The Coral

2/5 - This felt like it could be created by a band that plays at an adult-oriented Showbiz Pizza.

I think Mr Dimmery has to admit that 'landfill indie' was accurately named and save for one decent pop song, this doesn not merit its place

Huh? I didn't need to hear this one before I died.

I knew right away when I saw an album I had never heard of from the early aughts that this was a Dimery British band addition to the list. Some okay moments but mostly just didn't feel like it needed to be unearthed over 20 years later for a listen

Sigh. Another UK act, largely unknown outside the country. At 400+ out of 1001, I'm noticing a trend (!) ... which appears to be exposing mostly British artists to the rest of the world, with *just enough* from the rest of the globe to keep us non-UK yobbos in the mix. But - again! - does this need to be heard before I die? No. It's not terrible, even a little interesting. But after a few tracks, it's largely forgettable. On the global point, has anyone done a breakdown of where these LPs come from? What's the mix?

Oooh indie music, the 00s avenue for men to be mediocre. We've not had much of it so far on this list so far. There was one song I recognised on here from being a youth, but I couldn't give you a name of a song or a tune from the rest of it x

The Coral - The Coral “Didn't I already listen to this?” I fumed at the generator, but no, it was Klaxons. Forgive me, the bric-a-brac album art and the being totally not vital listening confused me. I mean, the two aren't even similar. Klaxons were an english rock band making boring post-strokes rock. The Coral are an english rock band making white reggae sea shanties. Klaxons were recommended by some shaggy haired bloke who doesn't know seven nation army is an international sporting chant but would start pretending he was into sport if he found out. The Coral were recommended by someone who has been cryogenically frozen in an early 00s frathouse with an O.A.R. poster in his dorm room. Klaxons was nearly an hour of sameness. The Coral is just over a half hour but felt as long as Klaxons. On the plus side, the more of these I get, the more proud and comfortable I am with giving something ⭐️⭐️

Garbage... oh wait, sorry... they're British... RUBBISH.

you know, I thought I'd like this one more

There must be a mistake, please check your algorithm as this does not deserve a place in any 1001 albums.

When you blend disparate items together, sometimes you bless the world with a phantasmagorical concoction that betters human civilization. Sometimes, you get a brown sludge that tastes like charred battery acid. This falls into the latter category.

2 stars feels harsh because it was an alright album but I wasn’t really that into any songs outside of Dreaming of You, so here we are

Lots of pop music. Nothing special for me.

they all of these influences yet they don’t really do anything with them except mimic them…

I hardly got anything out of this album. Some of the songs sounded silly and unnecessary. ‘Dreaming of You’ is a fantastic song and really saved the album for me because there wasn’t much else that stood out to me except some decent guitar riffs.

4 tracks in I was liking it, the first track with the sea shanty thing, Dreaming of You is quite catchy, the singer is good, love his accent, his Alex Turner type of accent, from where is that? From Yorkshire innit? They're not from the same place you say? I don't know, Hoylake? What the fuck is that? He don't sound like a beetle? Anyway, by the end I was tired of these guys, they're - not bad, but many of their ideas just fall flat, it's irritating.

Totally forgettable and leaves no real impression at all. As I write this I struggle to even remember why it was so unmemorable. I do recall one of the things I didn't like was the folk-y feel to some of the songs. The rest... just kind of there.

It was OK. I like the modern take on 60s psych / Iggy Pop influence, but its not for me

Ah the early 2000’s. Where every group of white guys that could manage to record one decent single were the Saviors of Rock & Roll(tm) who were going to be around forever and sell more than the Beatles, until their second record tanked and everyone promptly forgot about them.

I should like this more, but I just don't. I found it annoying; the mix of styles felt forced. The mix of the album also threw me off. Lots of things were so much louder than others, like on Skeleton Key. The vocals and lead guitar drowned everything else out.

meh out of ehh 2.99

I always lumped The Coral.togerher with The Zutons, who admittedly came a few years later. Quite liked the singles they put out if they came on the radio but not enough to investigate them further. I saw Zutons live once and they were an energwtuc, fun show. I got there album on this project and enjoyed a few other tracks aside from the singles and gavd that a three star rating, so I can't give this any more than a 2 because I only enjoyed Dreaming of You and Goodbye. I also discovered they've just put out a new album. I gave it a listen and, sadly, can repirt they haven't got any better in the intervening quarter of a century

This strikes me as a band who doesn’t know who they want to be. The music, at least this album, is a combination of too many styles, to the point where it’s just kind of strange. None of it flows. I don’t think it’s bad, I just don’t know what it is.

- aggressively "meh" -- the Wikipedia page lists a lot of the inspiration the musicians drew from when composing the album (including Trout Mask Replica!), but I didn't catch any of it during my listen - near the end of the album, I was thinking about whether this or something outrageously bizarre like The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (another recent listen from this project) would be worse if I were stuck on a desert island with nothing else for entertainment, and I came to the conclusion that this would definitely be worse - vaguely pirate-y but not really, with nothing in the lyrics or musicality to pass the time thinking about or dissecting for fun. it was hard to feel invested in any of the songs - it would not surprise me if this group was a favorite when performing only around their local pub scene (and I'm sure the live performances were/are entertaining), but I'm surprised this effort received any international attention at all

Not really a fan. Boring and derivative.

That was a fairly wild ride. I had only heard one of the tracks before, 'Dreaming of You', and that's a decent toe-tapping track. There were a couple of further tracks that were decent, but there was quite a lot of 'weird' tracks. They weren't bad, like I had to turn it off, but they just didn't seem to fit into the album. I get the feeling the band was trying to shoehorn as many genres in as possible, and that just weakened the whole thing for me personally. I did make it all the way through, which guarantees 2 stars!

This is not my cup of tea. I will say one thing this band has going for them is that at least on this record they weren’t afraid to get a little weird. Compare that with other roots revival bands from the early aughts - I’m looking at you Band of (Fucking) Horses - and it at least feels like they were trying to break new ground.

