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Last night I was watching the motoring show Fifth Gear and they were doing a feature about the Ford GT (the remake of the GT40). As they showed the bit of Tiff Needell looking around the interior of the car to my surprise they used Liz singing This Love as the background music. I missed most of what he said as a result :)
What other places have you unexpectedly heard CT related music??
mmmender
Dec-14-04, 6:51 PM
an elevator!
I think I heard a Muzzaked version of a CT song in a store once. Can anyone confirm that this was ever done to a CT track? Maybe I just dreamt it...in a nightmare.
An elevator
How many times did you do up and down (in the elevator)?
mmmender
Dec-14-04, 6:58 PM
until it stopped playing, of course!
it was a musak version of bluebeard and it sucked large but still........
I KNEW I wasn't dreaming about it!
mmmender
Dec-14-04, 7:03 PM
yeah musak cocteau twins really bites.
i've only ever heard 2 songs done in musak mode: bluebeard and evangeline
ugh.
I KNEW I wasn't dreaming about it!
On a somewhat related note, I am glad that I've never heard CT in a bathhouse. I've heard Enya and Siouxsie (the Creatures 2nd album actually) in a bathhouse, but never CT. This is a good thing, as, for me, Enya's Shepard Moons is forever tainted by images of guys cruising each other wearing nothing but white towels.
mmmender
Dec-14-04, 7:06 PM
omg ct in a bath-house! YIKES!
cryingcryingcrying
omg ct in a bath-house! YIKES!
cryingcryingcrying
I'm sure it's happened...
petroldarling
Dec-14-04, 7:24 PM
my secret plan is to get 'blue bell knoll' into the rotation when i do my clinics starting next semester. they play a lot of, you know. crappy cds of music with nature sounds mixed in that they probably buy at walmart or something. i intend to do something about it :P
Rabidglow
Dec-14-04, 7:30 PM
During the holiday season in stores like The Gap & Spencers you'll hear CT.
Brittany
Dec-14-04, 7:35 PM
Last Sunday afternoon, Saks Fifth Avenue.
I stood in the center of an isle, smiling like an idiot.
On the balcony of my hotel room in Mykonos
Synesthesia
Dec-14-04, 9:06 PM
They played Teardrop as the theme song of this House show.
Sadly, no Liz.
rilkean
Dec-14-04, 9:24 PM
Bluebeard......in a supermarket!
:omg:
mmmender
Dec-15-04, 12:43 AM
yeah i've heard bluebeard in a supermarket too.
i also chased someone down as they drove passed me in their car with cocteau twins pouring out of the vehicle!
They played Teardrop as the theme song of this House show.
Sadly, no Liz.
I heard that last night!
i also chased someone down as they drove passed me in their car with cocteau twins pouring out of the vehicle!
Uh oh! It's the mad Cocteau Stalker of Queen Street West!!! Run for your lives!!! AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
BTW were Liz, Simon, and Robin hurt when they hit the pavement? Oh - you meant CT music pouring out of the car...
mmmender
Dec-15-04, 11:04 AM
you know me so well....it's scary.
What other places have you unexpectedly heard CT related music??
Heard CT used a number of times on the BBC "Changing Rooms" shows - sadly not during this last series presented by the "foppy" LLB!
My other half became so fed up of me pointing it out that she stopped watching the show!!!!! (I have (she says) an annoying habit of pointing out people in films/tv shows and saying things like "thats the guy that played X in show Y!" or "that music is "Pur" off FCC!")
Quisquose
Dec-15-04, 2:05 PM
Bluebeard......in a supermarket!
:omg:
I've heard the muzak versions of Bluebeard & Evangeline in stores... bizarre! :eek: I remember Bluebeard uses a flute for most of the main melody... I think. I've also heard the "real" bluebeard a handful of times out and about. It always makes me stop and listen and smile.
Of course, at this time of year there's a pretty good chance you'll hear Frosty & Winter Wonderland at the mall...
Oh, and one of the weirdest - there was a documentary on MTV a few years ago about Notorious B.I.G., and I swear to god they played "When Mama was Moth" over an ominous sequence... it cut off before the vocals, though.
In the early nineties, in some mainstream Hollywood movie, I forget which one, suddenly in the background I heard some familiar sounds...it took me a couple seconds to realize it was Iceblink Luck. I was so stunned by this I immediately forgot about the storyline...CT not being very common back then. Or now for that matter.
"The Majority Report" -- the Janeane Garofalo show on the American Liberal/Lefty radio talk network (the antidote to limbaugh??) "Air America" -- has taken to using a snippet from Pearly Dewdrops Drops (no vocals, just instrumental) as occassional transition music as they go to / return from ads. Always nice to get a lick of cocteau bliss in the midst of reports of the latest right-wing excesses!!
aileanmac
Dec-20-04, 4:34 AM
Not really on-topic here, but on Saturday I heard Kate Bush's December Will Be Magic Again in a supermarket here in Germany.
