This song sounds like Cast or something shit like that. The fact that they’re “weird” and that they write “sea-shanties” is neither here nor there, because this is the same old psychadelic crap that Kula Shaker belched, and that The Music are peddling as we speak. Fucking NME and its like for such bollocks. Trust me, in 3 years time they’ll be slagging them off to the same degree as they do Kula Shaker. It’s a well-worn pattern, my friend.
So in the meantime, we wait. They killed off NAM themselves, thank christ, and they’ll do the same with “Scallydelica” or whatever. Wonderful.
And they don’t sound like Captain Beefheart, you know. Captain Beefheart didn’t sound like Cast.
And The Stone Roses are shit.
And so is Dawson’s Creek.
’bye.
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For my tuppence worth, I have heard Goodbye once and thought it was quite good, and had nothing like the pretension of Kula Shakur, and the Coral do seem to come from a genuine angle. They seem pretty in to it. And I saw them at Glastonbury, and the bassist looked cool and was a wicked bass player.
that is all. Thank you for listening.
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eh?
Or does genius in your book have remarkably low requirements
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The Stone Roses reference was a joke, "I may as well insult everything" type thing. And Dawson's Creek was on so I did that too. See, I was taking the piss out of myself! I don't need you! You are irrelevant.
And so's your mum. Ner ner ner ner ner!
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and for the record:
yes, Cast were shit
Kula Shaker were shit
The Stone Roses were pish also
The Music are truly one of the worst new bands this century has seen
Dawson's creek, well that's fucking obvious. [relevance?]
and yet, I'm really starting to like The Coral quite a lot
i kinda empathise with where yr review's coming from tho - it's the sort of reaction i was preparing myself with to them after reading their press [their nme piece at the turn of the year esp] and prior to hearing them myself. i expected to detest them. but i banished all NME-constructed preconceptions and gave them a chance -- somewhat inspired by Stuart Egan's thoroughly refreshing and objective live review of them on Bleedmusic last year -- and they surprised me. i found, largely, completely different reference points and comparisons for them that were far more accurate imho than NME's fucking lazy ones [SFA?!]. and it was certainly worth the trouble.
and no they don't really sound like captain beefheart either - far moreso, a less mushroom-/acid-frazzled + wizard-fixated, Wirral-relocated early Gorky's. for numerous reasons - the abandon, frivolity, skewedness, the youth, drugs, the idea of a clump of teen friends off in their own little world, the mournfulness they can concoct, the use of more than just yer bogstandard Ugly Indie Guitar Band instruments to create something more intriguing than the current usual suspects....
fucking nme, indeed; but for different particular reasons...
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I shall never listen to Mr Lamacq again.
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Apart from the fact that steve lamacq has the best radio show on earth and should therefore be listened to WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM WITH THE CORAL? just because the nme likes them theres no reason to dislike them. lose your biggoted arrogant stuck up attitufe and open your ears - the coral ROCK!
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This site seems to be going downhill recently...
Why doesn't anyone realise that people might like The Coral for reasons other than the fact that NME likes them? Slating stuff just because NME likes it is even more moronic than blindly following NME.
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The Coral release their third album to critical acclaim from DiS. Oh, eat all your words.
Now I know what Marty McFly must've felt like.