I have never forgotten listening to this on Ecstasy on my Walkman on a flight to Portugal looking down over a great bank of clouds and feeling like the luckiest person on the planet! I was 35 at the time, and little did I know that this experience was pointing to many more epiphanies and heart-opening episodes throughout the 90s... Promise me you'll listen to Victorialand and/or Treasure next. So happy to see your perceptive and appreciative reaction! You're a good lad! 🎶🐱🎶
when I first listened to the album and Cherry Coloured Funk came on, I knew I was in for a treat. its such a fantastic song her vocal melody on the chorus is fuckin GODLY. great album, glad you loved it! and by the way, there arent any official lyrics to the album, because they wanted the listener to make up their own interpretation of what was being sung, so the lyrics are really just speculation lol
Cocteau Twins were in a lot of ways the progenitors of what we call Dream Pop and Shoegaze. All of their albums featured heavily treated, textured instruments with Elizabeth Frasier's amazing lyrics soaring and swooping around the notes. The band, especially Robin Guthrie, would meticulously master and balance the recordings which means a lot of their albums have that 'vibe' effect you are talking about. Event after the band broke up the members kept on creating music or refining the music of others. Frasier, for example, lays down the vocals for Massive Attack's "Teardrop." She also collaborated with Jeff Buckley several times. Her version of Song to the Siren, recorded as the band This Mortal Coil, is absolutely breathtaking. I'm so glad you enjoyed Heaven or Las Vegas, it is one of the most beautiful albums I've ever listened to. I hope you enjoy exploring the rest of the Cocteau Twins collection.
I enjoyed your reaction and analysis! Cocteau Twins songs are a different river every time you step into one. The feeling is more important than the words. They swell, they burst, they overflow.
Yay I'm so glad you reacted to this! The album with the most similar vibes is Blue Bell Knoll, which is the album they released right before this one and my personal favorite. :)
The singer Elizabeth Fraser is a national treasure. Her singing on This Mortal Coil"s "song to the siren" is a beautifuly haunting emotional tribute to Homer's the Odyssey.
I've just caught your reaction and it's been great to see you enjoy this band. It's so good seeing younger people find this music as it is at it's finest. I've always loved them Liz is the true queen of the Knoll. Every great female vocalist in one. I think she tends to use words that work beautifully in harmony with the music. They are life changing and I feel so privileged to have found them. Every album is beautiful in it's own way. Great reaction and yes it never gets old.
I commented that she was mostly speaking gibberish and someone corrected me saying she's actually saying words. Okay, I stand corrected, but she might as well be speaking gibberish because the words don't make any kind of sense. It's more about how the music and vocals make you feel.
@@ijustneedmyself Yeah, I had someone say that it’s her Scottish accent and not gibberish 😂 I’m Scottish myself for Christ’s sake, I can’t understand it anyhow.
@@Elis_Nordgall 🤣 That is too funny! I love Scottish accents. I know there are different kinds, as with anywhere else, but Craig Ferguson's accent is awesome!
road river and rail is definitely in top 4 on the album, right beside iceblink, vegas, and cherry. this album brings back so many good memories with my cousins and aunts in the early 90s
I think Treasure is the next album to listen to if you're more interested. It's certainly more gothic and is very similar to The Cure (it's one of Robert Smith's fav albums as well). Fun fact as well to people who don't know: singer Elizabeth Fraser sung on Teardrop by Massive Attack!
another fun fact is it could have been Madonna on Teardrop but the group voted for Fraser 2 to 1. Fraser was also on Black Milk and Group Four in the same album, tracks that are even more haunting and energetic. Personally I even prefer them to Teardrop although I recognize the impact of that track.
Its not my favorite ct album despite the attention it gets but a good one. Im always glad when peoples vibe with fifty fifty clown and the more pop-ish numbers... And personally i also love the beginning of fotzepolitic because the beat just kicks when you have it on earphones... Loved this reaction.