I heard This Love on a really cheesy German TV show a couple of weeks back. And I've lost count of the times I've heard Teardrop on German TV.
yeah musak cocteau twins really bites.
aka Milk & Kisses.....
aka Milk & Kisses.....
I'm not a big M&K fan but it's hardly musak...
Chris and I were having a somewhat hung-over New Year's brunch in this very average sort of chain restaurant here in Boston and "Bluebeard" twanged out of the P.A. without warning. Very odd.
Michael
andylama
Jan-3-05, 2:14 PM
Chris and I were having a somewhat hung-over New Year's brunch in this very average sort of chain restaurant here in Boston and "Bluebeard" twanged out of the P.A. without warning. Very odd.
Michael
Yeah, "odd" is that people latched onto THAT song to represent the CT genre to non-CT fans. Yeah, right, whatever. :(
andylama
Jan-3-05, 2:16 PM
aka Milk & Kisses.....
Vicious! roflmao
Didn't you mean "Twinlights" though? :spear:
andylama
Jan-3-05, 2:23 PM
"The Majority Report" -- the Janeane Garofalo show on the American Liberal/Lefty radio talk network (the antidote to limbaugh??) "Air America" -- has taken to using a snippet from Pearly Dewdrops Drops (no vocals, just instrumental) as occassional transition music as they go to / return from ads. Always nice to get a lick of cocteau bliss in the midst of reports of the latest right-wing excesses!!
Hm, that must be a new development; I'd never heard them use CT as 'bumper' music, but I havent listened to her show in several weeks. Seems like every time I tune into Air America (late evening), they've got that hothead Mike Malloy guy on, and he's just like Limbaugh's non-evil twin (non-parroting, non-lying, non-hypocritical, non-illegal-drug-addicted...), but just as tiresome in some ways.
Thank God for Air America though! Finally, a voice to represent for the anti-fascist wing of U.S. citizenship! (and "hollywood" ain't it, folks!)
I *like* "Bluebeard"! It's a great song, IMO. I know what you mean, though, about it probably not being the ideal way to introduce a neophyte to the vast and varied universe of Cocteau Twins music. :-) It definitely gets way too much airplay in the Wal Marts of the world...
Michael
petroldarling
Jan-27-05, 11:09 PM
not strictly cocteau, and not strictly a strange place:
while riding in the car with missy to school today, we listened to a cd her boyfriend had made a year or two ago. 'teardrop' was on it and it was very unexpected and nice!!
mborum
Jan-28-05, 11:37 AM
This week on Salon.com, in the "Ask the Pilot" column (an excellent one, that I read weekly)--the Pilot himself, Patrick Smith, who's the same age as many of us (early-to-mid 30s) and is into much of the same music, more or less--features this line:
"[On an airplane] [W]e're a captive audience for hours at a time, and the geniuses who compile those onboard audio programs needn't get too wrapped up in their playlists. Sure, why not pair the Cocteau Twins with Kenny G and call it "Inflight Atmospherics"? I mean, what else are people gonna listen to? Everybody's got an iPod anyway."
Full article: http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2005/01/28/askthepilot121/index.html
Michael
Last night I was watching the motoring show Fifth Gear and they were doing a feature about the Ford GT (the remake of the GT40). As they showed the bit of Tiff Needell looking around the interior of the car to my surprise they used Liz singing This Love as the background music. I missed most of what he said as a result :)
What other places have you unexpectedly heard CT related music??
I love 5th Gear. We get old episodes of it here on Speed channel. I love Tiff and Vicky. Tom Ford is cute in that big burly kind of way.
A few years ago, one of my sisters (I have 5!) who lives in Australia had to phone a company in New Zealand. She told me the muzak playing while she was on hold was CT. Now, she's as Scottish as me and her favourite group of all-time is Simple Minds. One of her favourite songs of all-time is "Song to the Siren". But, not being a die-hard CT fan, she couldn't tell me what they were playing.
david porte
Jan-28-05, 7:14 PM
i was lying at a pool in tenerife in the early 90's (laguna park2 to be specific) and the tannoy burst into HOLV.It was christmas day, couldn't believe it! wasn't till a couple of days later i discovered some bastard working at the hotel had stolen my tape!!!!
some old ct tune in a very bad ninja movie from mid 80's! probably this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2302&item=6362630980&rd=1 or some other from this fake martial artist richard harrison. they had put also a pink floyd song in the same movie. that's absurd as hell.
DJ SMITHMIX
Feb-9-05, 1:13 AM
I heard "The thinner the air" on CSI Miami last Sunday night. It was during a crime lab scene.
It was so amazing to hear Liz singing as lab slides were being scattered about!
So glad I caught that.
I just wished Id taped it. crying
How often do you hear CT in Prime Time? ctblue
andylama
Feb-13-05, 3:34 PM
Two minutes ago: I have an AM talk-radio station on for background noise.
Doctor Dean Edell is using Pitch the Baby as bumper music (before and after commercial breaks)!
I always thought Dean Edell was hip for a doctor, but this was a genuine surprise.