The sounded like a weird mando diao record. Not a fan.

There was just one song I really liked in this album, and I only first heard it in Scrubs.

2.5

I only liked "dreaming of you"the others are not good at all i give it a generous 3/10

2.5. Few great songs but think I'm just not a big fan of the ska influence

Not heard of this band. Started really strong. Great arrangements and instrumentation, but that waned quickly. The overall sound is ska adjacent so that's no good. The songs seem to be covers of good songs by a local pub band. The bones are there, but it doesn't work.

Weird and kinda dumb.

Really a filler album, not memorable or good. 2 stars

Oh man! What is up with this list?

Props for the variety. They try a lot of things on this record, and some of it is genuinely quite good. But much of it is bad, and all of it seems hollow and soulless.

Durchmischter gedanked er mir sagt es ist spannend und was soll das??

обложка топовая!!! очень стильно остальное meh. я люблю инди и панкушность, но тут ничего не зацепило

Потенциала много, я думал ваще выпал тир S альбом, но чет в итоге просто нахерачено всего по немногу (или по многу), скачки от жанра к жанру, инструментал из всех щелей и изъебывается как может (ритм-секция энергичная). На Bad Man ребята ваще загнулись чета. И типа ну прикольно, наверное, но мне абсолюнто не зашло. Обложка отлично передает настроение альбома, вот что я скажу. Но, мне кажется, можно что-нибудь еще у этой группы поискать, талант имеется. NASRANO

Brutal. This 1001 album thing is killing my hope. Tomorrow it will be something good! And then utter let down. Day after day. This sounds like a band that plays on scooby doo.

Thought it was going to be good but then, nope.

Literally nothing momarable here, besides one or two OK songs.

Pastiche mosaic.

Very forgettable. There were a variety of styles explored on this album, but nothing stood out to me. Pass.

horrific ska/pub music slop

this didn’t hold my interest at all, i found it so hard to concentrate on what i was listening to

Not horrible but a one and done.

2002. Nada novedoso, rock and roll de los 90.

I feel pretty underwhelmed after listening to this. 'Dreaming Of You' is such a wonderful song, and so I had really high hopes for the rest of the album. Maybe it deserves a second listen but I just didn't get on with most of the tracks here. Can't work out why it deserves a spot on this list! Favourites: Dreaming of You Waiting for the Heartaches Skeleton Key

jack white and modest mouse sing sea shanties

Nope, not interesting at all...

kinda more like a one hit wonder

Interesting, but I don't really feel like it was brining anything too new to the party. Kind of just feels like, well, an album from 2002.

Haven't heard of them before. Well it's just your average early 00s British thing but it had some interesting moments 2/5

More mediocre early 2000s beta band sounding shit. I think I'm ready to be done with this list

Not awful.

There was one song which was vaguely familiar but the rest was kinda disappointing

This is the type of gnarly indie like The Libertines or The Strokes that I've always found dreadful. This is only saved by some decent enough songwriting, quite liked 'Waiting For The Heartaches' for example.

At least they tried something I guess

This is fine.

I really didn’t care for this album. I don’t know what it was other than the sound of it mainly. I tried to like some of the songs like goodbye but it just didn’t do it for me

First things first... I owe The Thrills a massive, public apology. A few weeks back I said they were one of the weakest "The" band from this early 200s era, but then I had to listen to The Coral again, and wow... The Thrills were just kinda boring with their california band vibes and incessant location name dropping, but The Coral? It's a mess, a total disaster. They apparently have to have every instrument imaginable, but it doesn't make them good. They only have one decent song, "Dreaming Of You," and even that feels weird next to everything else. Listening to this album is like having a bad dream. Someone tried to mix polka, ska, and some weird folk stuff, and it's just... awful. It hasn't just not aged well, it's gone bad.

This one managed to annoy me. Feels bland and abrasive by design and I couldn't stand the vocals. Instrumentals were nice? Didn't finish the album. - Disorienting intro. Quirky, but also lame rock at the same time? - Sorry, I don't get it. I don't need some guy shouting at me? Instrumentals are unique I guess?

A one hit wonder does not make a good album. They're a one hit wonder for a reason... 2 ⭐️

the only song that i liked in this album was i remember when. sooo idk

2,5

Some cool bits here and there, but overall forgettable.

not my speed

A bit all over the place, with a weird amount of klezmer? sounding stuff.

Won’t return to this. Definitely not the worst thing in the world but this type of music is just not for me.

It’s okay. I don’t think I will go back and listen again, though. Where are they now? Is this really one of the most important records of all time?

an album lost at sea with no direction of what it wants to be. there's glimpses of something maybe okay, but it's turn of the century british rock that tries to hit on every genre under the sun, so what is there to expect? it's such an uninspired time in music. there's a million albums like this where you could exchange any song across any rock album from around this time and the average listener would be none the wiser. the idea that this is an important or notable album in any capacity is such a joke.

There's half of a pretty good album in here. The reviews on this website are REALLY harsh against this so I was expecting something absolutely dogshit but its not quite that. It's a retro-rock revival album from the early 2000s and is highly competent at that and not much more then that. It's inherently going to be the musical equivalent of finding tobasco spicy. I liked "shadows falls" and "Dreaming of You" but the second half falls into a straight up nose dive with songs like "Goodbye" sounding like generic brit rock and songs like "Skeleton Key" straight up sucking imo. It's like they were dipping into too many different forms of rock and ended up inadequately exploring all of them. Breadth of an Ocean, depth of a swimming pool. Honestly this album might have the largest second half drop off we've seen yet. It's half a 4 and half a 1, so I guess it's a 2?

Don’t understand the love for this. I don’t like the beats, the rhymes, his voice or his cadence.

meh- pretty average. it feels generic and i got bored 3 songs in

This was an odd, genre-defying entry. Part polka, part ska, part indie, part psychedelic, part folk, this album definitely defies expectations of an album released in 2002. While the composition of the songs were intriguing, if not a bit chaotic, I didn't really find this to be a pleasant or an essential listen.