Snowy: dude. One of the best reaction vids I’ve seen. Just great!! 🎉 What I liked about the reaction: you seem to be intellectually more acquainted with musical structures and tropes than myself, at least in the sense that you can clearly articulate what is going on in the music and I can only motion towards but not actively articulate those same things. I rated this album much lower compared to their previous albums (I started listening to the band around 1984) when it came out but have since come to like it more and more, with each passing decade. It succeeds in spite of my protestations. I gather that I still rate it lower than quite a number of fans who seem to think it is their high water mark. I have to agree with these fans that a certain perfection IS in fact reached on this album, but maybe it is a technical sort of perfection that gnaws at me, that I fight? Im not sure.
Check out the b-sides to Iceblink Luck - Mizak the Mizan and especially Watchlar are both fantastic. I have a feeling you’ll dig Mizak. Both would have fit well on the album. My album fav is Frou Frou.
Hey, there, reaction request: based on some of the records you've liked you should do a reaction to Kayo Dot's Choirs Of The Eye! Kind of in the same general category as Swans or Godspeed with infinitely more complex compositions, think you'll love it! Nearly every comment review post or conversation I've come across with anyone who's heard the album tend to regard it as one of the best records ever made
YESSS! YOU'RE BACK!! (i missed you even though i've read your messages from community) Also, can i recommend you to listen to The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand. Not even for a video. It's just that i listened to this recently and instantly remembered your reaction to "Deathconsciousness". I kinda felt the same, so i'm wondering if you will like it.
Omg youre back miss your videos man i was hoping you'd check out death grips or the new black midi album hellfire i think you will enjoy it anyways keep on killing it bro :D
im gonna request that you check out the band xiu xiu at some point. one of my favourite albums of theirs, and one that i think you would like, is actually the one where they play the music of twin peaks. i don't know how impactful that album would be if you're unfamiliar with the source material, though. basically, if you've seen twin peaks, definitely give that one a go! otherwise, their debut album knife play is probably a good shout, or their second album a promise if you don't mind feeling like complete shit.
It's her own language , that's why you don't understand the lyrics , they are a Scottish band who were active from early 80s to late 90s my fav band of all time, closely followed by dead can dance
The lyrics you're reading aren't official lmao. From what I've heard, I think she's intentionally singing in half gibberish, with some english sprinkled in here and there
please react to F♯ A♯ ∞ by Godspeed You! Black Emperor if you haven't heard it already, absolute masterpiece of an album. love your content bro, keep it up :)
I have a theory that in reality Liz Fraser is not singing anything and is only making sounds with her mouth, since there are no official lyrics as such, besides that would explain the unique work in her vocal performance
If this is your intro to the Cocteau Twins then you need to go backwards to Treasure, Head Over Heels and Victorialand. Not to mention all the standalone 12 inch singles they put out. Your mind WILL blown.
If you're going to listen to more Cocteau Twins - I recommend postponing the overrated, troublesome Treasure and heading for either the double-EP/mini-album Tiny Dynamine+Echoes In A Shallow Bay [which marks the end of their golden era with all their eccentricities upfront and in-your-face], or the earlier matching-pair of EPs Peppermint Pig/Lullabies [which add up to the Cocteaus' "positive-punk" masterpiece]. THIS album comes from the era when, after a long period of abstraction, the vocals became more "sensible"/easier to decipher, though there are still plenty of obscure areas. DOn't put too much faith in online lyric sites - they're reproducing amateur fan-transcriptions some of which are laughable. Suffice to say - she plays around with accents and mispronunciations, but even when I don't know for sure what I'm hearing, I know which consonants I'm not hearing! With regard to Frou-Frou Foxes - even though I'm going to struggle to articulate my reasoning, I've formed the impression that - where the rest of the album is heavy with songs about new-motherhood - this is a celebration of the other, artistic, kind of creative urge. Who wouldn't become fascinated by a song whose chorus advocates "euphony science", and whose verses mention firedrakes and something-or-other which "suppurates ad nauseam". With regard to Fotzepolitic - personally it was the verse melody which hooked me (very Celtic) before I started to listen more carefully - given the title, it's hard to rebuff the popular theory that it's about her sexual abuse at the hands of her father and stepbrother, and her feelings of being unable to escape/transcend them.
Trying to figure out the lyrics of a Cocteau Twins song is like the auditory equivalent of looking at the "name one thing in this photo" image.
