Your Top 20 CT tune'age

[Sireniya]

I don't know if this has ever been posted, and if it has then I apologise!! If not, then I ask, What are your Top-20 favorite Cocteau Twins songs ever? It doesn't have to be an entire Top-20; it could just be 20 favorite songs of theirs that you love. Doesn't matter which version either. And feel free to note an honorable mention or two.

Here's mine [at the moment--because, after the first 10, tends to usually change at any time]--

1|Beatrix
2|Peppermint Pig [12"]
3|Evangeline
4|Violaine [BBC Session]
5|The Tinderbox [of a Heart]
6|Know Who You Are At Every Age
7|Wax and Wane [BBC Session]
8|Alice
9|In Our Angelhood [BBC Session]
10|Theft, and Wandering Around Lost
11|Pepper-Tree
12|Summerhead
13|Blind Dumb Deaf
14|Eperdu
15|How to Bring a Blush to the Snow
16|Musette and Drums
17|From the Flagstones [BBC Session #2]
18|Iceblink-Luck
19|Circling Girl [Original Mix]
20|Need-Fire
*Honorable Mention*|My Hue and Cry

[Ghosty]

I couldn't give you a top twenty, because it changes all the time, but these are twenty of my perennial favourites:



Ivo
Aloysius
Lazy Calm
Pearly Dewdrops-Drops (12" version)
In Our Angelhood [BBC Session] (yes! way better than the album version))
Garlands
Eggs and Their Shells
Love's Easy Tears
Donimo
Blue Bell Knoll
Pitch The Baby
Fluffy Tufts
Fotzepolitic
Grail Overfloweth
FrouFrou Foxes
Know Who You Are
Summerhead
Carolyn's Fingers
Alice
Serpentskirt

Honourable mentions:
(for not being true CT tracks)
Sea Swallow Me
SheWill Destroy You
Dials (not really a song at all, as it was meant to be a concert opening tape, but lovely nonetheless)

[davespear]

I thought I'd use 'Palatino linotype' font as it sounds like a CT song title:giggle:

1 Carolyn's Fingers
2 Athol Brose
3 Heaven or Las Vegas
4 Fotzepolitic
5 Frou frou foxes in midsummer fires
6 Treasure Hiding
7 Seekers who are lovers
8 Mud and dark
9 Sighs smell of farewell
10 Flock of soul
11 Circling Girl
12 The high monkey monk
13 Wax and wane (orig version)
14 Shallow then halo
15 Five ten fiftyfold
16 Lorelei
17 Ivo
18 Oomingmak
19 For Phoebe still a baby
20 Cico Buff

of course 'Song to the siren' is a fave, though not a CT song
btw not in order of pref.

[Lil Spacey]

Gosh this was hard, but here goes:

Love's Easy Tears
Ella Megalast Burls Forever
Orange Appled
Kookaburra
Carolyn's Fingers
Alice
Serpentskirt
Theft, and Wandering Around Lost
Pitch The Baby
Circling Girl
Cherry-Coloured Funk
Road River and Rail
Frou-Frou Foxes
But I'm Not
Wax and Wane
Garlands
Half-Gifts (BBC and Twinlights versions)
Seekers Who Are Lovers
Millimillenary
Mud and Dark

Thats 20 but Id like to add Blue Bell Knoll

[mike_mhg]

Gosh this was hard...

Impossible.

For me.

[fornasetti]

Have a look here

http://www.cocteautwinsforums.com/showthread.php?t=14744&highlight=favourite+songs

and here

http://www.cocteautwinsforums.com/search.php?searchid=2198785

[Chora]

In no particular order

1. Plain Tiger
2. The High Monkey Monk
3. Road River Rail
4. Aloysius
5, Blue Bell Knoll
6. When Mama Was Moth
7. Pink Orange Red
8. Alice
9. Violaine
10. Oomingmak
11. Feet-like Fins (mark clifford)
12. Frou--frou foxes in midsummer's Fire
13. The Spangle Maker
14. Millimillenary
15. Lazy Calm
16. Circling Girl
17. Perhaps Some Other Aeon
18. Sigh's Smells of Farewell
19. Eyes Are Mosaic
20. Aikea-Guinea

[Ghosty]

Ah! Finally a fellow Plain Tiger adept! Although for some reason I forgot to mention it in my top twenty.

[Dpressed]

As I've mentioned before I cant name that many CT tunes .... I liten to albums as complete works & as I think of Liz's voice as an insturment don't really know what a track is called ... :sorry:

[garp]

Well if you stopped reading the ale bottle labels long enough to pick up the album and read the song titles........:D


I am with you Red, until I joined this forum I only knew a handful of the obvious ones; Pearly Dew Drops, Ivo, etc. Now after being here for 3.5 years I can name about 6-8 when I hear them, and I've been listening since 1984, how sad is that.

:)

[fornasetti]

Oh sweet Moses. What a shameful admission, you guys.

[Dpressed]

As I said the first time I mentioned this I expect to be expelled immediately.

[fornasetti]

As I said the first time I mentioned this I expect to be expelled immediately.