No termino de saber como pensar al respecto, tienen cosas que me han gustado, como la variedad y la mezcla de estilos, pero no me ha terminado de gusta, exceptuando una o dos canciones. Me ha dejado mas confusa que al señor que casi tiene un accidente porque le habian dao por culo.

boring

If I cannot remember what the album was the day after listening to it, then it must be pretty bland, but not memorably awful. Two.

Not quite as bad as some of the other landfill indie of the time but we really didn’t need a reimagining of the jangle pop of ‘the lad’s’ with the smallest smidge of psychedelia. Singles aside (though the were relative highs rather than absolute), this was a rather boring trudge through to the end. Vocals grated on me, mixing grated on me (far, far too much treble for my liking) and wasn’t sad when it finished at all.

Only recognise 1 song, rest if pass on to be honest!

0 reason for me to listen to this before I die. I think the best word for it is "annoying" Best Song: I Remember When Rating: 3/10 Stars: 2

Not in my edition of the book! 2002. 2 stars. At first I thought this was by a 60s band that had somehow slipped under my radar. Nope, it's millennium scousers reliving their grandparents favourite "beat" records. Well done of its kind, but oddly soulless. Worth a listen though.

Revivalists without much original to say. Just listen to The Animals or Tge Doors.

Like the Fratellis or Arctic Monkeys. Not all that compelling.

Most of this was boisterous, annoying nonsense. I appreciate its unique blend of genres, but unfortunately, like orange juice + toothpaste, some combinations will just never taste good.

Sounded kinda pirate-y? which was cool but all in all not really my thing

it’s a more commercial-sounding matchbox twenty. bland but slight replay value.

Complex, well crafted... But not my taste, at least at the time I listened to this...

I think I’m being more harsh as I inch towards the finish line because early on in this challenge I would have probably given this 3 stars and thought it was “fine.” But now I’m like, ugh fuck this. This is so pretentious I think I can actually hear them getting high off their own farts in some of these tracks. A few okay moments, but overall this was more bothersome British shit.

This was okay, I liked it a little more than I expected based on the reviews of my listening friends. 2+ but not enough to round up.

Eh, nothing really jumped out at me for this one. Really a huge mishmash of song genres that never really seemed to find a right path.

I barely remember that I listened to this on Friday, wasn't terrible.

It was aight, but didn't stand out to me very much.

Kinda meh, they have a vibe but its just sorta bland. Forgettable

a couple interesting tracks but mostly just a bog standard brit rock album.

2.5

Album was good but not 1001 to listen to before you die.

It was fine

Dreaming of You is a great song, the rest all over the place but short at least.

Infelizmente não rolou.

I had several problems with this record. The songs mostly seemed half-formed, jolting from one style to another within the same track. There was very little flow. I found the lyrics pointless as well. Not for me. Ah well, on to the next one.

Not bad but not real memorable

Nytt for meg. Oppleves som et snodig innslag på denne lista. Vet ikke helt hva jeg skal sammenligne dette med. Interessant og noe teatralsk indie rock. Stort sett fengende, men det blir alt i alt litt for tynt. Top 3: I Remember When, Dreaming of You, Shadows Fall

This was not very good l.

Interesting and not annoying. But nothing special here.

Pretty ordinary honestly

As with the majority of early 00s British music additions to this list, they are undeserving of a place. I gather it has since been removed from later additions but it's beyond me how, although somewhat unique and interesting, this can be deemed top 1001 material. Dreaming of You was a very catchy tune in my teens, but a lot of the album is a bit of a struggle now.

The fact that this album (as of writing) had an absolutely perfect normal distribution of ratings was significantly more interesting than the album itself.

Got about halfway through this album and felt exhausted. I get it, the author of this list is English and felt the need to thrust a lot of obscure and frankly shitty English bands at us, but this is getting ridiculous. I didn't like any of this.

гитарный тон хороший в начале, но в целом не зашло чето...

i didn't love it mostly because of the vocals which i didn't like also i just found it kinda uninteresting

Eh, not terrible but didn't enjoy it.

This was fine. I likely won't ever listen again.

Listens to this album yesterday and make can remember a single thing about it. Which is never a good sign. 2.5/5

Not my fave. Plenty of variety of song styles. Just did not talk to me at all.

I grew up where The Coral grew up so have a slight issue of being massively over exposed to them. Still regularly name dropped by my brother’s mates 20+ years later, seemingly unaware the rest of the world has moved on. “ey lad gerron this rite. Bin chattin to James Skelly / Bill Ryder-Jones. Says he’ll produce me new EP if I go round is gaff this Satdy.” “Is it yeah? Sound tha ya know.” “Is rite. Giz a go on that lemo there lad”

A bunch of scouse scallies take acid and record an album. They stole the airwaves for a bit in the early '00s - lucky they didn't steal your bike. I didn't fall for the hype then and I'm not falling for it now. Thinks it's weird and quirky, when actually it is just a bit of a bore. Best Tracks: Dreaming of You; Goodbye;

Ok at times, but irritating most of the time. I wouldn't compare this guy's voice to Jim Morrison's at all, but the music is kind of the same vein--for better or worse. 2/5

It seemed like it might be interesting but unfotuneately it isn't. 2 stars or D+.

This was weird. And not weird-good, but maybe, possibly, weird-interesting, provided many listens, which I just didn't have the heart for yesterday. The first song I though I truly kinda liked by this album turned out to be the Apple Music auto-play of another artist after this album ended. This is better than 50 Cent though--I think I will forever regret giving that album 2 stars.

