Trying to figure out the lyrics of a Cocteau Twins song is like the auditory equivalent of looking at the "name one thing in this photo" image.
@finlybenyunes8385
Жыл бұрын
I have never forgotten listening to this on Ecstasy on my Walkman on a flight to Portugal looking down over a great bank of clouds and feeling like the luckiest person on the planet! I was 35 at the time, and little did I know that this experience was pointing to many more epiphanies and heart-opening episodes throughout the 90s... Promise me you'll listen to Victorialand and/or Treasure next. So happy to see your perceptive and appreciative reaction! You're a good lad! 🎶🐱🎶
@dawnballantyne3928
10 ай бұрын
I'd a been dancing in my chair or my jaw wld be lol 😆
@joshbutts3143
2 жыл бұрын
The lyrics aren't meant to be understood. Truly using the human voice as an instrument.
@Jontor11
Жыл бұрын
The atmosphere Cocteau Twins gets you in is just sublime. Also recommend the album 'Treasure'.
@anatawaniwatori
2 жыл бұрын
Bro I literally got into this album like 4 days ago and you post this bro this shit me new favourite thing ever
@ijustneedmyself
2 жыл бұрын
Lucky you! Welcome 🙂
@michael-tx3lf
2 жыл бұрын
when I first listened to the album and Cherry Coloured Funk came on, I knew I was in for a treat. its such a fantastic song her vocal melody on the chorus is fuckin GODLY. great album, glad you loved it! and by the way, there arent any official lyrics to the album, because they wanted the listener to make up their own interpretation of what was being sung, so the lyrics are really just speculation lol
@snowy6301
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah fr this is a great album. And that makes so much more sense now lol.
@derekjohnson2058
2 жыл бұрын
Cocteau Twins were in a lot of ways the progenitors of what we call Dream Pop and Shoegaze. All of their albums featured heavily treated, textured instruments with Elizabeth Frasier's amazing lyrics soaring and swooping around the notes. The band, especially Robin Guthrie, would meticulously master and balance the recordings which means a lot of their albums have that 'vibe' effect you are talking about. Event after the band broke up the members kept on creating music or refining the music of others. Frasier, for example, lays down the vocals for Massive Attack's "Teardrop." She also collaborated with Jeff Buckley several times. Her version of Song to the Siren, recorded as the band This Mortal Coil, is absolutely breathtaking. I'm so glad you enjoyed Heaven or Las Vegas, it is one of the most beautiful albums I've ever listened to. I hope you enjoy exploring the rest of the Cocteau Twins collection.
@janelewis3494
2 жыл бұрын
Yay I'm so glad you reacted to this! The album with the most similar vibes is Blue Bell Knoll, which is the album they released right before this one and my personal favorite. :)
@thesound-chameleonman3580
2 жыл бұрын
I have it signed by Simon Raymonde! great lp.
@gnp5596
Жыл бұрын
also my favorite
@createallow3126
3 ай бұрын
I enjoyed your reaction and analysis! Cocteau Twins songs are a different river every time you step into one. The feeling is more important than the words. They swell, they burst, they overflow.
@resiseven7407
2 жыл бұрын
one of the best bands to ever come out of my home country. my mum loved this record when it came out, and now i love it too, 32 years later
@resiseven7407
2 жыл бұрын
also, people have noted this before me, but the lyrics are nonsense. frasier's voice is an instrument, and nothing more. :)
@ijustneedmyself
2 жыл бұрын
I commented that she was mostly speaking gibberish and someone corrected me saying she's actually saying words. Okay, I stand corrected, but she might as well be speaking gibberish because the words don't make any kind of sense. It's more about how the music and vocals make you feel.
@Elis_Gallacher
Жыл бұрын
@@ijustneedmyself Yeah, I had someone say that it’s her Scottish accent and not gibberish 😂 I’m Scottish myself for Christ’s sake, I can’t understand it anyhow.
@ijustneedmyself
Жыл бұрын
@@Elis_Gallacher 🤣 That is too funny! I love Scottish accents. I know there are different kinds, as with anywhere else, but Craig Ferguson's accent is awesome!
