A Stan’s Guide to the Cocteau Twins

• By Magazine Staff
• Crack Magazine
• 30-Sep 2024

Reddit’s r/cocteautwins moderator compiles the band’s most obscure music, underrated covers and surprising celebrity fans—from Arca and Prince samples to Robert Smith’s pre-wedding playlist and Winona Ryder’s Edward Scissorhands soundtrack.

Hi u/cookieintheinternet. Everyone thinks they know about the Cocteau Twins. But we’re not interested in the established narratives. We want to go deeper. What are the three key things that I might not know about this band? Go!

1. The image on the album cover of Four-Calendar Café was designed by Walter Wick, best known as the photographer for the I Spy children’s books.

2. When Treasure, the band’s third album, was first released in Japan, it was renamed as 神々が愛した女たち (Women Whom The Gods Loved).

3. For the soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings, Elizabeth Fraser sang in Quenya, an elven language, for “Lament For Gandalf” in The Fellowship of the Ring and [“Isengaard Unleashed”] in The Two Towers.

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