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Athol brose is one of the best cocteau twins songs. Literally transcendent and beautiful. It's like choir music!! U def either get it or u dont. It makes me want to grasp at the night sky and cast spells
For me the Cocteau Twins made a difference in my youth. Their albums from Treasure thru Blue Bell Knoll and Heaven Or Las Vegas made me to the person I am today. Their music had a huge impact on my soul. Thank you for listening to them and sharing your thoughts 🥰
It took me years as a fan to realize it, but I think this is the definitive Cocteau Twins album. I don’t even think I’d call it my favorite, but it’s the one that sums them up the best.
After listening to you reacting on Head Over Heels and Blue Bell Knoll it’s fair to say you stick to Treasure and HOLV cause it felt you were way to much rambling on about them and couldn’t stop comparing etc.. quite boring HOLV might be their best but BBK is quintessential CT
This album really succeeds in creating a sustained atmosphere that still shifts from song to song. There are more musical ideas here than on any other of their records but it never seems disjointed. And they do it in under forty minutes.
i know her sister! she actually sent me 2 covid masks in the style of Cocteau twins! lovely lady and yes she knows the founder's of Cocteau twins too.. Robin Guthrie and Will Heggie.
I think I've had Cocteau Twins on constant rotation since 1991. This one has always been my favorite for precisely the reason you speculate about -- it's the bridge from their earlier, darker albums to the brighter, more beautiful later albums. It's the depth in the vocals and the fact that there is something deeply interesting that occurs at least once in every song, if not over and over. It makes you want to listen to every song on the album, knowing that some tracks are just a short path to another grand statement. I agree with other commenters that this album kinda captures everything that they can do, much like Kiss Me does for The Cure.
I don't know if other people covered it, but the EPs also fill in the blanks, because stuff like Aikea Guinea and Love's Easy Tears also lead into BBK and dreampop. When you hear the compilation of them, you will have a more complete picture overall, trust me.
This to me is my fave dreampop of theirs, and I think it has a unique atmosphere. Liz's vocals are at her most interesting here, I love it except for a couple tracks. Personally I love Athol Brose.
Interested to see how this one manifests over time. Initially i put this behind Heaven or Las Vegas and Treasure, but it eventually became my favorite on repeat listenings. Songs like Cico Buff and Suckling the Mender really moved up. Feels like they were the most confident with their melodies on this one, Liz Fraser was really in her sweet spot. Heaven or Las Vegas now feels like a slight step down from this sound. Enjoyable reaction as always. Neutral Milk Hotel memes? Wow.
It's great to see you reacting to these beautiful albums by CTs, as a fan since 1989 it's always fascinating to see new reactions to them, because they are timeless! And Liz is unique. I agree it's difficult to determine between HOLV and treasure, which might be the best - they are both so completely different! And brilliant in their own ways. Athol Brose though...man it's wonderful, and I also love Spooning Good Singing Gum 🤩
Four Calender Cafe is next... the best one... HOLV and Victorialand mixed together to create perfection.. Milk n Kisses is also like that just a bit more dark
I discovered the Cocteau Twins completely by accident - walked into a record store in Scotland (best CCT concert was the famous Barrowlands). I was hooked. Favourite is the guitar riff from Atholl Brose, and the whole Carolyn's. fingers. Favourite 2 albums - this one, and Garlands.
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Its true theyre really not a first listen kinda band apart from "the hits". Its not my fave initially or "most interesting" but i think its very pop and i found myself getting addicted to the melodies. Like, they made that transitition to pop there and maybe it would be more interesting with a touch more of victorialand for you. But the feel of this album is different...faster, lighter.. brighter? Once i got into the groove with the songs and used to the kitsch, they got better and better. Cico Buff!
I discovered CT watching the Iceblink Luck video clip on TV, it was love at first sight, immediate ... Within a few days I had already bought HOLV and BBK, and I couldn't stop looping one after the other, over and over again. And so I continue to do so for 30 years.
