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[mmmender]

THIS THREAD WAS STARTED ON FEB 7/03

i know it's a near impossible task but if you had to pick your top 5 (yes you are limited to 5) favourite cocteau twins songs...........what would you pick? and they have to be in order....#1 being your ultimate fave.

here's mine:


heaven or las vegas
watchlar
those eyes, that mouth
wax & wane
melonella


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Administrator Note:
i'll keep a running tally of the most loved Cocteau Twins songs right here: - mmmender

Song Title (votes)

A Kissed Out Red Floatboat (2)
Aikea-Guinea (7)
Aloysius (1)
An Elan (1)
Blue Bell Knoll (2)
But I'm Not (1)
Calfskin Smack (1)
Carolyn's Fingers (4)
Cherry Coloured Funk (2)
Cico Buff (2)
Crushed (1)
Dear Heart (1)
Ella Megalast Burls Forever (5)
Evangeline (1)
Feather-Oar-Blades (1)
Fifty Fifty Clown (1)
Five Ten Fiftyfold (1)
Flock of Soul (1)
Fluffy Tufts (1)
Fotzepolitic (2)
From The Flagstones (1)
Frou Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires (4)
Frutopia - 'upbeat' (1)
Garlands (3)
Great Spangled Fritillary (2)
Heaven or Las Vegas (5)
High Monkey Monk (2)
How To Bring A Blush To The Snow (1)
I Wear Your Ring (5)
In Our Angelhood (2)
Itchy Glowbo Blow (1)
Ivo (1)
Know Who You Are At Every Age (1)
Kookaburra (1)
Lazy Calm (1)
Laugh Lines (1)
Lorelei (1)
Love's Easy Tears (1)
Melonella (2)
Millimillenary (1)
Mizake the Mizan (1)
Mud and Dark (1)
Multi-foiled (1)
Musette and Drums (1)
Musette and Drums - BBC Sessions (1)
My Love Paramour
Oomingmak (2)
Orange Appled (7)
Pale Clouded White (2)
Pandora (2)
Pearly-dewdrops' Drops (1)
Peppermint Pig (2)
Peppermint Pig - 7" version (1)
Persephone (1)
Pink Orange Red (1)
Pitch the baby (3)
Plain Tiger (2)
Pur (3)
Road, River and Rail (2)
Rococo (1)
Sea, Swallow Me (1)
Shallow Then Halo (1)
Sigh's Smell of Farewell (1)
Smile (1)
Squeeze Wax (1)
Suckling the Mender (2)
Summerhead (2)
The Itchy Glowbo Blow (1)
The Spanglemaker (3)
Theft and Wandering Around Lost (1)
Those Eyes, That Mouth (6)
Throughout The Dark Months Of April And May (1)
Touch Upon Touch (1)
Treasure Hiding (2)
Violaine (1)
Watchlar (5)
Wax & Wane (3)
Whales Tails (1)
Wolf In The Breast (1)

*last vote added Brewstone (Feb-19-03)

[E-Lo]

It's always a tie for 1st place, depending on mood

1. Pitch the Baby (such an incredibly original, spacey, funky sound)
1. Watchlar (so incredibly elegant, minimal, and emotional at the same time)
3. Orange Appled
4. Blue Bell Knoll
5. Rococo

[zed]

1.heaven or las vegas
2. i wear your ring.
3.pale clouded white
4.orange appled
5.ella megalast burls forever.

honerable mention: mizak the mizan, the live calfskinsmack.
a kissed out red floatboat. crushed. seekers, live.

shit i always want more. five is just awefull.

Z.

[evangeline]

1. sigh's smell of farewell
2. aloysius
3. ella megalast burls forever
4. treasure hiding
5. frou frou foxes in midsummer fires

[kookaburra]

This task hurts...

I left out Pandora from the Black Sessions (I think...live, at least; you'll know which one I mean) because it was not an original studio recording.

1. Kookaburra
2. Road, River and Rail
3. Melonella
4. Pearly-dewdrops' Drops
5. Carolyn's Fingers (esp. with headphones)

[kookaburra]

Is it too late to change my mind?

[watchlar]

ACK i hate this question...it's always changing/shifting for me...but it's something like this...