Not really a weird place, but the context... Yesterday I heard (for the first time) Song to the Siren in a "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" trailer. I could never expect that. And I also heard Violaine in a documentary about the powers of the human mind... More apropriate, I presume.
xixax777
Feb-13-05, 4:37 PM
I'd swear I heard some CT music on that horrible Bay Watch show from the 90's with that Nightrider guy and Pamela What's Her Face? I often used to take care of my Niece and Nephew, and they absolutely had to watch thatidiotic program. but a few times I'm pretty certain some CT tracks were played in the background of some scenes. (The Thinner the Air, was one, as I seem to recall, and maybe Essence, I'm not sure. Actually, the more that I think about the whole thing, the more doubtful I become. Maybe I had fallen asleep due to boredom, and the TV program was entering my dreamstate, where the music was actually "playing".
Two minutes ago: I have an AM talk-radio station on for background noise.
Doctor Dean Edell is using Pitch the Baby as bumper music (before and after commercial breaks)!
I always thought Dean Edell was hip for a doctor, but this was a genuine surprise.
I like Dean's pro-pot stance
by the sea
Feb-13-05, 6:19 PM
Yesterday I heard (for the first time) Song to the Siren in a "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" trailer. I could never expect that.
It's not the This Mortal Coil version (w/Cocteau Twins). It's a cover version of the song by a band called Moneypenny. I haven't heard it, but please.
dynamine
Feb-16-05, 4:24 PM
i heard it,and it sucks.
nobody covered it quite like our Liz.
;)
andylama
Feb-16-05, 4:56 PM
I like Dean's pro-pot stance
Yeah, I like that it's more like an "anti-all the bullshit surrounding pot issues-stance" Very sensible, well-reasoned, level-headed.
...and he's a CT fan. :)
Lucibelle
Feb-17-05, 2:44 AM
It's not the This Mortal Coil version (w/Cocteau Twins). It's a cover version of the song by a band called Moneypenny. I haven't heard it, but please.
Yeah, it seemed to be an attempt to try and sound like Liz. :no: Kind of like they (movie producers) wanted the TMC version, but for whatever reason, couldn't get it. Just speculation, of course, but that's the impression it gave me.
I'd swear I heard some CT music on that horrible Bay Watch show from the 90's with that Nightrider guy and Pamela What's Her Face?
you definitely did, I remember coming across that (absolutely no pun intended) myself but at my advanced age my memory cells cannot retrieve the info on what tracks were used - I think "Thinner" was one of them.
This Thread (http://www.cocteautwinsforums.com/showthread.php?p=6587&highlight=baywatch#post6587) says it was A Kissed Out Red Float Boat during a sky diving scene
xixax777
Feb-17-05, 10:49 PM
you definitely did, I remember coming across that (absolutely no pun intended) myself but at my advanced age my memory cells cannot retrieve the info on what tracks were used - I think "Thinner" was one of them.
Thank You for confirming this! I really was starting to think it was not so. I burnt out oodles of brain cells in the 1980's, so it's not unlikely that occasionaly my memory of subsequent years gets altered or corrupted, but I guess not this time! ('though I honestly have no recollection of the plotlines of any Baywatch shows I was forced to watch - I wonder if that's due to 80's drug use, or just the general absence of plot to begin with?!?)
xixax777
Feb-17-05, 10:56 PM
This Thread (http://www.cocteautwinsforums.com/showthread.php?p=6587&highlight=baywatch#post6587) says it was A Kissed Out Red Float Boat during a sky diving scene
Thanx for the info, and the link back to that old thread... I don't think I saw that particular episode... Hey, is Baywatch available on DVD?!? P.S... NOT in my apartment!
In the early nineties, in some mainstream Hollywood movie, I forget which one, suddenly in the background I heard some familiar sounds...it took me a couple seconds to realize it was Iceblink Luck.
It was 'Mad Dog and Glory'. I saw it again couple weeks ago.
this afternoon i walked into a store and that 'ingenue' song by mono (cannot remember real title) was playing. it was followed by 'teardrop.'
Last night I was watching the motoring show Fifth Gear and they were doing a feature about the Ford GT (the remake of the GT40). As they showed the bit of Tiff Needell looking around the interior of the car to my surprise they used Liz singing This Love as the background music. I missed most of what he said as a result :)
What other places have you unexpectedly heard CT related music??
This is for the UK based fans. Several years ago while watching "Wish You Were Here" (no, not the film, the ITV series with Judith (is my skin really that colour?) Chalmers)), there was a little report on some otherwise foregettable package hols destination ( I think it was the Canary Is) with Mary Nightingale(a fav of LWT) but they played "aikea-guinea" during this little report!!!!!!!!!!!
Anybody remember this?
What other places have you unexpectedly heard CT related music??
I was in Brewsters a few months ago and they played Snow.
This is for the UK based fans. Several years ago while watching "Wish You Were Here" (no, not the film, the ITV series with Judith (is my skin really that colour?) Chalmers)), there was a little report on some otherwise foregettable package hols destination ( I think it was the Canary Is) with Mary Nightingale(a fav of LWT) but they played "aikea-guinea" during this little report!!!!!!!!!!!
