Cocteau Twins Documentary

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This video is a re-upload of the Cocteau Twins documentary from May 2022. To ensure the accuracy of this video, a correction was made from the previous video.
0:00 Intro
0:34 Early Days
1:15 Influences
1:55 Garlands
2:59 Lullabies and Peppermint Pig
4:00 Head Over Heels and Sunburst and Snowblind
5:15 First Tour and Simon Joins
6:02 The Spangler Maker
6:58 First Music Video and Treasure
8:27 Aikea-Guinea
9:16 Tiny Dynamite and Echoes in a Shallow Bay
10:00 The Pink Opaque and Victorialand
11:37 The Moon and the Melodies
12:33 Love's Easy Tears and Crush
13:41 Blue Bell Knoll
14:53 Private Lives
15:47 Heaven or Las Vegas
17:46 Four-Calendar Café
19:09 Christmas, Leno, and MTV
20:18 Twinlights and Otherness
21:21 Later Projects and Milk and Kisses
22:34 Final Days and Bella Union
23:25 Post-Cocteau Twins Projects
23:13 Future Projects and Legacy
24:52 Conclusion
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My Top 5 Favorite Cocteau Twins songs:
5. Orange Appled (Love's Easy Tears)
4. Iceblink Luck (Heaven or Las Vegas)
3. Pandora (For Cindy) (Treasure)
2. Sugar Hiccup (Head Over Heels/Sunburst and Snowblind)
1. Evangeline (Four-Calendar Café)
Songs Featured in the Video:
1. Pandora (For Cindy) - Cocteau Twins (1984) (Treasure)
2. Nick the Stripper - The Birthday Party (1981) (Prayers on Fire)
3. Shallow Then Halo - Cocteau Twins (1982) (Garlands)
4. Feathers-Oar-Blades - Cocteau Twins (1982) (Lullabies)
5. Peppermint Pig - Cocteau Twins (1983) (Peppermint Pig)
6. Musette And Drums - Cocteau Twins (1983) (Head Over Heels)
7. Sugar Hiccup - Cocteau Twins (1983) (Head Over Heels/Sunburst and Snowblind)
8. Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil (1984) (It'll End in Tears)
9. Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - Cocteau Twins (1984) (The Spangle Maker)
10. Lorelei - Cocteau Twins (1984) (Treasure)
11. Aikea-Guinea - Cocteau Twins (1985) (Aikea-Guinea)
12. Pink Orange Red - Cocteau Twins (1985) (Tiny Dynamine)
13. Great Spangled Fritillary - Cocteau Twins (1985) (Echoes in a Shallow Bay)
14. Lazy Calm - Cocteau Twins (1986) (Victorialand)
15. Sea, Swallow Me - Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie & Simon Raymonde (1986) (The Moon and the Melodies)
16. Those Eyes, That Mouth - Cocteau Twins (1986) (Love's Easy Tears)
17. Crushed - Cocteau Twins (1987) (Lonely Is an Eyesore)
18. Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins (1988) Blue Bell Knoll)
19. Carolyn's Fingers - Cocteau Twins (1988)(Blue Bell Knoll)
20. Iceblink Luck - Cocteau Twins (1990) (Heaven or Las Vegas)
21. Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins (1990) (Heaven or Las Vegas)
22. Evangeline - Cocteau Twins (1993) (Four-Calendar Café)
23. Frosty the Snowman - Cocteau Twins (1993) (Snow)
24. Rilkean Heart - Cocteau Twins (1995) (Twinlights)
25. Cherry-Coloured Funk (remix) - Cocteau Twins (1995) (Otherness)
26. Fruitopia - Cocteau Twins (1995) (Coca-Cola Ad)
27. Serpentskirt - Cocteau Twins (1996) (Milk & Kisses)
28. Fifty-Fifty Clown - Cocteau Twins (1999, Recorded 1996) (BBC Sessions)
29. Golden Air - Sun's Signature (2022) (Sun's Signature)
Sources:
classicalbumsundays.com/album...
cocteautwins.com/chapter-one....
mixmag.net/read/cocteau-twins...
web.archive.org/web/200709271...

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@StainedGlassStories 8 ай бұрын

Hi all, this video is a re-upload of the Cocteau Twins Documentary from May 2022. My reasoning for taking down the original video was due to a minor error. When discussing the Heaven or Las Vegas tour, I mentioned that The Veldt was the opening act. While saying this, I mistakenly showed a picture of Majesty Crush. In May of 2022 I was unfamiliar with Majesty Crush and The Veldt, but now I can say I am a fan of both groups. I went back and changed the picture to The Veldt (provided to me by Danny Chavis himself) and reverified all the pictures in this video. Apologies for the confusion.

