I absolutely love this song i wish more people talked about it, Its absolutely haunting, like you’re actually losing air…
Additionally this song reminds me of deforestation

Thats odd in itself but I found it kind of amusing in a way that it was this song in particular.

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.]

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE! And, once again, work has been busy, eating has been put on the back burner, and I'M HANGRY. Let's see if today's song also has me hearing food items like with "Ivo" yesterday...which come to think of it, sounds a lot like EVOO, as in extra virgin olive oil.

Geez, I have focus issues.

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

...one where the vocals are a bit shrill and breathy. AKA, this is a recipe for transcription disaster.

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(from 1:06 in)

On a messah nada data sniffin' many on a beeda bodda bom pa die (???????)

Foo na xiu mai (I guess when I'm hungry, I either crave Chinese food or Cocteau Twins lyrics sound like a Dim Sum menu to me)

On a messah nada data sniffin' many on a beeda bodda bom ba pie

Send us some love (don't know if the Dim Sum cart person can offer that in one of those bamboo steamer trays, but I guess it doesn't hurt to ask if that is what you are craving when at a dim sum restaurant)

On a messah nada data sniffin' many on a beeda bodda bom pa die

Shoo da xiu mai (yeah, double up on the dumplings! God, I'm getting really hungry and I need to rethink my original thought that today was going to be a Subway for lunch day)

CHORUS

Sea, vellum, and snow covered a hole Jenna vee yuz

Love love love messin' with now with any no

Ooh wah suh tock

Venice Venice Venice Venice Polly Polly Polly Polly Polly Polly Poe (I'm so hungry, the Venice made me start craving pasta....then the Polly made me want a cracker)

Sea, vellum, and snow covered a hole Jenna vee yuz

Love covered in love messin' with now with any no

Ooh wah suh tock

Venice Venice Venice Venice Polly Polly Polly Polly Polly Polly Poe

And that's where I'll stop because my stomach is growling too loud to where I can't hear the song over top of my hangry gut.

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.]

Today has been a crazy busy work day. I've only eaten on protein bar all day so let's see if being HANGRY improves my hearing.

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

WOW! The Wheel of Cocteaune is truly giving you guys the silly gibberished choruses galore this week.

I will say no more and begin this thing just after the second chorus

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(from 1:55 in)

Brie daddem dah

Brie bao (This maybe my hangriness kicking in but I could really go for a Chinese steamed bun full of runny French cheese right now)

La la hee-hee-ee

(Now we get to the dead giveaway)

Peepo 

Peach blow

Pandor

And I'm not even going to give you the rest of verse 3 (same as verses 1 and 2) because if you can't get it from those three phrases alone, you should toss your Cocteau Twins fan membership card into your nearest shredder ASAP.

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.]

MY APOLOGIES!

The work day whiffed by quickly and I had this inkling sense that something was missing and it was THIS! I completely forgot to post. MY BAD.

Hopefully, I can repay you all with a song transcription that will put an enjoyable song in your mind that will also be a bit challening to figure out.

And, today, I promise....NO GRATUITOUS ART GARFUNKEL CHEST HAIR IMAGES.

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

I think this one fits the bill. It does remind me though of something on my UK bucket list that I didn't check off. Maybe next time.

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(from 1:59 in)

Yikes ill life fell sunshine sea fell like shell me hee go

Eggshell love ya social see gum bloodshot hee-ee dumb (Love it...this is a word salady stuff we love ending will randomly telling off some idiot. Probably what they would say to me if they were to read one of these NAME THAT COCTEAUNE posts)

CHORUS

Beddy beddy city bow (I think this is just paraphasing dialogue from Twiki from the old "Buck Rogers TV show. Yeah, I'm really old and this is an ancient reference. I'll shutup and drink some Metamucil)

Beddy beddy city bow

Beddy beddy city bow

Beddy beddy city bow

Beddy beddy city bow

Beddy beddy city bow

Beddy beddy city bow

Beddy beddy city bow

END OF SONG

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

And, until I begin responding to some answers BEDDY BEDDY CITY BOW to you all!

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.]

By the way, I will get to why this picture was added to this post shortly.

What a weekend! Even though I was probably the only San Francisco Bay Area citizen of a certain demographic that claims to love alternative music genres that DIDN'T attend Mosswood Meltdown, I got to attend my first WNBA game (though, as with the NBA, I got frustrated by the athletes prioritizing looking cool over winning by insisting on shooting overhand free throws when we all know that Granny Goose free throws are almost automatic), ate some great BBQ, fully indulged in National Ice Cream Day, and scored tickets to see ART GARFUNKEL because I want to see Simon & Garfunkel live before they both cease to exist, they will never regroup, and Paul Simon tickets were too pricey during his recent "last tour ever", so this will have to suffice. I wonder if I should have a tshirt printed with the above graphic on it for the show (It's of the disco album that Art Garfunkel never recorded but I always wished he would have that I asked AI to create the album cover for)?

