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Standout tracks include "Carolyn's Fingers," featuring Elizabeth Fraser's voice pining and sweeping over a shuffling beat, the slow-paced "For Phoebe Still a Baby," dedicated to Fraser's unborn child, that adds a xylophone in the mix, and "Spooning Good Singing Gum," bedecked with Guthrie's echoing, multi-tracked guitars. As good as these cuts are, however, the best of the bunch are the album's last two tracks, "A Kissed Out Red Floatboat," and "Ella Megalast Burls Forever." Alone, either would justify the price of admission, but together they make this, out of many great Cocteau Twins albums, one of the best.
2003 4AD reissue of 1988 album remastered by guitarist Robin Guthrie.
After the airiness of VICTORIALAND, BLUE BELL KNOLL, the Cocteau Twins' fifth album, returns them to the swirling ethereality of earlier collections. Anchoring the interplay of Elizabeth Fraser's vocals and Robin Guthrie's effects-treated guitars with drum machine patterns and stronger bass lines makes for somewhat more traditional songs, and also frees them--"Suckling the Mender" even has room for two glittering guitar solos.
Cocteau Twins: Elizabeth Fraser (vocals); Robin Guthrie (guitar); Simon Raymonde (bass).
Cocteau Twins Blue Bell Knoll Songs Blue Bell Knoll Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  Cocteau Twins
This is a great cd for anyone who needs to wind down after a hectic day...it takes you to another universe and is beautifully orchestrated.
Submitted by Almatson (Kissimmee, Fl,USA) 
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I bought the import version of this album,and it's the first record of Cocteau Twins that I ever got.I really didn't have any preparation to listen to it.I was still so surprised that it's so attractive though I had heard about the fame of 4AD.I remenbered that the style of Blue Bell Knoll was called Dream-pop or Ethereal Soundscape or any else,but I really didn't like those reluctant names.Cocteau Twins tried several new techniques besides their typical features,and you'd never realise that they even didn't use any synthesizers!The texture of the music was really misty but you could catch every note of it,maybe it's so ethereal but still you could follow it----This album is a beginning of Dream-pop I guess,leading the followings such as Blow of Swallow or Spooky of Lush.
I like this record that much and that's why I'd be so disappointed at the later records of Cocteau Twins.
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Blue Bell Bubbily
I am a huge fan of this band. I saw them live several years ago at The Roseland Ballroom, A few of the songs from this album were played. I think that this album sounds a bit more modern that its predecessors. I love the tinny, bubbily, bouncy sounds and it creates a feeling of warmth throughout my body. I do not think there is an album I do not like.
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