How is there not yet an emoji for a wet fart? I realize a literal image would be problematic, but something cultural, along of the likes of how the anodyne eggplant is now forever a dong. #itstime Anyways, I need one for this album. I classify it under the hood of English Lout-Lad Rock, a genre that started around the time of the Rolling Stones, but I’m sure lives on today. I reckon that louty lads especially had a day around the mid-aughts: Kasabian, The Streets, and I guess The Coral, though this is the first I’ve heard of them. +1 star for the reasonably cool harmonies, which season these bland shouty songs with a little sea shanty saltiness. Alas, I thought this was a great new discovery, but 🍑💦💨

Was not really what I expected it to be, but that also didnt mean that I enjoyed it too much.

I remember these kinds of bands a lot in the 90s. I think the one that did it the best was Mano Negra. As for The Coral, the mix of styles is interesting and it’s well played and recorded but for me it sounds a little stilted and a bit too clever for its own good as if trying to win over a conservative audience in a friendly way which they no doubt did. This is good but for me is not essential listening. Personally I’m not sure that I would ever need to listen to this again however I might play this to a group of the right people at a party if they were somewhat adventurous but conservative listeners.

Some cool sounds from this obscure (to me) band from across the pond, but otherwise a forgettable album. Not sure what makes this list-worthy, similar to several other generic British bands that seem ever-present on this list.

2.8

🤷‍♂️

British Rock

I usually love psychedelic music but this was not it for me. Kinda boring and not really something I haven’t heard before.

Blind album and artist. Loved how it started, but got the end dragged for me.

Meh

Just started to get on my nerves before I was finished with the album. Not good.

This what happens when someone good at Karaoke is off-handedly told they could start a band but takes it way too seriously and only bloody goes and does it, but just stole a bunch of songs from those compilations put out by record labels that scour the third world for obscure Peruvian cumbia synthpop, Zambian circus psych, or Balkan disco jazz vinyl to re-release.

Remarkably forgettable sorry

Yeah I can see why they are a one hit wonder

Scratching my head over how this ended up on this list. It’s not a bad album per se but it extremely forgettable generic “alt rock”. It’s not Kid Rock bad though so I’ll give it two stars. 2/10

Eh. 2.5

It was kind of interesting and different. 2.5

It's OK, but stinks of red stripe

Earnest. Dull.

I think I felt second-hand embarrassment from listening to this. People took this album seriously? “Universal acclaim” says Wikipedia. I can put an article about my ass on Wikipeida and say it had critical acclaim and it would feel just as accurate. It’s almost a bunch of sea shanties that were written by a circus. It feels like it’s trying to be almost every genre at once, but can’t do any of them right. Is it Britpop? Is it psychedelic? Who knows? Who cares. Thank god this shit only clocks in at over a half-hour. Favorite track: Goodbye Other hits: …I cannot name another song I liked

3/10

Not for me.

This is an unusual cocktail. At its core, this has the bones of early aughts coke-snot rock, a la Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, etc, but instead of drawing an aesthetic from the Lou Reed / Television NYC art scum world, this band instead takes their style (at least to my ears) from 60s re-hashers like Trip Shakespeare, Dukes of Straosphear, and the whole Paisley Underground set, with some extremely direct nods to origin acts like the Doors, the Byrds, and improbably, quite a bit of Beefheart. It's hard for me to read this as anything but kitschy pastiche, and I have to wonder who, apart from the band members, was interested in this exact stylistic collision... but the they do go at it with some gusto, and they keep things in a well-defined space with an overall nautical theme to the lyrics and a tremolo-drenched guitar sound. Good for them, I guess.

Not that great.

2nd artist in this journey where I'm confident I'd never heard anything from them before. This may be pretty harsh — it feels like a really talented cover band decided to release an album based on their group playlist of top 40 from the previous 4 decades. It felt like they watched Austin Powers before walking into the studio and wanted to capture that in sound, along with some reggae and ska tones. A few of the songs were fun, but it felt disjointed as an album listening experience — like hitting shuffle on some genre-spanning indie playlist — and that made me think of an album like Picaresque. That album from The Decemberists came a few years after this while successfully combining broad influences into a cohesive storytelling journey that I could listen to on repeat.

Energetic Enthusiastic Forgetful

Hmmm... It was ok until it got very pirate-y. And I'm really into pirate music outside of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Der eine Hit, ja gut, sonst hat es mir aber nicht so gefallen

I get a little worried whenever one of these albums is from some post-2000 rock band that I have never heard of, because there has to be a good reason why that is so. Now having heard one of their albums, if I never hear from them again I would be okay with that.

It's an easy listen. It's not bad for what it is. Didn't mind it while listening. OK that's the positive. It’s the sum total of absolutely nothing new, amalgamation of what they had in their record collection, which is how everyone starts but this does it without going anywhere different and just ends up sounding derivative. A good bar band, the new thing for the kids at the time, not essential 20 years on. It's an OK album, it is but that it, just feels like we have to meet quota from the 2000’s to say rocks just as relavant. Further reading indicates Mercury prize nomination and next big thing with the critics which explains a lot, and from this list so far is almost an immediate point reduction 2.5Star

Not bad, but felt like I'd heard tons of bands with this sound before.

A few decent hits.

Pretty much total crap but at least it was short.

not my least favourite, but certainly the least worthy of the list. who cares about this

Fannst þetta frekar slöpp plata

Ekki skemmtilegt.

One in a Million. Anhörbar, ohne besondere Highlights.

Started ok and then really annoyed me. Lucky to get 2.

It wasn't horrible. It wasn't good. It wasn;t unique. It wasn't groudbreaking. And it wasn't something I want to hear again.

Kinda boring

I saw a review here about how Brits are tone deaf for stealing music from colonies. It's good to remember that we did that with 2-tone music, whose bands were formed of a mix of Brits and Jamaicans, vocally anti-racist, and used their success to promote support for the Jamaican communities of Britain. This isn't one of those cases, and is just shit.

This singer kinda sounds like Neil Diamond. Other than that, terrible album on a terrible list.

