The Ultimate Band List For Cocteau Twins Fans

[mmmender]

We've had similar threads about this topic before, but they're all scattered in different threads. Let's make one definite list of other bands that you would recommend to fans of Cocteau Twins. Include bands that you like and think other fans of CT would also like, and maybe bands you think have a similar sound/vocals or bands you would consider to be in the same genre as Cocteau Twins. Once everyone has made their contributions, I'll add them all to one big list and keep it in the first post of this thread for easy reference for other forum visitors.

ULTIMATE BAND LIST FOR COCTEAU TWINS FANS
Abba
A.R.Kane
Bel Canto
Beautiful Pea Green Boat
Breathless
Kate Bush
Catherine Wheel
Caterwaul
Cranes
Curve
Cranberries
Julee Cruise
Chapterhouse
Danielle Dax
Dead Can Dance
Engineers
Fatima Mansions, The
Goldfrapp
Guthrie, Robin
Heavenly Bodies
Hooverphonic
Jesus and Mary Chain, The
Kitchens of Distinction
Lush
Love Spirals Downwards
Lovesliescrushing
Mercury Rev
Mahogany
Mandalay
Mazzy Star
Mimi Goese (the voice of Hugo Largo)
My Bloody Valentine
Mouth Music
Orange
Pale Saints
Perfume Tree
Ulrich Schanuss
Shelleyan Orphan
Slowdive
Sneakster
Swallow
Sigur Ros
Swervedriver
Sundays, The
Siouxsie & The Banshees
This Mortal Coil
Tegan Northwood
Faye WongLIST CREATED BY: mmmender, watchlar, Angel, randomrob, halation, elisa, sean

[wAtChLaR]

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/strangeandmoving/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/Lush.gif

[Angel]

The Jesus and Mary Chain
Swervedriver
Catherine Wheel
Mercury Rev

[randomrob]

Bel Canto

[wAtChLaR]

mmmm bel canto!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!

[halation]

Mazzy Star

[wAtChLaR]

CURVE
http://homepage.mac.com/miniglenn/krud/dave/KRUD%20Photos/curve.jpg

[wAtChLaR]

HOOVERPHONIC
http://www.rockritic.ro/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/hooverphonic_2.jpg

[randomrob]

Hugo Largo

[wAtChLaR]

abba

yes abba...listen to HOLV (album) again and tell me it's not there...
http://xobineskipatruska.no.sapo.pt/abba%20ridiculo.jpg

[randomrob]

Orange Appled technically counts as AbbaSpawn imo

[elisa]

The Sundays, Cranes, early Cranberries, Danielle Dax, A.R.Kane, This Mortal Coil, Breathless, Mimi Goese (the voice of Hugo Largo), Sigur Ros...

A few lesser known bands... Heavenly Bodies, Beautiful Pea Green Boat, Orange, Love Spirals Downwards, Lovesliescrushing, Caterwaul...

[wAtChLaR]

mmm Heavenly Bodies RAINS ON ME Robin Guthrie dance remix is hot!!!!!!!!!!!

[elisa]

I just looked at my own damn "remembering the '90s" thread and thought of a few more: Pale Saints, Kitchens of Distinction

[randomrob]

Mouth Music

[randomrob]

Ghostface Killah






kidding

[elisa]

Mouth Music

Yes, especially their first album with Talitha McKenzie on vocals. Their version of Fraoch A Ronaigh, that she sung live in a stairwell, is absolutely haunting.

