Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
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Free Music Notes for Heaven Or Las Vegas
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.
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: 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: Now THIS is a remaster!
Hit: 5 Stars
After being disappointed in the remastered version of Blue Bell Knoll, I was having trouble deciding whether to purchase another in the Twins' new remaster series. After I tentatively gave HOLV a shot, I was flabbergasted. The sound has come alive! What was previously leaden and muffled has been set free into the sparkling ether. And keep in mind-- I had never considered the production on the original album to be lacking-- maybe a tad overreacting to the bright sound of Blue Bell Knoll two years previous, but rich, full and melodic nonetheless. What a difference thirteen years makes! It's like listening to a brand new release. The sound is no longer so midrange-heavy; the instruments have been lifted and separated just enough to delineate them, while preserving the gauziness of the original. The vocals have a newfound space and importance, as if Elizabeth just got through clearing her throat. And the bass! Chunkier, crunchier, it actually makes my Grados pulsate during 'Cherry-coloured Funk'. This newfound clarity is even more apparent on 'Fifty-fifty Clown', which must be one of the most timelessly futuristic pop songs ever produced. It shimmers more forcefully now, chugs along more insistently, and leaves you wanting more. It's amazing how a good remaster can change your feelings about a song; I had never been a huge fan of the title track, but now I have rediscovered it--it's more balanced, less honk-y. I can honestly recommend this remaster as a must-have for real Cocteau Twins fans, it's that much better. One of the richest, most luxurious albums ever. *** Oh, and fellow Twins fans/reviewers: hey! don't be blithely glossing over the song titles. Elizabeth worked too hard on them for you to dismissively call them "Track 1" or "Track 9". Sheesh. Learn them and use them-- they're windows into the songs themselves. They cross-reference each other and provide a huge chunk of the only insight into Elizabeth's lyrics that exists. Show some respect!Free Music Review: Their best since album Treasure
Hit: 5 Stars
Their last album for 4AD marks Cocteau Twins's journey from cold industrial sound of 80's to 90's. The thing that has always made me adore their music and records are that every song has so amazingly invented title. You can almost taste those songs in your mouth like Glass Candle Grenades, Orange Pink Red, Pearly Dew Drop's Drops, Ice Blink Luck,... It's a very magnificent talent for a lyricst to have.
After truly classic albums such as Treasure and Head Over Heels and also some parts of Blue Bell Knoll Cocteau's just
happened to create their most delicious album in their marvellous career. Heaven Or Las Vegas begins with
Cherry coloured-funk and Guthie's guitar work offers Elizabeth begin on low notes and in the chorus she puts out the most hookable vocal works of the whole album. Though Cherry Coloured-funk is quite simple, its melody sounds extremely classic and it is very memorable as well.
Pitch the Baby, Fifty-fifty Clown are all high standard Twin's songs with great ambitions. The Single Iceblink Luck and title track Heaven or Las Vegas are both the two tracks that describe best the albums sound scape. Especially the title track is massively produced and really worth hearing.
As with all their great albums Heaven or Las Vegas has also good songs placed in the B-side of the album, there are real
treasures there like Wolf in the Breast, I Wear Your Ring, Fotzepolitic and definitely gorgeous Frou-Frou Foxes in Mid-Summer Fires.
Like Musette and Drums there's same kind of feeling, though Frou-frou is more comfortable with larger scale of vocal work
of Liz and therefore much more harmony all over the song.
For a superb group that Cocteau Twins were one would've hoped they'd never broke so secretly and with some kind of
dissappointed feelings due to the release of Milk & Kisses -96. Their last recording for 4AD is for me their last huge album
although beautiful stuff kept coming untill the very end.