It feels like a cone of convenience-store sundae after a 9 to 5 job that doesn't pay well and has a very mean employer and you need to be home by 6 to assist a dying loved one.
@@tdsims1963 Anyone. There was even nice interview with Lisa where she stands "Under the bridge" and sings trying to sound like moving cars. She said that her voice is instrument. But if you ask me about my favourite it's definitely Aion.
Bike shop owner here. Where was this mystical place you speak of? I went to dinner over at a fellow bike shop owners house and he had victorialand cd playing. 😊
I remember summer of 2004, I worked at an absolutely miserable job, I waited all day for my lunch break so I could go to the roof of the parking garage so I could listen to this album, and this song at least 3 or 4 times. It was the best part of my day.
Be careful, it's a trap. I had no plans for my day. But then I heard this song. Now I have to listen to everything they have done. And I have heard it all before. What a great way to spend my day.
If i listen to 45minutes or more of Cocteau Twins its unsettling to even consider listening to anyone else's music FOR THE REST OF THE DAY. And thats how i feel about that.
Absolutely. They are their own genre and one I have been a devotee of for decades. I have all their music on original vinyl and each one is a prized possession.
43 (for a couple more months 😁). Funny how they have that effect, for some reason I still don't really understand, this music has the exact same effect on me. Haven't listened to them for almost twenty years, a lot of hard things came crashing down and I became so hard, but my precious wife stuck by my side (the most beautiful soul I've ever encountered, on this side of the Mortal Coil, that is...but that's a long story: I'll say this, though, I don't "believe" in Heaven, I absolutely know it exists, nothing and no one can ever take that away now...went from having my spine crashed in a car accident and being paralyzed in one leg and unable to really use the other one broke my neck in 3 places, was told I'd NEVER walk again, and would soon lose bowel and bladder control...one day, after a particularly deep look into my own soul, I just began weeping so hard that I collapsed, I thought my heart had literally burst inside of me...I can't entirely explain what happened next, but out of a darkness I knew to be eternal and infinite, a fragrant, oily fire came pouring down on my soul, and I was met...I don't feel comfortable giving all the details, but I can say that the most BEAUTIFUL Woman I've ever encountered - beyond imagination, there are truly no words - looked into my eyes with the deepest love and kindest, deepest pity, and picked me up, continuing to gaze into my eyes. More radiant the Sun, Her face, and purer than Pure...I saw and heard so much more, but can't really share it, too personal, and really beyond words, but all the thrashed, beaten, cut, empty, and torn parts of my soul were filled with absolute light and love so solid and powerful that every hurt I ever had was erased, and I never wanted to leave Her arms...when I eventually "came back" to my body, not only could I walk again, but I went out to my backyard and did a backflip on my trampoline, something I hadn't done in over 25 years: you should have seen the look on my wife and childrens' faces!) In any event, I'll never be the same again, and listening to music like this reminds me of that haunting, lovely beauty, and draws tears out of my eyes once again (did I mention I couldn't stop crying - from the joy of having my body restored, but also the sadness of having to leave that Light and all the loving Souls there who love with One Heart, One Mind, and One Spirit?) This music is like medicine for weary souls...just wonderful.
My parents would play this when we would drive at night, so now this eternally reminds me of childhood nighttime drives, half awake half asleep while this played on the sound system. Good good times. Edit: Wow thank you all so much for so many likes and comments, I didn't expect this to be so well received lol.
This exactly what this songs reminds me, of a late night drive where my dad put some music in the radio, and i was half-sleep and barely putting attention to the song, but either way the song set the journey back home, maybe after a long day in the house of someone i don't even remember that well
Hey turning 30 was the best thing that ever happened to me. I first heard this song a couple weeks after I turned 30, in the Las Vegas airport. Tired as fuck from Vegas. I turn 31 next month. Life is crazy. Never too old.
Yes! I never thought of this song that way but it has an element of contemplation during a moment of fleeting beauty and joy. One of my all-time favorite songs.
This is an extremely one of the best clip&lyric&music of CT forever!!!;-)))Greetings from Russia to all fans of CT in the whole world!!!That's music CT is incredible&outstanding!!!
@@marvelharris9540 do you have a source for that? Their own Wikipedia article says that she sings in glossolalia. Not to mention the fact that they’re Scottish
not tryna be an asshole. i cant play this song comfortably sdo in my experience its difficult. although i guess its difficult and simple because its not a huge number of chords
@@jack-uv6mtAs with all the Cocteau twins songs, there are nuances in this song that are fairly tricky. But I'm talking about the chord foundation in which the melody is based on - D G C
@@jack-uv6mtTo add. For example, the melody in the verse is sophisticated but the guitar chords are just alternating between D an G. It then changes to a C chord when the chorus comes in.
I love when that happens. There are just some artists that somehow make you feel something and it's not always about dancing. It's like a memory of something that hasn't happened yet or a feeling you've felt before.
there are demons living in my soul they tell me to order you to submit to the bug lord of the genesian realm taker he will guide you to salvation of cleansed mind and a world of one thousand wishes to be grantable upon enlightenment
Don't feel bad, my first listen was 2015 at the age of 29 and I was blind sided by it. Couldn't believe I missed it and just how incredible and beautiful it was. Its just on a whole other level.
The vibe of this song makes me feel like what I am, a 57 year old man reflecting on life and on the life of others dear to me being grateful that I lived and breathed in the '80s.
This is so unique to me,the fact this song resonates with so many different people ,I find this song ethereal,as if it’s a part of my soul,I am 16 and I’m girl
I remember buying this in 1990 on cassette tape and I was deeply in love with my first girlfriend at the time and made a lovely soundtrack to how I felt at the time. I’m 57 now and still listening to it.