1. Ella Megalast Burls Forever

2. Watchlar

3. Pur

4. Orange-Appled

5. High Monkey Monk

5. (tie) I Wear Your Ring

[mmmender]

Originally posted by kookaburra
I left out Pandora from the Black Sessions (I think...live, at least; you'll know which one I mean) because it was not an original studio recording.

i think this is the absolute BEST live version of this song i've ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps...i just had to go and put on love's easy tears and fuck "orange appled" really is amazing, isn't it?

[kookaburra]

Originally posted by mmmender
i think this is the absolute BEST live version of this song i've ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Indeed...could we categorize it as an acoustic-remix (an oxymoron, I know)?

[crushed]

1. those eyes, that mouth
2. frou frou foxes
3. crushed
4. blue bell knoll
5. aikea-guinea

oh fuck wait, I changed my mind....like I always do...

[E-Lo]

I would give my left, er, whatever MP3s I can share if some generous, kind soul would burn me Black Sessions!

I miss it dearly and my only CD-R was tragically found damaged beyond repair

I think I must change my No. 5 now to Carolyn's Fingers. Kookaboora, you are so right, on headphones it is so completely lifting!

[multymfoiled]

1. Wolf in the Breast

2. Watchlar

3. Pandora

4. Ivo

5. The Spanglemaker

[kookaburra]

Originally posted by E-Lo
I would give my left, er, whatever MP3s I can share if some generous, kind soul would burn me Black Sessions!

I miss it dearly and my only CD-R was tragically found damaged beyond repair

As would I. My copy is possibly sitting somewhere below the Mediterranean Sea at this time. Don't ask!

[E-Lo]

That totally sucks -- I too lost a bunch of CDs and a brand new MP3 player in Mykonos this summer!

If I ever get a replacement, will let 'ya know ;)

[stratton]

you got me...in no particular order...

1. pur
2. i wear your ring
3. orange appled
4. squeeze-wax
5. fotzepolitic

as far as live goes...well, i dig these...

1. 50/50 clown (96)
2. pur (96)
3. pandora (96)
4. orange appled (90-91)
5. crushed (90-91)

stratton

c.s. 'melody a.m.'
- royksopp

:p

[etc etc]

1) flock of soul
2)touch upon touch
3) evangaline
4) ella megalast
5) Road river and rail

That was tough, very tough, and p.s Mmmender 5B) would be serpentskirt just 'cause I know you really love it too! I'm being a <=3

[zed]

.......i've never heard the black sessions..:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

it's just not fair.

zed.

:(

[superblast]

1. aikea-guinea
2. fifty-fifty clown
3. orange appled
4. cico buff
5. peppermint pig

[Gipson]

1) Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires
2) Lazy Calm
3) Sea, Swallow Me
4) From the Flagstones (BBC Sessions, disk 1)
5) Wax and Wane (BBC Sessions)

And I definitely agree about Pandora Black Sessions!

[algol]

1. Garlands
2. Pitch the Baby
3. Feather-Oar-Blades
4. Great Spangled Fritillary
5. Shallow Then Halo

algol

[willy]

1. Baby Waves
2. Sampon
3. Spoggle-Toes
4. Cloudwool Blue
5. Have A Speckle

[Adam]

those eyes, that mouth
love's easy tears
mizake the mizan
an elan (at max vol)
pandora

[mborum]

As of today...

1. Aikea-Guinea
2. Carolyn's Fingers
3. Those Eyes, That Mouth
4. Treasure Hiding
5. Heaven or Las Vegas

[dynamine]

plain tiger
five-ten fiftyfold
but i'm not
persephone
those eyes,that mouth(for sommmeone)

[randomrob]

1)Summerhead

2)Cico-buff

3)Fluffy tufts

4)Plain tiger

5)Heaven or Las Vegas



(guess I finally outgrew 'Ivo'???:eek: )

[mborum]

...god, I forgot all about "Summerhead."

That's one of those tunes that, for some supernatural reason, has been burned into my circuitry, so I find myself absent-mindedly singing it to myself every day at least once. Not that that's bad or anything because, thankfully, I love the song.