The Cocteau Twins ended in Four-Calendar Cafe. For me they represent the past and that romantic dreamy me. I used to listen to Dead Can Dance a lot to. Have you heard of them? Anyway. It’s funny to see a young man listening to the music that I was listening to before your age😂
I'd forgotten how much I loved Itchy Glowbo Blow. Gonna have to put it back in rotation. Four Calendar Cafe is going to be a big leap in a commercial direction. Liz annunciates! Interestingly, in the live tour that followed Four Calendar, Liz had some sort of "reaction" and the echolalia became, let's say, jarring. Did anyone else get that takeaway?
Hi Alex, here Fernando from Argentina!!! Just finished your Cocteau Twins reactions, love it... Maybe you could do their last 2 albums, in general people thinks negative to this ones, especially Milk & Kisses, but I really enjoy every song, and if you have time and want to do it, some of their eps, SO important in their discography (eventually you can pic the compilation "Lullabies to Violaine: Singles and Extended Plays 1982-1996", but it's a four discs box set, maybe too long... Apart of this I'm waiting for your reactions from Led Zepp, love them too, but, 'cause I know your likes, can't wait for this waterfall of rock 'n roll after the dreamy Cocteau reacts (I got to say I'm glad you include Presence, maybe my very best from Zepp...) And to end... The Cure!!! My favourite band ever... You did Disintegration, but you said you would do some of their first albums in order... Just 2 things about it: Three Imaginary Boys has not all the singles from that era, maybe you can add the "Boys Don't Cry" compilation (the first US album released, a combination of TIB and those singles). And also there are very important the singles released between Pornography and The Top, compiled in the mini album Japanese Whispers, because here is the most radical twist in their career, Robert trying to reborn from the Pornoghraphy hell and doing some electro-jazzy-dark-pop songs, it's maybe the most awsome musical change in a band ever, no one in the world expected that (just think Let's Go to Bed is from the same year from One Hundred Years is crazy!!!!)... Too much words, love your channel!!!
By the singer's own admission, this is by far the most vocally abstract/nonverbal album in the Cocteau catalogue. The Fraser stereotypes were set in concrete here. Red-herring song titles this time include dedications to the 23 Envelope album-cover model, to Robin Guthrie's mother, to cotton mills, to a Pennsylvania beauty spot and to a kind of alcoholic porridge. BBK: Three years earlier they had a song in which the only clearly audible word was "vagina" - here we have a song in which, seemingly, the word "penis" stands out. 1996 live versions of this are worth seeking out, Robin added an extra guitar riff to it. CF: Based on the Velvet Underground Sunday Morning riff. A fairly unique vocal tour de force which she never even came close to replicating onstage. (And the one with the controversial video - filmed by stealth? no, but, she's overweight and looking like she really wants to be somewhere else). TIGB: Words fail me - save one - "gorgeousness" CB: Remembered by Brits of a certain age as the jingle from the Aqua Libra commercials, though they clipped or obscured the verse-melody which is its strongest feature. STM: Those chord changes, those high notes. But - in the same way that Mike Oldfield fans ask "who the fuck is Flora?", here we ask "who the fuck is Ewie?" SGSG: Another sideways-step key-change, yes, that's what we need. But...I no longer remember why I heard a late-period Roxy influence in this. The title probably means exactly what we (and Douglas P) always suspected! EMBF: Again, this arguably wasn't perfected until the 1996 tour - amid the experimentation of the previous tour, she'd evolved a more animated vocal line.
I’m a huge cocteau twins fan and even though I love this album it doesn’t move me or bewitch me the way previous albums have - the production feels a bit too smooth and the music is a little bit too polite and polished.
LOL @ everyone advising him to try this LP or that EP. Screw it, Blue Bell Knoll is Cocteau Twins' best album; Robin Guthrie himself leans that way. If this dude isn't thrilled by it, then nothing else by the band is going to move him much, either. It's just not his thing. He'd be better off going with Midnight Oil or Screaming Blue Messiahs or World Party or The Cult, bands like those.
Blue Bell was really their first "commercial" album for general consumption. People not into the gothic surrealism of what came before dug this album. Other than Itchy Glowbo (favorite of this album) these songs were a little too pretty and polished. It's definitely one of their weaker albums overall IMO.
