Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
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Free Music Review: hooray for the twins
Hit: 5 Stars
i can't say much about the remaster because i haven't honestly ordered my own copy yet nor have i the pleasure of hearing it but this is one of my favorite cocteau twins album of all time next to treasure or blue bell knoll. from the opening track of "cherry colored funk" to the closing "frou frou foxes", you can't help but feel a bit light-headed after hear liz fraser's beautiful vocals. not only are the vocals dreamy & sweet but the electrical arrangements here are to die for. let's just say i played this album for so many years( and still do listen to it on a regular basis), it's really hard to believe i've had this album in my collection for over 13 years. i don't really catch half of the words on this cd but i could care less. for all i know, cocteau twins may have made up their own words but the end result is definately enticing & plausible even if that be the case. having said that, this goes on the top of my list as one of the best cds to own in the nineties which still sounds as great today as it did when i first bought it. no favorite tracks unfortunately to list as all of them serve their purpose & each one is simply gorgeous. if you haven't already heard the cocteau twins or have never bought one of their albums, i believe this is the first one you should purchase & the remastered version sounds heavenly to me. enjoy.Free Music Review: Glorious "Mindscape Moodpieces" That Defy Casual Description...A+
Hit: 5 Stars
The Cocteau Twins are some of the most unique musicians one may ever encounter. Their sound is largely ineffable - something that is not easily defined, elusive, shimmering, yet most lucid. The lyrics are largely unscrutable yet serve almost as a form of a hypnotic chant in the backdrop of sheer ambient engineered soundscapes. To summarize, I really find myself enchanted by their sound and "Heaven or Las Vegas" serves as a great introduction and encapsulate of their overall thoroughput.
The title track has a mesmerizing bent to it that just pulls me in again and again. I find it hard to pull myself from its eddy. It's a fantastic exercise of what happens when pristine production, vocal arrangements, and textured sonic atmospehrics can do when layered in the right combination.
Other standouts are "Wolf In The Breast", "Iceblink Luck", "Road, River, & Rail", "Cherry Coloured Funk", "Fotzepolitic", among many others. To note, the song titles themselves are at both enigmatic, obscure, and alluring.
It's ambient goodness and an astounding encapsulate of some of the most unique music ever.
Free Music Review: Fav rock band of all time
Hit: 5 Stars
Ok here it is this is a band that has changed music forever. Elizabeth Frazer has the most angelic and beautiful voice I've ever heard. I thankfully got to see them in concert 3 times before they broke up in 98. I heard them when I was 16 when I went into record bar and found "Loves Easy Tears" and loving the cover art took the cassette home and the rest is history I was instantly a fan once I played it. I think all the members of the band are still making music but it is sad that they aren't working together. This work has an almost visual feel to it because of the way it makes your body feel as it pulls you into it's web. This album and "Four Calendar Cafe" are my fav twins albums but every album is worth purchasing. Note make sure you get This Mortal Coil because the twins have a few tracks on one of those compilations. It'll end in tears is the name of the cd I think.Free Music Review: Can't stop listening to it.
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember listening to the Cocteau Twins for the first time in 1992, when I bought this album (a vinyl record at the time). I didn't pay much atention to it, although I thought it was ok. Now, 15 years later, I bought it again on CD, because I saw the band's name written on a website and it reminded me of them. I was mesmerized at the first listen. Maybe because I was 17 at the time, I just wasn't ready for it. I can't stop listening to this record. The Twins don't sound like nothing that was recorded since then, and they're still ahead of time, even in 2007. Songs like Cherry-Coloured Funk, Iceblink Luck, Heaven or Las Vegas and I Wear Your Ring don't come around often...and I'm not a guy who doesn't know enough music. I own over 2,000 CDs and, even so, the Cocteau Twins amazed me at so many levels. Now I'm gonna have to buy the rest of their catalog...Free Music Review: The most accessible and pop-oriented Cocteau Twins CD
Hit: 5 Stars
I have many of the Cocteau Twins CDs, but this is my favorite. The vocals, song writing, and arrangements are uniformly strong and inventive. There is not a bad cut on the CD. This is one of the few CDs in my collection I don't grow tired of.
HOLV may be their most accessible and "pop-oriented" CD, so if you are new to the Cocteau Twins , it would be a good place to start. Try "The Pink Opaque" for something a bit more edgy and off-beat (but also uniformly strong).
For some reason, amazon doesn't have any samples from this "remastered" CD. Hop over the web page for the original version (ASIN=B00000DRAX) to hear the cuts.