For those asking about her lip movements not matching the sounds-as a professional musician I think I can answer this. Her angelic voice is treated with heavy effects: reverb being most obvious, maybe some delay and possibly a harmonizing effect. It’s partly why she sounds so otherworldly. And what can happen in the studio is, if the singer can hear these affects in their headphones, they sing to and enunciate according to how the sound comes back to them. So, lets take the phrase Las Vegas-Liz clearly isn’t enunciating the GAS part in the word, as the delay and reverb is still flowing from the previous phrase. So she’s leaving space for the effects to breathe. Make sense? It sounds like she’s singing something like “It must be heaven or Las Vegooooowowow’ and letting the last syllable and note be carried away in a wash of effects. It’s a very, very beautiful and compelling way to sing. She is a Celtic goddess.
@@fruitypeebils people have become so conditioned to be combative on the internet that it's become their norm to be guns blazing yet completely unprovoked. The last place i'd expect that type of goading is a cocteau twins comment section. What exactly do you think the purpose of a comment section is? A place for you to shame those for posting a comment that was relevant to the content? So are we only expected to post a comment if someone asks for it? Did anyone ask for your input before you chose to go down the condescending route? There's a lot of angst out there and i get it, but perhaps redirect it towards those who screwed you and not some rando on youtube offering an interesting take.
These women have voices like an angel. The first time I heard them I was young and free, at the very beginning of a lifetime journey....Years have passed since that moment and their music is still with me in heart and mind.....
@@starlightzero0 oh yeah you don’t need to listen when you can simply simultaneously write and listen or just listenwtite the whole song instantaneously
this was playing on the speakers at the las vegas airport last time i landed there and it was one of the best music moments i've ever had. thanks airport music curator and thanks cocteau twins
@@mrfish4lyfe amen... I work here at the airport 🛫 in Las Vegas and most of the music has Vegas in it... but that song was other worldly and I was smitten... 🥲 Never even knew it existed until last month... crazy right?
I hope someday the Cocteau Twins will get more credit for evolving music than they already have. The notion of using language as an instrument has never been more commercially proven. They sold millions of songs where no one knew exactly what they were listening to, and still loving every minute of it. There is opera, and other musical forms where listeners aren't quite sure what language they're listening to, but CT struck a special cord. They influenced generations immediately, in the now, based on pure impact and emotion.
I was at brewery this weekend called Humble Sea in Santa Cruz, CA. This song came on and I was instantly captivated. I had heard of Cocteau Twins my whole life but never heard their music. The music, the breeze, the sun, the beer with my wife on a day off to do nothing but chill and talk. Can't stop listening it to.
First time I heard this song,my 17 yr old daughter played it while we were driving,it brought tears to my eyes, jus sound so Heavenly, My daughter asked, why are you crying mom? I couldn't hold back my tears. Beautiful song..
Never bothered to check out their music (i've known about them for ages though) until yesterday when it just popped into my YT recommended videos. Instantly hooked.
I've always been unable to decipher any lyrics of any band, it's a relief to listen to such wonderful music such as that of the Cocteau Twins and not be expected to understand their lyrics...
This song will always make me cry. Truth was, at this time Elizabeth Fraser was pregnant and so happy for that! The sound of brilliant busting out glorious will ever haunt my heart.
I know purist fans will say this one is too commercial or glossy, but this whole album is one of my top ten of all times. It soars--I have listened to it thousands of times, it still lifts me up like few others. This is a band plugged into worlds most of us just dream of.
It's 2022, and I've listened to the Cocteau Twins since 1997 when I first found them. I've always just listened and enjoyed the music and Liz's voice. Tonight, RUclips suggested this video, and it's the first one I've ever watched after listening for 25 years. Watching Liz now is like hearing her for the first time in '97. I could watch this forever. Liz, if you ever come across this, thank you so much for what you've done. (Robin and Simon, you, too.)
Ok I am losing my mind I thought she was singing in another language. I just googled lyrics and it is in fact, english words being sung. I'm officially obsessed with this song.
before the internet became a big thing, ive always wondered what she was singing about and almost thought really, that there was two vocalists. but found out it was just the one. Some of the words are in a different language and just muttering or something relatable to english. but yes, ive struggled for a long time to know what she was singing about until their website came into being. which in fact people had pieced together bits and pieces of what she was singing. But even then as Ms. Frazer has put it even she had made up words. but they are still beautiful to hear, even if she is not singling anything tangible at times. They continue to be one of my favorite bands.
I first met Cocteau Twins, in various cities in the United States, at after show parties (backstage), during the tour for HOLV. As people they came off as just ordinary people, who made the most extraordinary music. Robin was the one who introduced me to Elizabeth. It was the 2nd time backstage that I met Simon. A lot of great memories from that tour. I asked Robin if they could play my home town, Cleveland, the next time they toured. We met, again, during the FCC tour, and not only did they add Cleveland, but Ohio was the only state that had 3 shows. They gave me tickets and backstage access to quite a few of those shows. Again, a lot of great memories. I love their music, and I loved them as people.
Loved them for almost 30 years now. This album still inspires me the same way it did when I was in high school....Iceblink Luck...Fifty-Fifty Clown...Cherry-Coloured Funk :) Just perfection...
I love her voice and the music is so dreamy. I remember them from jr. high and high school back in the 80's. Now my 14 yr. old daughter is listening to them 40 years later. The Cocteau Twins have transcended time.
Montgomery Denzer What is it with this song that conjures up sadness and a keenness to end it? The melody and strangely inapplicable lyrics just makes me think this would not be a bad way to go out of this world and into the next.
