The Perfect Compilation

[floatboat]

I'm currently trying to put together my perfect ct compilation - too many brilliant tracks to choose from! HELP!

what would you put on yours?

So far mine consists of (subject to change)

carolyns fingers
orange appled
pur
alice
crushed
fluffy tufts
melonella
loves easy tears
a kissed out red floatboat - :D


am really struggling for what else to choose - would be great to get your ideas :)

[watchlar]

nice choices floatboat...my favorite compilation:

my love paramour
those eyes that mouth
orange appled
high monkey monk
ella megalast burls forever
i wear your ring
watchlar
three swept
mud & dark
Ups
round
how to bring a blush to the snow

[E-Lo]

I love to start of CT compilations with Dials, then launch into Kookaburra (nice contrast)

Then its usually something like:
Carolyn's Fingers
Orange Appled
Watchlar
Cico Buff
Primitive Heart
Pandora
Blue Bell Knoll
Sugar Hiccup

[floatboat]

how could i forget watchlar?! - that's the next one on - ty ;)

[steven]

I just made another one the other day.....

intro (twinlights)
round
calfskin smack (bbc)
sugar hiccup
kookaburra
eyes are mosaics
cherry coloured funk
from the flagstones
oomingmak
liz acapela
smile
iceblink luck
mellonella
pearly dewdrops drops
pur
outro

[floatboat]

nice one stephen :)

pearly dewdrops is a must have for me i think, love it (and 1st ct track i ever heard courtesy of the fabulous john peel)

[floatboat]

sorry i spelt your name wrong! :blush:

[santeras]

Havent done one of these yet as I dont have all the albums but this'd be a start...

Orange Appled
From the Flagstones
Serpentskirt
Iceblink Luck
Suckling The Mender
HOLV
Sugar Hiccup
Frou Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires

oh theres too many, I give up :)

[simon alexander]

Would make a lovely album Floatboat, but a bit too tilted towards the Twins more 'feminine' and blissed out repertoire, I think (of which you presumably most highly approve). To be authentic, any such compilation would have to be representative across the full scale of their work, surely. Off the top of me 'ead,

1. Grail Overfloweth
2. Wax and Wane
3. My Love Paramour
4. Musette and Drums
5. From the Flagstones
6. The Spangle Maker
7. Lorelei
8. Donimo
9. Sigh's Smell of Farewell
10. Those Eyes That Mouth
11. Lazy Calm
12. Throughout the Dark Months of April and May
13. Ella Megalast Burls Forever
14. Carolyn's Fingers

Er, can we make this a double album compilation?

[simon alexander]

God, how could I forget Pearly Dewdrops?

[simon alexander]

And the enitre Aikea Guinea EP.

Fuck it, it'll have to be a triple album, that's all.

Would be easier to say what one could safely leave off without too much heartache.

I've been in love with 'Little Spacey' for years as well.

[icesore]

cherry colored funk
tranquil eye
carolyn's finger
pur
bluebeard(acoustic)
primitive heart
mud and dark
icepulse
circling girl
half gifts
calfskin smack

and more...hard to choose... :headbutt:

[Brett]

Originally posted by simon alexander
And the enitre Aikea Guinea EP.



I was watching the England training session, I mean friendly match last night and I thought......wouldn't Aikea Guinea make a great national anthem for somewhere. Maybe Guinea?




I need help!:D

[someotherian]

Originally posted by simon alexander
To be authentic, any such compilation would have to be representative across the full scale of their work, surely.
who said it had to be authentic?
i think the point was to suggest a collection of personal favourite tracks.

[simon alexander]

I submit that a 'perfect' Cocteaus compilation implies some kind of completion or, at least, a gesture toward 'the definitive', m'lud, if it is to lay claim to said perfection.

Have the members (?mmmenders) of the Jury reached a verdict?

[watchlar]

colour me baffled

[Phil Lawton]

Have the members (?mmmenders) of the Jury reached a verdict?

They have indeed, m'lud.

Buy a DVD-burner and copy the whole lot onto one DVD.

The defence rests and asks for clemency from the chair (that's the big, overstuffed one with all of the loose change and old bits of chocolate down the back).

[someotherian]

Originally posted by simon alexander
I submit that a 'perfect' Cocteaus compilation implies some kind of completion or, at least, a gesture toward 'the definitive', m'lud, if it is to lay claim to said perfection.
oh how i wish i could type what i want to type...

failing that:
i think the original point of this thread was to list your favourite tracks for you own personal perfect compilation, which is, by its very nature, a purely objective thing.
so the notion of 'completion' is irrelevant (except maybe to the person choosing the tracks).