Never heard of this group. Album was durorusingky good

I'd never heard of The Coral. This album is chaotic and not in a great way. Did they steal the guitar riff on "Goodbye" from Disney's It's A Small World? The early aughts were a wild time.

Okay album I guess? Listened to it yesterday and once again cannot remember it.

An unexpected blend of early aughts alt rock and late 60s psychedelic folk. The end result is periodically entertaining. But not entertaining enough to round up from 2.5*.

it's not baddddd but it's not top 1001?? This has maybe one very good song...

Aggressively average 2000's British rock music. Also, 1001albumsgenerator conspiracy theory. Two 5/5 ratings for this with identical reviews. Different profiles for each. Is it a computer glitch? Did someone simply decide they liked the other review and copy/paste it? Are The Corals are trying to game the system and boost their 1001 albums rating? Or is it a British psyop to try and convince the world that Brit rock isn't just the same 5 songs over and over? Maybe this entire list is British propaganda.

This gives off internet-age vibes, sort of like the kind of music someone mostly on Tumblr would listen to back in 2013, which is impressive considering this came out a decade prior, however that circus music-esque design just sounds goofy, especially when paired with a garage rock-lite sound. It has its moments of solid melodies where everything comes together, but then the singer will decide to make his voice sound like gravel, or they'll repeat the same lyric over and over, and it'll get tiring quickly. It isn't a bad album, it blows by pretty quickly, but there's nothing special here, or if there is, its buried under layers of mid.

Some of this is interested. I expected more of a generic garage rock sound, but was somewhat surprised by the bits of psychedelia, sea shanties, circus music, etc. mixed in. It's never too weird to stray from commercial palatability, which is where it fails in my opinion - it's just too middle of the road to be truly interesting.

Really not a fan of this

42 minutes of pure ear-grating material and yet I still cannot bring myself to give it a 1/5 because I know there are worse... much worse... in the days to come. Still, not a fan!

Ok… unique sound

I was considering a very generous 3. Then came a concluding track who's lyric ends by repeating 14 times, a chorus of 'Calendar & Clocks & Hickory Docks (Tick Tock)'. I guess it's meant to be hypnotic - trust me, it ain't.

It’s alright. Probably wouldn’t listen again

Jaunty rock, but it feels shallow. Definitely a unique sound, but it doesn't feel interesting or exciting.

The best parts are a 60s garage rock pastiches. Overall though this is still filed under landfill indie in my mind

No coherence, just a couple of good songs.

I feel bad because The Choral are putting a lot into this album to add flavour, to titillate, to entertain, but because I’m not wowed by the core ingredients it ultimately adds up to a boring listening experience for me. There are gorgeous guitar licks here and there, but there’s tepid guitar chords too, paired with plodding bass lines. No amount of unexpected sea shanty harmonies can solve that for me. There’s then Dreaming of You, gleaming from the middle of a beige tracklist, so obvious in its brilliance. It’s a finely crafted piece of pop which has earned every second of its airtime.

After seeing the year the album was released, I was wondering why I'd never heard of them. My guess is the band is British and this was going to be another bland, boring British album. I was mistaken, as it was a little different than the typical boring british bland rock and it wasn't bad. I wouldn't call it required listening though. Dreaming Of You and Waiting for Heartaches were decent tracks but Skeleton Key and Bad Man were super corny and I had to knock the score down. It sounds a little similar to Murder City Devils with the organ. Go listen to them instead.

Interesting, but not essential.

zzz...kind of boring and not very good. british rock used to be good. i like the bonus disc better but the entire album is pretty forgettable.

No conocía al grupo y he de decir que tampoco es mi estilo. Se puede escuchar y no está mal pero tampoco es algo que yo escucharía por mi cuenta.

Dreaming of You is brilliant, and overshadows everything else on the album. Next best song was Wildfire, but I'm not ranking them, as I had to skip a few out of annoyance (plus, I don't think I should be ranking songs). Overall, pretty boring. +1 for Dreaming of You/Liverpool area bias.

More Brit bias creeps in on this list with an album that is mediocre at best. This album stood out in no way at all, and nothing I heard sounded fresh, or even well done. It came and went like a fart.

Oh, for the love... early aughts "rock" that leans heavily on reggae, hold on - make that 60's psych, no... wait - polka? Ugh. it's a soup of mid rock that is trying to find a sound that sticks, but does not. None of it is bad, but none of it feels authentic.

Grindcore style album cover. Conjures images of Terrorizer or Brutal Truth. Ooh maybe Dystopia. They’re more crust/sludge or some other synonym for filth. Either way. I’m sure this won’t hold a candle to any of that, but that’s only based on about 11 months of terrible recommendations, so who’s to say. Throw me overboard, I need to collect some of this coral. Spanish Main - Interesting. Well, until the vocals come in. Jeeeeesus. Musical theatre. The music itself was pretty interesting, but the vocals sounded like Maroon 5. I Remember When - More Maroon 5 vo-kills. God, have you ever seen when cheesy bedroom black metal bands say things like “vo-kills?” I love it in an ironic sort of way. This song is alright but I can’t get behind this vocalist. Better than the last, especially during the verses. Shadows Fall - Oh noooo. It’s like post-ironic polka. Plus, it made me think of mid-2000s metalcore. And the associated swoop haircut. I experience zero nostalgia for like 2008-2014. What a lame era. Dreaming of You - I have been wracking my wrecked brain to try and recall where I’ve heard this song before. I also swore it sounded slightly different. I think it was in “Lego Rockband.” God I loved those rhythm games. This is actually a really sweet sounding song. I hate liking the popular ones, especially considering this was in an ad for “indeed,” but this is pretty undeniable. Simon Diamond - I always thought Simon Dean was Simon Diamond before, but it was actually just some club who teamed with CW Anderson in the dark days of ECW. When ECW stood for Even CW gets booked. Stinky song. Goodbye - I wish this was goodbye. I’m not having the best of times here. Fairly uninspiring. Waiting for the Heartaches - Man, this opening act has been going forever. When are the Heartaches going to get here?? This shitty reggae influenced band has been playing for hours. What’s that? It’s only been like 25 minutes? I’ve felt every second of that 25 minutes twice. Skeleton Key - Spooky! That weird funk break near the end broke the monotony of the previous few minutes, but then that was pretty lame too. Wildfire - Ringtone music meets the Clash. While that is what I believe to be the perfect combo for the creators of this list, I dislike both of those parts. Their sum? Even worse. Bad Man - Oh buddy we’re getting some sniffs. We’re getting some pounding drums. We’re getting mistakes on guitar. Ugh I just don’t care. Calendars & Clocks - This album feels like it’s measured in calendars rather than clocks. This song is really bad and has soured me on the whole album. I was leaning towards saying this was mediocre until that last stretch of songs. This thing sucks. 34 minutes felt like 134, and I hope this is the very last we see from this band. A cool album cover and one good hook can’t save you from the devastation that is receiving a poor rating from 1001albumsgenerator.com user 1617385. Truth hurts pal. The ska is coming from inside the album. Get me out of here. 1.5-2 HIGHLIGHTS: Dreaming of You