[Sean_Montgomery]

Mahogany
Julee Cruise
Mandalay
Goldfrapp
Sneakster
Ulrich Schanuss
Kate Bush
Faye Wong
Engineers
Swallow
Tegan Northwood
Perfume Tree

[Tinspur]

Violet Indiana (naturally)
Wolfgang Press
Seefeel
Berntholer
The Innocence Mission
The Durutti Column
Amp
Lowlife
Lisa Gerrard
The Hope Blister

[Dpressed]

2 that haven't been mentioned

Cowboy Junkies
Massive Attack

p.s. Please remove Abba

[etc etc]

Chameleons UK
Agree with K.O.D and Merc Rev too..
Sparklehorse---because Linkous will tickle your ears like RG
PIL w/ K.L. on guitar
Good DUB i.e. Mikey Dread, Roots Radics, Yellowman(yeah, just listen to Frosty and Smile/Tranquil Eye disc, spliff baby! Kingston Bass for sure)
Clash Sandinista-yep, lots going on in the mix---If Music Could Talk, Rebel Waltz, Version Pardner, Shepherds Delight, Mensforth Hill, The Street Parade, Lose This Skin
What the hell, Roxy Music Manifesto, For Your Pleasure (The Bogus Man)...Mother of Pearl
Eno-Another Green World, Before and After Science
Crimson-Discipline----and a. belew for you guitar freaks
XTC-Black Sea, English Settlement and Apple Venus II
Marjorie Fair
Lips-Soft Bulletin
Beth Orton-Central Reservation
Ivy and Stars, but they don't come close to la Liz

[dynamine]

Wolfmother

[Bettina]

Godspeed You Black Emperor

[TonyB]

Echo And The Bunnymen - try Ocean Rain for starters
XTC - Black Sea is the most accessible
The Sundays - Reading, Writing And Arithmatic
The Cure - Pornograhy (very dark mid eighties)
Mcalmont And Butler
And my favourite album by a band other than Cocteau Twins is Teenage Fanclub's 'Grand Prix'

[randomrob]

The Ocean Blue

[ludwig]

Explosions in the sky

[Gemini]

Quiety Torn (with Mimi Goese)

[rilkean]

The Autumns
The Czars
Tori Amos

[Bettina]

Cortney Tidwell

[RUFH0USE]

Some great discs I picked up over the years because of comparisons to the Cocteau Twins.

Waterlillies- Envoluptuosity
Woob - 1194
CocoRosie- La Mason de Mon Reve

Here's a group who recorded one my favorite EPs of all time- and perhaps the most CT-like of all:

Ecstasy Of St. Theresa: Fluidtrance Centauri

[mmmender]

The Ocean BlueLOVE LOVE LOVE their album "Cerulean" - outstanding!

[shoegazr]

so i haven't read all posts here, so sorry if i repeat any bands...they aren't necessarily cocteau-esque, but they're dreamy and "should" be heard by ct fans...

*the moon seven times
*pacific uv
*all in the golden afternoon
*bark psychosis
*transient waves
*stars of the lid
*picture center
*monster movie
*lovesliescrushing
*astrobrite
*the land of nod
*labradford
*johann johannsson
*gas
*disco inferno
*coastal

[CastingCat]

Apollo Heights

Album:
White Music for Black People

Track:
EVERLASTING GOBBSTOPPER

Anybody heard of this band and/or song?

[ResetTwo]

Chameleons UK
Agree with K.O.D and Merc Rev too..
Sparklehorse---because Linkous will tickle your ears like RG
PIL w/ K.L. on guitar
Good DUB i.e. Mikey Dread, Roots Radics, Yellowman(yeah, just listen to Frosty and Smile/Tranquil Eye disc, spliff baby! Kingston Bass for sure)
Clash Sandinista-yep, lots going on in the mix---If Music Could Talk, Rebel Waltz, Version Pardner, Shepherds Delight, Mensforth Hill, The Street Parade, Lose This Skin
What the hell, Roxy Music Manifesto, For Your Pleasure (The Bogus Man)...Mother of Pearl
Eno-Another Green World, Before and After Science
Crimson-Discipline----and a. belew for you guitar freaks
XTC-Black Sea, English Settlement and Apple Venus II
Marjorie Fair
Lips-Soft Bulletin
Beth Orton-Central Reservation
Ivy and Stars, but they don't come close to la Liz
I second Chameleons and Public Image Ltd. for the reckless, unrestrained vocals.

