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Cocteau Twins — Alice
Album: Stealing Beauty soundtrack
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Released: 1996
Length: 4:22
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When I am lost in heart ache
Shudder, shatter
The pale you
My one and only true love

Nicolo
Espiritu
This is the smoking gun
I really want to see

(Deceived me)You deceive me

(With you)Erase it I will not

(to stay)Finishing a halo(didn't he know alice?)

( I will plead)I will not excuse you

(alice, alice, alice, alice, alice)
would share,
(alice, alice, alice, alice, alice)
who shall
(alice, alice, alice, alice, alice)
replace
(alice, alice, alice, alice, alice)
You

When I am lost in heart ache
Shudder, shatter
The pale you
My one and only true love

Nicolo
Espiritu
This is the smoking gun
I really want to see

(pushing me)Look she fell
(with you)Right there on the floor
(so you)Finishing with her life
(not me) It hasn't even started
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Delays, Rostam, Cocteau Twins... a surreal Monday morning.,
Posted 4 months ago by sunybuny    [ Reply ]
Damn, years since I had heard Cocteau Twins, forgotten how good they were
Posted 4 months ago by DavidS_UK    [ Reply ]
3 to 8, only because I am missing my dear wife, Alice
Posted 2 years ago by sheeelaaa    [ Reply ]
 ccjemmett wrote:

More Cocteau Twins please 



Hear, hear!
Posted 2 years ago by kenmo    [ Reply ]
 brian.gass77551 wrote:


Funny, and as dreadful as that sounds, this is beautiful to me.  I never really know what these two are talking about or even saying, but it's sounds so pretty I don't care. 


These "two" are the same... Liz Fraser showing off her incredible vocal range again  :-)
Posted 2 years ago by kenmo    [ Reply ]
 vanillagorilla wrote:

Horrible,sounds like Nana Mouskouri in a catfight with Kate Bush



Funny, and as dreadful as that sounds, this is beautiful to me.  I never really know what these two are talking about or even saying, but it's sounds so pretty I don't care. 
Posted 3 years ago by brian.gass77551    [ Reply ]
WOW
Posted 4 years ago by wulkaniusz    [ Reply ]
Horrible,sounds like Nana Mouskouri in a catfight with Kate Bush
Posted 7 years ago by vanillagorilla    [ Reply ]
Please make it stop.......
Posted 7 years ago by Clyde_Bedow    [ Reply ]
................... singing along.......
..{#Bananapiano}{#Bananajam}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 7 years ago by stunix    [ Reply ]



                                      Liv Tyler should stick to acting ~

 
Posted 7 years ago by sfyi2001    [ Reply ]
 bam23 wrote:

And then you felt a need to spend more of those precious moments telling everyone about it. Odd

 
{#Lol}
Posted 7 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
I thought this was Hooverphonic...
Posted 7 years ago by VV    [ Reply ]
 SlinkyJ wrote:
I could hardly believe what I was hearing ... so great to hear Cocteau Twins! More, please.

  {#Yes}


Posted 8 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Nice in an odd kind of way
Posted 8 years ago by markybx    [ Reply ]
 torino390 wrote:
I really like Cocteau Twins, but I have to say, this isn't their finest 5 minutes... 

 
EXACTLY what I was thinking, and what I was about to write. {#Frown}
Posted 8 years ago by skindy    [ Reply ]
 Jazzerguy wrote:
Horrible. Precious minutes of my life wasted

 
And then you felt a need to spend more of those precious moments telling everyone about it. Odd
Posted 8 years ago by bam23    [ Reply ]
 Jazzerguy wrote:
Horrible. Precious minutes of my life wasted

 
No one said you had to listen. Work on your willpower...and that chip on your shoulder.
Posted 8 years ago by usajpl    [ Reply ]
Not my cuppa. Clearly talented, but this work is not sitting well.
Posted 8 years ago by Wilfrue    [ Reply ]
 Rockit wrote:
Angelic!

