If the 80's are back, who are the new Cocteau Twins?

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well?

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 11 November 2002 05:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

sigur ros

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 11 November 2002 05:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

But what I wanna know is - who is the new David Lee Roth?

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 11 November 2002 05:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Julian Casablancas

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 11 November 2002 05:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

well, this sure was a short thread!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 11 November 2002 05:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

nu-ilm - setting the pace for a nu tomorrow!

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 11 November 2002 05:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

sigur ros

Funny, there are words there, but I can't read them at all!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 November 2002 05:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mahogany

― sherri, Monday, 11 November 2002 05:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

not popular enough (but darn well should be, they're only about a trillion times better than Yahoo Serious Festival, I mean Sigur Ros)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 11 November 2002 05:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

good question. i suspec there is now answer though. or, if there is an answer, i hope its not sigur ros

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 11 November 2002 09:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sigur Ros, Sigur Ros, Sigur Ros. And Godspeed You Black Emperor are the new Dead Can Dance. FACE IT!!!

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 11:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is the opposite of those theories of perpetual motion, isn't it? This is a perpetual stasis thesis.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sigur Ros, Sigur Ros, Sigur Ros. And Godspeed You Black Emperor are the new
Dead Can Dance. FACE IT!!!

-- kate (masonicboom@yahoo.co.uk)

WHO IS THE NEW RAMONES?????????????

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 11 November 2002 13:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Julian Casablancas' ass.

― kate, Monday, 11 November 2002 13:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sugar Ray are the new cocteaus

― s magnet, Monday, 11 November 2002 14:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

let it be known. Don't rip on Sugar Ray in my presence. The self-titled LP was a stone cold winner and nobody gave it respect. I don't think calling them the new Cocteau Twins is a compliment...so...argh...anyway. Don't dis Sugar Ray!

― Anthony Miccio, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

But what I wanna know is - who is the new David Lee Roth?

Andrew WK -- a banal retread of the original.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Boards of Canada are the "new" Cocteau Twins.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Christina Aguilera

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

been & gone = Groove Chronicles

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sugar Ray eats it.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sugar Ray eats it?

Well, Madonna's at least, if you believe the rumors.

― Anthony Miccio, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 02:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

So then I take that back - they're at least as good as Vanilla Ice, then.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 03:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

christina aguilera is the new david lee roth then? that fits. i always wondered where david's hair went.

so: who's the new eddie van halen? not buckethead, surely.

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 04:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hey - Christina Aguilera DOES kind of make sense. Assless pants even!

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 04:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Boards of Canada is actually a really great answer to this.

(As would be Bjork, were she not quite so popular.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

There is no 2002 equivalent of the Cocteau Twins. You would need a band with A. poetic song titles B. a singer as instantly recognizable as Liz Frasier C. production as instantly recognizable as Robin Guthrie's D. cover art as instantly recognizable as 4AD's and E. great tunes.

In the 90's Orange had B and E, Love Spirals Downwards had A, D, and E. Orange broke up, LSD changed genres and then singers.

In 21C, nobody even comes close yet.

― f. hazel, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 02:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

So then I take that back - they're at least as good as Vanilla Ice, then.

Ally= my heroine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 03:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

"been & gone = Groove Chronicles"

Ha ha Paul I was thinking of saying Todd Edwards.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 08:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

If the eighties are back ... there is still only one answer - There is no equivalent to the Cocteau Twins ( but i really think Enya is the closest comparsion ). Liz is working on a trance album and has already released a promo for 'underwater'
Although I prefer her voice with swirling guitars - it is great trance song !!

― Paul Brewer, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 08:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

"i really think Enya is the closest comparsion"

b-b-but.... if Enja are the 00's Cocteau Twins does this mean someone else has to be the '00's Enya?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 10:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

Ekova seem to be the new Cocteaux. Also the new Dead Can Dance.

― Colin Greenland (Colin Greenland), Sunday, 28 March 2004 13:42 (twenty years ago) link

Sigur Ros aren't sexy enough. Maybe Blonde Redhead? I don't think anybody is the new anything currently.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

I would say Sigur Ros is more like the new This Mortal Coil.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 28 March 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

Sigur Ros are the new Princess Tinymeat.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 28 March 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

Or maybe the new Cindytalk.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 28 March 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

All my meticulous thought continues to be utterly wasted!

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Sunday, 28 March 2004 20:41 (twenty years ago) link

If you say Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do ten times real fast, Sigur Ros will come to your house and dress your cat up in medieval costumery complete with ankle bells and jester's cap.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 28 March 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago) link

If I have a large enough butterfly net, does that mean I can capture them and put them in a terrarium without any holes for air and let them wither?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 March 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

Ned, the forest creatures are your friends! They bring news from cloud cuckoo land. and ankle bells.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 28 March 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago) link

six years pass...

no good answer to this crucial question?

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 2 November 2010 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link

according to npr it's School of Seven Bells.

― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link

The question is wrong!

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link

the question is old enough 2 make you wonder if the 80s were ever "gone" in a substantial enough way for them to be "back"

― pons (crüt), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link

they were

― balls, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah. the 80s were banished for much of the 90s, and returned in the 00s.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 2 November 2010 07:31 (thirteen years ago) link

not popular enough

The Cocteau Twins weren't really all that popular, were they?

A lot at www.everyhit.com tells me they had only one UK Top 30 hit. They then had 4 more Top 40 hits, but those were all in the 90s.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link

the popular notion is that 90s music was pretty much an equal and opposite reaction to 80s much right? and the 00s were what happens when the people growing up in the 90s discovered those old 80s records? the 80s were 'gone' from our music, but not from our attics.

also i'm listening to garlands right now and i'm pretty sure school of seven bells will never gonna sound like this, which is kinda a shame imo

― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link

i think the notion is that there's a 20-year cycle. kids growing up hearing certain strains of pop music become musicians 20 years later, and borrow from the music of their youth.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 2 November 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Apparently, it's Adele:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk4BbF7B29w

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 05:36 (seven years ago) link

Beach House, duh

― MatthewK, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 06:44 (seven years ago) link

Ballet School

https://youtu.be/y8MTjrSZCa8

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 07:16 (seven years ago) link

six months pass...

Parts of the chorus sound a lot like Massive Attack's "Black Milk (ft Liz Fraser)" here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv_FnbBqnWs

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link

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