| Look for a page of select live recordings and video, coming soon!Music Sampler (Beta version), allows you to listen to tracks from most of the albums with ease, as well as browse other artists similar to or related to Cocteau Twins.Gifts, A Tribute to the Cocteau Twins, a collection of Cocteau Twins covers recorded by various artists from around the world.Some have, but not in a consumable form, or, were part of an obscure film soundtrack or other singular event."Speak No Evil," the first Cocteau Twins single ever recorded.This is a demo version of this song, which was eventually recorded for the LP Head Over Heels.This is a cover version of a song originally written by Lewis Allan in 1939 and made famous by Josephine Baker, Billie Holliday and others.This recording was made during one of the Cocteau Twins' numerous BBC Radio sessions with John Peel in the early 1980s, and is available on the BBC Sessions compilation.This is a demo version of this song, which was eventually recorded and released as a single, and as part of the EP The Spangle Maker.Although this song, from the first This Mortal Coil LP, It'll End in Tears, was performed around 1983 and 1984, it was not heard again during live performances until the mid 1990's, when the Cocteau Twins surprised and delighted audiences with a rare, sensual reprisal of this classic Tim Buckley ballad.This version, a slightly different mix of the track from Treasure, appeared on a promotional compilation tape around 1984.CD compilation BBC Sessions, released by Bella Union in 1999.This is supposedly an early instrumental version of what eventually became "Kookaburra"; it may also be an early version of "Rococo."This version, taken from a performance at Royal Festival Hall in 1984, contains elements of both songs.This instrumental, never formally recorded, was performed for a John Peel BBC Radio show, and eventually released on the 1999 compilation BBC Sessions."Blue Bell Knoll" was a popular piece during live performances from 1990 until 1996.Cocteau Twins shows such a brilliant experience."Carolyn's Fingers," from the 1988 album Blue Bell Knoll is a perennial favorite among fans, but can be difficult to reproduce in a live setting because of the many layers of instruments and vocals that comprise the original recording.This version, from a 1996 performance in London, comes closer than most.AD promotional cassette entitled "Red Tape" in 1990.It was never released otherwise.Heaven or Las Vegas promotional single, as well as a track on the bonus disc in the 1991 Box Set."Bluebeard," released in early 1994.Some people claim that one can hear Liz utter, "Shit!"This is the other jingle recorded by Cocteau Twins for Fruitopia.Cocteau Twins version of the track "Be Still," from the Northern Ireland benefit album Peace Together.By popular demand, the live "Mark Clifford" remix version that was performed during the 1996 tour."Wax and Wane" and "Aloysius," both featured below.These recordings are excerpted from the 1996 performance at The Olympia in Paris.This remixed version of the song from Milk and Kisses was performed on the television programme "The White Room," in 1996, and was remixed by Mark Clifford.This version varies significantly from Clifford's remix of the same track on Otherness.Near the end of their career together, Cocteau Twins once again recorded a few live radio performances with the BBC.This version is the original mix.Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1982 to 1997.Life after Cocteau Twins
6 Discography
6.Early years
Robin Guthrie (guitar) and Will Heggie (bass), both from Grangemouth, Scotland, formed the band in 1980.At a local disco, Nash, they met Elizabeth Fraser, who would eventually provide vocals.Their debut recording, Garlands (released by 4AD Records in 1982), was an instant success, as was the subsequent Lullabies EP.At times barely decipherable, Fraser seemed to veer into glossolalia and mouth music.Will Heggie left the group after the tour that followed the 1983 release of the band's second EP, Peppermint Pig (and subsequently joined Lowlife).LP, Head over Heels, had to rely solely on the latter two.This led to the growth of Cocteau Twins' characteristic sound: Fraser's voice, by turns ethereal and