Cocteau Twins discography

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Cocteau Twins discography
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Cocteau Twins in 1986, from L-R: Simon Raymonde, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie
Studio albums9
Live albums1
Compilation albums8
Music videos22
EPs11
Singles19

Cocteau Twins were a Scottish gothic rock and dream pop group whose discography contains nine studio albums, seven compilations, and numerous EPs and singles. The band have had several UK top 40 albums, with four of their studio albums also reaching the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States.

Contents

The band have had five albums certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry. Commercially, their most successful studio album, Heaven or Las Vegas was released in 1990; it reached number seven in the United Kingdom.

The band have had six of their singles chart within the top 100 in the United Kingdom. Three of their singles were heavily played on the U.S. alternative radio stations and they charted within the top 10 of the US Alternative Songs Chart. Their 1984 single "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" reached number one on the UK Indie Chart.

In 1986, they released a collaboration album The Moon and the Melodies with Harold Budd. Over the course of their musical career, the Cocteau Twins have released several compilation albums.

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart position Certifications
(sales thresholds)
UK
[1]
SCO
[1]
UK Indie
AUS
[2] [3]
BEL
[4]
CAN
[5]
NZ
[6]
SWE
[7]
US
[8]
Garlands 4
Head over Heels
  • Released: 24 October 1983
  • Format: Vinyl, cassette
  • Label: 4AD (CAD313)
511
  • BPI: Silver [9]
Treasure
  • Released: 1 November 1984
  • Format: Vinyl, cassette
  • Label: 4AD (CAD412)
2923432
  • BPI: Silver [9]
Victorialand
  • Released: April 1986
  • Format: Vinyl, cassette, CD
  • Label: 4AD (CAD602)
101
Blue Bell Knoll
  • Released: 19 September 1988
  • Format: Vinyl, cassette, CD
  • Label: 4AD (CAD807)
151119109
Heaven or Las Vegas
  • Released: 17 September 1990
  • Format: Vinyl, cassette, CD
  • Label: 4AD (00102)
713099
  • BPI: Silver [9]
Four-Calendar Café
  • Released: 18 October 1993
  • Format: Vinyl, cassette, CD
  • Label: Fontana (518 259-2)
    Capitol (US)
131112278
Milk & Kisses
  • Released: 15 March 1996
  • Format: Vinyl, cassette, CD
  • Label: Fontana (514 501-2)
172464485399

Collaborative albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart position
UK
[1]
UK Indie
The Moon and the Melodies (with Harold Budd)
  • Released: November 1986
  • Format: Vinyl, cassette
  • Label: 4AD
461

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsCertificationsAdditional information
Tiny Dynamine/Echoes in a Shallow Bay
  • Released: 1985
  • Format: CD, cassette
  • Label: 4AD
compilation album, combined release of two EPs.
The Pink Opaque compilation album, joint release by 4AD (UK) and Relativity Records (US)
The Box Set
  • Released: 4 November 1991
  • Format: Vinyl, cassette
  • Label: 4AD
ten-disc box set consisting of all EPs up to that point and one disc of bonus material
BBC Sessions compilation album of 8 BBC sessions recorded between 1982 and 1996
Stars and Topsoil
  • Released: 16 October 2000
  • Format: Vinyl, cassette, CD
  • Label: 4AD
  • BPI: Silver [9]
compilation album (1982–1990)
Lullabies to Violaine: Singles and Extended Plays 1982–1996 limited edition (10,000 units worldwide), four-disc box set of single and EP tracks
Lullabies to Violaine, Volume 1: Singles and Extended Plays 1982–1990
  • Released: 20 March 2006
  • Format: CD, digital download
  • Label: 4AD
first two of the four discs in box set shown above
Lullabies to Violaine, Volume 2: Singles and Extended Plays 1993–1996
  • Released: 20 March 2006
  • Format: CD, digital download
  • Label: 4AD
last two of the four discs in box set shown above
Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years
  • Released: 19 October 2018
  • Format: CD, digital download
  • Label: Fontana
four-disc box set that includes Four-Calendar Café, Milk & Kisses, EPs, B-sides, and more [10]

Extended plays

TitleEP detailsPeak chart position
UK
[1]
SCO
[1]
UK Indie
NZ
[11]
Lullabies
  • Released: October 1982
  • Label: 4AD
11
Peppermint Pig
  • Released: April 1983
  • Label: 4AD
2
Sunburst and Snowblind
  • Released: 7 November 1983
  • Label: 4AD
862
The Spangle Maker
  • Released: 2 April 1984
  • Label: 4AD (BAD405)
292
Aikea-Guinea
  • Released: 4 March 1985
  • Label: 4AD (BAD501)
41138
Tiny Dynamine
  • Released: 15 November 1985
  • Label: 4AD (BAD510)
521
Echoes in a Shallow Bay
  • Released: 29 November 1985
  • Label: 4AD (BAD511)
65148
Love's Easy Tears
  • Released: October 1986
  • Label: 4AD (BAD610)
531
Snow
  • Released: December 1993
  • Label: Fontana
58
Twinlights
  • Released: September 1995
  • Label: Fontana
5957
Otherness
  • Released: October 1995
  • Label: Fontana
5955

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
UK
[1]
SCO
[12]
UK Indie
AUS
[3]
POR
[13]
IRE
[14]
US Alt
[15]
"Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" [upper-alpha 1] 1984291The Spangle Maker
"Carolyn's Fingers" US promotional single only19882Blue Bell Knoll
"Iceblink Luck"199038224Heaven or Las Vegas
"Heaven or Las Vegas"9
"Evangeline"1993341354Four-Calendar Café
"Bluebeard"19943377 [16]
"Tishbite"19963429 [17] 168Milk & Kisses
"Violaine"5666 [18]

Notes

  1. "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" has the same charting position as The Spangle Maker EP.

Music videos

Title [19] YearDirector(s)
"Wax and Wane" [19] 1983
"Sugar Hiccup"1984
"Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops"

[20]

Nigel Grierson
"Song to the Siren"

(released as This Mortal Coil) [19]

Ivo Watts-Russell
"Pandora (for Cindy)" (unreleased) [21]
"Aikea-Guinea"1985John Scarlett-Davis
"Pink Orange Red" Gavin Taylor
"Love's Easy Tears"1986
"How to Bring a Blush to the Snow" [22] Carl Theodor Dreyer and Peter Fowler
"Crushed"1987 Nico Beyer
"Carolyn's Fingers"1988 Walter Stern
"Blue Bell Knoll" (live)
"Cico Buff"
"Iceblink Luck"1990 Howard Greenhalgh
"Heaven or Las Vegas"
"Evangeline"1993 Nico Beyer
"Bluebeard"Paul Donnellon
"Rilkean Heart" (version 1)1995
"Rilkean Heart" (Rilkean Dreams interlude)
"Half-Gifts"
"Tishbite"1996Dave Shum
"Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops"

(higher resolution cut edit) [23]

2005Nigel Grierson

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