I FIRST HEAR D OF COCTEAU TWINS FROM MY ARMENIAN MUSIC SNOB FRIEND SHANT...it was leaving las vegas...and from that moment i was hooked and went out and bought all of the early cd's and worked my way up to the most recent....

cocteau twins have totally inspired my inner dreamscape and continue to meld my stardust into complex clouds of reason

i am craving some recent stuff if you know let me know too

peace

Juju

A friend of mine owned the Cocteau Twins ep, "The Spangle Maker". So the first song I heard was "Pepper-Tree".

My first introduction into the CT realm was in highschool back in '86 and one of my friends played this song.....I believe it was feet like fins.....and of course fell in love with it and them.

-m

RadioIO.com (Eclectic stream) played Frou Frou Foxes sometime last summer. I knew instantly I had found a gem.

somewhere around October of 1986 my college room mate dropped CT on me.....wow......life was never the same....the grass was greener..the sky blue----err....I started hugging random strangers....after a couple of years (and restraining orders) I learned to hold back a little....my first experience with CT was on vinyl....does anyone know what that is? :)

I guess it was WMNF 88.5FM in Tampa that got me turned on to them in the late 80s. It was a little community radio station I used to listen to when I was in high school, and they played tons of good music- I hate to think what might have happened to me if I hadn't had them to open my eyes musically.

The first album I bought was the Love's Easy Tears EP I picked up on a trip to Manhattan in like 1990. Exquisite. The title track from that EP still sends me...

I remember the first Cocteau Twins song I heard was "Bluebeard," and I instantly fell in love. I used to DJ at a college radio station and I soon found Heaven in Las Vegas, Treasure, and Moonshine and the Melodies (which is one of my favorites). It's very interesting how the Cocteau Twins have maintained such an underground popularity for more than a decade. I remember reading interview with Madonna, who said she one of her influence from the 80's was the Cocteau Twins.

Yeah, so this friend of mine back in the day (sometime between 1988-1990) asked me if I wanted a job. I had never worked a day in my life, so I jumped without looking. His father had sold some guy a duplex and a month later the building burned down. The buyer didn't have insurance so the father sportingly offers his son and friends (c'est moi) as slave labor. We were paid 5 bucks/hour cash.

We gutted the entire place, including using a sawzall to literally remove the first floor. We had to use some super heavy duty paint to cover up the smell that was left over from the smoke damage. We even got pretty fucked up (hallucinationcity) when we were using the spray gun in the closet and we weren't smart enough to get any ventilation.

The whole time my friend was playing these CT tapes. Man, those were the days.

If I ever build a house I'm gonna be blarrin that shit.

More than 15 years ago I was tuned in to an alternative-oriented show called "Capital Radio" on the long-defunct DWXB 102.7 fm (Manila) where at one time they played "Pandora for Cindy" (was that the title...would anyone know from which CD it came from?)...got drawn in by those otherworldly vocals in that indecipherable language.

Since then, I've always thought of getting their entire 4AD catalogue...kinda felt disappointed when they "mainstreamed" their sound upon signing with Fontana.

Oddly enough I first heard of them in a skater magazine. Thrasher to be exactly. Probaby '85 or so. I think I first heard them on the 4AD comp Lonely is an Eyesore but I could be mistaken.

My first song was "Bluebeard". Here in Detroit the radio is pretty lame but we had a great show called Big Sonic Heaven that was on late Sunday nights that played DCD, Bjork and such. I was just taken away by Liz's voice had to find all their albums. I think they only had two out at that time.

It was one of two ways, was so long ago I don't remember.

Either from when my friend loaned me his TMC It'll End in Tears import vinyl and I had to get more of that voice behind Song to the Siren.

Or

Caught Carolyn's Fingers video on 120 Minutes.

I know Blue Bell Knoll was the first album I got, and picked up Garlands like a week later.

In '85 I moved in with my brother's ex girlfriend (platonically). She had an awesome collection of vinyl. One weekend, determined to expand my musical horizons, I listened to cuts from every album. Treasure was one of them. Nuf said. I love every album of theirs save garlands.

my friend's uncle was trying to get him into good music, so in '90 he sent him a bunch of music and the cocteau twins were among the collection. slayer just didn't seem to do it for me after that point! so i freaked and bought everything i could find by cts.

HAHAHAH!!!

i bought heaven and los vegas on a whim...i forget why now. i was a fan of lush and my bloody valentine, so the cocteau twins fulfilled my need for something ghostly and ethereal in its beauty.

i then bought victorialand and liked that even better than heaven. treasure is my third favorite album by the twins, but all of their albums have their own distinctive merits.