earthy, combined with Guthrie's heavily effected guitars.Guthrie has often said that he is far more interested in the way the guitar is recorded, than in the actual notes being played, though he later admitted the effects and layering were due to his own technical inabilities.Tim Buckley's Song to the Siren performed by Guthrie and Fraser), and during their work for that, they got to know Simon Raymonde (formerly a member of Drowning Craze), who joined the group later that year as bass player.With Raymonde, the band released a series of critically acclaimed albums and EPs that explored their new style.Raymonde, who was called in to work on the second album by This Mortal Coil, did not participate in the recording of the fourth Cocteau Twins LP, Victorialand (1986), a predominantly acoustic record which featured only Guthrie and Fraser.Raymonde returned to the group for The Moon and the Melodies (1986), a collaboration with ambient composer Harold Budd, which was not released under the Cocteau Twins name.In 1985, 4AD signed an agreement with Relativity Records for distribution of Cocteau Twins' releases in the US and other territories.The most commercially successful of their many recordings, the album rose to the higher reaches of the UK charts immediately after its release.However, despite the success of the record and the subsequent concert tours, not everything was well with the band.Russell, and were close to breaking up over internal problems due in large part to Guthrie's addiction to drugs and alcohol.While on their international tour supporting Heaven or Las Vegas, the group signed a new recording contract with Mercury Records subsidiary Fontana for the UK and elsewhere, while retaining their US relationship with Capitol.Guthrie entering rehab and quitting alcohol and drugs, and Fraser undergoing psychotherapy.EPs: Twinlights and Otherness.Both EPs were labelled 'experimental' by the press, since they were very different from the EPs the band had released in the past.The record was hailed as a "return to form" by some as it saw the return of more heavily layered guitars, and Fraser began once again to obscure her lyrics, though not entirely."Touch Upon Touch", which debuted during the live shows and was recorded later in 1996, became the last Cocteau Twins song ever released.CD Cocteau Twins compilation entitled BBC Sessions.Finally, in 2003, 4AD followed Stars and Topsoil with the release of digitally remastered versions of the first six Cocteau Twins LPs.Life after Cocteau Twins
The former members of Cocteau Twins have remained active musically in the years since the band's demise.Simon Raymonde released the solo album Blame Someone Else.More recently he has produced the popular UK band The Duke Spirit and has mixed the Mercury Prize nominated album The End Of History by Fionn Regan.Robin Guthrie released his first solo effort Imperial and continues to create music with his band Violet Indiana and has scored the music for the movie Mysterious Skin.These pieces can be viewed as a continuation of The Moon and the Melodies and the score for Mysterious Skin.For some time, she has been working on a solo album.On January 31, 2005 Cocteau Twins announced that they would be reforming to perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 30, 2005, and later indicated that additional tour dates through the fall would be added.On March 16, however, the reunion was canceled, with Fraser pulling out for "personal reasons".Since March 2007, the band has started airing podcasts holding exclusive material.TBD
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first two of four discs in box set shown above.Live performances
See Cocteau Twins performances."Heaven or Las Vegas" song review.External links