Anybody remember this?
On the holiday theme, I remember a few years ago I heard Song to the Siren playing over an Ad for a travel agent. Dont remember what the Ad was though
Thank You for confirming this! I really was starting to think it was not so. I burnt out oodles of brain cells in the 1980's, so it's not unlikely that occasionaly my memory of subsequent years gets altered or corrupted, but I guess not this time! ('though I honestly have no recollection of the plotlines of any Baywatch shows I was forced to watch - I wonder if that's due to 80's drug use, or just the general absence of plot to begin with?!?)
I remember it too! I was flipping through channels and was stunned to here CT playing. I could not believe that it was Baywatch.
IIRC, it was an underwater scene in slow motion.
tonight i was reading, and my mrs was watching the television when i heard 'teardrop' (for the second time this week), and i said, "what show is that?" and she said, "House" (that new medical drama on Fox).
today i was waiting for my appointment at the dermatologist, and for once i decided to read a book (notes from underground by dostoevsky) instead of listening to my ipod, and to my surprise i hear TISHBITES in the waiting room! EEEEE!!! :)
everyanynot
Jul-8-06, 3:36 PM
i decided to read a book (notes from underground by dostoevsky)
good book choice!
I heard "The thinner the air" on CSI Miami last Sunday night. It was during a crime lab scene.
It was so amazing to hear Liz singing as lab slides were being scattered about!
So glad I caught that.
I just wished Id taped it. crying
How often do you hear CT in Prime Time? ctblue
I heard that, too! I've also heard CT as background music on the original CSI, but I can't remember the track. House, a tv medical soap drama of sorts on the Fox network, uses instrumental portions of Teardrop as its opening theme. I've also heard CT muzak (Evangeline & Bluebeard) in the grocery store, along with the Sundays (Here's Where the Story Ends, muzak), and heard the christmas songs in various stores during the holiday season. A few years back, I was shopping at Lane Bryant and heard Athol Brose over the sound system. I was just about to leave the store, but stuck around to hear it play out, aforementioned goofy smile on my face.
I hear them all the time when I play them in the store. Being in the ghetto, you can imagine how well that goes over. Oh well, fuck 'em.
andylama
Jul-10-06, 11:34 PM
I hear them all the time when I play them in the store. Being in the ghetto, you can imagine how well that goes over. Oh well, fuck 'em.
Sheeze, the ultra-narrow spectrum of acceptable music in an urban setting has got to be soul-crushing.
I heard all of "Moon and the Melodies" yesterday - but it was on the CD ini the car as I drove to customers office for a meeting ... :D
what do you mean, "that doesn't count!??"
djproject
Jul-17-06, 1:13 AM
this is a strange timing i created.
i was listening to garlands and when it got to the title track and that great repetition of "i could die in your/the rosary" ... guess where i was driving past ... a roman catholic church letting out mass =]
rufusmtvern
Jul-17-06, 11:21 PM
Mine was hearing "Bluebeard" at a Payless shoe store right around when the album came out. Very, very pleasantly surprised!!
What CSI:Miami episode was Thinner on? I'd love to witness that. CSI:Miami is one of my favorite shows. The majority of the tunes they use in general are fantastic. Hopefully that episode is on DVD......
How about this: the RADIO!
I distinctly remember the first and only time I heard CT on the radio. It was when Iceblink Luck was 'record of the week' or something on Dutch radio. I was cringing, thinking my coworkers were going to say stuff like 'what is this weird music' or 'turn that weird shit off', but no one seemed to really notice and went about their work as usual.
A couple of weeks later 'You and your Sister' by TMC was record of the week. it even became a hit.
Mine was hearing "Bluebeard" at a Payless shoe store right around when the album came out. Very, very pleasantly surprised!!
What CSI:Miami episode was Thinner on? I'd love to witness that. CSI:Miami is one of my favorite shows. The majority of the tunes they use in general are fantastic. Hopefully that episode is on DVD......
As I recall it's the Vegas CSI, not Miami, and it's the one where a bus crashes off the road killing a bunch of people because someone sabotaged a wheel. Haven't seen it for some time though and the memory isn't what it was.
Bettina
Jul-22-06, 10:11 AM
On the holiday theme, I remember a few years ago I heard Song to the Siren playing over an Ad for a travel agent. Dont remember what the Ad was though
I remember this. It was a Thomson Freestyle ad with someone diving off a yacht into a calm turquoise sea. It wasn't the CT version (as permission wasn't given) but was performed by session musicians and was done in a similar arrangement to the TMC version. It was on tv in the mid 80s.
Also, I read somewhere a while back that David Lynch had wanted to use TMC's version of Song to the Siren in Blue Velvet but 4AD said no without consulting the band, who found out later and were a bit pissed off about it. I don't know if this is true. Hard to imagine Blue Velvet being better than it is...
And David Lynch has pretty discerning taste in music, too, imho. The best thing about Mulholland Drive was Rebekah Del Rio singing La Llorona.
djproject
Jul-22-06, 5:05 PM
for my final project in my final cut pro class [this is for a certificate in digital video and filmmaking production], i used the first part of "donimo" for a minute and a half long sequence i had to assemble.