Other than 'Dreaming Of You', I wasn't that familiar with The Coral's music. After listening to this album, I can safely say I've not missed out on much. Let's start with some positives - the harmonies are on point, great vocals throughout. As far as the sound of the band goes, you can hear that this is them in an early stage still discovering themselves. It did get a bit same-y after a few songs though. Other than the big song on this album, the rest of the tracks aren't my taste. 'Bad Man' wasn't too bad either, but that's mainly because there was some life in that song. The rest of the album was very average though. I'm sure someone out there will love it, but it ain't for me. 2/5 is generous, but that's because there are definitely worse albums out there.

Unmemorable

hey schono kuul, v.a. am afang, aber mit de zit wirds lärmig und langwiilig

I didn't know The Coral and I will say the album cover did not inspire confidence in a great listening experience. I did of course realize that I DID know Dreaming of You, but that was also the highlight of the album. Too shouty and too ska-y.

4.5/10

Not for me

I found this album a bit meh, other than the track “dreaming of you” which was released all the other songs were very samey

never heard of this. apparently it's super common in charity shops in, you guessed it, the uk. even at its best (Shadows Fall) it's not terribly original or interesting. derivative. deserves to be one of the 1001? no

While the Beatles are not directly to blame, all those Yellow Submarine style awnings and playpark fixtures around Liverpool must have some effect on the children. The Zutons, The Wombats, and The Coral, all from Liverpool, and all amiably pop and psychedelic. You can go back to The Teardrop Explodes and Echo and the Bunnymen for more psychedelia, and Ian Broudie and Lee Mavers for more pop. Can the city do anything else? If you read that list with an honest heart, the returns clearly diminished over time, growing more and more childish and less challenging. It would be harsh of me to criticise the Coral too much though - I played that same sort of bouncing fifths bassline a lot in 2002 - but I can't say that anything from this album is worth listening to nearly twenty-five years later. I went to Liverpool as a kid and rode on a Blue Meanie spring rocker. I imagine it's still there, but eaten through with rust. Not so whimsical anymore. A guaranteed death trap. 1.5 ‘I shall give you a new song, it’s in the modern idiot and it goes something like this…’ The Coral display plenty of confidence on their debut album. Confidence in their playing, and in James Skelly’s singing in particular. They are confident too in their constant display of their debt to their great forebears in English pop music; XTC, The Specials, and of course Benny Hill. But why didn’t they cover ‘Dustbins of Your Mind’ or ‘Gather in the Mushrooms’, songs which sprung to mind irresistibly throughout my listen to their album? I would say it’s because the lyrical heft of Benny’s work might have shown up a lot of the empty dogshit-about-nothing (‘Simon Diamond’, ‘Bad Man’) that populates this album; songs that are all nudge and wink without any evident implication. ‘Dreaming of You’ is a banger though, even if I was already sick of hearing it about 20 years ago. 1.5/5

These guys don’t know who they are. I have some suggestions for replacing this album. This is not the best 1001 albums but the 1001 album that need to be listened. There is a difference. This did not need to be listened to, though.

Mostly ok, some good music in there, singing was passable. Best song: Dreaming Of You

Which one? They're all slimy.

Blending psychedelic rock and ska, there are some interesting musical ideas and a good album in here somewhere, it just never quite comes together as a whole.

Decent

no

Really not a great folk album. Pretty messy and wandering with lifeless paint by the numbers instrumentals, and bad vocals and lyrics. Some moments were OK but not close to deserving of a spot on the list. 1.5/5 - > 2/5

Thankfully it was only half an hour long. Otherwise entirely unremarkable.

It’s okay, nothing really stands out. 2/5 Probably won’t listen again

This could have been a good album if half of the songs were just better.

This takes me back. Dreaming of You will forever and always be a real jam. Calendars and Clocks was really good as well. Could live without the rest of it though.

Kind of all over the place.

Ehhh

Britpop after the fact.

Love a couple of the songs, but the reality is that this just isn’t up there with the best albums ever.

nahh

2.36

I've always really liked The Coral, some of their songs I absolutely adore. But they've always appealed to the slightly naff side of my music taste. And in no way is this a *Good* Album. And actually, having always loved Dreaming of You, now that I listen to the whole album, I like Dreaming of You a little less...

Crazy in a good way but still not good

It feels like they swept up all the abandoned ideas left behind at the recording studio, and strung them all together in one record.

A spacey 60s style psychedelic-sounding album with some interesting songs but mostly sounding a little parody-like. I enjoyed it somewhat but I do ask myself is this really an album I needed to hear before I died. The answer is no! 2.5 stars for nostalgia purposes only

Hard to understand why this one is on here. Nothing particularly remarkable about it.

custom_rating: 5

This is not for me. I feel like they have interesting ideas and could make a cool concept album with some follow through. But I didn't understand this collection of songs as a whole on any level. I found a lot of it kind of annoying honestly. My playlist song is Goodbye.