I probably prefer HOLV as a singular piece but Cico Buff and Carolyn's Fingers are my favourite Cocteau Twins songs. Each of those songs instantly gives me goosebumps, it's the only music that has made me cry out of sheer joy. What an amazing band. Robin's guitar and production, and the voice of God, the Jimi Hendrix of vocals Elizabeth Fraser. If you haven't already done My Bloody Valentine, do them. 3 albums. All intensely enjoyable and groundbreaking, but Loveless takes the cake, it's a masterpiece.
I gave you a like cos you mentioned them. But and it's a BIG BUT, you really should play the whole tracks. First time listeners won't get it. Which is a bad thing.
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Athol brose is one of the best cocteau twins songs. Literally transcendent and beautiful. It's like choir music!! U def either get it or u dont. It makes me want to grasp at the night sky and cast spells
Ella….is one of their most beautiful eatheric song….
Can’t believe someone doesn’t shed tears when it hits your heart…
Best song they wrote. Amazing.
For me the Cocteau Twins made a difference in my youth. Their albums from Treasure thru Blue Bell Knoll and Heaven Or Las Vegas made me to the person I am today. Their music had a huge impact on my soul. Thank you for listening to them and sharing your thoughts 🥰
It took me years as a fan to realize it, but I think this is the definitive Cocteau Twins album. I don’t even think I’d call it my favorite, but it’s the one that sums them up the best.
I agree !
After listening to you reacting on Head Over Heels and Blue Bell Knoll it’s fair to say you stick to Treasure and HOLV cause it felt you were way to much rambling on about them and couldn’t stop comparing etc..
quite boring
HOLV might be their best but BBK is quintessential CT
This album really succeeds in creating a sustained atmosphere that still shifts from song to song. There are more musical ideas here than on any other of their records but it never seems disjointed. And they do it in under forty minutes.
Her voice is so special. Nobody sings like that.
The voice of God
i know her sister! she actually sent me 2 covid masks in the style of Cocteau twins! lovely lady and yes she knows the founder's of Cocteau twins too.. Robin Guthrie and Will Heggie.
You should definitely give Love's Easy Tears a go. It's so freaking other-wordly and so ahead of its time. 1986 was a crazy year for music!
I think I've had Cocteau Twins on constant rotation since 1991. This one has always been my favorite for precisely the reason you speculate about -- it's the bridge from their earlier, darker albums to the brighter, more beautiful later albums. It's the depth in the vocals and the fact that there is something deeply interesting that occurs at least once in every song, if not over and over. It makes you want to listen to every song on the album, knowing that some tracks are just a short path to another grand statement.
I agree with other commenters that this album kinda captures everything that they can do, much like Kiss Me does for The Cure.
Athol Brose is my favourite song of all time, I'm astonished it doesn't get a good reaction from others.
The bridge you are looking for will not be on an LP but on 2 Gem EPs called “Tiny Dynamine” and “Echoes In A Shallow Bay ...” 😇
Oh my this is so true, Pink Orange Red May just be a perfect song!
My favorite from them. Just picked it up on vinyl and it sounds terrific.
The last song is beautiful. You crazy
I don't know if other people covered it, but the EPs also fill in the blanks, because stuff like Aikea Guinea and Love's Easy Tears also lead into BBK and dreampop. When you hear the compilation of them, you will have a more complete picture overall, trust me.
For Phoebe still a baby is basically Purple Rain... Prince tried to sign them...
No synths have beed used on this album(or any onther Cocteau Twins album). All Guthrie's guitar effects.
This to me is my fave dreampop of theirs, and I think it has a unique atmosphere. Liz's vocals are at her most interesting here, I love it except for a couple tracks. Personally I love Athol Brose.
"Music to zone out to" is the best definition to the vibe this album gives. Spot-on.
I saw that live several times. Each time she sang Blue Bell Knoll the public was extatic
Interested to see how this one manifests over time. Initially i put this behind Heaven or Las Vegas and Treasure, but it eventually became my favorite on repeat listenings. Songs like Cico Buff and Suckling the Mender really moved up. Feels like they were the most confident with their melodies on this one, Liz Fraser was really in her sweet spot. Heaven or Las Vegas now feels like a slight step down from this sound.
