Cocteau Twins : Classic or Dud

I'm on a spree tonight - and I'm massively back into the Cocs. I think Treasure is one of my all time fave albums, but my knowledge of the rest of their stuff doesn't extend much past it, only to "Four Calendar Cafe" (which I realise is to Treasure as Sing when Your Winning is to Life thru a Lens).

So go on - lets speak of how awesomely great Lorelei is.

One of the great bands of the 80s.

some time last autumn i had a funny turn :

falling in love with the cocteaus again.

http://www.ambitious-outsiders.com/images/lineup05.jpg

my heart just broke

I have only heard Heaven Or Las Vegas. Wouldn't say classic, because I have to be in the right mood for her *glossolalia*. But it sure is pretty music.

There must be UK dates, surely.

mdma

together

As for possible artistic directions, I could imagine a piece driven by Fripp Soundscape and Frisell Loops with electro-acoustic drum work By Pat Mastelloto, some electronically treated harmonized trumept lines by Nils Petter Molvaer, some excentric fretless bass work by Mick Karn and, beautiful piano/synth treatments courtesy of Ryuichi Sakamoto. I could think of may other possible directions, but this is just off the top of my head. All in all I still think she has the potential to surpass even the greatest cocteau twins moments, given the right environment.

I JUST RIPPED MILK & KISSES TO MY IPOD THEREFORE I RULE OKEETHNCXBYEEY

underrated album, that

The last one I bought was Four Calendar Cafe, but I think I heard Milk & Kisses once. Perhaps I should seek it out again.

"Violaine" is one of my favorite late-period Cocteau songs -- it stands up to the best of Heaven or Las Vegas, easily

This is the one Cocteau Twins album I actually had sex to.

intentionally?

Oh my god if Cocteaus could ever forgive you

Meanie!

Tell the X Mal Deutschland fans to go fuck it all.

Cocteaus happiness.
Quisquose.

I'm gonna sic the vinyl on your ass. I'm trying to peaceful, but...
sorry.

EAT THE VINYL

EAT IT

Oh shit

That's all Liz Fraser. Wait till you see the ones on Blue Bell Knoll !

"Sugar Hiccup" was a good call!

I feel like the Sugarcubes def. took some inspiration here (tho I imagine this is a bog-standard observation)

I remember an early Sugarcubes interview where Björk said she often got compared to Kate Bush, Siouxsie Sioux and Liz Fraser.

And just that slow-tempo groove, echoing drums, and chiming gtr of some of these tracks (although I guess that would describe a lot of '80s acts!)

morrisp, you gotta check out the Love's Easy Tears EP. Their single best release for me, has kind of a 60s-pop-beamed-through-interstellar-space vibe

Thanks – just listened, and liked it a lot (perfect description, too!)

I found this in a cutout bin of unsold Record Store Day stuff - Sun's Signature (Frasier and Damon Reece)

HOLY SHIT THIS IS GREAT why didn't anyone freak out about this

feels like a mix of Cocteau's and Portishead Third

https://sunssignature.bandcamp.com/album/suns-signature

waht

I thought this already made the rounds! Yeah it's fine stuff.

I must have missed it, just saw the cover in the bins and googled it, was only $8 so I figured why not, super blown away by how great this is, beautiful tracks, feels a piece with CT but has its own identity

her voice has held up remarkably!

plus Steve Hackett!!

Woah. Thanks for info. Had no idea.

Happy 60th to Liz!

Yesterday in the northern suburbs of Chicago there was a blue minivan with Louisiana plates and a bumper sticker that said "STOP HONKING I'm trying to figure out what Cocteau Twins are saying" over the Heaven or Las Vegas cover art.

It's sold out

https://i.imgur.com/pI7Yi4b.jpg

John Bonham is all over this album huh

Yessir.

"1984’s Treasure was a landmark album for the Cocteaus that saw improvements in both their songwriting and Guthrie’s production—it also marked the debut of their multi-instrumentalist Simon Raymonde. They worked in some new gear, including an E-mu Emulator sampler and Yamaha DX-7 for bell sounds, but they stuck with their E-mu Drumulator with an important upgrade.

The change? Guthrie swapped out the original eproms for Digidrums’ Rock Drums chips, which featured samples of John Bonham from “When The Levee Breaks.” It gives the backing tracks a distinctive sampled edge but with a Drumulator feel.

In the magazine One-Two Testing, Guthrie explained how he used the Drumulator on the record. “We start with a very basic guide drum on the Drumulator. I’ve tried all the drum machines and that’s the most straightforward machine to work with. Examples? Well, supposing you wanted to erase a particular drum from a song. On some machines that would take you ages. With the Drumulator it’s straightforward. Tuning of the drums on it would be helpful, I suppose, but you could always varispeed them once they were on tape. I’ve got some of the new chips for our Drumulator—the Rock chips sound great. I’ll stick with that machine.”

Also Shout by Tears For Fears

twins becoming one of my fav bands

https://i.imgur.com/QFFJGor.png

The first 20 seconds of this sound like music for a secret super Mario brothers underworld level

https://thequietus.com/articles/33528-cocteau-twins-head-over-heels-anniversary

never picked up on either of those drum samples, good excuse to play treasure at a very loud volume when I clock out.

That Record Got Me High - Cocteau Twins 'Treasure' with Miki Berenyi

Ugh, that Quietus review gets 721 words in before it mentions the band or the album

Thanks, john

never picked up on either of those drum samples, good excuse to play treasure at a very loud volume when I clock out.

rock out with your clock out

https://i.imgur.com/1sNGV7D.jpg

Feel like“Slip Away the Chicken Slice” needs a comma.

Slip Away, the Chicken Slice

I coulda sworn "Bitter Gourd Grasping" was a BBK outtake but I guess not

also, ATTN Swen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaOlNfC8_xQ

Damn those clips were so laid back. I miss 80s news