1988, art school; my friend Claudette and I would have skip days. We would go to her house, listen to Cocteau Twins and Clan of Xymox and smoke a lot of clove cigarettes. I would watch her create beauty on a canvas. I truly miss her. Some of the happiest moments in my life.
I'm 30 years old and I've never smoked in my life and I hate the thought of cigarettes in my mouth....BUT....I've always loved the smell of clove cigarettes, the color of them and if I ever became a smoker of definitely choose clove.
"Little wolf skin boots And clove cigarettes An erotic funeral For witch she's dressed Her perfume smells like Burning leaves Everyday is Halloween" Every time I see a clove cigarette I think of these Type O Negative lyrics.
Everybody talk 'bout Frazer's voice, which is actually so genius, but we must not forget about Gutrie's guitar. First of all all the Cocteau Twins' songs are beautiful combination of amazing guitar and amazing voice. What kind of knowing each other must couple have to understand a musical idea of partner and realize it so perfectly? They both are genius. Only together
I remember my mother RIP playing this song on car rides. For the longest time I never knew who the group was and just recently found them again. How awesome...
Liz Fraser's voice is so unique. It's elegant, pure and vulnerable. But it's also incredibly powerful. There's so much yearning, frustration and freedom in her voice. Like someone who has been told how to live her whole life and finally has the chance to express herself freely.
Austin Blyth I have her range. (And a little more.) If I sing breathy, so without technique, I can imitate her flawlessly and I think any mezzo soprano could. I have been a fan for thirty years and I have always sounded like her in my natural voice. She has a very natural voice but she can do vibrato and her upper register is a little more polished. But she is not a walking stuntvoice like Toyah or Siouxie. The eighties were a very strange era....
I agree she has a unique voice. There's more to singing than hitting notes, many singers can do that but there's no life in it you can't hear what they're feeling you can just hear training or someone trying to show off. Liz's singing is full of feeling.
1980's - A different time; a different world; inexpressable innocence and love captured in the best music as this; im so lucky i was a teenager and wish i could go back in time -2023
You know how a single piece of music can take you to a single time and place? This one takes me to Blisworth, Northamptonshire, autumn 1984, driving home to Cornwall in my Dolomite 1850 listening to John Peel
“And I thought someday I’d be at a party in college or something, and I’d look up and see this person across the room and from that moment I’d know everything was going to be okay.”
My 19-year old son's online friend from eastern Europe introduced him to Cocteau Twins about 6 months ago. He started playing them in the car while I was helping him learn to drive. At first, I thought it was kind of odd, definitely unique though. But, that's how music often resonates with me. It might take a little bit, but then it penetrates my heart, and...tears are welling up in my eyes as I type this listening to this haunting, beautiful, mesmerizing, unique, and wonderful song. The phrasing of the chord progressions, what she does with her voice at the beginning of that phrase during the verses...special. Amazing. I am very grateful for the digital communications that occurred across the globe to be offered eventually to my being, my realm, my heart. This is absolutely blissful and am SO glad this channel was created. Eager to hear the upcoming remastering of some of their albums later in 2024... Thank you. ❤❤
that was beautifully written. I'd urge you to delve into 80's and early 90's 4ad. I felt like I discovered a new world where everything made sense. This Mortal Coil's "Filligree & Shadows" had a profound impact on my life. This music has had a profound impact on my life. Enjoy the journey ❤
Brings me back. Im happy kids have pen pals still. I had them in the 90s. Both early email and letter. But also mix tape exchanges. Cocteau twins have a special story for me. I was 14 in 1994 and visiting my aunt in the San Francisco Bay Area she was throwing out a bunch of records I took. Cocteau twins. Smiths. Cure. Black Sabbath so much I discovered.
When I first heard Cocteau Twins in 1984, I knew I had to hear them again and again, 40 yrs later, still listening! Kids, if you like this one, try Carolyn's Fingers!
As Sean said, as long as the music exists... Besides, sometimes a retrospective appreciation of the music, without peer pressure or current hype or trends allows a person to discover at their own pace. An' that. Peace/Love
This was the song that kicked in my individuality. I heard it once on John Peel in the back room, which was also my bedroom when I was about 15 / 16 - after that I listened to Kid Jensen & John Peel every night on the stereogram - then I found The Smiths & Everything But The Girl & Ivor Cutler. I never knew the name of this song, so I bought everything in Woolworths with 'Cocteau Twins' took them to my nanna & played them, looking for this song. I eventually found it. By that time, I had fallen in love with Elizabeth Frazer's voice. That was my teens - still listen, still an EBTG fan - 48 now, what a great time in my life finding the music that sticks. My taste now is very eclectic - God bless to my nanna who never moaned about me on the stereogram, - takes me back to the very day. I miss her, Thank you for posting this.
+i davo fuck me, dude, I almost started crying! How dare you raise my emotional state sir! LOl Nice one. this track holds a momentous moment for me too. It told me music can be written by someone else, mean something, but, I can be free to interpret how I want it to be. Thank fuck for CT's and the inde revolution! Songs of my day... Songs of my day...
+keasyman ...agreed! I can remember when this came out and I was riding around in that summer of glorious sunshine with this song in my head all day. simply beautiful song, never forget it in my growing up years.
Yeah I heard this on John Peel too - and bought the EP which I still have. Used to play the "favourites" tape driving home to Cornwall after a week's work away back in the '80s and CT featured in there alongside the Cure, John Cooper Clarke and the like.
keasyman - I DID start crying! And I'm not a "Soft Guy"! With this song in my ears and those words that passed through my ears to my heart, the tears are still flowing...
