Hearing Cocteau Twins in public! [Archive]

mmmender

Oct-26-02, 10:35 AM

i love hearing stories where people talk about the places they've been and all of a sudden you hear cocteau twins and you want to jump up and down and scream like a freak (ok maybe it's just me who does that). but have you ever been in a parking lot and a car drives by and you can just faintly hear a few bars of 'evangeline' or you're in a record shop and all of a sudden the freak behind the counter in the knitted hat puts on 'pink opaque'....or you're in a nightclub and the music isn't too bad but you wet yourself when you suddenly hear 'wax and wane'?

you with me on this or what?

zed

Oct-26-02, 11:37 AM

MMM.........yeah!!!
i was in a local grocery store about a year ago....i'll never forget this..when somewhere near the crackers...HOLV came on..all most wet my self!..i broke out in a huge grin and laughed out loud...a lady and her kids and an older couple looked at me like i was nuts!!...get this though...after the ct cut was over...they put on roxy music! niiice crackers!!!

whoever was at the controls........may the universe smile on you!

:) Z.

spanglemaker

Oct-26-02, 2:12 PM

ok laugh as hard as you want

Everytime I hear the cocs on the speakers overhead I turn into a homing system
I lock on to the sound and follow to where it is loudest...then I say

omg they are playing the cocs...my g/f at that times grabs my hand and pulls me away while I am still in that trance

"omg that was cocteau twins"...droooling the whole nine yards

The last time it happened we were at Walmart shopping for fresh italian bread..I dropped the bread, my purse and ran to the nearest over head speaker...people thought I was crazy..........I was staring up at the speaker and laughing and pointing(oh god blushing like crazy)

Phil Lawton

Oct-26-02, 7:54 PM

Ah, the joys of chemical imbalances.

Lucibelle

Oct-26-02, 11:19 PM

Once I heard Bluebeard at a Denny's restaurant. I thought that was pretty unusual. Though I'm not crazy about that song, I was entertained by the fact that I was hearing Cocteau Twins in a mainstream, public place. ;)

jana

Oct-27-02, 5:55 AM

while on the crapper at burgerking circa 1997....i hear bluebeard playing on the speaker system above me...dumbfounded as i walk out i then here the french version of 'jet boy jet girl'.

mind you...this was in the bogs of louisiana.

weird day.

Baddy2shoos

Oct-27-02, 11:36 AM

Yes i was in selectadisc-god i love that place, and theyw ere playing a new compilation of chill out stuff cant remember which track it was think it was something off either victorialand or tiny dynamine/echoes, anyway i just wanted to scream out loud but resisted and left the shop a very happy woman

crushed

Oct-28-02, 11:29 AM

The only time I remember that happening to me was in 1990 or so. I was xmas shopping at a trendy clothing store in downtown San Francisco. 'Aikea Guinea' got played to all the shoppers.

mcinca

Mar-21-03, 12:13 AM

I'm odd and I admit that, but I believe that hearing the Cocteau Twins in a public place is a sign. I'm a firm believer that if one of their songs starts to play, someone or something is telling me this is a very important moment and I should be paying attention. For example, I'm in Chicago and in a Banana Republic with a neat coat I was thinking to buy. All of a sudden, Iceblink Luck pipes through the store speakers! After my initial freakout, I realize that coat is meant to be mine, so I buy it. I have gotten more compliments on that damn coat than I have anything else I've bought. It was a sign. I was eating at a resturant, Chou, in San Francisco, and they played the whole Treasure CD! I got my meal free!! I have more examples, but I don't want to ramble. Anyone else have good things happen?

