Cocteau Twins Listening Strategites

A. Elisabeth "Troo G" Fraser Strategy: wherein all Cocteau Twins lyrics are actually gangsta rap tunes. Rhyming optional, but especially effective when used occasionally

B. Meowing

One of the funniest things I've ever read was a transcription of lyrics on _Milk and Kisses_. Here are the alleged lyrics to "Violaine":

Ik does a dashik dozen
Ik does a yield gig does
Ik does alone cheyenne
Mad at them who tease him scrawling
(chorus 1)

And I knew deeper darlin
Idiom a deus is dos
Indeared look he loves it
Your elan new sub dearie

Says your supper should shout
As you eat up seisured
Evil oh it will
Evolve evil vamos a la

repeat chorus 1

He tear them off, he tear them off
(he tear them off and eat the meal too)
Oh eat off your toe
(as you eat up)
Slow eat that meal, slow eat that meal
(slow eat that meal, no way down)
No way down, you're close
(chew too slow, you're close)
And how can you mock me
(how can you be in the nude)
When you're my friend
(when you're my friend)
He tear them off, he tear them off
(ik does ...?)
Oh eat off your toe
(chorus 2)

I know I need to tell you
All I've seen, all i catch
Put in the poster girl
And shake like dogs of tiding scholar

repeat chorus 1

repeat chorus 2

Pretty much everything after Blue Bell Knoll makes sense to me, though: people should at least be able to hazard limited guesses at Heaven or Las Vegas. E.g. my friend Ruby who for a long time mistook "Road, River, and Rail" for a song about fishing ("Rod, River, and Reel").

So now I sing along by making swoopy noises.

first time (Heaven Or Las Vegas) she had laryngitis and was inaudible,
second time was godawfull (Four Calendar Cafe tour - though I love the record, that's when they were splitting up and tension was high, she was singing way off - motioning all the while that she couldn't hear herself on her earplugs)
ah, but that 3rd time though (Milk & Kisses): best singing I've EVER heard

supper is soooooooooo bland

I fear I may have ruined 'Pearly Dewdrops Drops' for my girlfriend. But the end of the chorus really does sound like "bicycle in chicken sauce" to me.

Had you sung the correct lyrics, this tragedy might be averted.

We'll be sold when Roddy comes
Comes for pearly dewdrop's drops
When Roddy comes
('Tis the lucky, lucky, penny, penny, penny)
(Buys the pearly to their souls)

And as he jump the puddle
To try to turn to loving this
Where still I am on my stuff
So when he turned around he saw

The database is quite comprehensive, and generally quite daft.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Rod_Roddy_TPIR.jpg

Roddy came.

Funny thing, just now on bbc2 was the cocteau twins pearly dewdrop drops, and the subtitles match what's on that page a couple of messages up.

It certainly looks/sounds right!

Isnt it:
Ruby soaked and ruddy
Cups of pearly dewdrops drop

?

Actually I'm here because just this morning I stumbled on lyrics on Genius.com (I know, i know) for all of the Lullabies EP and... well, theyre the right ones. The poster's someone with a lot of oldschool CT knowledge and notes theyre from lyrics Liz wrote and mailed to a fan in the early days (apparently this is somewhere on facebook, I have to find it)

I believe it, because unlike all the mushmouthed stretches you find online, these ones LOOK RIGHT when you listen to the songs and they are NOT what anyone else managed to hear. EG, for Feathers Oar Blades:

Bare in foot and hide
Barefaced bareheaded
Bare in foot and hide
Bare in foot and hide

Crestfallen, weeping
The cripples though crestless
Are crestfallen weeping

Feathers oar blades
Splitting hair feathers
Spitting out oar blades
Spitting out oar blades

Crestfallen, weeping
The cripples though crestless
Are crestfallen weeping

All in teetotum
Widdershins every's body
Is all in teetotum
Is all in teetotum

Spitting out oar blades

It’s a good time of year in the northern hemisphere to listen to early cocteau twins, especially head over heels

legit q: when is it not a good time to jam head over heels?

(but yes, season calls for it for sure!)

Garlands, Head Over Heels, Treasure - winter
1985 EPs - spring
Victorialand, BBK, HOLV - summer
Four-Calendar Cafe, Milk & Kisses - autumn

Victorialand - summer

Victorialand is always end of summer into autumn to me bc it was popular during my first semester in college (beginning in August ‘86)

Get a six pack of Mountain Dew Code Red, a bag of Flamin' Hot Doritos, settle into your corduroy bean bag chair, and cue up their entire discography on random. You'll be sweatin' and shiverin' no matter what the season

Yee Hawww!

(Silently weeping remembering when there was only one Mountain Dew and one kind of Doritos)