I hear, "Singin' on a famous street, I want to love a beau that won't love me. Am I just in heaven or Las Vegas? 'Cos you're the more brighter than the sun is to me" Only Elizabeth Fraser really knows. Fantastic work of art, exhilaratingly performed.
I first discovered this song when I was living in Madrid... and would play it over and over and over and walk the Grand Via looking at how beautiful everything was. It's so moving!
A friend of mine gave me a K-7 record of Treasure back in 90...I listened the whole night like I just have found a secret precious stone! Couldnt wait to show my sister, who refused to listen to it ...but after she did, she got so hooked on Cocteau she couldn't listen to anything else for years...bought all their albums.. almost 30 years later, its still incredible to realize how Divine Cocteau is... conclusion: this music must come from Heaven and Liz Fraser must be an Angel!
I'm a 30 year old guy who heard this song for the first time just a few months ago, but it is already very special to me. ***WAYY TOO LONG STORY TIME*** We went to Vegas for a bachelor party weekend for one of my best friends and had an amazing time (you can imagine). Me and one friend got an earlier 5:30 AM Sunday flight out of there to be cheap. We stayed up all night at the Cosmo having so much fun that we still managed to miss our flight (barely), so then we had to be in the airport until 1:30 PM for our new flight. We had just got to our new gate at 6 AM, almost no one else in our terminal. My friend lays down to take a nap on the ground next to our stuff, exhausted, and defeated. I'm just sitting nearby, unable to sleep. I'm drunk, high, and hungover all at the same time. I'm miserable but somehow very happy at the same time, mindlessly watching the sunrise outside the terminal window. At that moment, this song starts playing over the speakers (of course just because it has Las Vegas in the name), but my ears immediately perk up right when it starts with that verse groove. It was so quiet in there that I could hear the music super clearly, and I just thought the vibe was immaculate (and I was right). I held my phone up in the air to Shazam it, listened to it a few more times, eventually went to the bar for SEVERAL hours and then we flew home. Now, and for the rest of my life, this song will take me right back to those 5 minutes in the empty terminal, and then to that great weekend with my bros. ***TLDR=This song reminds me of a good weekend I had in Vegas once***
god bless 4ad, i grew up on the streets of nyc, 4ad helped raise me. liz is a goddess, the cocteau twins were my religion. all of you who feel the same, i am so with you
One of the most evocative songs I've ever heard. May you be blessed enough to have discovered this during a memorable time in your life, it takes you instantly back.
By the time this song was in fashion, my mom was waiting for me to be born. She have always been such a musical person; I like to think that maybe I used to listen this song inside my mother's womb and since then I'd like it so much. It realeses the deepest dreamy side of me. Cocteau Twins is my biggets musical find from 2020.
Hard to listen to. Reminds me of early college days. Being with a girl I loved. Had some problems but things just felt right. This one takes me back. Beautiful song and band.
This was the song that sealed CT for me as a band. I had liked previous releases, but this one just hit. When it started playing on college/independent radio I couldn't get enough of it.
The entire album, Heaven or Las Vegas has no bad tracks. Just a bunch of random rhythmic psychedelic sounds and rhythms with this beautiful voice floating in and out. You just get lost in it. The last song is a hell of an ending song to close the album. It has to be heard to be believed.
I used to listen to this album in it’s entirety to try to cope with my ex dumping me. Everything was a reminder of our past. I stopped listening to music but this was the only thing that helped me through the pain and reminded me how much music can help one heal.
legend has it that to this day even the singer does not have a clue what she is singing about i hope life is good for you folks Best wishes to you from Rolland in Scotland
One of the highlights of my life was seeing the Cocteaus perform this live. It was at Brixton Academy and it was a night to remember for evermore. Even the support band, Frazier Chorus were brilliant but this track raised the roof, totally fucking awesome.
La colonna sonora della fine di questa mia estate 2024... Grazie Cocteau Twins per aver incorniciato alla perfezione paesaggi, emozioni e immagini di ricordi che mai riuscirò a dimenticare.
Perhaps my favorite song ever, this is reminiscent of my summer of 1990, having just relocated from Chicago to Auburn Alabama for grad school. This song has always meant hope and gratitude for me.
When that third chorus comes in after the guitar solo it's just beautiful. The very slight change in the harmonised vocal just augments the effect. Those subtle harmonic changes are all over their stuff, adding power to the songs even towards their end. The only other band who did that subtle stuff were the beatles.
I was born early '85 and this reminds me not only of my childhood but also my Mother who loved this song... sadly i lost her in 2022 😢 Miss You Mum xx xx Love Ya Lots & Always xx ❤💯
every Cocteau Twins song is so bittersweet. it's kind of like those little happy moments in a small, sad life. gotta love them for it.
yup, its eerie stuff. this song right here makes u feel like either they captured life. or sometimes like ur life is suddenly a movie. real magic.
It feels like a cone of convenience-store sundae after a 9 to 5 job that doesn't pay well and has a very mean employer and you need to be home by 6 to assist a dying loved one.
that’s an interesting way to put it, I actually kinda agree. the Cocteau Twins also have a very nostalgic sound.
@@saintherip8624 I agree w/ the original post but THAT sounds very personal
ive been listening to this album non-stop, I need help!! lol
"Lyrics are just a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they normally would." - David Byrne
why their band maybe was called, talking heads....
REM
They are also a way of expressing yourself though too and making statements, poetry kind of thing, they do serve a purpose.
Interestingly both artists are Scottish
@@Dunbie_ i’ll take anything Scottish
Cocteau Twins: proof lyrics don't matter when the voice is an instrument in its own right.