Heard this song yesterday lunchtime on the radio. The earworm has been rattling around in my head. Knew the song a little but didnt know who it was. Spent nearly 2 hours goibg through 80's uk bands with female leads. Kept thinking it was Siooxie, then Sundays or Cranberries..then as soon as i heard the production on the first track listed i knew i was nearly there. Then the title Pearly Dewdrops dropped in my ear. Never into them but never too late to join the party, even at 70 😂
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Cocteau Twins and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
And at the same time the same British people made all those wonderful bands starve to death buying instead pop trash. The Cocteau Twins only managed to reach number 29 in the singles chart.
It happens every time... I click on one Cocteau Twins song and next thing I know it’s two hours later and I’m still listening to them... I could stay here forever. If there is a heaven, this sound must be what it feels like.
I discovered Cocteau Twins through Perks of Being a Wallflower like most teens did back in 2014, I would listen to this song the moment I left my school building and on the bus ride home, it's odd that I have such a nostalgia for that moment and time but Cocteau Twins remain one of my favourite bands of all time
Pearly dewdrops are falling down my cheeks today. I am taking my 14 year old cat to the vet and it might be the soft goodbye from there. A multitude of songs are flowing into my head at this time. I can't get Todd Rundgren ballads like "The Last Ride" out of my head. My brain processes grief by hearing certain songs in the mind, over and over. This is one of them. Nothing sums up the somber mood I am in today better than this song. It is so ethereal, empathetic, and at the same time, very soothing and sums up my morose feelings today.
im sending you the warmest hug. i hope that you're healing well. music will always hold these memories dearly to you. time will pass, music will remain. your heart will find comfort soon my friend.
@@fionamorris2578 Thank You. That was a month ago. I didn't take her to the vet and I got another wonderful month of being with her. But now she is really saying goodbye. Not eating, etc. The end is near. Here I am listening to this song again. Lots of tears.
There now she is not suffering any more. I put her to rest last Thursday, the day before Good Friday. Then she was buried in the garden which we no longer use, on Easter Sunday, yesterday. It was so perfect how God took my hand and led me through it. Even taking her soul to Heaven on a Holy Day. Her spirit is truly with the Angels now.
to all of us from the why bother generation. I'm pushing 50 now. I truly never imagined back then I could live this long. my childhood is so old now parts of it show up like they are new again. give a shout out if you know what I mean.
GAWD I loved this BAND in PHILLY COLLEGE OF ART! and OMD, BAUHUAS, Joy division, there was so much soul and endless creativity !! Yea I'm 55 and I meet kids in their 20, 30,s who have ipods full of 80 music.. was a wonderful era for music and arts!!+
I remember playing the 12” of this in my bedroom as a fourteen year old over and over again. Strange listening to it now, so many years later, and feeling sad that I didn’t know then, what I know now!
@@pussycats456 One of my favorite Heart Wrenching songs was Liz in This Mortal Coil "Song to the Siren" I try not to listen to it very often as to not wear away its beauty and pain. Liz also did some great music with Massive Attack, "tear drop on the fire"for example.
Mid-eighties, the golden age of Cocteau Twins. Songs like this seemed like they were not new creations, but discoveries of perfect, effortless things that had always existed. It boggles the mind just how much art Robin could squeeze out of the available engineering tools.
It's true Robin made do without the benefit of complex computer systems; however, it was Simon who did most of the Audio Engineering. People never care enough to note what Simon did for the band. He was able to play almost any instrument, set in front of him; but, he programmed the drum-machine, compiled everything else, and also played the guitar. Yes, Robin played a major role also, but after he became involved with drugs and alcohol -- Simon did much of the work, that Includes becoming the intermediary between both Elizabeth and Robin.
The first time I ever heard the Cocteau Twins was this song, while driving somewhere in Atlanta late at night - who knows where, or why - listening to Album 88 (WRAS). I was captivated, and I avidly collected everything they subsequently released. Their music provided the soundtrack to a big chunk of my life - a somewhat private experience, as I never met anyone even remotely into them as I was. I remember making mixtapes of my favorite tracks (along with songs by Dead Can Dance and Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, for the full moody Goth experience) which I would listen to on my Sony Walkman as I wandered through nearby Piedmont Park on chilly, gray days, wrapped in my Marithé et François Girbaud black coat/cape thing, alone in my thoughts, trying to figure things out.
Brings back memories of the 1980's Underground/Alternative music scene. While most people were listening to mainstream top 40 music like Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi we were a "small community" in every major city of Shoegazers, Goths, Punks, Alt Rockers, Electro-Industrial & New Wave Dance Club kids listening to unique music like Cocteau Twins, The Cure, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, Cabaret Voltaire, Jesus & Mary Chain, REM, Sonic Youth, Dead Kennedys, Husker Du, etc.
I'm from Vancouver Canada we had a great 80's Underground scene... Skinny Puppy, Moev, Front Line Assembly, Payolas, The Tear Garden, Images In Vogue, 54-40, Grapes Of Wrath, Sarah McLachlan, D.O.A., The Subhumans, No Means No, etc.
Bought this single back in 83 I think (had gr8 taste even back then).. this song is just epic, wonderful sound with Liz's iconic beautiful voice... Brilliant 👏👏
Her voice hangs in caverns in my mind like icy stalactites, yet always feel warmth with the comfort the music brings. That's my shitey attempt to try and express my appreciation for The Twins.
This was one of my favorite groups in high school in the late 80's. Nice to see they are still loved. Their music means different things to different people. Went to a Cocteau Twins concert forever ago. While they brought me to tears the girl next to me was belly dancing. I still have a few of their records but no record player.
