u/KeyboardDiarrhea

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

Yep, yesterday was another one of those workdays. But busting ass yesterday has led to what appears to be a calm Friday.

Now let's me find out what today's song is!

*spins wheel*

Round and around it goes!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

Damn it! That was Wednesday's song.

*spins again*

Another one done just recently.

*spins again*

Third time's the charm because this should provide a perfect challenge to you all! Don't expect much in the way of distinguishable words in this one (I could be wrong though!).

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(I was going to say "FROM THE TOP", but listening through this, you have to wait A WHILE before lyrics kick in. In fact, exactly 1:30 into the song)

Whoa

La

La-na-na, na-na-na

Rhoda

Rhoda (they must've loved that show. Another song mentioning this show other than "Frou Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires...oops. I guess that was a hint)

La-la-la, la-la-la

Flo-ah

Flo-ah

Laaaaaaaaa (Lung power! She holds tis "LA" for a while)

Flow-von-yis

Flow-vin-yuh

Flow-vagnya

Tie-fanny

All ee-tuh

Yalz-een-yuh

Eye fall yee

Eee-eee-nya

I'm going to end this hear, and I honestly am not sure if I've given you enough to figure out today's song with. But you guys always amaze me and I underestimate how much everyone on this Subreddit is obviously a bigger Cocteau Twins fan than me. I would fail miserably in the guesser's role.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

The weekend is here and I can't welcome it enough. If there was ever a work week that would make you consider day drinking on a work from home day, it has been this week for me. And while I do wonder if I can make these much more of a challenge if I were to day drink while transcribing a Name That Cocteaune song of the day, I will not because addiction runs in my family and I don't want everything that accompanies being a functional alcoholic (shakes, sweatiness, rosacea, hidden flasks all over the workplace, keeping constant inventory of Altoids). I'm getting stressed out just thinking of all that would entail...like it would be so stressful, that I would need to drinking to settle my nerves. Damn...this is alcoholism is such a doom cycle.

Oh yeah...the game. Let's get a stumper today (no "Snow" EP tracks again, please)!

*spins wheel*

Round and around it goes!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

This one is gibberishy...not really a highlight track of theirs, though perfectly pleasant. I think this has some stump potential! From the top, where we hear...is that...sitars?

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Petty-wee, vooky snow-oo-whoa-oo-whoa

Veddy-kay eh weddy veddy whoa

Veddy-woo eh Betty-bo-oo-whoa

Hishy-bo, heshy-bao

Hishy-bo-oo-whoa, heshy-bao-oo-wow

(OI! Other than a mention of someone named Betty and a few mentions of steamed buns, this is shear glossolalia. Why do I sense that I blew it with the mention of the sitars though?)

Petty-wee, vooky snow-oo-whoa-oo-whoa

Menny-kay eh weddy veddy whoa

Veddy-woo eh Betty-bo-oo-whoa

Hishy-bo, heshy-bao

Hishy-bo-oo-whoa, heshy-bao-oo-wow

(Second verse, same as the first, save for "menny" instead of "veddy" starting line 2)

Two verses should be enough for you to get this song.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

A new week and, hopefully, this set of songs will not be little to no challenge to you all. Last week was almost embarassingly simple. I'm so luck that I don't run a casino and offer this as a game to gamble on. I'd be bankrupted within a day or two.

*spins wheel*

Round and around it goes!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

It's been a while since I've listened to this tune.

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(I'm going to pick a random time stamp and start transcribing from there. Let's do 1:49 in)

Hee-hee-hee (I believe this was a the trail end of a CHORUS)

It's frightening

Exciting

Something shakes up my arm (Heroin?!?! I don't know first-hand. Just this line out of context reminds me of the description of heroin hitting the blood stream in such songs as "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground and "Mutiny in Heaven" by the Birthday Party)

Understanding (I probably misheard that last line. Because "Understanding" there makes no sense...so it actually makes me lose understanding of what the hell this song is possibly about)

Truth

Is not perfect (going with that because "truth is not perfect" makes more sense than the other phrase I thought I heard which was "shoes is not perfect". Both could work. I just assume Liz properly conjugates verbs when actually writing a deep tune, which I think this one is?!?!)

