Of Mirrors
Beat Your Heart Out
Love Is Paranoid
For Tonight You're Only Here To Know
Death Sex

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TRUE PUNK.......2007-05-22

This is a true punk band. Female singer (Brody) plays guitar and wrote all the material on the CD. What an incredible voice!!! Her voice is unforgettable. At first I thought it was a man singing. I'm glad I have this CD in my collection if only to be able to listen to Brody's vocals.

The CD is fast paced with one song hitting after another. When I first listened to it, it felt like my ears were getting assaulted because the guitars were so relentless. But then, that's what punk is. The songs are loud, aggressive and -- relentless.

If you're not into punk, you won't like this CD. If you are, buy this CD. You will be very pleased.

Rockin'.......2006-08-18

I really enjoyed this CD. I love women who rock out - I'm a Courtney Love junkie. If you are a Clove junkie like me, you'll like this CD. I'm a realitively new Distillers fan - so I can't really say much more regarding their style and what not.
All I can say is - this CD is fun.

Coral Fang.......2006-07-27

This is probably my favorite line-up of any Distillers album. Of course Brody is going to be great, that goes without saying. Andy, Ryan and Tony are just beasts. This is definately one of those punk bands that take themselves seriously. As soon as the music hits your ears, you can easily realize that the production is much better than on any other Distillers album as well. I didn't know what to think the first time I heard "Drain The Blood". It sounded so different from what I was used to. Had Brody gone pop? Then the vocals kicked in and there was one line in particular that made me realize that this album still possessed the same genius that all other Distillers albums had possessed. I believe that line was "...I've never met a boy quite like you, who can shimmer and rot at the same time through...". The poetry was definately still there, the vocals had only improved! This album shows a bit of a sensitive side of Brody. Songs like "The Hunger" and "Beat Your Heart Out" have a "love song" feel to them, but the fury is still there. "Die On A Rope" and "Hall Of Mirrors" back up that statement, fair and square. This is probably tied with their debut as their most colorful work. "Sing Sing Death House" was just so angry! I guess basically what I'm trying to say is that, if there was ever any doubt in your mind about this album wasn't on par with previous releases, think again!

This Album Rocks... SO BUY IT!!!!!.......2006-05-17

This album is worth the money. The Distillers rock, and this is probably their best album. It's not so hardcore punk, but it is still an excellent album. I give all of the songs a 10/10. Drain the blood is an awsome song and is my favorite, actually. I don't feel like going through every song because they are all awsome. I really like this album because it's just like a bunch of metaphors, and it's not so obvious like Brody Dalle wanted. Btw, Brody is totally my hero/idol or whatever you want to call it. I'm sad that Tim Armstrong and her got divorced and that kind of reflects on this album.. but like someone else said in their review, Rancid is a great band, but the Distillers are WAYYYYYYYYYYYYY better. So yeah, buy this album.... OR ELSE!!!!

OMG! Words Cannot Explain The Love!.......2006-04-26

Oh. My. God. I freaking love this CD sooooo much! I almost love it as much as Sing Sing Death House, and that is saying ALOT!

