^ True that. :)

 

 

Ooooh there's a great little quote from Noel Gallagher about The Coral...

 

"The Coral are so far ahead of their time and their peers it's a joke. The best band of their generation by a very long mile" - Noel Gallagher

 

I love him for that :D

 

:D

 

He's the reason I know The Coral (:rolleyes:)

I think you may enjoy this vid Noemie ;)

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4rTDdYBGFA]YouTube- The Coral - In The Rain (Live with Noel Gallagher)[/ame]

new single, Two Faces

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbHvvd0pW4w]YouTube - The Coral - Two Faces (Radio Edit)[/ame]

 

with a lovely b-side, Gently feat. Bill Ryder-Jones, their old guitarist

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-bIkq8GuxM]YouTube - The Coral - Gently[/ame]

 

Couple of spotify playlists what I made :smug:

 

The Coral bsides, demos & outakes

 

The Coral mixtape

IN THE MORNING! DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOOOOOO DO DOOOOO

 

<3

I just bought tickets to see The Coral supporting the Courteeners in June. :dance: :dance: :dance:

 

I might not even bother hanging round to see the Courteeners :\

I just bought tickets to see The Coral supporting the Courteeners in June. :dance: :dance: :dance:

 

I might not even bother hanging round to see the Courteeners :\

 

I'm not surprised. The Courteeners are basically a boy band with instruments.:dozey:

Yeah, altho your average boy band probably has slightly better lyrics. :P Liam Fray is far from being the Northern poet he thinks he is :rolleyes:

The Courteeners are f-ing amazing! Their 2nd album, Falcon, is a masterpiece!!!

The Coral are f-ing amazing! Their 2nd album, Magic & Medicine, is a masterpiece!!!

 

FIXED :P

:rolleyes:

 

:laugh3:

Bill's written a song with Graham Coxon and Paloma Faith for Converse.

 

 

Tis rather good. :D

So.. I've heard a few of The Coral's big hits and I'm starting to like them and I wondered if anyone could advise me what album to try first?

Woah, didn't know this thread was still alive... thought it had long since disappeared :cool:

 

What have you listened to already Kat? Dreaming of You? In The Morning? Jacqueline? They're the big ones.

 

Butterfly House might be a good place to start; it's the most recent and probably their most solid/consistent album

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N2YuBKMZ2s]The Coral - Butterfly House [song by song album preview] - YouTube[/ame]

 

Roots and Echoes is lovely too - very 60s sounding - try In The Rain, Cobwebs (one of my faves) and Rebecca You

 

The earlier stuff is a bit more eccentric - stuff like Shadow's Fall, Simon Diamond, Skeleton Key, Bill McCai, Goodbye etc are all brilliant but slightly bonkers. It depends what you'd prefer really - the more mature, laid-back, Byrds-inspired later stuff or the madcap, sea-shanty-inspired early stuff ;)

 

Actually, if you've got Spotify the best place to start is search for the Singles Collection and listen to that or search for it on youtube (or I can upload it for u if you'd rather) :D

I added your playlist on Spotify, and have downloaded their first album which is pretty good :heart:

I actually love Shadows Fall and Goodbye the most of the album

Goodbye's brilliant. I love that song :D

Can't go far wrong with The Coral, although Nightfreak & The Sons Of Becker wouldn't be my first choice for a newbie. There was a 2cd ltd edition of Butterfly House with 5 extra tracks, which is well worth getting if you've a choice between the two. They also released an acoustic version of The Butterfly House, although I haven't heard that yet.

 

Has anyone heard the soundtrack album Bill Ryder-Jones put out?

 

Has anyone heard the soundtrack album Bill Ryder-Jones put out?

 

If? Yeah, it's bloody gorgeous - massively different to The Coral's music tho, it's mostly instrumental. If you've not heard it, you can stream it from the guardian's website http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/nov/07/bill-ryder-jones-if-stream?INTCMP=SRCH

 

And I agree, Nightfreak's not one of their most accessible albums :laugh3: /understatement

 

but it has some cracking little songs on there. Grey Harpoon is probably in my top three of fave songs of theirs :D