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  • snowing at night, in the Czech Republik in the 90's... you had to be there to feel this as i did.

  • four calender cafe, mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

    

  • Any chance of a wee go on your haunted clam Liz? = )

  • I can't help thinking this song would sound better if mixed like their older albums.

  • Ahhhhhhhh..........pure blisss....Cocteau Twins are the illuminescence in a purple starry ocean.

  • Her eyes are rediculous

  • This is back when "indie" music was good. Now everything is so cookie cutter. You can take your Death Cab for Cutie, Decemberists, and Arcade Fire and shove it.

  • @acrovader You are hating on Arcade Fire?! Haven't you heard 'Funeral'? As great as Blue Bell Knoll is (and it IS an all-time great work), the Arcade Fire are just as good. Sheesh. You don't have to be such a hard core old-school underground fan...

  • Such a gorgeous, dreamy song. I miss the 90's.

  • Love this Band Waaaay toooo much. i , after 100 viewings of this vid, notice that the director was an idiot. the venus/clamshell thing? makes no sense and then hardly used...the Weird and NonSensical apparitions of Simon's face?? Yikes. I love Simon, and I Love Liz's look in this vid, but I finally had to say: the editing/directing is barf. Can we at least blame cocaine?

  • She bewitched me with her heavenly voice, and now I want to have the same haircut! Somebody stop me : ))

    OMG, she is so, so, so, so, SO..... she IS!

    I'm pretty sure she can sing three lines at the same time... She is the GODDESS.

  • Was not expecting it to be her inside of that clam.

  • Caterwauling,beautiful ululation; beyond sublime...

  • jak oni to robią ?! coś pięknego

  • absolutely amazing voice and very cool video!

    i like it!

  • Definitivamente um verdadeiro calmante

  • omg so trippy

  • Uma das musicas top 10 da minha vida!

  • wonderfull noises voices siren ,noises skies star amazing woman

  • This sounds like a space age country song from a diffrent time. Love it.

  • Great song!! Check out INOUWEE with the song "Liquids playing misty games" if you like this.

  • i aud go flub flin tic chi fla bu bingly bong - That's my favourite line I think !!

  • its nice to have a favorite vid that hasnt been removed because of emi and the likes ! love liz great tune :o)

  • Elizabeth "The Siren" Fraser

  • top tune , pure and simple

  • are you the right man for me? are you safe for me my friend? or are you toxic for me will you betray my confidence?

    Cocteau Twins, best group along with The Beatles and Led Zeppelin.

  • audrey hepburn and liz fraser. the most beautiful women to to grace this planet

  • it remembers me the 2010 Winter Olimpic Games, that was the first time I heard this amazing song...

  • i heard this song in highlander 3 dvd on a rainy summer day long ago, i miss those days :( but luckily i still have the DVD :)

  • caught this song the first time while enjoying a Mr.Bubble moment in Las Vegas

    I remember thinking life just can't get any better.

    Then at that very moment my door was kicked in and I was robbed at gunpoint by three dudes in Country Bear outfits.

    so I really overall had a bad experience and have a bit of PTSD now everytime I hear it.

    hold on someones at the door...................

  • I'll never forget the first time I heard the Cocteau Twins. I was defrosting a butterball turkey and this song kicked-in on the radio. Suddenly I was traveling at the speed of sound towards a golf course. I landed with the raw turkey and set it free by a pond. As soon as it swam away I took off like a rocket and woke up in a Hospital.

  • @brsmith0898: God bless ya. Its good to hear someone of your generation can enjoy them. The lyrics are available online if you Google them. her unique style made me curious of what she was saying.

  • Esta cancion describe la belleza de sentimientos, la inocencia, la inseguridad de una mujer enamorada....y es preciosa.

  • 25 people are really stupid!

  • amazin voice

    

  • I'm 85 years old, and from the first time I heard Cocteau Twins, I knew they were speaking in tongues, and speaking to me personally. If you play their songs backwards, they're giving me instructions on how to fly, and when the end of the world is, and the best day of the week to buy chicken from my local grocer. Thank you Cocteau Twins for this useful information.

  • @brsmith0898 senile dementia kicking in aye?

  • @brsmith0898 my friend although liz fraser did experiment with her own language for a while i really dont think that she was being as insightful as to inform yourself ofthe best day in which to buy chicken, if u truly r 85 and are hearing things like this i do think its time you spoke to the doctor regarding schizophrenia or such like! She is ann amazing talent but a soul speaking in tongues ma doubts it very much sir!!!! that being said each to theirown, top of the mornin te ya, x

  • @greenerbug whats her face did that for that song in GLADIATOR, her own language for speaking to god: Lisa Gerrard, "Now We Are Free" is the song...

    i've noticed that liz is completely uncoverable, she can't even do her best studio productions live sometimes (most times? depends on the song).. in fact some of her live stuff is just as whimsical and almost never as good as the studio release

    that really can be the best art/music sometimes, experimental until u "get it right"...