No, it won't come to that.

We don't want to lose more good people from our ranks.

[garp]

Ok, I can name a couple more but I never really paid attention to what the name of the song playing was, I just listened to the album and admired 23 Envelopes artwork. I also loved the names of the songs because I am such fan of e.e. cummings and they always reminded me of lyric poetry. I just never connected the names to the songs I was listening to and therefore never remembered which belonged to which. I hope that made some sense.

[Dpressed]

No, it won't come to that.

We don't want to lose more good people from our ranks.

... But we're talking about me :666: ... & I could say what album most tracks are on

[dprid]

As I said the first time I mentioned this I expect to be expelled immediately.
I've been saying the same for years, and nobody has ever expelled me :)
Most of the song titles are meaningless in the scheme of things - I just listen to the music.

[davespear]

Ok, I can name a couple more but I never really paid attention to what the name of the song playing was, I just listened to the album and admired 23 Envelopes artwork. I also loved the names of the songs because I am such fan of e.e. cummings and they always reminded me of lyric poetry. I just never connected the names to the songs I was listening to and therefore never remembered which belonged to which. I hope that made some sense.

:offtopic: I know, but I looked this up, and it made me smile:

anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E. Cummings

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men(both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain

[ludwig]

It's impossible to give a top 20. In general their early works with Treasure at #1 soon followed by the Love's easy Tears ep.

[dprid]

Pur and 19 others

[randomrob]

gee Sireniya, back when I was a teen I used to pour over the albums and their practically nonexistant liner notes... the lack of information made them cool, CTs were mysterious, and each release had it's own special flavor.

Anyway, since I have a computer that I play music on and music share software from Lastfm, it's pretty easy to see what I actually play....

in order of frequency I actually play them...

Suckling the mender
For Phoebe still a baby
Oomingmak
Essence
Summerhead
Love's easy tears
Great spangled fritillary
High monkey monk
Pandora
Pitch the baby
The spangle maker
Kookaburra
Bluebeard
Pink Orange Red
Cico Buff
Millimilenary
Ribbed & veined
Calfskin smack
Ivo

[theós]

So sayeth the iTunes play count....

1. Carolyn's Fingers
2. Great Spangled Fritillary
3. Quisquose
4. The Tinderbox (of a heart) (BBC Sessions)
5. A Kissed Out Red Floatboat
6. Garlands
7. Rococo
8. Musette And Drums (BBC Sessions)
9. Crushed
10. Sigh's Smell Of Farewell
11. Ooze Out And Away, Onehow
12. Wax And Wane (BBC Sessions)
13. Lorelei
14. Sea, Swallow Me
15. Kookaburra
16. Orange Appled
17. Ribbed And Veined
18. Eggs And Their Shells
19. Eyes Are Mosaics
20. Five Ten Fiftyfold

[theós]

...yeah yeah, I know "The Moon And The Melodies" is not 'Twins. But, CDDB has it under "Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd"; so, it showed up in my search.

[randomrob]

...yeah yeah, I know "The Moon And The Melodies" is not 'Twins. But, CDDB has it under "Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd"; so, it showed up in my search.

*forehead slap*

I didn't think of that! M&TM probably my fave album by CTs (+Budd). I was in school in Albany NY, it was winter, that was the soundtrack :)

[UpsideDown]

I have been listening to a lot of the recordings from the 1996 shows with the guy from Seefeel and i really like the reconstructions of some of the songs.

But my all time favourites are......

Aikea Guinea
Sugar Hiccup
Hazel
When Mama was a Moth
My Love Parmour
Wax and Wane
Love's Easy Tears
From The Flagstones
The Spangle Maker
Aloysius (Live 1996)
Pur
Icebink Luck
Suckling The Mender
Orange Appled
Alas Dies Laughing
Whales Tails
Feather Oar Blades
Kookaburra
Cherry Coloured Funk ( Live 1996)

[UpsideDown]

Cant beleive i forgot Musette and Drums ...what a fucking tune.

[Guthrie_Fan]

This is a ridiculous thread - how can I pick just 20? :D

My favourite, then in no order:

Aikea Guinea (Alternative Version)
Sugar Hiccup (12 inch Version)
Pearly Dewdrop's Drops
Lazy Calm
Aloysius
Sea Swallow Me
Carolyn's Fingers
Orange Appled
Love's Easy Tears
Crushed
Oomingmak
Pandora
Great Spangled Fritillary
From the Flagstones
Blind Dumb Deaf
Eggs and Their Shells
Pink Orange Red
Grail Overgroweth
Glass Candle Grenades
Heaven Or Las Vegas

[sanvean]

*****
Hitherto
Blue Bell Knoll
Lorelei

****
Ivo
Persephone
Aloysius
An Elan
Great Spangled Fritillary
Heaven Or Las Vegas
I Wear Your Ring
Serpentskirt
Pearly Dewdrop's Drops
Aikea-Guinea
Five Ten Fiftyfold
Bluebeard

***
Carolyn's Fingers
Summerhead
But I'm Not
Wax And Wane
Domino