There have been many reviews that are saying to not buy this if you loved the first two albums. Well, I am living proof that what they are saying is FALSE. I have all 3 Distillers LPs, and they're all amazing. The people who were writing those were only (ex)fans of The Distillers anyway because Brody was married to Tim Armstrong. Admit it. That's the ONLY reason you guys liked them. In fact, Brody doesn't give in to fame and fortune. In an interview she said,(quote)"I spit on the whole f***ing celebrity side of the buisiness"(unquote). But I can see why SOME people dislike it. First of all, there are more melodic songs on CF. Some songs on their first 2 were pretty melodic(City of Angels, Gypsy Rose Lee). And the songs aren't as fast as they were on SSDH and S/T(the fastest on here are Die on a Rope, Coral Fang, and DS). But The Distillers are still the same punk rockers we know and love. Brody(my dream wife) still screams alot on this CD. This isn't exactly a hardcore CD, but it's really angry. She got divorced before writing this album, so you know she'd be pissed off.
1.Drain the Blood
5/5 Loved it from the first time I heard it. One of my favorites! By the way, Brody looks absolutely fabulous in the video.
2.Dismantle Me
5/5 Love this as well! It's slower, but still good.
3.Die on a Rope
5/5 After the slow Dismantle Me, the pace really gets picked up with this song!
4.The Gallow is God
N/A Haven't heard it enough to give it an honest review.
5.Coral Fang
5/5 My second favorite song on this CD and one of my favorite Distillers songs.(listen to Brody's screaming on the second verse of Coral Fang. It'll make the singer for silverstien wet his pants)
6.The Hunger
5/5 I love this song so freakin much! I really don't know why, but it's like this song is immortal or something! It really captivates me.
7.Hall of Mirrors
Infinity/5 Best track on the CD! Words cannot describe how much I love this song.
8.Beat Your Heart Out
5/5 This was my first Distillers song. It's kinda poppy, but by no means bad!
9.Love is Paranoid
5/5 Another great song!(This album has alot of those)
10.For Tonight Your Only Here To Know
5/5 I absolutely ADORE this song!!!!!!!!!
11.DS
5/5 The first two minutes of this song are sooooo good.
In conclusion, this album could single handedly take over your life. It may be deeper than their last teo, but it's still immortal.
Yet another essential album from the greatest band on earth. And to the Tim Armstrong lovers, get an open mind. Brody and Tim are divorced; GET OVER IT!!! The Distillers are far better than Rancid anyway.

Another masterpiece from The Distillers!

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Fun Music Like It Used to Be
good album, but not nothing new if you've heard Syd Barrett
Good sound ...
Whoa....trippy man...
Brave Old World

The Coral
The Coral
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Magic and Medicine
The Invisible Invasion
Skeleton Key
Who Killed...... The Zutons
The Invisible Invasion

ASIN: B00008J2Q9
Release Date: 2003-03-04

Tracks:

Spanish Main
I Remember When
Shadows Fall
Dreaming Of You
Simon Diamond
Goodbye
Waiting For The Heartaches
Skeleton Key
Wildfire
Bad Man
Calendars And Clocks
Goodbye (Video)
Dreaming Of You (Video)

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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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Fun Music Like It Used to Be.......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!

good album, but not nothing new if you've heard Syd Barrett.......2006-12-26

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.

Good sound ..........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.

Whoa....trippy man..........2006-02-15

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.

Brave Old World.......2005-08-25

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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Composer, premiere player, soloist - Yin Cheng-zong's authentic Yellow River Concerto
something missing and deadly wrong here
Contains many piano solo treasures
Trust me~ You will never get tired of it.
Very nice Music

The Yellow River Concerto

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The Yellow River Piano Concerto (Original Version): Prelude: The Song Of The Yellow River Boatmen
The Yellow River Piano Concerto (Original Version): Ode To The Yellow River
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Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Children's Dance
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Composer, premiere player, soloist - Yin Cheng-zong's authentic Yellow River Concerto.......2007-07-03

I owned this disc for more than 12 years already. The CD cover was already the third one.
Lang Lang recently made a new recording of this piece with DG.
I heard master Yin play this piece (in Lang Lang's stead) last evening in Hong Kong Cultural Centre, and he moved me to tears.
Yin Cheng-zong is over 60 years old now. He lived through the various turmoils of China. It requires life experience and patriotism to interpret this piece, so very sorry, I haven't heard any foreign pianist playing this piece yet, let alone on record.
HOWEVER, Yin Cheng-zong did made a recording of this piece with Claudio Abbado, but the recording has never been released by the PRC official broadcasting agency. Yin himself claims that this was one of the most memorable performances he had of this piece - Abbado understands the piece so well that Yin was highly amazed!
The foremost player and interpretor of this piece remains Yin Cheng-zong, but I must say that ALSO hearing Lang Lang playing this piece a couple of days ago (also in Hong Kong), Lang's playing of this piece is vastly improving.

