Cocteau Twins Documentary

This video is a re-upload of the Cocteau Twins documentary from May 2022. To ensure the accuracy of this video, a correction was made from the previous video.

0:00 Intro
0:34 Early Days
1:15 Influences
1:55 Garlands
2:59 Lullabies and Peppermint Pig
4:00 Head Over Heels and Sunburst and Snowblind
5:15 First Tour and Simon Joins
6:02 The Spangler Maker
6:58 First Music Video and Treasure
8:27 Aikea-Guinea
9:16 Tiny Dynamite and Echoes in a Shallow Bay
10:00 The Pink Opaque and Victorialand
11:37 The Moon and the Melodies
12:33 Love's Easy Tears and Crush
13:41 Blue Bell Knoll
14:53 Private Lives
15:47 Heaven or Las Vegas
17:46 Four-Calendar Café
19:09 Christmas, Leno, and MTV
20:18 Twinlights and Otherness
21:21 Later Projects and Milk and Kisses
22:34 Final Days and Bella Union
23:25 Post-Cocteau Twins Projects
23:13 Future Projects and Legacy
24:52 Conclusion

My Top 5 Favorite Cocteau Twins songs:
5. Orange Appled (Love's Easy Tears)
4. Iceblink Luck (Heaven or Las Vegas)
3. Pandora (For Cindy) (Treasure)
2. Sugar Hiccup (Head Over Heels/Sunburst and Snowblind)
1. Evangeline (Four-Calendar Café)

Songs Featured in the Video:
1. Pandora (For Cindy) - Cocteau Twins (1984) (Treasure)
2. Nick the Stripper - The Birthday Party (1981) (Prayers on Fire)
3. Shallow Then Halo - Cocteau Twins (1982) (Garlands)
4. Feathers-Oar-Blades - Cocteau Twins (1982) (Lullabies)
5. Peppermint Pig - Cocteau Twins (1983) (Peppermint Pig)
6. Musette And Drums - Cocteau Twins (1983) (Head Over Heels)
7. Sugar Hiccup - Cocteau Twins (1983) (Head Over Heels/Sunburst and Snowblind)
8. Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil (1984) (It'll End in Tears)
9. Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - Cocteau Twins (1984) (The Spangle Maker)
10. Lorelei - Cocteau Twins (1984) (Treasure)
11. Aikea-Guinea - Cocteau Twins (1985) (Aikea-Guinea)
12. Pink Orange Red - Cocteau Twins (1985) (Tiny Dynamine)
13. Great Spangled Fritillary - Cocteau Twins (1985) (Echoes in a Shallow Bay)
14. Lazy Calm - Cocteau Twins (1986) (Victorialand)
15. Sea, Swallow Me - Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie & Simon Raymonde (1986) (The Moon and the Melodies)
16. Those Eyes, That Mouth - Cocteau Twins (1986) (Love's Easy Tears)
17. Crushed - Cocteau Twins (1987) (Lonely Is an Eyesore)
18. Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins (1988) Blue Bell Knoll)
19. Carolyn's Fingers - Cocteau Twins (1988)(Blue Bell Knoll)
20. Iceblink Luck - Cocteau Twins (1990) (Heaven or Las Vegas)
21. Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins (1990) (Heaven or Las Vegas)
22. Evangeline - Cocteau Twins (1993) (Four-Calendar Café)
23. Frosty the Snowman - Cocteau Twins (1993) (Snow)
24. Rilkean Heart - Cocteau Twins (1995) (Twinlights)
25. Cherry-Coloured Funk (remix) - Cocteau Twins (1995) (Otherness)
26. Fruitopia - Cocteau Twins (1995) (Coca-Cola Ad)
27. Serpentskirt - Cocteau Twins (1996) (Milk & Kisses)
28. Fifty-Fifty Clown - Cocteau Twins (1999, Recorded 1996) (BBC Sessions)
29. Golden Air - Sun's Signature (2022) (Sun's Signature)

Sources:

[StainedGlassStories]

Hi all, this video is a re-upload of the Cocteau Twins Documentary from May 2022. My reasoning for taking down the original video was due to a minor error. When discussing the Heaven or Las Vegas tour, I mentioned that The Veldt was the opening act. While saying this, I mistakenly showed a picture of Majesty Crush. In May of 2022 I was unfamiliar with Majesty Crush and The Veldt, but now I can say I am a fan of both groups. I went back and changed the picture to The Veldt (provided to me by Danny Chavis himself) and reverified all the pictures in this video. Apologies for the confusion.

