ALBUM REACTION: Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Welcome to another classic album reaction, this time we take a look at Cocteau Twins dream pop masterpiece Heaven or Las Vegas! We do all our reactions live so subscribe if you would like to join us in real time and see our raw reactions
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Here's how this album always works for every new listener:
track 1: This sounds nice. Might not be my thing, but it's very nice.
track 4: Damn, this is actually very very good.
track 7: Okay this might actually be one of the best things I've ever heard
track 10: If Elizabeth Fraser ordered me to wreck my ship on the rocks of the Aegean Sea I would do it in a second
I know the founder of Cocteau Twins Will Heggie! I also know Elizabeth Fraser's sister Ann. I am a HUGE Cocteau Twins fan and have many signed vinyl etc from them. Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie have signed stuff for me. Amazing band.
I recommend Garlands, Victorialand, Blue Bell Knoll also by CT.
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I'd heard that Will became very bitter about CT after leaving them, which would be a shame as that first post-punk phase of the band was superb, I'd also be really curious to know Ann's take on the phenomenal band.
@TheVideoLounge What she thinks about Cocteau Twins?
@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 Well yes, her take on the band would be really interesting, and of course if she can convince her sister to enter our mortal world again !
@TheVideoLounge She occasionally sees Robin! and knows Will too! she never sees her sister though sadly. I have chatted to Will and Simon and they have both signed stuff for me! great people.
@@thesoundlikechameleons2082 Thanks, it's nice to have a bit of a glimpse into their very opaque lives, it's a band who's music I was introduced to back in the mid 80's by someone also from Grangemouth who knew them.
Do you know anything about their last unreleased album ? I asked Simon on YT here but he simply said it was unreleasable , material, so I tried to convince him to finish it off.
Cocteau Twins are my favorite musicians. It could be because I listened to "Blue Bell Knoll," when I was in combat in Iraq. War is a crazy surreal thing. I was so young.
Thank you for your service!!
glad you’re here and ok❤️ how dis the cocteau twins shape your experience if i may ask?
@@shal6401 It's odd because when I got back, I stopped listening to contemporary music. I got hooked on swing, big band, jazz and classical. For some reason, say 10 years ago I started listened to them again. It did jog in memory events and images that I had tried to suppress. I was a medic and drove a M113. I had hooked up my Awai Walkman to the battery of the M113, so I didn't need AA batteries. This was 1991.
Her vocals affected me as notes of liquid beauty.
Don’t know if it’s mentioned later but the trip hop comparison is quite apt because Elizabeth Fraser, the Cocteau Twins singer, is featured on 3 different songs on Massive Attack’s “Mezzanine”
I had the pleasure of seeing them in concert for this album. Spellbinding.
to be alive at a time where you can see Cocteau twins live 😪
One group that combines the dreampop/shoegaze sound with trip-hop elements is SPC ECO. Also see the great 1996 album by Hooverphonic, 'A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular.' It contains elements of both as well.
I've been a Cocteau Twins fan for almost 40 years. Bought the 'Aikea-Guinea' EP in 1985 on a whim and have never looked back.
Cocteau Twins music is so sophisticated and deep it takes multiple listens to really appreciate the stunning beauty of it
"I transcended so hard I disappeared" 🙂 I had the exact same feeling, listening to this album for the first time in the 90's
As someone who loves this album through and through, I agree that it's not love at first listen. I listened to it once, felt intrigued; went back to it a second time, didn't quite get it, but then... There just came a moment when 'it hit'. And since then I say that it's one of the best things that came from the "alternative" 90s.
Try Love's easy tears by Cocteau Twins.
THiS IS JUST A WONDERFUL ALBUM 🎉❤PERIOD
By the way, she is making up words
Not my favorite Cocteau Twins album at all but i get why its the common denominator about what theyre supposed to be like as a band...
Anyways, i feel like if you want to love the Cocteau Twins at their best you gotta like their pop sensibility and embrace the "cheese" in a lot of their melodies and sounds. The different takes you had on Fotzepolitic were indicative of that to me :)
When anything by Cocteau Twins is uploaded onto CZcams, this huge invisible army of devotees always begin to appear, as if out of nowhere, and it's very life-affirming to know that Liz and Robin and Simon and Will are forever immortalised by this force, so they never really ended at all, they simply became absorbed by them and then carried onward.
for me ice blink luck, heaven or las vegas, road rover and rail and frou frou foxes really take this album home for me
If you like Fotzepolitic you will like the band Delays. Heavily influenced by Cocteau Twins.
Thanks for the heads up, Almost can't tell it's a male singer on some of the tracks.
@radone5896 Delays? the vocalist was Greg Gilbert a man. But he had a very high pitched vocal which caught people off a lot of times! listen to Wanderlust, very reminiscent of Cocteau Twins
When I was at Uni in NE England in the late 80s, there was a student band that had the Cocteau sound nailed. Played their own songs but you'd think you were in the presence of Guthrie and Raymonde.
Cocteau twins, you're soaking in it.
The "gibberish" lyrics...lol... it actually has a technical, linguistic term: it is called Glossolalia. Just so you know.
(Also, Elizabeth Fraser is the greatest vocalist of all time, IMHO).
:)
As a professional energy vampire who lives off empathy- may I recommend that you don’t cut in and out of the songs you review. What we like is watching you when the great bits come up…
If you fellows want a new sound, may I suggest, "Pylon," and their album "Chain." 1990. Another one I may have listened to in Iraq. Pylon came out of Athens, GA in the same span of years as R.E.M. and the B-52's.
Magnifique 😍