Heaven Or Las Vegas [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Cocteau Twins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: 4ad / Ada
• ASIN: B00006L5PM
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #63,068 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cherry Coloured Funk

2. Pitch The Baby

3. Iceblink Luck

4. Fifty Fifty Clown

5. Heaven Or Las Vegas

6. I Wear Your Ring

7. Fotzepolitic

8. Wolf In The Breast

9. Road River And Rail

10. Frou Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Jury still out, October 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Heaven Or Las Vegas (Audio CD)

HOLV is one of my favorite albums of all time. When I found out that remastered were being issued, I was excited and also a little perplexed. There are CT albums with which I could find some (minor) production faults, but HOLV was never among them. However, my copy was aging and beginning to show signs of the dreaded pinhole dropouts, I figured I could not go wrong by replacing the older version with the remastered. The production on the remastered version is quite similar to that on the original version, and i doubt that most casual CT fans or listeners could tell the difference. However, unlike my experience with the remastered BBK album, I found that some of the subtle differences on HOLV actually were detrimental to parts of the orginial album that I had liked. The bass line in Iceblink Luck (3rd track for those of you who, like me, perpetually ignore the song titles) is more subdued in the chorus. Road River and Rail (9th track) begins to fade out at the very last line, whereas the original did not. And Pitch the Baby (2nd track) is less lush than the original, with more separation between the vocals and background music. Overall, the latter is the major difference in production on the remaster: the instruments are somewhat brighter and more separated, as they are on the remastered BBK. But whereas I felt that worked quite well on BBK, I was a bit disappointed with how this affected HOLV. If you have never heard HOLV in its original format, I think you'll find this remastered version to be brilliant and you'll probably love it. But for those of us who have listened to the original version more times than Gene Simmons has had sex, the differences may take some getting used to. One caveat: I have yet to listen to this album through headphones, so there may be more subtle, positive differences that I have not yet picked up on.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bliss..., June 23, 2006

By 

Matthew E. Johnson (Wallingford, VT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Heaven Or Las Vegas (Audio CD)

Amazing album! Embodies that soundscape west/coast mid-west wave over of the US....the backbone of the mood of the 90's for me. Mix the influences of this band and the darker contemplative Slint Spiderland...you've defined the 90's. This album is pure magic in its ability to alter my mood to shoegazing happiness....I close my eyes and I'm in the most formative years of my life feeling the warm summer nights lying on the grass with my close friends, ciggarettes and endless chatter and laughter, staring at the setting suns pink/orange clouds, awaiting another endless night.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, August 15, 2010

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New Boy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heaven Or Las Vegas (Audio CD)

I was a bit disappointed at first, but eventually grew to love it.
Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires maybe very well be the most memorable Coucteau Twins experience.Heaven or Las Vegas is almost as great too!