CORE OF SOUL to disband (March 24)

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Let's talk about CORE OF SOUL (the other thread died off within 2 days anyway).

How would you rank their albums personally from favourite to least favourite? And how did you discover and end up liking CORE OF SOUL?

My favourite album would be 'Natural Beauty' and '3' tied. So it goes something like this.
1. Natural Beauty (Interchangable with '3' depending on mood)
2. 3 (Interchangable with 'Natural Beauty' depending on mood)
3. RAINBOW
4. 'Over the Time' TIME IS OVER
5. ONE LOVE, ONE DAY, ONE LIFE!

I rarely (actually...never) heard tracks from 'RAINBOW' talked about, either most people haven't listened to it or it's extremely underrated. It's short, but every track is quality, it was also the first album I purchased from them since 'SAINT DARKNESS' was the first song from them that really got my attention and loved. You can also hear how fantastic Fukiko's lives sound on the last track, as well as how fluent her English is even in lives. (Both speaking and singing, she talks about the song before she sings in it English as the song is completely in English)

I think I discovered COS through the website Project J, which has a short biography and a sample track of many good bands/artists. Apart from RAINBOW which I loved, I also downloaded the 'Natural Beauty' and '3' albums and never gave it a proper listen until early last year when I popped in onto the MD to listen to while traveling to school/work and suddenly realised how wonderful their music was! I picked up 'Natural Beauty' from cdjapan several weeks before I got a job, and once I got a job, the first things I made sure to purchase, were the other CORE OF SOUL albums I didn't have.

Now let's see more lengthy posts!

P.S Favourite tracks at the moment are 'Kohitsuji no Kamisama' and 'The Spirit of This Place'.