I have never forgotten listening to this on Ecstasy on my Walkman on a flight to Portugal looking down over a great bank of clouds and feeling like the luckiest person on the planet! I was 35 at the time, and little did I know that this experience was pointing to many more epiphanies and heart-opening episodes throughout the 90s...
Promise me you'll listen to Victorialand and/or Treasure next. So happy to see your perceptive and appreciative reaction! You're a good lad! 🎶🐱🎶
I'd a been dancing in my chair or my jaw wld be lol 😆
The atmosphere Cocteau Twins gets you in is just sublime. Also recommend the album 'Treasure'.
Bro I literally got into this album like 4 days ago and you post this bro this shit me new favourite thing ever
Lucky you! Welcome 🙂
when I first listened to the album and Cherry Coloured Funk came on, I knew I was in for a treat. its such a fantastic song her vocal melody on the chorus is fuckin GODLY. great album, glad you loved it! and by the way, there arent any official lyrics to the album, because they wanted the listener to make up their own interpretation of what was being sung, so the lyrics are really just speculation lol
Yeah fr this is a great album. And that makes so much more sense now lol.
Cocteau Twins were in a lot of ways the progenitors of what we call Dream Pop and Shoegaze. All of their albums featured heavily treated, textured instruments with Elizabeth Frasier's amazing lyrics soaring and swooping around the notes. The band, especially Robin Guthrie, would meticulously master and balance the recordings which means a lot of their albums have that 'vibe' effect you are talking about. Event after the band broke up the members kept on creating music or refining the music of others. Frasier, for example, lays down the vocals for Massive Attack's "Teardrop." She also collaborated with Jeff Buckley several times. Her version of Song to the Siren, recorded as the band This Mortal Coil, is absolutely breathtaking. I'm so glad you enjoyed Heaven or Las Vegas, it is one of the most beautiful albums I've ever listened to. I hope you enjoy exploring the rest of the Cocteau Twins collection.
I loved your reactions and editing you used for the video. This album is divine.
I enjoyed your reaction and analysis! Cocteau Twins songs are a different river every time you step into one. The feeling is more important than the words. They swell, they burst, they overflow.
Yay I'm so glad you reacted to this! The album with the most similar vibes is Blue Bell Knoll, which is the album they released right before this one and my personal favorite. :)
I have it signed by Simon Raymonde! great lp.
also my favorite
i love this album. but i love their album treasure even more!
Agreed, omg I really appreciate Heaven or las vegas but Treasure is just a notch up imo I feel like every song has its own identity even more.
Yet your name is Iceblink Luck lmao
This one, treasure and Victorialand is the álbuns that I like most. Victorialand being my favorite
Bluebell knoll is like stepping into heaven
The singer Elizabeth Fraser is a national treasure. Her singing on This Mortal Coil"s "song to the siren" is a beautifuly haunting emotional tribute to Homer's the Odyssey.
I Wear Your Ring is PHENOMENAL!!
very playful vocals on it, I love it, definitely top 3 on the album.
I've just caught your reaction and it's been great to see you enjoy this band. It's so good seeing younger people find this music as it is at it's finest. I've always loved them Liz is the true queen of the Knoll. Every great female vocalist in one. I think she tends to use words that work beautifully in harmony with the music. They are life changing and I feel so privileged to have found them. Every album is beautiful in it's own way. Great reaction and yes it never gets old.
So many amazing moments. I have recently re-fallen in love with it and it's great to see someone else do the same.
Welcome to the fanclub 🥲 Can't wait for you to hear more!
one of the best bands to ever come out of my home country. my mum loved this record when it came out, and now i love it too, 32 years later
also, people have noted this before me, but the lyrics are nonsense. frasier's voice is an instrument, and nothing more. :)
I commented that she was mostly speaking gibberish and someone corrected me saying she's actually saying words. Okay, I stand corrected, but she might as well be speaking gibberish because the words don't make any kind of sense. It's more about how the music and vocals make you feel.
@@ijustneedmyself
Yeah, I had someone say that it’s her Scottish accent and not gibberish 😂
I’m Scottish myself for Christ’s sake, I can’t understand it anyhow.
