Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrops' Drops (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 23 січ 2013
- The fourth single / EP, released in 1984. Cocteau Twins are Elizabeth Fraser (vocals), Robin Guthrie (guitars) and Simon Raymonde (bass).
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This is not a woman, this is an angel
1988, art school; my friend Claudette and I would have skip days. We would go to her house, listen to Cocteau Twins and Clan of Xymox and smoke a lot of clove cigarettes. I would watch her create beauty on a canvas. I truly miss her. Some of the happiest moments in my life.
sounds fun
I'm 30 years old and I've never smoked in my life and I hate the thought of cigarettes in my mouth....BUT....I've always loved the smell of clove cigarettes, the color of them and if I ever became a smoker of definitely choose clove.
"Little wolf skin boots
And clove cigarettes
An erotic funeral
For witch she's dressed
Her perfume smells like
Burning leaves
Everyday is Halloween"
Every time I see a clove cigarette I think of these Type O Negative lyrics.
We never know just how beautiful these moments were until there's no returning.
I wonder if Claudette was wondering if you would over get the hint.
“We accept the Love we think we deserve” 🌺
YES i love the perks of being a wallflower
Yes. Perks brought me here. Love that flik 😁❤️
"...and in this royal we stuff, we also accept all that isn't what love actually is."
,dan'
"You would tie yourself to kin and have it drown?"
@@the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-. , Your words are lovely and profound Happy New Year 2021 and May GOD Bless you Brother & whoever is reading this with Love, Safety, peace, joy and Favor in Jesus Mighty name.
Someone understands 🤩🤩
“And I thought someday I’d be at a party in college or something, and I’d look up and see this person across the room and from that moment I’d know everything was going to be okay.”
PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWERRRR
YUP
YESS
I thought so for real but it never really happened
oh be quiet
I’m 51, I’ve been listening to Cocteau Twins since I was 19. Maybe I’m old, but today’s music is just not the same.
I’m 5’ 7” and I like them too.
I´m 8 months old and I´m wary.
Never more true agekin.
I'm 54 and am still astonished by their music. Original.
Im 33 and was introduced to them more the 10 years ago...I'll love them forever
I'm 62. ...it wasn't the Beatles for me. Nope. It was this song. It was the Cocteau Twins. Nothing was ever the same.
Who is listening this masterpiece? (03/2024)
yes 22/04/2024
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saw suzan at glatenbery 1090
I played this on my radio show in the late 80s. Still stunning
Everybody talk 'bout Frazer's voice, which is actually so genius, but we must not forget about Gutrie's guitar. First of all all the Cocteau Twins' songs are beautiful combination of amazing guitar and amazing voice. What kind of knowing each other must couple have to understand a musical idea of partner and realize it so perfectly? They both are genius. Only together
I've just discovered this band and I can't help but feel like I missed out on something great.
How does it feel to know you missed it all?
The Shallow Youth I just diiscovered them last year. i always knew of the name. I feel exactly the same but I'm on a beautiful journey of discovery
The Shallow Youth As long as the music exists, you missed nothing.
The Shallow Youth see them live in 95 in brixton best gig of all time
As Sean said, as long as the music exists...
Besides, sometimes a retrospective appreciation of the music, without peer pressure or current hype or trends allows a person to discover at their own pace. An' that.
Peace/Love
I'm building a time machine and going back to the 80's...Anybody wanna come with me?
Difficult to move anything but information through time. But as a physicist, we're working on it.
In without a sin
Paul Marsh So you can have less access to songs you can now listen to for free on youtube?
I'm not leaving the 70s but do love the Cocteau twins
❤
I remember my mother RIP playing this song on car rides. For the longest time I never knew who the group was and just recently found them again. How awesome...
MY her soul rest in peace
Liz Fraser's voice is so unique. It's elegant, pure and vulnerable. But it's also incredibly powerful. There's so much yearning, frustration and freedom in her voice. Like someone who has been told how to live her whole life and finally has the chance to express herself freely.
