r/cocteautwins

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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.]

*SPINS THE WHEEL*.....OF.....COCTEAU!*

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the wheel of Cocteau Twins songs stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

Something that I'm going to post the lyrics for from 2:30 to 3:19 into the song.

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We have been known to go before

I'll sign to go and bust a move (Must remind myself after I post this to see if Young MC has a songwriting credit for this track)

The ID knew to go before the scaramoo to bust a move flow

Vee-senz-ah

We have been know to go before

This guy says go and bust a move (and that "guy" was Young MC, I'm assuming. I'll shut up now)

The ID knew to go before the scaramoo to bust a move flow

Vee-senz-ah

The sky bee knew a nursing school a know

CHORUS

Ess-ee-senz-ah

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

this will be short but oh my god i’m so glad i found them!!!! they r actually so good, just wanted to share this and how i will never literally forget my first listen and how i listened to it thru a mountain drive with me looking up at a waterfall… my goodness so ethereal

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, since I saw some grievances regarding yesterday's post and a certain someone's dominance in this game, I just wanted to announce that today's song (CLUE) will not be "Touch Upon Touch", so enjoy spectating today, u/amnesiaec*.*

That being said, now it is time to spin that WHEEL.....OF.....COCTEAU!

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the wheel of Cocteau Twins songs stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

Since I apparently made the song obviously based upon my pre-game blathering last time, I'm going to remain tight lipped, other than letting you know that today's lyrics come from the end of the song, beginning at the1:37 mark.

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Where was your nose there?

Ephemeral beasts and the truth

Can come feel the brain leaf

No come as ee wise eh

Again

Ahead

Ha-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah

Ha-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah

Ha-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah

Ha-uh-ah

Ha-uh-ah

Ha-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah

Ha-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah

Ha-ah-ah, ah-ah-ah

Ha-uh-ah

Ha-uh-ah

And this is seen la-la stolen love

Motions own emotion and emotions are hard

Cant' whinin' if I find my wine calling card

Motions own emotion and emotions are hard

And this is saying fall in love, fall in love

Motions own emotion and emotions are hard

Apologies in advance if some lyrics may have been fudged. There was some construction work going on at the office building I work at and I was kind of grooving to it, distracting my concentration a bit, because it reminded me of "Abfackeln!" by Einsturzende Neubauten.

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.]

Back to the normal format. Though I may have to do another Gauntlet-style multiple song entry like yesterday another time. I just simply need to give a good reason to use the clue "Mary Richards' flatmate" and link to that YouTube video which is TOO PERFECT (IYKYK).

Until then, it's back to spinning the WHEEL.....OF.....COCTEAU!

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the wheel of Cocteau Twins songs stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

Well, shit. What the hell song is this?

*quick Googling*

Well that explains why I've never heard this song before. Well, I will need to listen to this twice to properly identify where verses end and choruses begin because this will be my first listens to this song. And I have to get it from YouTube so the audio is not going to be quite as clear as I normally get.

GOOD LUCK

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As would

I've seen faces

Have you saw goo

Aw naw-you faa-naa-neu

Scholar eights

Wilson hallah

Hell haa

Waa-la-la forget

Sue woke up

Stars and fallings

Ha-la star and heavens

Forewarn

Yah haflings

Flor-eh-fonz (AYYYY!)

Fall olly fed

CHORUS

Sly-sly-sly

Sly in your eye

Sly mig your eye

Sly-sly-sly

Ohhhhh...oh me hig yeoman

Sly mig ye eye

And I'm going to stop there because it devolves into multiple vocal tracks cannibalizing each other and I'll start ripping my hair out from frustration with failing to keep up and I don't want to be bald. Nothing against baldness. It just wouldn't work for me.

That being said, this will probably be solved in record time because I would've never known what the fuck this is.

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.]

You're probably wondering, "Bill, why are the rules all crossed out?"

Well, today, we're attacking Name That Cocteaune in a whole different manner.

I have to....we've pretty much gone through the whole discography, save for 5 tracks and a bunch of instrumentals where I don't have the musical knowledge to figure out the note a chord progressions of those instrumentals, so here's what I've come up with for today:

THE NAME THAT COCTEAUNE PRODUCT PLACEMENT GAUNTLET!

Today, I'm looking for four songs that include either commonly misheard lyrics or title references to things that make the songs almost seem like these songs are advertisements for these things.

EXAMPLE: if this was a Jimmy Buffet forum and the clue I gave was "fast food", you would respond with "Cheeseburger in Paradise".

Excuse me for a minute while I vomit and beat the shit out of myself for bringing up Jimmy Buffet.

Once you see the clues, I think this will be pretty easy to catch on and should be a fun way to handle today's game.

WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I am looking for FOUR SONGS that name drop...

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1) One of the leading tourism spots in the United States of America

2) A circular oaten breakfast cereal

3) a Scottish cocktail

4) (if you add an apostrophe + "S" to the end of the lyric) a chain of American family diners

I need 4 titles. The first person to respond with the correct FOUR song titles wins.
As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.

What do you think the best time to listen to each album is? For example, for me The Moon and the Melodies is perfect for a walk at night in winter or Heaven Or Las Vegas is perfect for an autumn evening

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.]

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the wheel of Cocteau Twins songs stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

We've been there. Done this one before. But to put a challenging spin on this song, I will just try to transcribe Liz's scatting at the end of the song.

GOOD LUCK

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(Starting at 3:52 into the song, sung over top of Liz singing a bit of the standard melody of...

"See ya

Freedom"

..etc.)

Mocha mana feela, mocha mana feela mocha mana feela

Loco sana, loco sana, loco sana mocha mama feel ah

Mocha mana feela, mocha mana feela mocha mana feela

Loco sana, loco sana, loco sana mocha mama feel ah

Mocha mana feela, mocha mana feela mocha mana feela

Loco sana, loco sana, loco sana mocha mama feel ah

Mocha mana feela, mocha mana feela mocha mana feela

Loco sana, loco sana, loco sana mocha mama feel ah

Ooh...I'm feeling an ellusive stumper today!

Which probably means that someone with guess the correct answer within one minute.
As always, I look forward to your guesses and snark.