something missing and deadly wrong here.......2006-11-07

when i listened to this concerto, the first impression was something deadly wrong. if you want to portray and describe a river, the best way is to start from its origin, it might be just a trickle of dripping water and a small stream at first, then when going down, meet and entwine with other small streams, it gradually evolving into a great river all way down to the ocean. that's the way how you use the music to portray a river.
but the composer of this 'yellow river' was educated in the chinese communist system, his composition was still dominated subjectively by the blind chinese revolutionary passion, the concerto from the very beginning sounds like listening to a cultural revolution marching song, banging and pounding so headstrong against almost all the foreign elements, condemning so viciously and so mercilessly with hatred, like revolutionary army at wars, like those stupid formula musicals, songs and plays created in the cultural revolution era to please the butcher chairman mao. there's almost no big difference here. when you listen to this concerto, only a small part and portion make you feel like something good and wonderful offered by the river, most part of it sounds too clueless military.
we all knew that the chinese civilization and it's culture was originated from the yellow river, it's like a mother of china. yes, yellow river is always unpreditable and changing, its inevitable floodings in the history caused a lot of deaths and tragedies, but a river could never be always so merciless and vicious. this concerto and this music is not an appropriate interpretation of the yellow river but a chinese communist revolutionary marching song by a die hard communist composer. it's a very bad concerto actually.

Contains many piano solo treasures.......2006-03-26

The most important thing about this CD is its beautiful solo piano music from classical Chinese literature. You'll be amazed and delighted.

Trust me~ You will never get tired of it........2004-08-07

This is an excellent album that worth adding to your collection. Moreover, such great music for such low price, there is no reason you shouldn't buy it.

Very nice Music.......2003-01-15

I've heard The Yellow River Cantata for long time before I got this CD, this CD would be a very nice CD on your collection. And when I came to Yellow River (Hoang He) in the summer and spring, I knew this concerto said the trust: The river is always changing, savage and quiet. There is enough Asian spirit on this CD. As you know, every old chinese word and song are based on a story (called Gu dian, means classical) and if you know much about chinese stories you will feel completly this CD. One of famous Gu Dian is the fighting of Chinese people against the flood every year at the river's banks, for thousand years. You can find more information and "Gu dian" about this river in Chinese histories or stories.

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The Coral Treasures
Martha Tilton
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Twenty-seven songs from Tilton's period with Coral Records in the 1950s. Features accompaniment by Grammy-winning jazz guitarist Laurindo Almeida on two tracks. As Benny Goodman's vocalist, Martha Tilton placed twenty-seven hits on the hit parade between 1937 and 1939, including two chart-toppers.

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When Martha Tilton Sang with Benny Goodman She was Initially Billed as the Sweetheart of Swing Before Becoming Better Known Affectionately as the Liltin Miss Tilton. Goodman Kept Tilton Busy and Between October 1937 and the Summer of 1939 Goodman Placed in Excess of Thirty Recordings on the American Top 20 of which Tilton's Vocals Featured on 27 Tracks Including Two Chart-toppers. To Crown it All, Martha Performed with the Band in the Historically Triumphant Carnegie Hall Concert in January 1938 that Inspired the 1955 Hollywood Bio-pic Benny Goodman Story. Tilton Played Herself in the Movie.

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The Coral Improves On Success
They sing the mourning

The Invisible Invasion
The Coral
Manufacturer: Sony
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ASIN: B000CMNJEK
Release Date: 2005-08-30

Tracks:

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Cripples Crown
So Long Ago
The Operator
A Warning To The Curious
In The Morning
Something Inside Of Me
Come Home
Far From The Crowd
Leaving Today
Arabian Sand
Late Afternoon

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On their fourth outing, the Coral are anything but obvious or heavy-handed. On the contrary, delicacy and understatement define the British septet's latest. The 1960s shake hands with the 1980s in their wistful pop, yet they never--or very rarely, at any rate--come across as a retro act. At their best, they sound like Madness circa "Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)" (must be that organ) or Echo & the Bunnymen circa "Lips Like Sugar" (James Skelly could be Ian McCulloch's little brother). With its chugging, train-like rhythm and haunting chorus, "She Sings the Mourning" sounds like the theme to a lost Tom Courtenay film, while the enchanting "So Long Ago" evokes Sondre Lerche's gentle folk-pop. Then there are others, like the perfectly pleasant "Leaving Today" and "Come Home," where the Coral almost cross that fine line dividing tasteful from dull, but there are no real duds on The Invisible Invasion. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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The Coral Improves On Success.......2006-05-27

Invisible Invasion has the immediacy of the Coral's first album with the maturing song writing of Magic And Medicine.

The music is a hybrid of 60's/80's psychedelic rock and present day art rock. Each song has a sharpness and character to it that makes it fun to listen to more and more.

