Stars and Topsoil

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Stars and Topsoil
Compilation album by Cocteau Twins
Released	October 2000
Recorded	1981 - 1990
Length	72:14
Label	4AD - CAD 2K19
Cocteau Twins chronology
BBC Sessions (1999) Stars and Topsoil (2000) Lullabies to Violaine (2005)

Stars And Topsoil is a compilation album by the Scottish rock group Cocteau Twins, released on the 4AD label in October 2000. The album features tracks released between 1982 and 1990, covering every Cocteau Twins album from Garlands to Heaven or Las Vegas.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Blind Dumb Deaf" - 3:47
2. "Sugar Hiccup" - 3:41
3. "My Love Paramour" - 3:38
4. "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" - 4:11
5. "Lorelei" - 3:43
6. "Pandora" - 5:26
7. "Aikea-Guinea" - 3:57
8. "Pink Orange Red" - 4:38
9. "Pale Clouded White" - 4:59
10. "Lazy Calm" - 6:34
11. "The Thinner The Air" - 3:16
12. "Orange Appled" - 2:50
13. "Cico Buff" - 3:46
14. "Carolyn's Fingers" - 3:06
15. "Fifty-Fifty Clown" - 3:11
16. "Iceblink Luck" - 3:18
17. "Heaven or Las Vegas" - 4:55
18. "Watchlar" - 3:17

Tracks taken from:

• 1: Garlands (1982)
• 2-3: Head over Heels (1983)
• 4: The Spangle Maker (EP) (1984)
• 5-6: Treasure (1984)
• 7: Aikea-Guinea (EP) (1985)
• 8: Tiny Dynamine (EP) (1985)
• 9: Echoes in a Shallow Bay (EP) (1985)
• 10-11: Victorialand (1986)
• 12: Love's Easy Tears (EP) (1986)
• 13-14: Blue Bell Knoll (1988)
• 15-17: Heaven or Las Vegas (1990)
• 18: Iceblink Luck (EP) (1990)

[edit] Personnel

• Elizabeth Fraser - vocals
• Robin Guthrie - guitar
• Simon Raymonde - bass
• Will Heggie - bass on "Blind Dumb Deaf"

• All songs written by Fraser/Guthrie/Raymonde except "Sugar Hiccup", "My Love Paramour", "Lazy Calm" and "The Thinner The Air' (Fraser/Guthrie) and "Blind Dumb Deaf" (Fraser/Guthrie/Heggie).
• All tracks produced by Cocteau Twins except "Blind Dumb Deaf" (Ivo/Cocteau Twins) and "Sugar Hiccup" and "My Love Paramour" (Cocteau Twins and John Fryer).
• Mastered by Robin Guthrie and Walto Coelho.

Liner notes written by Alan Warner.

See also:

• 2000 in music

v • d • e Cocteau Twins Robin Guthrie | Elizabeth Fraser | Simon Raymonde Former member: Will Heggie Studio Albums Garlands | Head over Heels | Treasure | Victorialand | Blue Bell Knoll | Heaven or Las Vegas | Four-Calendar Café | Milk and Kisses EPs Lullabies | Peppermint Pig | Sunburst and Snowblind | The Spangle Maker | Aikea-Guinea | Tiny Dynamine | Echoes in a Shallow Bay | Love's Easy Tears | Snow | Twinlights | Otherness Singles "Iceblink Luck" | "Heaven or Las Vegas" | "Evangeline" | "Bluebeard" | "Tishbite" | "Violaine" Compilations The Pink Opaque | BBC Sessions | Stars and Topsoil | Lullabies to Violaine | Lullabies to Violaine, Volume 1 | Lullabies to Violaine, Volume 2 Related articles: This Mortal Coil | Drowning Craze | Harold Budd | Ivo Watts-Russell | Bella Union | Dream pop