Can We Talk About Cherry Coloured Funk?

on the other hand, maybe it's cos I have the UK vinyl of the earlier album and the (less well pressed?) U.S. of Heaven
"Cherry Coloured Funk" is definitely tuneful

I like b-sides "Mizake The Mizan" & "Watchlar" more than most of what's on the album though

Timex is coming out with a new product by that name for the goth demographic (keep it on the DL please).

Didn't know that, but why would that be tasteless?

You have issues.

ISSUES! DO YOU SEE?! sorry.

Beetles and eggs and blues and pour a little everything else
You steam a lens stable eyes and glass
Not get pissed off through my bird lips as good news
Still we can find our love down from behind
Down far behind this fabulous, my turn rules
Beetles and eggs and blues and bells and eggs and then blued
Beetles and eggs and blues and pour a little everything else
You steam a lens stable eyes and glass
Not get pissed off through my bird lips as good news
You'll hang the hearts black and dull as the night
We hanged your pass and start being as you in ecstasty
Still being cried and laughed at before
Should I be sewn in hugged I can by not saying
Still being cried and laughed at from light to blue
And should I be hugged and tugged down through this tiger's masque
And should I be sung and unbroken by not saying
You mind not saying
He'll hang that heart's black and dull as the night
Still being cried and laughed at from behind me, from gains
We hanged your pass and star being as you in ecstasy
Still being cried and laughed at from behind me, from gains
Should I be sung and unbroken by not saying
Still being cried and laughed at from behind me, from gains
Hugged and tugged down through this tiger's masque for key

Call me dense, but I'm not catching the metaphor here...

God, no. If that were my handiwork, I'd all be a little frightened if I were you. Actually, I cribbed those off some website -- dunno if they're official, but the same ones are on a few diff. pages. My recollection is that she started singing real lyrics around HOLV, though...

Beautiful cover art, also.

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drf900/f915/f91539unkw1.jpg

http://images.coogle.com/images?q=tbn:z1tst0fGdVkJ:www.evo.org/html/gif/CocteauTwins.HeavenOrLasVegas.cdsingle.gif

http://www.thefirstcut.net/cocice.jpg

Has anyone explored the Faye Wong connection thoroughly? HK diva, most UK/US-ers saw her star Chungking Express? I just uncovered this whole cross-pollination recently. She covered "Bluebeard", "Know Who You are at Every Age" and "Rilkean Heart", sang on "Serpentskirt" for the Asian version of Milk + Kisses, and Robin gave her a few original songs in the late 90s.

Alex is, of course, quite correct. Nevertheless 20 years on, suddenly realising that one of my v. favourite Cocteau Twins tracks, 'Pearly-Dewdrop's Drop', may be actually about semen..... blimey.

Interesting about Pearly Dewdrops Drop. All the talk about possible sexual inferences makes me remember the Milk n' Kisses-era interviews Liz gave where she talked about being sexually abused as a kid. Might take away from some of the blissful imagery some (if not a lot), but also informs it quite a bit...

I'm with Ott, btw -- Clifford's mix of "Feet Like Fins" is The One.

Anyone curious can read a long-ish interview I did with Simon in 1997 at the short-lived Dopodomani; the site runs as a Flash popup, my interview is in the Sound section.

I dunno....I don't buy it. To my mind, the Cocteaus are from a realm where things like defecation, urination, ejaculation and other sundry bodily functions don't play a part. All is misty and ethereal. They don't walk so much as glide up a stair composed of blooming marigolds and baby's breath. The gooey, embarassing and mortal trappings of this sorry world do not apply to them (or at least not to Liz. Robin, however, looks well acquainted with all things gooey....especially the filling of Twinkies and jelly donuts.)