― 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
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Seb (Seb), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 04:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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
― 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 (fifteen years ago) link
You betcha.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Wednesday, 20 August 2008 04:39 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (fifteen 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 (eleven years ago) link
Shitting kittens!
interesting phrase!
― suburban buttshaven cannibal (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:51 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link