Dead Can Dance. Lisa Gerrard sings in her own language.
Yep. Yep.
@@hadeseye2297 I've listened to a lot of Dead Can Dance. Which albums are you referring to?
@@tdsims1963 Anyone. There was even nice interview with Lisa where she stands "Under the bridge" and sings trying to sound like moving cars. She said that her voice is instrument. But if you ask me about my favourite it's definitely Aion.
Also Hiatus Kaiyote, D'Angelo, Death Grips
Used to work in a bike shop and the guy who owned it would nail this album on repeat daily. This is an absolutely fantastic song.
Good memories
Cant beat bilke shop memories.
I used to own a bike shop back in the 90s and Cocteau Twins were a staple
Nail this album? What does that mean?
Bike shop owner here. Where was this mystical place you speak of? I went to dinner over at a fellow bike shop owners house and he had victorialand cd playing. 😊
I remember summer of 2004, I worked at an absolutely miserable job, I waited all day for my lunch break so I could go to the roof of the parking garage so I could listen to this album, and this song at least 3 or 4 times. It was the best part of my day.
been there!!! I like to listen to the same song about ten times though!!
There are no words xxx
I am glad.
Great album
I relate to that
Be careful, it's a trap. I had no plans for my day. But then I heard this song. Now I have to listen to everything they have done. And I have heard it all before. What a great way to spend my day.
Tall Dave LMAO
THAT EXACTLY IS HAPPENING TO ME RIGHT NOW!! IT ALWAYS DOES! HAHA
I was going to shower..
If i listen to 45minutes or more of Cocteau Twins its unsettling to even consider listening to anyone else's music FOR THE REST OF THE DAY. And thats how i feel about that.
@@duewhit310 - Exactly! Anything else, kills the mood.
New Order, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Psychedelic Furs. The '80s ruled
WHAT? HELL YES!!!!!
Only those who lived through it will ever understand how glorious it truly was!
can we include Depeche Mode?
jesus and mary chain
exactly, art.
emotion..
Nobody can match her. They created their own world
Hi I recommend an indie rock song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
The cranberries….
Absolutely.
They are their own genre and one I have been a devotee of for decades.
I have all their music on original vinyl and each one is a prized possession.
Enya
Dolores O’Riordan (The Cranberries)
Leigh Nash (Sixpence None the Richer)
@@Jacob-vz9nk there's no reason to compare these bands. Cocteau Twins is the literal definition of dream pop.
I want to feel like how this song sounds.
Oh man 😔🖤
If only
Stay Beautiful 💔😞
Do drugs.
have you ever done mdma
Liz is so beautiful and that voice makes this 61 year old man cry. Cocteau Twins are the best.
Мазер Сайбирия кэн край ту.
brate srbine! :D
same here but only 60 ;]
Same here.... but 62!
43 (for a couple more months 😁). Funny how they have that effect, for some reason I still don't really understand, this music has the exact same effect on me. Haven't listened to them for almost twenty years, a lot of hard things came crashing down and I became so hard, but my precious wife stuck by my side (the most beautiful soul I've ever encountered, on this side of the Mortal Coil, that is...but that's a long story: I'll say this, though, I don't "believe" in Heaven, I absolutely know it exists, nothing and no one can ever take that away now...went from having my spine crashed in a car accident and being paralyzed in one leg and unable to really use the other one broke my neck in 3 places, was told I'd NEVER walk again, and would soon lose bowel and bladder control...one day, after a particularly deep look into my own soul, I just began weeping so hard that I collapsed, I thought my heart had literally burst inside of me...I can't entirely explain what happened next, but out of a darkness I knew to be eternal and infinite, a fragrant, oily fire came pouring down on my soul, and I was met...I don't feel comfortable giving all the details, but I can say that the most BEAUTIFUL Woman I've ever encountered - beyond imagination, there are truly no words - looked into my eyes with the deepest love and kindest, deepest pity, and picked me up, continuing to gaze into my eyes. More radiant the Sun, Her face, and purer than Pure...I saw and heard so much more, but can't really share it, too personal, and really beyond words, but all the thrashed, beaten, cut, empty, and torn parts of my soul were filled with absolute light and love so solid and powerful that every hurt I ever had was erased, and I never wanted to leave Her arms...when I eventually "came back" to my body, not only could I walk again, but I went out to my backyard and did a backflip on my trampoline, something I hadn't done in over 25 years: you should have seen the look on my wife and childrens' faces!)
In any event, I'll never be the same again, and listening to music like this reminds me of that haunting, lovely beauty, and draws tears out of my eyes once again (did I mention I couldn't stop crying - from the joy of having my body restored, but also the sadness of having to leave that Light and all the loving Souls there who love with One Heart, One Mind, and One Spirit?) This music is like medicine for weary souls...just wonderful.
My parents would play this when we would drive at night, so now this eternally reminds me of childhood nighttime drives, half awake half asleep while this played on the sound system. Good good times.
Edit: Wow thank you all so much for so many likes and comments, I didn't expect this to be so well received lol.
That is so cool. My kids love the Cocteau Twins
Half in shadow half in light, not warm not cold perfect bliss
This exactly what this songs reminds me, of a late night drive where my dad put some music in the radio, and i was half-sleep and barely putting attention to the song, but either way the song set the journey back home, maybe after a long day in the house of someone i don't even remember that well
Snowcardinal, you are very fortunate to have experienced this music in this way. You will never forget it.
Your parents are legends
This is a top 10 song of all time for me. Truly an ethereal song
This song is a 10/10 classic that will never get old.
Says the adult with a creepy anime children's avatar.
