ALL TIME FAVOURITE ALBUM????

i know it's like asking you to give up your first born - but if you had to pick just one cocteau twins album to be your absolute fave - what would you pick?

for me it's a serious toss up between treasure and holv but i'd have to say holv wins out.

mmmender

on balance, probably BBK, then maybe HOLV.. but also victorialand.. and treasure.. and.. :-)

HOLV or M&K. If "Violiane" and "Serpenskirt" were also on HOLV, then I'd definitely say HOLV.

absolutely definitely beyond any doubt, _Victorialand_ is my favorite thing to listen to, ever. i have listened to this album a few times a week every week since about 1988, and it still continues to amaze me. it is the perfect trance-inducing meditational disc.....

sorry phil but m&k is my least fave of all the albums and ep's but together. i just think it's a very weak piece of work. there are however two amazing songs on the album......the very last two tracks "treasure hiding" and "seekers who are lovers" are fucking incredible songs!!! but i absolutely HATE (yes hate) serpentskirt, i always skip that track - always!!!!

I've always thought that BBK was my favorite, but looking at the track listings, I'd have to say that Road, river and rail tips the scales for HoLV. Summerhead is one of my favorite songs (my son swears it's their best). Unfortunately, FCC is the CD I play the least. (Thank goodness for homemade compilation tapes & CDs!)

Lupe

P.S. Leesa, I love the site's new look.

lupe - agreed that bbk is an incredible album!! i too love RRR, great song....especially the way she sings that "mother's daughter" line (right ian?)

too bloody right leesa (or whatever you're called these days.. ;-) )
RRR is indeed a blinder of a song.
trouble with cocteau twins is that they never produced a really great complete album.. just several mostly very good ones albums (or partly good in the case of m&k). bit like most bands really though, to put it into perspective. (but not too much, obviously...)
let's not expect too much, these are mere mortals after all.. albeit with a fabulous voice, funky guitar or bass (as appropriate)!

Gotta be the Pink Opaque...Or maybe Heaven or Las Vegas. Or the Moon and the Melodies...I guess it depends on what day it is.

This is a very tough question. I got to say, for me, HOLV probably takes the cake. I like the mood of HOLV the best, however, every album seriously effects me in it's own way.

HOLV is my favourite CT album.Thank you God for the day you guided my hand on that LP.

The Breath of God in my mouth.......

Mine would be Blue Bell Knoll.

Well my favorite is also Blue Bell Knoll closely followd by Treasure and Victorialand

Fred

I used to think HLV, but lately I think FCC is up there, despite many thinking FCC was a weak album by the cocteaus. I think production wise, that is one of there best, if not there best. The mixing on that album is brilliant. So, I'm sitting on the fence betweeen HLV and FCC.

Steven, I agree about the mixing of FCC, from that perspective,and with the right mood, FCC is my fav..but aside from that it is too hard to pick one..when HolV, BBK and Victorialand are all around..

Hard question to ask but someone has asked me the "if I were stranded on an island, which album would I want to have with me" question. I keep going back to BBK because the vibe of the whole album is so comforting. I am absolutely freakish about that album -- I listen to it often. Have so since I bought the damn thing.

HOLV -- How could I do without that tho?
And Twinlights BLEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW me away -- The version of half gifts left me speechless -- hell that whole damn EP thing left me breathless -- I was transported the very first time I heard Twinlights


:o) I don't think a week has gone by that I don't listen to something from CT. I am amazed to this day the hold this band has on me.

Even tho it wasn't an album -- Twinlights had quite an impact on me.

Two years ago, at age 31, I had a bit of a bad year. I got my heart broken by a man I was truly in love with. I mean B-R-O-K-E-N in every sense of the word. Now as man who works as a police officer (yep everyone knows I'm gay, approves and is supportive probably cause I'm a big bear of a guy and I scare them a litte LOL), I'm someone who prides himself on keeping his emotions in check and not letting them get the best of me but I never knew that a heart could feel that way....or get broken that way.

Twinlights was something I would put on to actually calm me down when I started thinkin about what went wrong. It took me a while to understand what Ms. Fraser was saying at the end of Rilkean Heart and when I figured it out....it was an epiphany to me. "I have my friends, my family, I have myself, I still have me." Pretty great words when you really think about it.

You wouldn't think that a guy like me would like a band like the Twins but their music has often inspired me through tough times like coming out to friends and family, losing my Mom and just life in general. Having a job like I do can make you very cynical so a guy needs to have something that brings him back to a calmer world and strangely enough --the Twins do the trick. I have actually gotten a couple of my buddies on the force to listen to them. Needless to say, they have become fans.

I put the Twins on when I'm happy, when I'm blue, when I'm inspired, when I'm pissed off, when I'm pensive. They are one of the best bands around even if they are broken up. They are therapy for the soul and besides I can shake my moneymaker as best as a guy like me can on songs like Iceblink Luck and Summerhead. LOL

I haven't put the Twins on in a couple of weeks, I think the selection tonight will be Blue Bell Knoll.

Do any/all the tracks on the 'Twinlights' EP crop up on any other CT release(s)?

And it's hard to pick out a favourite CT LP when most are all equally great, but for me it's a toss up between 'Milk & Kisses' and 'Heaven or Las Vegas', which in my opinion contain their most beautiful and 'heavenly'(!) tracks...

Christian

"Pink Orange Red" appears on the "Tiny Dynamine"/Echoes In A Shallow Bay" double EP. "Rilkean Heart" and "Half Gifts" both appear on "Milk & Kisses". "Golden Vein" also appears on the "BBC Sessions" release.