some time last autumn i had a funny turn :
falling in love with the cocteaus again.
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 27 August 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 12 November 2004 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Seb (Seb), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 12 November 2004 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 12 November 2004 08:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 07:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 31 January 2005 07:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― iang, Monday, 31 January 2005 07:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Monday, 31 January 2005 07:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 31 January 2005 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 31 January 2005 08:06 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.ambitious-outsiders.com/images/lineup05.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 31 January 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
my heart just broke
― rentboy (rentboy), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Monday, 31 January 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxx le Jeune (Fabfunk), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
There must be UK dates, surely.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 31 January 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
mdma
together
― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 5 January 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 January 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Cliftonb, Friday, 6 January 2006 05:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link
I JUST RIPPED MILK & KISSES TO MY IPOD THEREFORE I RULE OKEETHNCXBYEEY
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 31 May 2008 08:29 (fifteen years ago) link
underrated album, that
― stephen, Saturday, 31 May 2008 08:39 (fifteen years ago) link
The last one I bought was Four Calendar Cafe, but I think I heard Milk & Kisses once. Perhaps I should seek it out again.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 31 May 2008 08:49 (fifteen years ago) link
"Violaine" is one of my favorite late-period Cocteau songs -- it stands up to the best of Heaven or Las Vegas, easily
― stephen, Saturday, 31 May 2008 09:14 (fifteen years ago) link
This is the one Cocteau Twins album I actually had sex to.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 31 May 2008 10:29 (fifteen years ago) link
intentionally?
― stephen, Saturday, 31 May 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 4 January 2009 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
In a certain celebrity mailout this appeared...
'The reason the Cocteau Twins' comeback last year didn't happen is because even though Robin Guthrie and Liz Fraser had put their differences to the side (clue - £££££) Liz insisted that her partner be the drummer on the tour. Fine.
All was going well until Robin got pissed, looked through the tour expenses and saw that Liz's partner was getting paid a bit more than the other hired hands. He went batshit mental, rang up Liz and told her that this was outrageous and that he shouldn't even be getting paid AT ALL as Liz was making money and so her partner "didn't need to be paid".
Liz basically said (in indecipherable made-up language no doubt) she couldn't take this and if Robin was kicking off even before the tour started, it could only get worse. So she walked and that was it - reunion over. She apparently walked away from "millions".
― If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate (aldo), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Good for her.
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 24 July 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I can understand being annoyed that he's making MORE than others but not getting paid AT ALL? Fuck that.
― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Not getting paid at all, says an anonymous secondhand source.
― Joerg Hi Dere (NickB), Friday, 24 July 2009 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah there's an obvious grain of salt there but still.
― Lisa Simpson = a fictional bitch (HI DERE), Friday, 24 July 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Give 'em a couple more years when they need to pay their mortgages, they'll come around.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 24 July 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I wouldn't be surprised if that was actually Guthrie's reaction. He always came across as socially retarded.
― Turangalila, Friday, 24 July 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
A story on Ms. Fraser in the Guardian the other day:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/26/cocteau-twins-elizabeth-fraser-interview
And we do all grow older:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2009/11/26/1259231936986/Elizabeth-Fraser-Cocteau--001.jpg
Looks v. elegant!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 November 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
She's been offered sums "beyond your wildest dreams" to collaborate with other artists – "the weirdest one was Linkin Park"
The hell.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 November 2009 18:37 (fourteen years ago) link
The new song sadly sounds too much like Gotan Project but her voice is still awesome.
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Saturday, 28 November 2009 18:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Which is all you need, really. (Well, maybe.)
Article's a little wrong at points when it comes to her musical silence -- for instance, she appeared (briefly) on the first two Lord of the Rings film scores, as apparently both Howard Shore and Fran Welsh were major Cocteaus fans, and she's specifically namechecked by both of them in the DVD documentaries, etc. etc.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 November 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
And of course this was beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRq7FxiSmxY
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Saturday, 28 November 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll take any excuse to repost this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaOlNfC8_xQ
― sleeve, Saturday, 28 November 2009 23:12 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL just saw this.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
The...hell.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 22:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Article's a little wrong at points when it comes to her musical silence -- for instance, she appeared (briefly) on the first two Lord of the Rings film scores
Yeah I noticed that error too, his claim she "only" did the Massive Attack album. Crap! She also worked with FSOL, Yann Tiersen, and Peter Gabriel (her work on the Millenium Dome album is lovely).
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
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.”
― MaresNest, Saturday, 27 January 2024 22:56 (two months ago) link
Also Shout by Tears For Fears
twins becoming one of my fav bands
― Swen, Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:24 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/QFFJGor.pngThe first 20 seconds of this sound like music for a secret super Mario brothers underworld level
― calstars, Sunday, 28 January 2024 20:17 (two months ago) link
https://thequietus.com/articles/33528-cocteau-twins-head-over-heels-anniversary
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 29 January 2024 19:29 (two months ago) link
never picked up on either of those drum samples, good excuse to play treasure at a very loud volume when I clock out.
― brimstead, Monday, 29 January 2024 21:07 (two months ago) link
That Record Got Me High - Cocteau Twins 'Treasure' with Miki Berenyi
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:37 (two months ago) link
Ugh, that Quietus review gets 721 words in before it mentions the band or the album
― enochroot, Thursday, 1 February 2024 17:20 (two months ago) link
Thanks, john
― irerisered, Thursday, 1 February 2024 20:56 (two months ago) link
rock out with your clock out
― blazin' squab (NickB), Thursday, 1 February 2024 20:58 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1sNGV7D.jpg
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:45 (two weeks ago) link
Feel like“Slip Away the Chicken Slice” needs a comma. Slip Away, the Chicken Slice
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 11 April 2024 23:36 (two weeks ago) link
I coulda sworn "Bitter Gourd Grasping" was a BBK outtake but I guess not
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 11 April 2024 23:37 (two weeks ago) link
also, ATTN Swen:
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 11 April 2024 23:39 (two weeks ago) link
Damn those clips were so laid back. I miss 80s news
― sawdust lagoon, Friday, 12 April 2024 00:05 (one week ago) link