 
Indeed!
Posted 8 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Horrible. Precious minutes of my life wasted
Posted 8 years ago by Jazzerguy    [ Reply ]
Angelic!
Posted 8 years ago by Rockit    [ Reply ]
 HearsayDave wrote:
Rather than playing this dreck, why not just play Kate Bush, who is far more talented?

 
Kate Bush gets plenty of airplay here.
Posted 8 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
I really like Cocteau Twins, but I have to say, this isn't their finest 5 minutes... 
Posted 8 years ago by torino390    [ Reply ]
godlike.
kate bush is good, but cocteau twins are better.
{#Pray} 
Posted 8 years ago by shanygin    [ Reply ]
 HearsayDave wrote:
Rather than playing this dreck, why not just play Kate Bush, who is far more talented?

 
Rather than trolling around here and annoying other people, why do you not just hit the PSD button or simply go somewhere else?
Posted 9 years ago by greyghost    [ Reply ]
Rather than playing this dreck, why not just play Kate Bush, who is far more talented?
Posted 9 years ago by HearsayDave    [ Reply ]
More Cocteau Twins please 
Posted 9 years ago by ccjemmett    [ Reply ]
Thanks RP. . . {#Dance}
Posted 9 years ago by Ginetta    [ Reply ]
A great soundtrack for a wonderful movie. Only with RP's help would I finally find a source for a CD, although missing one tract as others have pointed out. I guess I haven't seen it often enough to catch that. I have the cassette tape, but no cassette player{#Frown}.
Posted 9 years ago by iloveradio    [ Reply ]
 Mikey wrote:
Don't love the song, but I could stare at the album cover for daze. Which leads to the inspiration that we should let Steven Tyler cover this song for the yucks and chuckles. /Why no funny Steven Tyler emoticon?
 
Because any Steve Tyler emoticon would be so jacked-up on drugs that it couldn't stay on the page.

I don't remember much about this movie except that the scenery was beautiful, Liz Tyler was gorgeous but an inexperienced actress and the plot was iffy.  Roger Ebert confessed a little too much in this critique: 

According to Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, who gave it 2/4 stars, "The movie plays like the kind of line a rich older guy would lay on a teenage model, suppressing his own intelligence and irony in order to spread out before her the wonderful world he would like to give her as a gift....The problem here is that many 19-year-old women, especially the beautiful international model types, would rather stain their teeth with cigarettes and go to discos with cretins on motorcycles than have all Tuscany as their sandbox.."

Roger really didn't like that guy on the Harley. 
Posted 9 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
enchanting {#Daisy}
Posted 10 years ago by ShamanManu    [ Reply ]
Stealing Beauty is one exceptional soundtrack. An eclectic mix, bouncing genres, spanning decades yet everything has this cohesion that produces an amazing whole album. I've listened to this soundtrack start to finish since it came out countless times. 

I'm really happy they left "Olympia" by Hole off the soundtrack though it was featured prominently in one scene with Liv singing along and rocking out. I like to think the producers recognized that it'd be an out of place and abrupt speed-bump in the otherwise perfectly cultivated album.
Posted 10 years ago by JasondotG    [ Reply ]
What went wrong with the Cocteau Twins on this song? Most of their material I loved at once, or it grew on me over not too much time. So how come this one still annoys after so many years? Perhaps I had just stubbed my toe when I first heard it? I'm not sure it's my mistake, though.
Posted 10 years ago by 2020sk    [ Reply ]
I could hardly believe what I was hearing ... so great to hear Cocteau Twins! More, please.
Posted 10 years ago by SlinkyJ    [ Reply ]
 earthbased wrote:
Inspired by Kate Bush?
 
