FAVORITE CT SONGS (LIMIT TO 3)

[at_every_age]

There has been a thread running in connection with favorite CT albums, but how about individual songs? This might be more difficult, since all of their songs are so wonderful.

I shall have to think about this more meself before offering my suggestions. . .

[Ben Du Toit]

That's a hellishly tricky poser. However, essentially such a list could change daily. For example at this moment I would list:

Orange Appled
In Our Angelhood
Bluebeard

However, ask me tomorrow and it would probably be a different list!

[at_every_age]

Ben:

I would have to agree with you about one's favorite songs changing with each day and through time. Right now, for instance, I am particularly partial to "Hitherto", "Cherry-Coloured Funk", and "Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires", but I would hesitate to say those are CT's best songs. . .

[Beth]

Cherry Coloured Funk
Seekers who are Lovers
Know who you are at every age
subject to chnge...

[spanglemaker]

Blind, Dumb, Deaf
cicely
Fracture
frou frou foxes
I wear your ring
Treasure Hiding
and a nine minute interview with Liz Fraser Live on National Poet's Day....very voice just talking and giggling is amazing

[Beth]

thought we had to choose three! lol
oh in that case
frou frou foxes
fotzepolitic
orange appled
aloysius loads more....

[Scott]

I don't know why I find these threads so fun, knowing(as we all do) how futile it is to name such favorites...it is interesting to see what bubbles up in the process from others...at least shows some songs people like especially well, even if only at the present time...mine too come and go...looking back I would have to say the 3 that always are near the top are:

Know Who You Are At Every Age
Bluebeard
Suckling the Mender

the 3rd slot vies closely with I wear your Ring, RR&R, Itchy Glowbo...others.

[Milo D. Cooper]

Three favorite... let me think.

Orange Appled and Suckling the Mender, for certain.

After that, I don't know, probably Athol Brose, on most days.

-- Milo D. Cooper --

[Phil Lawton]

Yeah....difficult, ain't it?

OK..

"She Will Destroy You"

"Violaine"

Frou Frou Foxes"


Just pushing up behind these three, were "Musette & Drums", "Itchy Glowbo Blow" and "High Monkey Monk".

And about another 40 others.

Oy vey!

[mmmender]

"heaven or last vegas"

"watchlar"

"love's easy tears"

[at_every_age]

How much fun these threads can be!

The top three of the day were:
1. Eyes are Mosaics
2. Those Eyes, That Mouth
3. Melonella

But "My Truth" sounded so beautiful just a moment ago...

Oh, how I wish they would release the material from the unfinished album! Isn't it amazing how much their sound continued to mature with FCC and M&K?

Perhaps there should be a thread to reminisce about where and when it was we heard our first Cocteau Twins song. I recall hearing "Carolyn's Fingers" and "Blue Bell Knoll" and thinking how otherwordly those songs sounded. Years later, they still sound as if I just heard them yesterday.

[at_every_age]

Yappari

Hitherto
Summerhead,soshite
Tishbite
ga
kyou no ichiban ii kyoku deshita!

[by the sea]

goldenvein
three swept
grail overfloweth
ups
eggs and their shells
touch upon touch
cicely
loves easy tears
theft and wandering
summerhead
seekers who are lovers

live cd's for trade only with other live cd's.
email me.

[Tym]

Tough, but here goes:

1. Wolf in the Breast
2. Dials
3. Perly Dewdrops Drops (an old girlfriend said this song reminded her of me)

[bedalov]

right now its:

Pitch the Baby
Squeeze Wax
She Will Destroy You

[Scotty]

mud and dark
donimo
seekers who are lovers

(hi mmmmmmmmmmmendy!)
kiss me out!
-Scotty

[Steven]

Pur
Aikea-guniea
A kissed out red floatboat

[James]

I can't believe not one person mentioned Iceblink Luck!

1. Iceblink
2. Carolyn's Fingers
3. Summerhead

As with most of you, mine change from time to time, but these three will always make me smile.

Souleman

[matt]

And I can't believe no-one mentioned Touch Upon Touch!

Or...Feathers-Oar-Blades (full length version, please note!)

or...My Love Paramour
(note: the secret of that song's success is that a part of it sounds vaguely like the old Warm Sounds 1967 hit `Birds & Bees' -a song that I've always had a peculiar obssession with)

[Steve]

Off the top of my head....