1984....ahh..seems so long ago. This friend of mine gave me a comp. she had been working on for a dance recital.......this song changed a lot for me....The Cocteau's have been with me forever more and more and more......thank you Tasha......you gave me a reason to believe in Magick and love......
I love them + Elizabeth's singing, my neighbours listened to their first three albums as I turned my hi fi to 11. I'm so glad that I was in my teens in the 80s and enjoyed their songs +saw them live once.
Right, I am 66 years old and can still appreciate good music and Liz Fraser is one of the finest female vocalists ever. Had a few of their albums (years ago) She is something special
John Lydon and the singer from Poison Girls also developed that trill, odd that they all hit about the same time. Frasier does it most effectively, almost like you dont really hear it at first.
So many different people have said the same thing, regarding Elizabeth's voice. That method, is called "braking" and now that you know the correct terminology -- it makes complete sense. It's something that is very difficult to master and it's extremely complex to control. You will hear this in "old country music" from the United States, people who can yodel, and folk-music from around the planet. However, only Elizabeth Fraser does it, so exacting and consistently.
I didn’t discover the Cocteaus until the late nineties. I was in high school and my girlfriend at the time (she’s now my ex-wife, and one of the most beloved people in my whole life) bought a copy of Treasure. I didn’t really give it the time of day at that point, but a couple years later, while working at a local grocery store, they had cd’s on sale for reduced prices, and I bought Heaven or Las Vegas. It immediately became one of the few albums that legitimately changed my life. It wasn’t until several years later, in the late 20-teens, that I discovered my beloved Twins also had been a goth band prior to making the heavenly music of their dream pop years... about 2017 or so, I listened to Garlands for the first time and learned about what they sounded like before they became the angelic band I had come to know and love. It became a point of pride for me that I was born the same day they released Peppermint Pig. This is the most important band of my life, and I can’t wait for the days when I introduce them to each of my children, and change my kids’ lives the way mine was changed.
Great story! I was in my pre-teens listening my local college radio in the rural area of the Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil when I've heard Cocteau Twins for the first time. It was a pivotal experience. In that time, I began to study English as a second language at public school. Mid 80s. The first time something catched my attention listening radio was "Living in Another World", by Talk Talk. I couldn't understand properly what Mark Hollis was singing in his northern England accent. But I know for words got here and there that was magical. And it was. And still is, more and more. So after came Cocteau Twins. "Lorelei". The sound of the words definitely had a British pronunciation, but nothing made any sense. And there was a lot of "oooooooo", "aiaiaiai" and vocalisations. Stunning. "The Colour of Spring" was the first record I bought with my own money, from my work at my family small chicken farm, helping mom and dad. The second was Treasure (man, it was hard to find!). Cocteau Twins and Talk Talk are two of my fave bands. Garlands, Treasure, HOLV, Milk and Kisses and Tiny Dynamine are my beloved CTs records.
Oh, my goodness... I've not heard these since I was a teenager... in the 80's... my friend had older sisters that played their record..ALL THE TIME... shit, good music just drags you back to a time when you worry about ... nothing important... 😍
The CT with her voice is music on another level, in a different dimension that carries a spiritual deeper meaning that no other band has ever been able to do or ever go there.
Hmmm...one of those unique songs. Gives you multileveled sensation of strong, deep vibrations. So well done, it will carry ones soul and feelings up to the surface. I've heard it at the end of the movie 'Halston'...they couldn't choose better song.
Hearing this as the last song of Halston was an emotional out of body experience for me. I love this song, to hear it in a show that already had touched my heart and I cried till the end of the credits
@@waz3128 Never even heard this song before I saw Halston (Heard some of their music before, tho), but I immediately just KNEW it was the perfect track for the final scenes of the series.
From the day I bought the CD singles and Milk and Kisses album/CD, I never saw the videos. Today I realized how many REAL words I was hearing in Rilkean Heart .
Elizabeth Fraser's voice is so beautiful and angelic, one would mistake her for an angel. Ive always been impressed by their musical range - its all superb.! 🖖 🤓 👌
Best band in the world to me rn. Heaven or Las Vegas and Milk and Kisses never get old. I can't even describe how this music makes me feel it's so good. This is what the angels in heaven sound like, if there is one. My dream is to sing with her
Greetings from Russia underrated music alternative band!!!I listened you from 1998 year!!!It is completely incredible and amazing!!!Elizabeth you are an angel on earth!!!
Amazing! I got to meet her when they came to Hawaii and they all were just fantastic people and Elizabeth is just a sweet down to earth lovely lady. Best time ever🌺
I've been so obsessed with this song lately!, I grew up listening to music from the 80s but I never had the privilege of finding out about them😢. well thank god i do now, i cant stop listening to them
Still remember in the 80's getting/buying their songs and being flooded with emotions and thinking this sounds like nothing on earth. Part of the soundtrack to my life. (Similar to yet so so different to Dead Can Dance, another female singer singing her own thing)
Ah, greatness. Those guitar tones and Liz Fraser's vocals! Many no doubt were brought here by "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" soundtrack. I'm fine with that. But us old-timers didn't need reminding that the Cocteau Twins had the magic.
1988, art school; my friend Claudette and I would have skip days. We would go to her house, listen to Cocteau Twins and Clan of Xymox and smoke a lot of clove cigarettes. I would watch her create beauty on a canvas. I truly miss her. Some of the happiest moments in my life.
sounds fun
I'm 30 years old and I've never smoked in my life and I hate the thought of cigarettes in my mouth....BUT....I've always loved the smell of clove cigarettes, the color of them and if I ever became a smoker of definitely choose clove.