Austin Blyth I have her range. (And a little more.) If I sing breathy, so without technique, I can imitate her flawlessly and I think any mezzo soprano could. I have been a fan for thirty years and I have always sounded like her in my natural voice. She has a very natural voice but she can do vibrato and her upper register is a little more polished. But she is not a walking stuntvoice like Toyah or Siouxie. The eighties were a very strange era....
How does she do it? Absolute heaven.
@@carolineleiden Are you married?
I agree she has a unique voice. There's more to singing than hitting notes, many singers can do that but there's no life in it you can't hear what they're feeling you can just hear training or someone trying to show off. Liz's singing is full of feeling.
carolineleiden Just alienated quite a few fanatical SATB fans there, I’m afraid. Me included...
im a 41 yr old woman..i still feel 15....and the cocteau twins just help me to enjoy it more....beautiful beautiful music...x
same age here and they haven't waned for me 30 years later
I feel so out of place here I’m 13 years old haha. I love Cocteau Twins and basically any 80s songs :)
@@shay2396 same, miss shay! I love the way people my age appreciate old music now ssjsjskajdh
But now you are 49 y.o.
ages are extremely important when you´re listening to music
I've never understood a single word of this song. Just love the sound of it :D
I love the music but have never really known if she even sings in English!
She sang in a made-up 'language' until just after Heaven or Las Vegas. There's no words to understand really, just the delicious of the sounds. :)
I thought it was part made up and part Esperanto
(also made up😂)
Ish kam eeeh?
Mostly it doesn't sound like it's meant to make any sense. Knickynackypaddywacky or something.
Remember MTV Showed this at 3 AM. I was drunk. Only time I saw it 1984. Now 2018. 34 Years.. Sounds just as good.
2019. Its 11:58pm. I miss MTV. I'm drunk. Great song.
Hahaha was it on 120 min. I lived that show
Hearing it at 3am for the first time :) 12-17-19
I remember seeing this on MTV’s “120 Minutes” actually in 1989. I taped it on a VHS. 🤗
Susie Yep. Dave freakin Kendall was my lifeline in Albuquerque, New Mexico which was like 5-7 years behind in terms of music. 😒
i used to work at the Gap in chicago....probably around 1991.... this was one of the songs on our stereo in the store.... when this song came on i could hardly sell a pair of jeans to save my life.... changed my life... thanks elizabeth....
Haven’t listened to CT for years.. Halston, thanks.
She literally has what I think the voice of an angel has. I don’t know what she is saying, but it is beautiful
Elizabeth Fraser has one of those rare voices that will make you cry from how beautiful it is.
makes me miss every girlfriend i ever had
Always does.
uranianplutonian yes, what a beautiful feeling.
uranianplutonian ; angelic possession
This is an ethereal masterpiece that everyone should know, but sadly very few do.
More people will know about it now as they included it at the end of the Halston series with Ewen McGregor.
to all of us from the why bother generation. I'm pushing 50 now. I truly never imagined back then I could live this long. my childhood is so old now parts of it show up like they are new again. give a shout out if you know what I mean.
Isn't that the truth. 51 and rediscovering my vinyl.
What you say is true. It was a strange time, so much beauty and so much darkness.
GAWD I loved this BAND in PHILLY COLLEGE OF ART! and OMD, BAUHUAS, Joy division, there was so much soul and endless creativity !! Yea I'm 55 and I meet kids in their 20, 30,s who have ipods full of 80 music.. was a wonderful era for music and arts!!+
I remember playing the 12” of this in my bedroom as a fourteen year old over and over again. Strange listening to it now, so many years later, and feeling sad that I didn’t know then, what I know now!
@@pussycats456 One of my favorite Heart Wrenching songs was Liz in This Mortal Coil "Song to the Siren" I try not to listen to it very often as to not wear away its beauty and pain. Liz also did some great music with Massive Attack, "tear drop on the fire"for example.
Halston introduced this magic into my life
Ahora todos sabremos el dios q era halston😎
Same
Same✨💖✨
Was a sad ending but very good music!
Me too! I remember hearing about them years ago but I had never heard any of their music until Halston. I was in tears at the end.