[dommedelores]

for any big fans: elizabeth still makes music and is active on social media. she was working on a project with a band called sun’s signature and i recommend checking it out it’s just like before. she’s a genius and still has it.

[godsgiftmaggot]

Have loved this band since 1984 . I used to play the $hit out of this them on college radio in '85-87. Got to see them live in L.A. (palace) 1985. It was such an exiting time . . .just as you'd start to wear out the latest record, they'd come out with another

[mimim]

When I was in peace corps, 97-99- in the Sahel….it was the Cocteau Twins that held me together….in a very challenging environment. As a young American girl. Cocteau twins…..was everything in that hot African desert. Thank u. Now at 51- I still have the cassette mixes….a different time

[bobdobalina]

Though I was familiar with their previous albums, for me Heaven or Las Vegas is their masterpiece and represents a great time in my life. They, like depeche mode, pet shop boys, o m d and many others were saying goodbye to the eighties in a wonderful fashion

[T_Sagiaritaur]

Milk & Kisses is such a beautiful album ❤❤ this band has changed my life forever

[kuglepen]

IT'S OKAY I’LL WATCH IT AGAIN. I LIKE THE COCTEAU TWINS.

[LittleBird]

Still at 51 yrs old I listen to the Cocteau Twins! Started listening at 15 yrs old. I’m a fan girl and obviously a Gen Xer

[blackpassenger]

my daughter will be 5 in september. the first music she heard after emerging from the womb was kisses and milk. been a big fan of cocteau twins since my days on kusf 90.3fm in the 80s. back then, the best college radio in the US.

[HenryBoyer]

Huge respect for taking it down to make a correction, and reuploading it, that’s not easy once it’s been out for a while!

[pedroj.salinasquintana]

CT=sounds from another world, there's no band like them. Simply unique❤ tks for the doc

[drewski]

A fascinating documentary of a truly ground-breaking group. I had the "ice blink luck" to see them live in Bristol, UK and they were truly amazing

[lucionemesis]

You can not believe it, but Cocteau Twins was popular in Brazil in 80's an 90's, and some way yet, is popular until today. Now I live in the USA, and it's not uncommon to hear Cocteau Twins playing in the malls or the restaurants. This bands is part of my personality. Thank you for the video.

[sub-jec-tiv]

Some fans seem to be not so into Four Calendar Cafe, but i really love that album, too. The melodies on it are gorgeous. They never released a bad record in my opinion.

[CupofCloud]

Treasure was the first CT album that I bought and I remember thinking that not only have I never heard anything like this before in music, but it also has a deeply emotional and blissful effect on me while listening. Years later I read somewhere that Robert Smith, frontman of one of my favorite bands, The Cure, listened to this album when getting ready for the ceremony on his wedding day. I totally understand why anyone would choose this album to listen to for a major life event like this.

[Leecanthrope]

By far one of my favorite bands of all time 🖤

[fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

They are so hard on that town they came from - it’s actually in a beautiful part of Scotland, between Edinburgh and Glasgow. I lived in the area for 3 months. They really overstate the misery quotient. I have been a fan of the Cocteau Twins since I was 14 in 1984; I’m from Seattle. The Cocteau Twins had a steady presence on the U.S. college charts, especially with Blue Bell Knoll, and Heaven or Las Vegas. I was a college dj in 1991-92, and followed the college charts since I was about 13. I saw them during that last tour. It was great. So lucky.

[lovelight]

Actually Simon Raymond moved on from a band called Wild about Harry, the Drowning Crazy was befor that and then on to the Cocteau Twins, i know this because i was the lead singer of Wild about Harry. I think he did the right thing and i loved seeing him play with the Cocteau's. Much Love xxx

[markmcarthy]

Six decades of exploring music. Cocteau Twins come from an unearthly dimension, proof of extraterrestrial intelligence

[levestane]

Garlands remains my favorite, maybe because of John Peel's session.