Cocteau Twins- Blue Bell Knoll REACTION AND REVIEW

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  • @epongeverte
    @epongeverte 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    I love this band. I went to see them in concert in the early 90s. I was in a state of trance through most of it. They had great songs thru the 80s and became more commercial in the 90s, but they maintained their lyrics as instrument throughout. Lovely.

  • @montyernst2617
    @montyernst2617 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    This song and "Carolyn's Fingers" are my two favorites of theirs.

  • @manhattenman6075
    @manhattenman6075 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    Great Song , underrated album, doesnt get enough praise.

    • @paulcollins5586
      @paulcollins5586 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Very hypnotic.

    • @stevenorthwick2480
      @stevenorthwick2480 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Underrated band.

    • @eboethrasher
      @eboethrasher 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@stevenorthwick2480 they are rated pretty appropriately these days.

    • @AKBrechin
      @AKBrechin 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@stevenorthwick2480 Do you think so? I think they’ve always been highly revered from very early on and their influence was swift and has been long lasting. I love this album.

    • @steveseager
      @steveseager 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@AKBrechin I definitely agree among a group of devoted fans and admirers, but I feel they should have had much more of a mainstream following. They wrote loads of great songs.

  • @paulcollins5586
    @paulcollins5586 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Perfect album.

  • @aldo34
    @aldo34 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    OMG!!!!!!!!!!! One of my favourite tracks of all time of all time of all time!!!!! Over excited...

  • @chinard
    @chinard 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    the whole album is fantastic
    Probably their best

  • @AKBrechin
    @AKBrechin 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    My favourite CT song. When I first heard this, the section where it soars at the end made me burst into tears. Yep. Not ashamed! 😂

  • @sagnyc
    @sagnyc 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Quite possibly their finest album. For me it's between this and "Treasure." My fave track on this album is the 2nd track, "Athol-Brose." Simply sublime.

    • @rydelldownward7808
      @rydelldownward7808 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      “Treasure” is an epic album.

  • @sjfotheringham7019
    @sjfotheringham7019 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    BBK - best CT album., not over engineered , just perfect to hear all the component parts which make the band stand out for me in this genre. Love it and really enjoyed your reaction Justin.

    • @JustJP
      @JustJP  2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Ty sj! I enjoyed this :)

  • @MrCREWCRUSHIN95
    @MrCREWCRUSHIN95 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Shoegaze would not exist if Cocteau Twins didn't inspire that sound.

    • @eboethrasher
      @eboethrasher 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Single-handedly create is more like it.

    • @Azabaxe80
      @Azabaxe80 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@eboethrasher I have listened to this way more than to _Loveless_ It actually isn’t a stretch to say that I prefer it.

  • @billida
    @billida 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Perfect album. My favorite of the band. There is a gorgeous live version on YT.

  • @stevenorthwick2480
    @stevenorthwick2480 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Every track on this album is great.

  • @musicbybackinnyc1
    @musicbybackinnyc1 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Loved this . I saw them live in 1994 in Leeds uk

  • @marybloomfield2646
    @marybloomfield2646 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I preferred the less dreamy albums and EPs, but I love this album. Imo Fraser’s voice is at the height of it’s powers and she shows off its full range ….. that Suckling the Mender high note … unbelievable.

  • @timetocompose1885
    @timetocompose1885 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Hi Justin! Watched some of your classical music reactions! As a classical pianist myself, I love your reviews and the things you say about the music! Pls react to more classical pieces, we like them a lot.. thanks! :D

    • @JustJP
      @JustJP  2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Thank you Time; I appreciate that! Actually will have something coming very soon lol. And if you ever have any insight into some of the random questions I may ask, I'd love to hear and learn more

  • @jamesadkisson7510
    @jamesadkisson7510 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Great song.
    I knew a girl that they were her absolute favorite band. Had all the albums. Posters, shirts. Never once called them the Cocteau Twins. Always the Cockatoo Twins.

    • @eboethrasher
      @eboethrasher 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      hell, "the" isn't even part of the name.

  • @Kuesel68
    @Kuesel68 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    If you like to cover a full album, go for Treasure - one of the greatest post-punk/goth/dream-pop albums ever.

  • @AriadneJC
    @AriadneJC 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Creamy, dreamy, seize me.

  • @eboethrasher
    @eboethrasher 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Of course the progenitors of shoegaze (and dream pop) have a shoegaze feel, haha. This album was an important transition between the singles they were releasing in the 80s, and the sound they had going on with their best known album, Heaven or Las Vegas. Carolyn's Fingers is my favorite song from this album. The singles in the 80s are really what you can use to track their progression, because Victorialand throws a real wrench in the spanner for progression of their sound. I would highly recommend you reacting to the singles compilations "Lullabies to Violane" Volumes One and Two. Great, great stuff. They charted the course for shoegaze/dreampop for everyone who followed.

  • @rydelldownward7808
    @rydelldownward7808 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Maybe This Mortal Coil is a group down your alley.