I don't know how this band hasn't taken off more in the US.

The Operator? That song is as crunchy as anything that the Queens of Stoneage have done. Just about all the songs are awesome- but that song grabs me the most.

I agree with another reviewer that Egyptian Sand isn't up to par with the rest of the album- mainly because it sounds exactly like a mix of songs Syd Barrett wrote on Pink Floyds first album.

Also I like how this album mixes a good amount of pop tunes with more aggressive/progressive songs. That was one thing that disappointed me about my initial listenings to Magic And Medicine; it felt pastoral and slightly poppy. Were as the debut album was nothing but emotional highs and fun wacky tunes. It would have been dissapointing in the long run if they would have made a part ii to their debut. They were what, 19 when they made that album? I like that they keep extending themselves.

Invisible Invasion shows a band that is refining their expression of sound.

ps
The e.p., Nightfreak & The Sons Of Becker, was a sign of the transition the Coral was making towards this album, but Medicine Magic already felt transitional- so it seemed mostly like a set of b-sides. Although Grey Harpoon is a personal favorite.

They sing the mourning.......2006-03-30

Nobody can accuse the Coral of not evolving. With every release, the Merseyside band has revamped their sound and made it all seem new, whether it's rough B-sides, rollicking pirate rock or pastoral pop-rock. So what have they gotten up to now?

In their fourth album in as many years -- if you count the halfway-album "Nightfreak and the Songs of Becker" -- they change it yet again. This time, there's no pirate rock or bizarro pop songs. Instead, "The Invisible Invasion" relies on dark art-rock with a twisted psychedelica vibe, with hints of what they have done before, but never with deja vu.

It opens with a wonderfully sinister, twangy opener, which quickly falls into the dark, catchy rock of "She Sings the Mourning" and "Cripples Crown." James Skelly intones eerily over the music, "Blood red love knot, temptress eyes/cuts right through the family times," which add a strangely supernatural edge to the music. These two are probably the strongest and most polished songs on here.

There's a brief and ill-advised foray into folk-rock, which the Coral quickly veers away from. Good thing, too -- it's too cheery and sunny for this record, as are one or two other catchy little songs. So then it's back to undulating keyboard, crunchy riffs and hammering drums. Not to mention those ghostly "woo woo" synths that pop up every few minutes.

"Invisible Invasion" is very catchy. Not in a bad way -- instead, it sounds like a cheery pop singer in a haunted house, who is about to be overcome by the ghosts. It borders on kitsch in places; having Skelly moaning "cooooome hooooommme" over a twisting riff sounds silly. But with Skelly's pleasantly smooth voice, the Coral actually makes it sound sinister.

And the Coral stretches further into experimentation with "Arabian Sand," a Pink-Floydian song that is only four minutes long, but feels at least three times as long. It's rough, ragged and brims over with sound. And at the end of it, I'm still not sure whether it's a disaster or pure brilliance. One thing is sure: It'll get your heart rate up as it accelerates to a climax.

How do you judge an album by a band that does nothing twice? Just take it for what it is -- and in "Invisible Invasion's" case, it's a rough, ghostly, distorted mass of catchy rock'n'roll.

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splendid exotica of pop sounds.
Maybe, Even Maybier Not
Great follow-up to their sensational debut
blown away!
Funky but chic

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Release Date: 2004-02-10

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Liezah
Talkin' Gypsy Market Blues
Secret Kiss
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Bill McCai
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Pass It On
All Of Our Love
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splendid exotica of pop sounds........2007-02-21

4 and 1/2 stars. what an accomplished outfit of musicians. highly creative, their sound is all over the place: spaghetti western overtones here, acoustic ballads, r & b overtones, trippy hippy vibes, even a dash of jazz and so much more. splendid stuff. some might say that they try too much in the way of styles here, but i find it all fine. great to have a wide variety of sound all on one disc. hope they keep it going for years to come.

