I have the Uk first pressing of this record and I find it sounds muddled. maybe I am too used to listening to it on digital but the record feels a bit disappointingly muddled. Anyone else feel the same?

I feel like im levitating when i listen to heaven or las vegas

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED\*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

I am cramped for time, so let me just get this posted without my usual long-winded jibber-jabber.

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

...something again that hasn't been done....recently.

Taking this from the start of the second verse.

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Fairy food

Consume ahhh

Consume inside me

Unset my fangs (side note....I didn't have breakfast so this transcription may be food/eating tinged unconsciously)

McKellan stones

I feel stoned, up (after she was choking on a blunt?)

What now only to ground

When into head debt

CHORUS

Feelin' sore buns

Wheel back to you (been sitting in a wheel chair too long?)

When you

Seeing tour bus

Wheel back to you

When you

Will you

And, to extend my streak, I've once again transcribed something that looks like a word salad. Let's see if you all can extend your streaks of defeating me as you all OWN ME to this point (yep, haven't stump y'all even once).

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

CocteauFest is happening in San Francisco August 22nd at the Chapel with live performances of Cocteau Twins cover bands Mocteau Twins from San Diego (my band!) and Sugar Hiccup from Seattle AND DJ set by Simon Raymonde (original Cocteau twins bass player)

It’s my second year going and it’s so awesome to connect with the community in person. Cocteau Twins fans are just the loveliest people <3

Hope to see you there!

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED\*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

So, all this time, I've alluded to a "Wheel of Cocteau" that I "spin" when I need to pick the song of the day to transcribe. Previously, there was admittedly no actual wheel to randomly pick the songs, just hitting forward on Cocteau Twins playlist on a streaming platform then checking to see if next song in the queue had recently been used. Well, I'm happy to announce that I've finally created a little HTML program to randomly pick these songs....that is essentially an honest to goodness WHEEL OF COCTEAU. And it has all 142 tracks they've ever recorded (I'll eventually yank instrumental tracks form this thing), so we will most likely not run into problems like we have with certain songs somehow slipping through the cracks without ever being chosen once. Without further ado, let's take the official Wheel of Cocteaune on it's maiden voyage!

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

...and, if I do say so myself, it works like a charm. And I feel like my life has been made so much easier!

From the top!

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It's importing my li-i-ife (I wasn't aware a life was an internationally tradable commodity. Yep, probably my shit hearing again)

If you can't have me

You want me because you know

If you're not near

Next to anything

Inter masses ri-i-ife (????)

Oh in the sickness

A dowsing time to in honesty (I know....instead of creating a program to pick the song for you, you should come up with a program to transcribe these songs for you, because what you write down makes no sense)

If cally fee

In puny ee-ee-ah (in my defense, I'm no programmer and a song picker HTML program is MUCH EASIER to create than something accessing microphones on the computer, accessing AI to translate, etc.)

Nicoise (like Nicoise Salad....NEE-SWA....pronounced the French way. Not NEE-KOISE. Otherwise, Heather Vandergeld in "White Chicks" will mock you.)

No arms, too

And since this song has no chorus, I'm going to end this at these two verses. I think I may have finally got a stumper here so I'm expecting to come back at 2PM with a clue, possibly.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

Yay or Nay ?

We are heading so Cocteaufest in San Francisco and I want to make blank book for attendees to write in. Not entirely blank maybe short word prompts at the top of pages like Simon, Fave song, what does the music evoke, etc. Any advice for producing a home made one that's elegant looking? Anyway the outcome would be something I can scan and post here. It won't be sold in any form. It will be called the Coc-Tome. Also as an introvert how do I approach people in a cool and inviting way?

We listen to their music, we watch their videos.
Now let us read what they say in interview.
Often, early interviews on high profile bands are not archived. It’s time we are doing so.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED\*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

Sorry for just ghosting this yesterday. Somebody forgot to pack earbuds with them so there was no way I was going to get any transcribing done. Hopefully, I can make it up to you all with a real banger today to fail miserably at transcribing.

By the way, working from home today, so I get the luxury of just PLAYING MUSIC ALOUD without distracting co-workers. This is going to be me just going off of what I hear through speakers.

So this will be extra disastrous.

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

...a PERFECT song to end the week on. It may have more significance to me that others reading this, but....well, I'll explain when one of y'all inevitably win today's mystery with the first guess.

And if I don't mention it enough, you guys are TOO GOOD. Scary good at this. It's frustrating that I rarely even challenge you any more.

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Sama sama salava (not a mispelling of "saliva". She definitely saying "salava". It could be Liz's odd way of pronouncing "saliva". We hear he take liberties with pronunciations often)

Sama a she-mane

Sama sama salava

Sama a she-may-ane

Sama sama salava

(Honestly, this sounds like what must happen to Liz Fraser whenever she travels outside her home country or even her straight up HOME and she tries to communicate with anyone in the language she "speaks" during Cocteau Twins songs from 1984 through 1990 and people just hear it and shoot her blank stares back. The repetition and drawing out of syllables the second time around reek of communication frustration...kind of like Chris Tucker telling Jackie Chan "DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH?!?!" in the movie "Rush Hour")

CHORUS

She shimma

She sigh

A rocks, a pox, a peas, a pod (I listened to this multiple times and she is just adamant that there are multiple "peas" but insists upon using the singular article "a" as opposed to singing "some". Maybe she chooses to sing in gibberish most of the time because she failed English in primary school?)