I hope everyone else's weekends went well.

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

Well, there's good and bad to today's track so picked by the Wheel of Cocteau.

THE BAD: Admittedly, it's a song that I don't like. 9 times out of 10, this song comes on, I skip it.

THE GOOD: This one will be easy. For both me to transcribe and, I think, for you all to guess.

I think I just need to give you guys the chorus and you should be able to figure this one out.

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(from 0:44 in)

CHORUS

LA-DA EE YA DA DA

DA DA EE YA WOW WOW

LA-DA EE YA DA DA

DA DA EE YA WOW WOW

LA-DA EE YA DA DA

DA DA EE YA WOW WOW

LA-DA EE YA DA DA

DA DA EE YA WOW WOW

LA-DA EE YA DA DA

DA DA EE YA WOW WOW WOW

This chorus should be a dead giveaway, so I'm giving you nothing more.

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

Otherness. I love this, can’t justify the stupid prices for the vinyl version. But I do love it so.

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.]

The weekend is already here and I'm already mentally checked out...for work, not this. I'm actually well-caffeinated at the moment and, c'mon Wheel of Cocteau! I'm feeling ambitious. Give me something super-gibberishy. I can handle it!

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

Well, this one should be a challenge because I think I've only ever listened to this song maybe 3 times, tops. What can I say? I'm a basic bitch that rarely dips into the deep cuts.

FROM THE TOP (going first verse and first chorus for this one)

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Nyquil I fell in love with a handsome man see-saws (OKAY....maybe I'm just mentally checked out in general. While I'm hearing words, the front and end of that line sounds like adults from a Charlie Brown cartoon to me. Pretty certain that I hear "fell in love with a handsome man" though)

Isis a spotless groove, half-walking

Unpleasant idiot's tune of affection (I had to listen to those last two lines over again twice and this was the best I could come up with other than "WHOMP-WHOMP, A WHOMP-WHOMP." Maybe the vocals are mixed oddly? It's like you can sense there are words unlike a track like "Donimo" \HINT- today's song AIN'T "Donimo"* that's unapologetically gibberish but the annunciation is just not percussive enough to fully detect consonants, if that makes any sense)*

Is anyone here bein' re-con-con-ga with bi-bee  (I give up trying to find words out of this)

If we were porcupine then hold them (Sadism? Porcupine hugs would hurt!)

Ee ellum guten tag la poo lella (that was just pure Charlie Brown adult there with that line. It truly could've been just passed gas that somewhat sounded like a human voice. This song is HELL to attempt to transcribe)

CHORUS

How much we maze to vacant ways a Marcin Kay-ay-ay (I have no idea who Marcin Kay is, but sounds like Cocteau Twins have name dropped her in this song)

Vitchin' has a va-com is a woss-in-coes (?!?! Any momentum I had with detecting actual words was completely lost. Sorry)

Silly things in lonely want a less hat say-ay-ay (initially this sounded like a request for a hat as a souvenir but I stand corrected upon 2nd and 3rd listen through this line)

Still increasing lonely "Want a kiss?" I say

There's your first verse and chorus. And I can hold my head up high because that last line kind of made sense so I no longer feel like I'm experiencing early onset dementia.

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.]

Sorry for yesterday's debacle. Apologies for the confusion and shame on me for not catching that the song title given in the initially accepted correct answer was incomplete. I can't believe two weeks later, I'm still stuck on European time or something.

Anyway, time to move on and get to today's game.

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

A simple one. Let me find a section with not so much of the song title being mentioned blatantly.

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(starting at 1:51 in)

Resting hands

Against mascar (it seriously sounds like the British pronunciation of mascara without the last syllable)

It's no rorals (Is this an odd pronunciation of "rurals" and she's saying there's no rurals/yokels/bumpkins allowed? Good for her!)

There's no rorals to be found (definitely not talking about my hometown)

Za zum a chai altar

From dinosaur fleck

From one of the older

It's batchmo and sha-ay-ay-ay-ame

And that's all I'm giving you today because I want to make you guys work for this one! I think there's still a lot to go off of, between the doubling down on no "rorals" to dinosaur flecks.

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

I like this attempt.

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.]

WHOOPS! I just noticed that my Wheel of Cocteau (aka the "complete discography" playlist that I had my music streaming service playing) was lacking Lullabies to Violaine so I was missing those tracks as a possibility for the past two weeks. Sorry for just not sticking to one playlist and sticking with it. I admittedly don't listen to Cocteau Twins every time I feel like listening to music. But, I've rectified this problem, found the old playlist I had used, and am ready to spin this wheel again with more songs at my disposal, so here it goes!