[ScottL]

Going on intuitive impluse..
[list=1]
Whales Tails (the most spacious ethereal acoustic guitar I've heard, I could very well sleep to this on infinite repeat)
Suckling the Mender (timeless memories...of what I don't know)
Theft And Wandering Around Lost (more spacious yet...)
Know Who You Are At Every Age (catharsis, fairly literal I know..but it stuck)
I Wear Your Ring (not a clue but I just love it :) )
[/list=1]
Only 5...these are what I guess I am most fond of on the whole...still there are about 10 more in that category..but there are many others that I like alot for specific reasons...like, this isn't necessarily my top 5 for best mix/fx/engineering(Summerhead is #1 there for me), though a few are..also top 5 vocal, guitar, or bass respectively...there are so many aspects of CT and certainly music in general that are stimulating in vastly different ways...

also, the distinction in music between playing and listening...I suppose music can be either fun to play or desirable to listen to....or both or neither....but it generaly seems there is a fair amount of music much more one or the other...that's a bit of a generalization, but I think CT captures performance, mood, and structure often with a very natural balance.

[ezzydynamine]

i am happy to burn anyone a copy (copies) of the 94 and 95 blacksessions.

let me know via email at erinn@cocteautwins.co.uk


x

[Hale]

1. Carolyn's Fingers
2. Aikea-Guinea
3. Heaven or Las Vegas
4. Cherry-Coloured Funk
5. Suckling the Mender

The above is, without any doubt in my mind, the series of songs to listen to just as the mushroom tea is kicking in.

[Lucibelle]

There you go, asking me to choose favorites among the 'children' again! ;) I just can't do it, I'm afraid!

I too, have never heard blacksessions. :( So Erinn, I may just take you up on that offer. Do you have DSL? There's always my Hotline server. It'd save the expensive postage! :D

[noboybands]

1) Aikea Guinea
2) Orange Appled
3) Carolyn's Fingers
4) Calfskin Smack
5) The upbeat Fruitopia ad (i know it's only short, but it always cheers me up)

Live:
1) Pitch The Baby (live at the olympia, paris)
2) Aloysius (live at the olympia, paris)
3) Pink Orange Red (town and country, london - don't have it, but i was there and it was astounding)
4) Carolyn's Fingers (on later with jools holland, bbc2 - during the peacock wailing phase, but it just sounded quite fab)
5) Sea Swallow Me (Nottingham Playhouse - my first cocteau gig and i was blown away even more than by the recorded product)

Leeza/Ian, are you polling these results and having a proper top 5?
(just thought i'd make some more work for you both!)

[noboybands]

1) Summerhead
2) Those Eyes, That Mouth
3) Watchlar
4) Multifoiled
5) Smile

That concludes the voting from the Yorkshire jury, bon soir et bon chance

[mmmender]

Originally posted by noboybands
Leeza/Ian, are you polling these results and having a proper top 5? (just thought i'd make some more work for you both!)

i promise to do this if you promise never to call me leeza again! deal? ;)

[noboybands]

Deal, and I promise not to post another reply after I've had a few shandies!

[Sean_Montgomery]

It's about time I chipped into this discussion, huh?

In no particular order, off the top of my head:

Fotzepolitic
Orange Appled
Oomingmak
Peppermint Pig
Lorelei

[steven]

Aikea-Guinea
Pur
A kissed out red floatboat
I wear your ring
How to bring a blush to the snow

Steven

[mattadore]

Boy, this is tough to answer. I could probably come up with a different list every day for the rest of my life. Here's today's list, off the top of my head:
(1) Wax And Wane
(2) In Our Angelhood
(3) Great Spangled Fritillary
(4) Garlands
(5) Thoughout The Dark Months Of April And May

[Bfenby]

1. A Kissed Out Red Floatboat
2. Cherry Coloured Funk
3. Aikea Guinea
4. Mud & Dark
5. Oomingmak

[Iwan]

My top five from different releases:

1. The Itchy Glowbo Blow
2. Garlands (although it could've easily been Grail Overfloweth, The Hollow Men, But I'm Not or Shallow Then Halo.... my fave CT record)
3. Pitch The Baby
4. Pale Clouded White
5. The Spangle Maker

...please don't ask these impossible questions again...