The vibe of this song makes me feel like im a highschool girl entering prom. I am a 30 year old man.
nothing has been more accurate
Hit the nail on the fucking head with that one.
😂🙌🙌
Hey turning 30 was the best thing that ever happened to me. I first heard this song a couple weeks after I turned 30, in the Las Vegas airport. Tired as fuck from Vegas. I turn 31 next month. Life is crazy. Never too old.
Yes! I never thought of this song that way but it has an element of contemplation during a moment of fleeting beauty and joy. One of my all-time favorite songs.
One of the most lush songs ever written. A big, glowing, bright orange hug of a track.
"orange hug of a track" is absolutely on point ;)))
This is an extremely one of the best clip&lyric&music of CT forever!!!;-)))Greetings from Russia to all fans of CT in the whole world!!!That's music CT is incredible&outstanding!!!
Well said.....
Pulsating with multicolored lights. The video captures it well.
very poetic
Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Fraser. Your music has been a profound source of joy and inspiration for so many of us.
♫ Singin' on a feeboo streeeee, I want to love-a-gomba-gom-gom-beee ♪
Haaa haaa!! I heard it "I want to lo-ve a gum bumblebee"
Maybe because I'm mexican and I dont speak english... So properly
Gomba gom gom beee heaven.
It’s like she pulled the words right from my heart 😂
I love Gumby too
What a damned amazing song. Then I realize I am crying at nonsense words. A beautiful trick.
Its the native tongue of Ireland... far from nonsense
@@marvelharris9540 do you have a source for that? Their own Wikipedia article says that she sings in glossolalia. Not to mention the fact that they’re Scottish
@@marvelharris9540 dumb
@@marvelharris9540 it is absolutely NOT the native tongue of ireand
@@marvelharris9540 it's English and she sings with a thick Scottish accent. The lyrics can be found online.
It's so impressive how they come up with such such unique and sophisticated vocal melodies on top of simple chord progressions.
its not a simple chord progression theyre actually fairly difficult chords
not tryna be an asshole. i cant play this song comfortably sdo in my experience its difficult. although i guess its difficult and simple because its not a huge number of chords
@@jack-uv6mtAs with all the Cocteau twins songs, there are nuances in this song that are fairly tricky. But I'm talking about the chord foundation in which the melody is based on - D G C
@@jack-uv6mtTo add. For example, the melody in the verse is sophisticated but the guitar chords are just alternating between D an G. It then changes to a C chord when the chorus comes in.
i guess my point was the voicings are odd and you have to stretch you fingers along four frets@@z23xc5
My god, her eyes are insanely mesmerizing. Voice is right there also.
Hi I recommend an indie rock song called 'Looking Into The Mirror' By Robert Nix
To the stranger who played Cocteau Twins at a random bar in Siem Reap last February 2019 - just wanna let you know I haven’t forgotten you.
It was me: Tony.
Yes I can confirm it was: Tony
Yeah, that was Tony
i have to let you know, it was: Tony.
I heard it was actually, contrary to popular belief: Tony
Elizabeth Fraser has the voice of a goddess.
And face.
This song is so incredibly familiar yet I’m sure I have never listened to this before. What a voice!
Yes I know what you mean
Yea
I love when that happens. There are just some artists that somehow make you feel something and it's not always about dancing. It's like a memory of something that hasn't happened yet or a feeling you've felt before.
Love love is a verb, love is a doing word....teardrop on the fire of a confession. Sound familiar? Same voice....
The music in the background sounds a bit like « pictures of you » from The Cure
Liz is my favorite vocalist of all time. Truly the voice of angels.
there are demons living in my soul they tell me to order you to submit to the bug lord of the genesian realm taker he will guide you to salvation of cleansed mind and a world of one thousand wishes to be grantable upon enlightenment
@@yome6132😂
I can’t believe I’ve only just discovered this song today. I’m 40 years old, I should have heard this by now. On my 6th listen. Incredible music
Hope you enjoy the rest of their stuff! They've been my favourite band for twelve years now
Don't feel bad, my first listen was 2015 at the age of 29 and I was blind sided by it. Couldn't believe I missed it and just how incredible and beautiful it was. Its just on a whole other level.
Listen to Bluebeard
im 44 when I first heard this. Today actually. But I knew Cocteau Twins. I love discovering timeless gems.
Makes you feel like you missed out on your youth and could go back doesn't it?
The vibe of this song makes me feel like what I am, a 57 year old man reflecting on life and on the life of others dear to me being grateful that I lived and breathed in the '80s.
This is so unique to me,the fact this song resonates with so many different people ,I find this song ethereal,as if it’s a part of my soul,I am 16 and I’m girl
Me too !!! What a bliss 🥰❤️🔥💎
Well said, well said. I get it. I am 53. We were so lucky!!👊👍
i hope you all have a very good very happy future
Whatever she is saying I agree with 100% sheer beauty !
Lost language of Ireland, Gailic
I remember buying this in 1990 on cassette tape and I was deeply in love with my first girlfriend at the time and made a lovely soundtrack to how I felt at the time. I’m 57 now and still listening to it.
do you have any t shirts from back then by chance?
I love how everyone gets a different memory or core feeling from this song
Hey you might like a band called the Doublejumps if you like Cocteau Twins
@@MassiveFish-hp4pm did I ask
For those asking about her lip movements not matching the sounds-as a professional musician I think I can answer this. Her angelic voice is treated with heavy effects: reverb being most obvious, maybe some delay and possibly a harmonizing effect. It’s partly why she sounds so otherworldly. And what can happen in the studio is, if the singer can hear these affects in their headphones, they sing to and enunciate according to how the sound comes back to them. So, lets take the phrase Las Vegas-Liz clearly isn’t enunciating the GAS part in the word, as the delay and reverb is still flowing from the previous phrase. So she’s leaving space for the effects to breathe. Make sense? It sounds like she’s singing something like “It must be heaven or Las Vegooooowowow’ and letting the last syllable and note be carried away in a wash of effects. It’s a very, very beautiful and compelling way to sing. She is a Celtic goddess.
