- Audio CD (Sep 28 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Select Distributions
- ASIN: B00001QEEV
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #85,200 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Sea, Swallow Me |
| 2. Memory Gongs |
| 3. Why Do You Love Me? |
| 4. Eyes Are Mosaics |
| 5. She Will Destroy You |
| 6. The Ghost Has No Home |
| 7. Bloody And Blunt |
| 8. Ooze Out And Away, One How |
Product Description
Album Description
Domestic debut of the Scottish trio's 1986 ambient collaboration album with Harold Budd for the 4AD label. Contains eight tracks, most of which sound like Cocteau Twins with a moody organ added. Vocalist Elizabeth Fraser sings on 'Sea, Swallow Me', 'Eyes Are Mosaics', 'She Will Destroy You' & 'Ooze Out And Away, Onehow'; the other cuts, 'Memory Gongs', 'Why Do You Love Me?', 'The Ghost Has No Home' & 'Bloody And Blunt', are all instrumentals. Highlyrecommended to any fan of Cocteau Twins or Budd! 1999 release.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Coming down from an unparallelled, orgasmic musical tapestry,
By A Customer
This review is from: Moon And The Melodies (Audio CD)
If one were to just focus on the period 1984-1987 in the storied musical history of Cocteau Twins, you could say that they were a band without equal, although not much of a "band" anyway, rarely giving concerts, bluffing their way through interviews, and shrouding their music in a haze of bizarre, almost purposely silly numbness. The crucial records "Tiny Dynamine", "Victorialand", "Love's Easy Tears" and this LP (which I bought the day it was released and immediately brought it over my girlfriend's house for backdrop music for the dusky, mellow afterglow of our cosmic sexual experience) are seminal 80's releases that slipped beneath the radar from day one.Unfortunately, I don't really think alot of "Moon & The Melodies" stood the test of time. I always thought "Eyes Are Mosaics" was sort of a throwaway and doesn't go anywhere, and these days alot of the Harold Budd-directed tracks seem rudderless and "oh-so-ambient" that it's almost embarassing. (One of them, "Memory Gongs", shows up in a different mix on Budd's own LP of the same year "The White Arcades", which suggests that it was a studio shpiel between he & Simon Raymonde that fit nicely as a ten-minute-or-so filler.) The saving grace of this album is the absolutely spine-crackingly breathtaking "She Will Destroy You", a track that ranks among the Cocteau's best. Liz blabs on about some moth, or creature, or whatever the heck she was writing in her notebooks at the time, and Robin Guthrie sends his guitar straight to the moon, and Budd & Raymonde keep it real in the background with a sparkling, gurgling low-down rhythmness as the ever-present drum machine turns the beat from "Sugar Hiccup" on itself and the entire thing spaces out in a spasm of gargantuan jazz when Richard Thomas of Dif Juz turns it into a cocktail party. Nice stuff. Extra points for the closing track, "Ooze Out and Away, Onehow", for not being as predictable as the other "ambient" blasts. A fine album.
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of a kind,
By A Customer
This review is from: Moon And The Melodies (Audio CD)
This is not among my favorite cocteau twins albums, I find Liz's singing and melodies somewhat annoying on parts of this album, but still, it sets a mood that no other record can set, and two of the instrumental pieces are well worth the cost of the cd, memory gongs and why do you love me?...Like some other reviewer said, this is not a cd you can "put away" or sell easily, it has an intangible value that is hard to describe.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must own for all Cocteau fans,
By Tony (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Moon And The Melodies (Audio CD)
I do not know if 1000 words in enough to describe this album. This album embodies eveything that the Cocteau Twins are - an incredible musical journey that can sound different everytime you listen to it. Harold Budd should have made 100 more albums with the Twins, the chemistry is nothing short of perfection. Sea, Swallow Me has got to be one of the best songs ever written!! If you are a fan of Victorialand, this album takes ambient-like CT to the next level. A must have for any fan of early Twins music.
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