hell yeah, cocteau twins forever
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 00:10 (two years ago) link
if you're gonna post in here, prepare to get engulfed in a sea of gentle angelic swooning
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 00:15 (two years ago) link
aka the REAL music
She didnt even bother working out what the words areShe apologised and told her own fans theyve never heard of these guys
Fuck. her.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 05:54 (two years ago) link
tbf asking anyone to know the exact lyrics of a Cocteau Twins song feels like a minor feat
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 07:01 (two years ago) link
I've been writing something about the Cocteau Twins recently so have been amused by many of the lyrics sites attempts at transcription, but the songmeanings.com attempt at the middle 8 of HoLV may be worst:
Carnivals are bluster loudI'm dizzy so I go under the 'Big Dipper'Cum fantasy for a carnivalHow fitting before a wedding
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 08:54 (two years ago) link
Can't help but read it in the voice of some dapper old gent, adjusting his monocle: 'A cum fantasy? Before a wedding? Ah, how fitting!"
― Piedie Gimbel, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 09:00 (two years ago) link
omg at those lyrics
― Tim F, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 09:51 (two years ago) link
Vocals, Elizabeth FraserLyrics, Robin Guthrie
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 11:15 (two years ago) link
Due to the earnest reply, I now have no idea if “fuck Miley for getting Cocteau Twins lyrics wrong” was a joke or not
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 12:01 (two years ago) link
It realy wasnt, the words to that song are fairly clear and obvious (save perhaps a bit of verse 1)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 8 July 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
This is the Genius take and as far as I'm concerned its p close to correct (and some of its been confirmed correct too). As ive said a jillion times people forget a) the scottish accent and b) the way she will way-hey-heyyyyy her scansion to turn one word into ten.
Pull him awayToo jealous so with meGo back for newFor new things there
Singing on a famous streetI want to love, I've all the wrong gloryAm I just in Heaven or Las Vegas?Whichever's more brighter than the sun is to me
He's a hustlerSome role he'll never make suitHang on to thisTo stay and stay, and then failPull him awayToo jealous so with meGo back for newFor new things there
Singing on a famous streetI want to love, I've all the wrong gloryAm I just in Heaven or Las Vegas? (Heaven or Las Vegas)Whichever's more brighter than the sun is to meReaching this itch in my soul (Heaven or Las Vegas)It's like any good playing cardMust be why I'm thinking of Las Vegas (Heaven or Las Vegas)Why it's more brighter than the sun is to me
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 8 July 2021 01:02 (two years ago) link
On a relisten, I'd actually suggest she probably sings "Itching this itchy muscle" and "whichever's more brighter than this zoo is to me" cos that's more her style, and who pronounces sun "soo"?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 8 July 2021 01:07 (two years ago) link
the fact that you're second-guessing yourself just now means the lyrics are probably not "fairly clear and obvious"
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 8 July 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
fairly, not entirely.
Anyway my general point is, idgaf if people do covers, I'm not precious about it, but this one felt particularly hamfisted.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 8 July 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
I honestly did not know most of the lyrics to this song were real words
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 8 July 2021 01:44 (two years ago) link
i learned how to play that song a few weeks ago on guitar, and i was singing along for the first time, it was kind of a baffling experience. the disconnect between her words and their effect on me, i mean. i would read them, and even sing them to the song, and it was just...nothing. but when liz sings them they seem like the most powerful and important things in the world.