@@fruitypeebils yes, someone in the comments in fact DID mention it. Why in earth would I have posted this, if not?
@@privace8111 thank you.
And then they could always just splice in another vocal track entirely and scrub the live one.
@@fruitypeebils people have become so conditioned to be combative on the internet that it's become their norm to be guns blazing yet completely unprovoked. The last place i'd expect that type of goading is a cocteau twins comment section. What exactly do you think the purpose of a comment section is? A place for you to shame those for posting a comment that was relevant to the content? So are we only expected to post a comment if someone asks for it? Did anyone ask for your input before you chose to go down the condescending route? There's a lot of angst out there and i get it, but perhaps redirect it towards those who screwed you and not some rando on youtube offering an interesting take.
Glad you're big enough to recognise that. I kept this comment short n sweet just the way you like it.
These women have voices like an angel. The first time I heard them I was young and free, at the very beginning of a lifetime journey....Years have passed since that moment and their music is still with me in heart and mind.....
Just one woman. Elizabeth Fraser, the Scottish nightingale.
Ha! One lady, really.
the shoegazers origins
@@e-rokekenedi7834 Yeah, heard of Massive attack tear drop?
@@djhillfinger yeah. What's your point? There's one here.
Dad used to listen to this every night before bed, he passed recently, I have his ashes so I plan to continue to play it for him every night
i think so
❤😊
Ashes don't listen to songs, dear. Pray for your dad not to play a song.
@@starlightzero0 how obtuse.
@@starlightzero0 oh yeah you don’t need to listen when you can simply simultaneously write and listen or just listenwtite the whole song instantaneously
The MOST underrated Scottish band of all time!!!!
Boudosaved its really not underrated
i’d say the associates are
Josef K
the associates more so
Cocteau Twins and The Blue Nile
this was playing on the speakers at the las vegas airport last time i landed there and it was one of the best music moments i've ever had. thanks airport music curator and thanks cocteau twins
I had the same experience!!
@@heatherl1544 reminds me of how brian eno music for airports used to play at airports. Nothing beats curated airport music.
@@mrfish4lyfe amen... I work here at the airport 🛫 in Las Vegas and most of the music has Vegas in it... but that song was other worldly and I was smitten... 🥲
Never even knew it existed until last month... crazy right?
I hope someday the Cocteau Twins will get more credit for evolving music than they already have. The notion of using language as an instrument has never been more commercially proven. They sold millions of songs where no one knew exactly what they were listening to, and still loving every minute of it. There is opera, and other musical forms where listeners aren't quite sure what language they're listening to, but CT struck a special cord. They influenced generations immediately, in the now, based on pure impact and emotion.
Her eyes, her voice, her mannerisms. I'm in absolute awe. Sensory overload.
Liz and the band turned vocals into a musical instrument, a combination of lyrical arrangements and vocal tones, genius.
I was at brewery this weekend called Humble Sea in Santa Cruz, CA. This song came on and I was instantly captivated. I had heard of Cocteau Twins my whole life but never heard their music. The music, the breeze, the sun, the beer with my wife on a day off to do nothing but chill and talk. Can't stop listening it to.
Hey you might like a band called the Doublejumps if you like Cocteau Twins
First time I heard this song,my 17 yr old daughter played it while we were driving,it brought tears to my eyes, jus sound so Heavenly,
My daughter asked, why are you crying mom?
I couldn't hold back my tears. Beautiful song..
I need to find more people that like songs like this
Hi! U found 1
I love this song so much since last year!
Count me in
Try Grimes.
Here!
Elizabeth Fraser is captivating. The way she arranged the vocals/melodies. She sings the lyrics in a style of versification. It amazes me.
This song was released in 1990, how did I just discover it in Dec 2016? I've lived a sheltered life. Now my eyes are open.
My god this is beautiful...
Because you are not hip enough. Everybody who was anybody was totally into this band back in 1986
Found it in 1992, essentially the contemporary era. Thank God.
"You have taken your first step into a larger world."
that made me smile
Never bothered to check out their music (i've known about them for ages though) until yesterday when it just popped into my YT recommended videos. Instantly hooked.
She channels the timeless divine, the eternal universe.. She sings as an angel would.
one of the most beautiful songs ever
There is a place deep in my heart for this music. It's beyond music. This is a message. It sounds so heavenly. It is so right
Sounds so las vegasly
Elisabeth Fraser is my icon of an female vocal! She's voice is incredible!Greetings from Russia!!!
Anyone just tears up every time bc of how heavenly and ethereal this sounds
Well they practically invented ethereal sound
Arguably the greatest song ever written by a trio...or a duo.
I've always been unable to decipher any lyrics of any band, it's a relief to listen to such wonderful music such as that of the Cocteau Twins and not be expected to understand their lyrics...
Maybe, most possibly the most beautiful pop tune ever expressed from the human race. O M G
Light Bright I think that would be Carolynn’s Fingers actually
Man I tell you. I could listen to an endless loop of shoegaze and dream pop forever and never get bored.
This song will always make me cry. Truth was, at this time Elizabeth Fraser was pregnant and so happy for that! The sound of brilliant busting out glorious will ever haunt my heart.
The slide guitar bridge alone makes this song incredible. Elizabeth's singing, of course, is perfection.
