Unpacking the Unique Sound of Cocteau Twins

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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 https://www.instagram.com/stainedglassnate/ 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: https://classicalbumsundays.com/album-of-the-month-cocteau-twins-blue-bell-knoll/ https://cocteautwins.com/chapter-one.html https://mixmag.net/read/cocteau-twins-elizabeth-fraser-release-first-album-decade-suns-signature-news https://web.archive.org/web/20070927182249/http://www.cocteautwins.com/html/history/