120 Minutes - Late 80's

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
When he said, 'You are full of love'
She fell down into this dirty mess(??)
Some people see me laugh and tell us,
'It's wrong to make fun of me'

Even they don't give any more
Try, try to fall
She fell down into this mess
Even then they don't give
Try, try to fall
She fell down and he's so sick of it all
And of me

This part not out of her saw fit to drop
Whispers might prove it all
You're just closer to me when you fall, but you broke
This would prove it all
You just closer to me, but you broke
This would prove it all
Sleep now
You susur, try to talk
Reach out for that hand

Reach out for that hand
And even they don't give any more
Try, try to fall
Even then they don't give
Try, try to fall
You just closer to me at the fall
But you don't want, want me hand
You're just closer to me
But you don't want, want my hand

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Love at first listen...

I was listening to/taping a college radio 'goth' program in the 80s and Caroline's Fingers came on. It was/is such a beautiful song and I'd never heard anything like it. I had to get the tape (yes, back when tapes were still the big thing).

They were my intro into the 4AD label as well (DCD, TMC, Throwing Muses, etc). I started making weekly pilgrimages on the bus to this record store in a nearby city and ask them what new 4ad tapes had come in that week. It got so that the owner would set them aside for me as they came in, and would tell me about upcoming releases. The only CT she could never get for me was Lullabies, we weren't even sure if it existed. I finally found it in Harvard Square mailorder catalog on vinyl.

I ended up buying all of CT's earlier albums on import (they weren't released domestically in those days), but it was totally worth it.

My first true love played them for me. We would hold each other, watching the lights from passing cars fill and empty the window, and listen to "From the Flagstones" over and over.

Back in the vinyl days... 1983 I think... Bought Spangle Maker... puuurdy!!! Has anybody heard The Thinner The Air, the version mixed by Massive Attack... It's not too different from the original, but it has a BEAT and it's very nice!

Also if you'll be in LA this September, make sure to go to the CocteauFest... I missed it last year, but am definately planning on going!

Toodle-pip!

The first album I heard was Garlands. I was in love with a boy who was in love with the Cocteau Twins. I have no idea why (except to say I was young & ignorant), but I hated it. Fortunately, after enough exposure & marijuana, I saw the light. The boy left, but the Cocteau Twins remained.

I was 13 when I first started listening to them. I had a crush on a really cute senior at my high school who looked a lot like a young Robert Smith (on purpose as well as coincidentally) and he had the best radio show on our 10,000-watt station (KSPB 91.9, for those of you in/around Monterey, CA) in my opinion. He's the one that got me into all of the 4AD bands and goth in general...

I was taking an animation class in high school. The teacher played music on a tape player as we worked. I was cutting up my lil cardboard drawings when the most amazing music drifted over to me. I stopped what I was doing, walked shyly over to the tape player, wrote down the artist and album, and walked shyly back to my desk to continue my work. The next day, I purchased Blue Bell Knoll and found out the song I'd heard was the title track. That song still has a place in my heart, though, ... just listen to it! How could it not? What better first song could one want?

I then called my brother, away in college, who had introduced me to all the music I'd known thus far. "Have you ever heard of the Cocteau Twins?" I asked, proudly expecting to finally get to introduce something to my older brother. "Are you kidding? They're my favorite band!" Next Christmas he came equipped with every album he had of theirs and I spent hours copying them all to tape.

I was a kid and didn't have a lot of money, so I put most of the albums on one side of a tape with another album on the other side. My personal favorite mix was Garlands on side 1 and Victorialand on side 2. There's just something about going from the darkest, heaviest CT to the lightest, airiest CT.

I then went on to collect every actual tape I could find of theirs. They're even the REASON I got a CD player. I found a copy of the original 4AD Garlands and Head over Heels CDs for $10 each in a used record store, noticed the extra tracks, and (with no CD player to my name) handed over my $20. Within a few months I had a CD player. Within a few years I had every single track of theirs on CD.

For a while, I had one of the more complete Lyrics websites online. A friend and I wrote it all out primarily to have something concrete to sing. (To this day I still wonder if my current high-pitched voice is due to too many hours as a formitive teenager trying to hit Liz's high notes.) I still have that website on my computer, but I took it down cuz I just kept seeing people everywhere quoting the same lyrics someone ELSE transcribed and decided it took away too much from the mystery of it all.

I got to see them three times in concert. The first was in Boston for the lackluster FCC show. Assigned seating ... feh. The second was for M&K in Boston. I got there two hours early and managed to get a standing position FRONT ROW! It was one of the best concerts of my life. I then bussed to NYC and saw them with my brother two days later.

When they broke up, I cried.