"Little wolf skin boots
And clove cigarettes
An erotic funeral
For witch she's dressed
Her perfume smells like
Burning leaves
Everyday is Halloween"
Every time I see a clove cigarette I think of these Type O Negative lyrics.
We never know just how beautiful these moments were until there's no returning.
I wonder if Claudette was wondering if you would over get the hint.
“We accept the Love we think we deserve” 🌺
YES i love the perks of being a wallflower
Yes. Perks brought me here. Love that flik 😁❤️
"...and in this royal we stuff, we also accept all that isn't what love actually is."
,dan'
"You would tie yourself to kin and have it drown?"
Someone understands 🤩🤩
@Angela Nicoletti Agreed, they made perfect sense to my mind. Blessings to you.
Elizabeth Fraser has one of those rare voices that will make you cry from how beautiful it is.
makes me miss every girlfriend i ever had
Always does.
uranianplutonian yes, what a beautiful feeling.
uranianplutonian ; angelic possession
Nearly 59yrs old and I'm still playing this....❤
Nearly 18 and I feel like I'll be playing this in my 59yrs for sure
I was 70 last month, still playing it too.
53 and I still play them often. ❤️
@@terrystevens5261 67 doing the same.
Cocteau Twins are timeless.
Everybody talk 'bout Frazer's voice, which is actually so genius, but we must not forget about Gutrie's guitar. First of all all the Cocteau Twins' songs are beautiful combination of amazing guitar and amazing voice. What kind of knowing each other must couple have to understand a musical idea of partner and realize it so perfectly? They both are genius. Only together
Right. Running his guitar through a synthesizer resulted in Guthrie, Fraser et .al. invented a new sub-genre of music. What tops dream pop?
im a 41 yr old woman..i still feel 15....and the cocteau twins just help me to enjoy it more....beautiful beautiful music...x
same age here and they haven't waned for me 30 years later
I feel so out of place here I’m 13 years old haha. I love Cocteau Twins and basically any 80s songs :)
@@shay2396 same, miss shay! I love the way people my age appreciate old music now ssjsjskajdh
But now you are 49 y.o.
ages are extremely important when you´re listening to music
I remember my mother RIP playing this song on car rides. For the longest time I never knew who the group was and just recently found them again. How awesome...
MY her soul rest in peace
Liz Fraser's voice is so unique. It's elegant, pure and vulnerable. But it's also incredibly powerful. There's so much yearning, frustration and freedom in her voice. Like someone who has been told how to live her whole life and finally has the chance to express herself freely.
Austin Blyth I have her range. (And a little more.) If I sing breathy, so without technique, I can imitate her flawlessly and I think any mezzo soprano could. I have been a fan for thirty years and I have always sounded like her in my natural voice. She has a very natural voice but she can do vibrato and her upper register is a little more polished. But she is not a walking stuntvoice like Toyah or Siouxie. The eighties were a very strange era....
How does she do it? Absolute heaven.
I agree she has a unique voice. There's more to singing than hitting notes, many singers can do that but there's no life in it you can't hear what they're feeling you can just hear training or someone trying to show off. Liz's singing is full of feeling.
carolineleiden Just alienated quite a few fanatical SATB fans there, I’m afraid. Me included...
carolineleiden In my view Elizabeth and Siouxsie both have wonderful unique voices.
I’m 51, I’ve been listening to Cocteau Twins since I was 19. Maybe I’m old, but today’s music is just not the same.
I’m 5’ 7” and I like them too.
I´m 8 months old and I´m wary.
Never more true agekin.
I'm 54 and am still astonished by their music. Original.
Im 33 and was introduced to them more the 10 years ago...I'll love them forever
This is not a woman, this is an angel
All woman, not some fantasy creature.
1980's - A different time; a different world; inexpressable innocence and love captured in the best music as this; im so lucky i was a teenager and wish i could go back in time -2023
Feel you, I was 18 in 1983. What a time to be a teenager ❤
Great times indeed. Feel thankful to have been young then. ❤
I was 15 in January 1980. It was a great time to be young.
I was born in 1983 but I remember alot and I miss it.
You know how a single piece of music can take you to a single time and place? This one takes me to Blisworth, Northamptonshire, autumn 1984, driving home to Cornwall in my Dolomite 1850 listening to John Peel
Excellent 👌
I Kew about the song by Halston series on Netflix
why does this song remind you of listening to another song
@@isaackimberly1692 it doesn't. John Peel was a very talented DJ on BBC Radio 1who played Cocteau Twins amongst others
God save the King!
“And I thought someday I’d be at a party in college or something, and I’d look up and see this person across the room and from that moment I’d know everything was going to be okay.”
PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWERRRR
YUP
YESS
I thought so for real but it never really happened
oh be quiet
My 19-year old son's online friend from eastern Europe introduced him to Cocteau Twins about 6 months ago. He started playing them in the car while I was helping him learn to drive. At first, I thought it was kind of odd, definitely unique though. But, that's how music often resonates with me. It might take a little bit, but then it penetrates my heart, and...tears are welling up in my eyes as I type this listening to this haunting, beautiful, mesmerizing, unique, and wonderful song. The phrasing of the chord progressions, what she does with her voice at the beginning of that phrase during the verses...special.
Amazing. I am very grateful for the digital communications that occurred across the globe to be offered eventually to my being, my realm, my heart. This is absolutely blissful and am SO glad this channel was created. Eager to hear the upcoming remastering of some of their albums later in 2024...