-Mike

fraserfaye

Mar-21-03, 12:21 AM

haha. Good to u !! I 've never had such chances to hear CT in public. Maybe the real good luck will come soon!~ ;)

gary

Mar-21-03, 12:45 AM

Neither have I heard CT in public. I wish I have some of your good luck. Free meal?! :eek:

Maria Jose

Mar-21-03, 12:48 AM

Originally posted by mcinca
I was eating at a resturant, Chou, in San Francisco, and they played the whole Treasure CD! I got my meal free!!
-Mike [/B]

I don't think I'd be able to taste a morsel if Treasure was on and the meal would be ruined with me rambling about the wonders of Lizspeak, the amazing music,humming along here and there,taking away that spoonful to ask to my fellow diners to listen to that bassline , in short , a disaster ;)

mcinca

Mar-21-03, 1:03 AM

I think my freaking out got me the free meal. It was either, get this mad man out of here by giving him the food for free or the guy who put the CD in the stereo was bonding with another Cocteau Twins fan. Either way, free food!

Maria Jose

Mar-21-03, 1:10 AM

Originally posted by mcinca
I think my freaking out got me the free meal. It was either, get this mad man out of here by giving him the food for free or the guy who put the CD in the stereo was bonding with another Cocteau Twins fan. Either way, free food!

Oh,now I see,a Californian strategy for a lavish free meal . . .:D
Will it work in a Kyoto restaurant ?

mcinca

Mar-21-03, 1:14 AM

Hummmm...excellent question. If I hear them there I will let you know. I hope so!

kookaburra

Mar-21-03, 1:34 AM

I would often hear Bluebeard when I worked in a shopping mall in '94. And one of those girls' shops (Limited, etc.) used to play Because of Whirl-jack; it was actually on a cd they used to sell.

mmmender

Mar-21-03, 9:27 AM

i once heard the musak version (oh the shame of it) of bluebeard in an elevator - the old man beside me farted when i smiled at him in glee. i kid you not.

i didn't care about the horrid stench of 'ass' that filled that tiny death trap because i rode it til the song ended. dedicated or what?

Phil Lawton

Mar-21-03, 9:40 AM

i didn't care about the horrid stench of 'ass' that filled that tiny death trap because i rode it til the song ended. dedicated or what?

Answers on a postcard to:

Ripley's Believe It Or Not
c/o The Old Melon House
Stroud
England

E-Lo

Mar-21-03, 10:06 AM

Originally posted by mmmender
i once heard the musak version (oh the shame of it) of bluebeard in an elevator - the old man beside me farted when i smiled at him in glee. i kid you not. i didn't care about the horrid stench of 'ass' that filled that tiny death trap because i rode it til the song ended. dedicated or what?

roflmao roflmao

Speaking of strange coincidences, at exactly midnight of my 21st birthday, deep in the bowels of the Stardust Hotel's nasty all-night diner in Las Vegas of all places, I hear Iceblink Luck.

Unfortunately with all the iceblink luck in the world I ended up losing in my first foray into gambling!

mattadore

Mar-21-03, 10:24 AM

Could we get some Victorialand piped into Bagdhad? :rolleyes:

Maria Jose

Mar-21-03, 10:32 AM

Wouldn ' t like it , Mattadore .
Sounds to much like American VICTORYland
and in no time we would have bombs being dropped as pearly dewdrops ,
and a Saddam dies laughing , Crushed and misprint or not,
Blood Bath.
:(

mcinca

Mar-21-03, 12:12 PM

mattadore

Mar-21-03, 12:25 PM

Originally posted by Maria Jose
Wouldn ' t like it , Mattadore .
Sounds to much like American VICTORYland
and in no time we would have bombs being dropped as pearly dewdrops ,
and a Saddam dies laughing , Crushed and misprint or not,
Blood Bath.
:(

Maybe we should get some "Moon And The Melodies" piped into the White House situation room then, along with a copious amount of marijuana smoke...

zed

Mar-21-03, 12:32 PM

Matt............roflmao roflmao
that is so dr. strangelove it hurts! just what we need, the joint(;) ) chiefs of staff thinking they've been attacked by saddam's "chemical agents " and freaking so bad .......well you know the reast.:eek: :eek:

Z.

mattadore

Mar-21-03, 12:45 PM

Can you imagine Rumsfield high? "Cheney, let's order a pizza, duuuuuuude....".