@@Elis_Nordgall 🤣 That is too funny! I love Scottish accents. I know there are different kinds, as with anywhere else, but Craig Ferguson's accent is awesome!
wake up new snowy dropped
Plz don't make me wait three more months without your lovely reactions snowwy 😔
Once found, you'll carry the Cocteau's around for your entire life.
road river and rail is definitely in top 4 on the album, right beside iceblink, vegas, and cherry. this album brings back so many good memories with my cousins and aunts in the early 90s
I think Treasure is the next album to listen to if you're more interested. It's certainly more gothic and is very similar to The Cure (it's one of Robert Smith's fav albums as well). Fun fact as well to people who don't know: singer Elizabeth Fraser sung on Teardrop by Massive Attack!
another fun fact is it could have been Madonna on Teardrop but the group voted for Fraser 2 to 1. Fraser was also on Black Milk and Group Four in the same album, tracks that are even more haunting and energetic. Personally I even prefer them to Teardrop although I recognize the impact of that track.
Its not my favorite ct album despite the attention it gets but a good one. Im always glad when peoples vibe with fifty fifty clown and the more pop-ish numbers...
And personally i also love the beginning of fotzepolitic because the beat just kicks when you have it on earphones...
Loved this reaction.
Victorialand is a masterpiece worth listening and relaxing to 😉👍🏼.
💙The first reaction video that meant something. 'H or LV' is fantastic. 'I Wear Your Ring' though, floors me every time.
Good reaction, excellent presentation and editing: A- for album and A for Snowy.
Dive in. Cocteau Twins can change how one appreciates music. Blue Bell Knoll is a gem. Their catalog on 4AD is a must hear. Nice channel. 🙏
You might like Lush. It's awesome to see the younger generations react to my favorite bands. Dead Can Dance is also an amazing group.
Please do more Cocteau Twins content, there’s not enough of it on RUclips
Next, try Treasure, Victorialand and Garland to see how their sound has changed.
you're back yayyy ur videos truly make my day whenever they pop up
Aw I'm so glad :))
definitely dive into their 80s stuff too! head over heels, blue bell knoll, victorialand...all gold
Snowy: dude. One of the best reaction vids I’ve seen. Just great!! 🎉
What I liked about the reaction: you seem to be intellectually more acquainted with musical structures and tropes than myself, at least in the sense that you can clearly articulate what is going on in the music and I can only motion towards but not actively articulate those same things.
I rated this album much lower compared to their previous albums (I started listening to the band around 1984) when it came out but have since come to like it more and more, with each passing decade. It succeeds in spite of my protestations. I gather that I still rate it lower than quite a number of fans who seem to think it is their high water mark. I have to agree with these fans that a certain perfection IS in fact reached on this album, but maybe it is a technical sort of perfection that gnaws at me, that I fight? Im not sure.
13:20 absolutely agreed
Check out the b-sides to Iceblink Luck - Mizak the Mizan and especially Watchlar are both fantastic. I have a feeling you’ll dig Mizak. Both would have fit well on the album. My album fav is Frou Frou.
Got brought up listening tj the cocteau twins love lizzie fraser and their from scotland like me
Great band , went to Grangemouth high school , with Liz
Man you're going to go nuts over Sweet Trip when you finally get to them.
Omg I would love a sweet trip reaction
yeah sweet trip or candy claws would be nice
Great reaction to a great album by my favorite band. 😊 Saw them live on their Milk and Kisses tour. Then a year or 2 later sadly they broke up
Masterpiece album. The ones that don’t catch you at first get you later 🤓
A great reaction to a wonderful album.
Hey, there, reaction request: based on some of the records you've liked you should do a reaction to Kayo Dot's Choirs Of The Eye! Kind of in the same general category as Swans or Godspeed with infinitely more complex compositions, think you'll love it! Nearly every comment review post or conversation I've come across with anyone who's heard the album tend to regard it as one of the best records ever made
YESSS! YOU'RE BACK!! (i missed you even though i've read your messages from community)
Also, can i recommend you to listen to The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand. Not even for a video. It's just that i listened to this recently and instantly remembered your reaction to "Deathconsciousness". I kinda felt the same, so i'm wondering if you will like it.