[willy]

I still think my five are best pimp

[zed]

.........willy, absolutly!;)
"spoggle toes" just about the best thing they ever did.!:D :D

Zed:cool:

[willy]

Originally posted by zed
.........willy, absolutly!;)
"spoggle toes" just about the best thing they ever did.!:D :D

Zed:cool:

And I haven't even mentioned these long-out-of-print raves:

6. Bumfluff Flax
7. Squid-squash
8. Embonpoints
9. Sleeg Tweeg
10. Tattyjuice Kiss

[mmmender]

what about that fabulous live bootleg from the secretive "frozen stickling summers" tour?

here's the tracklisting:


my sex
faithing, fritters and fishtales
muse minutes murmurlate
green peaks, candles and arches
simply siren sorrows
cry lonely violins silly
dreams follow me
burnt and bentsome
chrysalis crumblesign
frontiers giggle broken
rainbows endra
booming chances golden-free


:rolleyes:

[REPLICESS]

F*CK this is hard !!!!!!


Ok :

The Spangle Maker
Dear Heart
Pink Orange Red
Laugh Lines
Millimillenary

[someotherian]

Originally posted by mmmender
what about that fabulous live bootleg from the secretive "frozen stickling summers" tour?
never a truer word spoken in jest :rolleyes:

not sure i can imagine fans at that gig shouting "my sex! let's hear my sex!" :)

[REPLICESS]

Both Ultraxox & Japan have released songs called 'My Sex' ! :D

[someotherian]

oh well there ya go. truth is indeed stranger than fiction!

[zed]

ian.........these days, truth IS fiction!roflmao

Z,:cool:

[mmmender]

i could think of a multitude of things to say here.......................but i won't.

666

[zed]

...LOL!! "burnt and bentsome"!!roflmao roflmao

Z:D

[someotherian]

Originally posted by mmmender

i could think of a multitude of things to say here.......................but i won't.
why not? :confused:

[willy]

Originally posted by zed
...LOL!! "burnt and bentsome"!!roflmao roflmao

Z:D

Bentsome & Hedges

[zed]

............topiary cigarettes?
roflmao roflmao

:confused: Z.

[Brewstone]

Musette And Drums
Frou Frou Foxes
Itchy Glowbo Blow
Violaine
High Monkey Monk

[mmmender]

==============bump=============

this thread has been dead for 5 months but in light of recent discussions i'm reviving this thread from the archives and putting it out there for review again. this info can be a useful tool in helping to determine the cocteaufest playlist!

[zed]

.it's also funnier 'n hell!

Z.

[chaco75]

1. ribbed and veined
2. donimo
3. pale clouded white
4. fifty-fifty clown
5. crushed

[Sibian]

ACK such a hard choice...
here it goes.
1. Heaven or Las Vegas
2. Fifty-Fifty Clown
3. Carolyn's Fingers
4. Evangeline
5. For Phoebe still a Baby

there are more as Everything that CT did was beyond great.
But these touched my soul in ways i never imagined.

[Eoling]

Hello !

This is my top 5 :
1) OOMINGMAK
2) Blue Bell Knoll
3) Frou Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fire
4) Great Spangled Fritillary
5) The High Monkey Monk

This is only for the next 5 minutes because I already have change my mind with another list, another order .... every songs I can hear from the cocteaus is the best and could be at the first place ....

- Chris

[santeras]

1* Heaven Or Las Vegas
2* From The Flagstones
3* Carolyn's Fingers
4* Serpentskirt
5* Frou Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires

[iceblink555]

I usually can't answer these "best of" type questions. But on the off-chance that this might be used for the CTfest track selection...

1. Quisquose
2. Seekers
3. Otterley
4. Victorialand (yes, the entire album!)
5. Love's Easy Tears (yes, the entire EP!)

--Alan
np: Jean Leloup - i lost my baby

[Blank]

1. Crushed (yeeeeeeeeeeeeessss yes yes)
2. Feet-Like Fins (those cries)
3. Love's Easy Tears (those yelps)
4. Amelia (the vocal melody just kills)
5. In The Gold Dust Rush (in the beginning, it was this track that really got me obsessed)

[andyspur]

1. Fifty Fifty Clown
2. Hitherto
3. Pearly Dewdrops Drops
4. Musette & Drums
5. Persephone

Hope the next test is easier.........

