Love a good cover song, and the Cocteau Twins are notoriously difficult to cover properly. I've selected some of the best examples I had in my collection, and wanted to really showcase Faye Wong. She had a long standing collaboration with the Cocteau Twins, and the songs here represent her Mandarin interpretations of their works, and a couple tracks that Elizabeth and Robin wrote specifically for her.
Shout out to this playlist that did a better job of researching covers than I did. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5saByrRCkkCfT35D6cboqo
00:00 Japancakes - Heaven or Las Vegas
04:40 Faye Wong - The Amusement Park
07:46 Deftones - Wax and Wane
11:55 Faye Wong - Random Thinking (Bluebeard)
15:41 Irene & The Disappointments - Iceblink Luck
18:53 Faye Wong - Nostalgia (Rilkean Heart)
22:08 Spooky - Hypo-Allergenic (remix of Fruitopia jingles)
28:13 Faye Wong - Repressing Happiness (Touch Upon Touch)
32:10 Azam Ali - Shallow Then Halo
36:36 Faye Wong - Know Oneself and Each Other (know who you are at every age)
40:00 Nouvelle Vague - Athol Brose
44:28 Livia - Mizake the Mizan
48:22 Faye Wong - Serpentskirt
55:12 The Lovecraft Sextet - Seekers Who Are Lovers
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An excellent trio of tribute mixes, Mooz, it has to be said.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Glad you liked them. I enjoyed chasing all this down for a band I wasn't all too familiar with when I started. I'm certainly a much bigger fan now, which I'm sure pleases my wife.
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