[watchlar]

roflmao

[dprid]

Other than saying Pur is my absolute favourite, I'd really struggle to put together a list because Cocteau music has many moods and different tracks appeal at different times. Heck, I still hear different things in them 20 years on depending on my mood. So to me it's a very subjective question, and there can be no right or wrong*, or even shades of right or wrong. It's so intensely personal that I'd doubt that any two people here will produce the same list.

* unless you include tracks from Victorialand of course - that's just plain wrong :D

[Lucibelle]

Originally posted by dprid

* unless you include tracks from Victorialand of course - that's just plain wrong :D
:eek: WHAT???? How can you NOT include tracks from Victorialand??? What's wrong with Victorialand??? Are your ears ok? Do you need a lobotomy?? :D Do you need extensive therapy???

tsk! tsk! What IS this world coming to? :(

[simon alexander]

Originally posted by someotherian

oh how i wish i could type what i want to type...

failing that:
i think the original point of this thread was to list your favourite tracks for you own personal perfect compilation, which is, by its very nature, a purely objective thing.
so the notion of 'completion' is irrelevant (except maybe to the person choosing the tracks).

So why not just speak your mind Mr Otherian; you'll feel better for it.

I was just making the fairly uncontroversial point that the 'perfect' Cocteaus comp. (or as near as dammit) ought to be representative of the full gamut of their genius.

[Lucibelle]

The perfect Cocteaus compilation is relative. It means different things to different people.

[someotherian]

well that's the point i was making.

as for speaking my mind simon, moderatorship prevents me from saying certain things, as all the mods and administrator are bound to maintain a certain level of decorum.

[Phil Lawton]

as all the mods and administrator are bound to maintain a certain level of decorum.

I just choked on my bacon sandwich.

Did you type that with a straight face? Or did you use the traditional finger method?

[floatboat]

Gosh.....

I just thought it would be interesting (and fun) to hear what other peoples 'must haves' would be...! I wouldn't expect the suggestions to be identical - and, yes - it does depend a lot on your mood at the time....

:eek: the first time I've had the courage to start a new thread and look what happens!! Perhaps I didn't phrase the question very well....??

[Phil Lawton]

the first time I've had the courage to start a new thread and look what happens!! Perhaps I didn't phrase the question very well....??

Float

You phrased it perfectly. Passions run high in here about favourites/least liked/best of, etc.

Not so long ago, Ian threatened to jump off of a Wendy House because someone had the temerity to suggest that the cover to "Love's Easy Tears" didn't resemble his pet turbot, as he had believed for years.

It took four of us three days to talk him down, aided mainly by the false promise of a pair of Liz's soiled pants and a 'Buy One, Get One Free' voucher for "Salamanders 'R' Us".

So don't worry.

[Lucibelle]

Originally posted by someotherian
all the mods and administrator are bound to maintain a certain level of decorum.


Damn!! :(

[simon alexander]

Originally posted by someotherian
well that's the point i was making.

as for speaking my mind simon, moderatorship prevents me from saying certain things, as all the mods and administrator are bound to maintain a certain level of decorum.

I'm glad I'm an "immoderator" then -ho ho!

Re relativism and all that, I say: killing a liberal a day keeps democracy at bay!

[someotherian]

Originally posted by Phil Lawton


I just choked on my bacon sandwich.

Did you type that with a straight face? Or did you use the traditional finger method?
phil, all i meant by that is.. the mods aren't supposed to get into fights with people etc. - after all we're supposed to help keep the peace, not disturb it.
and by decorum i didn't mean not swearing and talking about sex, if that's what you were wondering.

and luci, don't sound so disappointed, you're supposed to know all this! :D

[Lucibelle]

Originally posted by someotherian

and luci, don't sound so disappointed, you're supposed to know all this! :D
I know, I just forget about 50 times a day. Hormones, you know. ;)

[someotherian]

Originally posted by Lucibelle

Hormones, you know. ;)
probably, if you show her a good time.. ;)

[Phil Lawton]

Or she would if you forgot to leave the money on the dresser in the morning.

It's always been my experience, anyhow.

[Pale Clouded]

Originally posted by Phil Lawton
Or she would if you forgot to leave the money on the dresser in the morning.

It's always been my experience, anyhow.

roflmao

[Tinspur]

would be:

Ice-pulse
Bluebeard
Winter Wonderland
Plain Tiger
Heaven or Las Vegas
Dials
Oomingmak (Instrumental)
Love's Easy Tears
Orange-Appled
Lorelei
Three-Swept
Violaine
Serpentskirt
Half-Gift


- Spur