@davidtollefson8411 8 ай бұрын

I’ll still watch it again. Love the ‘84-‘86 era especially, and still think they are the most unique and beautiful-sounding group I’ve ever heard.

@jeffreycase9497 6 ай бұрын

not so much music you listen to as a realm you visit.robin is spaghetti western beneath the northern lights.band is definition of extra ordinary

@blackpassenger Ай бұрын

my daughter will be 5 in september. the first music she heard after emerging from the womb was kisses and milk. been a big fan of cocteau twins since my days on kusf 90.3fm in the 80s. back then, the best college radio in the US.

@kuglepen64 8 ай бұрын

IT'S OKAY I’LL WATCH IT AGAIN. I LIKE THE COCTEAU TWINS.

@StainedGlassStories 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for rewatching! It's great to have it back on KZfaq :)

@kuglepen64 8 ай бұрын

@@StainedGlassStories you’re doing a fine job.

@munkybunny 8 ай бұрын

perfect response@@kuglepen64

@godsgiftmaggot898 8 ай бұрын

Have loved this band since 1984 . I used to play the $hit out of this them on college radio in '85-87. Got to see them live in L.A. (palace) 1985. It was such an exiting time . . .just as you'd start to wear out the latest record, they'd come out with another

@bobdobalina838 8 ай бұрын

Though I was familiar with their previous albums, for me Heaven or Las Vegas is their masterpiece and represents a great time in my life. They, like depeche mode, pet shop boys, o m d and many others were saying goodbye to the eighties in a wonderful fashion

@carlossobral3969 4 ай бұрын

For me, HOLV is the worst thing they have released at 4AD.

@andrewmurray5542 Ай бұрын

I think Blue Bell Knoll is the one that I would say was the definitive CT album. But everyone will have their own choice.

@sub-jec-tiv 10 күн бұрын

@@carlossobral3969Everybody has an opinion. HOLV is a gorgeous album, and my opinion is that it’s weird that you would use the word ‘worst’ to describe any of their work. 🤷‍♂️ that’s just my opinion tho.

@morganfreeman8230 8 күн бұрын

@@andrewmurray5542 definitely blue bell knoll

@thandekamangoye3142 8 ай бұрын

Milk & Kisses is such a beautiful album ❤❤ this band has changed my life forever

@StainedGlassStories 8 ай бұрын

Agreed 💖💖 what I love about CT is that their style was frequently evolving, but consistentlygorgeous. .

@CurtOntheRadio 2 күн бұрын

Love's Easy Tears, for me. I was amazed to find out it was real words. The opening of Victorialand and Blue Bell Knoll are both particular favourites too. Thanks for the video.

@HenryBoyer313 8 ай бұрын

Huge respect for taking it down to make a correction, and reuploading it, that’s not easy once it’s been out for a while!

@StainedGlassStories 8 ай бұрын

Appreciate it, friend! Once I knew that error was there, I wasn't comfortable with having the video public until it was fixed.

@kendavid891 14 күн бұрын

Saw them in 1994,nyc Roseland Ballroom,us siblings were fortunate to hear jools holland,and other radio shows.i first heard them in early 80s,the pink opaque

@drewski363 5 ай бұрын

A fascinating documentary of a truly ground-breaking group. I had the "ice blink luck" to see them live in Bristol, UK and they were truly amazing

@mimim8532 4 ай бұрын

When I was in peace corps,97-99- in the Sahel….it was the Cocteau Twins that held me together….in a very challenging environment. As a young American girl. Cocteau twins…..was everything in that hot African desert. Thank u. Now at 51- I still have the cassette mixes….a different time

@seamusd6116 8 ай бұрын

Song to the Siren is a top 5 song of all time

@chrishill5622 5 ай бұрын

Fabulous version of the song, and definitely my favourite version (and one of favourite songs) even if Robin and Liz were performing under the This Mortal Coil banner. The first of my two CT gigs was at the UEA in Norwich on 14 Feb 1994, supported by Seefeel - best Valentines ever. Mark Clifford would later be part of the CT's backing band. (And nice NCFC avatar. OTBC!)

@coreyphillips6153 6 ай бұрын

By far one of my favorite bands of all time 🖤

@barbarahowson8078 2 ай бұрын

"Garlands" is their best album. So fresh and uncontaminated.

@sub-jec-tiv 10 күн бұрын

Uncontaminated by their later discovery of their own aesthetic? 😉 Yes great album. But it sounds like other artists of the era.

@sub-jec-tiv 10 күн бұрын

Some fans seem to be not so into Four Calendar Cafe, but i really love that album, too. The melodies on it are gorgeous. They never released a bad record in my opinion.

@CupofCloud 7 ай бұрын

Treasure was the first CT album that I bought and I remember thinking that not only have I never heard anything like this before in music, but it also has a deeply emotional and blissful effect on me while listening. Years later I read somewhere that Robert Smith, frontman of one of my favorite bands, The Cure, listened to this album when getting ready for the ceremony on his wedding day. I totally understand why anyone would choose this album to listen to for a major life event like this.

@MoonChild-zg3gx 5 ай бұрын

They sound like a sneakpeak from heaven

@MichaelFox-p9l 6 күн бұрын

Garlands is great. It blew me away and was my first intro to this band in 1983. The rest ia history, greatness

@ralphlazio505 Ай бұрын

KROQ radio here in Los Angeles was a great influence for me throughout the 80s and 90s. This is where the Coctue Twins were introduced to me; their majestic tones of love and melancholy, really brought it home to me straight to the heart in mind.

@pedroj.salinasquintana1665 19 күн бұрын

CT=sounds from another world, there's no band like them. Simply unique❤ tks for the doc

@joydividing 8 ай бұрын

COCTEAU TWINS!!!

@StainedGlassStories 8 ай бұрын

I adore the Cocteau twins

@joydividing 8 ай бұрын

@@StainedGlassStories I think anything that is not Treasure or Heaven or Las Vegas is underappreciated.

@RobertoDiAguiar 11 күн бұрын

Very good

@roberthendrickson6505 3 ай бұрын

Terrific Doc! Cocteau Twins Forever! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@lolalynn2932 4 ай бұрын

They literally sound like heaven or young love . ❤️

@richardminter9462 8 ай бұрын

Legends - My favorite band of all time

@lovelight1 Ай бұрын

Actually Simon Raymond moved on from a band called Wild about Harry, the Drowning Crazy was befor that and then on to the Cocteau Twins, i know this because i was the lead singer of Wild about Harry. I think he did the right thing and i loved seeing him play with the Cocteau's. Much Love xxx

@LUNEmusic56 5 ай бұрын

txs for that, i finaly found thoses melodies of my 20ies that inspired me so much.

@Naturalmedicineprescription 20 күн бұрын

another great sound to come out of Scotland , try boards of canada too

@yoxq6067 2 ай бұрын

i love cocteau twins, thank you for this.

@franciscocarrilho4320 23 күн бұрын

soundtrack of my life

@gerardmccavana4905 7 ай бұрын

Bought some of their stuff in the early 80s. Nice sound. Great voice

@brianwinters9995 19 күн бұрын

Thought there'd be a bit about how Prince was a massive fan and who wanted them to sign with Paisley Park. Even Prince acknowledged that the CTs were doing things that he couldn't.

@roolaing 5 ай бұрын

Great doc. You even learned how to pronounce Grangemouth properly. Well done 👍

@verminj 7 ай бұрын

I love that a little clip of Great Spangled Frittary made it in. I love that track.

@Luxfer999 22 күн бұрын

GREAT!

@billabel472 29 күн бұрын

love this band!

@malcolmhead2852 3 ай бұрын

Great documentary There are things here most fans won’t have heard or seen

@frankenjstein9371 8 ай бұрын

I was turned on to these guys while tripping very hard. It was immense, life changing.

@jaavs 7 ай бұрын

i luv this band

@VioletPrism 8 ай бұрын

My fav!!!

@StainedGlassStories 8 ай бұрын

Me too!

@badaliensinfo 4 ай бұрын

was lucky to see them live Feb 1994 and Simon in 2013

@geej12 2 ай бұрын

I bought Garlands when it first came out. I still think it's their best!

@Gary.S 3 ай бұрын

Good sounds good act nice vid

@markmcarthy596 Ай бұрын

Six decades of exploring music. Cocteau Twins come from an unearthly dimension, proof of extraterrestrial intelligence

@ALCEU1 7 ай бұрын

banda da minha vida

@kalevala29 2 ай бұрын

I always had a little crush on Robin. He has beautiful eyes and the mischievous smile.

@stevemuzak8526 Ай бұрын

Robert Smith of The Cure listen to Treasure album on his wedding day.

@seheabol 2 ай бұрын

This narrative sounds like someone reading consecutive CD reviews from high school newspapers. “The guitar is bright and the vocals are piercing.” 😝

@frankenjstein9371 8 ай бұрын

Harold and Robin have collaborated a lot.

@richardarthurmusic 25 күн бұрын

I've been listening to CT pretty heavily and you miiiiight be able to hear it in my most recent upload.....a song I recorded called 'Tired Of Talking'

@briancarr4607 7 ай бұрын

LOVES EASY TEARS 😊

@philliplindsey9610 6 ай бұрын

A personal favorite! Beautiful & danceable ! Yay!

@philliplindsey9610 6 ай бұрын

A personal favorite! Beautiful & danceable ! Yay!

@philliplindsey9610 6 ай бұрын

A personal favorite! Beautiful & danceable ! Yay!

@philliplindsey9610 6 ай бұрын

A personal favorite! Beautiful & danceable ! Yay!

@philliplindsey9610 6 ай бұрын

A personal favorite! Beautiful & danceable ! Yay!

@RRFTB 5 ай бұрын

🖤🏆🖤

@ceevishus4130 3 ай бұрын

Liz is so dreamy

@realnoeq 8 ай бұрын

re-upload?

@averageskyfatherworshipper9342 7 ай бұрын

Just want to point out that she sang on the first Lord of the Rings movie, which is the Fellowship of the Ring, not The Two Towers as is shown

@syrophenikan 7 ай бұрын

Tiny DynamiNe (not DynamiTe)

@agallonofwater 8 ай бұрын

now i’m curious cause i watched the first upload somewhat recently, what was the correction?

@StainedGlassStories 8 ай бұрын

The portion where I talked about opening acts for the Heaven or Las Vegas tour. The Veldt was their opening act, but I mistakenly showed a picture of Majesty Crush.

@agallonofwater 8 ай бұрын

@@StainedGlassStories agh!

@agallonofwater 8 ай бұрын

@@StainedGlassStories love the content. keep it up!

@StainedGlassStories 8 ай бұрын

@@agallonofwater Thank you so much for saying that! I really appreciate your support :)

@tatling 7 ай бұрын

angels are jealous of them

@Musik-fm1np 3 ай бұрын

👍

@evvonmonteiro96 8 ай бұрын

Treasure Heaven or Las Vegas Moon & Melodies

@StainedGlassStories 8 ай бұрын

All great records 💖

@stephenhubber9184 14 күн бұрын

he looks like Jezza Clarkson's little brother.

@andy2950 7 ай бұрын

Song to the Siren. Not Sound. I think chart placement is completely irrelevant.

@isdatbochi 8 ай бұрын

Real ones know that this is a reupload

@StainedGlassStories 8 ай бұрын

You're a real one, friend!

@markkil 8 ай бұрын

I hate to be the one to inspire a do-over. But the ep is Tiny Dynamine, not Tiny Dynamite. And the track is Pearly Dewdrops' Drops not Pearly Dewdropses drops. Nothing personal, it just grates like nails down a chalboard hearing it. Kudos though for not saying The Cocteau Twins.

@StainedGlassStories 8 ай бұрын

No worries, I think I had added a card noting those corrections in the original video. I'll make a note to add that in this one. Thanks for letting me know.

@asantejsaymyname3537 Ай бұрын

I cant grieve so i wont grow. I wont heal til i leat it go.

@peterdoel6447 7 ай бұрын

Your dismissal of This Mortal Coil makes me sad

@CupofCloud 7 ай бұрын

maybe he’ll make a This Mortal Coil doc soon. That would be absolutely amazing.

@carlossobral3969 4 ай бұрын

Cocteau Twins were the best band ever. Their works until Love's easy Tears are complete masterpieces. But they shoul have ended after releasing that EP. Blue Bell Knoll shows a complete decadence of the band. For the first time, not all the songs are great songs. In fact, only half of them are. Heaven Or Las Vegas, the next, is a complete disaster. Easy, commercial and poor. The following albums, Four Calendar Cafe and Milk And Kisses are completely irrelevant. We can find there only a song that is good, Seekers Who Are Lovers. Fortunately we had Garlands, Treasure, Head Over Heels, Victorialand and all those great EPs.