Not bad.

Almost a 3. A little too noodly

low mid

is it a hot take if i say it’s a cheap knockoff of 70s rock? ffs this is a 2002 album not 1971

The Coral was probably a breath of fresh air when it came out and we all collectively felt like we heard rock music again for the first time. In 2025 this sounds like The Kinks doing pirate rock.

If this had popped up on a playlist on Spotify or found in the bargain bin at the local record store I might have liked it. I do like my early 2000's rock, but on a list like this it was just unnecessary and janky. 3/10

Not really sure how to rate this one. It wasn't bad, but I definitely feel like it a weirdness that sometimes worked, sometimes didn't woth the pop-punk-esque sound. And I respect the weird, even if it didn't always click. Not bad, but not sure if it's something I'd come back to. Top tracks: Simon Diamond, Wildfire

Some interesting takes on a very 60s sound but not overly original. Lack of lyrical depth and memorability makes the band seem better suited to a concert opener than a headliner.

Vähän kädenlämpöiseksi jäi. 2/5

I especially don't like the plodding drumming.

I've never heard of the band The Coral in my life, and I don't have the energy to Google them, so I'll just focus on what I've heard. This album played hot and cold with me - one song will start well, it will interest me, and then 30 seconds later I'll lose interest. Another will sound like classic rock, so - hey, this could turn out great, only to be smothered with the next one. I don't know what the problem was, but it was a very inarticulate album, which I can't define at all. And since I gave Roxy Music 2/5, I can't give anything more than that here either, because I don't know how this got into the top 1001 albums list.

It’s okay but just okay. Nothing more.

⭐⭐– – – - 2[.4] of 5 stars. Really psychedelic and all over the place, can't tell if that's a good or a bad thing. This album is definitely stuffed with a lot of ideas, with some tracks going for a more "spacious sound," and others feeling kind of cluttered. Kind of made me feel uneasy - but again, idk if it's in a good way or not. Really average - there weren't any major standouts in my opinion, but, I didn't actively hate it. Also, if you were to tell me that this was a 2000s album, I wouldn't believe you - this one sounds really dated. "Goodbye" kinda felt like the only finished idea, with a pretty cool noise guitar break near the middle and the end, but, the rest kinda just felt like awkward and uneasy demos? Favourites: Goodbye⭐. Mid: the rest of the album.

This is the perfect example of how mediocre and forgettable an album can be. Sometimes I feel like the author of this book just walked into a CD store blindfold and randomly selected CDs.

Mira, puede ser un poco agotador, pero al menos es breve. No sé si amerita un lugar en la lista, pero tiendo a creer que no.

I ... don't know what that was. It was a weird amalgamation of '60s folk(ish) and psychedelia and '90s noise. I don't want to listen to it again.

In a lot of ways, it feels like they swept up all the abandoned ideas left behind at the recording studio, and strung them all together in one record. So much hokey shit all in one place. Also, why is there more than one record on this list, that features sea shanties?

This feels like a vanload of ideas trying to be a band. I wasn't sure if it was for me until I heard the reggae number and knew it was not

Es un rock bastante pesado, coqueteando con el punk sin llegar a serlo. Bastante flojo y cansador.

They are very talented musicians performing music that I hate. This is someone's favorite album, I'm sure.

Eh

I am always surprised when I come across a late 90s to early 2000s Indie album from England that I haven't heard of on this list. But each time I a reminded of why that is...that era of music from the UK just doesn't resonate with me at all. So boring!! 2/5

Felt kimd of generic throughout but I'll have to check it out again someday when I'm not working

Not a bad listen, but nothing outstanding

unnecessary could i write poetry to this? n

A Brit Rock mess of multicultural influences. I can understand why it may have been popular in the U.K., but we never heard a lick of it in the U.S. I do not feel that this was a big loss on our part.

2.5. Not sure this is required, but a decent listen

It was okay, not particularly remarkable.

you when something is on, and even when you try to listen you can't hear it so you just kinda sit there and wait for it to be over

Would never have guessed dreaming of you was written by these considering the album fell flat compared to that dream boat of a song. If it was just that one song id give it a 5/5 but that song carries it

Trailblazers for the Hoosiers and Fratellis. Embarassing.

Steve the pirate started a band.... They're not great...

Честно сказать, по большей части мимо. Лучшая песня - Dreaming of You.

I had never even heard of this band. A bit derivative but okay.

Nah. 2

Wow, Simon Diamond is basically Blur circa 1993 (doing The Kinks circa 1967). I love Blur, but can't say I'm bothered about The Coral.

No thanks

The early 2000s are increasingly seeming not a good time for music

Not my favorite Coral album.

Haven't listened to this one in quite a while, interesting to see how aged it is now. Dreaming of You is still a great song, and there are a few other good ones in the first half. But the quality dips dramatically in the second half. And it gets way too pirate-y!

Not really my cup of tea. The genre is okay but I'm not a fan of either the vocal style or instrumentation and songwriting.

I will say this one falls into a strange place in my heart. On one hand, I kind of like the instrumentals and the psych-vibes; however, something about the actual compositions and vocals specifically really rub me raw. At its worst (Spanish Man, Dreaming of You) it reminds me of Maneskin; at its best (Goodbye, Calendars and Clocks) its like a more blissful My Morning Jacket. The middle ground (Waiting for the Heartaches) isn't terribly inspiring or offputting. It just kind of feels underdeveloped in some hard to define way. Yeah I'm very soft on this one. Some of the instrumentals are okay, but I really hated the vocal production -- too far forward and clean for how bad the vocals are. I also found the variations here to be pretty quirky, but not in a good way. I mean we've got some dub (Shadows Fall), polka stomps (Dreaming of You), Spanish(?) pirate inspired (Skeleton Key), acoustic deluge (Calendars and Clocks). All of it loosely held together... This is a soft to middling 2 for me.

