Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
The Moon and the Melodies (1986) is the product of a one-off collaboration … Read Full Bio ↴The Moon and the Melodies (1986) is the product of a one-off collaboration between the Scottish group Cocteau Twins and the American composer Harold Budd. The Cocteau Twins refused to sign the album with the band's name and used their individual names instead.
The album has the characteristic style — heavily-treated guitar sounds and strangely euphoric vocalising — that can be heard in the group's other work from the same period, for example on the EP "Echoes in a Shallow Bay" or the album Victorialand. Harold Budd's stylistic piano tonalities and phrasing on this project are echoed in his solo album, Lovely Thunder, from the same year.
The phrases "bloody and blunt" and "ooze out and away, onehow" come from Elizabeth Fraser's lyrics on the songs "The Tinderbox (Of a Heart)" and "My Love Paramour", both from the 1983 Cocteau Twins album Head Over Heels. Reusing phrases from old songs as titles for others can be considered one of Fraser's signature characteristics, as can her habit of emphasizing syllables in ways that differ from standard usage.
The album has the characteristic style — heavily-treated guitar sounds and strangely euphoric vocalising — that can be heard in the group's other work from the same period, for example on the EP "Echoes in a Shallow Bay" or the album Victorialand. Harold Budd's stylistic piano tonalities and phrasing on this project are echoed in his solo album, Lovely Thunder, from the same year.
The phrases "bloody and blunt" and "ooze out and away, onehow" come from Elizabeth Fraser's lyrics on the songs "The Tinderbox (Of a Heart)" and "My Love Paramour", both from the 1983 Cocteau Twins album Head Over Heels. Reusing phrases from old songs as titles for others can be considered one of Fraser's signature characteristics, as can her habit of emphasizing syllables in ways that differ from standard usage.
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01Sea, Swallow MeHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
02Why Do You Love Me?Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
03Memory GongsHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
04She Will Destroy YouHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
05Ooze Out And Away, OnehowHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
06Bloody And BluntHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
07The Ghost Has No HomeHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
08Eyes Are MosaicsHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
09Sea Swallow MeHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
10Ooze Outand Away, OnehowHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
11Eyescare MosaicsHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
12The Ghost Has No NameHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
13The Moon And The MelodiesHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
14Ooze out and way, OnehowHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
15Ooze Out And Away, One HowHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
16Sea, Shallow MeHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
17Eyesare MosaicsHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
18Why Do You Love Me¿Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
19Ghost Has No HomeHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
20Why Do You Love MeHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth FraserHarold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser
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Harold Budd Simon Raymonde Robin Guthrie & Elizabeth Fraser Lyrics
Sea Shallow Me I don't know Why you met me And cannot cry But you won't…
Sea Swallow Me I don't know Why you met me And cannot cry But you won't…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Elizabeth Fraser:
At Last I Am Free When you love someone You're like a child at play And when…
At Last I Am Free (Robert Wyat When you love someone You're like a child at play And when…
At Last I'm Free When you love someone You're like a child at play And when…
Cherry-Coloured Funk Beetles and eggs and blues and pour a little everything…
Kala Do you recognize me Here on this sleeper train And do you…
Mary Do you recognize me Here on this sleeper train And do you…
Sea Swallow Me I don't know Why you met me And cannot cry But you won't…
This love This love This love is a strange love A faded kind of…
Underwater The opening of a window Onto the rapture Find the world Shin…