Enjoyable reaction as always. Neutral Milk Hotel memes? Wow.
Favorite album
It's great to see you reacting to these beautiful albums by CTs, as a fan since 1989 it's always fascinating to see new reactions to them, because they are timeless! And Liz is unique. I agree it's difficult to determine between HOLV and treasure, which might be the best - they are both so completely different! And brilliant in their own ways. Athol Brose though...man it's wonderful, and I also love Spooning Good Singing Gum 🤩
Four Calender Cafe is next... the best one... HOLV and Victorialand mixed together to create perfection.. Milk n Kisses is also like that just a bit more dark
I discovered the Cocteau Twins completely by accident - walked into a record store in Scotland (best CCT concert was the famous Barrowlands). I was hooked. Favourite is the guitar riff from Atholl Brose, and the whole Carolyn's. fingers. Favourite 2 albums - this one, and Garlands.
Its true theyre really not a first listen kinda band apart from "the hits".
Its not my fave initially or "most interesting" but i think its very pop and i found myself getting addicted to the melodies. Like, they made that transitition to pop there and maybe it would be more interesting with a touch more of victorialand for you. But the feel of this album is different...faster, lighter.. brighter?
Once i got into the groove with the songs and used to the kitsch, they got better and better. Cico Buff!
athol brose is massive
I discovered CT watching the Iceblink Luck video clip on TV, it was love at first sight, immediate ...
Within a few days I had already bought HOLV and BBK, and I couldn't stop looping one after the other, over and over again. And so I continue to do so for 30 years.
My favorite album from t'hem. 1.blue bell knoll 2. Treasure 3. Four-calendar café 4. Heaven or Las Vegas
you will love four calendar cafe
The Cocteau Twins ended in Four-Calendar Cafe. For me they represent the past and that romantic dreamy me. I used to listen to Dead Can Dance a lot to. Have you heard of them? Anyway. It’s funny to see a young man listening to the music that I was listening to before your age😂
Dead can are brilliant! Their self- titled album is lovely, songs like; 'A passage in time', 'Fortune' and 'The Trial' are all beautiful. :)
Umm, Milk and Kisses is a fucking fantastic album.
They did not end in four calendar cafe
Good review. Check out love's easy tears dude..
I'd forgotten how much I loved Itchy Glowbo Blow. Gonna have to put it back in rotation. Four Calendar Cafe is going to be a big leap in a commercial direction. Liz annunciates! Interestingly, in the live tour that followed Four Calendar, Liz had some sort of "reaction" and the echolalia became, let's say, jarring. Did anyone else get that takeaway?
Also ever thought of doing This Mortal Coil.... it’s the singer from CT with a ton of other people.. their albums are great
Liz sings on two TMC tracks. They're more of a 4AD supergroup.
Athol Brose - most beautiful and most euphoric of songs. You're way off, man.
Oh, this album just made me think of mmmender, aka Leesa. Sad thoughts indeed. She who will always be missed in the hearts of many CT fans.
Hi Alex, here Fernando from Argentina!!!
Just finished your Cocteau Twins reactions, love it... Maybe you could do their last 2 albums, in general people thinks negative to this ones,
especially Milk & Kisses, but I really enjoy every song, and if you have time and want to do it, some of their eps, SO important in their discography (eventually you can pic the compilation "Lullabies to Violaine: Singles and Extended Plays 1982-1996", but it's a four discs box set, maybe too long...
Apart of this I'm waiting for your reactions from Led Zepp, love them too, but, 'cause I know your likes, can't wait for this waterfall of rock 'n roll after the dreamy Cocteau reacts (I got to say I'm glad you include Presence, maybe my very best from Zepp...)
And to end... The Cure!!! My favourite band ever... You did Disintegration, but you said you would do some of their first albums in order... Just 2 things about it: Three Imaginary Boys has not all the singles from that era, maybe you can add the "Boys Don't Cry" compilation (the first US album released, a combination of TIB and those singles). And also there are very important the singles released between Pornography and The Top, compiled in the mini album Japanese Whispers, because here is the most radical twist in their career, Robert trying to reborn from the Pornoghraphy hell and doing some electro-jazzy-dark-pop songs, it's maybe the most awsome musical change in a band ever, no one in the world expected that (just think Let's Go to Bed is from the same year from One Hundred Years is crazy!!!!)...