As I recall it's the Vegas CSI, not Miami, and it's the one where a bus crashes off the road killing a bunch of people because someone sabotaged a wheel. Haven't seen it for some time though and the memory isn't what it was.
You're memory is OK on this.
documentary on BBC4 tv last night entitled "Lord of the Dance machine" about an English guy training for and attending the "World Dance Machine Championships" in Las Vegas .... behind one of the interview snips, I could swear I heard a CT chord sequence - the only track that comes near to it is the opening of "Pink Orange Red" but I can't be sure.
Was anyone else sad enough to be watching this and notice it? ;)
fornasetti
Jul-28-06, 9:11 AM
documentary on BBC4 tv last night entitled "Lord of the Dance machine" about an English guy training for and attending the "World Dance Machine Championships" in Las Vegas .... behind one of the interview snips, I could swear I heard a CT chord sequence - the only track that comes near to it is the opening of "Pink Orange Red" but I can't be sure.
Was anyone else sad enough to be watching this and notice it? ;)
Nah. I was sad enough to be watching Big Brother.
xixax777
Jul-28-06, 11:33 AM
I called my Mama yesterday, to check on things. My StepFather picked up, which doesn't happen too often. Anyway, he said "your Mom must not have heard the phone... she's got the stereo on loud". When he approached the den to hand my mom the cordless, I could hear Throughout the Dark Months of April and May. Turns out, she's been playing some of my old cassettes I'd left in storage in the basement. Years ago, when I visited much more often, she'd come to appreciate parts of Treasure, Victorialand, BBK, and HOLV. However, I'm happily surprised she'd now have picked something like that out of the old cassette storage crate. She told me she's had it in the deck for a while, and switches it on when "he (my cranky StepDad) is out of the house", when she can turn up the volume to hear it even in her "bad ear".
andylama
Jul-28-06, 11:54 AM
Yesterday afternoon, I heard an excerpt from "Imperial" (can't remember which specific track) as bumper music between news segments on my local NPR station.
postlibyan
Jul-28-06, 12:00 PM
When he approached the den to hand my mom the cordless, I could hear Throughout the Dark Months of April and May. Turns out, she's been playing some of my old cassettes I'd left in storage in the basement. that's pretty cool Xixax!
PJK
Today is our last day at Laguna and this afternoon I heard "Feathers Oar Blades" on the beach from a nearby boombox. A fitting end to a lovely vacation!
Oh, Goody, someone fun is on and I'm drunk...Come on ELo start something good!
The Thinner the Air heard on tonight's CSI rerun, the one where the Heaven's Gate-like cult members all died on ketamine cocktails.
kookaburra
Aug-11-06, 1:14 AM
I heard I Wear Your Ring in a restaurant last weekend.
andylama
Aug-11-06, 1:37 AM
I heard I Wear Your Ring in a restaurant last weekend.
Are you sure it wasn't Bluebeard? And are you sure you weren't in...a supermarket?
Seriously, that's more interesting than most sightings. What was the restaurant?
kookaburra
Aug-11-06, 2:14 AM
Feast, a typical small gourmet-ish cafe likely run by a graduate of the Scottsdale Culinary Institute. They serve better-than-decent food with oddly pretentious blendings of flavors, qualities, and cultures of origin.
Feast, a typical small gourmet-ish cafe likely run by a graduate of the Scottsdale Culinary Institute.
with very good taste in music!?? ;)
I travelled to a customers offices yesterday with a colleague who had on of these i-trip broadcast gizmos to connect his ipod to his car stereo - he had it on "shuffle" and on the return journey (as I nodded off in the passenger seat) I actually got jolted awake by "cico buff" playing!!!
I had no idea this colleague had so much as heard of CT - turns out he has all the albums but was not aware of the L2V releases so I steered him at them!
kookaburra
Aug-11-06, 3:17 AM
I actually got jolted awake by "cico buff" playing.
How embarrassing!
ethereal
Aug-11-06, 4:56 AM
I Wear Your Ring is possibly the most perfectly composed cocteau song ever.
andylama
Aug-11-06, 9:45 PM
I Wear Your Ring is possibly the most perfectly composed cocteau song ever.
Thou art a lady of taste and distinction.
fornasetti
Aug-12-06, 10:21 AM
I Wear Your Ring is possibly the most perfectly composed cocteau song ever.
I find the homoerotic connotations of the title off-putting.
I think we give each song title our own connotations. I never think of homoeroticism with I Wear Your Ring. I think of the hot rock instead - "gimme the goddamn diamond!"
moeism
Aug-13-06, 11:46 AM
I find the homoerotic connotations of the title off-putting.
what homoerotic connotations?!?!?!????
i actually came to this thread because i remembered hearing a CT song lately and thinking "oh! I must post this!" and as I tried to recall the occurence, realised it was in a recent dream. Unfortunately I don't remember the song I heard in the dream. It was so vivid during the dream though! grr.
fornasetti
Aug-13-06, 1:13 PM
what homoerotic connotations?!?!?!????