It was fine I suppose but like a lot of British acts, it lacked any real enthusiasm and felt forced. I’m projecting my annoyance at the 1001’s never ending favouritism to British acts, at least a little but that doesn’t change the fact that this album was mediocre. It had pops of cool gypsy rock sounds, the single Dreaming of You had something to it. Sketon Key was a bizarre mess of a song, I guess they were going for a pirate thing, Bad Man and Calendars were both annoying and then it was over. Even the album art is a mess, The Coral, how about the Bore-al Yea, I didn’t care for this. 2 stars

Somewhat good but somewhat annoying at times. The Coral is a weird combo of folkie cowboy sound with rockabilly and alternative. It's interesting but not that engaging. I like the lead but don't agree with the Skelley-Morrison comparison even remotely. Can't see how this made the list but wasn't a waste of time...1.9.

iwie zu dadcore für mi

Thoughts before listening: 00s era British dancey indie rock I believe is what this is. Probably doesn't need to be on this list, but might be enjoyable none the less. Review: Ok so its not really dancey indie rock. More just your run of the mill 00s era alt rock with a few catchy songs but nothing really standing out all that much. Reading reviews it seems like critics liked this because it mixed together a bunch of different styles (i.e. 60s psychedelic rock, 80s new wave/ska, etc), which is true, but I feel like a lot of bands were doing that around the time of this release. As is usually the cause with bands on this list from the 90s and 00s, it feels like there were likely better examples of this sound that could have been added...and I only tend to really like the albums from this era if its something I actually listened to a the time. I did not listen to the Coral and I am having a hard time really connecting to this album. 2-stars

2.5/5 stars

It's okay

This album is the audial equivalent of getting farted in your face by a hipster who just walked out of 2003 who constantly goes in about "being born in the wrong generation" and how "no good music was made after 197X".

eh. didnt move me

They were trying a little too hard to sound like an early-70's band.

why oh why was this on the list? 60's psych rock vibe & that is not a good thing. forgettable music

Clearly into their 60s Pop and Psychedelia, I didn't feel like they added much of their own into this. And the lyrics didn't mean anything to me. Seemingly lots of maritime references, which I guess at least fits with the name.

One redeemable song that saved it. Western music that just didn’t swing

Not bad. Familiar with a couple if the songs. Don't get the comparison with Eric Burdon or Jim Morrison , especially the latter , Jim was in a different class

Magic and Medicine was the The Coral album I liked more during college in the mid-00s; their sound aged pretty lousily, as a lot of throwback music can tend to do. So take a wild guess how I feel about my less-favored album by a group I haven't bothered to think about for twenty years. When I saw the Zutons on here I was like “get The Coral on here;” now I’m like burn em all

Never heard of these guys. Are they culturally significant or talented enough to make a “must listen” list? I guess it’s better than another album from The Police.

What is this doing here?

A debut that throws everything at the wall with youthful abandon, but despite its creative ambition, nothing quite sticks.

A hard to categorize rock album. There's stuff here I like, Dreaming of You and Goodbye to name a couple. Wildfire has some nice keyboards on it and a carnavalesque bassline. Neat track. I didn't care much for the first two songs and Skeleton Key was tough to get through. Bad Man is also not working for me. Vocals can be obnoxious at times. ** 1/2

Indie band starting off sounding quirky and novel, but overstayed its welcome.

I'm not down with this at all. A lot of indie from this era was just terrible, floppy haired, happy-go-lucky music with no oomph to it. And of course, this is no exception. Maybe they're a bit more varied than some of their contemporaries in what they're doing musically, but it still has no bite to it at all.

It has moments but not enough of them to make a good album. Also, the singer's voice is annoying. Meh.

A real mixture of rock influences on this, but overall a bit messy and unmemorable.

Horrible

Just a little all over the place. Its not bad, I just couldn't really get into it. It has some Sublime and Shack and The Specials vibes and I can see some merit to the movability of the music. But I don't think I ever need to listen to another Coral album again.

I know this list has a strong UK bias but how is this on the list!

A real mixed bag of genres, sounds like they are having fun but really lacks consistency. 2.5*

Yet another newer record that sounds old. I get that the people who compiled this list miss being young and discovering artists, but if it sounds like the 70's it's not automatically the best thing ever.

Quirky Tom Waits type music but with a more modern rock band. Sometimes tolerable, often annoying. No thank you. Favorite tracks: Dreaming of You, Waiting for the Heartaches. Album art: A collage of a ton of pictures, colorful but I don't know what I'm supposed to make of it. Are these band photos? No idea. 2/5

Un álbum poco destacable en muchos sentidos. La composición es poco inspirada y reiterativa. Se escucha como si Kings of Leon y Blur vivieran juntos en un barco donde solamente existen "sea shanties" que en realidad no dicen nada. El favoritismo de esta lista a artistas "under" británicos es realmente molestoso. Lo he dicho en críticas anteriores, pero encuentro realmente un delito que el debut de un acto que no impacto absolutamente a nadie y a nada esté por sobre trabajos como "Good News For People Who Love Bad News" de Modest Mouse, un trabajo relativamente similar pero mucho más importante para el desarrollo de la música alternativa, llegando a impactar incluso en los tabloides musicales internacionales. Habiendo dicho esto, no creo que The Coral sea un mal disco debut, pero definitivamente no es un "álbum que tienes que escuchar antes de morir". Esto no va a cambiar la vida de absolutamente nadie.

Proof that the Mersey music phenomenon is often one of quantity rather than quality

They sound like a talented band, but despite their best efforts to create an entertainingly eclectic album, I found myself bored throughout.

It wasn't bad by any means, but to think this was an album I needed to hear before I die is a joke. Not every rock revival band from the early 00s must be exalted from on high.

wank

Such a forgettable album.

Ok. Not hating it. Or loving it two stars

indie dreaming of you