History Music / TheCorrs

The Corrs are an Irish folk/pop/soft rock band, consisting of four siblings (in age order: Jim, Sharon, Caroline and Andrea) from Dundalk. Formed in 1990, they acheived major commercial success in 1995 and continued touring, recording and releasing popular albums for ten years before going on hiatus in 2005 to allow all four members time out to get married, have children, raise families and work on solo projects. After some doubt as to whether they'd ever reunite, the band announced they were working on a new album, which was released in late 2015.

The Corrs are an Irish folk/pop/soft rock band, consisting of three sisters and one brother from the Corr family. Formed in 1990, they acheived major commercial success in 1995 and continued touring, recording and releasing popular albums for ten years before going on hiatus in 2005 to allow all four members time out to get married, have children, raise families and work on solo projects. After some doubt as to whether they'd ever reunite, the band announced they were working on a new album, which was released in late 2015.

* GreatestHitsAlbum: As you can see above, they have ''three'' from a discography of five albums. Although once you start adding the high quality live albums and unplugged albums (and oddly great tracks hidden away on B-sides or bonus discs) which have their own specific songs it looks far more reasonable. A buyer also gets more value for money from each subsequent release. The first was made after their third album was released and has eighteen songs. The second ''Dreams'' contained twenty-one songs and was released after their fourth and fifth albums were released as well as several unplugged and live albums. ''The Works'' was released as a three CD set with fifty-six tracks.

* RadioSong: "Radio"

* TheOldestProfession: ''Somebody For Someone'' can be interpreted as a heavily-metaphored song about this.

* RedBaron: Caroline's monicker is the "Chick with Stick(s)". It's actually a FandomNod as it's originally a FanNickname.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Normally the heaviest they get is Level 2 as Soft or Pop Rock. "Only When I Sleep", "Secret Life", "Breathless", "I Never Loved You Anyway" and "Love In The Milky Way" and "Angel" being the most prominent examples of their more mainstream Soft Rock sound. Some of the tracks on ''Forgiven not Forgotten'' such as "Toss the Feathers" edge towards Level 3. Much of their other work wouldn't chart, being pop, folk-pop or pure folk. Their acoustic stuff would hit Level 1 as would some of their more folk-rock stuff, their cover of "Dreams", "Borrowed Heaven", "All In A Day", "Forgiven Not Forgotten" for example.

** ''Home'', is comprised almost completely of folk songs, and includes a pair of songs sung in Irish. It also brought back the instrumental songs.
* OddNameOut: Andrea is the only one whose name starts with a vowel, while Jim is the only one who doesn't have an "R" in his name. He also appears to be the only one who doesn't have an "N" in his name, but his real name is James Steve'''n''' Ig'''n'''atius .

* UnpluggedVersion: At least one version of ''In Blue'' came with a bonus disc featuring acoustic versions of many (though not all) of the songs on the album. ''The Corrs Unplugged'' was part of the ''MTV Unplugged'' series.

** ''In Blue'' was slightly different to ''Talk On Corners'', except that songs like "Breathless" and "No More Cry" are more pop-rock than straight pop. It became their first success in the United States. (The bridge between the two albums was a special edition release of ''Talk on Corners'', which included several much dance music orientated remixes of some of the earlier tracks.) The pseudo-instrumental "Rebel Heart" truly felt like a tacked-on token effort.
** ''Borrowed Heaven'' had a more edgy, guitar based sound than ''In Blue'', and some of the songs, like "Confidence", are closer to straight rock than pop-rock. And this time, for "Rebel Heart" read "Silver Strand".

** ''Talk On Corners'' ditched the instrumental songs almost completely (only "Paddy [=McCarthy=]" was instrumental, it does contain minor vocals and is more dance than folk-instrumental; there's also a quite prominent instrumental outro on "When He's Not Around"). The other songs being straight pop, which lead to the BBC radio changing their classification of the band from Folk to Pop, which moved them to a different, more popular radio station which itself started to play their songs, beginning their rise to fame.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Normally the heaviest they get is Level 2 as Soft or Pop Rock. "Only When I Sleep", "Secret Life", "Breathless", "I Never Loved You Anyway" and "Love In The Milky Way" and "Angel" being the most prominent examples of their more mainstream Soft Rock sound. Some of the trafremcks on ''Forgiven not Forgotten'' such as "Toss the Feathers" arguably edge towards Level 3. Much of their other work wouldn't chart, being pop, folk-pop or pure folk. Their acoustic stuff would hit Level 1 as would some of their more folk-rock stuff, their cover of "Dreams", "Borrowed Heaven", "All In A Day", "Forgiven Not Forgotten" for example.

* CoverVersion: They covered Music/FleetwoodMac's "Dreams" and "When The Stars Go Blue" which also had Bono from Music/{{U2}} doing vocals as well. Other less well known covers include Music/{{REM}}'s "Everybody Hurts", "Ruby Tuesday" and "All I Have To Do Is Dream" among others.

* BrutalHonesty: "I Never Loved You Anyway" is a very, ''very'' blunt BreakupSong.

* CoverVersion: They covered Music/FleetwoodMac's "Dreams", and less famously Music/{{REM}}'s "Everybody Hurts".

The Corrs are an Irish folk/pop/soft rock band, consisting of three sisters and one brother from the Corr family. Formed in 1990, they acheived major commercial success in 1995 and continued touring, recording and releasing popular albums for ten years before going on hiatus in 2005 to allow all four members time out to get married, have children, raise families and work on solo projects. After some doubt as to whether they'd ever reunite, the band announced they were working on a new album, which was released in late 2015. As usual, Wiki/TheOtherWiki has a detailed breakdown of their music and career [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corrs here]].

* CoverVersion: They covered Music/FleetwoodMac's "Dreams".

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Normally the heaviest they get is Level 2 as Soft or Pop Rock. "Only When I Sleep", "Secret Life", "Breathless", "I Never Loved You Anyway" and "Love In The Milky Way" and "Angel" being the most prominent examples of their more mainstream Soft Rock sound. Some of the tracks on ''Forgiven not Forgotten'' such as "Toss the Feathers" arguably edge towards Level 3. Much of their other work wouldn't chart, being pop, folk-pop or pure folk. Their acoustic stuff would hit Level 1 as would some of their more folk-rock stuff, their cover of "Dreams", "Borrowed Heaven", "All In A Day", "Forgiven Not Forgotten" for example.

* RadioSong: "Listen to the Radio"

** The "Would You Be Happier?" music video parodies the stereotypical rock music videos where they destroy their guitars.

* YourCheatingHeart: "Strange Romance" is [[PleaseDontLeaveMe from the point of view of the cheater]].