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discography/videography

Cocteau Twins have proven to be one of the most prolific bands in modern music, with dozens of releases spanning their 15-year career—nearly 140 individual songs.

This Discography and Videography focuses on the basic information about each release, with details concerning UK, Canadian and US releases, with some information about Japanese or other international versions of material. For a more exhaustive discographic analysis, visit the 4AD/Eyesore Database (for information up to 1991).

An extensive discography and gigography are also available at www.cocteautwins.org.

LPs

Garlands (1982)
Head Over Heels (1983)
Treasure (1984)
Victorialand (1986)
Blue Bell Knoll (1988)
Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)
Four-Calendar Café (1993)
Milk & Kisses (1996)

EPs

Lullabies (1982)
Peppermint Pig (1983)
Sunburst and Snowblind (1983)
The Spangle Maker (1984)
Aikea-Guinea (1985)
Tiny Dynamine (1985)
Echoes in a Shallow Bay (1985)
Tiny Dynamine/Echoes in a Shallow Bay (1985) *
Love's Easy Tears (1986)
Twinlights (1995)
Otherness (1995)

* Tiny Dynamine and Echoes in a Shallow Bay were re-released as a double EP by 4AD in late 1985, after each had been released separately.
 

Singles

Iceblink luck (1990)
Heaven or Las Vegas (1991)
Evangeline (1993)
Snow (1993)
Bluebeard (1994)
Tishbite 1 (1996)
Tishbite 2 (1996)
Violaine 1 (1996)
Violaine 2 (1996)

Compilations, Collaborations and Special Appearances

This Mortal Coil (1983-1984)
The Pink Opaque (1985)
The Moon and The Melodies (1986)
This Mortal Coil (1986)
Lonely Is An Eyesore (1987)
The Box Set (1991)
Lilliput (1992)
BBC Sessions (1999)
Stars and Topsoil (2000)
Lullabies to Violaine (2005)
Motion Picture Soundtracks (1982-1996)
Collaborations (1982-1996)
 

Live/Unofficial Recordings

(Partial listing)

"Night Must Fall" (1982)
"Lovers are Mortal" (1983)
Amsterdam, Netherlands (1983)
Newcastle, UK (1983)
"Scream" (1984)
"Unrealised Dreams" (Picture disc, 1984)
London, UK (1984)
Oslo, Norway (1984)
Interview Picture Disc (1985)
Columbus, OH USA (1985)
Paris, France (1986)
London, UK (1986)
Boston, MA USA (1990)
Berkeley, CA USA (1990)
Berkeley, CA USA II (1990)*
Cologne, Germany (1990)
Detroit, MI USA (1990)
Brussels, Belgium (1994)
New Orleans, LA USA (1994)
New York, NY USA (1994)
Paris, France (1994)
Radio France (1994)
"Forgotten 4AD Tracks" (1994)*
Boston, MA USA (1996)
Seattle, WA USA (1996)
San Francisco, CA USA (1996)

* The second Live in Berkeley recording is a soundboard tape from a second show, featuring a different set list.

* Please note that all John Peel Radio Session recordings, as well as other BBC radio appearances are now available legally and commercially on the BBC Sessions double-CD.

* "Forgotten 4AD Tracks" is an illegal compilation of some b-sides and EP tracks extracted from the various EPs sold together in The Box Set.

Videography

Song to the Siren (1984)*
Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops (1984)
Aikea-Guinea (1985)
Love's Easy Tears (1986)
Crushed (1987)
Carolyn's Fingers (1988)
Cico Buff (1988)
Iceblink luck (1990)
Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)
Evangeline (1993)
Bluebeard (1994)
Rilkean Dreams (1995)*
Tishbite (1996)

Watch videos in the Media section >>

Live/Unofficial Videos

Live in Columbus, OH USA (1985)
Live in Vancouver, BC Canada (1991)
Unofficial "Bootleg" Video Compilation (1992)
Unofficial Online Fan Club Video Compilation (1994)
Live in Cincinnati, OH USA (1994)
"Pearly, Pink & White," Live in New Orleans, LA USA (1994)
Live in Washington, DC USA (1994)
Unofficial VCD Compilations (2002)

* "Song to the Siren" was performed by Liz and Robin as part of the 4AD project This Mortal Coil, and was not a proper Cocteau Twins recording or video.

* Rilkean Dreams includes two videos: "Rilkean Heart" and "Half-Gifts," each taken from the 1995 EP Twinlights.