[Gemini]

Laura Veirs

There's something about her that just fits in so well with the Cocteau Twins

[Fritter]

Bohren And Der Club Of Gore
Rhys Chatham
O Yuki Conjugate

[Baddy2shoos]

Fennesz
Susumu Yokota

[Fritter]

Taku Sugimoto
Mazzacane Connors, Loren
Watson, Chris
Haza, Ofra
Kalsoum, Om
Laraaji
Eno, Brian
Bryars, Gavin - not the Joseph Holbrooke stuff, but Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet & The Sinking Of the Titanic
Necks, The
Coil
Throbbing Gristle
Nurse With Wound
Cage, John

(yes, the last three all use noise as music too)

oh, and

Sylvian, David
Fripp, Robert

[Lyga001]

First of all, I uploaded some cocteau-like music in MP3-SWEPT & DIALS subforum:

http://www.cocteautwinsforums.com/showthread.php5?t=19198

And my list of nice dreampop/indie/shoegaze/folk/electronic bands, which I has on my hard disk (each of them a little bit cocteautwinsy, I think):


Amelie (http://www.myspace.com/ameleia)

Agua de Annique (http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Agua+de+Annique)

Artesia (http://www.myspace.com/artesia1983)

Art in Manila (http://www.last.fm/music/Art+in+Manila)

Au Revoir Simone (http://www.last.fm/music/Au+Revoir+Simone)

Autumn's Grey Solace (http://www.myspace.com/autumnsgreysolace)

Bat For Lashes (http://www.last.fm/music/Bat+For+Lashes)

Beach House (http://www.last.fm/music/Beach+House)

Bjork (http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%C3%B6rk)

Blonde Redhead (http://www.last.fm/music/Blonde+Redhead)

Chinawoman (http://www.last.fm/music/Chinawoman)

Claire Voyant (http://www.last.fm/music/Claire+Voyant)

Colour Kane (http://www.last.fm/music/Colour+Kane)

Eliza Lumley (http://www.last.fm/music/Eliza+Lumley)

Elysian Fields (http://www.last.fm/music/Elysian+Fields)

Emiliana Torrini (http://www.last.fm/music/Emiliana+Torrini)

Ferns (http://www.myspace.com/fernfrens)

Flat 7 (http://www.myspace.com/flat7)

Fovea Hex (http://www.myspace.com/foveahex)

The Gathering (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Gathering)

Gravenhurst (http://www.last.fm/music/Gravenhurst)

Gregory and the Hawk (http://www.myspace.com/gregoryandthehawk)

His Name Is Alive (http://www.last.fm/music/His+Name+Is+Alive)

Honey Is Cool (http://www.last.fm/music/Honey+is+Cool)

The Hope Blister (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Hope+Blister)

Howling Bells (http://www.last.fm/music/Howling+Bells)

Husky Rescue (http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Husky+Rescue)

Language of Flowers (http://www.last.fm/music/Language+of+Flowers)

Loquat (http://www.myspace.com/loquat)

Madredeus (http://www.last.fm/music/Madredeus)

Mellonta Tauta (http://www.last.fm/music/Mellonta+Tauta)

Mira (http://www.myspace.com/mira)

Mirah (http://www.last.fm/music/Mirah)

Miranda Sex Garden (http://www.last.fm/music/Miranda+Sex+Garden)

Misty Blue (http://www.last.fm/music/Misty+Blue)

Mono (http://www.last.fm/music/Mono)

Movietone (http://www.last.fm/music/Movietone)

My Brightest Diamond (http://www.last.fm/music/My+Brightest+Diamond)

Mum (http://www.last.fm/music/MUM)

Old Magic Pallas (http://www.last.fm/music/Old+Magic+Pallas)

Patrick Watson (www.last.fm/music/Patrick+Watson)

Pia Fraus (www.last.fm/music/Pia+Fraus)

Piana (http://www.last.fm/music/Piana)

Pooma (http://www.last.fm/music/Pooma)

Portishead (http://www.last.fm/music/Portishead)

