Top 6@6 Supplemental-Post Your 6 Faves by Cocteau Twins With Top Vote Getters So Far

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First: The Who’s, What’s, Where’s & Why’s of the Supplemental Poll

As per Skijumper’s request and in attempt to squeeze as many bands in the shortest amount of time possible, as a regular feature, The Monday 6 @ 6 Poll, includes a Headliner poll and a Supplemental poll. This Cocteau Twins poll, like the featured Concrete Blond and the Cowboy Junkies headliner poll threads will be closed and tallied 7 days from today, Monday December 23, 2002 at or about 6PM EDT, Santa permitting. Results from all 3 polls will be posted a few minutes later on that same day in Week #36’s regularly scheduled Sheryl Crow 6@6 Poll.

Second: The Chicago Listener SDM/(Bill) Board Top Vote Getters*

So far, through 56 artists, the results are…
In descending / alphabetical order from 26 Votes down through 5 Votes

26
Watching The Detectives
23
Alison
22
Folsom Prison Blues
21
Ring Of Fire
White Room
19
I Walk The Line
18
London Calling
Sunshine Of Your Love
17
Train In Vain
16
Just What I Needed
Layla
Radio, Radio
Red Right Hand
Space Oddity
15
Badge
Bell Bottom Blues
Oliver’s Army
Tale Of Brave Ulysses
14
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love and Understanding
Call Me
Cocaine
Good Vibrations
Hanging On The Telephone
I Fought The Law
Lay Down Sally
My Best Friend’s Girl
Veronica
Would?
13
After Midnight
Heroes
Man in the Box (1 Vote Specified Live)
Pump It Up
S O S
Surrender
Suzanne
12
Loser
No More Mr. Nice Guy
School’s Out
Strange Brew
Suffragette City
11
Drive
Eight Miles High
Eleanor Rigby
Golden Years
Heart Of Glass
I Will Survive
Little Wing
Mr. Tambourine Man
No Excuses
Rudie Can’t Fail
Take A Chance On Me
The Mercy Seat
Where It’s At
White Riot
Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?
You Might Think
10
A Pirate Looks at 40
Ashes To Ashes
Bluebird
Changes
December
Devil’s Haircut
For What It’s Worth
God Only Knows
Good Times Roll
Motherless Children
Rebel Rebel
Rock The Casbah
Rooster
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
Wonderful Tonight
You’re All I Got Tonight
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Crossroads
Dancing Queen
Down In a Hole
Elected
Every Day I Write the Book
Fernando
Hallelujah (2 specified with the I Know It’s Over segue)
I Want You To Want Me
I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better
In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
Key To The Highway (1 Specified Rainbow Concert)
Let’s Go
Lover, You Should Have Come Over
One Way or Another
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag (Part 1)
Rapture
Running On Empty
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Short Skirt, Long Jacket
Silent All These Years
Sloop John B
Son Of A Son Of A Sailor
The Distance
The World I Know
War Pigs
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(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea
A Boy Named Sue
A Day In The Life
Bird On a Wire
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Doctor My Eyes
Goin’ Up the Country
Hallelujah
Heaven Beside You
Hey Jude
I Shot The Sheriff
I’m Eighteen
Layla (Unplugged)
Let’s Dance
Magic
Paranoid
Rock & Roll Lifestyle
Rock & Roll Woman
Shake It Up
Shine
Sweet Emotion
The Ship Song
The Weight
Them Bones
Waterloo
Where The Wild Roses Grow
Whipping Post (1 Vote Specifies Studio Version)
Wouldn’t It Be Nice?
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(Don’t Fear) The Reaper
Candy-O (1 vote specified w/the Shoo Be Doo Intro)
China Girl
Cocaine
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Do You Love Me?
Dream Police
Everybody Knows
Everything Zen
First We Take Manhattan
God
I Feel Free
I Got You (I Feel Good)
I Want You
Iron Man
Jimmy Jazz
Knowing Me, Knowing You
Last Goodbye
Let’s Work Together
Little Things
Livin’ On A Prayer
Mr. Soul
On The Road Again
One Way Out
Orange Blossom Special
Remedy
Sabotage
Sheep Go To Heaven
Shipbuilding
So You Want To Be A Rock & Roll Star
Statesboro Blues
SWLABR (She Walks Like A Bearded Rainbow)
Tears In Heaven
Tell The Truth (1 Specified Rainbow Concert Version)
The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down
Turn! Turn! Turn!
White Man In Hammersmith Palais
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Accidents Will Happen
After Midnight
Amphetamine Annie
Anyone For Tennis
Atomic (1 Specifed the Diddy Remix)
Born Under A Bad Sign
California Girls
Cheeseburger In Paradise
Coffee & TV
Cold Sweat (Part 1)
Cornflake Girl
Crucify (1 Vote specifies the single remix)
Death Or Glory
Debra
Dream On
Gel
Girls And Boys
Glycerine
Guns Of Brixton
Hateful
Here Comes the Sun
I Get Around
I Stay Away
I’m So Glad
Italian Leather Sofa
Jessica
Let It Grow
Let It Rain
Margaritaville
Memphis Tennessee
Minnie The Moocher
More Than A Feeling
Moving in Stereo
N.I.B. (Nativity In Black a.k.a. Now I Believe)
Nobody’s Fault But My Own
Papa Won’t Leave You Henry
Since You’re Gone
Strawberry Fields Forever
Sunday Morning Coming Down
The Load Out / Stay
The Winner Takes It All
Ticket to Ride
Tupelo
You Give Love A Bad Name
5
(Ghost) Riders in the Sky
(All The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
All I Really Want to Do
Back In Black
Beercan
Boulevard
Brand New Cadillac
Broken Arrow
Call Me The Breeze
Comedown
Country House
Cruel Summer
Dammit
Dance This Mess Around
Don’t Look Back
Dreaming
Famous Blue Raincoat
Go And Say Goodbye
Good
Got Me Wrong
Hard to Handle
He Went To Paris
Heavy
Here, There & Everywhere
Hey Bulldog
Hey Ladies
I Am the Walrus
I Looked Away
In My Life
It’s A Man’s World
Jackson
Janie Jones
Johnny B. Goode
Keep On Growing
Lawyers In Love
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Machinehead
Man In Black
Maria
Maybellene
Midnight Rider
My Back Pages
Mystery Dance
Only Women Bleed
Parklife
Pay No Mind
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (from Dream for an Insomniac & Fashion Nugget)
Rip Her To Shreds
Robert DeNiro’s Waiting
Rock Lobster
Running On Faith
Running Up That Hill
Satan is My Motor
St. James Infirmary
Swallowed
Sweet Leaf
The Man Who Sold The World
The Shape I’m In
The Tide Is High
This Is Radio Clash
Tommy Gun
Tramp the Dirt Down
Up On Cripple Creek
Welcome to My Nightmare
Who By Fire
Winter
Young Americans