Is it just me or does Rumsfield look like the undead? Get the stake, people, he's come to suck your blood!!!

mcinca

Mar-21-03, 12:54 PM

Must every thread contain something about the war? Let me have one area in which to escape from the jokes, comments and criticisms.

mborum

Mar-21-03, 1:24 PM

I was listening obsessively and repeatedly to the advance release of Milk & Kisses on the day in February 1996 when I got a job that launched my current career (and quadrupled my salary). Yeah, I took that as a sign. Not the kind like you describe, though.

There have been weird, cosmic occasions where CT music started playing at a critical or otherwise significant moment, and I thought, "if there are guardian angels or whatever, they are totally screwing with my head by doing this."

Has anyone ever caught themselves--in a bar, club, restaurant or whatever--not recognizing CT music when it first starts playing? You recognize it as something you know very well and like a lot, but it doesn't register immediately exactly who it is? Then, of course, you realize it and think, "this can't be happening." I've had that happen to me in nightclubs a few times.

REPLICESS

Mar-21-03, 1:40 PM

Nearest I've come to it is hearing 'Teardrop' in the shopping centre - that gave me goosebumps and I, of course, milled around until it'd finished :D

zed

Mar-21-03, 3:25 PM

.........several years ago i heard HOLV in a k-mart......no shit.
LOL! i also found the nearest speaker overhead to hear it better ...milling around untill it was over.....kept being interupted by in-store announcments......:mad: :mad:

i'm sure store security were right on my ass too! i'm an athority figure magnet. never understood why..
;) "oi, sid, take a look at the big bloke all in black in small appliances.... a real burn out, bettcha....keep an eye on 'im......he'll be needing a mixer for drugs no doubt."

Z.;)

watchlar

Mar-21-03, 5:30 PM

Crushed playing on an 80's muzak tape in a Vegas casino....should have been HOLV ;)

andylama

Mar-21-03, 5:42 PM

Yeah, I hear CT in public every once in a great while, but it's always the song(s) you'd expect (all the ones cited in this thread)

Has anyone here heard a really unexpected one (read: not a big hit) in public?

Several years ago, in a shopping mall in Los Angeles, I heard a cut from Treasure (I think it was Aloysius, but I can't remember for sure), and I started looking around frantically, as if it were some sort of 'secret handshake' directed at me. I'm sure I was the only one in the crowd who even noticed.

Anyone?

elle bea

Mar-21-03, 7:56 PM

I have heard Frosty the Snowman numerous times in the stores around the holidays. An obvious one, but every time I've heard it I wander around the store aimlessly, and resume shopping when it's finished.

mcinca

Mar-21-03, 8:01 PM

dynamine

Mar-21-03, 9:17 PM

in '92 at Long Beach Sports Arena,on the bill=
the cure
cranes
and the pre-show music was "the pink opaque".
countless other times,but that was a good one,cause so many people were there to enjoy it. :)

iceblink555

Mar-22-03, 7:18 AM

Originally posted by zed
.........several years ago i heard HOLV in a k-mart......no shit.

Woulda been even weirder if it'd been Blue Bell Knoll ("Attention K-mart shoppers...")

The only "public" CT experience that I can recall happened to me a coupla years ago in a small touristy town in Mexico called San Miguel de Allende. I'm wandering down a sidestreet one night and lo and behold I hear something from HoLV coming out of a doorway. Of course I stopped to investigate this strange phenomenon. Turned out it was opening night for an art gallery show, and they were using strictly CT CD's for the background music! So I get to talking to the guy at the entrance who's handling the music (a boombox), and discover that he's been a big CT fan for years, has most of their CD's, but knows almost nothing about the band. So I'm filling him in, and he just can't believe it when, at some point, it becomes apparent that Robin and Simon are straight! This guy was gay, and he'd apparently assumed all along, based solely on the music, that Robin and Simon were gay also. I think they'd taken on almost heroic proportions to him. He seemed so let down that I kinda felt bad for telling him. Maybe a case where ignorance is bliss. I ended up meeting the gallery owner and the artist and drank wine with them and their friends 'til the wee hours of the mornin'. Unfortunately the art was kind of a bad Giger imitation, so the CT wasn't a good omen in that respect, but hey, the wine was free and the company was good--and I met a CT fan in Mexico of all places! --Alan