RF & Lili De La Mora (http://www.myspace.com/rfandlili)

Rose Chronicles (http://www.last.fm/music/Rose+Chronicles)

Saloon (http://www.myspace.com/saloononline)

Sia (http://www.last.fm/music/Sia)

Sixpence None the Richer (http://www.last.fm/music/Sixpence+None+the+Richer)

School Of Emotional Engineering (http://www.last.fm/music/School+Of+Emotional+Engineering)

Shannon Wright (http://www.last.fm/music/Shannon+Wright)

Sol Seppy (http://www.last.fm/music/Sol+Seppy)

Sonic Youth (http://www.last.fm/music/Sonic+Youth)

Speaking Silence (http://www.last.fm/music/Speaking+Silence)

Stereolab (http://www.last.fm/music/Stereolab)

Stoa (http://www.last.fm/music/Stoa)

A Sunny Day In Glasgow (http://www.last.fm/music/A+Sunny+Day+In+Glasgow)

Tacoma Radar (http://www.last.fm/music/Tacoma+Radar)

Tearwave (http://www.last.fm/music/Tearwave)

Under Byen (http://www.last.fm/music/Under+Byen)

Virginia Astley (http://www.last.fm/music/Virginia+Astley)

Xiu Xiu (http://www.last.fm/music/Xiu+Xiu)

Yann Tiersen (http://www.last.fm/music/Yann+Tiersen)

[postlibyan]

Apollo Heights

Album:
White Music for Black People

Track:
EVERLASTING GOBBSTOPPER

Anybody heard of this band and/or song? apparently they used to be The Veldt, who opened for CT years ago. that is a great song -- one of my faves of the year. the album, on the other hand, sucks eggs. that one song is the only fully realized idea the band had. the rest of the record is sketches, demos, and "things they should have spent more time on". IMO, of course.

as to CT-like bands, you're forgetting Bethany Curve (http://www.bethanycurve.com/home.html).
remember their set of CT covers at the LA Fest? sublime... however, it appears their website hasn't been upadted in years. i wonder if the band has gone "dormant"..... sigh.

also, there was a Mexican dreampop act named Nona Delichas that i reviewed (http://www.evilsponge.org/albums/Nona%20Delichas__AiresDeBocacalle.htm) a while back. i just got email from them (in Spanish -- i had to get Google to translate it!) inviting me to see them play in Guadalajara in some new act... so another deceased band. but check out that record if you can find it.

Elisa:
Beautiful Pea Green Boat

awesome band name. do you have a link?

PJK

[dirigibl]

Great list so far! I'd add:

Halou
Siddal
Basque
Mercurine
Delays
Lycia

...and, uh, Blood Ruby ;)

[sibrianktru]

Hmmm

Brian Eno
Slowdive
The Sundays
DCD
The Swirlies
Siouxsie
Nico
Kate Bush

although i like a bunch of crap like..
Gram Parsons/ Flying Burrito Brothers
Josef K
Jane Birkin
Joao Gilberto
The Gunclub
Felt
etc etc

most music is good music. mmender, is that you in the avatar?

[sibrianktru]

oh yeah! and my band. were a bit of a farce but if you try real real hard and turn the speakers up to 11 you might be able to hear a but of cocteau influence... sans beautiful vocals of course

http://www.myspace.com/holistichealers

[shoegazr]

a few more i haven't seen mentioned...

roy montgomery
fridge
william basinski
tin foil star
gnac
crescent
eau claire
land of nod
soul whirling somewhere
jessamine
bowery electric
monster movie
amp
pan american
all natural lemon & lime flavors
guitar
global communication
her space holiday
charles atlas
color filter
sonna

[moeism]

Strange Boutique and early Xymox

both so dreamy!

[Romeo]

Anyone remembers The Heart Throbs
The shoegaze likes of Adorable or Ride
New weird folkies like Joanna Newsom or Marissa Nadler
And Anna Domino should not be forgotten.

[cristian]

Galaxie 500 (I think they toured with Cocteau Twins once)
and..

The Beach Boys, for their highly melodic sound and great vocal harmonies.

[Bettina]

Abba - I would love to have heard a Cocteau cover of Name of the Game.

[plink]

antony and the johnsons

blonde redhead

[PearlyDew]

A few others not mentioned yet:

The Changelings
Low
Happy Rhodes
Jane Siberry
Velour 100

[Ghosty]

Orange.

[winters]

Giant Drag
Lisa Germano

[dreemkill]

ill 3rd the bel canto.
how about ride? lush?

violet indiana?
local NYC band, "I love you airlines" http://www.myspace.com/iloveyouairlines [shameless plug for friends band]

mmmm bel canto!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dreemkill]

this mortal coil?

[zepolant]

I'm sure they've been mentioned at some point, but if not

Rose Chronicles
Mistle Thrush
An April March
This Ascension
Velocity Girl
Kitchens Of Distinction
Film School
Denali (now Ambulette)
Asobi Seksu
Madder Rose


and this really great band named Cocteau Twins :heart:

[gladwin]

How about some specific albums likely to appeal to Cocteau Twins fans?

Butterfly Child - Onomatopoeia (1993)
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool (1991)
Field Mice - For Keeps (1991)
Fuel - The Back of This Beyond (1987)
Global Communication - 76:14 (1994)
Kirsty Hawkshaw - O < U > T (1998)
The Lotus Eaters - No Sense of Sin (1984)
Lowlife - Diminuendo (1987)
Miranda Sex Garden - Carnival of Souls (2000)
Northern Picture Library - Alaska (1995)
The Passions - Thirty Thousand Feet Over China (1981)
Quigley - 1969 Till God Knows When (1998)
Ulrich Schnauss - Faraway Trains Passing By (2001)
Shelleyan Orphan - Helleborine (1987)
Spoonfed Hybrid - Spoonfed Hybrid (1993)

Plus anything by July Skies - see http://www.julyskies.com/

[Bettina]

How about some specific albums likely to appeal to Cocteau Twins fans?
The Passions - Thirty Thousand Feet Over China (1981)


I like this album a lot but it took a few listens to get there. I think because I'm in Love with a German Filmstar is such a fantastic song, it eclipses everything else. This is a shame as there's some good tunes here.

[gladwin]

I like this album a lot but it took a few listens to get there. I think because I'm in Love with a German Filmstar is such a fantastic song, it eclipses everything else. This is a shame as there's some good tunes here.

I'm probably too close to the album, after all these years, to imagine coming to it fresh after listening to the Cocteau Twins, instead of the other way round.

But I'd recommend that anyone lucky enough to find a copy starts with German Film Star, and then works through the more twinkly guitar numbers (Alice's Song, Someone Special, The Swimmer, The Square) through the more straight-ahead songs (Runaways, Bachelor Girls, Strange Affair) and then enjoy the two hypnotic side-closers Skin Deep and Small Stones.

[Athol Brose]

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for me, also a few other old scottish bands like the Soup Dragons, The Pastels, Malcolm Middleton, Arab Strap.

Sound track to Vampyros Lesbos, Duritti Column, The Slits, The Banshees obviously the most influential on the Cocteau's, Mum, Sigur Ros, Stereolab, Gus Gus.

All good obscure but delightful bands and musicians. I would heartily recommend to but any Roisin Murphy material and to see her live.

[Wildhearts]

A great list so far,
some bands not yet mentioned;

Stina Nordenstam (especially track 'Ask the mountains' with Vangellis).
Banco De Gaia (especially the joyeous album 'The magical sounds of').
Rumskib (A new band who SO wanna be the Twins, and not too shabby neither).
Claudia Brucken (single 'Kiss like ether' is heavenly).
Nina Hagen (Album 'Nun Sex Monk Rock' for its nutty post-punk eccenttricity).

[paulr]

Portal

[elisa]

Elisa:
Beautiful Pea Green Boat

awesome band name. do you have a link?

PJK

Sorry, I just noticed this. All I could really find was this: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Beautiful+Pea+Green+Boat

I first discovered BPGB on a Doctor Death compilation on C'est La Mort records (which was sort of Louisiana's answer to 4AD), and then heard a few more of their songs on other goth-type comps. They're vaguely Cocteau-ish, on the more ethereal, high vocals tip, with some folksy/medieval elements (like using the occasional trad medieval instrument).

For folks into Xymox, you might check out Handful of Snowdrops, another C'est La Mort signing, who, similarly to Beautiful Pea Green Boat, had a short-lived existence.

[gustav]

LUSH

http://sendmedeadflowers.com/uploaded_images/Lush_photo-750316.jpg

[Kazoo]

"Spooky" by Lush is one of my all time favorite albums. Something to do with the production perhaps...........? (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

Insides-"Euphoria"....I wish they had put out another album as good as this one.

I'm very much into Clinic these days when I want to rock out. I like the way they go from noisy speed punk to high school slow dance with such ease.

Also, I'm eagerly awaiting the Breeders new album. I love Kim Deal's simple aesthetic and breathy vocal style.

The last 2 aren't exactly in the CT's style, but that's what makes the world go round.

[spiderlocks]

lida husik

[spiderlocks]

oh and rosewater elizabeth

[edward]

abba

yes abba...listen to HOLV (album) again and tell me it's not there...
http://xobineskipatruska.no.sapo.pt/abba%20ridiculo.jpg


I swear to Christ just today I was lisyening to HOLV at work, and my co-worker asked me if it was ABBA. That's just freaky. I never heard it before, but now the universe is forcing me to make a connection.

[edward]

Stereolab!

[spiderlocks]

I have worked with these guys check em out, they are called Kan nal...worderful music
www.kannal.org

[ottonomy]

Is there a reason no one has mentioned The Glee Club? Will I be chastised mercilessly for having done it? Their affection for Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine apparently drew them to 4AD. They didn't last long, but they made some pretty sounds. I think.

http://homepage.mac.com/ottonomy/.Pictures/Temporary/GleeClubMine.jpg

[Hope Leaves]

Elysian Fields (http://www.last.fm/music/Elysian+Fields)


One of my favourite bands of all time. LOVE LOVE LOVE Jennifer Charles's lazy pur.


Fovea Hex (http://www.myspace.com/foveahex)


Another one I love. Stumbled across it while wondering what on earth the Mellow Candle vocalists were up to since "Swaddling Songs" came out. Did a search, found out abour Fovea Hex, read the list of co-conspirators, many of whom I admire as musicians, and just had to get me some!!!

I also have a soft spot for Sophie Barker. I'm sure I'm not alone in that. :nod:

Another one of my favourites is Swedish band Paatos (Petronella Nettermalm has a lovely voice!!!).

http://www.paatos.com/

I'd recommend listening to samples from the "music" section of their site, since their myspace only has songs from the live album. (Try "Tea", "Holding On", "Gasoline").

Absolutely love this band.

[Heaven]

I am shocked and ashamed to discover, that no one, not one single person, has listed the Trashcan Sinatras.

So there. Trashcan Sinatras. Love them. Their last "Weightlifting" from 2004 was magnificent. But the album to get first is "Cake" from 1989.

I also reiterate every reference to The Sundays as much as humanly possible. I saw them in 1993 and they were splendiferously marvelous. Slightly more engaging than Liz, Robin, and Simon were that year when I saw them as well.

[tigermilk]

Rumskib (A new band who SO wanna be the Twins, and not too shabby neither).

great band, especially love the song 'hearts on fire' :thumbsup:

[tigermilk]

bowery electric
&
the voices

both in heavy rotation right now!

