The band's influences at the time included Joy Division, The Birthday Party, Sex Pistols and Siouxsie & The Banshees. The name Cocteau Twins itself comes from an early (unreleased) song by fellow Scotsmen Simple Minds. Their debut recording, Garlands (released by 4AD Records in 1982), was an instant success, as was the subsequent Lullabies EP.
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Iceblink Luck..Robin Guthrie (guitar) and Will Heggie (bass), both from Grangemouth, Scotland, formed the band in 1980. At a local disco, Nash, they met Elizabeth Fraser, who eventually provided vocals.The band's influences at the time included Joy Division, The Birthday Party, Sex Pistols and Siouxsie & The Banshees. The name Cocteau Twins itself comes from an early (unreleased) song by fellow...
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If you are a fan of Cocteau Twins, the track A Kissed Out Red Floatboat will be aired on Aural Bliss this coming Sunday night (1/14).Aural Bliss airs from 10PM-Midnight on Auralgasms Radio. You can also expect to hear from Spiritualized, The Cure, Xymox, Delerium and Mum this week.Join the chat during the show to profess your love for all things Cocteau.
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So the Cocteau Twins are one of my favorite groups and a true inspiration for me when it comes to writing, but having gotten into them far too late, I never had occasion to see them play. I found this video clip of them playing on some TV show and it reminded me of the glaring differance of playing in a studio and playing live. I would never exactly catagorise the Twins as a "rocking" band, ...
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As I sit today, at my desk, eating "Good & Plenty":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_%26_Plenty by the fistfull, I am given pause by the arrival of a choice nugget of greasy news that lands upon my desk. My fiancee's dad has a large piece of property in the country that he's been trying to sell. Last week a very wealthyman approached him and made a counter bid against a fellow who had already o...
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I apologize for those that tire of this little thing, but I thought I'd push myself and bring it over here to MOG, my primary site for blogging.Since this is, after all, a music site, these 25 things will all have something to do with music, however tenuous the link might be. And there are some rules about what you do when you get "tagged", but rules are for suckers. Consider everyone that read...
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Release date was June 25, 1982 (also the birthday of my good friend Tom Caskie, 1969. Happy Birdhey, TAC) a movie production based on the book, "*Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?*":http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_androids.html by Phillip K. Dick and directed by Ridley Scott. If you have never seen this movie or read the book, you must have been living under a rock. So what do you th...
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I had posted a couple of Cocteau Twins xmas song/videos on Rawkkiddoh's post here: http://mog.com/Rawkkiddoh/blog/265940#comments but felt one of them was just too beautiful of a xmas rendition for it to be buried. It's one of my favorite xmas tunes and I never get tired of CT's version. It's just so gorgeous.So without further ado, here's CT's classic rendition of 'Winter Wonderland':
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Its Elizabeth Fraser day on MOG! Pearly Dewdrops DropsIceblink Luck This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
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Iceblink Luck..Robin Guthrie (guitar) and Will Heggie (bass), both from Grangemouth, Scotland, formed the band in 1980. At a local disco, Nash, they met Elizabeth Fraser, who eventually provided vocals.The band's influences at the time included Joy Division, The Birthday Party, Sex Pistols and Siouxsie & The Banshees. The name Cocteau Twins itself comes from an early (unreleased) song by fellow...
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| 1 Carolyn's Fingers |
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| 2 Blue Bell Knoll |
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| 3 The Itchy Glowbo Blow |
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| 4 Suckling the Mender |
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| 5 For Phoebe Still a Baby |
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