I am frooze and confuse (I have relistened to this part multiple times and this is what I hear. And once I'm done here, I'm going to have to Google whether or not "frooze" is a word)

Sad month take me (maybe my coffee is wearing off. Everything's starting to go Peanuts cartoon teacher on me)

CHORUS

Coo care of kin rock (It's really degenerated now...Sorry)

Fool in the pad

Not reaching a meaning

Of let you

Coo care to kin rock

Fool in the pad

Not drunk (I just may be with how badly I'm whiffing on detecting words)

To be hee-hee-hee

So the good news is that I heard some words today. The bad news for you all is that they don't exactly form complete sentences. Now, I will go look up the word "FROOZE" (maybe a tense of the verb "froze"?).

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

Is it just me or has this been an exceptionally busy Monday? People really do hold off on truly getting back to work the weekend directly after a 3-day weekend and come out that 2nd week in extreme panic. Since I'm already feeling worn out from work, today's may be extra rushed and extra sloppy.

*spins wheel*

Round and around it goes!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

Ehhh. I have a confession to make. There are a few Cocteau Twins songs that have soured on me as time has gone on. It's typical for being a fan of anything for decades. You're bound to pay more attention, scrutinize the artist's full body of work more, and, just through becoming more of a student of what it takes to produce a work of art and understanding one's self better, get a better unstanding of what aspects of an artist's work you appreciate most. This is just one of those songs that I liked back upon its release but has grown to become a song that I kind of cringe at now. But, this is what the random song picker picked, so let's do this. And I'm going to pre-emptively put this out there: I AM NOT GOING TO ATTEMPT TRANSCRIBING ALL THREE VOCAL TRACKS THAT COME IN DURING THE CHORUS...if second verse, second chorus ends up being THAT part of the song. SHIT, I guess that's a clue, like you all need them.

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(Taking if from the start of the second verse at 1:42 in)

I feel a connection

A deep connection

But its not with Phil, Ted (she's obviously writing about her experience on the dating apps after the divorce with Robin. AW FUCK! More clues. My stupid fucking big mouth)

In touch and together

It's reflective cyclone (Huh?!?!)

Clay image you know me (And I was doing so well, I think, for the first secion of this verse. I keeping forgetting to get that appointment with the ear doctor)

CHORUS

Is Latka (is she talking potato pancakes or Andy Kaufman from Taxi)

Is Latka

Is Latka too dreamy (odd....never heard of anyone having an Andy Kaufman fetish. But I'm not gonna judge)

Half dubya (does she then mean, simply, a single "U"?)

Half dubya

Somali con dreamy

Is Latka

Is Latka

Is Latka gone dreamy?

Half dubya

Half dubya

Somali con dreamy

Give love yeah (it kinda of sounds like she's singing this this time around. She could also have peanut butter stuck to the roof of her mouth. Fuck if I can really detect words)

Give love yeah

If love ya con dreamy

Half dubya

Half dubya

Somali con dreamy

It probably wouldn't take much longer for me to try and transcribe her other vocal track that kind of rambles on until the end of the song but this is not my favorite tune from them and I've given you a verse, a chorus, AND CLUES so I'm ending this one here.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

YES! Their has been a bit of a heatwave where I live and today's weather forecast is showing a significant drop. I can't say enough how much I hate 90+ degree weather. It's because my go-to thing to wear in such heat is a ribbed cotton tank top and I hate the thought that people are assuming what my relationship with my wife is based upon that.

Also, it makes me, sometimes, wear shorts and I hate the look of my pasty, hairy legs.

Let's see if more comfortable surroundings leads to a quality transcription.