I didn’t include the artist name. With the exception of a few covers, most are self-explanatory. I’ll try to post the whole database up on fathom.org and link it later this week.

Third: The Poll & How it Works

It’s simple enough, post your 6 favorite songs by the artist. Personal observations, opinions, liner notes, comments and the like are always welcome but are in no means required. You May include Cover Versions. If you specify Live version, it will be noted, but tallied together with the studio version of the same title.

Fourth: This Weeks Supplemental Poll Artist’s Discography

Here’s a reader digest list with sound clips & lyrics to The Cocteau Twins discography:
Garlands  Head Over Heels  Treasure  Victorialand  The Moon & the Melodies  Blue Bell Knoll  Heaven or Las Vegas  Four-Calendar Cafe Capitol  Milk & Kisses
For more info, Go to AMG’s website and type in the artist’s name on the search box.
The All Music Guide service is meant to refresh your “101 knowledge” of the artist. Please refrain from voting for tracks based solely on the 15 second sound clip. If you have the time, perhaps you’d like to add your 2 cents to their Music Expert Check…

Lastly: The Supplemental Poll Artist of the Week

Without further ado, Skijumper’s poll: The Cocteau Twins.

Here are my 6 COCTEAU TWINS selections:

Stop! Hold on. Stay in control. As with the other Scots; Belle & Sebastian, as well as The Bonzo Dog Band & Neko Case, my knowledge of The Cocteau Twins is too limited to vote in this poll. I will however concede, “Sugar Hiccups” is a pretty good song. In order to keep the template clean, I’m leaving my selections blank.

So tell us…Do you have 6 favorite tracks?

Thanking you all in advance I hope to see you over @ the Concrete Blond & Cowboy Junkies polls. Have a great week!

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Any top 10 of the Cocteau Twins is doomed to be woefully incomplete, because they had whole stretches of albums with nothing but classic songs, and every album is so much more than the sum of its parts.