zed

Mar-22-03, 7:25 AM

......ice.........you make'in that up?:eek:

that was one amazing story! boarderd on lynchian strangness.
wish i'd been there......:D :D

Z.

iceblink555

Mar-22-03, 8:02 AM

Originally posted by zed
......ice.........you maken that up?:eek:
that was one amazing story! boarderd on lynchian srangness.
wish i'd been there......:D :D
Z.

Nope, Z, it's true, I would swear to it on the Japanese box set (if I had one :-( ). Guess it is a bit stranger than I realized! Hmmm...now which Lynch movie does it belong in... maybe Lost Highway? Leesa probably has an avatar of it somewhere ;-) --Alan

zed

Mar-22-03, 10:00 AM

.......ice,........

amazing.......lone figure walking down a deserted mexican street, it's late,....a light beckons in the distance......weird music, .a huge heavily armed man guards a door, ......they talk,.......the big man starts to cry,...............inside,.....strange distorted paintings line the walls,........he drinks wine from an old class with the people inside all the while the presence of swilring strange music.......

lost highway smashed together with blue velvet.

beats hearing bbk inna k-mart!!
like i said,.........wish i'd been there!

z.:cool:

ScottL

Mar-22-03, 10:59 AM

no public CT encounter for me....I think it is a sign I'm lost and detached ;)

zed

Mar-22-03, 11:07 AM

..Scott............my only words of comfort would be: get thee to a k-mart sad prodigal!!;)
there is hope yet my son!

look for the blue bell specials.........

Z. :)

petroldarling

May-15-06, 10:09 PM

hahaha, today i went into a lane bryant with my best friend and bluebeard was playing! i got kind of really excited and my stomach dropped a little bit, even though i don't really like bluebeard that much. i know i've heard a lot of forum members say they've heard bluebeard in public - sheesh, why BLUEBEARD?!

ArnoldZiffel

May-16-06, 12:11 AM

In 1995 I heard "Bluebeard" in a restaurant in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Two years late I heard "Bluebeard" in a grocery store in Dwight, Illinois. One of the closed circuit media companies must have bought that song back in 1994 or so.

halation

May-16-06, 12:16 AM

When they announced the infamous Coachella Show in 2005 on "the Current" radio station here in Minneapolis I started screaming. I was almost crying. Loves Easy Tears indeed.

elysium

May-16-06, 12:18 AM

mmmender

May-16-06, 12:21 AM

bluebeard was one of those unfortunate "hits" for the band.....there's even a musak version of it....no joke....i actually heard it in a grocery store.

petroldarling

May-16-06, 12:41 AM

When they announced the infamous Coachella Show in 2005 on "the Current" radio station here in Minneapolis I started screaming. I was almost crying. Loves Easy Tears indeed.

i was listening that night too, halation!!! mark wheat announced it and i already knew, but i was so happy and crazy because of it. he was playing cocteau twins every night for a long time.

Tinspur

May-16-06, 6:02 AM

I rarely, if ever, hear CT being played in public, but I was rather amazed (pleasantly so) to learn that Massive Attack's "Teardrop" with Liz is the theme song to the USA medical drama House.

Quisquose

May-16-06, 9:37 AM

bluebeard was one of those unfortunate "hits" for the band.....there's even a musak version of it....no joke....i actually heard it in a grocery store.