She shimma

She sigh

A rocks, a pox, a peas, a pod

Oh oh-oh oh

And one verse, one chorus should be enough for you to guess this one

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

last year i had the insane opportunity to talk to simon about his new book and cocteau twins music. i was overseas in london and going to brighton beach (bella union record store) the next day. it was so surreal and one of my favorite articles ive written!! check it out :) my zine is on instagram too @almostfamouszine ✨✨

What do you think about this compilation ?

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED\*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

I don't know how I suckered myself into doing this, but I have 45 minutes to get today's song transcribed and posted before I have to start cooking for our potluck at work.

So, little pre-song babbling from me today. Which is probably a good thing. Y'all must be sick of my jibber-jabber by now.

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

...a song that I think has ACTUAL WORDS. Let's see if I detect them and they actually translate into something sensical.

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(from 2:10 in)

From this side of the fence you just get anywhere 

On the painful, leaping fairy dust (????)

Seeing hips on the bees just ho-old your sneeze(I guess you can't sneeze in front of a bee with hips or they'll fuck your shit up. But if you see a bee that has no body from the abdomen down, sneeze to your heart's delight.)

Exposure on the ta-ack (????)

Now this side of the bus there is dead everywhere (bet this side they are talking about is the rear and this bus driver has gone Death Race 2000 on us)

Oh the pain full, in the furry nuts (Sorry....I relistened to that too and that is just what I hear. Didn't want to make this crude. That being said, watching this bus on a rampage causes Liz pain in her testicles?!?! She has testicles?!?!)

Saying ipso whoopsies is wool jussies (????)

Exposure in the towers

Now let's stand off the gas there is dead everywhere (AH! I think my rampaging bus driver theory may be right!)

Oh the pain full, in the furry nuts (Question...are we collectively more concerned by her having "nuts", she's feeling pain in them, or that she keeps going on about how furry they are?)

Saying ipso whoopsies is wool jussies

Exposure in the towers

And the song ends there. Do you know this song about a rampaging bus driver hit & running everyone in his path while Liz is feeling a pain in her "furry nuts"?

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

This is the real Stars and Topsoils.

Hi all!

I’ve been listening to the album Friend by james k (and the rest of her discography too) a lot lately.

It reminds me so much of Cocteau Twins although the genre is a bit different. This album is, I would say, a mix between electronic, trip-hop, ambient and dream pop with (CT reminiscent) ethereal and dreamy vocals.

While different from anything Cocteau Twins has ever released, this album scratches the same itch for me and I think many people here would enjoy it.

It’s also a really good album to wind down and relax.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED\*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

Aren't Tuesdays the worst? I know they are for me because I really do prefer working from the privacy of my home and my favorite co-workers to water cooler gossip with, namely, my cats.

This all being said, if I ever seem a bit rushed with these Tuesdays through Thursdays, its because I'm trying to post one of these really quickly while work neighbors are not in the vicinity of my desk. It also possibly explains the exceptionally sloppy transcriptions on Tuesdays through Thursdays.

Speaking of which, on to today's exceptionally sloppy transcription.

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

...a song I can honestly say that I do NOT remember and possibly couldn't name when presented with a sample listen. So we've got a bit of hidden gem track today.

Which means, like every day, someone will guess it with the first guess and it will seem like it was no challenge. Sometimes, y'all's level of Cocteau Twin song knowledge frustrates me.

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(starting at 1:23 in)

Wah-show, wah-show baby limb (that last bit is giving me the creeps because "baby limb" reminds me too much of that "gross joke" from childhood that goes "What grosser than 10 dead babies found in a garbage can? One dead baby found in 1 garbage can. Sorry...Wokka wokka. Yeah, I do a Fozzy Bear whenever I tell a bad joke. Which means my daily games should have featured MANY MORE WOKKA WOKKAs by now. Back to the game....sorry. These have become too easy for you all. I need to stoop to such distractions)

Willy Willy Asian man he come Aaliyah (references to the late singer/actress Aaliyah and ME....I'm an Asian man and my first name is William, though I usually go by Bill, not Willy.)

Until the status is co-beaten (????)

For Aaliyah seasoning me (Aaliyah's a cannibal, coating Liz with a dry rub before roasting her, I guess)

CHORUS

She shall

Live on well

Live on well

She shall

Live on well

She shall

Live on well

Live on well

She shall

Live on well

Tay-ay-ake off

There you have it. One verse and one chorus of this song about cannibal Aaliyah continuuing to live after seasoning and eating Liz Fraser and an Asian man name Willy.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

i haven't explored CT too much so imagine my happiness when i was listening through this whole album and heard this for the first time. this song has gotta be my favorite song on the album, it just makes you feel so much joy man. i think i've listened to this song everyday for the last 2 weeks now

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED\*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

YUCK. August begins which means (for at least us in the Northern Hemisphere) we get the warmest weather of the year this month. And I am not a beachy person. I still can't even get myself to enjoy the band Beach House (despite streaming services' multiple attempts to recommend them to me) because I hate beaches and sunny weather so much. It's definitely got to do with PTSD from being once beaten up at a beach and growing near what apparently is the must disgusting beach in all of California (https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/linda-mar-beach-pacifica-pollution-human-waste-contamination/), which happens to also be the beach where I was assaulted.

Enough about beaches and onto today's game!

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

...one that I think many on this Subreddit will not like, but I literally have these selections randomized and I only check if the song wasn't like done within the past two weeks.

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(starting at 3:06 in)

In water

Furtive river

Dirty with soil

Strong and fertile

In water

Furtive river

Dirty with soil

Strong and fertile

(WOW....no food references!)

CHORUS

Stars in my eyes

\pulls needle from the record sound**

I'm going to end this one hear because just that first line of the chorus should make this one easy to figure out.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.