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
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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 (sixteen years ago) link
You betcha.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
damn I haven't listened to the Cocteau Twins in like a year now, time for another obsessed dive
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 04:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not as big a fan as many around here, but some of their singles -- e.g., Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops -- are near perfect pop songs.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 August 2008 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
crikey (no sadly not a reunion before anyone gets their hopes up)http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/01/cocteau-twins-elizabeth-fraser-meltdown
― piscesx, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
Shitting kittens!
interesting phrase!
― suburban buttshaven cannibal (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
Fraser has quietly assembled almost an album's worth of new material, which will form the basis of a 75-minute set with a band including Reece, multi-instrumentalist Thighspaulsandra from experimental band Coil and ex-Spiritualized bassist Sean Cook. Ex-Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett may also feature.
I demand a recording of this as soon as this set is performed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, okay, that url made me think the story was about something altogether unpleasant. But good on her!
― O Aquaman (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
Meanwhile in the last sentence...
Also appearing at Meltdown will be Marc Almond, Diamanda Galas and Laurie Anderson, with other major names still to be announced
Damn.. This might be something to go to...
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus crow. I just saw this pop up on the 4ad FB group and Im all a fluster. If I could rely on it to actually HAPPEN I would be going into hock for tickets to the UK right now, but I cant risk her piking.
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
And Steve Hackett! wtf. I have to tell my ex, he is going to go mental.
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 10:02 (twelve years ago) link
If I could rely on it to actually HAPPEN I would be going into hock for tickets to the UK right now, but I cant risk her piking
It'll happen. Contracts and all that will have been signed. Plus, from the interview she sounds pretty upbeat about it.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'd say "hooray" because it's not a 'reunion'
Because a 'reunion' is one gig then everyone disappears.
Whereas this seems like a new album/gig, so more likely a beginning of something.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
Shitting kittens!interesting phrase!― suburban buttshaven cannibal (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:51 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― suburban buttshaven cannibal (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:51 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
t'was the original title of "Sugar Hiccup" you know..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
nice piece with Robin from a Xmas special edition of MOJO last year.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6791081375_2d669f5e8a_o.jpg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
just got tickets to the Bath gig
― kinder, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
Are you saying they're doing a reunion show??
― LeRooLeRoo, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, no, just Liz
― kinder, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
yeah she might do a few CT tracks it looks like. short gig otherwise i'd wager.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for posting the Mojo piece.
My Bloody Valentine? They were just another little indie band to begin with. Lush interested me more because they could actually write songs and had ideas.
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?...
The only Cocteaus records that make me cringe are the Twinlights and Otherness EPs (from 1995). Twinlights is acoustic and has violins and shite like that, and Otherness is pointless remixes.
I kind of agree with him about Twinlights; I think the instrumentation wasn't up to par. An intriguing exercise - I don't think it's a failure, by any means... But I consider the Otherness EP to be an essential final jewel in their crown. Just listen to the direction that that EP took their live set in; it was yet another breathtaking step in their evolution.
Example 1: The way it drops out at around 3:20 and resurfaces in remix form is a thing of beauty.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iQpaUZP5t4&list=PLA6C6A1D4FF638880&index=3&feature=plpp_video
Example 2: Definitely NOT a pointless remix.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXkhpT7wmo4&list=PLA6C6A1D4FF638880&index=4&feature=plpp_video
― azaera, Thursday, 28 June 2012 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
Oops, video #2 is supposed to be this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXkhpT7wmo4&list=PLA6C6A1D4FF638880&index=4&feature=plpp_video
― azaera, Thursday, 28 June 2012 06:41 (twelve years ago) link
Argh. Technical ineptitude. Sorry. It's supposed to be a video of Aloysius live from 1996. Definitely worth checking out if you haven't already done so.
― azaera, Thursday, 28 June 2012 06:43 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve 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