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A group whose distinctly ethereal and gossamer sound virtually defined the enigmatic image of the record label 4AD, the Cocteau Twins were founded in Grangemouth, Scotland, in 1979.Taking their name from an obscure song from fellow Scots Simple Minds, the Cocteaus were originally formed by guitarist Robin Guthrie and bassist Will Heggie and later rounded out by Guthrie's girlfriend Elizabeth Fraser, an utterly unique performer whose swooping, operatic vocals relied less on any recognizable language than on the subjective sounds and textures of verbalized emotions.Shortly after the release of the Peppermint Pig EP, Heggie left the group, and Guthrie and Fraser cut 1983's Head Over Heels as a duo; nonetheless, the album largely perfected the Cocteaus' gauzy formula, and established the foundation from which the group would continue to work for the duration of its career.Drowning Craze bassist Simon Raymonde joined the band to record the EP The Spangle Maker; as time wore on, Raymonde became an increasingly essential component of the Cocteau Twins, gradually assuming an active role as a writer, arranger, and producer.In 1995, they explored a pair of differing musical approaches on simultaneously released EPs: while Twinlights offered subtle acoustic sounds, Otherness tackled ambient grooves, remixed by Seefeel's Mark Clifford.Kisses LP, on the other hand, marked a return to the band's archetypal style.BBC Sessions appeared in 1999.Cover), want to CORRECT some of them or found a
BUG ?There's a fire
I'll paint the blood bitch
The blood bitch black
Lift or carry us(curious?Ivo
Peep hole, Peach blow, Pandora, Pompadour
Pale leaf, Pink sweet, Persephone, Near our rito(ivo??Free emparted
Amelia
Who've been wounded
Who should wound her
Heart on the grasp
Who but who put on the heart
background:
He, and me, along said we, but burn (x3)
Hounded by the mask, but then...Lazy calm
Try to look with us, my voice your candle ???Oomingmak
Soon I see it wasn't even he who was less
I almost let us ...Peter the last 20 seconds of the song repeats)
I feel the balance in the solace of the earth
(and I like it...Sometimes he flailed
But you're glad he cares
But you're glad he
And you died sometimes
When your face gives right in to him
You've chosen your life for your man, yea
For him?Futile, in love
(Didn't he?Futile is this fever
And you died
Did I see dark lines?Futile, in love
(Didn't he?Futile is this fever
The spirit of life fires me now (x3)
The spirit of life fires me
Cico buff
Today love finds off little
You see your singing is so vague
His joined her love so little
Don't care if you're fickle, oh that I find
So many stars take care of me
Take care of those they love
My love has done right
Love me so, love little
So you see now the sun is out
Love will accieve no ends
I can't be fickle, oh that I find
So many stars take care of me
Take care of those they love
Our love has done right
They know where they like it
All of love flow 'round of me
Strain and love me
Don't care if you're fickle, oh that I find (x4)
They know whether I come
(We flow and we fall)
I love for mine
(We fall down)
Strain and love me
(These stars that love)
So many stars take care of me
(We flow and we flow)
All of love flow 'round me
(Our love comes down)
Our love comes down
(These stars I love)
They know whether I come
(We flow and we fall)
Full of love fall down
(Our love comes down)
Strain and love me
Suckling
the mender
I feel
Glad, oh
I love
(Oh, I love)
Prose says
Yes, he may
(Oh, yes, he may)
Fiddle
Future
(Her future)
It dies
Union of love
Union of perfect love
She ain't sent here for him
Union of perfect love
She ain't sent here
I feel
Glad, oh
I love
(Oh, I love)
Prose says
Union of love
Union of perfect love
She ain't sent here for him
Union of perfect love
She ain't sent here full of love
Full of love
Union of perfect love
She ain't sent here full of love
Full of love
Union of perfect love
She ain't sent here
Union of love
Union of perfect love
She ain't sent here for him
Union of perfect love
She ain't sent her full of love
Full of love
Union of perfect love
She aint sent here
Spooning
good singing gum
Days, nervous, long by the sea
Long love found of long by the dove
Love, love, happy
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Love, love, happy
Cute couple (x2)
Simply cought up (x2)
Happy and then (x2)
A kissed
out red floatboat
I'm standing here
I said that you'd listen me now
Maybe love get here when you answer
I thought he'd known loving before
He's so mean to her
If only had he held on
He'd be along side with you so guarded
He didn't love me back (He really don't care??Oh, and you're a lone shadow
I feel rewarded on being so ugly, eh
(x2)