Well, I don't want to be too graphic here, as we don't want to waxx this thread. But "I wear your ring" could be interpreted as slang for back door sex, couldn't it ?
Forny, I think you're looking too hard. ;-)
fornasetti
Aug-13-06, 1:32 PM
I didn't know there was such a thing as too hard.
I didn't know there was such a thing as too hard.
Would you prefer the naughty answer or the nice answer?
fornasetti
Aug-13-06, 1:53 PM
Erm,
naughty ?
nice ?
naughty ?
nice ?
naughty ?
nice ?
naughty ?
nice ?
naughty ?
nice ?
whatever.
LOL!
I think you're reading too deeply into the subject matter. Or I don't know. I'm not a good judge since I tend to be thick when it comes to sexual innuendos.
Point being, as I said in post #90, I think we all make our own meanings of CT song titles, and I don't tend to see the homoerotic connotations in I Wear Your Ring. It has a completely different meaning for me. I think it takes a unique mindset, shall we say, to pick up on those vibrations. Then again, I never saw the sexual connotations in Ribbed & Veined until someone pointed it out to me. I don't tend to think about penii when I listen to CT music, I guess.
really elisa? penii is the plural form for penis?
fornasetti
Aug-13-06, 2:07 PM
Yay-hey ! I have a unique mindset ! Woooo !
Actually, I think you flatter me too much with that suggestion. I contend that many of the boys on these forums would have had the same kind of thought.
kookaburra
Aug-13-06, 2:09 PM
penii is the plural form for penis?
No.
But you knew what I meant when I used it.
No.
didn't think so. lol...
just before the American army invaded Iraq in the spring of 2003, there were several anti-war demonstrations here in san francisco. one of the last ones started in Dolores Park, a large park on a large hill overlooking the city. it was a warm spring day. several thousand people were there. after speeches, the group was to march down Market Street, the main street leading to the Financial District. the MC asked if anyone had any appropriate music to play while we departed for unknown danger. i had brought my Sony boombox and upon it was Blue Bell Knoll........i went up front, and soon the melodic strains of Blue Bell Knoll were blaring out over the people on the excellently loud high fidelity PA as they departed for their date with destiny... ..i was immediatley elevated into an ecstatic mood...far too happy to think about war....the urge to dance in the green grass overwhelmed me........i danced and danced.......i watched the people marching up the street, but felt no compulsion to follow....... i imagined that some worried march participant and CT fan knew immediately upon hearing the first few notes from our beloved Twins that everything was going to be OK....
the marchers came back surprisingly quickly. turns out they had only gone a few blocks to the freeway overpass and turned around, back to the safety of the wonderful park.......i thought it was the music that had drawn them back......:pride:
Phil Lawton
Sep-4-06, 6:43 PM
just before the American army invaded Iraq in the spring of 2003, there were several anti-war demonstrations here in san francisco. one of the last ones started in Dolores Park, a large park on a large hill overlooking the city. it was a warm spring day. several thousand people were there. after speeches, the group was to march down Market Street, the main street leading to the Financial District. the MC asked if anyone had any appropriate music to play while we departed for unknown danger. i had brought my Sony boombox and upon it was Blue Bell Knoll........i went up front, and soon the melodic strains of Blue Bell Knoll were blaring out over the people on the excellently loud high fidelity PA as they departed for their date with destiny... ..i was immediatley elevated into an ecstatic mood...far too happy to think about war....the urge to dance in the green grass overwhelmed me........i danced and danced.......i watched the people marching up the street, but felt no compulsion to follow....... i imagined that some worried march participant and CT fan knew immediately upon hearing the first few notes from our beloved Twins that everything was going to be OK....
the marchers came back surprisingly quickly. turns out they had only gone a few blocks to the freeway overpass and turned around, back to the safety of the wonderful park.......i thought it was the music that had drawn them back......:pride:
Maybe they'd come back to beat the shit out of you, Jim?
In 1984 a football programme (On the Ball, featuring Saint and Greavsie) on British television featured an interview with the wonderfully skillful Scottish footballer Pat Nevin in his flat when he had just signed for Chelsea. Anyway he put on Treasure on his record player. I cant remember what track they played but it didn't correspond with where the needle was. God I remember some useless information, but it was a rare ocurrence for the Cocteau's to get any mainstream exposure then so I guess thats why it always stuck in my mind. Pat Nevin also liked Half Man Half Biscuit, another one of my favourites at that time, and wasnt exactly your stereotypical footballer.
aeonaside
Sep-4-06, 7:30 PM
....i thought it was the music that had drawn them back......:pride:
beautiful story.
dammit I MISS SAN FAGCISCO!!!
crying
I Wear Your Ring is possibly the most perfectly composed cocteau song ever.
It is indeed one of the CT gems that hardly ever gets mentioned in people's favourites list. I love it. I love the way the vocals bloom in the chorus. It's like three different harmonies at once going every which way in the stereo spectrum. That, plus it's followed by the ecstatically lovely Fotzepolitic.
