*caution*!! the japanese version (which has the cds in actualjewel cases as opposed to cd-single cases) is the one u want,but the trax are the same.
there's still one on the shelf in KINGBEE RECORDS manchester (about half a mile from my house).
― piscesboy, Monday, 1 November 2004 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link
the US version was like this as well. Is there a UK version that is different? Is the box thinner?
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
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― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
you don't mean the frosty the snowman thing right? heckfire, well i consider myself a cocteaus peak-period trainspotterbut that's foxed me. tell u what the NME COMPELTE DISCOGRAPHY from 1993, which had EVERYTHING listed on it (dates, prices, trax, cat numbers) never mentioned anything called 'SNOW'.
enlighten me please alex, kyle et al.
― piscesboy, Monday, 1 November 2004 17:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 November 2004 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link
it was called Snow
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― jeffery (jeffery), Monday, 1 November 2004 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Monday, 1 November 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 1 November 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link
One of the joys of the BBC album is that Guthrie didn't produce it.
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, definitely. It's still a transition album as such, and consisted only of Guthrie and Fraser, Raymonde hadn't joined yet. But it's got some absolutely crackerjack numbers, and they also do a few things throughout that they didn't try much again (the overt jazz-scat nods on "Multifoiled," for instance). Still had a lot of early hyperdourness but was channeled into different directions -- the glowering guitar and doom beats on "When Mama Was Moth" and then the explosion/cascade of the concluding "Musette and Drums," which is a monster and a half.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Alex in NYC (vassif...), November 1st, 2004 7:11 PM. (vassifer) (later)
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
There's a big "BUT" however, which is that the sound on this pre-remaster CD is absolutely atrocious, it sounds like it was recorded using a dictaphone from three rooms down the hall. I suspect this may be a big barrier to my enjoyment, as it certainly clouds a lot of the sonic intricacies at work. My copy of Treasure sounds startingly clear by comparison.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 7 November 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
It occurred to me that a good band doing a version of "Musette and Drums" via a huge sound system would be genius.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 November 2004 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link
i almost agree, but can't completely because of the overwhelming sadness (to my ears anyway) on those eps. they are wonderful though. and quite a solid package together too. i wrote a random phone number on the case to "twinlights" and i curse that damn number everytime i look at the case.
every once in awhile i'll pull out blue bell knoll or four calendar cafe and bliss out. "spanglemaker" is my favorite though. i can't imagine treasure without those big fake drums either.
― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 7 November 2004 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link
The whole EP is perhaps a perfect summation of that period of the band, but yeah, the song itself...man. A friend, many years ago, said she envisioned the song almost like a green slip of material, a scarf or something silken, twirling through a dark cavern that suddenly at the end came forward and enveloped you and took you somewhere else. It was a striking and strictly visual metaphor for the song that has never left me.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link
And there's no new album to promote so that leaves the set lists wiiiiiiide open.
http://www.nme.com/news/111427.htm
― piscesboy, Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
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― piscesboy, Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 06:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 06:23 (eighteen years ago) link
..and last night.
so the box set then. in february it's coming out in 2 seperate volumes (for like, a tenner each) usefully bisecting their career into 'the amazing 4ad bits 82 - 90' and 'the boring fontana biot onwards'. which is very nice.
― piscesboy, Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Their music was such an important part of my old life (which is why I've been reluctant to write much about them) and for years I couldn't listen to them - it was too painful - but now, in my new life, I can.
Now that's magic.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Charlie, I recommend following your Cocteau purchases in one direction or the other -- I mean, I'd push like Treasure or at least Blue Bell Knoll on you, but if you want to head in their hot-milky-bath direction, start the other way!
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 February 2007 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Friendly Tree (688), Thursday, 1 February 2007 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
having just uncovered this powerful band quite recently, i'm suddenly confronted with the delightful chore of navigating their back catalogue, and i find myself treading a little carefully so as to not overdose on all the riches at once. i think i'll go with 'treasure' next, and then take it step by step from there. :)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
i'll suss out that ep. collection tomorrow i think. particularly since the material is strong.
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
i know it's been said many times many ways but my god what a band.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
You betcha.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
He sounds like he's too insecure to admit how good My Bloody Valentine are. Which - if the case - is sad, considering how satisfied he should be with his own body of work. It wouldn't diminish his band in any way. Then again, maybe that mix of insecurity and competitiveness helped him reach the heights he did with CT?...
No, it's because RG was one of that group of people who actually remember MBV as this shambolic live band stumbling round the London scene in the mid to late 80s. As opposed to people who just heard these amazing records coming out of nowhere and presumed they were always that brilliant.
(And I say that as someone who was part of that latter group. But I know quite a few people who remember MBV as an early band, and their later success was, shall we say, unexpected.)
― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 28 June 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/user/bellaunion/playlist/7E80P0mDTqpCiPbCLVkaUK?si=NTDqk34FTPG0fCIBzjMmfw
A Cocteaus playlist Simon Raymonde made and shared yesterday saying “I coulda chosen any but these just suited my mood”. Surprising either way as he doesn’t talk about his Cocteau past much.
Hope that link works.
― piscesx, Friday, 22 December 2017 12:08 (six years ago) link
Had an In The Gold Dust Rush IPA the other day. The can even looked like it was designed by Vaughan Oliver. It was quite good!
― henry s, Friday, 22 December 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
Being in Cocteau Twins from 21-35 years of age, was like riding on a rollercoaster for 1/2 a lifetime. Thrilling at times, then a bit nauseous, then wanting to get off, but realising you can't and gritting your teeth but also finding moments of sad beauty to savour amongst the terror. Here are 13.
Melancholy of the festive season hitting hard! Thanks for sharing Pisces, it's lovely.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 22 December 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
(can someone post a tracklisting for those of us who don't spotify? ta)
― koogs, Friday, 22 December 2017 16:28 (six years ago) link
01. For Phoebe Still a Baby02. Eperdu03. Cico Buff04. Fifty-fifty Clown05. Watchlar06. I Wear Your Ring07. A Kissed Out Red Floatboat08. Crushed09. Those Eyes, That Mouth10. Athol-brose11. Orange Appled12. Calfskin Smack13. Blue Bell Knoll
― willem, Friday, 22 December 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link