@iceblinkluck8182
2 жыл бұрын
i love this album. but i love their album treasure even more!
@zivaile6510
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed, omg I really appreciate Heaven or las vegas but Treasure is just a notch up imo I feel like every song has its own identity even more.
@AlectriXSharpness
2 жыл бұрын
Yet your name is Iceblink Luck lmao
@LeandroMartinscg
2 жыл бұрын
This one, treasure and Victorialand is the álbuns that I like most. Victorialand being my favorite
@Rackmani
Жыл бұрын
Bluebell knoll is like stepping into heaven
@mancuniancandidate9041
27 күн бұрын
I've just caught your reaction and it's been great to see you enjoy this band. It's so good seeing younger people find this music as it is at it's finest. I've always loved them Liz is the true queen of the Knoll. Every great female vocalist in one. I think she tends to use words that work beautifully in harmony with the music. They are life changing and I feel so privileged to have found them. Every album is beautiful in it's own way. Great reaction and yes it never gets old.
@preach1970
5 ай бұрын
The singer Elizabeth Fraser is a national treasure. Her singing on This Mortal Coil"s "song to the siren" is a beautifuly haunting emotional tribute to Homer's the Odyssey.
@lucianoschwab578
8 ай бұрын
I loved your reactions and editing you used for the video. This album is divine.
@d3fault511
2 жыл бұрын
I think Treasure is the next album to listen to if you're more interested. It's certainly more gothic and is very similar to The Cure (it's one of Robert Smith's fav albums as well). Fun fact as well to people who don't know: singer Elizabeth Fraser sung on Teardrop by Massive Attack!
@RuthwikRao
2 ай бұрын
another fun fact is it could have been Madonna on Teardrop but the group voted for Fraser 2 to 1. Fraser was also on Black Milk and Group Four in the same album, tracks that are even more haunting and energetic. Personally I even prefer them to Teardrop although I recognize the impact of that track.
@ijustneedmyself
2 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the fanclub 🥲 Can't wait for you to hear more!
@achnix3167
2 жыл бұрын
Its not my favorite ct album despite the attention it gets but a good one. Im always glad when peoples vibe with fifty fifty clown and the more pop-ish numbers... And personally i also love the beginning of fotzepolitic because the beat just kicks when you have it on earphones... Loved this reaction.
@pauldavis7318
2 жыл бұрын
road river and rail is definitely in top 4 on the album, right beside iceblink, vegas, and cherry. this album brings back so many good memories with my cousins and aunts in the early 90s
@simonstrash
2 жыл бұрын
wake up new snowy dropped
@Disco6ixco
2 жыл бұрын
Plz don't make me wait three more months without your lovely reactions snowwy 😔
@milancelisac
3 ай бұрын
I Wear Your Ring is PHENOMENAL!!
@RuthwikRao
2 ай бұрын
very playful vocals on it, I love it, definitely top 3 on the album.
@AKDA101
Жыл бұрын
You might like Lush. It's awesome to see the younger generations react to my favorite bands. Dead Can Dance is also an amazing group.
@thesound-chameleonman3580
2 жыл бұрын
Victorialand is a masterpiece worth listening and relaxing to 😉👍🏼.
@arejay00
11 ай бұрын
Once found, you'll carry the Cocteau's around for your entire life.
@anthonybailey1227
Жыл бұрын
Dive in. Cocteau Twins can change how one appreciates music. Blue Bell Knoll is a gem. Their catalog on 4AD is a must hear. Nice channel. 🙏
@eightiefiv3
7 ай бұрын
Snowy: dude. One of the best reaction vids I’ve seen. Just great!! 🎉 What I liked about the reaction: you seem to be intellectually more acquainted with musical structures and tropes than myself, at least in the sense that you can clearly articulate what is going on in the music and I can only motion towards but not actively articulate those same things. I rated this album much lower compared to their previous albums (I started listening to the band around 1984) when it came out but have since come to like it more and more, with each passing decade. It succeeds in spite of my protestations. I gather that I still rate it lower than quite a number of fans who seem to think it is their high water mark. I have to agree with these fans that a certain perfection IS in fact reached on this album, but maybe it is a technical sort of perfection that gnaws at me, that I fight? Im not sure.
