Cocteau Twins Lyrics
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From the Album
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
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