Cocteau Twins Lyrics
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1. Cherry-Coloured Funk
2. Pitch The Baby
3. Iceblink Luck
4. Fifty-fifty Clown
5. Heaven Or Las Vegas
6. I WEAR YOUR RING
7. Fotzepolitic
8. Wolf In The Breast
9. Road River And Rail
10. Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires
Other Songs A KISSED OUT RED FLOATBOAT Aikea-Guinea Alas Dies Laughing Alice Aloysius Amelia Another Day Beatrix Because Of Whirl-jack Blind Dumb Deaf Blood Bitch Blue Bell Knoll Bluebeard But Im Not Calfskin Smack Carolyns Fingers Cicely Cico Buff Circling Girl Crushed Dear Heart Ella Megalast Burls Forever Eperdu Essence Evangeline Feathers-Oar Blades Feet-Like Fins Five Ten Fiftyfold Fluffy Tufts For Phoebe Still A Baby From The Flagstones Frosty The Snowman Garlands Glass Candle Grenades Golden-Vein Grail Overfloweth Great Spangled Fritillary Half-gifts Hazel HEARSAY PLEASE Hitherto How To Bring A Blush To The Snow Icablink Luck Ice Pulse Iceblink-Luck Ice-Pulse In Our Angelhood In The Gold Dust Rush Its All But An Ark Lark Ivo Know Who You Are At Every Age Kookaburra Lazy Calm Little Spacey Lorelei Loves Easy Tears Melonella Millimillenary Mizake The Mizan Mud And Dark Multifoiled Musette And Drums My Love Paramour My Truth Need Fire Need-Fire Oil Of Angels Oomingmak Orange Appled Otterley Pandora Pearly Dewdrops Drops Pearly-Dewdrops Drops Peppermint Pig Pepper-Tree Perhaps Some Other Aeon Persephone Pink Orange Red PRIMITIVE HEART Pur Quisquose Rilkean Heart Round Seekers Who Are Lovers Serpentskirt Shallow Then Halo Sighs Smell Of Farewell Smile Song To The Siren Speak No Evil Spooning Good Singing Gum Squeeze Wax Squeeze-Wax Strange Fruit Suckling The Mender Sugar Hiccup Sultitan Itan Summer-Blink Summerhead The Hollow Men The Itchy Glowbo Blow The Spangle Maker The Thinner The Air The Tinderbox Theft And Wandering Around Lost Those Eyes That Mouth Three Swept Three-Swept Throughout The Dark Months Of April And May Time Baby 3 Tishbite Treasure Hiding Ups Violaine Watchlar Wax And Wane Whales Tails When Mama Was Moth Winter Wonderland
Other Songs A KISSED OUT RED FLOATBOAT Aikea-Guinea Alas Dies Laughing Alice Aloysius Amelia Another Day Beatrix Because Of Whirl-jack Blind Dumb Deaf Blood Bitch Blue Bell Knoll Bluebeard But Im Not Calfskin Smack Carolyns Fingers Cicely Cico Buff Circling Girl Crushed Dear Heart Ella Megalast Burls Forever Eperdu Essence Evangeline Feathers-Oar Blades Feet-Like Fins Five Ten Fiftyfold Fluffy Tufts For Phoebe Still A Baby From The Flagstones Frosty The Snowman Garlands Glass Candle Grenades Golden-Vein Grail Overfloweth Great Spangled Fritillary Half-gifts Hazel HEARSAY PLEASE Hitherto How To Bring A Blush To The Snow Icablink Luck Ice Pulse Iceblink-Luck Ice-Pulse In Our Angelhood In The Gold Dust Rush Its All But An Ark Lark Ivo Know Who You Are At Every Age Kookaburra Lazy Calm Little Spacey Lorelei Loves Easy Tears Melonella Millimillenary Mizake The Mizan Mud And Dark Multifoiled Musette And Drums My Love Paramour My Truth Need Fire Need-Fire Oil Of Angels Oomingmak Orange Appled Otterley Pandora Pearly Dewdrops Drops Pearly-Dewdrops Drops Peppermint Pig Pepper-Tree Perhaps Some Other Aeon Persephone Pink Orange Red PRIMITIVE HEART Pur Quisquose Rilkean Heart Round Seekers Who Are Lovers Serpentskirt Shallow Then Halo Sighs Smell Of Farewell Smile Song To The Siren Speak No Evil Spooning Good Singing Gum Squeeze Wax Squeeze-Wax Strange Fruit Suckling The Mender Sugar Hiccup Sultitan Itan Summer-Blink Summerhead The Hollow Men The Itchy Glowbo Blow The Spangle Maker The Thinner The Air The Tinderbox Theft And Wandering Around Lost Those Eyes That Mouth Three Swept Three-Swept Throughout The Dark Months Of April And May Time Baby 3 Tishbite Treasure Hiding Ups Violaine Watchlar Wax And Wane Whales Tails When Mama Was Moth Winter Wonderland
Cocteau Twins were a Scottish rock band active from 1979 to 1997. They were formed in Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth by Robin Guthrie (guitars, drum machine) and Will Heggie (bass), adding Elizabeth Fraser (vocals) in 1981. In 1983, Heggie was replaced with multi-instrumentalist Simon Raymonde.