  • @raceandcrime no. a lot of performances are better live.

  • @brsmith0898 amazing sir!!!

  • @brsmith0898 it's never too late for cocteau twins and weed

  • @brsmith0898 Your fuckin barking my son but this a fantastic pop song,a tour de force their magnum opus pure class

  • @brsmith0898 haha.. that's the most ridiculous comment ever. thumbs up

  • @Merglet I'm sorry you don't think it makes the most sense...you need to grow a little. You'll get it then.

  • @mewdeeone kid, you're barking up the wrong tree, I'm not the one who doesn't get it.

  • @brsmith0898 see what we mean cruelty it's definately my specialty got a problem with that notify TheOfficials. if you think you can. this isn't mother may I? hairdresseronfire mother fucker admit it.

  • @brsmith0898 YOU HIGH, AND YOU FREAK

  • @brsmith0898 brother what did you smoked? i want to be high just like you

  • great chill out music

  • Naming things is empowering

    I balance, walk, and coordinate myself, alive

    Aliveness energy

  • And feeling is something else

  • This song is just so uplifting---just like a delicious, strong coffee!

  • @PlattHillLover Coffee is shit. One has to search for a long time to find a more repugnant drink than coffee.

  • You call this music?

    I call it bliss!

  • I remember when these guys were simply just...out there! Only my fellow black turtlenecked friends knew about them and you'd ONLY hear them on college radio. I heard this in a (gulp) Shoppers's Drug Mart (Canadian market chain), of all places, one day while getting some deodorant!

  • Great chillout music

    

  • very few compare to this woman's voice,,,stunning!!!!

  • @captainsmackdown666 you're so right!!

  • ..un domingo de 1991, 3pm, en el Centro de Lima..viniste a mi, entre nerviosa y asustada..no nos separamos hasta hoy.

    Y Liz canto nuestra cancion. Le puso el fondo musical.

    Saludos paganos.

  • Feliz, envidia de la buena, deseo lo mejor

  • 21 people who have lost their way due to the "music" being played in 2011.

  • Cocteau Twins; the true pearl in the crown of modern Scottish Music. They make me feel proud to be Scottish.

  • That voice; absolutely mesmerizing....

  • this is timeless music

  • The hottest woman, the hottest voice... my perfect woman!!!

  • they should have had far more recognition, though comercialisation might have ruined them like so many other bands.

  • What a tune!!! :)

  • making music like this should be illegal

  • ...... rsf017, Ignorant hicks probably, Try not to let anyone get to you. Be happy at all costs; Life is too short. P.S. Now its 20.

  • Every time I listen to this song, I find something new. Gorgeous!

  • went to see them back in the eighties and they are still brilliant to this day its just a shame some people cant hear something great maybe they havent the artistic mindset needed to listen to here the brilliance 10/10 in my book....... laz fae oz

  • @quidnotecash

    No.

  • this video was directed by paul Donelan ... and the animation FX done at Red post production London. I recal a meeting in which both the singer and guitarist were present. He was very protective of her and even in the quite confines of a creative meeting she was very, very shy. This might go someway into explaining why they appeared in public so little and perhaps why their music and partnership endured so long. Great track ... great fun to work on.

  • @TheClarenceter how do you figure?

  • @willem01 Muslim music

  • @TheClarenceter how do you figure?

  • @willem01 muslim music.

  • @TheClarenceter how so?

  • @willem01 Muslimico

  • @TheClarenceter that sounds spanish...i hate spinach.

  • @willem01 Why does it sound Spanish?

  • @TheClarenceter because of the scared white people commenting on this vid.

  • @willem01 Purple people

  • @TheClarenceter gay people

  • @willem01 Jingo people

  • Trolls will be trolls..Enjoy the song people!

  • The Cocteau Twins where the most incredible band that has influenced so meany of the alternative & ambient music that we hear today . I was very lucky to see them live at the Cameo Theater on Miami Beach back in 94 ! What a concert that was !

  • @LazaroAmaralArt So true! Practically *all* of the kind of "designer dream pop" that is currently in vogue in alternative music now (just see the Pitchfork festival 2011 line up) owe HUGE debt to Cocteau Twins, not that any of those bands acknowledge it. + They have nowhere near the talent/spirituality/edge that Cocteaus had. Cheers, 1ofdiamonds

  • The Cocteau Twins where the most incredible band that has influenced so meany of the alternative & ambient music that we hear today > I was very lucky to see them live at the Cameo Theater on Miami Beach back in 94 ! What a concert that was !