Smile and face your wife angry
His life don't despise what's in eyes
He skips so as the seasons
To come as a breeze has
Again, ahead
We'll rust, our nose dust
A fine gard with pleased and, oh its true
Hill can't comfort the brain
He must come as he was
Again, ahead
And this is safe, flowing, love, soul and light
Motions aren't in the shape that emotions are
Good morning myth to somebody I call in light
Motions aren't in the shape that emotions are
And this is safe, flowing, love, soul and light
Motions aren't in the shape that emotions are
Heaven or
Las Vegas
Who'll ever win?I'm ready to fall, I'm waiting (?There is no going back
I can't stop feeling now
I am not the same, I'm growing up again
I am not the same
I'm growing up again
There's no going back I can't stop feeling now
Feeling now
There is no going back, and
I can't stop feeling now
I am not the same, I'm growing up again
I am not the same
I'm growing up again
There's no going back I can't stop feeling now
I had to fantasize
Just to survive
I was a famous artist
Everybody took me seriously
Even those who did
Never understood me
I had to fantasize
Just to survive
Bluebeard
Aliveness
Exploration
Aliveness
Energy
Are you the right man for me?Are you the right man for me?Aliveness
Exploration
Fulfillment
Creativity
background:
It may be diverting
For some part of him
Are you the right man for me?Will you mistreat me
Or betray all my confidence?Theft,
and wandering around lost
The man is an offender
He took my value
And I give back his shame
And I take back my power
My body is my own
My body is mine alone
And I deserve protection
And I can create it for you
Is this what my body said?Cry and shakes the wall for you
And I am moving to poison love
And drown the stars above you
My body is my own
My body is mine alone
And I deserve protection
And I can create it for you
Is this what my body said?Is this what my body said?Thanx a lot to
Henning who corrected this one ***
Oil
of angels
First, He's inched her latch down
Anxious, Her hand begs, And now my distraction
Distraction
I will learn, To focus on
Oh, you hoo hoo...Cause you won't
Recognize it, Recognize
Stablize it, Stablize it
He even finds a way
Supreme, man improves
Lkie what might see
Her life for everyone
Will it still hold
Rain
Things we couldn't do
Strive
For me to give
Rights of her
Rights
Treasure her
Treasure
Her freshness
I will learn
To focus on you
You hoo hoo...There is a wait and that's what hurt
Makes it happen, fill the gap
It spreads her hair all about
My steps
If I do it slow
No, no threats
No, no fights
No fantasies
Lucy
I hurry back to make him feel Lucy, Lucy, Lucy
I have to make him feel better Lucy, Lucy, Lucy
And oh, I know, no I can't
Freshness
You amaze me
No, no threats
No, no fights
No fantasies
Lucy
(x2)
How he'll never come to freshness
You amaze me
How he'll never come to freshness
You amaze me (x3)
How he'll never come to freshness
You amaze me
Looking at love as faces I could give this
You amaze me
No threats, no fights, no fantasies
You amaze me (x3)
No, no threats No threats, no fights
No, no fights No threats, no fights
No fantasies No fights, no fantasies
Lucy
No, no, no threats
No, no threats No fights, Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, Lucy
No, no fights
No fantasies No threats, no fights (x2)
Lucy No fights, no fantasies
(x2) Lucy, Lucy, Lucy
My truth
You become a world for his
New heart, accepting
And you can work
Through the pain
Or enjoy the pleasure
Commit to the work of both
If your love has energy
You have chemistry
And you can work
Through the pain
Or enjoy the pleasure
You can you can you can work
Through the pain
Or enjoy the pleasure
You can you can you can work
Through the pain
And come to peace
It's frightening
Exciting
Something shakes of forlorn understanding
The truth is not perfect
But it fools and confuses
Every moment vaguely
You can you can you can work
Through the pain
Or enjoy the pleasure
You can you can you can work
Through the pain
And come to peace
I remember my secret
I write it down and then I tell you it
It's not harm free
Outside of myself
What has saved me?And come to peace
You can work through the pain
Or enjoy the pleasure
Essence
I don't have to be specific when I wanna
hug you