[Tinspur]

Awww man, I thought I was the only Spur around here :(

Anyhoo....

1) Orange-Appled
2) Love's Easy Tears
3) Lorelei
4) Oomingmak (instrumental)
5) Ice-Pulse

[lo-fi]

1. Pur
2. Summerhead
3. Orange appled
4. Heaven or las Vegas
5. Carolyns fingers

[postlibyan]

1. Little Spacey
2. Lorelei
3. Blue Bell Knoll
4. Hitherto
5. Pink Orange Red - twinloghts version

Although please note that this list fluctuates very often, and this is merely a "snapshot in time of what i have been listening to most frequently these past few months".

and yes, for some reason _The Pink Opaque_ has been in high rotation....

PJK

[debaser]

*Removed from archives*

[Pale Clouded]

Feet-Like Fins (oh hell all of Victorialand! I love that CD! My most favorite in da whole world!)

Kookaburra
Quisquose
Great Spangled Fritillary
The tinderbox (of a heart)

[Quisquose]

1 - know who you are at every age
2 - the itchy globo blow
3 - pink orange red
4 - aloysius
5 - fluffy tufts

[Pascal]

1 - Seekers
2 - Pink Orange Red
3 - Quisquose
4 - Orange Appled
5 - Fotzepolitic

and Amelia, Oomingmak, Fluffy tufts and above all...Song to the siren (Liz with This Mortal Coil, my so dear EP)

[TheGhost]

Five?! Ha ha ha ha ha. Ok, here are five of my often overlooked favorites. I'm a little late to the thread, but I don't care.

* The Thinner the Air
* Pandora
* Pitch the Baby
* A Kissed Out Red Floatboat
* The Ghost Has No Home

Yeah, so the last isn't strictly CT, but what a lovely piece of music.

[ossian]

today it'd be:

i wear your ring
carolyn's fingers
seekers who are lovers
aikea guinea
flock of soul

but this kind of top 5 is just impossible, there's always five more coming to mind...

[petroldarling]

um, at the moment

heaven or las vegas
mud and dark
carolyn's fingers
ivo
aikea guinea

[Jeek]

1. Crushed
2. Those Eyes That Mouth
3. Orange Appled
4. Aikea Guinea
5. Cherry-Coloured Funk - Otherness Mix

[petroldarling]

ah, orange appled is heavenly.

[inkbell]

orange appled
how to bring a blush to the snow
athol-brose
the itchy glowbo blow
the spangle maker

[Funkjedi]

1. Heaven or Las Vegas
2. Bluebeard
3. Pur
4. Half-Gifts (Twinlights)
5. Ice Pulse

I know everyone hates Half Gifts, but :music:

[Funkjedi]

Shit!

I forgot A Kissed Out Red Floatboat.

After all your posts, I'll definately go back and listen to Those Eyes That Mouth again.

[nipper]

Hi everyone, first post on the forum. My top five, bit of a tuffy. Here`s my current favourites for they do change.


1.Iceblink luck
2.Pitch the baby
3.Evangeline
4.Aloysius
5.Bluebeard

Cheers.

[pixel radar]

My top 5

1. Pink Orange Red
2. Melonella
3. Lorelei
4. How to bring a blush to the snow
5. From the Flagstones

[R.J.]

1. Carolyn's Fingers
2. Ella Megalast Burls Forever
3. Fotzepolitic
4. Lorelei
5. Lazy Calm

[fornasetti]

Sigh's Smell of Farewell
Persephone
Ella Megalast Burls Forever
Great Spangled Fritillary
Rilkean Heart

[Jeek]

Originally posted by nipper
Hi everyone, first post on the forum.

Hi Nipper - you should do an intro post in the Phoebe forum...

Welcome to the boards - hope you stick around!

[Rad]

I don't have all time faves. But at the moment I'd say...
Millimillenary
Kookaburra
(the to above are my current faves...)
One that will always be dear to me I'd have to say is...
50 50 Clown
and the last two....
Ah fuck this! How CAN you have favourates???