Blue Bell Knoll
Summerhead
Treasure Hiding

"only three??"

[David Mason]

Has to be Carolyn's Fingers, I Wear Your Ring and the
amazing "Ella Megalast Burls Forever", which gives me
goosepimples everytime I play it. My wife and I had this
as our first song at our wedding. I can asure you we got
some strange looks, but we knew it was the right track to
play, angelic, soothing, ethereal, fucking brilliant.

[Phil Lawton]

And thus speaks the true Cocteau fan.

[pink_choirgirl]

...only 3 eh....well...like everyone else says, they change all the time, but here's whats at the top of my list now-AT THIS VERY second...
1. alas dies laughing (love the EVIL guitar!)
2. pale clouded white (reminds me of flying)
3. In our angelhood (catchy as fuck...wait...am I allowed to swear? oh well.)

[Scott]

I think the whole combo in Alas Dies Laughing is wonderfully sinister. I personally think it is one of their scariest tracks. Love the BBC version.

Good one about Pale Clouded White, I think I see what ya mean.

I was saying on else-thread the guitar mix in Angelhood is reminiscient of Feathers Oar Blades..that appeal to you as well? I think it is cool.

[The Boy With A Thorn In His Side]

1. Alas Dies Laughing
2. Tranquil Eye
3. Frou Frou Foxes...

-The Boy With A Thorn In His Side

[Marty Obiesi]

my three favorite songs are 'we are detectives' and 'hold me now' and 'doctor doctor'.

[Tom Bailey]

Marty

My three favourites, in no particular order are:-

1)Sisters of Mercy
2)You Take Me Up
3) Love on your side

[stephanie]

David Mason,
Wonderful to hear someone used CT at their wedding!! I'm thinking the same thing when that day comes for me, and Ella is definitely one of my top 5 all time faves. I always get big chills when i hear it, too.
3 current faves,
Tishbite
Kookaburra
Twinlights' Half-Gifts

[Derek]

Hmmmm, just three...

The Ghost has no Home
Purr
Love's Easy Tears

[Victoria]

Flock of soul
The tinderbox (of a heart)
Pink Orange Red
Millimillenary



Sorry, I can`t think only in three songs...
I love Pink Orange Red' s live versions, specially in Toronto, 1990...


(Someone have "Live in Buenos Aires, 1991"???
I only have articles and photografics of this concert, but I wanna have some videotape of this performance...)

[NoBoyBandsPlease]

On the whole:
Aikea-Guinea
Calfskin Smack
Tranquil Eye

By the way, I downloaded a fab drum and base version of Essence the other day - try and seek it out!
Also, there's a Massive Attack remix of The Thinner The Air that's well worth looking out for (not that I condone that kind of behaviour! Does that get me off the hook, legally?)

[laurasilver]

like most, can't limit to three, changes on a daily basis:

Pandora
Pink Orange Red (for the last 18 years)
Oil of Angels
Seekers Who Are Lovers
My Love Paramour (longer than 18 years)
Cherry Coloured Funk
Frou Frou Foxes
obviously, Song to the Siren - Cocs in a different guise

can I just say, I think it's really great that people stil care and their preferences change dynamically after all these years.. with some bands you'd get people who had a rigid top 3 for the whole of their lives..

[laurasilver]

Oops, just reading over the postings again ..forgot the Harold Budd collaborations:

She Will destry You
Eyes Are Mosaics

add to the list..

take care,all

laurasilver
x

[Steven]

laurasilver:

Oil of Angels! Yes! I think this is such an over-looked song, and yet I personally feel it's one of, if not the, most romantic and beautiful songs the cocteaus created.

[mmmender]

1. pitch the baby

2. donimo

3. alas dies laughing

[beetles&eggs]

sugar hiccup
cherry coloured-funk
persephone,
phillip

[orange rind]

i have 2 all time favorites

touch upon touch
because of whirl-jack.

the third is changeable: my truth, kookaburra...

[zed]

absolutly must be .....

i wear your ring/fotezpolitic...to me they merge together.

cico buff...to pure to listento sometimes,Liz is amazing.

pale clouded white...the dave brubeck quartet meets jimi h.


i could keep going but rules is rules.:rolleyes: