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Cocteau Twins

Cocteau Twins is a group from Scotland, active from 1979.

Group Scotland 1979–1997 dream pop shoegaze ethereal wave
TOTAL PLAYS
1,608
SONGS PLAYED
156
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-21 15:01 · 6 Music — "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drop"
LAST PLAYED
2 days ago · 6 Music — "Musette and Drums"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
200 150 100 50 0
'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 1,474 92%
Radio 2 103 6%
Radio 1 28 2%
1Xtra 3 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 19:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Iceblink Luck 247 2026-05-15
2 Heaven or Las Vegas 184 2026-05-14
3 Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops 156 2025-11-11
4 Pearly-Dewdrops' Drop 83 2016-08-26
5 Frosty the Snowman 69 2025-12-24
6 Bluebeard 61 2025-09-05
7 Winter Wonderland 48 2025-12-20
8 Violaine 45 2023-07-09
9 Tishbite 44 2025-08-19
10 Pearly Dewdrops' Drop 44 2014-05-09
11 Cherry-Coloured Funk 33 2025-11-08
12 Evangeline 32 2024-10-02
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-19 04:00 Musette and Drums 6 Music
2026-05-15 02:47 Iceblink Luck 6 Music
2026-05-14 17:33 Heaven or Las Vegas 6 Music
2026-05-10 22:12 Pandora 6 Music
2026-05-10 19:00 Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires 6 Music
2026-05-09 21:01 Fifty-Fifty Clown 6 Music
2026-05-09 19:44 Sugar Hiccup Radio 2
2026-04-16 19:27 Heaven or Las Vegas Radio 2
2026-04-13 02:43 Fifty-Fifty Clown Radio 1
2026-04-12 19:14 Fifty-Fifty Clown Radio 1
2025-12-24 21:35 Frosty the Snowman 6 Music
2025-12-20 04:58 Winter Wonderland 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

