why their band maybe was called, talking heads....

REM

They are also a way of expressing yourself though too and making statements, poetry kind of thing, they do serve a purpose.

Interestingly both artists are Scottish

@@Dunbie_ i’ll take anything Scottish

Dead Can Dance. Lisa Gerrard sings in her own language.

Yep. Yep.

@@hadeseye2297 I've listened to a lot of Dead Can Dance. Which albums are you referring to?

@@tdsims1963 Anyone. There was even nice interview with Lisa where she stands "Under the bridge" and sings trying to sound like moving cars. She said that her voice is instrument. But if you ask me about my favourite it's definitely Aion.

Also Hiatus Kaiyote, D'Angelo, Death Grips

Hi I recommend an indie rock song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

The cranberries….

Absolutely. They are their own genre and one I have been a devotee of for decades. I have all their music on original vinyl and each one is a prized possession.

Enya Dolores O’Riordan (The Cranberries) Leigh Nash (Sixpence None the Richer)

@@Jacob-vz9nk there's no reason to compare these bands. Cocteau Twins is the literal definition of dream pop.

yup, its eerie stuff. this song right here makes u feel like either they captured life. or sometimes like ur life is suddenly a movie. real magic.

It feels like a cone of convenience-store sundae after a 9 to 5 job that doesn't pay well and has a very mean employer and you need to be home by 6 to assist a dying loved one.

that’s an interesting way to put it, I actually kinda agree. the Cocteau Twins also have a very nostalgic sound.

@@saintherip8624 I agree w/ the original post but THAT sounds very personal

ive been listening to this album non-stop, I need help!! lol

Tall Dave LMAO

THAT EXACTLY IS HAPPENING TO ME RIGHT NOW!! IT ALWAYS DOES! HAHA

I was going to shower..

If i listen to 45minutes or more of Cocteau Twins its unsettling to even consider listening to anyone else's music FOR THE REST OF THE DAY. And thats how i feel about that.

@@duewhit310 - Exactly! Anything else, kills the mood.

been there!!! I like to listen to the same song about ten times though!!

There are no words xxx

I am glad.

Great album

I relate to that

Good memories

Cant beat bilke shop memories.

I used to own a bike shop back in the 90s and Cocteau Twins were a staple

Nail this album? What does that mean?

Bike shop owner here. Where was this mystical place you speak of? I went to dinner over at a fellow bike shop owners house and he had victorialand cd playing. 😊

WHAT? HELL YES!!!!!

Only those who lived through it will ever understand how glorious it truly was!

can we include Depeche Mode?

jesus and mary chain

exactly, art. emotion..

Oh man 😔🖤

If only

Stay Beautiful 💔😞

Do drugs.

have you ever done mdma

Says the adult with a creepy anime children's avatar.

nothing has been more accurate

Hit the nail on the fucking head with that one.

😂🙌🙌

Hey turning 30 was the best thing that ever happened to me. I first heard this song a couple weeks after I turned 30, in the Las Vegas airport. Tired as fuck from Vegas. I turn 31 next month. Life is crazy. Never too old.

Yes! I never thought of this song that way but it has an element of contemplation during a moment of fleeting beauty and joy. One of my all-time favorite songs.

That is so cool. My kids love the Cocteau Twins

Half in shadow half in light, not warm not cold perfect bliss

This exactly what this songs reminds me, of a late night drive where my dad put some music in the radio, and i was half-sleep and barely putting attention to the song, but either way the song set the journey back home, maybe after a long day in the house of someone i don't even remember that well

Snowcardinal, you are very fortunate to have experienced this music in this way. You will never forget it.

Your parents are legends

Haaa haaa!! I heard it "I want to lo-ve a gum bumblebee"

Maybe because I'm mexican and I dont speak english... So properly

Gomba gom gom beee heaven.

It’s like she pulled the words right from my heart 😂

I love Gumby too

Lost language of Ireland, Gailic

This is so unique to me,the fact this song resonates with so many different people ,I find this song ethereal,as if it’s a part of my soul,I am 16 and I’m girl

Me too !!! What a bliss 🥰❤️‍🔥💎

Well said, well said. I get it. I am 53. We were so lucky!!👊👍

It was me: Tony.

