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“Bluebeard” by Cocteau Twins

From the album Four-Calendar Café (1993)

“Bluebeard” by Cocteau Twins appears on 15 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1999 and 2014. It was first released in 1993 on the album Four-Calendar Café. Its best result is #1054 on the CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,476 alternative song of all time.

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"Bluebeard" came off Cocteau Twins' seventh album, Four-Calendar Café, the 1993 record that marked their first with Fontana, and it went out as the album's second single in February 1994. Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde share the writing and the production.

The big news is Fraser's voice. For once you can make out what she's singing, the old swooping glossolalia pared back into something close to plain speech, and it lands like sunlight after years of fog. Guthrie traced the song to a single instrument, a big, twangy guitar, and insisted it had nothing to do with country music, even if it rings with a lonesome twang. The CD single added an acoustic version that the 12" left off.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

#1,476 of all time

All Rock Formats

#2,715 of all time

All-time and decade countdowns

Year	#	Station	Countdown	of
1999	1129	CD101	CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999)	2000
2000	1131	CD101	CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000)	2001
2001	1133	CD101	CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001)	2002
2002	1132	CD101	CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002)	2003
2003	1117	CD101	CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003)	2004
2003	1438	Fred (XM 44)	Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003)	2044
2004	1117	CD101	CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004)	2005
2005	1117	CD101	CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005)	1994
2007	1054	CD101	CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007)	2008
2008	1078	CD101	CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008)	2009
2009	1107	CD101	CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009)	2010
2010	1147	CD101	CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010)	2011
2011	1184	CD101	CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011)	2011
2013	1244	CD101	CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013)	2012
2014	1296	CD101	CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014)	2013

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