You had a natural right to be born to become
Yes having my small niece(heaven must at least) becomes (so) acceptable to me
I'd feel angry had I lost you and can't imagine where you might be
Where do baby leaves go when they die
Oh, why I do not mourn
God is a feeling of loving yourself
You're precious to me, you know that
Stretch in your arms
Wrap 'em 'round tight
Loving myself
With all my might
Where do baby leaves go when they die
Oh, why I do not mourn
God is a feeling of loving yourself
You're precious to me, you know that
Take a look inside you'll see
See how I'm doing
A message, something says to me
Tells me I'm right
So you want a potion to send me away
Daddy, my love, cannot get in today
Summerhead
My dreams zoom with us
My tears have run away
Our goal, goal collapsed
Energy of lonesome goal
May pushes, leaves and never feels
Shame casts offense
Shame casts her face
Star reason starring of the place
Safe at last
Seeing my thoughts are in order
Safe, fallen down this way
I want to be just what I am
Steal more treasures, steal more gifts
This'll size creative lies
Until we drop(grow up?Destroy the objective, but still survive
You are angry and that's okay ...Even with grief and sadness
I still care about this planet
I am still connected to nature and to my dreams for myself
I have my friends, my family.Life, it, it just seems right, now
And when I had you
I didn't always want you, baby
I'd cry myself out
But you survived and this amased me
Stiv, stiv, God made it claw (?Cocteau Twins sono stati un gruppo musicale scozzese di rock alternativo.Sono passati alla storia per aver inventato il Dream pop.Inizialmente la band fu influenzata dai Joy Division,I Birthday Party ,i Sex Pistols e i mitici Siouxsie and the Banshees .Simple Minds e la stessa canzone fu rinominata "No cure").Guthrie e soci pubblicano Garlands nel 1982,sotto l'etichetta 4AD .Il disco riscuote un successo immediato,seguito presto dall'uscita di Lullabies ,il loro primo EP.La vocalist infatti canta testi indecifrabili,del tutto liberi da qualsiasi regola grammaticale,spaziando dalla glossolalia alla mouth music .Fraser e dalla chitarra tintinnante e piena di effetti di Guthrie.Simon Raymonde,che all'epoca suonava nei Drowning Craze ,il quale decise di unirsi alla band come bassista.Lo stile che il gruppo aveva creato sperimentando in Blue bell knoll tocca l'apice in Heaven or Las Vegas ,pubblicato nel'90.UK subito dopo la sua pubblicazione.Fraser canta in inglese,abbandonando le liriche incomprensibili per le quali era stata tanto lodata.Per questi e altri motivi per la prima volta ci furono opinioni contrastanti sulla nuova direzione intrapresa dal gruppo.Cocteau Twins,dal canto loro,giustificarono questa loro svolta considerandola una rinascita dopo un periodo buio in quanto Guthrie si era disintossicato da alcol e droghe e Fraser era stata in terapia dopo una forte depressione.Belle Guthrie ,anch'essa attualmente musicista.Tuttavia,il risultato non fu tanto diverso dall'album precedente.Dopo aver assunto un nuovo chitarrista e un batterista la band parti per un tour che prevedeva performances dal vivo e apparizioni televisive.L'ultimo brano pubblicato dai Cocteau fu " Touch upon touch ",che proposero diverse volte durante gli show televisivi e che registrarono solo nel '96.Questo brano,insieme a " Tranquil eye ",fu scritto per Faye Wong ,un'artista cinese,e fu inserita in Fu Zao ,il suo album d'esordio.Guthrie e Raymonde pubblicarono un live intitolato " BBC Session ",contenente tutte le esibizioni eseguite dal gruppo alla radio britannica dall'83 al '96,insieme a materiale raro ed inedito.Il "dopo Cocteau Twins"
Tutti i membri del gruppo sono rimasti attivi musicalmente dopo il suo scioglimento.The Duke Spirit e ha mixato The End Of History ,album di Fionn Regan .Ha collaborato nuovamente con Harold Budd in due suoi album: Before The Day Breaks e After The Night Falls.Oscar dei primi due episodi del film " Il Signore degli Anelli , La Compagnia dell'Anello e Le Due Torri e in altri lavori di altri gruppi meno conosciuti.Nel 2006,la 4AD ha pubblicato Lullabies to Violaine ,un box set contenente tutto il materiale presente negli EP.Ultima modifica per la pagina: 00:36, 2 gen 2008. |
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