Too much words, love your channel!!!
The amazing cocteau twins are wasted on this man's ears for my money..
For sure. He just operates on a different plane.
By the singer's own admission, this is by far the most vocally abstract/nonverbal album in the Cocteau catalogue. The Fraser stereotypes were set in concrete here. Red-herring song titles this time include dedications to the 23 Envelope album-cover model, to Robin Guthrie's mother, to cotton mills, to a Pennsylvania beauty spot and to a kind of alcoholic porridge.
BBK: Three years earlier they had a song in which the only clearly audible word was "vagina" - here we have a song in which, seemingly, the word "penis" stands out. 1996 live versions of this are worth seeking out, Robin added an extra guitar riff to it.
CF: Based on the Velvet Underground Sunday Morning riff. A fairly unique vocal tour de force which she never even came close to replicating onstage. (And the one with the controversial video - filmed by stealth? no, but, she's overweight and looking like she really wants to be somewhere else).
TIGB: Words fail me - save one - "gorgeousness"
CB: Remembered by Brits of a certain age as the jingle from the Aqua Libra commercials, though they clipped or obscured the verse-melody which is its strongest feature.
STM: Those chord changes, those high notes. But - in the same way that Mike Oldfield fans ask "who the fuck is Flora?", here we ask "who the fuck is Ewie?"
SGSG: Another sideways-step key-change, yes, that's what we need. But...I no longer remember why I heard a late-period Roxy influence in this. The title probably means exactly what we (and Douglas P) always suspected!
EMBF: Again, this arguably wasn't perfected until the 1996 tour - amid the experimentation of the previous tour, she'd evolved a more animated vocal line.
I’m a huge cocteau twins fan and even though I love this album it doesn’t move me or bewitch me the way previous albums have - the production feels a bit too smooth and the music is a little bit too polite and polished.
a kissed out red float boat is my favourite on this album but i love carolyns fingers too and a few others have a great feel
LOL @ everyone advising him to try this LP or that EP. Screw it, Blue Bell Knoll is Cocteau Twins' best album; Robin Guthrie himself leans that way. If this dude isn't thrilled by it, then nothing else by the band is going to move him much, either. It's just not his thing. He'd be better off going with Midnight Oil or Screaming Blue Messiahs or World Party or The Cult, bands like those.
Blue Bell was really their first "commercial" album for general consumption. People not into the gothic surrealism of what came before dug this album. Other than Itchy Glowbo (favorite of this album) these songs were a little too pretty and polished. It's definitely one of their weaker albums overall IMO.
12:12 My favourite from this album
Spooning good singing gum is lush
Try listening to their albums Garlands or Head over heals. These are more post punk and edgy like Treasure.
I probably prefer HOLV as a singular piece but Cico Buff and Carolyn's Fingers are my favourite Cocteau Twins songs. Each of those songs instantly gives me goosebumps, it's the only music that has made me cry out of sheer joy. What an amazing band. Robin's guitar and production, and the voice of God, the Jimi Hendrix of vocals Elizabeth Fraser. If you haven't already done My Bloody Valentine, do them. 3 albums. All intensely enjoyable and groundbreaking, but Loveless takes the cake, it's a masterpiece.
Please, react to Blur-13, this is their Kid A
For Phoebe Still A Baby my favorite Cocteau Twins song. Great Cocteau Twins Album reviews. 😀😁😃😄
Title track of BBK is in my tops by them.
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I gave you a like cos you mentioned them. But and it's a BIG BUT, you really should play the whole tracks. First time listeners won't get it. Which is a bad thing.
Treasure.
There. It is declared.
Blech. My opinion of it is the same as Robin's. If I want to hear John Bonham play drums, I will listen to Zeppelin.
@@eboethrasher Ditto. Way overrated album, and CT themselves don't much care for it, either.
Nah. Blue Bell Knoll 😂
@@billida That's okay.
You like what you like.