  • @HippoYnYGlaw
    @HippoYnYGlaw 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I had this LP.......
    Jeff Buckley's Morning Theft is a classic.

  • @14gilbertst
    @14gilbertst 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    For me, For Phoebe, Still a Baby, is all I will ever need to hear from this band. It's very directed it isn't fluttery at all.

  • @richardfurness7556
    @richardfurness7556 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    An excellent album. Iceblink Luck and Carolyn's Fingers are outstanding.
    Edit: Memory playing tricks again. Iceblink Luck is of course from Heaven Or Las Vegas. Can the bath chair and the ear trumpet be far away?

    • @sagnyc
      @sagnyc 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I was just about to pedantically correct you, and realized you had done it yourself. Kudos, sir. And my fave track on HOLV is the closer, :"Frou-frou foxes in midsummer fires." Ecstatic.

    • @gaiaeternal5131
      @gaiaeternal5131 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@sagnyc I agree.

    • @richardfurness7556
      @richardfurness7556 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@sagnyc Thanks, I never mind being corrected. It's how we learn stuff. I was thinking of Cico Buff, which I heard on a Sunday afternoon TV chart show that had an 'indie' section. It was the first time the band had made a promotional video for one of their songs, having famously shunned publicity of any kind until then.
      I agree, the 'frou frou' track is amazing, though 'Road River And Rail' is my personal favourite.

  • @rydelldownward7808
    @rydelldownward7808 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Carolyn’s Fingers!

  • @thesoundlikechameleons2082
    @thesoundlikechameleons2082 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I own the album, and I managed to get Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie to sign it! Now listen to Square one by Coldplay... they basically stole those notes!
    beautiful song

  • @elysehfm8797
    @elysehfm8797 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I've never done karaoke, but I was wondering the other day if there is much Cocteau Twins on the lists. And NOT the songs with English words.

  • @pentagrammaton6793
    @pentagrammaton6793 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    "Hey, I reckon we should name our band after two random body parts...nooo, not those!!"

    • @paulcollins5586
      @paulcollins5586 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Made me smile that comment. Could have been Bumfinger.

    • @pentagrammaton6793
      @pentagrammaton6793 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@paulcollins5586 haha! The Bond film that never was...thankfully

    • @MrCREWCRUSHIN95
      @MrCREWCRUSHIN95 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Jean Cocteau

    • @eboethrasher
      @eboethrasher 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@pentagrammaton6793 The band was named after a song by Simple Minds that was never released.

    • @eboethrasher
      @eboethrasher 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@MrCREWCRUSHIN95 nope

  • @rdumontdebeque
    @rdumontdebeque 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @a.k.1740
    @a.k.1740 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I was never really impressed by this slightly too sugary album, except for three great songs including the title track that you listened to, "The Itchy Glowbo Blow", and the closing track "Ella Megalast Burls Forever". The rest of Blue Bell Knoll doesn't speak to me. I prefer their debut album Garlands as well as their second Head Over Heels which you already know, the ethereal and ambient Victorialand, as well as their couple of EPs Tiny Dynamine/Echoes in a Shallow Bay also released as an album in 1985.

    • @Eduardo-Ferreira1982
      @Eduardo-Ferreira1982 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Though liking and listening easily this album, I consider it their less good... Just to mention it has their best song ever: Itchy Glowbo-Blow. 😊

    • @Eduardo-Ferreira1982
      @Eduardo-Ferreira1982 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Now that I listen to this for the hundredth time: this is shoegaze, no more, no less.

    • @a.k.1740
      @a.k.1740 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @Eduardo-Ferreira1982 Yep, but not very inspired. Well, I admit I'm not a big Treasure fan either!😉

    • @Eduardo-Ferreira1982
      @Eduardo-Ferreira1982 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@a.k.1740 I know 😊

    • @eboethrasher
      @eboethrasher 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I have no idea how you can like Victorialand and not this. Victorialand is wimpy AF compared to this part of their catalog. Victorialand was an anomaly in their progression as a band and would not have even happened had Simon not been off doing the second This Mortal Coil album. Their singles go straight into this sort of stuff, Aikea-Guinea, Tiny Dynamine, Echoes in a Shallow Bay, and then Love's Easy Tears. Add in the 4 songs Liz sings on from Moon and the Melodies, and Crushed from Lonely is an Eyesore, and you've got 2 albums worth of material that actually is representative of the growth from Treasure.

  • @billida
    @billida 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Each time I saw them play this song live the audience was in à transe.

  • @philbell5774
    @philbell5774 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Although very good IMO Blue bell knoll isn't their best album. I would give that award to either Victorialand or Treasure which always vie for "top spot" with me and can never quite make my mind up about.

    • @eboethrasher
      @eboethrasher 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      yikes their 2 worst albums.

    • @KS5040
      @KS5040 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Head Over Heels was definitely one of their best, varied, and most innovative albums from 1983, they only other album better is Heaven or Las Vegas from 1990.

  • @jtenaz
    @jtenaz 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    They have better songs