deep throat "Lullabies"

[mmmender]

http://www.cocteautwins.com/images/sleeve_lullabies.jpg

Release Notes:

Date of release: October 1982
Written by Cocteau Twins.
Produced by Ivo Watts-Russell.
Engineered by John Madden.
Alternate Peel Session recordings were made for "Feathers Oar Blades" and "Alas Dies Laughing," both available on the BBC Sessions.
Re-released in 1991 as part of The Box Set.
Sleeve design by 23 Envelope.

[mmmender]

lullabies releases:

England 4AD BAD 213CD CD Initially only available with boxed set later sold separately
Japan 4AD/Columbia COCY-5144 CD Only available with Japanese boxed set COCY-5144/53
USA 4AD/Capitol C2-15766 CD Initially only available with boxed set later sold separately
Canada 4AD/Polygram 866343-2/DISC1 CD Only available with Canadian boxed set

England 4AD BAD 213 12"
Holland 4AD/CNR 151.089 12"

[glint]

Alas Dies Laughing is still a fave!

[zed]

...ummm, ok.......how does this release fit in they're evolution.
was there a noticable improvement at this point.i use the word "improvement" retorically. i know many people love this early material very much. i guess i mean...were they still in the mode garlands left them in? or had the big ideas started to form.
reviews better? anything on the relationship to watts-russell?

ok, i know something about this time..but it's still vauge, and i'm fishing for reads!...things from the time....

:cool: Z.

[ScottL]

Hum...actually I had it backwards...I thought Lullabies was before Garlands..but .com says the EP was Oct.82 while the album was June 82....anyway, I think both BBC versions of FOB and ADL blow Lullabies out of the water, and Ark-Lark is curious to listen to, but gets tiresome for me after the first few minutes....but I'm with Glint, I think Alas Dies Laughing may be my fav pre-Simon track....I think Lullabies is not up to par with Garlands in terms of mixing. The guitar sounds warped and out of tune to me...I need to go put it in for a refresher now....but I find the mixing of Blood Bitch, Shallow then Halo, and many others far more captivating than anything on Lullabies, and being that the two songs I like best on this album are on the BBC, I tend to never put this EP in.


PS: Oh yeah, since these tunes have Peel session counterparts(which I don't have) any opinion/preference on Peel session vs. final release?

[mmmender]

"The first thing to say about the COCTEAU TWINS is that they make the most consistently beautiful music that you're ever likely to hear, this side of swallowing three capsuls of Ecstasy and bringing Mozart back from the dead.

The second thing to say about them is that they, of any group, are perhaps least suited to biographical explanations. By the very nature of their music, any attempt to pin them down, write them up, ans stick them on a shelf is going to do them a disservice.

The third thing to say about the COCTEAU TWINS is that no-one should be put off by the grandiose rantings of their interpreters, who put finger to typewriter key whilst under the Cocteau's heavy influence.

There is a pretty good reason for the band attracting eulogies, during their life, which read "Surely this band is the voice of God", or "The COCTEAU's are to pop music what the Impressionists were to painting in the late 19th Century". The reason is, putting it simply, that the COCTEAU TWINS are uniquely brilliant."

Source: 4AD (1990)

[mmmender]

Originally posted by by the sea
of course there's always this lovely tee that mmm's got.:(


it's so damn comfy that i sleep in it sometimes...it's true!!.....just ask zed!

[someotherian]

Originally posted by mmmender
i sleep in it sometimes...
thanks nigel ;)

[Lucibelle]

"The first thing to say about the COCTEAU TWINS is that they make the most consistently beautiful music that you're ever likely to hear, this side of swallowing three capsuls of Ecstasy and bringing Mozart back from the dead.

LOLOLOL!!!:D

Can't say I've ever thought about it that way! But alas, it's true!

[zed]

well..........right.

can anyone give me a close up breakdown of the time scene between garlands and lullabies? gigs, interviews etc?
not the whole thing in words, just a timeline type of thing?

thanks:)

Z.

[dprid]

I remember rushing out to buy it the day it came out, having extracted a promise from the shop owner that they'd definitely get a copy in. On first playing I recal being slightly disappointed - it didn't seem to have the edge that Garlands had and to be honest it didn't do a lot for me. Feathers-Oar-Blades was OK, but the other two were distinctly ordinary - track 3 even dragged on a bit, not something I've ever associated the Twins with before or since! And I'm afraid that time hasn't really cured me of that opinion - it isn't a patch on Garlands and was totally blown out of the water by the next single, Peppermint Pig!

[REPLICESS]

Goosebumps, breathlessness & Joy :)

Played, and played and played and played.....whilst painting 'COCTEAU TWINS' (correct font! ;) ) in HUGE letters on my bedroom wall..... I was grounded for a week :D

Happy Days :)
*sigh*