This was the closing song played at my wife's funeral We were massive Cocteau Twins fans. They even did a song about her fingers. Rest in peace Carolyn
65 yo. Contemplating a combined angiogram/ angioplasty/stent. Needed some melancholia to release the rarely seen man-tears. This song and others. Sobbed for two hours. And again now after successful procedure and its transformative effect. Don’t let Tories steal your NHS. Carpe.
@@UnderTheTableGremlin I absolutely adore this version, but it's a tight competition between this and Tim Buckley's Take 7 version. That somehow draws out even more emotion from me, please give it a listen if you haven't already
Both Tim and Elizabeth sang this song with deepest honest beauty. I feel it would be a crime to compare and come to a conclusion as to who sang it better. Ultimately, both sang it perfectly while using their individual unique talents.
I just lost my English Bulldog last Sunday, My heart is broken, nine years of love and devotion, and this song just rips me up....RIP Tator...Dad Loves you!
I was thinking the same thing. I was listening to this on vinyl when it was released, although I was into punk more than anything then. I was just lightly crying when I watched this - as you say it's better than ever.
i agree wit you exept for the two part when she repet "Here i am", in this live these part are so simply. When she repet "here i am" in the studio version is orgasmatic
I think so too. Not a trace of arrogance in her, not tlike the current crop of sex muppets who think they're God's gift. For Liz its all about the music. Enchanting.
I find both Tim Buckley's original and this TMC rendering incredibly moving every time I hear them, I close my eyes and let my mind run free with it. This version recreates the original's emotional intensity in such an original and creative way. Hauntingly beautiful.
I could hear Cocteau Twins in 1991, in Brazil, on the day I went, the device that made the effects broke. Without it the shakes up, Elizabeth Fraser, just started to do the effects, right there, live, while the audience sang ecstatically. I was there, the one meter that little "giant" singer. Unforgettable.
This song was originally supposed to be in Blue Velvet during the dance scene with Jeffrey and Sandy. That would have blown my mind. Lynch has superb taste in music.
The greatest musical instrument mankind ever allowed itself to hear was the human voice - especially if you sound like Elizabeth Fraser. Her voice sounds like heaven whispering...
I can't think of another song that quite captures the feeling of heartbreak. Before I even heard this song, I have described it this way... even used the words, "I'm as lost as child." which is similar to "as puzzled as a newborn child".
@@zsoltsator5433 Wow, so true…you NAILED this! This is definitely higher chakra music (3rd eye, crown chakra) and that other crap is definitely lower chakra, non-spiritually developed (root chakra) junk. Choose your music accordingly people.
The amazing-ness that the music to this song was written by Tim Buckley in the late 60s early 70s and still so deeply resonates with EVERYONE embraces my heart and soul….for I too lived then….72 now and this music still speaks to me
saw then in 85 in glasgow and that voice was the SWEETEST i have ever heard and still nobody has came close you can't tell the difference between live and studio recordings AMAZING
I was fortunate to see the Cocteau Twins live in Brussels back in 1990. It sort of ruined every concert I visited since then. It was hard to believe that she could actually sing like that. So brilliant...
Mario Brackeva I had the same experience, on that tour, in Detroit (Ann Arbor). Incidentally, Galaxie 500 performed one of their final shows, on the same bill. Incredible.
I love how Tim Buckley songs aren't typical verse, chorus, verse bridge, chorus out. His songs are more poems set to music. She does a nice job on this cover.
I've always loved that Liz just sang this cover track straight forward. She did it with very little vocal embellishment other than what came naturally to her. Truely a brilliant remake of Tim Buckly's original song.
They lyrics are just incredible. People used to write lines like "I am puzzled as the oyster I am troubled as the tide: Should I stand amid your breakers? Should I lie with death, my bride?" It's like a Shakespeare sonnet. Anybody doing that these days?
I wish I could say that I was there to hear this in person, because iy has to be one of the greatest live performances of all time. Her voice is perfection.
Many nights thinking things out under the silhouette of my giant oak creeping over me against the moonlight, solar lights up my Roman columns, apple crown royal, incense, this song and the cold chill=perfection
oh to be one of the people in this audience! One of the most emotional, haunting, beautiful songs ever performed. "Shall I stand amid the breakers, or shall I lie with Death my bride?" she is torn between going on or giving in. She aches, you can hear it in her voice, for her lover to return, to be able to hold him once more. But he is gone. She will wait, she will stand vigil, ever longing, remembering her love
I never ever get tired of this song , one the most deep entrenching soulful ethereal melodies ever that took her in so many feelings . I never get tired of watching Lovely Bones either and I had already been a Mortal Coil fan. This song by sung by Mortal Coil is on my top 5 list of songs I’d have to have on a deserted island if they were the only songs I got to listen to over and over somehow on a never ending battery radio 📻
I have been musing upon this song for the past week. I (like many others I suspect) thought it was written and performed by This Mortal Coil. Imagine my delight as the fog lifted and I saw and heard(!) Tim Buckley's performance of his song on tele back in 1968. I have since come to the conclusion that Liz Frazer is the siren sung of, singing her belated, but never too late, side of the story. Tim's side is beautifully human: doubtful, joyous, singular, in thrall. In a nutshell, I can't split them - his sublime anguish, her lonely response.
Muse on this. Liz Fraser was also Jeff Buckley's (Tim's son) girlfriend when he drowned in the Mississipi river. They did a duet together ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JnPvnIKCJYA.html
This is a great showcase of Liz' talent. All these below average singers nowadays that get much more attention than they really deserve - listen to this and shiver.
Studio quality delivery, which IMO surpasses the official video version I discovered here on RU-vid. Beautiful, faithful, emotional live performance is such a hallmark of greatness in an artist.
Yeah. July 2004. ❤ "Here I am, ........waiting to hold you". Gets me every time.Paul If this is the first time any of you have heard it, check out the Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil and the label 4ad. Then imagine you're 14 in the 80's and you're blown away by what you're hearing.
This is a top class song I must admit when I first heard this classic it reached all the right places in my heart and beyond you have got the most amazing vocal voice that a lot of singers out there would love to have that’s why we all appreciate your singing skills I love it from mr Colin Corcoran high street royal mile Edinburgh 👍🏻🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴👍🏻
Funny how an imminently sad song can snap you back sometimes. I thinks she vocalizes the sorrow of all times in this song. I love the original by Tim Buckley but this is as awesome as it could ever get.
One of the best voices ever, for me anyway....though I love Buckley (and in fact, this is how I really discovered Buckley), she made this entirely her own.
What a song god me why haven’t I herd this before shivers tears in my eyes .. why..unbelievable so emotional.bloody hell . A proper song absolutely beautiful
Whenever I listen to this song, be it a live recording or from my copy of This Mortal Coil's It'll End In Tears album, I can feel something like electricity running through my entire body. It's supremely beautiful. Her voice is one of the most lovely sounds in the universe.
Brings tears to my eyes every time......like nothing I've ever heard or experienced emotionally from a voice/song ever. So special......we are lucky to hear such moving beauty.