Maybe, Even Maybier Not.......2005-10-31

One of T.S. Eliot's philosophies of poetry was that it is no crime to take elements of the past and make them new again, to contemporise. Furthermore, he believed, and time has proved, that it can make your work stronger. That being said, this album is a living, breathing time capsule, a true product of its environment in every sense of the phrase, which is a fairly rare commodity these days in light of the outrageous popularity of shallow acts like Avril Lavigne who have no concept of history or what they're a part. The Coral, however, are an honest testament to it. If more bands like this existed maybe more people would be able to interpret "The Waste Land" or at least remember who Robin Trower or the Fugs were.
They do a better job of capturing a niche of the sixties/seventies than the Black Crowes. Hopefully the Coral will progress more than they did. You'll have to check them out in two albums and see. This album's success lies in not borrowing too heavily on one influence as it sounds like an amalgam, a blending of memories [get a dictionary], from the mind of an aging flower child experiencing a really intense flashback, willed into reality out of sheer desire to exist. James Skelly's vocals sound like a test-tube creation of Paul Williams and Eric Burdon [The Animals] while Nick Power's organ echoes lovely creepiness like the bastard child of Ray Manzarek [The Doors] and Doug Ingle [Iron Butterfly]. The Band-ish, hoe down bass of Paul Duffy plays well off Bill Ryder-Jones' often Venturesy, Dick Dale-esque surfing guitar. The remaining elements combine to leave you with a strong Love It To Death era Alice Cooper vibe among others. Less harmonious but more foreboding and accomplished than the Monkees, the album is full of slow yet fairly impersonal feeling ballads mourning the loss of life and love with a few twangy, upbeat numbers that may get your head bobbing if you're not already sick to death of retro.
The downside of this is it's not overly original and the veteran music listener will have to try hard to be blown away. If this had come out in '68, the Coral would have been featured at Woodstock but if it came out in '74, it would've done poorly. As such I would have trouble telling all my friends to go out and buy this but they should give it a listen. It may grow on you...or dust a pawnshop somewhere. You decide.

Great follow-up to their sensational debut.......2005-06-03

I sort of stumbled across the Coral's debut s/t album thanks to the catchy single 'Goodbye' and was then completely blown away by the rest of the album. In fact, 'Goodbye' is probably my LEAST favourite track on that album these days, which says a lot about the strength of the rest of the songs!

So how is the follow-up album then? Well, this aint no sophomore slump! After my first listen the only tracks that really jumped out at me were the excellent safari-styled 'Don't Think You're the First', the sweet 'Liezah', the catchy 'Pass it On' & the awesome closer 'Confessions of A.D.D.D.'. The rest of the tracks just didn't really stick, but thankfully repeated listens largely solved that problem.

I still don't feel this album is on-par with the s/t debut, but it's an excellent album in it's own right. The only tracks I haven't really taken a shine to are 'Eskimo Lament' & Milkwood Blues', but these are by no means poor tracks; they just don't measure up to the rest of the album.

Outside of these two, every track is stellar, and if you were impressed by the debut you'll find much to like here!

blown away!.......2004-05-21

I cant believe more people arent as impressed with this album as I am. First off its two cds for 11.99, second at least 80% of the music is off the charts good! Its certainly better than most music being made today. If you are a fan of fun trippy rock youll love it, thumbs up.

Funky but chic.......2004-05-11

Before Franz Ferdinand came along, it seemed like The Coral may the next big band from England. This is their second album in a very short time. Most of their sound seems derived from early 1970s bands like Moody Blues and 1960s garage bands. The Coral have defined their sound and their influences over the past three years. They are very funky and musical. They are like good time rock and roll. The organ sound dominates in a lot of their songs. Much of their songs you can see working in a Guy Ritchie film. Whereas their first album seemed like a rush job, this second effort seems more like a complete album. There is a jazz and blues vibe on most of the tracks that seems like The Band or Canned Heat. There are a lot of British bands that meander for years and make people happy throughout. Maybe they can jump on the jam band bandwagon like Gomez. Then they could tour American colleges for years with Phish and Widespread Panic.