You know how a single piece of music can take you to a single time and place? This one takes me to Blisworth, Northamptonshire, autumn 1984, driving home to Cornwall in my Dolomite 1850 listening to John Peel
Excellent 👌
I Kew about the song by Halston series on Netflix
why does this song remind you of listening to another song
@@isaackimberly1692 it doesn't. John Peel was a very talented DJ on BBC Radio 1who played Cocteau Twins amongst others
Brings back memories of the 1980's Underground/Alternative music scene. While most people were listening to mainstream top 40 music like Madonna, Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi we were a "small community" in every major city of Shoegazers, Goths, Punks, Alt Rockers, Electro-Industrial & New Wave Dance Club kids listening to unique music like Cocteau Twins, The Cure, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, Cabaret Voltaire, Jesus & Mary Chain, REM, Sonic Youth, Dead Kennedys, Husker Du, etc.
I'm from Vancouver Canada we had a great 80's Underground scene...
Skinny Puppy, Moev, Front Line Assembly, Payolas, The Tear Garden, Images In Vogue, 54-40, Grapes Of Wrath, Sarah McLachlan, D.O.A., The Subhumans, No Means No, etc.
We sure were..
Lived in NYC in the early 80s and it was quite the scene.
When I first heard Cocteau Twins in 1984, I knew I had to hear them again and again, 40 yrs later, still listening! Kids, if you like this one, try Carolyn's Fingers!
Persephone
Final episode of Halston on Netflix, brought me here 😍😍
Same.
Me too😝
who cares
Whose listening to this in 2020?
Came from the film adaptation of The Perks of being a Wallflower
@@jackien404 Me too :-)
meee
My favorite
MEEE I AM! COMING FROM 20202 HAHAHAHAHA 2020 FUCK YEAH DUDE LOVE THIS SHIT
1980's - A different time; a different world; inexpressable innocence and love captured in the best music as this; im so lucky i was a teenager and wish i could go back in time -2023
Feel you, I was 18 in 1983. What a time to be a teenager ❤
Nearly 59yrs old and I'm still playing this....❤
Nearly 18 and I feel like I'll be playing this in my 59yrs for sure
I was 70 last month, still playing it too.
It happens every time... I click on one Cocteau Twins song and next thing I know it’s two hours later and I’m still listening to them...
I could stay here forever. If there is a heaven, this sound must be what it feels like.
❤👊
Or Las Vegas
Jesus. This song is a mountain.
This was the song that kicked in my individuality.
I heard it once on John Peel in the back room, which was also my bedroom when I was about 15 / 16 - after that I listened to Kid Jensen & John Peel every night on the stereogram - then I found The Smiths & Everything But The Girl & Ivor Cutler.
I never knew the name of this song, so I bought everything in Woolworths with 'Cocteau Twins' took them to my nanna & played them, looking for this song.
I eventually found it. By that time, I had fallen in love with Elizabeth Frazer's voice.
That was my teens - still listen, still an EBTG fan - 48 now, what a great time in my life finding the music that sticks.
My taste now is very eclectic - God bless to my nanna who never moaned about me on the stereogram, - takes me back to the very day.
I miss her,
Thank you for posting this.
+i davo fuck me, dude, I almost started crying!
How dare you raise my emotional state sir! LOl
Nice one.
this track holds a momentous moment for me too.
It told me music can be written by someone else, mean something, but, I can be free to interpret how I want it to be.
Thank fuck for CT's and the inde revolution!
Songs of my day...
Songs of my day...
+keasyman ...agreed! I can remember when this came out and I was riding around in that summer of glorious sunshine with this song in my head all day. simply beautiful song, never forget it in my growing up years.
+i davo - John Peel loved this song - I seem to remember him crying with joy and playing it twice in a row.
Yeah I heard this on John Peel too - and bought the EP which I still have. Used to play the "favourites" tape driving home to Cornwall after a week's work away back in the '80s and CT featured in there alongside the Cure, John Cooper Clarke and the like.
keasyman - I DID start crying! And I'm not a "Soft Guy"! With this song in my ears and those words that passed through my ears to my heart, the tears are still flowing...
Thanks for The Perks of Being a Wallflower for bringing me here
Yesss!!!
+Kira F same haha
+Kira F Fuck off.