*spins wheel*

Round and around it goes!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

Well, I think this is a song with legitimate lyrics that, which the help of my wired IEMs, will yield something intelligible.

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(FROM THE TOP)

Sinful stories

I hear all that's shown (Ooh....I think I'm on a roll!)

This quiz to wish shiver understands (To paraphrase Rob Schneider in "The Waterboy", "OH NO! I SUCK AGAIN!")

And she's always known

CHORUS (ONE FINALLY CAME!)

Ease one in foreign dah yeah (*listens again...verifies* Sorry...makes no sense. But I hear what I hear.)

But I've go-o-o-o-ot

Boys they are above you

*CENSORED* (whole song title)

And that's a first verse and chorus as today's song is a bit of a simpler song.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

It is HUMP DAY once again and this Hump Day is making me think of the most famous person I can think of with the last name HUMP, which, of course is HUMPTY HUMP from Digital Underground, the Groucho Glasses minus the mustache and gaudy suit wearing alter ego of Shock G. I just randomly read up on him the other day (because I'm very morbid and found myself trying to celebrity death knowledge check myself) as I wanted to verify that my memory was correct in that he died from brain cancer. And, much like when it comes to transcribing lyrics here in these posts, I WAS WRONG. Turned out ol' Shock died from a lovely cocktail of fentanyl, alcohol, and methamphetamine.

So, why am I mentioning this here? I guess take this as a cautionary tale on the day of the week named after Humpty Hump (I know it's not, but just go with it). DON'T FAT SHAME PEOPLE. I can't help but think Humpty was still using meth because he set a really high bar for himself when he rapped:

"Yo' fat girl
Come here, are you ticklish?
Yeah, I called you fat
Look at me. I'm skinny"

Look what fat shaming did to Humpty. He hit his 30s. His metabolism slowed down. Yet, he had to, night-in, night-out, insult overweight women and set himself up as some bastion of slenderness. And, to keep the song "correct", he obviously had to resort to extreme measures which lead to inevitable early death.

Now onto cheerier subjects

*spins wheel*

Round and around it goes!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

*Googles* Damn! A song I constantly forget even exists. This should be a real shit show, as this may be like the third time I've ever listened to this song.

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(FROM THE TOP...lyrics kicking in at 0;38 in)

This world

Absent these hats (that last word is just undetectable to me. It could be APPS like this song is about someone bemoaning their IT security team blocking use of certain apps on their devices. But I'm going with this song being about a world lacking certain hats)

Have you saw them? (the missing hats?!?! I may have guessed right...)

Umami fa-la-low (...no. Wrong again. Nothing I hear ever makes any sense)

Silent aunt

Wilson hallah

Ha-uh-haaaa one arm I forgot (I'm not even going to try to make sense of that. I give up. At least I'm hearing words!)

Sumo woe (this could also just be her trying to sing with peanut butter stuck to the roof of her mouth. Or paraphrasing dialogue spoken by a teacher in a Charlie Brown cartoon)

Stars and valleys

Fa-la-la

Star my eyes (I know...."star" isn't a verb, but I hear what I hear)

Split one (By the way, does this song EVER get to a chorus? I'm just almost at 2:00 into this track and still NO CHORUS)

Well, Carlos (Carlos is about to be taught a lesson)

Halvah sucks (Actually, I kind of like it, but to each their own. And I just notice that I hear her sing "halvah" often despite that fact that I've rarely eaten it. I have no idea why my brain defaults most incomprehensible lyrics in Cocteau Twins songs to the word HALVAH)

Sa-a-ad son (Okay, this kind of makes sense. A mother is telling her son Carlos that she will not buy him a Halvah bar that he sees at the front counter of a grocery store because it sucks and now he's sad)

CHORUS (ONE FINALLY CAME!)

Sad eye, sad eye, sad eye (it honestly sounds more like "sud-eye, sud-eye, sud-eye" but I'm going with this narrative of Carlos being sad that mom won't buy him a Halvah bar)

Saddam in your eye (Hussein?!?! Where did that come from?)