@jons.105
2 жыл бұрын
Good reaction, excellent presentation and editing: A- for album and A for Snowy.
@rexmandrake4182
2 жыл бұрын
Next, try Treasure, Victorialand and Garland to see how their sound has changed.
@Hamstersrock15
2 жыл бұрын
Man you're going to go nuts over Sweet Trip when you finally get to them.
@lolfind7
2 жыл бұрын
Omg I would love a sweet trip reaction
@TatePictures
2 жыл бұрын
yeah sweet trip or candy claws would be nice
@quagtwo
2 жыл бұрын
The lyrics you're reading aren't official lmao. From what I've heard, I think she's intentionally singing in half gibberish, with some english sprinkled in here and there
@enzyme3254
Жыл бұрын
Please do more Cocteau Twins content, there’s not enough of it on KZitem
@mr_spoons
Жыл бұрын
💙The first reaction video that meant something. 'H or LV' is fantastic. 'I Wear Your Ring' though, floors me every time.
@dawnballantyne3928
10 ай бұрын
Got brought up listening tj the cocteau twins love lizzie fraser and their from scotland like me
@scottsneed7333
Жыл бұрын
definitely dive into their 80s stuff too! head over heels, blue bell knoll, victorialand...all gold
@thesound-chameleonman3580
2 жыл бұрын
I know Elizabeth Fraser's sister! and I'm a massive fan of Cocteau Twins.. I have many signed things of theirs. Amazing band. - C
@snowy6301
2 жыл бұрын
Wow that’s so awesome!! Thank you so much for watching :)
@thesound-chameleonman3580
2 жыл бұрын
@@snowy6301 you are welcome. I recommend Blue Bell Knoll as your next port of call by Cocteau Twins.
@thesound-chameleonman3580
2 жыл бұрын
@@snowy6301 I'm on Instagram for evidence of photos! 😂😉
@cathiecraig5730
Жыл бұрын
Great band , went to Grangemouth high school , with Liz
@neosapienz7885
8 ай бұрын
Check out the b-sides to Iceblink Luck - Mizak the Mizan and especially Watchlar are both fantastic. I have a feeling you’ll dig Mizak. Both would have fit well on the album. My album fav is Frou Frou.
@soterioncoil2163
Жыл бұрын
Masterpiece album. The ones that don’t catch you at first get you later 🤓
@barkdog
2 жыл бұрын
you're back yayyy ur videos truly make my day whenever they pop up
@snowy6301
2 жыл бұрын
Aw I'm so glad :))
@poisgarcon5034
2 жыл бұрын
YESSS! YOU'RE BACK!! (i missed you even though i've read your messages from community) Also, can i recommend you to listen to The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand. Not even for a video. It's just that i listened to this recently and instantly remembered your reaction to "Deathconsciousness". I kinda felt the same, so i'm wondering if you will like it.
@mathdork96
2 жыл бұрын
This album is🤌🪄
@meatsuit6922
2 жыл бұрын
Hey, there, reaction request: based on some of the records you've liked you should do a reaction to Kayo Dot's Choirs Of The Eye! Kind of in the same general category as Swans or Godspeed with infinitely more complex compositions, think you'll love it! Nearly every comment review post or conversation I've come across with anyone who's heard the album tend to regard it as one of the best records ever made
@christianhoneyman5533
Жыл бұрын
Great reaction to a great album by my favorite band. 😊 Saw them live on their Milk and Kisses tour. Then a year or 2 later sadly they broke up
@sahbian
9 ай бұрын
Swervedriver - I Wasn’t born to lose you is a great album.
@bearbear6896
2 жыл бұрын
Omg youre back miss your videos man i was hoping you'd check out death grips or the new black midi album hellfire i think you will enjoy it anyways keep on killing it bro :D
@goobertsnoobert9015
2 жыл бұрын
Another great reaction to a great album :)
@stef1074
6 ай бұрын
This is my favorite band of all. Do I have good taste ?