156 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
A Kissed Out Red Floatboat — 3 ▶
Aikea - Guinea — 1 ▶
Aikea Guinea — 2 ▶
Aikea-Guinea — 6 ▶
Alas Dies Laughing - BBC Session 21/06/1982 — 4 ▶
Alas Dies Laughing (Radio 1 Session, 21 Jun 1982) — 12 ▶
Alas Dies Laughing - BBC Session 21/06/1982 — 4 ▶
Alice — 1 ▶
Aloysius — 1 ▶
Beatrix — 3 ▶
Blind Dumb Deaf — 1 ▶
Blood Bitch — 1 ▶
Blue Bell Knoll — 10 ▶
Bluebeard — 61 ▶
But I'm Not — 2 ▶
Calfskin Smack — 1 ▶
Calfskin Smack (BBC GLR Session 10/04/1996) — 1 ▶
Carolyn's Fingers — 8 ▶
Carolyn’S Fingers — 1 ▶
CarolynÂ’S Fingers — 1 ▶
Cherry Coloured Funk — 12 ▶
Cherry Coloured Funk (Otherness version) — 1 ▶
Cherry Coloured Funk (Seefeel remix) — 1 ▶
Cherry Coloured Funk (Stijn's House Mix) — 1 ▶
Cherry-Coloured Funk — 33 ▶
Cico Buff — 2 ▶
Crushed — 1 ▶
Dear Heart (John Peel session 21 Jan 1983) — 1 ▶
Donimo — 2 ▶
Evangeline — 32 ▶
Father Oar / Blades - BBC Session 21/06/1982 — 6 ▶
Father Oar / Blades (Radio 1 Session, 21 Jun 1982) — 7 ▶
Father Oar / Blades - BBC Session 21/06/1982 — 3 ▶
Feet Like Fins — 3 ▶
Fifty Fifty Clown — 2 ▶
Fifty-Fifty Clown — 22 ▶
Fifty-Fifty Clown - BBC GLR Session, 10 Apr 1996 — 1 ▶
Five Ten Fiftyfold — 3 ▶
Fluffy Tufts — 3 ▶
For Phoebe Still a Baby — 5 ▶
Fotzepolitic — 12 ▶
fotzepolitik — 1 ▶
From the Flagstones — 2 ▶
From the Flagstones (John Peel session 4/10/1983) — 1 ▶
FromThe Flagstones - BBC Session 04/10/1983 — 1 ▶
Frosty the Snowman — 69 ▶
Frou frou foxes in mid summer — 1 ▶
Frou Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires — 1 ▶
Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires — 11 ▶
Garlands — 1 ▶
Garlands - BBC Session 21/06/1982 — 6 ▶
Garlands (Radio 1 Session, 21 Jun 1982) — 11 ▶
Garlands - BBC Session 15/07/1982 — 1 ▶
Garlands - BBC Session 21/06/1982 — 4 ▶
Golden Vein (Mark Radcliffe session 13th March 1996) — 1 ▶
Golden Vein (Radio 1 Session, 12 Mar 1996) — 2 ▶
Golden Vein 1996 — 3 ▶
Half Gifts 1996 — 2 ▶
Half Gifts (Mark Radcliffe session 13th March 1996) — 1 ▶
Half Gifts (Radio 1 Session, 12 Mar 1996) — 5 ▶
Half-Gifts (Mark Radcliffe session 12.3.96) — 1 ▶
Half-Gifts (Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 Mar 1996) — 2 ▶
Hazel (John Peel session 21 Jan 1983) — 1 ▶
Hearsay Please (John Peel session 21 Jan 1983) — 1 ▶
Heaven or Las Vegas — 184 ▶
Hitherto — 3 ▶
Hitherto (Saturday Live, 3 Dec 1983) — 2 ▶
Hitherto - BBC Session 04/10/1983 — 3 ▶
How to Bring a Blush to the Snow — 1 ▶
I Wear Your Ring — 8 ▶
Iceblink Luck — 247 ▶
In Our Angelhood — 6 ▶
In Our Angelhood (Radio 1 Session, 2 Oct 1983) — 5 ▶
In the Gold Dust Rush — 1 ▶
Ivo — 22 ▶
Know Who You Are at Every Age — 2 ▶
Kookaburra — 1 ▶
Lazy Calm — 9 ▶
Little Spacey — 4 ▶
Lorelei — 30 ▶
Lorolei — 1 ▶
Love's Easy Tears — 2 ▶
Melonella — 3 ▶
Millimillenary — 3 ▶
Multifoiled — 2 ▶
Musette and Drums — 22 ▶
Musette And Drums (BBC Saturday Night Live 03.12.83) — 1 ▶
Musette And Drums (Radio 1 Session, 2 Oct 1983) — 6 ▶
My Hue and Cry — 2 ▶
My Hue And Cry (Radio 1 Session, 2 Oct 1983) — 2 ▶
Oomingmak — 3 ▶
Otterley — 4 ▶
Otterley (John Peel session 29th Aug 1984) — 1 ▶
Pale Clouded White — 1 ▶
Pandora — 1 ▶
Pandora (For Cindy) — 2 ▶
Pandora for Cindy — 1 ▶
Pearly Dewdrops Drops — 4 ▶
Pearly Dewdrops' Drop — 44 ▶
Pearly-Dewdrops' Drop — 83 ▶
Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops — 156 ▶
Peep Bo (John Peel session 29th Aug 1984) — 1 ▶
Peep Bo (John Peel session 8 Aug 1984) — 1 ▶
Pepper Tree (John Peel session 8 Aug 1984) — 1 ▶
Peppermint Pig — 2 ▶
Peppertree (John Peel session 29th Aug 1984) — 1 ▶
Persephone — 7 ▶
Pink Orange Red — 4 ▶
Pitch the Baby — 16 ▶
Pur — 1 ▶
Quisquose — 3 ▶
Road, River and Rail — 7 ▶
Sea Swallow Me — 1 ▶
Sea, Swallow Me — 2 ▶
Seekers While Lovers (Mark Radcliffe session 12.3.96) — 1 ▶
Seekers Who Are Lovers — 3 ▶
Seekers Who Are Lovers 1996 — 3 ▶
Serpent's Skirt (Mark Radcliffe session 13th March 1996) — 1 ▶
Serpent's Skirt (Radio 1 Session, 12 Mar 1996) — 4 ▶
Serpent's Skirt 1996 — 2 ▶
Serpentskirt (Mark Radcliffe session 12.3.96) — 1 ▶
Serpentskirt (Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 Mar 1996) — 2 ▶
Spooning Good Singing Gum — 1 ▶
Squeeze-Wax — 2 ▶
Strange Fruit (John Peel session 4/10/1983) — 1 ▶
Suckling the Mender — 1 ▶
Sugar Hiccup — 1 ▶
Sugar Hiccup — 21 ▶
Sugar Hiccup (12" version) — 1 ▶
Sugar Hiccup (Radio 1 Session, 2 Oct 1983) — 6 ▶
sugar hicup — 1 ▶
Summer-Blink — 1 ▶
Summerhead — 4 ▶
The Spangle Maker — 3 ▶
The Thinner the Air — 2 ▶
The Tinder Box - BBC Session 04/10/1983 — 1 ▶
The Tinderbox (of a Heart) — 1 ▶
Those Eyes That Mouth — 2 ▶
Those Eyes, That Mouth — 2 ▶
Throughout the Dark Months of April and May — 8 ▶
Tishbite — 44 ▶
Treasure Hiding — 1 ▶
Violaine — 45 ▶
Violaine (BBC Session) — 4 ▶
Violaine - GLR session 10/04/96 — 1 ▶
Watchlar — 9 ▶
Wax and Wane — 10 ▶
Wax And Wane - BBC Session 21/06/1982 — 5 ▶
Wax And Wane (Radio 1 Session, 21 Jun 1982) — 14 ▶
Wax And Wane - BBC Session 21/06/1982 — 5 ▶
Whales Tails — 1 ▶
When Mama Was Moth — 1 ▶
Whisht (John Peel session 29th Aug 1984) — 1 ▶
Whist (John Peel session 8 April 1984) — 1 ▶
Winter Wonderland — 48 ▶
Wolf in the Breast — 17 ▶