There was an advert on TV tonight for a new X-Box game called Assassin's Creed that uses Liz singing Teardrop. Sad to think that such a beautiful voice could be used to advertise a game about killing people.
randomrob
Nov-18-07, 10:24 PM
There was an advert on TV tonight for a new X-Box game called Assassin's Creed that uses Liz singing Teardrop. Sad to think that such a beautiful voice could be used to advertise a game about killing people.
the background music is very funereal, though
I'm sure this has been mentioned but I was watching a rerun of CSI (Vegas) last night and heard a good two minutes of The Thinner The Air on the show..
That's enough for my pop-in now, I reckon.
johnchan
May-24-08, 10:19 PM
Robin's music for a Neutrogena ad, Cocteau Twins' music for a Mitsubishi car commercial - these bring to mind discovering their music in unusual places.
I was watching an old video, "Mad Dog and Glory". Bill Murray (hoodlum) and Robert Deniro (cop) are riding in a car through New York City, and lo and behold, Iceblink Luck comes on as background music. Interesting contrast. I also remember an episode of Bay Watch (uh, my wife was watching it.....). They are diving through some beautiful coral, and there was a two-minute segment of just Cocteau Twins music and underwater images. Most effective (if I remember correctly, the song was from Four Calendar Cafe). Any other examples anyone would like to share?
Johnchan
I heard a track from Victorialand on CSI once. I can't recall which one at the moment. There used to be a program on Public Television that played short films, and the intro was a few bars of Millimilinary.
I remember that
It was a track from loves easy tears one of my favorite EPS
also for the the cover art it looks like a planet from outer space
andylama
May-25-08, 5:16 AM
NPR frequently uses Robin Guthrie's recent works as bumper music on certain programs.
For some reason, it surprises me every time I hear it.
fornasetti
May-25-08, 8:02 AM
I heard some CTs in BBC's Panorama programme last week.
Was used on Top Gear as backing music for them thrashing cars round Iceland as I recall.
NPR frequently uses Robin Guthrie's recent works as bumper music on certain programs.
For some reason, it surprises me every time I hear it.
Me too!
Quisquose
May-27-08, 8:29 PM
I heard a track from Victorialand on CSI once. I can't recall which one at the moment. .
That was "The Thinner the Air"
edward
May-28-08, 12:34 AM
That's right!
Was used on Top Gear as backing music for them thrashing cars round Iceland as I recall.
dunno why they didn't go the obvious route and choose some Sigur Ros!!
I've been watching re-runs of Top Gear on "Dave" (Freeview channel) - I have to say that reviewing doesn't improve my opinion of Mr. Clarkson.
Last night they showed the episode where they "road-tested" Vans transporting euqipment for The Who between Hyde Park and Knebworth (I think it was Knebworth).
It shows how Top Gear has deteriorated from a serious Vehicle review program to "entertainment" when all Clarkson can find to say is that "my VW Van GTI is faster than Captain Slow's Peugeot!"
someone retire him FAST!
sorry I ranted a bit off topic there! apologies to all ....
:D
Quisquose
May-28-08, 9:49 AM
I also remember an episode of Bay Watch (uh, my wife was watching it.....). They are diving through some beautiful coral, and there was a two-minute segment of just Cocteau Twins music and underwater images. Most effective (if I remember correctly, the song was from Four Calendar Cafe).
Something makes me think this was "Sigh's Smell of Farewell"...
Going to check the archives to see if I was right. :D
MODERATOR NOTE: MERGED THREAD "COCTEAU TWINS MUSIC IN UNUSUAL PLACES" INTO THE OLD THREAD "TWINS IN STRANGE PLACES".
randomrob
May-28-08, 10:31 AM
CTs on Leno???
http://users.jam21.net/sandrab/Mad%20Max%20II%20Villains/Humungus.jpg
Unleash ze dolphins!
z4arnK6ZFck
NO! Jay called them "THE" Cocteau Twins!!!!!
Bad Jay! back in your bed!
that said - can anyone name the "additional" performers on that clip please?
Mitsuo Tate on guitar. Couldn't name the others without research.
Lasermonkey
May-29-08, 5:24 PM
This Thread (http://www.cocteautwinsforums.com/showthread.php?p=6587&highlight=baywatch#post6587) says it was A Kissed Out Red Float Boat during a sky diving scene
I distinctly remember this: someone was sky-surfing. I had no idea it was baywatch until after the scene finished!
I've heard Bluebeard (original version) in several DIY shops in the UK.
I remember watching the History Channel a few years back and a song from Victorialand was used in an trailer for The Third Reich In Colour (!)
The beauty of the music in stark contrast to the images had a real impact. Very, very unsettling.
Oh, and going back a few years, wasn't there an awful, instrumental version of Carolyn's Fingers on an airline advert? Something makes me think it was Singapore Airlines.
Plain Tiger
Aug-4-08, 7:20 PM
I distinctly remember this: someone was sky-surfing. I had no idea it was baywatch until after the scene finished!