+7FatBears no u
ok :(
30 years later and im still transfixed...genius in action
Thanks Halston
I get older and this music never does. I like that.
Her voice hangs in caverns in my mind like icy stalactites, yet always feel warmth with the comfort the music brings. That's my shitey attempt to try and express my appreciation for The Twins.
Was at Stirling Castle and read the pearly dewdrops drop poem posted in Queen Anne's Garden on Monday and I really believe Scotland is magic
Her voice takes me to another dimension. I hear so many newer generation of singers try to unintentionally match her tone.
One of Scotland's best ever bands.
Thank you, for saying Scotland...!
them and Boards of Canada. both are SO IMPORTANT!!!!
Liz Fraser's voice leads us to the Heaven. It's not from this planet. She's got the talent to touch in the deep of my soul
I want this song played at my funeral.
I worked in record stores in the 80s and I'm ashamed to say I'd never heard this song until Halston was on Netflix. Just beautiful ❤
Same here! And now I can't stop listening to their music
The perks of being a music nerd brought me here! ;)
Here because that scene in Halston put me to tears
I'm 38 and still making an effort to understand what makes great art great.
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Cocteau Twins and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
Benedetto Bruno why I thank you and I agree !!
Thanks mate!!
Brazilian vouching here!
And at the same time the same British people made all those wonderful bands starve to death buying instead pop trash. The Cocteau Twins only managed to reach number 29 in the singles chart.
Scotland is a part of the island of Great Britain therefore Cocteau Twins are both Scottish AND British.😁
Why do all of their songs feel so magical and otherworldly. ☺️ it’s so fantastic
I discovered Cocteau Twins through Perks of Being a Wallflower like most teens did back in 2014, I would listen to this song the moment I left my school building and on the bus ride home, it's odd that I have such a nostalgia for that moment and time but Cocteau Twins remain one of my favourite bands of all time
At twice your age, I'm glad that a movie exposed you to this genius.
@@doggydoc72 i'm your daddy
@@goodwillhumping7904 I better be in your will.
you get to inherit a substantial amount of pokemon cards and a few led zeppelin t-shirts
Halston brought me here love this song now.
I was 19. How I wish I could go back and start again.....
hearing this just threw me back to being a second year student at Leeds University in 1985 and all the feelings I had then - good and bad 😊.
At the end of Netflix's miniseries, I instantly recognized this enchanting melody and bewitching voice that is of Cocteau Twins. Magical. Truly.
In the movie Halston when he thinks about his life & career
The Cocteau Twins were truly unique. Liz Frasier wove a web of intrigue with her vocalise. Brilliant!
Love Liz Fraser's voice, quality! 🤗
I am getting the vinyl sleeve of Pearly - Dewdrops' Drops signed.
A classic record.
C.P.
Pearly dewdrops are falling down my cheeks today. I am taking my 14 year old cat to the vet and it might be the soft goodbye from there. A multitude of songs are flowing into my head at this time. I can't get Todd Rundgren ballads like "The Last Ride" out of my head. My brain processes grief by hearing certain songs in the mind, over and over. This is one of them. Nothing sums up the somber mood I am in today better than this song. It is so ethereal, empathetic, and at the same time, very soothing and sums up my morose feelings today.
im sending you the warmest hug. i hope that you're healing well. music will always hold these memories dearly to you. time will pass, music will remain. your heart will find comfort soon my friend.
@@fionamorris2578 Thank You. That was a month ago. I didn't take her to the vet and I got another wonderful month of being with her. But now she is really saying goodbye. Not eating, etc. The end is near. Here I am listening to this song again. Lots of tears.
There now she is not suffering any more. I put her to rest last Thursday, the day before Good Friday. Then she was buried in the garden which we no longer use, on Easter Sunday, yesterday. It was so perfect how God took my hand and led me through it. Even taking her soul to Heaven on a Holy Day. Her spirit is truly with the Angels now.
Thank you Sam, Charlie and Patrick
“Halston” on Netflix brought me here. The sequence with the song had me in tears in the show, so had to find out what it was. Wonderful song!
Me too!