My top six Cocteau Twins songs:

  1. Summerhead - From the very Christmas-y feeling “Four Calendar Cafe,” some latter-day Cocteaus when Liz began to actually use English all the way through a song.

  2. In Our Angelhood - Urgent and driven, from the classic “Head Over Heels” album. It was between this and the scatty “Multifoiled,” but being so very much of the time tips Angelhood into the #5 slot.

  3. Ivo - Treasure is an album from another planet. This opens it, and is classic because of the brilliant interplay between Liz’s singing and the great big bells that ring throughout.

  4. Millimillenary - This one’s all over the place. But it touches everything.

  5. Lazy Calm - So difficult to choose one song to represent the quiet perfection of “Victorialand!” My favorite Cocteaus album. I went with the opening track Lazy Calm instead of Whale’s Tails because of the beautiful saxophone provided by Richard Thomas of Dif Juz, because he is essential to the beauty of “Victorialand.”

  6. Love’s Easy Tears - Everything that makes a great Cocteau Twins song in perfect proportions… production like a snowstorm, shimmery guitar line, Liz Frasier at her shouty glossolaliac best, a martial beat (because this is the song played at the wedding of heaven and earth) and the title is an epic poem in three words.

If this were a top 10 I’d have added Memory Gongs from the Moon and the Melodies (which is pretty much a Harold Budd song, many know it as Flowered Knife Shadows), Aikea Guinea, Musette and Drums, and something from Blue Bell Knoll or Heaven or Las Vegas.

-fh

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Come on! I can’t be the only one!

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I’d love to vote, and I really like the CT, but I have difficulty chosing any song as better than their others.

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Another toughy - I’d vote for pretty much every track on Treasure and Head over Heels. But my number one choice is from a John Peel session (BBC Radio 1) which was included as a bonus track on the cassette version of Head over Heels.

  1. From the Flagstones
  2. Ivo
  3. Donimo
  4. Pearly dewdrops drops
  5. Musette and Drums
  6. Wax and Wane

PS I’ve met Elizabeth Fraser a few times (albeit about twenty years ago) - a very otherworldly woman!

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  1. Lorelei
  2. Ivo
  3. Wax and Wane
  4. Heaven or Las Vegas
  5. Crushed
  6. Aikea-Guinea
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I can never keep track of the names of the songs, even if they are the best names I’ve come across…

  1. Wax and Wane, live version we saw in Toronto in June 1996 was mind-blowing
  2. Song to the Siren - I know it’s This Mortal Coil, but it was done by Liz and Robin only…so if VictoriaLand is considered Cocteau Twins, then I’ll include this.
  3. Ivo
  4. Aikea-Guinea
  5. Pitch the Baby
  6. Sea, Swallow Me
  7. Sugar Hiccup - If Song to the Siren is not a kosher choice…

I have to say that there are a whole lot of favourites, but I usually end up listening to the albums repeatedly…letting the CD repeat, the tape auto-reverse or putting the tonearm back down. VictoriaLand and The Moon and the Melodies are simply exquisite.

I purchased the Treasure tape (I didn’t have access to a record player at that point) which included the Aikea-Guinea single. What a great album. Years later I got the Treasure CD without the single included and there was a great void that made a difference between “utter joy” to “pretty good”.

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Last time I saw them was in 1988 or 1989 and it was mind-blowing back then too! Was Liz still doing her mad hand-washing dance thing?

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No, Skijumper will show up before Monday, unless he’s in Aspen for the week. To be honest with you, I’m surprised 4 people voted, I assumed it was going to be a “Bonzo Dog-like” turnout, where even the requester missed the boat. :smack: I remember those smacks like it was only 2 months ago…oh, never mind, it was.

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Heaven or Las Vegas
Frosty the snowman
Wax and Wane
Pitch the baby
Lorelei
Musette and drums

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  1. Akira-Guinea
  2. Half-Gifts (Twinlights ep version)
  3. Cherry-coloured Funk
  4. Carolyn’s Fingers
  5. Blue Bell Knoll
  6. Heaven or Las Vegas

Mind you, it’s been awhile since I’ve listened to CT.

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She, baby, she. And I’m surprised we got four votes too. It’s like Bananarama all over again…

Anyhoo, me vote goes to:

  1. Blue Bell Knoll
  2. Ivo
  3. Wax and Wane
  4. Heaven or Las Vegas
  5. Evangeline
  6. Iceblink Luck

with a nod to Song to the Siren - my favourite song of all time.