I’m completely transfixed by this song; by its dreaminess and by its artistic production.
This song is ethereal magic...
I know purist fans will say this one is too commercial or glossy, but this whole album is one of my top ten of all times. It soars--I have listened to it thousands of times, it still lifts me up like few others. This is a band plugged into worlds most of us just dream of.
I was in that boat for quite a long time and I still prefer the weird dissonant 80's stuff but this has grown on me.
It wasn't too commercial in America, only going to no. 99 on Billboard. No one ever accused us of having good taste.
I love HOLV, never thought it was commercial. But I suppose compared to Victoria land, but I still prefer HOLV.
I totally adore this song. Partially because I think they had no idea what they were singing, which makes it that much more real 🎶
Discovered the Twins through this song in a cold autumnal afternoon several years ago. Never thought they would change my whole existence!
If you hear it, you've changed.....
That’s deep
I've once seen someone describe this song as "Dancing Queen in space" and I can't get over it. That's so spot on!
I always described it as ABBA on acid!
It's 2022, and I've listened to the Cocteau Twins since 1997 when I first found them. I've always just listened and enjoyed the music and Liz's voice. Tonight, RUclips suggested this video, and it's the first one I've ever watched after listening for 25 years. Watching Liz now is like hearing her for the first time in '97. I could watch this forever. Liz, if you ever come across this, thank you so much for what you've done. (Robin and Simon, you, too.)
Ok I am losing my mind I thought she was singing in another language. I just googled lyrics and it is in fact, english words being sung. I'm officially obsessed with this song.
Yup, keep in mind also there has never been official lyrics, so the one's you find online are interpretations by fans.
They’re phrased very odd during the whole album
before the internet became a big thing, ive always wondered what she was singing about and almost thought really, that there was two vocalists. but found out it was just the one. Some of the words are in a different language and just muttering or something relatable to english. but yes, ive struggled for a long time to know what she was singing about until their website came into being. which in fact people had pieced together bits and pieces of what she was singing. But even then as Ms. Frazer has put it even she had made up words. but they are still beautiful to hear, even if she is not singling anything tangible at times. They continue to be one of my favorite bands.
you can not imagine what was like to see them live in the 80-early 90s
She is talking about gambling and las vegas, believe it or not
I first met Cocteau Twins, in various cities in the United States, at after show parties (backstage), during the tour for HOLV. As people they came off as just ordinary people, who made the most extraordinary music. Robin was the one who introduced me to Elizabeth. It was the 2nd time backstage that I met Simon. A lot of great memories from that tour. I asked Robin if they could play my home town, Cleveland, the next time they toured. We met, again, during the FCC tour, and not only did they add Cleveland, but Ohio was the only state that had 3 shows. They gave me tickets and backstage access to quite a few of those shows. Again, a lot of great memories. I love their music, and I loved them as people.
lucky you...
Loved them for almost 30 years now. This album still inspires me the same way it did when I was in high school....Iceblink Luck...Fifty-Fifty Clown...Cherry-Coloured Funk :) Just perfection...
Thanks for the in depth on your post rock groupie memories.
Smashing! So happy for you, I'm sure those are great memories to treasure.
Yeah? And how was the cocaine?
If this isn't playing in Heaven, I'm leaving
I love her voice and the music is so dreamy. I remember them from jr. high and high school back in the 80's. Now my 14 yr. old daughter is listening to them 40 years later. The Cocteau Twins have transcended time.
And I just discovered them in 2024, nice find!
I bought this album in the 90’s. It was and still is one of my favorites to listen to. “You’re the match of Jericho…”
The Cocteau Twins can save me from my misery
You already know
Nelson DaSilva ME TOO or a 45caliber or m choice BLACK MAMBA
Montgomery Denzer What is it with this song that conjures up sadness and a keenness to end it? The melody and strangely inapplicable lyrics just makes me think this would not be a bad way to go out of this world and into the next.
Nelson DaSilva While this is great I still think Brian Eno is better "exit music"
Montgomery Denzer like DAM BROOOOOOOOOOO
This might be one of the most underrated songs of the 90s. So ahead of it's time and even today sounds incredible.
You haven't a clue and you are very ignorant. There is nothing "underrated" here.
I hear,
"Singin' on a famous street,
I want to love a beau that won't love me.
Am I just in heaven or Las Vegas?
'Cos you're the more brighter than the sun is to me"
Only Elizabeth Fraser really knows.
Fantastic work of art, exhilaratingly performed.
Song's wild, you can actually hear the words when you read the lyrics while listening to it.
I first discovered this song when I was living in Madrid... and would play it over and over and over and walk the Grand Via looking at how beautiful everything was. It's so moving!
+Noah Hughes lovely memories. Know what you mean. Such a dream invoking track
+Noah Hughes
I can empathise completely - I did the same thing on Koh Samui in Thailand in 1992!
+Noah Hughes Know what you mean. Lived in Paris summer of 1991. Used to listen to this when I was walking around.
Dominic Richens That's so cool that we all have a similar memory!
Absolutely that is so damn cool. Wonder if they know what a powerful effect it had on the fans, at the time. Hope so ;)
Liz Fraser , vocal goddess
A friend of mine gave me a K-7 record of Treasure back in 90...I listened the whole night like I just have found a secret precious stone! Couldnt wait to show my sister, who refused to listen to it ...but after she did, she got so hooked on Cocteau she couldn't listen to anything else for years...bought all their albums..
almost 30 years later, its still incredible to realize how Divine Cocteau is...
conclusion: this music must come from Heaven and Liz Fraser must be an Angel!