Haha, I specifically came here to see how many Cocteau Twins virgins were going to comment after finishing Halston. I found you!
@@waz3128 I was looking for the same thing hahaha
omg yall are SO cool!!!!! look at them they KNEW this band before someone!! somebody get them a trophy
me too! i was mesmirized and wouldn't blink just to see how beautifully ewan mcgregor's acting went along with that song. that was the right tune for that ending.
That sudden change in pitch in Liz's voice at .35 almost like a hiccup has always amazed me. They'll never be another Elizabeth Fraser...
Where do you think alanis morissette got it from?
John Lydon and the singer from Poison Girls also developed that trill, odd that they all hit about the same time. Frasier does it most effectively, almost like you dont really hear it at first.
So many different people have said the same thing, regarding Elizabeth's voice. That method, is called "braking" and now that you know the correct terminology -- it makes complete sense. It's something that is very difficult to master and it's extremely complex to control.
You will hear this in "old country music" from the United States, people who can yodel, and folk-music from around the planet. However, only Elizabeth Fraser does it, so exacting and consistently.
You could call it a sugar hiccup ;)
@@splash._ That's a good one.
Perks of being a wallflower bring me here 🥺
Played last weekend on radio and just had to sit in the car til it ended.
I love this song, whatever it is she is singing about!!!!!!!
No one or thing brought me here.
I first heard this master piece in 84.
Another classic 80's hit from the UK.
ok but it wasn't a hit.
@@krasteffit was
@@MewMiyuu They only got to no. 29 in their active years (Love's easy tears). That chart position is not considered a "hit".
This is an absolute masterpiece.
Have you heard Carolyn.s Fingers ? , beautiful
@@davidbeckett3345 No not yet. I will check it out. Listening now.
Another beauty. Thank you .
Perfect in every way: sonically, visually. My favourite Cocteau Twins song, and video.
Since I heard this song 20 years ago, it struck me as a very sad one. It was the perfect choice for the Halston series at the end, quite a tearjerker.
Mid-eighties, the golden age of Cocteau Twins. Songs like this seemed like they were not new creations, but discoveries of perfect, effortless things that had always existed. It boggles the mind just how much art Robin could squeeze out of the available engineering tools.
Brad Williams this music truly has healing powers
True besides Heaven or Las Vegas is a piece of art even without the 4AD sound
They touch me in a way that I can’t find the right words to explain my feelings every time I listen to them... 💟
It's true Robin made do without the benefit of complex computer systems; however, it was Simon who did most of the Audio Engineering. People never care enough to note what Simon did for the band. He was able to play almost any instrument, set in front of him; but, he programmed the drum-machine, compiled everything else, and also played the guitar. Yes, Robin played a major role also, but after he became involved with drugs and alcohol -- Simon did much of the work, that Includes becoming the intermediary between both Elizabeth and Robin.
@@spinglasshydra Interesting, what's your source for Simon doing most of the audio engineering and drum machine programming?
I was living in a share apartment in Paddington Sydney back in the late eighties/early nighties .. or something..
Anyway we got a new flat make, a lovely English girl from Yorkshire.
One evening we were getting to know each other during a 'house' dinner when she started to look into my 'album' collection and discovered that I was a die hard Cocteau Twins fan.
The look of incredulity was measurable....
How could it be that some guy in far flung Australia could have ever heard of the CT , let alone be a massive fan ?
This was before the internet and when the only chance you had in seeing alternative music was when a music TV show played them by mistake at 4 in the morning.
Anyhow she was so impressed she got out her camera and insisted I take her photo with all my records fanned out in front of her.
It turned out that she had shared an apartment WITH the Cocteau Twins back in the UK and was a great friend of the band.
Anyhow, she 'developed' the photos and sent them to Elizabeth to let her know that she had a fan in far flung Sydney Australia.
So that's MY CT story.
When you've just begun and your overwhelmed and lose your step. Best of luck
Heard this in the Halston series. It was very haunting for some reason. .Great song.