OMG - I just caught this Baywatch episode over the weekend, I was astonished! It really was so cool. The name of the episode is "Vacation, Part 1" (or maybe "Holiday, I forget). I waited for the credits at the end and they credited Cocteau Twins with it and it even said "A Kissed Out Red Floatboat"! TOO COOL! They played nearly the entire song, they just clipped it towards the end and went directly to the ending sequence.
I've seen other CT on Baywatch too back in the day. It was an underwater swimming sequence, with the "...in all my fantasies" song. I forget the name of the song, off of Echoes in a Shallow Bay maybe.
david porte
Nov-11-08, 7:52 AM
Went to see Roddy Frame at Oran Mor in Glasgow last night and 'Frou Frou Foxes' came on in the build up.
watching E4 last night there was one of those "50 greatest ... " programs on .... this was sad though as it was "50 greatest comedy catch phrases" .... and while I hate to admit to watching some of it I had to just report that there was a "sting" or short clip which was played over the intro for each "catchphrase" being discussed ....
I'm certain that the sting was an edited/remixed clip from the intro bars of "Orange Appled"!!!!
anyone else brave enough to admit having watched this and/or recognised the clip???
:D
Dpressed
Jan-18-10, 5:14 AM
^^^^^
I watched parts of the program ... but sadly was chatting to a friend at the time so had the subtitles on rather than the sound ... so are probably a double saddo
^^^^^
I watched parts of the program ... but sadly was chatting to a friend at the time so had the subtitles on rather than the sound ... so are probably a double saddo
pity! subtitles presumably just said something like
"#music plays"
????
Dpressed
Jan-19-10, 5:03 AM
^^^^
Never mentioned the music ... but as I saoid I only saw part of the program
Sean_Montgomery
Feb-9-10, 9:49 AM
I went to see The Magnetic Fields play here in Toronto last night, and they had
'50-50 Clown' as part of their pre-show warmup music.
DJ SMITHMIX
Feb-11-10, 2:00 PM
How cool to hear a CT tune before the show! 50/50 clown, excellent choice! How was the show? Steve is a friend of one of my best friends. I liked the new record. Hoping the MF comes around my town!
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Sean_Montgomery
Feb-11-10, 5:58 PM
It was an excellent show! I'm not sure where you live, but you can see the tour itinerary here: http://houseoftomorrow.com/calendar.php
DJ SMITHMIX
Feb-11-10, 11:51 PM
Thanks for the info Sean!
Of course there not playing near me.
I'm in central NY.
Have to trip into nyc to catch MF I guess.
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I hope to catch MF in Portland. They are playing 2 nights. I love them and also am looking forward to the documentary about Stephin Merritt.
v/HkzB789GTes&hl
DJ SMITHMIX
Feb-13-10, 8:10 PM
Thanks for this ED! The MF LP's "The wayward bus & Plastic trees" are two of my fav records of all time. I like Stephin's voice, but prefer when he let's guest vocalists take over. What was the name of the chick that sang on thoses 80's LP's? God, her voice was so sweet! Someone told me a long time ago she stopped singing to make knives? Hope they mention her in the documentary. Her and Kendra Smith retirerd too early in there careers! Can't wait to see this film!
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edward
Feb-13-10, 10:44 PM
I did a little digging around and found this
http://www.myspace.com/susananway
djproject
Feb-20-10, 12:38 AM
this is not necessarily a "strange place" but an unusual yet somewhat appropriate association:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lk8ijYqCsA
the music is "pink orange red" (sourced from the lullabies to violaine set)
the images used are from an episode of simon schama's power of art<qtlend></qtlend> and in this case, devoted to turner.
the pairing made me very giddy for many reasons =]
Bettina
Feb-20-10, 12:10 PM
Was surprised to hear Carolyn's Fingers in a hotel restaurant in Carlisle today. If you've ever been to the "Great Border City" you would know how strange that is.
Dpressed
Feb-21-10, 6:16 AM
^^^^^
We called in at Carlisle for lunch in 2008 ... it looked to be a nice place
Fritter
Feb-22-10, 12:53 PM
Track 5 on the April 2010 edition of Mojo magazine's cover-mounter "Dream Pop" Cd: Bluebeard.
The rest of it is great too - Cluster & Eno; Felt; School Of Seven Bells etc. etc.
God, I hate that Dream Pop term! :lol:
Moya xx
Feb-22-10, 1:52 PM
:nod:
Dpressed
Feb-22-10, 5:31 PM
Me too
p.s. BBC Radio 6 Music played the Peel Session version of 'From The Flagstones' on Gideon Coe's programme tonight.
I popped into Subway in Windsor for lunch today, and whilst I was tucking into my Subway Club on honey oat with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, pickles and honey mustard dressing I was suddenly aware that Elizabeth was singing Moses over the intercom. How the heck did Subway come to have such an unknown track on their in-store music list?
TwinsFan
May-6-11, 1:29 PM
I heard Bluebeard at Jack in the Box some time ago. My wife was watching CSI the other night and I heard Cocteau Twins on there. My kids were wondering why I came running......
-John
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