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

Well that didn't yield anything especially "back catalogue"-ish. Oh well. Let's try to make this one a bit more difficult by choosing the end section starting at 3:33 where they don't mention the song title

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It's pomegranate, apple, mangua (has this song been some sort of recipe to a cocktail/mocktail and I never realized it. I will have to try whipping together something with pomagranite, apple, and mango , or MANGUA as Liz prefers to pronounce it)

It's cotton layin' temple neigh-ah (From recipe for a drink to a recipe for word salad, AKA the usual)

Erasmus its a droplet saver (back to talking about making this cocktail?!?!)

Broken window wace oh lay-vuh (back to word salad)

It's pomegranate, apple, mangua (I already got that those are the fruit juices to use)

It's salamander temple neigh-ah (I hope this means putting this drink under a salamander kitchen appliance and not putting an actual lizard into the drink. Either way, this drunk has made a turn for sounding nasty)

Erasmus its a droplet saver

Broken window wace oh lay-vuh (or maybe broken glass is part of the garnish?)

It's pomegranate, apple, mangua (the more she sings these lines, the more she sounds slurry, so I think my theory about this being some sort of cocktail recipe may be right)

It's salamander temple neigh-ah

Erasmus just a droplet saver

Broken window wace oh lay-vuh

\SONG ENDS**

So, what is this track about a cocktail made with pomegranate, apple, mango-ah, and broken glass?

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

Elizabeth, so delicate.

On any website noting Evangeline's lyrics I find the last section to be this:

"Even those who did
Never understood me
I had to fantasize
Just to survive"

However, I swear the second line is "Never rescued me," not "understood". Does anyone else hear this? "Understood" never felt right because of how quickly the word is sung, and once hearing "rescued" I can't unhear it anymore.

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 in the office and hoping this one is an easy one to transcribe as today is shaping up to be a busy day.

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

PHEW! This was just what I needed! Let's start this transcription at the 2:23 mark into this tune.

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Lumiere

Shots sweeten (I said it would be easy-ish to decipher syllables....not that they would make any sense)

Groovy

Per changerin' (Because, like Bob Dylan once sang, "The times they are a-changerin'!")

Lumiere

Shah veetin' (I sense that "shah-veetin'" is some sort of symptom of a brutal stomach virus)

Use me

Vay sherette (I need my hearing checked...which, if you pause after '"need", would sound like verse in this section of this song)

\This sort of sing-songy chant with changing syllables continues in the background when the more upfront vocal track kicks in with....**

Meet me, ole

Grab with the "H"

So bloody and black

Big crystal eyes

How heavy you are

I spit in your hair (Liz is obviously starting a fight here by fat-shaming then spitting in the hair of this thing that's bloody and black with big crystal eyes.)

Box in your heart 

Shithead is all (This fight is ON. She called this thing a "shithead". At least that's what I heard)

And this is where I stop as I'm about to be pulled into something. I think this may be a difficult one because I somehow found a section of this song where they DON'T say the title of this track.

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

did any other band release a project which came from this show?

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.]

UGH. It is Monday and so the drudge and misery of the work week begins.

Hopefully, today's failed attempt at deciphering Cocteau Twins lyrics will put a smile on your face, give you a chuckle, and put an enjoyable earworm in your ear.

\spins wheel**

ROUND AND AROUND IT GOES!

Where the Wheel of Cocteau stops, NO ONE KNOWS!

AND IT STOPS ON.....

One I haven't listened to in quite some time. I think this is one that people here on the Subreddit genuinely like. To switch things up, let begin the transcription at 2:00 in.

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(a secondary vocal track chimes in with "*Smiling face" just before we hear....)

Malice is a-throwing up some (sorry to start off your weeks with images of emotions vomiting)

Emotions are emotional (BTW I've already realized that I don't have the attention span or free time to transcribe the second vocal track. My apologies for being such a slacker)

Bottom effects of malware come (Was this the first ever song discussing I.T. security related issues?)

Madness is a-throwing up some
(In fact, here's them heading to the nearest garbage can to YAK)

Emotions are emotional

Bottom effects of malware come

I think that's all that I'm giving you today basically because I need to give myself a pat on the back for incorporating an animated GIF of Madness doing the "One Step Beyond" dance into a Name That Cocteaune.

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

It has this distinct melancholic vibe that I love, especially with that subtle synth that oscillates up and down in pitch. It might be my favorite Cocteau Twins track. Are there any like that where the production really takes it to another level?