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the best music in years
It's been a long time since I've found a new band this good

Volcano and Heart
The Coral Sea
Manufacturer: Hidden Agenda
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000FS2WCG
Release Date: 2006-06-27

Tracks:

Look At Her Face
Under The Westway
In Between The Days
In This Moment's Time
Yesterday/Tomorrow
Your Time has Come
Lake And Ocean
Fell
Ancient Modern People
Descend

Album Description

Soaring debut album from Santa Barbara atmospheric pop outfit. "The art-rock majesty of The Coral Sea emerges breathtaking, it steals from your soul, unsurpassed in this part of the world." Well, The Santa Barbara Independent aint kidding either, The Coral Sea's debut is a hypnotic and mellow dreamrock album that calls to mind classic albums by Bowie, Pink Floyd and The Beatles, with current comparisons ranging from Yo La Tengo's melodic blue-streak zoom-pop to Radiohead's impassioned layered vocal/guitar impressionism. Imagine a stratospherically skillful space-pop quartet with an entire string section behind it, and you'll be on their wavelength, but for me it all comes down to the voice. Frontman/founder Rey Villalobos' vocals steal the show (think Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue, Radiohead's Thom Yorke): a luminous, sometimes androgynous croon, a silvery warble, without a glimmer of pretension…

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the best music in years.......2007-01-16

Its like a mix between mercury rev, lightning seeds and radiohead but still completely different. It is the most beautifully sad record written since Strangeways Here We Come by the Smiths. No review can do this album justice and I cant wait for another one from this amazing band. It is a 5 star album but i cant figure out how to fix it from the 4 stars i gave it.

It's been a long time since I've found a new band this good.......2006-07-18

This is one of those albums that would be on everyone's top ten list for the year (think How it Ends, by DeVotchKa), if only they'd heard it.
Dark and dramatic, with soaring vocals and melodies similar to obvious comaprisons like Muse and early Radiohead, but with a more intimate, human feel.
From the high emotion of Yesterday/Tomorrow and Fell, to the more mellow, wistful In Between The Days, to the inexplicably catchy Ancient Modern People, Volcano and Heart is worth a listen.

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Sánchez and Strings
-Panambi
David Sanchez muestra su amor para la musica
A new direction for Sanchez

Coral
David Sanchez
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002JELCM
Release Date: 2004-08-03

Tracks:

Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
Matita Pere
Vidala
Coral
Panambi
The Elements ll
Vexilla Regis
Cancion del Canaveral

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Puerto Rican tenor saxophonist David Sanchez has been exploring the connections between jazz and Latin music ever since he burst on the scene in the early '90s, when New York gigs with Eddie Palmieri led to a spot in Dizzy Gillespie's band. He takes a giant step forward on his seventh CD, performing the French impressionist-influenced works of Brazilian and Argentine composers; he is supported by his sextet, featuring alto Miguel Zenón, as well as arranger/conductor Carlos Franzetti and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Sanchez's lyrical tenor breathes new life into Antonio Carlos Jobim's atmospheric "Matita Perê," Heitor Villa-Lobos's moody and majestic title track, and the Pampa pulsations of Alberto Ginastera's "Vidala" and "Panambi." Augmented by original works by Franzetti and Sanchez, this project is reminiscent of Stan Getz's Focus and Joe Lovano's Rush Hour. It beautifully highlights Latin America's classical European heritage--and its African heartbeat. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

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Sánchez and Strings.......2007-06-12

Saxophonist David Sánchez scores again with this beautifully crafted set. He sticks to tenor this time round (he usually plays both tenor and soprano) and reviewers who have mentioned his phrasing are spot on. His phrasing is exquisite, his tone lovely and warm. Alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón joins him on three of the tunes but he only adds colour and doesn't solo.

Edsel Gomez on piano, Ben Street & John Benitez on bass, Adam Cruz on drums and Parnell Saturnino on percussion complete the rhythm section and while they all give stellar performances, this album for me is all about The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Carlos Franzetti. I just love it when jazz is married with orchestration. Other saxophonists have tried this idea in the past (For some reason when I listen to this I'm particularly reminded of 1960's "Cool Velvet: Stan Getz and Strings", one of my favourite Getz albums) but it's definitely something new for Sánchez.

And it works. From the sweeping ballads like the opener, "Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar", to the samba-esque "Matitia Perê" to the very thoughtful, almost classical "Panambi" (which features just Sánchez solo with the orchestra), this is one very satisfying album. Sánchez says on the inner-sleeve notes that he wanted to highlight some "important Latin American composers whose work reflected the Impressionistic period" yet were still "contemporary". He's purposely chosen more obscure songs by people like Jobim, De Moraces, Ginastera and Villa-Lobos but there's one by Carlos Franzetti and two by Sánchez himself.

