TS: Hopelandic -vs- Whatever the hell the Cocteau Twins are saying

I'm assuming we're comparing the "language" and the sound of the words -- not the vocalists.

Still, I have to side with the Cocteaus because Liz's uses the same vocal cadence that somebody singing actual words would use. OTOH, Jonsi needs fifteen seconds to sing a three syllable "word".

Anyway, much as I love Sigur Ros, the Cocteaus win. I never find myself caring what Jonsi is singing, whilst I have fretted for hours over Liz's lyrics.

Shouldn't we be including that language the guy from Magma made up?

(I mean, you could make an early Cocteau lyric out of, like, I dunno, "contribute an answer" and "login name": you'd just go "con-n-n-n-treeee, con-n-n-tree bu, n-ansa n-ansa," and then for the chorus start doing the other part.)

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She likes to pick unusual words, and nabisco is spot on about the phrasing.

Ping-pong,
Hey Pa,
and I'll,
Gunga-doh!

ping-pong
peach cloud
pandour
pompadour

or something like that.

pee lee
pee swee
pe serrrnameee

Christ it really does look stupid when you sit and type it out. hahahahaha

There was one song where I could have sworn I heard the word "tampon".
I think it was on Head Over Heels somewhere.

this made me laugh out loud (and not just because i'm immature).

Oh dear I've spent too long on this in my youth.

They often reuse lyrics as song titles though - there are songs called "Ooze Out and Away Onehow" (which is a line from "My Love Paramour") and suchlike.

http://www.cocteautwins.com/images/cocteau_comic.jpg

"EAT THIS, PUSSY!"

"YUM!"

http://www.etherweave.com/cocteautwins/lyrics/index.html

Yes, that is true. The weird thing is that over the years you get to figure this stuff out and you realize that some of the really crazy ass things you THOUGHT she was saying when you heard her in your youth, were in fact EXACTLY what she was saying after all.

It's pretty disorienting when you begin to realize this.

When it was first performed on a Peel Session, "Ivo" was called "Peep-Bo". "Beatrix" was called "Weesht". Funnily enough, my former Brooklynite lover (who used to call me "Ivo" because she knew another Ian through all her life and she didn't want to relate me to him even though he was the one who sucked...and I'd always refer to her as "my love paramour") for a while called me "weesht" and I'd call her "peep-bo". She wanted Liz Fraser to be her mommy. Obsessed? Nah...