Saddam in your eye

Sa-lah, sa-lah, sa-lah

And, actually, that may not have been the chorus because it starts multi-tracking multiple Liz parts which is huring my head trying to transcribe, so I'm ending this right there.

Honestly, if this one isn't a stumper, I really hope the person with the correct answer can explain how they figured this one out.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

I think I may have figured out some things with my new IEMs. After a tuning (didn't catch that there were tuning switches that helped shape midrange and bass performance) and some equalization changes, these things sound PHENOMENAL. I can't recommend this enough. For just sheer listening, forgo shelling out hundreds on over the ear headphones or bluetooth headphones of any form factor. You can get awesome in ear monitors with some of the same audio technology that they cram into these expensive headsets for 1/10 the price.

Now let's see if tuned IEMs leads to clearer interpretations!

*spins wheel*

Round and around it goes!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

Well...I can't guarantee this one has any words in it, but here's hoping to actually hearing syllables that we can all universally agree upon are being sung.

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(Starting at the 2nd verse, beginning at 1:29)

Morto

Seddo

Kuh-China (maybe this is Liz's odd way of pronouncing "kachina" as in the Native American wood carving)

Bi-toe (Definitely "bi-toe", like a bisexual toe, and not "bite toe" like what a pet may do to get you to wake up and feed them)

Seddo (She's really adamant about people adding this term to their vernacular but this is no word in any language according to Google)

Um wine uh (I think most of you have probably pinpointed at least what time frame during which this song must have been recorded by now)

Bibos (I do recognize some may say she's singing "bibles" here. It's coming crystal clear to me as "bibos" and based upon what we've seen thus far lyrically, I'm hedging on the side of gibberish here)

War-hoe

Coobya

Vye-pose

Bee-bwo

Acapella (AH! An actual word!)

CHORUS (The very verbose...)

La-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

La-la-la-la

La

La-la

La-la

La

La-la

END OF SONG

So, we've got a song about bi-toes and warhoes and shit. Make of that what you will.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

HAPPY LABOR DAY, citizens of North America. Yeah...that sounded weird. Nothing happy about labor. But, at least it gives us an extra day off of work. Not sure what this day entails for the rest of the world. Excuse me for my ignorance on the matter, but it's bound to be the case since I'm a citizen of the United States of America who is a product of the public school system and they don't really want to educate us to become wordly here. Just stuck in our own American bubble.

Today will actually be an experiment. I have purchased a new tool to hopefully enhance my listening skills for these transcriptions. I just got in some new IEMs (in-ear monitors, for those wondering what the hell IEM stands for) that I'm going to try for the first time with today's transcription as I I have not tried actual corded headphones of any sort yet in doing one of these NTC transcriptions. And I'm hopeful this will yield clearer results as my listens on these new corded earbuds makes me realize that even $40 corded IEMs ultimately sound better than even very expensive bluetooth earbuds.

So let's spin this wheel and get a song!

*spins wheel*

Round and around it goes!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

A song that I think has clear words that I think I failed on hearing previously. Maybe these IEMs with, from what I can tell so far, crisper reproduction of vocals can get me to hear sensical lyrics?

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(Starting at the 2nd verse, beginning at 1:25)

*CENSORED* (The entire title of the song), my emotional loving and I'm

Getting in touch with

Get some funky data, into (Okay, maybe these aren't helping. I'm getting words, but the still make no sense :( )

Doubt myself and my inscents of feeling as I

Waited too long

Lended to harbor bloody

We consume a sad reliance on a

Drunken batter

With something beyond belief

Water's fair. I have to go out soon

Sail me often

Moving with sunshine and in daze

CHORUS

Yeah I don't know what to do

It's not over wooo

Now flew a night owl tutu dong (excuse me while I swab my ears for a moment....RESUME)

Knowing so no waste

Understand I am confused (AH! Swabbing worked!)