I think he's done a great job. Highly recommended.

-Panambi.......2006-08-11

Beautiful phrasing! David is blessed to have an expression older
than his years. He was just in time to live in the beauty of
an era of fantastic music. With his life experiences he has
entered a wonderful portal of communication. I hope he
finds it is also what he loves. sincerely, jessandjazz

David Sanchez muestra su amor para la musica.......2005-03-28

Clifford Brown. George Shearing. Charlie "Yardbird" Parker. William "Bill" Evans. What do all of these musicians have in common? At one point in each musician's career, they have done albums with symphonies or string choirs. Since the 1950's, the marriage of the jazz combo and string section has lead to some of the most influential recordings in jazz heritage. Who can deny the power of the albums of "Charlie Parker with Strings"? . . . . who can deny the popularity of the "Satin" series of Captiol Records recordings done with the George Shearing Quartet? Either to your liking or disapproval, string section/combo jazz recordings are here to stay.

One play of this album left a definite impression on me. First, the DSD mastering of this disc makes the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra come alive. I haven't heard such a warm recording of strings since my late grandmother approached the old Dual turntable with a Shearing and strings recording. To this day, I play them on a VPI Hw19-IV/Rega 250/Grado/Lehmann Black Cube.

David's rapid-fire approach to solos and his ability to improvise fugues and passacaglias in his solos didn't stop on this recording. David is a bit paced on this recording versus Obsession or The Departure; however, his playing is still rich is his Hispanic lineage.

He takes these classics (and a few of his own tunes) and turns them into suites for sextet and orchestra. With a top notch band and the Prague Philharmonic in A+ form, what you get in this album is a celebration of music with the mastering that it deserves.

I have little doubt any jazz fan will dislike this recording. It's part strings/combo; it's part latin jazz sextet; it's part symphonic poem; and it's all music. While almost impossible to give you a related recording due to this innovative approach, I guarentee that this is something you will like and you never heard before.

With the information above, I give you a robust celebration of music from different countries and time periods. I welcome you to listen to David Sanchez as he documents his mastery of music. This is not jazz, this is not classical, and this is not Afro-Cuban. This is music; the true test of a music lover.

A new direction for Sanchez.......2004-08-03

This is a ground-breaking departure for Sanchez who has gathered around him a basic quartet of Edsel Gomez (piano),Adam Cruz (drums) and either John Benitez or Ben Street on Bass.He plays a beautifully controlled Tenor Sax on all the tracks. He's selected a wide range of different styles from Latin music and chosen to have string arrangements, sympathetically played by members the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. To this basic mix he's added Miguel Zenon on Alto sax (tracks 3,4 & 8) and Pernell Saturnino on percussion for tracks 1,2,3,4,6 &8.The real fascination is the way in which he has mixed material, some of the compositions,like the A.C.Jobim tracks, familiar to me, and others less well known.He also includes two self composed tracks (6 & 8) which fit perfectly into what he is trying to achieve.The ensemble playing is a delight, and the arrangements never overwhelm the basic quartet. My own two favourite tracks are "Eu sei que vou te amar" which envelopes the listener with sound, and "Vexilla Regis" which has some wonderful playing by Sanchez. It's not an album that gives everything immediately, but marks another move forward in the career of one of my favourite tenor sax players. This one may suprise you! Highly recommended.

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a wonderful invasion!
Great stuff
They sing the mourning
Growing Pains- CORAL -Getting Better
Hmmmmm...

The Invisible Invasion
The Coral
Manufacturer: Sony International
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000808YY6
Release Date: 2005-05-31

Tracks:

She Sings the Mourning
Cripples Crown
So Long Ago
Operator
Warning to the Curious
In the Morning
Something Inside of Me
Come Home
Far from the Crowd
Leaving Today
Arabian Sand
Late Afternoon

Album Description

Work on the Coral's The Invisible Invasion began back at the start of 2004. It's produced by Adrian Utley and Geoff Barrow(Portishead). The band hired a house in the Lake District for two weeks and rehearsed the 18 possible songs for the album, tweaking and developing them there, before they were ready to set them to acetate. The first single to be taken from the album is entitled 'In The Morning'. Sony. 2005