Thank you. ❤❤
as a fan from the 80' welome to the voice of a angle
that was beautifully written. I'd urge you to delve into 80's and early 90's 4ad. I felt like I discovered a new world where everything made sense.
This Mortal Coil's "Filligree & Shadows" had a profound impact on my life.
This music has had a profound impact on my life.
Enjoy the journey ❤
Brings me back. Im happy kids have pen pals still. I had them in the 90s. Both early email and letter. But also mix tape exchanges. Cocteau twins have a special story for me. I was 14 in 1994 and visiting my aunt in the San Francisco Bay Area she was throwing out a bunch of records I took. Cocteau twins. Smiths. Cure. Black Sabbath so much I discovered.
When I first heard Cocteau Twins in 1984, I knew I had to hear them again and again, 40 yrs later, still listening! Kids, if you like this one, try Carolyn's Fingers!
Persephone
Carolyn's Fingers yes. Sublime.
I've just discovered this band and I can't help but feel like I missed out on something great.
How does it feel to know you missed it all?
The Shallow Youth I just diiscovered them last year. i always knew of the name. I feel exactly the same but I'm on a beautiful journey of discovery
The Shallow Youth As long as the music exists, you missed nothing.
The Shallow Youth see them live in 95 in brixton best gig of all time
As Sean said, as long as the music exists...
Besides, sometimes a retrospective appreciation of the music, without peer pressure or current hype or trends allows a person to discover at their own pace. An' that.
Peace/Love
I've never understood a single word of this song. Just love the sound of it :D
I love the music but have never really known if she even sings in English!
She sang in a made-up 'language' until just after Heaven or Las Vegas. There's no words to understand really, just the delicious of the sounds. :)
I thought it was part made up and part Esperanto
(also made up😂)
Ish kam eeeh?
Mostly it doesn't sound like it's meant to make any sense. Knickynackypaddywacky or something.
This was the song that kicked in my individuality.
I heard it once on John Peel in the back room, which was also my bedroom when I was about 15 / 16 - after that I listened to Kid Jensen & John Peel every night on the stereogram - then I found The Smiths & Everything But The Girl & Ivor Cutler.
I never knew the name of this song, so I bought everything in Woolworths with 'Cocteau Twins' took them to my nanna & played them, looking for this song.
I eventually found it. By that time, I had fallen in love with Elizabeth Frazer's voice.
That was my teens - still listen, still an EBTG fan - 48 now, what a great time in my life finding the music that sticks.
My taste now is very eclectic - God bless to my nanna who never moaned about me on the stereogram, - takes me back to the very day.
I miss her,
Thank you for posting this.
+i davo fuck me, dude, I almost started crying!
How dare you raise my emotional state sir! LOl
Nice one.
this track holds a momentous moment for me too.
It told me music can be written by someone else, mean something, but, I can be free to interpret how I want it to be.
Thank fuck for CT's and the inde revolution!
Songs of my day...
Songs of my day...
+keasyman ...agreed! I can remember when this came out and I was riding around in that summer of glorious sunshine with this song in my head all day. simply beautiful song, never forget it in my growing up years.
+i davo - John Peel loved this song - I seem to remember him crying with joy and playing it twice in a row.
Yeah I heard this on John Peel too - and bought the EP which I still have. Used to play the "favourites" tape driving home to Cornwall after a week's work away back in the '80s and CT featured in there alongside the Cure, John Cooper Clarke and the like.
keasyman - I DID start crying! And I'm not a "Soft Guy"! With this song in my ears and those words that passed through my ears to my heart, the tears are still flowing...
Perfect in every way: sonically, visually. My favourite Cocteau Twins song, and video.
That massive bass with chorus effect, almost played like a guitar. Just brilliant.
Heard this song yesterday lunchtime on the radio.
The earworm has been rattling around in my head. Knew the song a little but didnt know who it was. Spent nearly 2 hours goibg through 80's uk bands with female leads. Kept thinking it was Siooxie, then Sundays or Cranberries..then as soon as i heard the production on the first track listed i knew i was nearly there. Then the title Pearly Dewdrops dropped in my ear.
Never into them but never too late to join the party, even at 70 😂
At the end of Netflix's miniseries, I instantly recognized this enchanting melody and bewitching voice that is of Cocteau Twins. Magical. Truly.
In the movie Halston when he thinks about his life & career
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Cocteau Twins and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
Benedetto Bruno why I thank you and I agree !!
Thanks mate!!
Brazilian vouching here!
And at the same time the same British people made all those wonderful bands starve to death buying instead pop trash. The Cocteau Twins only managed to reach number 29 in the singles chart.
Scotland is a part of the island of Great Britain therefore Cocteau Twins are both Scottish AND British.😁
Remember MTV Showed this at 3 AM. I was drunk. Only time I saw it 1984. Now 2018. 34 Years.. Sounds just as good.
2019. Its 11:58pm. I miss MTV. I'm drunk. Great song.
Hahaha was it on 120 min. I lived that show
Hearing it at 3am for the first time :) 12-17-19
I remember seeing this on MTV’s “120 Minutes” actually in 1989. I taped it on a VHS. 🤗
Susie Yep. Dave freakin Kendall was my lifeline in Albuquerque, New Mexico which was like 5-7 years behind in terms of music. 😒
It happens every time... I click on one Cocteau Twins song and next thing I know it’s two hours later and I’m still listening to them...
I could stay here forever. If there is a heaven, this sound must be what it feels like.
❤👊
Or Las Vegas
The Cocteau Twins were truly unique. Liz Frasier wove a web of intrigue with her vocalise. Brilliant!
