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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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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Its Elizabeth Fraser day on MOG! Pearly Dewdrops DropsIceblink Luck This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
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My wife took this last week when it was bitterly cold and our downstairs windows got a little ice-encrusted. A (partial) view of our new rock walk and side patio. Happy New Years' Moggers!
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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 know MOG has some Cocteau Twins fans around ... now here's your chance to come out and show your true colors. I've had a long-standing appreciation for the Twins' dreamy, spacial quality ... but equally as endearing to me is/was Liz Fraser's tendency toward lovely but ambiguous words (glossolalia and puirt a beul as wiki puts it). My favorite instances of this are when Liz appears to be tal...
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Three Videos to ease my mind on this "Manic Monday"... 1. Belly - "Feed the Tree" 2. Elastica - "Connection" 3. Cocteau Twins - "Carolyn's Fingers"
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No:478 COCTEAU TWINS - HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS (1990)Elizabeth Fraser was and is one the most hypnotic singers I have ever listened to. She and her band set the benchmark for many of the acts on the brilliant 4AD record label; that strange mystique and intense mood music was a staple for many acts to follow. This is my personal favourite of theirs. It contains the most cohesive set of songs, the me...
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For me, chants in music are the equivalent of abstract art; you rorschach yourself into a meaning and vibe. The vocal provides the human link, but the lack of lyrics allows you to bring your own experience or state of mind to the work (think audible ink blot.) The same track could resonate as being haunting/relaxing, sad/uplifting, or ancient/futuristic, etc., depending upon your mood, the t...
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in her lunchbox purse, my goodbye(found in an old journal)there were moments in those black and white pictured roomsyour arms draped languidly around me drunk desolateso beautifuli wanted you to carry on with me when the lights came back onwhen life began'garlands' drifted off the turntablebodies swayinggashed bruisedglory and forever in their eyesyou leaned against the cool of the bathroom sta...
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I love this band!!
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To listen to a song like this for the first time in over half a year... I remember when I first heard this song. I fell in love with it. And it got me into some more stuff from this group who've since, sadly, broken up.Quite possibly one of the best non-new wave/technopop songs that mainstream will never understand. And that's fine with me.I never really understood mainstream pop anyway.Unti...
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