I'm a 30 year old guy who heard this song for the first time just a few months ago, but it is already very special to me. ***WAYY TOO LONG STORY TIME*** We went to Vegas for a bachelor party weekend for one of my best friends and had an amazing time (you can imagine). Me and one friend got an earlier 5:30 AM Sunday flight out of there to be cheap. We stayed up all night at the Cosmo having so much fun that we still managed to miss our flight (barely), so then we had to be in the airport until 1:30 PM for our new flight. We had just got to our new gate at 6 AM, almost no one else in our terminal. My friend lays down to take a nap on the ground next to our stuff, exhausted, and defeated. I'm just sitting nearby, unable to sleep. I'm drunk, high, and hungover all at the same time. I'm miserable but somehow very happy at the same time, mindlessly watching the sunrise outside the terminal window. At that moment, this song starts playing over the speakers (of course just because it has Las Vegas in the name), but my ears immediately perk up right when it starts with that verse groove. It was so quiet in there that I could hear the music super clearly, and I just thought the vibe was immaculate (and I was right). I held my phone up in the air to Shazam it, listened to it a few more times, eventually went to the bar for SEVERAL hours and then we flew home. Now, and for the rest of my life, this song will take me right back to those 5 minutes in the empty terminal, and then to that great weekend with my bros. ***TLDR=This song reminds me of a good weekend I had in Vegas once***
Shazam is fantastic!
I've seen interviews with liz, and she uses words from all different kinds of languages. all put together they make for a beautiful melody.
No, its Gaelic, a lost Pagan Irish religion from the Druid days
Uh, language, not religion
god bless 4ad, i grew up on the streets of nyc, 4ad helped raise me. liz is a goddess, the cocteau twins were my religion. all of you who feel the same, i am so with you
I've no idea what she's on about but what a glorious noise.
😅 lol
Remember when this gem came out - the most gorgeous, captivating voice in the history of popular music. Perfect
One of the most evocative songs I've ever heard. May you be blessed enough to have discovered this during a memorable time in your life, it takes you instantly back.
Robert Smith loves this band and so do I🖤
I so love this band
By the time this song was in fashion, my mom was waiting for me to be born. She have always been such a musical person; I like to think that maybe I used to listen this song inside my mother's womb and since then I'd like it so much. It realeses the deepest dreamy side of me. Cocteau Twins is my biggets musical find from 2020.
My boyfriend played this for me . We lived near Vegas. A few days later, he went to heaven ❤ 😔 😢
This song sounds like an eerie replication of something stunningly beautiful like it's trying to trick you. It's haunting
This full album is incredible. I like every song. That’s rare.
This song is the best metaphor for every failed relationship. It is the tragic beauty of miscommunication eloquted through song and verse.
They made my bitter life liveable. Thank you Elisabeth.❤🎸
This band got me through some pretty hard times, and it’s not hard to see why
Hard to listen to. Reminds me of early college days. Being with a girl I loved. Had some problems but things just felt right. This one takes me back. Beautiful song and band.
Everything you said brother, it's all that for me. Peace
Wow so I’m not the only one. This song always takes me back to that crazy hot girl I was in love with.
This was the song that sealed CT for me as a band. I had liked previous releases, but this one just hit. When it started playing on college/independent radio I couldn't get enough of it.
WOW! How did I live this long and totally miss this band?! They kind of have a “Cure” vibe. I feel like I seriously missed something!
The entire album, Heaven or Las Vegas has no bad tracks. Just a bunch of random rhythmic psychedelic sounds and rhythms with this beautiful voice floating in and out. You just get lost in it. The last song is a hell of an ending song to close the album. It has to be heard to be believed.
I used to listen to this album in it’s entirety to try to cope with my ex dumping me. Everything was a reminder of our past. I stopped listening to music but this was the only thing that helped me through the pain and reminded me how much music can help one heal.
legend has it that to this day even the singer does not have a clue what she is singing about
i hope life is good for you folks
Best wishes to you
from Rolland in Scotland
this song is a dream
One of the highlights of my life was seeing the Cocteaus perform this live. It was at Brixton Academy and it was a night to remember for evermore. Even the support band, Frazier Chorus were brilliant but this track raised the roof, totally fucking awesome.
Every song on this album is such a treasure, not a single weak point on the damn thing. My favorite album.
Timeless classic. Remember flying back from Canada to see them at the city hall in Sheffield. Such a great track from a band of a lifetime.
I find myself humming this music all day long, quite unconsiously. Love it so much!
muy bien!
same here, stuck on this song the last few days
@@dbo514 try with the old cocteau twins
Easily hummed….it comes and goes in my mind for many years now.
La colonna sonora della fine di questa mia estate 2024... Grazie Cocteau Twins per aver incorniciato alla perfezione paesaggi, emozioni e immagini di ricordi che mai riuscirò a dimenticare.
Perhaps my favorite song ever, this is reminiscent of my summer of 1990, having just relocated from Chicago to Auburn Alabama for grad school. This song has always meant hope and gratitude for me.
When that third chorus comes in after the guitar solo it's just beautiful. The very slight change in the harmonised vocal just augments the effect. Those subtle harmonic changes are all over their stuff, adding power to the songs even towards their end. The only other band who did that subtle stuff were the beatles.
those swirling guitars get me
and that voice! A+
I was born early '85 and this reminds me
not only of my childhood but also my
Mother who loved this song... sadly i lost
her in 2022 😢 Miss You Mum xx
xx Love Ya Lots & Always xx ❤💯
I make sure that her good soul must have reached the Heaven and rejoiced the eternal happiness.
@@KyleAyer-xu4pv
😊 Thank You Brother 🙏💯