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Lilly Allen hadn't heard of the Cocteau Twins
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Veri
09-03-2008
Just something that came up in her interview with Annie Mac, which I've just seen because I was watching a repeat of Lilly Allen and Friends.

It says something about something, but I'm not sure what.
beintot
09-03-2008
she looks too young to have heard about them,i remember them from around 1982.
Last edited by beintot : 09-03-2008 at 02:02
Poinsettia
09-03-2008
Oh my god, you're kidding me?!

What did the POLICE say?!

Next...
Turquoise
09-03-2008
Originally Posted by beintot:
“she looks too young to have heard about them,i remember them from around 1982.”

Exactly. I hadn't heard of the Cocteau Twins until I came on here, and even now I don't know what their music's like.
IndieLove92
09-03-2008
She's missing out

(oh, and age shouldn't really come into it... I'm 15)
toasties
09-03-2008
I remember Jarvis Cocker saying he had never listened to Pet Sounds!!! Now that was a shocker.
TommyGavin76
09-03-2008
Originally Posted by toasties:
“I remember Jarvis Cocker saying he had never listened to Pet Sounds!!! Now that was a shocker.”

I've never listened to Pet Sounds, is that shocking?
stupidflounders
09-03-2008
I've never heard of them either.

Nor have I listened to Pet Sounds.

I know a lot of music as well
Say_It_Loud
09-03-2008
Originally Posted by Veri:
“Just something that came up in her interview with Annie Mac, which I've just seen because I was watching a repeat of Lilly Allen and Friends.

[b]It says something about something, but I'm not sure what.[b]”




Perhaps she is not influenced by the 4AD / Mute / Creation acts that young artists tend to cite as influences. Having said that, when i see Lilly Allen i do think of Pixies!
wavy-davy
09-03-2008
Originally Posted by Turquoise:
“Exactly. I hadn't heard of the Cocteau Twins until I came on here, and even now I don't know what their music's like.”

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl5EqjtRuGU

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DqEYJnIWgeE

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dtBr5JKSuks
Endemoniada
09-03-2008
Maybe she HAD heard of Cocteau Twins.
micthemini
09-03-2008
Thanks for the links. Good to see them again. Saw them live in the nineties.

Liz Fraser has done a lot of stuff for other bands including Massive Attack & Peter Gabriel

http://www.cocteautwins.com/
Nurse Betty
09-03-2008
Originally Posted by beintot:
“she looks too young to have heard about them,i remember them from around 1982.”

What's age got to do with it?

I'm well aware of artists from well before my time.
Ethereal
09-03-2008
I've never heard of them either.
toasties
09-03-2008
Originally Posted by TommyGavin76:
“I've never listened to Pet Sounds, is that shocking?”

Jarvis Cocker has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, which is why I found it so odd that he had never listened to one of the greatest pop records ever made.
alienghost
09-03-2008
The Cocteau Twins are good, but why is it such a big deal if Lily Allen doesn't know who they are? I know she's an attention seeker at the best of times, but when every little thing she allegedly says gets analysed I can't blame her.
extrovertism.
09-03-2008
oh noes .. oh my god.

whatever next.
beintot
09-03-2008
just checked she wasn't born when the cocteau twins became popular,she was minus 3 in 1982.
getty
09-03-2008
I've never heard of them either, they're that famous nobody knows who they are.
Holly Oaks
09-03-2008
Neither have I.
IndieLove92
09-03-2008
To all those who haven't heard of them - check out the links above, they're brilliant! Liz Fraser = one of the best female vocallists ever.

Edit: And these ones are also gorgous... really show off Liz's voice:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRsaaCAwTnQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd4_NcnPfto [this last one being the first Cocteau Twins song I heard, and was completely blown away]
trec123
09-03-2008
They were well before her time, and I know loads of us are aware of bands that were about before we were born, but that's only the ones that still get some airplay etc. today, or music we've heard through our parents.
Can't remember the last time I heard an old Cocteau twins song played.
beintot
09-03-2008
a few timesi've heard cocteau twins music in the background of tv programmes.
It's a fairly distinct sound,the lyrics were always a puzzle,even if you looked at the written lyrics,then listen again to the song,you would wonder if they were the same.
shackfan
09-03-2008
One of the first cds I ever bought as by them in about 1986. I used to do a wicked John Peel impersonation " and now a session from the Cocteau Twins" One of my fave songs EVER was by This Mortal Coil (with Liz Fraser singing) doing the Jeff Buckley song, Song to the Siren.
stupidflounders
09-03-2008
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that just because they, and people around them, deem a band to be important, everyone does. It's like NME's 'greatest band ever' lists...
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