Album Details

The Fourth Full Length Album from the Neo-rock Pop Band was Produced by Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Recorded at Mono Valley Studios, Monmouth, Wales; Elevator Studios Liverpool and Geoff Barrow's State of Art Studio in Bristol. Mixed at Bath Moles. "This Record is all the Best Bits of all Our Previous Albums Rolled Into One... It's a Lot Warmer-sounding, We Wanted the First Few Records to Sound the Way They Did, with More Treble, but this Time We Wanted to Explore Something New... --guitarist/Vocalist James Skelly

Customer Reviews:

a wonderful invasion!.......2005-09-29

this cd is truly amazing !!! it really GROWS on you! the songs stick. and the whole thing just jells in your mind like warm honey. i need to play it OFTEN. it gets better each time i hear it! this is a very ambitious and spirited album. there is a lot of variety here, creative and magical direction, and just...FEEEEEELLLLS GOOOOOD! A VERY SPECIAL CD that makes us wonderful again!

Great stuff.......2005-07-30

The Coral have been the band that have always been at the center of the new Liverpool music explosion. If they didn't pave the path maybe things would not have been so easy for like-minded bands such as The Zutons. They have always had an eclectic mix of British psychedelic and modern folk music. This album is another great chapter in the musical life of The Coral. They are a young band (all under 24) and they show their development of this, their fourth or fifth release. This album doesn't really have a few singles and a few songs to fill up the rest. It is a steady journey. It is a full picture. I find myself dipping in here and there. It's mood music for any time of the day. It's mellow in part. It rocks out at other times. It is a very mod record.

They sing the mourning.......2005-07-24

Growing Pains- CORAL -Getting Better.......2005-07-02

Hmmmmm..........2005-06-23

I like it better than Magic and Medicine but not as much as the self-titled debut. It's the mix of the first two (self-titled and M&M) that Nightfreaks wasn't. Much better production this time around. The standouts (to me) are: She Sings the Mourning Cripples Crown,and A Warning to the Curious. These have that distinct Coral sound to them. Cripples and Warning have the extra polish due to the better production. That's not to mention those two are pretty catchy to begin with.
Caveat emptor! There are two versions of this album. One is just the studio cuts. The second limited edition version has a bonus CD from the BBC radio concert from the Lamacq live show from April, 2005. The bonus disk is a mix of half old and half new songs.
I only gave it 4 because it still has the same feel, and sound of the first two. After two years with two more albums and a few tours, I would have thought that their sound would have changed more than this. They still play safe on this one, while the Curious George in me, wants something...more. It does not change the fact that I still enjoy it.

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Roots and Echoes
The Coral
Manufacturer: Red Ink Import
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ASIN: B000RXYU60
Release Date: 2007-08-13

Tracks:

Who's Gonna Find Me
Remember Me
Put The Sun Back
Jacqueline
Fireflies
In The Rain
Not So Lonely
Cobwebs
Rebecca You
She's Got A Reason
Music At Night

Album Description

2007 album the eccentric Britpoppers. The album was recorded at Oasis' Wheeler End Studios and produced by Craig Silvey (The Magic Numbers) during the opening months of 2007 and mixed in London throughout April. The Coral are one of the UK's most successful bands with eight Top 40 singles since their debut in 2001 The Coral find themselves as the possessors of four Top 5 albums at an age when many bands are still breaking through. Lead singer, James Skelly is the oldest member at just 26. The influence of The Coral on a generation of bands is hard to overstate, they returned the art of British Pop song writing to the charts and gathered influential fans along the way. One being Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys who has invited the band to support them on their European tour this summer and Lancashire County Cricket Ground shows. Columbia.

Album Details

2007 Release of the Band's Fourth Full Length Album, Building on the Success It's Immediate Predecessor, "The Invisible Invasion". It was Recorded at Oasis' Wheeler End Studios and Produced by Craig Silvey (The Magic Numbers). They Premiered the Songs of this Album During their Appearance at the 2007 Glastonbury "Mudfest", Giving Fans a Taste of Things to Come. The Influence of the Coral on a Generation of Bands is Hard to Overstate, They Returned the Art of British Pop Song Writing to the Charts and Gathered Influential Fans Along the Way. One Being Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys who Invited the Band to Support them on their 2007 European Summer Tour.

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