Not really. the CTs operate in their own universe.
Posted 10 years ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
Love Cocteau Twins - no one like them.  Wonderful!   {#Notworthy}
Posted 10 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
2006, well I'm glad to catch this Cocteau Twins piece on this re-play, it's super
Posted 10 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
Pachypteris wrote:
It is a beautiful song, so warm, almost angelic. I love it...
Me too. And I notice that I have no expectation of category for the Cocteau Twins at all.
Posted 18 years ago by Tux    [ Reply ]
Inspired by Kate Bush?
Posted 18 years ago by earthbased    [ Reply ]
It is a beautiful song, so warm, almost angelic. I love it...
Posted 18 years ago by Pachypteris    [ Reply ]
bonnieo wrote:
I love this song. I can never get tired of hearing her voice. I love CT and there innovation in sound. Please play this song again for the real fans.
This is beautiful.
Posted 18 years ago by pianocomposer    [ Reply ]
I love this song. I can never get tired of hearing her voice. I love CT and there innovation in sound. Please play this song again for the real fans.
Posted 18 years ago by bonnieo    [ Reply ]
Drummer4soul wrote: I don't think I like the sound of these girl's voices. Nails on a chalkboard. I think it needs some "grounding" like a bass or something.
oldslabsides wrote:
Actually, I think it's just one girl.
It's cool enough Maybe it could use a tad more cowbell tho
Posted 18 years ago by inindian    [ Reply ]
crockydile wrote:
I think I got some bad 'shrooms.
better than no shrooms
Posted 18 years ago by moneygrip    [ Reply ]
I can understand that this is one of those songs that you love or hate, with no point in-between. Me, I love it. It's like going into an enchanted forest and talking to the fairies.
Posted 18 years ago by xouba    [ Reply ]
Posted 18 years ago by Danny_G    [ Reply ]
I think I got some bad 'shrooms.
Posted 18 years ago by crockydile    [ Reply ]
mkporwit wrote:
Oh Lord, please, please, please make this annoying drivel stop
Lord, please.
Posted 18 years ago by nick_valensi    [ Reply ]
Oh Lord, please, please, please make this annoying drivel stop
Posted 18 years ago by mkporwit    [ Reply ]
auntiejeanne wrote:
I have been a CT fan for many years, but this is one of the worst. If this had been the first song I had ever heard by them, I would not have listened to any of their other stuff. Thank God that never happened, because the other music is sweet and trippy.
Guess I'll have to take your word for it, 'cuz I'll never get beyond this. Okay, I will, because Bill won't let me be that much of a narrow-minded snob. But this freakin' sucked.
Posted 18 years ago by Xeric    [ Reply ]
I have been a CT fan for many years, but this is one of the worst. If this had been the first song I had ever heard by them, I would not have listened to any of their other stuff. Thank God that never happened, because the other music is sweet and trippy.
Posted 19 years ago by auntiejeanne    [ Reply ]
mezzanine wrote:
Elizabeth Fraser!
Just adore Elizabeth Fraser's voice. Think I have about everything from Cocteau Twins. Thanks !
Posted 19 years ago by Leaf13    [ Reply ]
I don't think I've ever been on the right drug to enjoy this.
Posted 19 years ago by JonnyNismo    [ Reply ]
The type of song where I get to use the descriptor, "piquant," and not feel like some pretentious snob. 'Cause it's a perfect word to describe this song, ya know?
Posted 19 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]
Normally I like Cocteau Twins, but this is just painful. It doesn't really help that I already have a headache. :fever.gif:
Posted 19 years ago by serendipity_blue    [ Reply ]
appst89 wrote:
x 10
Posted 19 years ago by radiozep    [ Reply ]
:headache.gif:
Posted 19 years ago by rolf    [ Reply ]
Nice seque from sister morphine to this track Bill. My compliments.