I know Elizabeth Fraser's sister! and I'm a massive fan of Cocteau Twins.. I have many signed things of theirs. Amazing band. - C
Wow that’s so awesome!! Thank you so much for watching :)
@@snowy6301 you are welcome. I recommend Blue Bell Knoll as your next port of call by Cocteau Twins.
@@snowy6301 I'm on Instagram for evidence of photos! 😂😉
This album is🤌🪄
Swervedriver - I Wasn’t born to lose you is a great album.
You have just listened too..The Voice of God.
Another great reaction to a great album :)
This is my favorite band of all. Do I have good taste ?
Omg youre back miss your videos man i was hoping you'd check out death grips or the new black midi album hellfire i think you will enjoy it anyways keep on killing it bro :D
im gonna request that you check out the band xiu xiu at some point. one of my favourite albums of theirs, and one that i think you would like, is actually the one where they play the music of twin peaks. i don't know how impactful that album would be if you're unfamiliar with the source material, though.
basically, if you've seen twin peaks, definitely give that one a go! otherwise, their debut album knife play is probably a good shout, or their second album a promise if you don't mind feeling like complete shit.
I love your reactions and you are beautiful
Aw haha thank you sm :)))
You should listen to Treasure and Victorialand, they are amazing too, and completely different to Heaven or Las Vegas in tone
Hey! You love animal Collective, did you react to spirit there gone álbum?
Check out angelhood I love that githic sound of cocteaus
man i love your videos, i think u should react to third by portishead, i think you will like idk!
It's her own language , that's why you don't understand the lyrics , they are a Scottish band who were active from early 80s to late 90s my fav band of all time, closely followed by dead can dance
The lyrics you're reading aren't official lmao. From what I've heard, I think she's intentionally singing in half gibberish, with some english sprinkled in here and there
please react to F♯ A♯ ∞ by Godspeed You! Black Emperor if you haven't heard it already, absolute masterpiece of an album. love your content bro, keep it up :)
I have a theory that in reality Liz Fraser is not singing anything and is only making sounds with her mouth, since there are no official lyrics as such, besides that would explain the unique work in her vocal performance
hey wassup snowy
If this is your intro to the Cocteau Twins then you need to go backwards to Treasure, Head Over Heels and Victorialand. Not to mention all the standalone 12 inch singles they put out. Your mind WILL blown.
If you're going to listen to more Cocteau Twins - I recommend postponing the overrated, troublesome Treasure and heading for either the double-EP/mini-album Tiny Dynamine+Echoes In A Shallow Bay [which marks the end of their golden era with all their eccentricities upfront and in-your-face], or the earlier matching-pair of EPs Peppermint Pig/Lullabies [which add up to the Cocteaus' "positive-punk" masterpiece].
THIS album comes from the era when, after a long period of abstraction, the vocals became more "sensible"/easier to decipher, though there are still plenty of obscure areas. DOn't put too much faith in online lyric sites - they're reproducing amateur fan-transcriptions some of which are laughable. Suffice to say - she plays around with accents and mispronunciations, but even when I don't know for sure what I'm hearing, I know which consonants I'm not hearing!
With regard to Frou-Frou Foxes - even though I'm going to struggle to articulate my reasoning, I've formed the impression that - where the rest of the album is heavy with songs about new-motherhood - this is a celebration of the other, artistic, kind of creative urge. Who wouldn't become fascinated by a song whose chorus advocates "euphony science", and whose verses mention firedrakes and something-or-other which "suppurates ad nauseam".
With regard to Fotzepolitic - personally it was the verse melody which hooked me (very Celtic) before I started to listen more carefully - given the title, it's hard to rebuff the popular theory that it's about her sexual abuse at the hands of her father and stepbrother, and her feelings of being unable to escape/transcend them.
There technically arent any lyrics, its just vocal harmonies with a word or two thrown in.
You know a shoegaze album is good when you cant understand a single word they are saying.
First..? :)
I'm a failure.
Anyway, I was in the middle of watching your Ants From Up There review when this came up. What a treat!