There is more from the band to discover
Halston 🖤
Bought this single back in 83 I think (had gr8 taste even back then).. this song is just epic, wonderful sound with Liz's iconic beautiful voice... Brilliant 👏👏
beautiful
hearing this beautiful song in the closing moments of Netflix's Halston 😭💎
Still remember in the 80's getting/buying their songs and being flooded with emotions and thinking this sounds like nothing on earth. Part of the soundtrack to my life. (Similar to yet so so different to Dead Can Dance, another female singer singing her own thing)
DCD and Cocteau Twins are two of my fav bands, vastly underrated 😎
well said, me too. introducing this music to a new love....powerful and romantic
They wrote the most beautiful music ever.
Did anyone / everyone notice the Cocteau Twins is one of the safest places on YT. They made their own genre.
This songs takes me away into another dimension, enough said.
seen them live in the Glasgow Barrowlands in the 1990s. Her voice is the same live as recorded.
seen them live in the Glasgow Barrowlands in the 1990s. Her voice is the same live as recorded.
The first time I ever heard the Cocteau Twins was this song, while driving somewhere in Atlanta late at night - who knows where, or why - listening to Album 88 (WRAS). I was captivated, and I avidly collected everything they subsequently released. Their music provided the soundtrack to a big chunk of my life - a somewhat private experience, as I never met anyone even remotely into them as I was. I remember making mixtapes of my favorite tracks (along with songs by Dead Can Dance and Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, for the full moody Goth experience) which I would listen to on my Sony Walkman as I wandered through nearby Piedmont Park on chilly, gray days, wrapped in my Marithé et François Girbaud black coat/cape thing, alone in my thoughts, trying to figure things out.
The only voicer that changed my guitar.
Halston on Netflix brought me here. The song was played on the end credits. Very good series and a great soundtrack of 80's and 70's tunes.
Ah, greatness. Those guitar tones and Liz Fraser's vocals! Many no doubt were brought here by "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" soundtrack. I'm fine with that. But us old-timers didn't need reminding that the Cocteau Twins had the magic.
Finally! The Netflix generation has discovered the beauty and magic of the Cocteau Twins.
finally! I lost it when I heard they used this gem to end the show!
Sad they need Netflix.
and for me it's the other way around...I'm here because I've loved this band for years, now browsing through the comments for recommendations on what to watch on netflix
What Netflix show featured the Cocteau Twins?
I found them through UA-cam reccomendations
Thank GOD for 4AD!
I'm stuck on the fact that she's literally singing gibberish..and makes it work!!
I used to listen to "Pearly Dewdrops' Drops" over and over as a lullaby...
The Twins were kind a cool in the '80s, if a little off the beaten path. Are you a time traveler?
Between this and Siouxsie and the Banshees, I feel like a Cure or Bauhaus video will be posted next. :)
I was seventeen - she very well could have been in the crib!
Still listen to it over and over!
1985: awesome Song
2023: awesome Song
3085: awesome Song
Song Without time.
I used to hear this at midnight on the radio in the late 90s after the DJ was finally done playing the sound of the day (shitty post-grunge and nu metal) and getting the feeling that I was born too late.
Halston reminded me back to this song 😊❤️
What is Halston? And why do you write it everywhere?
this song is everything
Well now I gotta watch Halston. Thank God they made it to mainstream
A classic by Cocteau Twins.
I have the seven inch vinyl sleeve of it signed by legendary bassist Simon Raymonde.
- C 23-11-22
Cocteau twins es magia pura , nada volverá a sonar como ellos son únicos.
My sister use to drive us to high school listening to this ...I was like 14 or 15 years old I didnt understand the song and hated this but as I got older I understand the lyrics and I love this song.❤❤❤
Halston! Netflix fantastic music at the end🙏
when i was 11, i discovered this song from perks of being a wallflower. been blessed ever since
Liz Fraser... pure magic... say no more
This was one of my favorite groups in high school in the late 80's. Nice to see they are still loved. Their music means different things to different people. Went to a Cocteau Twins concert forever ago. While they brought me to tears the girl next to me was belly dancing. I still have a few of their records but no record player.
Best band in the world to me rn. Heaven or Las Vegas and Milk and Kisses never get old. I can't even describe how this music makes me feel it's so good. This is what the angels in heaven sound like, if there is one. My dream is to sing with her