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| Cocteau Twins – Ivo Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Indeed. The song was originally called "Peep-Bo" but she changed it to "Ivo" after Mr. Watts-Russell, I believe that then triggered calling all the other songs on the album after unusual names as well. |
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| Pink Floyd – Sheep Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Two corrections to the lyrics:
1. The opening line is "Harmlessly passing..." not "Hopelessly passing..."
2. Despite what the actual lyric sheet says, the vocoded section quite clearly says "judo" not "karate". |
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| Pink Floyd – Sheep Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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It's called a vocoder. Without getting into the technicalities, it shapes the tonal qualites of one input (the keyboard) with the form of the other input (the human voice), so yes, in this case it is effectively a talking keyboard.
Kraftwerk, ELO and Herbie Hancock were also big fans of it. |
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| Pink Floyd – Sheep Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I wouldn't take the word "bugger" literally. It's just a semi-amusing word for an evil or contemptible person. When used colloquially in British English it rarely means "homosexual" these days, or indeed in 1977. |
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| Cocteau Twins – Ivo Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Largely agreed, but I'd say it's also worth doing it for Head Over Heels, and *some* songs on Treasure. After that though, all bets are off, with the exception of something like Melonella, where some enterprising soul found the book that had the list of butterfly names she's reading out... |
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| Cocteau Twins – Sugar Hiccup Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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A good set of lyrics, but surely it's "Makes the earth toss and tumble", not "tough and tumble"?
As for the meaning, I always thought it was about orgasms myself. *blush* |
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| Cocteau Twins – Sugar Hiccup Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I see the Cheerios thing a lot on the web. Sadly for that theory, I'm pretty sure that they weren't sold in the UK until sometime in the 1990s, although it seems remarkably difficult to find out exactly when they DID arrive here. |
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| Cocteau Twins – Persephone Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Depends on the album. The first two albums definitely have proper lyrics, even if they're not always easy to understand. Treasure definitely has some proper lyrics, not sure if all of them are. After that, no, she deliberately got vaguer for a while, apparently due to not having confidence in her own words, so she'd pick stuff out of old books -- a great example is the list of Latin butterfly names in Melonella. Then later on she went back to "proper" lyrics again, but I'd lost interest by that time I'm afraid, as their later stuff leaves me a bit cold. |
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| Cocteau Twins – Persephone Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Not so, I'm afraid. Liz DID have a lyrics book. It's been mentioned a few times over the years, in particular I remember a 1985 interview with Simon Raymonde in the booklet that accompanied a WOMAD album, in which she said she had such a book and he'd read some of her lyrics.
Also, somewhere on Youtube, there's a recent-ish interview with Liz in which she reads out the words to a song on Victorialand in her normal speaking voice. They don't make any sense in English, but they're definitely words... |
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| Cocteau Twins – Persephone Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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In my book it's almost certainly "For a timepiece never changes this" -- it's about the only truly clear lyric on the whole album, although even then I thought it was "...changes pace" at first.
For "paper warm beings"(!) I've always heard "paper windings" which makes a tiny bit more sense, makes me think of trails of paper (from the aforementioned paperchase) wound round trees, bushes, etc. Wouldn't bet I'm right though.
Finally, I've never been able to make up my mind whether it's "Here's what it takes" or "Here's what it says". May even be both, at different times. |
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