Feeling overload

Lots of feelings stick for long

Going over to the club

And the second verse and second chorus will be all you get today.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

The weekend is here and, for those of us in North America, it is a 3-Day Weekend, the next best thing to a VACATION WEEKEND. I hope everyone (whether it's a 3-Day weekend for them or not) has interesting plans.

I'm, personally, going to see two concerts (particularly looking forward to seeing the Charlatans for the FIRST TIME EVER on Monday night) and I have a mini-high school reunion to attend. The latter is borderline scary, but it's at a public place, so the Mrs and I can always eject ourselves out of there if and when it becomes apparent that I'm the biggest loser from my graduating class of those who decided to meet up.

Speaking of being a loser, I guess it's time for me to spin that wheel, "transcribe" another song, and take another "L".

*spins wheel*

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

A classic to lead us into the weekend. And I sense that the chorus will make this easy-peasy. But my sense of what tracks will be hard and which won't for you all is BAD.

Let's take this from the start of the second verse at 1:10 in)

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*CENSORED* (The entire title of the song...and, from memory, the ONLY time in the song where they mention the title)

Alliance ingenious

Soberness

So duck and till a mon (with that last part of the sentence, I'm now second guessing myself and wondering if everything sung after the song title was actually in French. It's either that or Liz was mocking a Jamaican accent on this last line)

Pozz-ee-saw (obviously, now my confidence is shot and I'm not hearing anything resembling words now)

They save for the genius

Sodder nizz

And duck and till a mon (She keeps coming back to this what I'm hearing as "duck and till a mon". Is this some menu entree? Is "till-a-mon" some type of duck cooking technique, like "duck a l'orange"?)

CHORUS

Tragedy-ay

Mug of tea yeah-eh-eh naw (What is it? Yay or nay with this mug of tea?)

Tragedy-ay

Mug of tea yeah-eh-eh naw

Tragedy-ay

Mug of tea yeah-eh-eh naw

And that will be all I give to you today. And I would get this one if I were playing this, so this should be plenty enough to go on.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

Damn! Yesterday seemed like a manageable thing (work from home while the dealership works on maintenance procedures) but escalated into a large dump of money onto a lifesaving procedure on my ol' coche.

Let's hope none of y'all are hemmoraging monday this week like yours truly.

*spins wheel*

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

...possibly the only song on the release that this appears on that I recognize by name other than the singles (I guess I just gave out the hint that this is an album track). Without further jibber-jabber...

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(Joining this song at 3:00 into the song)

Keep cutting myself on the head cheese self
(I've relistened to this multiple times because I can't believe that this is what I hear. But, I'm sticking to my guns and she's singing something about HEAD CHEESE)

Reality

Reality

Keep cutting myself on the head cheese self

Reality

Reality

(from here on out, a second vocal track where she sings the chorus interweaves within this singing about head cheese that I will denote in bolded, italicized text)

Keep cutting myself on the head cheese self

Is this what my body says

Reality

Reality

Abuse me, drain me, hold an MBE (sorry...I CANNOT make out what she sings here after DRAIN ME)

Keep cutting myself on the head cheese self

Is this what my body says

Reality

Reality

Engulf me

Hold my lights ee suh-lay

And, mercifully for me, the song ends there.

There you have it. A song about the nastiest looking of all the cold cuts.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

Yesterday may have been the closest we've come in a long time to seeing the ever-elusive STUMPER. Maybe the good luck streak for me will continue? Sorry for being so mean-spirited, but I do love, besides finding GIFs for victories, finding GIFs to celebrate your incorrect answers.

*spins wheel*

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

A song I find to be a little too poppy for Cocteau Twins. Like, this is one that I would use as an example of a track where they may have been truly aiming to get radio airplay particularly in the U.S. at the time of it's release. It's probably my least favorite song from the release that it is on, but maybe it will develop some new-found love from me if it can stump the panel here on r/cocteautwins.