Yes I can confirm it was: Tony

Yeah, that was Tony

i have to let you know, it was: Tony.

I heard it was actually, contrary to popular belief: Tony

Hi I recommend an indie rock song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix

"orange hug of a track" is absolutely on point ;)))

This is an extremely one of the best clip&lyric&music of CT forever!!!;-)))Greetings from Russia to all fans of CT in the whole world!!!That's music CT is incredible&outstanding!!!

Well said.....

Pulsating with multicolored lights. The video captures it well.

very poetic

Мазер Сайбирия кэн край ту.

brate srbine! :D

same here but only 60 ;]

Same here.... but 62!

43 (for a couple more months 😁). Funny how they have that effect, for some reason I still don't really understand, this music has the exact same effect on me. Haven't listened to them for almost twenty years, a lot of hard things came crashing down and I became so hard, but my precious wife stuck by my side (the most beautiful soul I've ever encountered, on this side of the Mortal Coil, that is...but that's a long story: I'll say this, though, I don't "believe" in Heaven, I absolutely know it exists, nothing and no one can ever take that away now...went from having my spine crashed in a car accident and being paralyzed in one leg and unable to really use the other one broke my neck in 3 places, was told I'd NEVER walk again, and would soon lose bowel and bladder control...one day, after a particularly deep look into my own soul, I just began weeping so hard that I collapsed, I thought my heart had literally burst inside of me...I can't entirely explain what happened next, but out of a darkness I knew to be eternal and infinite, a fragrant, oily fire came pouring down on my soul, and I was met...I don't feel comfortable giving all the details, but I can say that the most BEAUTIFUL Woman I've ever encountered - beyond imagination, there are truly no words - looked into my eyes with the deepest love and kindest, deepest pity, and picked me up, continuing to gaze into my eyes. More radiant the Sun, Her face, and purer than Pure...I saw and heard so much more, but can't really share it, too personal, and really beyond words, but all the thrashed, beaten, cut, empty, and torn parts of my soul were filled with absolute light and love so solid and powerful that every hurt I ever had was erased, and I never wanted to leave Her arms...when I eventually "came back" to my body, not only could I walk again, but I went out to my backyard and did a backflip on my trampoline, something I hadn't done in over 25 years: you should have seen the look on my wife and childrens' faces!) In any event, I'll never be the same again, and listening to music like this reminds me of that haunting, lovely beauty, and draws tears out of my eyes once again (did I mention I couldn't stop crying - from the joy of having my body restored, but also the sadness of having to leave that Light and all the loving Souls there who love with One Heart, One Mind, and One Spirit?) This music is like medicine for weary souls...just wonderful.

Its the native tongue of Ireland... far from nonsense

@@marvelharris9540 do you have a source for that? Their own Wikipedia article says that she sings in glossolalia. Not to mention the fact that they’re Scottish

@@marvelharris9540 dumb

@@marvelharris9540 it is absolutely NOT the native tongue of ireand

@@marvelharris9540 it's English and she sings with a thick Scottish accent. The lyrics can be found online.

there are demons living in my soul they tell me to order you to submit to the bug lord of the genesian realm taker he will guide you to salvation of cleansed mind and a world of one thousand wishes to be grantable upon enlightenment

​@@yome6132😂

its not a simple chord progression theyre actually fairly difficult chords

not tryna be an asshole. i cant play this song comfortably sdo in my experience its difficult. although i guess its difficult and simple because its not a huge number of chords

​@@jack-uv6mtAs with all the Cocteau twins songs, there are nuances in this song that are fairly tricky. But I'm talking about the chord foundation in which the melody is based on - D G C

​@@jack-uv6mtTo add. For example, the melody in the verse is sophisticated but the guitar chords are just alternating between D an G. It then changes to a C chord when the chorus comes in.

i guess my point was the voicings are odd and you have to stretch you fingers along four frets@@z23xc5

Hey you might like a band called the Doublejumps if you like Cocteau Twins

@@MassiveFish-hp4pm did I ask

Yes I know what you mean

Yea

I love when that happens. There are just some artists that somehow make you feel something and it's not always about dancing. It's like a memory of something that hasn't happened yet or a feeling you've felt before.

