YMMV / Cocteau Twins

• Archive Panic: The band's discography is lengthy with several non-album singles and EPs to go along with the eight studio albums. Lullabies to Violaine at least collects the singles and EPs into one box set, but that's still many hours of music to explore. Even then, it still misses some tracks like the Chinese-language version of "Serpentskirt" featuring Faye Wong and "Need-Fire" from the Judge Dredd soundtrack, the latter which was never released as a single.
• Covered Up: Their version of Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" (done as part of the This Mortal Coil project), is much better known than the original. That is, at least until his son Jeff Buckley had a cult following, causing Tim's cult status to make his version well known again, although it never reached the cover's popularity.
• Critical Dissonance: Blue Bell Knoll is a fan favorite, but was trashed by some critics for what they believed was the band repeating its formula.
• Gateway Series: For Dream Pop.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: They managed to attract a cult following in the U.S. via word of mouth and College Radio airplay. They even played gigs there before they had a U.S. record deal, and their records were popular imports before Capitol released American versions.
• Heartwarming Moments: Pretty much all of Heaven Or Las Vegas, which was written after the birth of Liz Fraser's daughter. Also doubles as Sweet Dreams Fuel.
• Memetic Mutation: "What the fuck are the Cocteau Twins saying?"
  • Can my nuts hang?^note A misheard lyric from "Cherry-Coloured Funk", one of the band's best-known songs, spread around due to the unintelligible and/or word-salad nature of the band's music. The line is actually "unbroken by not saying".
• Spiritual Successor: The Lullabies to Violaine collection is the successor to their earlier CD single box set.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: "Heaven Or Las Vegas". Can also be applied to everything they've done with the exception of Garlands and Head Over Heels. There's a reason they're the first thing most people think of when they hear the word, "Dream Pop". They were the chill-out band of choice for indie kids of the '80s and '90s.
• The Woobie: Regardless of how important her vocals were to the band's sound, Fraser's endured probably the most crap during the band's career, and has said that this is the main reason she hasn't made much music after the band broke up. Also the fact that as a child she was sexually abused by various relatives and forced to leave the family home at an early age.

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