I discovered Cocteau Twins through Perks of Being a Wallflower like most teens did back in 2014, I would listen to this song the moment I left my school building and on the bus ride home, it's odd that I have such a nostalgia for that moment and time but Cocteau Twins remain one of my favourite bands of all time
At twice your age, I'm glad that a movie exposed you to this genius.
@@doggydoc72 i'm your daddy
@@goodwillhumping7904 I better be in your will.
you get to inherit a substantial amount of pokemon cards and a few led zeppelin t-shirts
This is an ethereal masterpiece that everyone should know, but sadly very few do.
More people will know about it now as they included it at the end of the Halston series with Ewen McGregor.
Vid has got over 3m views what are you talking about
@MasDouc Crap like Justin Bieber gets billions of views. 3 million in 11 years is nothing in comparison.
@@danielward7008 Cocteau twins is one of the most famous bands of all time
@@MasDouc Actual lol!
Pearly dewdrops are falling down my cheeks today. I am taking my 14 year old cat to the vet and it might be the soft goodbye from there. A multitude of songs are flowing into my head at this time. I can't get Todd Rundgren ballads like "The Last Ride" out of my head. My brain processes grief by hearing certain songs in the mind, over and over. This is one of them. Nothing sums up the somber mood I am in today better than this song. It is so ethereal, empathetic, and at the same time, very soothing and sums up my morose feelings today.
im sending you the warmest hug. i hope that you're healing well. music will always hold these memories dearly to you. time will pass, music will remain. your heart will find comfort soon my friend.
@@fionamorris2578 Thank You. That was a month ago. I didn't take her to the vet and I got another wonderful month of being with her. But now she is really saying goodbye. Not eating, etc. The end is near. Here I am listening to this song again. Lots of tears.
There now she is not suffering any more. I put her to rest last Thursday, the day before Good Friday. Then she was buried in the garden which we no longer use, on Easter Sunday, yesterday. It was so perfect how God took my hand and led me through it. Even taking her soul to Heaven on a Holy Day. Her spirit is truly with the Angels now.
to all of us from the why bother generation. I'm pushing 50 now. I truly never imagined back then I could live this long. my childhood is so old now parts of it show up like they are new again. give a shout out if you know what I mean.
Isn't that the truth. 51 and rediscovering my vinyl.
What you say is true. It was a strange time, so much beauty and so much darkness.
GAWD I loved this BAND in PHILLY COLLEGE OF ART! and OMD, BAUHUAS, Joy division, there was so much soul and endless creativity !! Yea I'm 55 and I meet kids in their 20, 30,s who have ipods full of 80 music.. was a wonderful era for music and arts!!+
I remember playing the 12” of this in my bedroom as a fourteen year old over and over again. Strange listening to it now, so many years later, and feeling sad that I didn’t know then, what I know now!
@@pussycats456 One of my favorite Heart Wrenching songs was Liz in This Mortal Coil "Song to the Siren" I try not to listen to it very often as to not wear away its beauty and pain. Liz also did some great music with Massive Attack, "tear drop on the fire"for example.
Mid-eighties, the golden age of Cocteau Twins. Songs like this seemed like they were not new creations, but discoveries of perfect, effortless things that had always existed. It boggles the mind just how much art Robin could squeeze out of the available engineering tools.
Brad Williams this music truly has healing powers
True besides Heaven or Las Vegas is a piece of art even without the 4AD sound
They touch me in a way that I can’t find the right words to explain my feelings every time I listen to them... 💟
It's true Robin made do without the benefit of complex computer systems; however, it was Simon who did most of the Audio Engineering. People never care enough to note what Simon did for the band. He was able to play almost any instrument, set in front of him; but, he programmed the drum-machine, compiled everything else, and also played the guitar. Yes, Robin played a major role also, but after he became involved with drugs and alcohol -- Simon did much of the work, that Includes becoming the intermediary between both Elizabeth and Robin.
@@spinglasshydra Interesting, what's your source for Simon doing most of the audio engineering and drum machine programming?
Was at Stirling Castle and read the pearly dewdrops drop poem posted in Queen Anne's Garden on Monday and I really believe Scotland is magic
Halston introduced this magic into my life
Ahora todos sabremos el dios q era halston😎
Same
Same✨💖✨
Was a sad ending but very good music!
Me too! I remember hearing about them years ago but I had never heard any of their music until Halston. I was in tears at the end.
Oh man, what a voice! I never get enough of them. takes me back to the days!!
Yes, thhe voice searth for eath othter!!!
Thanks for The Perks of Being a Wallflower for bringing me here
Yesss!!!
+Kira F same haha
+Kira F Fuck off.
+7FatBears no u
ok :(
The first time I ever heard the Cocteau Twins was this song, while driving somewhere in Atlanta late at night - who knows where, or why - listening to Album 88 (WRAS). I was captivated, and I avidly collected everything they subsequently released. Their music provided the soundtrack to a big chunk of my life - a somewhat private experience, as I never met anyone even remotely into them as I was. I remember making mixtapes of my favorite tracks (along with songs by Dead Can Dance and Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, for the full moody Goth experience) which I would listen to on my Sony Walkman as I wandered through nearby Piedmont Park on chilly, gray days, wrapped in my Marithé et François Girbaud black coat/cape thing, alone in my thoughts, trying to figure things out.
Brings back memories of the 1980's Underground/Alternative music scene. While most people were listening to mainstream top 40 music like Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi we were a "small community" in every major city of Shoegazers, Goths, Punks, Alt Rockers, Electro-Industrial & New Wave Dance Club kids listening to unique music like Cocteau Twins, The Cure, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, Cabaret Voltaire, Jesus & Mary Chain, REM, Sonic Youth, Dead Kennedys, Husker Du, etc.