[calfskinSMK]

Abecedarians, Blue Nile, Blue in Heaven, Rumskin, Hammock, Aberdeen. Auburn Lull, Adrian Borland, And Also The Trees, The Arms of Someone New, Autumn Fair, Bill Nelson, Brian Granger, For Against, Half String, House of Love, John Foxx, Languis, The Lotus Eaters, The Lucy Show, Sad Lovers & Giants, manual, malory, Martyn Bates/Eyeless in Gaza, Northern Picture Library, The Orchids, The Telling, Tim Story, The Wild Swans, The Wake(Factory Records) .....

that's a quick run through my ipod....

[Mr. ED]

Abecedarians, Blue Nile, Blue in Heaven, Rumskin, Hammock, Aberdeen. Auburn Lull, Adrian Borland, And Also The Trees, The Arms of Someone New, Autumn Fair, Bill Nelson, Brian Granger, For Against, Half String, House of Love, John Foxx, Languis, The Lotus Eaters, The Lucy Show, Sad Lovers & Giants, manual, malory, Martyn Bates/Eyeless in Gaza, Northern Picture Library, The Orchids, The Telling, Tim Story, The Wild Swans, The Wake(Factory Records) .....

that's a quick run through my ipod....


Great stuff. LOVE For Against, Half String etc...

tsk tsk people...

The Lost Patrol

http://www.thelostpatrol.com
http://www.myspace.com/lostpatrol

[Plain Tiger]

great band, especially love the song 'hearts on fire' :thumbsup:

That's a great song, it's on "The Secret Garden, Vol 1" compilation: "nu-gaze," the new wave of shoegaze."

[QUOTE=Mr. ED;542598]

The Lost Patrol

Of course, Ed!

And let's not forget

Soundpool

[themagus1]

If I may,

While most of the following artists aren't of the CT ilk, they still invoke in me a similiarly serene reverie that most folks would describe as being "blissed out". So here goes:
The Sea and Cake
Lush (Of Course)
Yo La Tengo
Tsunami (Jennifer Toomey is a force of nature)
Opus III (Mainly Guru Mother)
Fryderyk Chopin
Stereolab (Equally as prolific)
The Ocean Blue
Astrud Gilberto
Black Tambourine
The Sundays (Of Course)
Slowdive
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
Nick Drake
The Red House Painters
Slumber Party
Dissolve
The Meeting Places
Tristeza
Helium
Belle and Sebastian
Chet Baker
And Well, I Could Go On, But....

[calfskinSMK]

i forgot DestroyAllDreamers. They are instrumental cocteau twin-ish sounding. A lot like Dif Juz too.

[by the sea]

pGldM85dXYs

[qedemel]

Good god! Amazing, sad, funny and terrifying. Just the mix I love!

[noboybands]

Another vote for The Delays - http://www.thedelays.co.uk/ - my favourite band of the last few years. And The Editors, especially if you like Garlands

Old school: Shelleyan Orphan, Lush, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance (also Lisa and Brendan's solo stuff), Kate Bush, Hugo Largo, The Innocence Mission, Cowboy Junkies

[tigermilk]

Good stuff Marc (aka Themagus1)
Yo La Tengo, Black Tambourine, Slowdive, Belle and Sebastian

Nice stuff here. 4 bands I absolutely adore!!

I think every Cocteau Fan would LOVE Slowdive :)

[ShanePablo]

Tom Waits, the whole rain dogs album is amazing

Mano Chau, Me gustas tu

hank williams> my buckets got a hole in it

Other than that, I'm basically tired of that new wave goth junk, I wore out my tapes by the 90's. Very few bands stuck, neworder, love and rockets, smiths, but not cure, depeche, I cant stand them anymore. It makes my eyes vomit

[treMolo]

Abba?! Ehh...

[FERLAY]

St. Etienne!

[davespear]

Good stuff Marc (aka Themagus1)
Yo La Tengo, Black Tambourine, Slowdive, Belle and Sebastian

Nice stuff here. 4 bands I absolutely adore!!

I think every Cocteau Fan would LOVE Slowdive :)

Right then, I think I'll check out slowdive on youtube.........L8rs as the youth of today say..........