  • I'm in love<33

  • best band ever

  • Oooohhh my ears aand whiskers...So right you all are...Voice of an angel, lungs like honey dribbled on filligree gold....If only more of the 'younger generation' could be exposed to the genius that is the CT...Amen. Let the revival commence.

  • @DPwide I would be one of those a part of the younger generation. I was born in 1990. I got into the Cocteau Twins about 4 years ago, have every album. I'm absolutely in love with them. It's soul music. 

  • Ah the CT memories....I was unfortunate that socially retarded trolls were squatting in the flat under me playing crap rave music high volume all night for 5 nights. No amount of police calls or threats would stop the noise for more than 5 minutes....the cure is in great music. I stuck my speakers on the floor, cranked the volume, put this track on constant repeat then left for 4 days. Got back to my pad, the trolls had gone. This is the power of heavenly music over troll music!!

  • @grummreaper excellent :)

  • @JeremyNichols777 Yeah I regretted it afterwards....they just didn't deserve to listen to this quality track for 4 days, in hindsight i should have played the birdie song on repeat instead!!

  • @grummreaper you remind me of some convenience store hang outs, the owner got tired of these SILENT BOB AND JAY types and pumped classical music into the parking lot and around the building... THEY LEFT... the vibes didn't reflect their self-absorbed sullen selves? the atmosphere became too enlightened and positive?

    - hey at least they heard some nice stuff for days, could have been SLAYER!

  • @glorp896 lol True enough!! My crappy old stereo speakers wouldn't have lasted 4 days with Slayer though....

  • @grum jolly good then... i lived in the STUDENT GHETTO across from a university for over 8 years, IMAGINE THAT! - so i had probs for sure, now have a chorus of 10 or so dogs around my property

    americans are indulgent wasteful fools in love with their perceived privileges and excess - leaf blowers, loud motorcycles, grills (smell this time), loud trucks, dogs, cats (the fights are loud and wake you up), etc... i have to deal with this all in TOO crowded a part of the city... less music though

  • Liz looks beautiful and happy in this video. I wish she would return and make more music--solo or with the Twins. She is sorely missed.

  • Awesome song and band! Liz rulez!

  • Liż . Fraser is cool woman !!!

    Greetings

  • @olusiaify You're right!

  • VAI TOMAR NO CU JAPONES GAY

  • thanks to these video postings i have fallen in love with this band all over again 20-odd years later! just awesome. lorelei and bluebeard just superb singing. we should have 2 charts these days, one for the mindless dross that daytime radio plays and a REAL chart with REAL music. superb.

  • the more i listen to them the more the mystery deepens,i want to know every thin about this band,their origins ,musical influences,and nationality. what melodic influence caused them to create this sound,are they playing in open guitar model tuneings like many celtic guitarist do or what? what language is liz singing in? scotts gaelic or what? just facinating beyond belief.

  • @snapperjohn1000 its english, with add of puirt a beul

  • @snapperjohn1000 Welcome to the club! You will find, as many of us, it will be bittersweet; you'll discover their sounds and stories and will be forever sorry that they are no together anymore. It's like beeing in love for the first time, you will feel miserable but lucky! :)

  • this woman has transcended far above the natural state ,and restraints of the human voice,as if she has attained some blissfull state of musical nervana . we all wish we to be in that magical place

  • Sometimes, I can't help but think that the human race is just not *worthy* of being graced with Elizabeth Fraser's talent.

    For those 17 dimwits out there with a dislike...please introduce me to your parents. I'd like to know what in hell they were thinking when you were conceived.

  • an angel in our midst.

  • Who are the 17 morons that disliked this? No matter how good something is, there will always be some who are completely lacking in taste.  This stuff is genius.

  • @rsf1017 I wonder if maybe it's because they don't want it to influence youtube's already weird recommendations. I dunno if that would work but if you think something's alright but it's not to your taste I guess it makes sense, 20 dislikes to 1,112 likes don't mean much

  • @rsf1017 it's just a few drops of piss in an ocean crystal clear water... does not matter much.

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  • @rsf1017 They are total WANKERS

  • @Seaventeares and u

    

  • this shit is real music

  • What else could we say about the "voice of God"?

    She could always murmur, and she would still be gorgeous...

    Such a shame they splitted, I still hope they get back someday, or at least she starts doing a proper work, the same way she did with Massive Attack, and Robin still does instrumentally solo!

    Lord praise the Cocteau Twins for their timeless eternal work, since there is nothing like them since then even until these days....!

  • @alexbm yup

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  • G E N I U S !!!!!!

  • I love the Cocteau Twins more than almost anything in life. And yet... that hairstyle is a crime against humanity!

  • @amherstguitar what the fuck?

  • @amherstguitar Music like this and you worry about the hairstyle, bet you are bald !

  • @jimdreferee Baldness is not a choice. Braided dreadlocks is!

  • Dolce come la persona che me li ha fatti conoscere!