Posted 19 years ago by Daveinbawlmer    [ Reply ]
Don't love the song, but I could stare at the album cover for daze. Which leads to the inspiration that we should let Steven Tyler cover this song for the yucks and chuckles. /Why no funny Steven Tyler emoticon?
Posted 19 years ago by Mikey    [ Reply ]
Wonderful like so many of their songs...
Posted 19 years ago by mogwei85    [ Reply ]
Posted 19 years ago by appst89    [ Reply ]
Elizabeth Fraser!
Posted 19 years ago by mezzanine    [ Reply ]
jbwiv wrote:
Chillingly beautiful....I'm impressed.
Indeed, I have been to that place. Caught my ear on this hot summer day!
Posted 19 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
Wow, about as disparate in opinions as it gets. Personally, I LOVE hearing CT on Radio Paradise. Sorry to the rest of ya...
Posted 19 years ago by Roverfish    [ Reply ]
This is just plain awful.
Posted 19 years ago by Leslie    [ Reply ]
I didn't like this song when I first heard it on RP 3 years ago. (to the day, look at page 2 of the comments) Still don't.
Posted 19 years ago by zaknafein    [ Reply ]
Drummer4soul wrote:
I don't think I like the sound of these girl's voices. Nails on a chalkboard. I think it needs some "grounding" like a bass or something.
Actually, I think it's just one girl.
Posted 19 years ago by Red_Dragon    [ Reply ]
I don't think I like the sound of these girl's voices. Nails on a chalkboard. I think it needs some "grounding" like a bass or something.
Posted 19 years ago by Drummer4soul    [ Reply ]
Also available on on of 1 of several EPs released around the time of "Milk and Kisses." Haunting, but not one of their stronger tracks, IMHO.
Posted 19 years ago by chasech5    [ Reply ]
jbwiv wrote:
Chillingly beautiful....I'm impressed.
Me too!
Posted 19 years ago by mig7    [ Reply ]
Chillingly beautiful....I'm impressed.
Posted 19 years ago by jbwiv    [ Reply ]
This song annoys the heck out of me!!
Posted 19 years ago by rgr0707    [ Reply ]
Different. In a good way.
Posted 19 years ago by Skeletor    [ Reply ]
Okay, it is a classic band. Cocteau, Sioux, Cure, Dead Can Dance, Mortal Coil, hey how about some Red Guitars and The The in addition...
Posted 19 years ago by VovaPutin    [ Reply ]
8O
Posted 19 years ago by timandjuliet    [ Reply ]
this song is also on the excellently-compiled soundtrack for "Stealing Beauty" by Bernardo Bertolucci. he's such a dynamic director- check it out if you haven't yet! (soundtrack and movie)
Posted 20 years ago by the_circe    [ Reply ]
i just decided i like this song. it took me a while, and it's still very creepy, but i like it... makes me think of ophelia, floating through the weeds, watching the clouds drift by from just below the surface of the water...
Posted 20 years ago by rah    [ Reply ]
radix wrote:
I have heard maybe half a dozen Twins songs, and I didn't recognize this one as one of theirs until I saw it on the playlist. It's definitely the best of theirs I've heard so far. +8.
Ditto.
Posted 20 years ago by mig7    [ Reply ]
I have heard maybe half a dozen Twins songs, and I didn't recognize this one as one of theirs until I saw it on the playlist. It's definitely the best of theirs I've heard so far. +8.
Posted 20 years ago by radix    [ Reply ]
Very impressive. 8-O
Posted 20 years ago by dpjag    [ Reply ]
Yowza! I love the Cocteau Twins, but it's very odd to come in to one of their songs at the midpoint, as I just did right now. Screeeeech!
Posted 20 years ago by maryann    [ Reply ]
:sunny.gif:
Posted 20 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]
I, too, thought it was Annie Haslam and Renaissance until I looked and saw it was the twins. As much as I admire the strength and range of the voices, this particular song didn't do it for me. There's a certain point in the scale where even the finest soprano voice sounds like screeching to me.
Posted 20 years ago by tg3k    [ Reply ]
dolfan wrote:
Can't understand a word they say, but I love them.
A friend of mine who is a huge Cocteua Twins fan played a song by them for me once. He pointed out an undecipherable phrase that I swore sounded like "In a salad, in a salad, in a salad bowl, ma ma ma ma"
Posted 20 years ago by SiniLMan    [ Reply ]
Song sucks. But thats what I love about this station, you don't know if you don't like it if you don't hear it! Keep em coming!
Posted 20 years ago by DungEye    [ Reply ]
Can't understand a word they say, but I love them.
Posted 20 years ago by dolfan    [ Reply ]
Great band, middling song. And yeah, it IS sorta creepy. A lot of their early stuff was (although this is more recent).
Posted 20 years ago by Illustr8r    [ Reply ]
AAAAAAaaaaaaaahhh. Cocteau Twins...simply the best. Thanks Bill.
Posted 20 years ago by frankydee    [ Reply ]
i can't say i don't like it, but something about this song creeps the h*ll out of me.
Posted 20 years ago by rah    [ Reply ]
Thanks for playing a track I've not heard by the Cocteau Twins...ethereal and sweet. Open your ears and open your mind....relax and float downstream. Thanks RadioP!
Posted 20 years ago by cycleman    [ Reply ]
it's this kind of stuff that makes me hope that my choral training paid off so i can sing it myself. ^_^
Posted 21 years ago by PattonFever    [ Reply ]
Geeze - and today was the day I bought a sweatshirt from you folks.. and then I almost puked... :-)
Posted 21 years ago by mperetz    [ Reply ]
Prettyish vocals in a rather ho-hum and annoying sound. I\'m not quite sure what to make of it.
Posted 21 years ago by zborgerd    [ Reply ]
Nifty little tune. Very airie-fairy...which is NOT an indictment. I like it...reminds me of forest creatures. Anton - sometimes I\'M a forest creature.
Posted 21 years ago by AntonRoss    [ Reply ]
Very relaxing and meditative. Much better than some of the harsher Cocteau tunes.
Posted 21 years ago by tfast    [ Reply ]
This song grows on you. It just graduated from a \"2\" to a \"5\"
Posted 21 years ago by KevinM    [ Reply ]
What a great SOUND.
Posted 22 years ago by mperry    [ Reply ]
Pretty voices but this song is very annoying.
Posted 22 years ago by llazare    [ Reply ]
i like the cocteau twins(a lot) but this song is one of my least favorites
Posted 22 years ago by vozdic    [ Reply ]
Very nice how the last tone of this one harmoniced with Indigo Girls\' Starkville which came after it (compliments Bill). It needs some closer listening. Intrigueing song, anyway.
Posted 22 years ago by Johray63    [ Reply ]
Man, this tune is really getting a bad rap here. I actually really liked it. I love it when musicians try to push the envelope like this. I\'m going to have to check out more of the Cocteau Twins!
Posted 22 years ago by bdmorgan72    [ Reply ]
Please dont do that again
Posted 22 years ago by JCJ    [ Reply ]
based on previous comments, I\'d say we have some people listening in who might not be as eclectic as the station they are listening to. This isn\'t my favorite song ever, but I think the semi-operatic singing in this song works pretty well
Posted 22 years ago by darcyc    [ Reply ]
Like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Posted 22 years ago by stinky    [ Reply ]
*yawn* This nearly put me to sleep.
Posted 22 years ago by zaknafein    [ Reply ]
Nice to hear the Cocteau Twins being played, though still nowhere near enough compared to some artists/bands.
Posted 22 years ago by Ragnarr    [ Reply ]
Just too screechy for me. Now my ears hurt.
Posted 22 years ago by catsoup    [ Reply ]
Originally Posted by KevinM: Sounds like the background music to Cirque du Soleil - pretty annoying though.
Kevin, that's absolutely right! I was wondering where I might have heard this music before ;) It is VERY similar anyway.
Posted 22 years ago by Leslie    [ Reply ]
Sounds like the background music to Cirque du Soleil - pretty annoying though.
Posted 22 years ago by KevinM    [ Reply ]