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(Joining this song at 1:32 into the song)

Skip
(NOTE: there's also a second vocal track weaving in and out between these lines that I'm noting where Liz is doing her typical vocalizations, singing La-la-loh-oh-woh's and other gibberish)

Skip

Play, play the cloud

Gold

Gold

Orange juice slave (or is she singing "Colin juice slave"? Either way, HUH?!?!)

Love

Love

His scooter appear (admittedly, my sleep wasn't the best and this could be a side effect from that)

Low

Low

So the grapes can flow (wine reference?)

CHORUS

And when I'm with you

A ding dong is marching baby (Hostess snack cake or the type of ding dong that Lou Reed references in "Sister Ray"?)

I cry myself dry (must be the latter. I'd be crying if a giant one were marching towards me)

If dooze and might, a two might, a maybe (That's it. I'm looking up the Kaiser Permanente otolaryngologist near where I live. I listened to that twice, it's what I make out from what's sung, and that is just word sludge.)

And, mercifully, that attempt to transcribe yet another Cocteau Twins song is over.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

August is OVER. Time is flying. Before I know it, we will hit the 1 year anniversary of this game and I still have yet to record one single victory.

So, let's make this a perfect August (just like every previous month thus far) and GET READY TO WHUP MY ASS AGAIN!

*spins wheel*

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

A good song that unfortunately is featured on a release with FUCKING BANGERS (Sorry....I love talking like a frat boy douchebag about the Cocteau Twins...just because I laugh at the idea of "bros" shotgunning shitty beer and hitting bongs to "Pandora (for Cindy) (AKA The Applebee's Song)", so it's by process of elimination, IMO, the weakest track. But maybe it flies underneath the radar enough to be our first stumper?!?!

Oh yeah, I guess I'm already behind the eight ball here because I gave you a clue because I would never name the song I'm about to transcribe in the prologue.

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(Joining this song at 1:26 into the song, immediately after the second chorus)

Yow, yibbido ee-yay

Yow, yibbido ee-yay

Yow, yibbido ee-yay

Yow, yibbido ee-yay

Yow, yibbido ee-yay

Yow, yibbido ee-yay

Yow, yibbido ee-yay

Yow, yibbido ee-yay

(Obviously, in the mysterious language of Cocteaunian, this is one of the more commonly uttered phrases. So, it's gotta be a greeting, I guess. If I ever get to meet Simon Raymonde again, maybe I will approach him and say "YOW, YIBBIDO EE YAY" and see if he waves back or does a "What's up" chin raise)

Musical Interlude until 2:03

Udo leh wowl yizz lo fee yo fee la little

Vee goddle

See noddle

Sun setting (an English phrase just pops up out of nowhere. I guess, besides shoegaze, Cocteau Twins were also a huge influence on K-Pop as well)

Voss noddle

Voss goddle

Udo leh wowl yizz lo fee yo fee la little

Vee goddle

See noddle

Sun setting

Voss noddle

Voss goddle

Udo leh wowl yizz lo fee yo fee la little

Vee goddle

See noddle

Sun setting

Voss noddle

Voss goddle

Udo leh wowl yizz lo fee yo fee la little

Vee goddle

See noddle

Sun setting

Voss noddle

Voss goddle

END OF SONG

So, you don't have many actual words to go off of. Hopefully, y'all have been brushing up on your Cocteaunian, because this is truly just a bunch of that.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

Today, I'm trying my best to post today's game a bit earlier than I have been, since I'm expecting an onslaught of work in the coming hours. And it can drop at any moment, so if this still gets posted early afternoon-ish, then yours truly ran into some work delays.

Oh....and HAPPY FRIDAY!

*spins wheel*

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

Well I'm once again happy with the choice made by the randomizer program.

And I don't think today's song features any references to high libidoed nighttime predators.