I'm from Vancouver Canada we had a great 80's Underground scene...
Skinny Puppy, Moev, Front Line Assembly, Payolas, The Tear Garden, Images In Vogue, 54-40, Grapes Of Wrath, Sarah McLachlan, D.O.A., The Subhumans, No Means No, etc.
We sure were..
Lived in NYC in the early 80s and it was quite the scene.
Why can't we go back?! I LOVED it then! Small and only us.. How I miss it so. C~
Bought this single back in 83 I think (had gr8 taste even back then).. this song is just epic, wonderful sound with Liz's iconic beautiful voice... Brilliant 👏👏
Cocteau twins es magia pura , nada volverá a sonar como ellos son únicos.
30 years later and im still transfixed...genius in action
Her voice hangs in caverns in my mind like icy stalactites, yet always feel warmth with the comfort the music brings. That's my shitey attempt to try and express my appreciation for The Twins.
40 years on and it's as fresh as ever, music that transcends time.
Liz Fraser's voice leads us to the Heaven. It's not from this planet. She's got the talent to touch in the deep of my soul
I love the Cocteau Twins.. Elizabeth Fraser’s voice is majestic.. goosebumps..
This songs takes me away into another dimension, enough said.
seen them live in the Glasgow Barrowlands in the 1990s. Her voice is the same live as recorded.
seen them live in the Glasgow Barrowlands in the 1990s. Her voice is the same live as recorded.
This was one of my favorite groups in high school in the late 80's. Nice to see they are still loved. Their music means different things to different people. Went to a Cocteau Twins concert forever ago. While they brought me to tears the girl next to me was belly dancing. I still have a few of their records but no record player.
I've Been Fan of this Band my Whole Life. Just Lovely....
1984....ahh..seems so long ago. This friend of mine gave me a comp. she had been working on for a dance recital.......this song changed a lot for me....The Cocteau's have been with me forever more and more and more......thank you Tasha......you gave me a reason to believe in Magick and love......
I love them + Elizabeth's singing, my neighbours listened to their first three albums as I turned my hi fi to 11. I'm so glad that I was in my teens in the 80s and enjoyed their songs +saw them live once.
Right, I am 66 years old and can still appreciate good music and Liz Fraser is one of the finest female vocalists ever. Had a few of their albums (years ago) She is something special
This is seriously one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
One of Scotland's best ever bands.
Thank you, for saying Scotland...!
them and Boards of Canada. both are SO IMPORTANT!!!!
Her voice takes me to another dimension. I hear so many newer generation of singers try to unintentionally match her tone.
I own the seven inch vinyl of this beautiful song, and both Simon (bassist) and Robin (guitarist/founder) have kindly signed it.
~ C ~
27/10/2024
this song is everything
No one or thing brought me here.
I first heard this master piece in 84.
Another classic 80's hit from the UK.
ok but it wasn't a hit.
@@krasteffit was
@@MewMiyuu They only got to no. 29 in their active years (Love's easy tears). That chart position is not considered a "hit".
That sudden change in pitch in Liz's voice at .35 almost like a hiccup has always amazed me. They'll never be another Elizabeth Fraser...
Where do you think alanis morissette got it from?
John Lydon and the singer from Poison Girls also developed that trill, odd that they all hit about the same time. Frasier does it most effectively, almost like you dont really hear it at first.
So many different people have said the same thing, regarding Elizabeth's voice. That method, is called "braking" and now that you know the correct terminology -- it makes complete sense. It's something that is very difficult to master and it's extremely complex to control.
You will hear this in "old country music" from the United States, people who can yodel, and folk-music from around the planet. However, only Elizabeth Fraser does it, so exacting and consistently.
You could call it a sugar hiccup ;)
@@splash._ That's a good one.
This is an absolute masterpiece.
Have you heard Carolyn.s Fingers ? , beautiful
@@davidbeckett3345 No not yet. I will check it out. Listening now.
Another beauty. Thank you .
I remember the first time I heard pearly dewdrops drops on the john peel show and it still feels like that moment .like a tiny perfect revelation
First song I heard from them. I was hooked on their music going forward...
I used to listen to "Pearly Dewdrops' Drops" over and over as a lullaby...
The Twins were kind a cool in the '80s, if a little off the beaten path. Are you a time traveler?
Between this and Siouxsie and the Banshees, I feel like a Cure or Bauhaus video will be posted next. :)
I was seventeen - she very well could have been in the crib!
Still listen to it over and over!
hearing this just threw me back to being a second year student at Leeds University in 1985 and all the feelings I had then - good and bad 😊.
This song is sung with passion, timeless, and a visual delight.
Timeless masterpiece. Like so many others a thing of beauty is a joy forever......generation x has much to look back on.
Why do all of their songs feel so magical and otherworldly. ☺️ it’s so fantastic
I'm 62. ...it wasn't the Beatles for me. Nope. It was this song. It was the Cocteau Twins. Nothing was ever the same.
I am getting the vinyl sleeve of Pearly - Dewdrops' Drops signed.
A classic record.
C.P.
ALWAYS amazing
I didn’t discover the Cocteaus until the late nineties. I was in high school and my girlfriend at the time (she’s now my ex-wife, and one of the most beloved people in my whole life) bought a copy of Treasure. I didn’t really give it the time of day at that point, but a couple years later, while working at a local grocery store, they had cd’s on sale for reduced prices, and I bought Heaven or Las Vegas. It immediately became one of the few albums that legitimately changed my life.