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 8 July 2021 01:58 (two years ago) link
i recall reading her saying more than once she was "feeling the words" like, her singing is the emotion, rather than the words themselves is how I guess I took it?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 8 July 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
forever "bituminous itchy muscle" in my brain for 30+ years
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 8 July 2021 05:27 (two years ago) link
LOL I cant unhear her singing "Sinn Fein" in one song, so you know.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 8 July 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
Just interviewed Robin Guthrie for Bandcamp. THAT was a treat. It'll be a short guide to his solo work, and I learned a heck of a lot.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 October 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
Oh wow, awesome. Look forward to reading it
― groovypanda, Monday, 11 October 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
yeah, so cool! and i could use a short guide to his solo work, so looking forward to reading that for sure
― typo hell #12: a hundreds of millions of people (Karl Malone), Monday, 11 October 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
Did you talk about his work with Harold Budd? Would love to hear his memories of working with him.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 11 October 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
congrats ned, that's great
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 11 October 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
Thanks all -- yes the focus was on his strictly solo stuff with one exception, namely the Budd work. It'll be a total of five or six albums out of the whole -- think of this piece of mine as a model for the format:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/a-guide-to-alessandro-cortinis-exploratory-electronic-music
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 October 2021 22:12 (two years ago) link
I had a cocktail named "Cherry-Coloured Funk" the other day, it was fine. I'm sure it's not the first time a drink was named after that song
― Murgatroid, Monday, 11 October 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/RuA760P7F9— Gabe (@gabrielszatan) February 9, 2022
― snarl self own (Karl Malone), Thursday, 10 February 2022 16:48 (two years ago) link
It must be true
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 February 2022 16:51 (two years ago) link
I recently got a copy of Blue Bell Knoll on vinyl. It sounds spectacular.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:04 (two years ago) link
deciphering the lyrics to Blue Bell Knoll will lead you to a bejeweled statuette hidden in an English country field
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
"DRINK YOUR OVALTINE"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:44 (two years ago) link
BE SURE TO DRINKYOUR ATHOLL BROSE
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, 10 February 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
So she really was saying "sip cherry coke" hih
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 10 February 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
I wish I'd saved the images when they were posted up on FB some years back but someone posted a letter they got from Lizzie way back in the day where I guess the band were still small enough to write back to some fans. And she wrote down all the lyrics to the Lullabies EP for this guy, when they'd just written it. It is I think a fascinating insight into how she wrangles words and scansion:
Alas Dies LaughingFlaxen the tresses / BothFlesh and fleshings / Tongue-Tied and stuttering / WasQuick take to mummeringFlaxen the tresses AllFingers and stresses / Tongue-tied and stuttering / WasQuick take to mummering
like when you listen to this, I think what she ends up singing is slightly diff (she says "quick take to mummering fun" or tounge or similar). But yeah thats it.
Feathers Oar BladesBare in foot and hideBarefaced bareheadedBare in foot and hideBare in foot and hideCrestfallen, weepingThe cripples though crestlessAre crestfallen weepingFeathers oar bladesSplitting hair feathersSpitting out oar bladesSpitting out oar bladesCrestfallen, weepingThe cripples though crestlessAre crestfallen weepingAll in teetotumWiddershins every’s bodyIs all in teetotumIs all in teetotumSpitting out oar blades
She swaps the first 2 lines around on the record, maybe theyd done a few versions after she worked out the words.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 30 March 2023 05:20 (one year ago) link
Actually correction: she sings it this way on the Lullbies EP. She swaps the first 2 lines around on the Peel Session version.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 30 March 2023 05:22 (one year ago) link
But what a great play on words "Splitting hair feathers" is.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 30 March 2023 05:24 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/kqrzyJh.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Mh2r6jS.jpgholy shit - no idea these existed
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 30 March 2023 06:22 (one year ago) link
oh wow i couldn’t find the scans!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 30 March 2023 08:56 (one year ago) link
so cool
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
Thanks for this
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 30 March 2023 20:15 (one year ago) link
I've been a bit wary of knowing the exact lyrics apart from the fragments perceptible on the record covers, in the outside case they'd just turn out to be horrendous bullshit, but seeing that, I so want that complete-works volume that I cannot imagine we'll ever have.
barefaced bareheadedbare in foot and hide
I mean
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 30 March 2023 22:21 (one year ago) link
A lot of the time Lullabies is my favourite of all their stuff, so forbidding and mysterious, and as you say, knowing the lyric doesn't change that a bit.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 30 March 2023 22:59 (one year ago) link
Need to get back to that; I love Garlands and all, but the EP stuff has fallen a bit between the cracks.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 30 March 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
the EPs are so great, endlessly rewarding timeless music
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Thursday, 30 March 2023 23:08 (one year ago) link
Lullabies def my favourite of all of their work, I think. That and the Echoes/Dynamine eps. Which I see were discussed at length upthread when Z had a Cocteaus-venture I missed! (I never read ILM much).
Was funny to learn it went "kicked all from my all from my all from my curtsies my curtsies my curtsies my" when I thtought she was singing "get offa my offa my case my case my" lol.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 31 March 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
all for my all for my all for my kiss my kiss my kiss myyyy as I recall
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 31 March 2023 00:48 (one year ago) link
Yeah ha I think at one point I also thought that was it. I mean who would hear "curtsies", she really smears the word.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 31 March 2023 00:56 (one year ago) link
Cocteau Twins are seen as progenitors to shoegaze in their guitar sound, but I guess you could say the same about their lyrical approach. I have always appreciated Slowdive and MBV because most pop lyrics are daft, and by submerging the vocals in the mix, those bands avoided that disappointment. Liz Fraser’s avant-garde lyric writing, which was then distorted behind recognition in her singing, was the same goodness.
― Melomane, Friday, 31 March 2023 01:20 (one year ago) link
Encountered "Pearly Dewdrops'-Drops" today, as part of a mix... what a terrific song (oddly titled though it is). I tried out some bits & pieces of their other early stuff, and wasn't feeling it as much... I'll have to keep trying, kept coming back to that one song.
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 00:17 (eleven months ago) link