[halation]

Summerhead, Squeeze Wax, Blue Bell Knoll, Evangeline, Dials.

[kookaburra]

Originally posted by Radagast
I don't have all time faves. But at the moment I'd say...

Kookaburra


<<blushing>>

[Pale Clouded]

Back off Rad! He's mine!

roflmao

[Moya xx]

Sea, Swallow Me
Heaven or Las Vegas
In the Gold Dust Rush
Sugar Hiccup
Musette and Drums

Bubbling under though....sorry, I couldn't do JUST five!

Fotzepolitic
Five Ten Fiftyfold
Athol Brose
Seekers who are Lovers
Shallow then Halo

And it's all subject to change as soon as I hit "Submit Reply".

[aileanmac]

Changes all the time, but currently it is:

Pitch The Baby (Live remix by Mark Clifford)
Need-Fire
Feet Like Fins (Otherness remix)
Pink Orange Red
Sugar Hiccup

[Ghosty]

1- Aloysius
2- Watchlar
3- Lazy Calm
4- Fotzepolitic
5- Blue Bell Knoll

Bootlegs/ live:

1- Millimillenary (Vera Groningen '85)
2- Love's Easy Tears (London '86)
3- In Our Angelhood (BBC Sessions)
4- Pitch the Baby (Marc Clifford remix live)
5- Pepper-Tree (Vera Groningen '85)

[mystic]

5 tracks is really unfair but here's my list:

1. lazy calm
2. pearly dewdrops' srops
3. cico buff
4. from the flagstones
5. calfskin smack


I've got more - : )
a kissed out red floatboat, aikea guinea, serpentskirt, for phoebe still a baby, suckling the mender, orange appled, and the list goes on and on and on........

[mystic]

Sorry. please read drops against srops at no.2 in the above message.
Thanks!

[ScottL]

Originally posted by GhostFace

Bootlegs/ live:

1- Millimillenary (Vera Groningen '85)
...
5- Pepper-Tree (Vera Groningen '85) [/B]

I've only a very small collection of their bootleg material, but those versions are definitely cool. I wish she sang like that on the studio take of Millimillenary, I really like it. I like the effects on the 'lead guitar' sound too..

[Ghosty]

Originally posted by ScottL
I wish she sang like that on the studio take of Millimillenary, I really like it.
My sentiments exactly!

[Pale Clouded]

Originally posted by ScottL
I've only a very small collection of their bootleg material, but those versions are definitely cool. I wish she sang like that on the studio take of Millimillenary, I really like it. I like the effects on the 'lead guitar' sound too..

Scott, that's one of my favorite live recordings!

[Simonp]

:clap: 1. Frou Frou Foxes
2. Carolyn's Fingers
3. Know Who You Are At Every Age (always a fave)
4. Violaine (BBC live sessions)
5. Orange Appled

[lordjin]

Hi, I'm just getting my feet wet here. Nice place. I remember my first experience with CT back in the late 80's/early 90's. They sort of crawled under my skin with those incomprehensible vocalizations and those ethereal accompaniments, and before you knew it, Iwas hooked. I'm probably not as well-versed as some of you folks, but here are my favorites.

1. Heaven or Las Vegas
2. Evangeline
3. Aikea Guinea
4. Lorelei
5. Tishbite

Of course it's really not practical to put together a top five considering the breadth of their work, but these five really do it for me.

[Pale Clouded]

Originally posted by lordjin
Hi, I'm just getting my feet wet here. Nice place. I remember my first experience with CT back in the late 80's/early 90's. They sort of crawled under my skin with those incomprehensible vocalizations and those ethereal accompaniments, and before you knew it, Iwas hooked. I'm probably not as well-versed as some of you folks, but here are my favorites.

1. Heaven or Las Vegas
2. Evangeline
3. Aikea Guinea
4. Lorelei
5. Tishbite

Of course it's really not practical to put together a top five considering the breadth of their work, but these five really do it for me.

Hello Lordjin! Please stop by the newbie section and introduce yourself so you can get a proper Hello. :)

[Snow_Blush]

All right, here I go:

1. How To Bring A Blush To The Snow
2. In Our Angelhood
3. Shallow Then Halo
4. Beatrix
5. Alice