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(Starting from 1:57 into the song)

Tea men toe (this vocal delivery has that "Otterley" whispering vibe to it, but this song isn't dreadfully boring like "Otterley"....YEAH, I had to get in my "Otterley" dig again. Sorry)

A sister mama (Eek! Is this a song about what Papa John Phillips' ideal family would look like. Not sure I like this song any more.)

Summer sigh

Hop sim

Watching

Judas

Gross (Yeah, any family featuring a sister mama would be pretty gross)

CHORUS (And thankfully, to my ears, she stops whispering and starts belting things out!)

No talking is a word Assisi now's gnaw (????? But I'll still take this gibberish over the incest talk)

Cole slaw (I maybe imagining that lyric because I haven't eaten breakfast)

Warm cheese (the components of some sort of sandwich?!?!)

See Cissa haunt a feet the moa vow (at this point, I've lost all hope of making this make sense)

Say "No"

Chee, dez

Tame is a wall Assisi now's gnaw

Yow-za

And wah, chi

See Cissa haunt a feet the moa vow (wow...that phrase, even though I can't interpret it into any real sentence was actually repeated syllable by syllable EXACTLY as a few stanzas back. Is anyone else actually hearing an intelligible sentence here? I would love to know because this seems to mean something to Liz)

Fen vee

Chee yay, day day

END OF SONG

So, we've got a song that references incestuous family dynamics, cole slaw, and warm cheese.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

The boss is out of the office today so I can be a little more cavalier with posting this. And, of course, because of insufficient caffeination, I just happen to be blanking on what to say in today's prologue other than seeming like I'm obsessed with death (RIP Peter Cullen, voice of Optimus Prime and Yayoi Kusama).

Lucky you guys!

*spins wheel*

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

...one of their more silly titled tracks. But, if my memory is correct, this may be my favorite track off of the release that it is on.

Without further ado...

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(I think when I did this previously, I did it from the start, but I'm doing it again because I know that there is a "lyric" within the first verse that cracks my shit up)

Her-ah-no fass uh see lao

Mad cow (I almost forgot about this line *chuckles*)

Vellum

Yellum

Vee dee a knock lay-ay

Horny owl (LOL)

Owl

Owl (she really can't get over this owl having a strong sex drive. I'll admit, I can't either, considering how much I still laugh when I hear this segment of the song)

CHORUS (Yes, I'm using caps below to emphasize how she kind of shouts this chorus)

MICRO TEH VEE SHAY LAY

LEAH FEE SUH COE LAY

LAH SAY

LAH-UH-AH

MEN TOO VOO NAH POE LAY

NAS DIN COULD NO PHONY

PHONE NAH

OH OH AH

Easy! Everyone knows what song the "Horny Owl" song is, am I right?

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

Damn! Yesterday got Dr. Frankenfurter himself, Tim Curry, as well. Yesterday may have been one of the worst celebrity death days ever that wasn't an event killing multiple simultaneously (a la the Buddy Holly/Richie Valens/Big Bopper plane crash).

I think we're due for something to lighten up the mood. Hopefully, a game of Name That Cocteaune can help us keep our minds off of all that is bad about the world.

*spins wheel*

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

...one of my favorites! I'm probably in the minority here, but this song NEVER gets skipped even though I believe it didn't score very high in that thread where we were ranking all the songs from all the albums. Oh well, I know that my musical tastes are not the most popular, hence why I have a tattoo of the Throbbing Gristle flash logo on my neck.

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(starting this one at when the second verse comes in at exactly 1:00 in, which is shortly after when the 1st chrous ends)

Tea Tina oh nay gossy nye vee (oh yeah....this one will be just sheer gibberish. I've listened to this millions of times and never had heard a truly complete sentence)

Napollo fee vuh my knee oh oh no  (Well, I've made a breakthrough. I've heard a phrase that makes me think that Liz has injured her knee in this song)

CHORUS

Ooh to know

May luh bow

Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh

Cee luh tow

Elly cuh tow

Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh

There's a full verse and a chorus for you. Good luck song hunting!