  • @Mobyindahouse Dovete ritenere fantastico per avere qualcuno così dolce che gli hanno detto circa loro, saluti dalla Scozia

  • yes. why lyrics when the vast majority is contrived, commercial and ridiculous? fuck words in music if one can't write to save their lives!

  • Gorgeous song.

  • My god, I LOOOVE the way she dances.

  • Nothing better than a lazy Sunday just letting Liz pelt out song after song on a neverending loop while you catch up on work or reading. It just feels good to spend a few hours listening to the Cocteau Twins and letting the music just play it's magic on you. Love this!

  • Still as magical as the first time I heard it.

  • Possibly/probably the Cocteau's most accessible song ever and none the less wondrous for it.

  • @MisAnnThorpe

    I would say Carolyn's Fingers is more accessible to the general public.

  • @redflare221 You're forgetting that Joe Public on hearing Carolyn's fingers would immediately feel personally affronted by the indecipherable lyrics! Bluebeard is one of relatively few Cocteau's songs with clearly intelligible vocals.

  • Saw her live with cocteau twins many years ago...the emotions that her voice gave me are not possible to describe. I was constantly close to tears because of her divine voice, which is even better live.

  • what can i say fuck you all

    

  • Ahh I remember going to the 4 Calendar Cafe concert--my very first concern and it was prom night and I didn't care a bit about prom and I will forever be glad that I was in the right spot that night. How I still just love this band but mostly Liz!

  • @centuryflower ilived in israel that time and i remember it well

  • @centuryflower prom or cocteaus? no comparison there...proms are for those "winners" in high school who became the most popular, sporty, good looking and maintained the highest level of self-worth... losers, burn outs, dummies and ugly not wanted... punkers can stay home too... no goth please... and of course you are supposed to have a date... so if a loner, never mind as well...

  • Ela na pewno pójdzie do nieba za takie piękne śpiewanie. Choć, gdyby z jakichś powodów poszła jednak do piekła, to mógłbym jej słuchać wieki całe. Tylko czy to byłoby jeszcze piekło?

  • Not my favorite but lately I've been listening to this song a lot!..I guess you can't really lose with Liz singing! Ha-ha!

  • Kocham Cię Elizabeth Fraser!

  • Liz is a fucking goddess, she's beautiful.

  • Kocham Cię Magda!!!!

  • =)

  • The best band to come out of the oil refining town of Grangemouth? Perhaps, however what cannot be denied is the influence Guthrie and Fraser had on the Indie scene during the 80's and early 90's.

    This is a top song in any language!

  • @biggayone You should have a listen to former Grangemouth band Lowlife too, ex-Cocteau on bass......utterly amazing tunes......

  • 16 dislikes... uncomprehensible

  • I have music in my head constantly,I think Liz Fraser does also, and fortunately for the world, she knows how to let it out and exspress it in such a beautiful moving manner. I think those of us who are touched by this music,feel Cocteau Twins realize and make audible what we may feel, but don't have the ability to create or exspress ourselves. I speak only for myself, but I find their music beautiful and profound.I am falling hopelessly in love with Liz all over again.

  • So very beautiful  gives me the chills

  • I bounce back to this song over and over again...Such an adorable tune...

  • mini-dred liz is spooky...

  • She's so ridiculously adorable in this video.

  • Genius. See my channel for a discography review.

  • Oh Lord, I Love Cocteau Twins! Elizabeth!!!!!!!! Proof of God? --Right Here -E. Frazier. what is more beautiful, melodious, soothing, cuddly, mysterious, friendly-sounding, awe-inspiring (esp. vocal-ability-wise) than this??? -Sincerely, Flabbergasted Fan Al XXXX OOOO

  • I review the Scottish group's whole discography including their EP's.

  • Eternamente agradecida a la gente que me rodea que me hizo sentir desde muy chiquita lo hermoso de esta banda, esa mujer, esa época.

  • This is genius

  • Hi very good , very very good. i am going to spread this to my friends O.K?!!!!

  • alice with lyrics¡¡

  • Great song!!! If you like this check out danish act INOUWEE with the song "you"

  • I saw them play at the Warfield in San Francisco while touring for this album. They played an unforgettable performance of "Summerhead" before exiting and brought the house down.

  • I love to lay back and have this song just take me somewhere else. Its amazing to me.

  • I like this song no matter what anyone says

  • Look I really like, nay LOVE Liz and the Cocteau Ttwins, but I cant help thinking she looksuncomfortably like Ellen Degeneres in this clip, what with the collared shirt and daggy dance moves...

    And yes Liz.....I am the right man for you!!!

  • なついー

  • ...and the angel came down...dropped three tabs..and stayed for a bit....

  • Bringsl back some time back in the 80s. (im in my 40s now, and still brings me calm)