The group earned critical praise for their ethereal, effects-laden sound and the soprano vocals of Fraser, whose lyrics often eschew any recognisable language. They pioneered the 1980s alternative subgenre of dream pop and helped define what would become shoegaze.
In 1982, the band signed with the record label 4AD and released their debut album Garlands. The addition of Raymonde in 1983 solidified their best-known lineup, which soon produced the No. 29 UK hit "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops", their highest-charting UK single. The trio crystallised their "swelling, euphoric" dream pop style on the 1984 album Treasure, which became the band's first UK Top 40 album.
In 1988, Cocteau Twins signed with Capitol Records in the United States, distributing their fifth album Blue Bell Knoll through a major label in the country. After the 1990 release of their most commercially successful album, Heaven or Las Vegas, the band left 4AD for Fontana Records, where they released their final two albums.
After nearly 20 years together, the group disbanded in 1997 in part due to issues stemming from the disintegration of Fraser and Guthrie's romantic relationship.
In 2005 the band announced that they would reunite to headline Coachella Festival and embark on a world tour but the reunion was cancelled a month later after Fraser "couldn't bring herself to work with Guthrie". In a 2021 interview, Raymonde claimed that Cocteau Twins "will never reform".
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The group earned critical praise for their ethereal, effects-laden sound and the soprano vocals of Fraser, whose lyrics often eschew any recognisable language. They pioneered the 1980s alternative subgenre of dream pop and helped define what would become shoegaze.
In 1982, the band signed with the record label 4AD and released their debut album Garlands. The addition of Raymonde in 1983 solidified their best-known lineup, which soon produced the No. 29 UK hit "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops", their highest-charting UK single. The trio crystallised their "swelling, euphoric" dream pop style on the 1984 album Treasure, which became the band's first UK Top 40 album.
In 1988, Cocteau Twins signed with Capitol Records in the United States, distributing their fifth album Blue Bell Knoll through a major label in the country. After the 1990 release of their most commercially successful album, Heaven or Las Vegas, the band left 4AD for Fontana Records, where they released their final two albums.
After nearly 20 years together, the group disbanded in 1997 in part due to issues stemming from the disintegration of Fraser and Guthrie's romantic relationship.
In 2005 the band announced that they would reunite to headline Coachella Festival and embark on a world tour but the reunion was cancelled a month later after Fraser "couldn't bring herself to work with Guthrie". In a 2021 interview, Raymonde claimed that Cocteau Twins "will never reform".
Elizabeth Fraser - vocals (1981-1997)
Robin Guthrie - guitars, bass, keyboards, production, drum machine (1979-1997)
Will Heggie - bass (1979-1983)
Simon Raymonde - bass, keyboards (1983-1997)
From: Grangemouth, Scotland
Genre(s): Dream pop, ethereal wave, gothic rock, post-punk, shoegaze
Active From: 1979-1997