@guyjiminjapan9824
Жыл бұрын
A great reaction to a wonderful album.
@resiseven7407
2 жыл бұрын
im gonna request that you check out the band xiu xiu at some point. one of my favourite albums of theirs, and one that i think you would like, is actually the one where they play the music of twin peaks. i don't know how impactful that album would be if you're unfamiliar with the source material, though. basically, if you've seen twin peaks, definitely give that one a go! otherwise, their debut album knife play is probably a good shout, or their second album a promise if you don't mind feeling like complete shit.
@nilsatisno9964
2 жыл бұрын
You have just listened too..The Voice of God.
@enricodevito
2 жыл бұрын
man i love your videos, i think u should react to third by portishead, i think you will like idk!
@dawnballantyne3928
10 ай бұрын
Check out angelhood I love that githic sound of cocteaus
@lookoutleo
Жыл бұрын
It's her own language , that's why you don't understand the lyrics , they are a Scottish band who were active from early 80s to late 90s my fav band of all time, closely followed by dead can dance
@LeandroMartinscg
2 жыл бұрын
You should listen to Treasure and Victorialand, they are amazing too, and completely different to Heaven or Las Vegas in tone
@hugevergamo1489
2 жыл бұрын
I have a theory that in reality Liz Fraser is not singing anything and is only making sounds with her mouth, since there are no official lyrics as such, besides that would explain the unique work in her vocal performance
@luno6852
2 жыл бұрын
Hey! You love animal Collective, did you react to spirit there gone álbum?
@romeopalote
2 жыл бұрын
I love your reactions and you are beautiful
@snowy6301
2 жыл бұрын
Aw haha thank you sm :)))
@terriblecanyonsofstatic
2 жыл бұрын
please react to F♯ A♯ ∞ by Godspeed You! Black Emperor if you haven't heard it already, absolute masterpiece of an album. love your content bro, keep it up :)
@paulwhite7972
10 ай бұрын
If this is your intro to the Cocteau Twins then you need to go backwards to Treasure, Head Over Heels and Victorialand. Not to mention all the standalone 12 inch singles they put out. Your mind WILL blown.
@__Aiden__
2 жыл бұрын
hey wassup snowy
@biggkoz
2 ай бұрын
There technically arent any lyrics, its just vocal harmonies with a word or two thrown in.
@mememan3799
2 жыл бұрын
You know a shoegaze album is good when you cant understand a single word they are saying.
@Grithron2
2 жыл бұрын
If you're going to listen to more Cocteau Twins - I recommend postponing the overrated, troublesome Treasure and heading for either the double-EP/mini-album Tiny Dynamine+Echoes In A Shallow Bay [which marks the end of their golden era with all their eccentricities upfront and in-your-face], or the earlier matching-pair of EPs Peppermint Pig/Lullabies [which add up to the Cocteaus' "positive-punk" masterpiece]. THIS album comes from the era when, after a long period of abstraction, the vocals became more "sensible"/easier to decipher, though there are still plenty of obscure areas. DOn't put too much faith in online lyric sites - they're reproducing amateur fan-transcriptions some of which are laughable. Suffice to say - she plays around with accents and mispronunciations, but even when I don't know for sure what I'm hearing, I know which consonants I'm not hearing! With regard to Frou-Frou Foxes - even though I'm going to struggle to articulate my reasoning, I've formed the impression that - where the rest of the album is heavy with songs about new-motherhood - this is a celebration of the other, artistic, kind of creative urge. Who wouldn't become fascinated by a song whose chorus advocates "euphony science", and whose verses mention firedrakes and something-or-other which "suppurates ad nauseam". With regard to Fotzepolitic - personally it was the verse melody which hooked me (very Celtic) before I started to listen more carefully - given the title, it's hard to rebuff the popular theory that it's about her sexual abuse at the hands of her father and stepbrother, and her feelings of being unable to escape/transcend them.
@dtatertot
2 жыл бұрын
First..? :)
@dtatertot
2 жыл бұрын
I'm a failure. Anyway, I was in the middle of watching your Ants From Up There review when this came up. What a treat!
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