Cocteau Twins - Treasure | Group Reaction & Discussion 

This is my favorite Cocteau Twins album. I'm a 48 year old grandmother, and it is refreshing to see some young men reacting to and appreciating some shoegaze. ✌️

Cocteau Twins songs often take repeated listens to appreciate and savor their magnificence

It’s a wonderful record! Robert Smith of The Cure played this while getting ready for and anticipating his wedding day with Mary 🖤😊 Very highly praised.

Ooh I enjoyed this reaction. I think the next CT album to do would be Blue Bell Knoll, which came out in 1988 and is sort of the bridge between Treasure and HOLV. They had another album before it and after Treasure as well (Victorialand), but I’d recommend listening to Blue Bell Knoll first.

I introduced this album to my friend in 1993 and he said it was like he heard music for the first time.

Pandora to me sounds like the feeling of being in love - Head Over Heels, you might say. That's the record released just before Treasure. Its got my my second all-time favorite CT song - Musette and Drums. It's a bit more raucous than anything that followed it.

I've heard it said that whichever CT album is the first that one hears, remains one's favorite. This was my first.

My first exposure to the Cocteau Twins was listening to this album in my best friend's bedroom in 1985 when I was 15. That was the day the trajectory of my life changed forever, and for the better. Something about that first listen rewired my brain and set my soul free. CT for life.❤

I know y’all are still going through things though, I’d love for you guys to some Bjork, preferably Vespertine or Homogenic

Lorelai will forever be the CT's anthem. The crescendo of their catalog, in my opinion.

Just loved this album, great seeing you reacting on this Treasure is a treasure for me. The Victorialand album, was helping me to fall asleep for many years in my teens. Well, most of the time I never fell asleep until the last song, was so in love with this music. Even had the great opportunity to see them live, once in Geneva.

Donimo always makes me think of the Monolith in A Space Odyssey with Also sprach Zarathustra building up.

Loved you guy's reaction! This is my favorite cocteau twins album and it was the last album I had gotte around to listening to. In my opinion it is the most diverse and lush sound that hits so many ethereal angles than HOLV. I love HOLV as well of course, it deserves the credit it gets, but to me this is where they were at their strongest! The album also has this feeling of it trying to tell a story that you can't quite understand but the album cover and title put you in that place they are trying paint a picture of with their compositions.

This is The BestTM Cocteau Twins album. 10/10. Blue Bell Knoll also amazing

If you like Cicely, you'll get a kick out of Victorialand as the whole album has a very similar spacey vibe =]

The piano and drums are actually the keyboards and drum machine, so it's more synthetic if you will, but no less enticing to the ears.

as far as I know she was never singing anything meaningful and it was intended to be like that, because she wanted to make people focus on melody, not lyrics

Glad you liked the album. It's my favorite by CT. I wish you try Garlands for completely different sound, but chances for that to happen are slim.

So glad you guys got around to this one and looking forward to Blue Bell Knoll and honestly whatever other Cocteau Twins albums you listen to. Their music is gorgeous and their ability to evoke emotions without even having intelligible lyrics is amazing in my opinion. Jerry, do go back to Heaven or Las Vegas! You might find that your ears have grown accustomed to their sound a bit and can more easily digest it.

Beautiful sound of the CT . 1984 was amazing time in my life this record was my soundtrack

Each Cocteau Twins album is like travelling to a different country or different world in a different time, it's not possible to compare album against album. It's about experiencing each album as a body of work individually and deciding if you like or you don't!

This album was recorded in 1984. Those drums are an early drum machine ... hence the "weird sound" to the snare. Elizabeth Fraser is known to use syllables instead of words to create feeling on the female named songs. Kinda like scat singing in jazz.

Treasure is amazing.

Pandora has been a top favorite of mine since the album came out. It's like Liz channeling Ella Fitzgerald. Scottish scat singing! Actually, there are more than few songs over the years where Liz gets into a scat vibe. Here's a great live performance of that song... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VGJIg6c1Zkg.html

Aloysius is pronounced kinda like Al-o-WISH-us

If you like these guys , listen to dead can dance , aion that will blow you away :) and spirit chaser , brilliant dead can dance album

Most of the songs leave me wanting a little more development but Pandora is the ultimate bike ride in a summer breeze track to get lost in. The general sound is so beautiful though but i prefer albums like Four Calendar Cafe or the tracks Feet like Fins that have a proper climax

Please tell me you have listened to the Cocteau Twins first album 'Garlands' if you want Gothic. Absolute masterpiece of a record

I played this album to death when it came out. Listening to it here it all comes back to me. Babby gets it - Jerry …not so much 😁

I put faith in the lyric interpretation for Cicely in the following fan vid. Elizabeth Fraser has a fondness for foreign words, as well as for lists of names - like those of moth varieties, or, in Cicely, the names of highland wildflowers. You can appreciate with these lyrics how she bends language(s), too - there is meaning behind what seems at first to be nonsense syllables... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_JO2Rgp_OBQ.html

This is not Treasue

Heaven or Las Vegas sucked ass. I say that as a guy who, at 16, in the 80's, discovered them and their REALLY indie album GARLANDS. I didn't like HOLV, as it was too commercialized. I prefereed (still do) BBK - favourite CCT song - Pink, Orange Red. Tip: 'Otterley' us excellent to make love to on repeat.