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

I'm sorry, but Dolly Parton died today, who was an artist that influenced so many of different musical genres and was, from all that I can tell from her interviews and humanitarian efforts, a top notch human being all around. I think we should all take that minute or so that normally would have gone towards this post to remember her and listen to her classics, like "Coat of Many Colors" (my personal fav of hers).

RIP, Dolly.

THE RULES:

1. I listen to a Cocteau Twins song
2. I attempt to transcribe the lyrics WITHOUT ANY AID OF LINER NOTES OR LYRICS WEBSITES (foolish....I know)
3. You reply with your guess as to what the song is.
4. Multiple guesses are allowed! HOWEVER, if a multiple guesser gets the correct answer within the same minute as another Redditor who has yet to guess, the Redditor guessing the song on their first guess WINS. If multiple Redditors who have already lobbed guesses get the correct answer within the same minute time stamp on my notifications, the Redditor I'm notified of first wins.
5. The winner gets….honestly…nothing. Except bragging rights, a celebratory GIF, and a link to the song of the day.

[NOTE: Any lyrics I perceive that either name a good portion of the song title or is just the song title in whole will be blocked out with *CENSORED*. Text shown in italics wrapped in parentheses are just my snarky asides, usually about my shitty hearing.]

Happy Monday! I guess there may be some random things from my recent posts that I will just respond to here, because I still post these during "coffee breaks" and "lunch time" during my 9 to 5 and am just an overall LAZY REDDITOR:

• After some research, I found that it was LUNA that opened that Cocteau Twins show. And I saw the Boo Radleys on a bill with Throwing Muses and Sugar (headliner) WAY BACK WHEN. My memory sucks.
• (Before someone asks) YES, I instructed Simon to bunny ears me, so it wasn't a spontaneous diss or anything that cool. But, I thought I would just suggest a different pose than what everyone else was going for. And I'm a plebe that deserves to be bunny-eared by any celebs I may run into.
• I just thought I would randomly post in case anyone who threw the meet and greet may be on this subreddit and could let me know what Cab Franc that was that they were serving. Not urgent. Not urgent enough to call random strangers for. And I hate talking on the phone because I get paranoid that the person on the other end is eye-rolling at my every word, thinking I'm an idiot. I'd rather have people just think I'm an idiot here, so FEEL HONORED!

Now, back to business

*spins wheel*

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops? NO ONE KNOWS!

...and it lands on...

...a song I admitedly rarely listen to. That's the only clue I will give you.

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(starting this one at when the second verse comes in at around 0:53 in)

Doe, fuh tilly lie duh (yep, back to hearing shit when it comes to detecting words. And I just relistened to this line 3 times...not hearing one single word but DOE which I'm chalking up to just meaning random syllable here and not a deer, a female deer)

Mako shilly pie duh (I sense I'm detecting these last syllables as being DUH because that is how I'm feeling because I can't make out a single English word)

Hah doo

(whoa....and we're already at another...)

CHORUS

Love, Love

Distant, fill pen, vill pen, ya yuh (Somehow, the vocals came across softer with each "word" sung, leading to it, when reading this out of context, like may brain went to sludge progressively as this line of the song went on)

Lah-love, fall

He chef something kisses me love (Oddly, the word I'm most certain about in that line was SOMETHING)

Love, love

Mass-ken, guvment, gat well, wull-vuh

Lah-love, fall

Bush-yuh, senty, messes, uh yeah-ee-yeah-eh

And there you have it! The second verse, the second chorus, with a nonsense "transcription" from yours truly for a song that I think would classify as being a "rare" track. This should be mission impossible, so I do plan on posting a clue by 2PM Pacific if I don't see a correct answer by then.

As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

Here’s a odd question. I really enjoyed that Cabernet Franc that was being served at the Simon Raymonde daytime meetup earlier today but forgot to take a photo of the bottle to hunt for it. Does anyone know what Cab Franc they were serving today? Any knowledge anyone could share would be much appreciated.