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I'd love to know where Ballad of Darren ranks with you all.

New Grass is like the breath of God

1. 13 (10/10) 2. Parklife (10/10) 3. The Great Escape (9/10) 4. Modern Life Is Rubbish (9/10) 5. The Ballad of Darren (8/10) 6. Blur (8/10) 7. The Magic Whip (8/10) 8. Think Tank (7/10) 9. Leisure (5/10)

As a professional energy vampire who lives off empathy- may I recommend that you don’t cut in and out of the songs you review. What we like is watching you when the great bits come up…

I think 2+2=5 is the best radiohead song

That bracket must have been msde by a member of r/arkham or something because it is weird

Wowee Zowee is Pavement's best work

The drums on this fucking album are so nasty. They just beat you on the head with a baseball bat. The fuzz just rips you ribcage open, the bass shatters your bones into fine dust. This really is THE heaviest album on earth

Listen to my son's first IDM album 2024: music.th-cam.com/video/laOLPOzqR9Q/w-d-xo.html

for me ice blink luck, heaven or las vegas, road rover and rail and frou frou foxes really take this album home for me

Yeah, the Pink Cigarette heart monitor definitely makes more sense with lyrics. Makes the whole song better really

THiS IS JUST A WONDERFUL ALBUM 🎉❤PERIOD

'PromoSM'

This was an awesome episode! My favorite is Vespertine

The hook on LOVE is from Eric B. & Rakim, "I Know You Got Soul" by the way

Great album. Glad yall appreciated it. Hard not to lol

As someone who loves this album through and through, I agree that it's not love at first listen. I listened to it once, felt intrigued; went back to it a second time, didn't quite get it, but then... There just came a moment when 'it hit'. And since then I say that it's one of the best things that came from the "alternative" 90s.

😭 my choices r directly opposite to abt 90% of these

my friend took this album cover

Cocteau Twins music is so sophisticated and deep it takes multiple listens to really appreciate the stunning beauty of it

Want, Jupiter Crash and Mint Car are three of the best songs they’ve ever done, and all three are on Wild Mood Swings.

I made a comment around two years ago, when I just started getting into them, and since then, my tastes have changed quite a lot. Here is my ranking of the albums now: 16. Greed (3/10) 15. Holy Money (3+/10) 14. The Burning World (6/10) 13. Love Of Life (6/10) 12. Cop (7-/10) 11. My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (7/10) 10. The Great Anihilator (7+/10) 9. Filth (7+/10) 8. White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity (8/10) 7. leaving meaning. (8+/10) 6. Children Of God (9-/10) 5. Soundtracks For The Blind (9/10) 4. To Be Kind (9/10) 3. The Seer (9+/10) 2. The Beggar (9+/10) 1. The Glowing Man (9+/10) I might update this as I listen to their live catalogue and EPs. I absolutely love Swans, they have become my favourite band, and seeing them live last week changed my life. Much love!

i Appreciate what you are doing ( i really do) but to be fair your title should have the words "in my opinion" in it what you class as "worst" may be someone's favourite

Haven't really listened to BROCKHAMPTON, ima go listen to their catalogue, Great pod. New Fan

His vocals remind me of sonic youth often, they are an influence also

toast... <3

What about the Ventolin ep’s? There were 2 parts but were released together on the same disc in the U.S.

I think I have a higher appreciation for The Top. Wailing Wall, Shake Dog Shake, Caterpillar, Piggy in the Mirror are so interesting and paved the ground for the mixture of pop/dark/psychedelic done on head on the door and KMKMKM. I agree with the transitional element mentioned. The top is best enjoyed after a joint honestly, and you have to be in an angry mood. I find it as intense as Pornography. Great episode guys!

The "gibberish" lyrics...lol... it actually has a technical, linguistic term: it is called Glossolalia. Just so you know. (Also, Elizabeth Fraser is the greatest vocalist of all time, IMHO). :)

Red Shoes is her weakest album in my opinion, so I agree with you. Lionheart I think is an excellent album, whether it was rushed or not. Has 2 or 3 amazing songs and the rest of it is very solid, in some ways it's better than her debut album, The Kick Inside. I'd give Lionheart at least 8 out of 10.

When anything by Cocteau Twins is uploaded onto TH-cam, this huge invisible army of devotees always begin to appear, as if out of nowhere, and it's very life-affirming to know that Liz and Robin and Simon and Will are forever immortalised by this force, so they never really ended at all, they simply became absorbed by them and then carried onward.

This album completely changed my life. There will never be another Mark Hollis!

Magnifique 😍

Great little discussion glad I stumbled in

wow, didn't expect lenny valentino here

Joy Division

Nooo I missed :( Ti e to watch vod

If Micky doesn't listen to Crest soon I'm chopping his balls off

Cocteau twins, you're soaking in it.

should listen to their ep supercoven, has lots of those psychedelic guitar sounds y'all enjoyed

I had the pleasure of seeing them in concert for this album. Spellbinding.

"I transcended so hard I disappeared" 🙂 I had the exact same feeling, listening to this album for the first time in the 90's

Here's how this album always works for every new listener: track 1: This sounds nice. Might not be my thing, but it's very nice. track 4: Damn, this is actually very very good. track 7: Okay this might actually be one of the best things I've ever heard track 10: If Elizabeth Fraser ordered me to wreck my ship on the rocks of the Aegean Sea I would do it in a second

Everything up until and including “The Moon and Antarctica” is far better than everything after it. But I am an old fart.

This album changed my life no lie. This and Guided By Voices Bee Thousand both came out in my senior year of high school and suddenly I was an “indie kid”. It felt like they were my own little secret.

One group that combines the dreampop/shoegaze sound with trip-hop elements is SPC ECO. Also see the great 1996 album by Hooverphonic, 'A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular.' It contains elements of both as well. I've been a Cocteau Twins fan for almost 40 years. Bought the 'Aikea-Guinea' EP in 1985 on a whim and have never looked back.

Lowest Common Denominator is such a perfect track; it's the one I always come back to on this album. I was lucky enough to see Unwound live this year (minus the original bassist, of course, RIP), and it was the highest energy show I've ever been to. One of my top 3 favorite bands ever, for sure.

If you fellows want a new sound, may I suggest, "Pylon," and their album "Chain." 1990. Another one I may have listened to in Iraq. Pylon came out of Athens, GA in the same span of years as R.E.M. and the B-52's.

Cocteau Twins are my favorite musicians. It could be because I listened to "Blue Bell Knoll," when I was in combat in Iraq. War is a crazy surreal thing. I was so young.

Don’t know if it’s mentioned later but the trip hop comparison is quite apt because Elizabeth Fraser, the Cocteau Twins singer, is featured on 3 different songs on Massive Attack’s “Mezzanine”