It wasn’t until several years later, in the late 20-teens, that I discovered my beloved Twins also had been a goth band prior to making the heavenly music of their dream pop years... about 2017 or so, I listened to Garlands for the first time and learned about what they sounded like before they became the angelic band I had come to know and love. It became a point of pride for me that I was born the same day they released Peppermint Pig.
This is the most important band of my life, and I can’t wait for the days when I introduce them to each of my children, and change my kids’ lives the way mine was changed.
Great story! I was in my pre-teens listening my local college radio in the rural area of the Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil when I've heard Cocteau Twins for the first time. It was a pivotal experience. In that time, I began to study English as a second language at public school. Mid 80s. The first time something catched my attention listening radio was "Living in Another World", by Talk Talk. I couldn't understand properly what Mark Hollis was singing in his northern England accent. But I know for words got here and there that was magical. And it was. And still is, more and more. So after came Cocteau Twins. "Lorelei". The sound of the words definitely had a British pronunciation, but nothing made any sense. And there was a lot of "oooooooo", "aiaiaiai" and vocalisations. Stunning. "The Colour of Spring" was the first record I bought with my own money, from my work at my family small chicken farm, helping mom and dad. The second was Treasure (man, it was hard to find!). Cocteau Twins and Talk Talk are two of my fave bands. Garlands, Treasure, HOLV, Milk and Kisses and Tiny Dynamine are my beloved CTs records.
Oh, my goodness... I've not heard these since I was a teenager... in the 80's... my friend had older sisters that played their record..ALL THE TIME... shit, good music just drags you back to a time when you worry about ... nothing important... 😍
The CT with her voice is music on another level, in a different dimension that carries a spiritual deeper meaning that no other band has ever been able to do or ever go there.
Hmmm...one of those unique songs. Gives you multileveled sensation of strong, deep vibrations. So well done, it will carry ones soul and feelings up to the surface. I've heard it at the end of the movie 'Halston'...they couldn't choose better song.
What a song! Takes me back to '84 and my spikey hair and long herringbone coat, ahhh the memories!
Still miss my coat, lol
Hearing this as the last song of Halston was an emotional out of body experience for me. I love this song, to hear it in a show that already had touched my heart and I cried till the end of the credits
Its funny, I was already thinking about them when he was designing for the play Persephone. I died when this song came out of nowhere at the end.
@@waz3128 I lost my sh*t too!
Same. Haven’t listened to this in 20 years.
@@waz3128 Never even heard this song before I saw Halston (Heard some of their music before, tho), but I immediately just KNEW it was the perfect track for the final scenes of the series.
❤️
Thank you Sam, Charlie and Patrick
From the day I bought the CD singles and Milk and Kisses album/CD, I never saw the videos.
Today I realized how many REAL words I was hearing in Rilkean Heart .
The music, the arrangement, the Voice. Quite unique. Beautiful.
Elizabeth Fraser's voice is so beautiful and angelic, one would mistake her for an angel. Ive always been impressed by their musical range - its all superb.! 🖖 🤓 👌
I don't understand a single word of this enchanting, ethereal and wonderful voice. Thanks Liz Fraser for this new language.
about time 4AD uploaded a higher resolution of this on the channel
Best band in the world to me rn. Heaven or Las Vegas and Milk and Kisses never get old. I can't even describe how this music makes me feel it's so good. This is what the angels in heaven sound like, if there is one. My dream is to sing with her
Final episode of Halston on Netflix, brought me here 😍😍
Same.
Me too😝
who cares
The 80s brought me here mate
ahh... memories of feeling well alternative in 1984, glorious!
!
Greetings from Russia underrated music alternative band!!!I listened you from 1998 year!!!It is completely incredible and amazing!!!Elizabeth you are an angel on earth!!!
Heard this in the Halston series. It was very haunting for some reason. .Great song.
There is more from the band to discover
Amazing! I got to meet her when they came to Hawaii and they all were just fantastic people and Elizabeth is just a sweet down to earth lovely lady. Best time ever🌺
This track still resonates in 2015. I've listened to it again and again. It's just Outstanding.
This video's terrific too.
Still resonates in 2022.
Beautiful track, recently discovered this band and I love them so much!
I want this song played at my funeral.
I've been so obsessed with this song lately!, I grew up listening to music from the 80s but I never had the privilege of finding out about them😢. well thank god i do now, i cant stop listening to them
There's just something humbling and so appealing in Elizabeth Fraser's voice.
I get older and this music never does. I like that.
this song makes me feel something I've never felt before. it is utterly beautiful.
hearing this beautiful song in the closing moments of Netflix's Halston 😭💎
Still remember in the 80's getting/buying their songs and being flooded with emotions and thinking this sounds like nothing on earth. Part of the soundtrack to my life. (Similar to yet so so different to Dead Can Dance, another female singer singing her own thing)
DCD and Cocteau Twins are two of my fav bands, vastly underrated 😎
well said, me too. introducing this music to a new love....powerful and romantic
Since I heard this song 20 years ago, it struck me as a very sad one. It was the perfect choice for the Halston series at the end, quite a tearjerker.
They wrote the most beautiful music ever.
Ah, greatness. Those guitar tones and Liz Fraser's vocals! Many no doubt were brought here by "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" soundtrack. I'm fine with that. But us old-timers didn't need reminding that the Cocteau Twins had the magic.
When a song takes you back..nostalgia❤️
Lizabeth voice will always melt my heart she sings with so much emotions!, Beautiful song 🥰👌🏻💓
I was 19. How I wish I could go back and start again.....