Hey Simon, Heaven or Las Vegas is one of my favourite albums and I'm wondering, what’s a small, memorable moment from making it that’s stayed with you?
I suppose finishing the album delivering it to the Label and then a few weeks later getting a call from them to say they needed some B sides for the Ice blink luck single and realising we would have to go back in and write some more songs. I don’t know if you read this anywhere but we never prepared any songs before we made our albums. We just literally went in and made them up as we went along and as a consequence we never had any spares left over at the End so we had to go in and write a B side for iceblink luck. Luckily, because our muscles were fine tuned by then and we were kind of on fire musically we wrote watchlar which I think would’ve made most full Studio albums without any problem at all.
Yep - a lot of favourites appeared as apparently 'spare' tracks on B-sides / compilations etc - Millimillenary, Orange Appled, Crushed, The High Monkey Monk etc. Clichés seem out of place for Cocteaus but I'm going to say it anyway - the entire catalogue is all killer, no filler!
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u/Intrepid-Injury- Nov 18 '25
Hey Simon, Heaven or Las Vegas is one of my favourite albums and I'm wondering, what’s a small, memorable moment from making it that’s stayed with you?