Yes! I heard it in a grocery store too -- I'd almost written it off as a false memory. The chorus was done with flutes, I think. I'm almost certain I've heard another musak'ed CT song, but I can't remember what it was at the moment... maybe Evangeline? Weird. I'd like to hear it again, if just for shits and giggles.

Baddy2shoos

May-16-06, 9:37 AM

flutes ack!

everyanynot

May-16-06, 11:31 AM

I rarely, if ever, hear CT being played in public, but I was rather amazed (pleasantly so) to learn that Massive Attack's "Teardrop" with Liz is the theme song to the USA medical drama House.

it seems like teardrop is played A LOT on tv. i heard it on house, and about a year ago there was another show on, and it was the main theme song thing of the tv show, they played it during the opening credits and stuff.

and also a couple weeks ago, they played teardrop at the end of prison break

Mr. ED

May-16-06, 1:34 PM

I thought I had answered this already. Maybe having deja vu? Back when FCC was current, I had heard "Bluebeard" in Caldor, a now defunct chain store akin to Wal-Mart, K-Mart etc... I don't think I've ever heard CT outside of a musical setting. The only music that blasts out of cars by my house is rap, salsa and really bad club music and reggaeton. I try to combat them with my blasting of basically anything in my collection, but I usually get dirty looks.

serpentine

May-16-06, 3:42 PM

i was sitting outside in the car one day listening to the popular alternative station a few years back and they played CT.
it was a special program, giving a nod to most infulental bands of the genre or some sheeit.
it escapes me which song it was, but i wanted everyone to hear it.

I am alwaysalwaysALWAYS trying to lend my cds out to others.
I love it when I can enjoy CT with others. Such a warm fuzzy feeling.

Kinda like sharing a banana split.

hahaha
;)

E-Lo

May-18-06, 2:36 PM

Last night I was having dinner with some friends at a rowdy Italian restaurant and bar. My friend had a major déjà vu moment and right after talking about it, "Carolyn's Fingers" came on. Mind you, this bar is very popular with sports fans and probably the most unlikely place you expect to hear CT, it was quite a surreal moment.

serpentine

May-18-06, 4:05 PM

About a month ago, I went to a Frou Frou concert and after they got done on stage the DJ played Domino. He had a bunch of people coming up to him asking what was playing and they were frantically writing it down. Just goes to show you there are more to convert.

treasure is a great introduction album.
perhaps its because it was my introduction!
after that, i gobbled up every CT album I could find.

...CT have a very appealing sound that Im sure many more people would adore. It just takes the initial exposure (this is why I love to lend out my ambums, to hear feedback on them!))!!!!

:smitten:

starhopper

May-18-06, 4:17 PM

...CT have a very appealing sound that Im sure many more people would adore. It just takes the initial exposure (this is why I love to lend out my albums, to hear feedback on them!))!!!!
Yeah, even my mother enjoys them. :)

But I have always turned friends onto CT. Especially g/f. Of course, I usually put on some CT when I am being all romantic...and I have never had a woman not "convert" and fall in love with them. Maybe it was all CT, maybe it was being with me or maybe both. But I love making love to CT. :blush:

everyanynot

May-18-06, 4:24 PM

i was playing victorialand in the car 1 time, and this girl was like
"...
this is pretty
...
like elevator music
..."

:explode:

most awkard car ride of my life

djproject

May-20-06, 12:15 AM

whenever i play "pink orange red" in my car (which happens a lot), i make sure the volume is way up during the instrumental "bridge" before the last section. this is my way of spreading fairydust to the drab world that is the dc metro area.

*shivers* oooh i love it

Mackey

May-20-06, 5:43 AM

I walked into some vintage clothing emporium on Haight way back in college and Fotzepolitik was playing and my then-roommate was all "hey that's YOUR song! cos it's one of my favorites :)

Later, on Divisidero, I heard Bluebeard trailing from some guy's motorcycle (he had a stereo system beneath the windshield).

And this healthfood store that no longer exists in the inner-safeway/castro area played lullabies often.