Love love is a verb, love is a doing word....teardrop on the fire of a confession. Sound familiar? Same voice....

The music in the background sounds a bit like « pictures of you » from The Cure

i think so

❤😊

Ashes don't listen to songs, dear. Pray for your dad not to play a song.

@@VK-sk000zc how obtuse.

@@VK-sk000zc oh yeah you don’t need to listen when you can simply simultaneously write and listen or just listenwtite the whole song instantaneously

Hi! U found 1

I love this song so much since last year!

Count me in

Try Grimes.

Here!

😅 lol

Hey you might like a band called the Doublejumps if you like Cocteau Twins

Hope you enjoy the rest of their stuff! They've been my favourite band for twelve years now

Don't feel bad, my first listen was 2015 at the age of 29 and I was blind sided by it. Couldn't believe I missed it and just how incredible and beautiful it was. Its just on a whole other level.

Listen to Bluebeard

im 44 when I first heard this. Today actually. But I knew Cocteau Twins. I love discovering timeless gems.

Makes you feel like you missed out on your youth and could go back doesn't it?

Light Bright I think that would be Carolynn’s Fingers actually

The entire album, Heaven or Las Vegas has no bad tracks. Just a bunch of random rhythmic psychedelic sounds and rhythms with this beautiful voice floating in and out. You just get lost in it. The last song is a hell of an ending song to close the album. It has to be heard to be believed.

@@fruitypeebils yes, someone in the comments in fact DID mention it. Why in earth would I have posted this, if not?

@@privace8111 thank you.

And then they could always just splice in another vocal track entirely and scrub the live one.

@@fruitypeebils people have become so conditioned to be combative on the internet that it's become their norm to be guns blazing yet completely unprovoked. The last place i'd expect that type of goading is a cocteau twins comment section. What exactly do you think the purpose of a comment section is? A place for you to shame those for posting a comment that was relevant to the content? So are we only expected to post a comment if someone asks for it? Did anyone ask for your input before you chose to go down the condescending route? There's a lot of angst out there and i get it, but perhaps redirect it towards those who screwed you and not some rando on youtube offering an interesting take.

Glad you're big enough to recognise that. I kept this comment short n sweet just the way you like it.

you mean the sarcastic english. the music comes from ireland, scotland and wales.

Scot. Mari-Ahten flows through her.

Sounds so las vegasly

Elisabeth Fraser is my icon of an female vocal! She's voice is incredible!Greetings from Russia!!!

Well they practically invented ethereal sound

Boudosaved its really not underrated

i’d say the associates are

Josef K

the associates more so

Cocteau Twins and The Blue Nile

Just one woman. Elizabeth Fraser, the Scottish nightingale.

Ha! One lady, really.

the shoegazers origins

@@e-rokekenedi7834 Yeah, heard of Massive attack tear drop?

@@djhillfinger yeah. What's your point? There's one here.

Yup, keep in mind also there has never been official lyrics, so the one's you find online are interpretations by fans.

They’re phrased very odd during the whole album

before the internet became a big thing, ive always wondered what she was singing about and almost thought really, that there was two vocalists. but found out it was just the one. Some of the words are in a different language and just muttering or something relatable to english. but yes, ive struggled for a long time to know what she was singing about until their website came into being. which in fact people had pieced together bits and pieces of what she was singing. But even then as Ms. Frazer has put it even she had made up words. but they are still beautiful to hear, even if she is not singling anything tangible at times. They continue to be one of my favorite bands.

you can not imagine what was like to see them live in the 80-early 90s

She is talking about gambling and las vegas, believe it or not

This is maybe the best production of the band (1990) , but you need to check the 80s albums and EPs (my favs CT), much more in the gothic-ethereal-post punk wave than this dreamy pop-shoegaze.

If you hear it, you've changed.....

That’s deep

Shazam is fantastic!

And I just discovered them in 2024, nice find!